Biological Macromolecules and Assemblies (Biological Macromolecules & Assemblies Vol. 1)

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This proceedings volume explores the pathways and mechanisms by which constituent residues interact and fold to yield native biological macromolecules (catalytic RNA and functional proteins), how ribosomes and other macromolecular complexes self-assemble, and relevant energetics considerations.

At the week-long interactive conference, some 20 leading researchers reported their most pertinent results, confronting each other and an audience of more than 150 specialists from a wide range of scientific disciplines, including structural and molecular biology, biophysics, computer science, mathematics, and theoretical physics. The fourteen papers — and audience interaction — are edited and illustrated versions of the transcribed oral presentations.

The Seventh Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky Conference on Structural Aspects of Recognition and Assembly in Biological Macromolecules, February 24 - 29, 1980 Nof Ginossar, Israel.
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The Seventh Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky Conference on Structural Aspects of Recognition and Assembly in Biological Macromolecules, February 24 - 29, 1980 Nof Ginossar, Israel.
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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Structure, Dynamics and Function of Biological Macromolecules and Assemblies (NATO Science)
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Structure, Dynamics and Function of Biological Macromolecules and Assemblies (NATO Science)
J.D., Ed Puglisi
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ASIN: 1586034758

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This publication brings together the work of experts applying different physical methods to problems of macromolecular dynamics - notably x-ray diffraction, NMR and other forms of spectroscopy, and macromolecular dynamics measurements and simulations. Emphasis was placed on correlating structural problems with mechanisms of biological function. The range of topics in this book represent the diversity of critical problems in biology, from protein structure determination and folding dynamics to the mechanisms of allostery in enzymes from RNA structure and function in viral disease to the triumph of the ribosome structure. The individual articles represent the state-of-the-art in each area covered and provide a guide to the original literature in this rapidly developing field.

Structural aspects of recognition and assembly in biological macromolecules: Proceedings of the Seventh Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky Conference, the Weizmann ... Kibbutz Nof Ginossar, February 24-29, 1980

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Structural aspects of recognition and assembly in biological macromolecules: Proceedings of the Seventh Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky Conference, the Weizmann ... Kibbutz Nof Ginossar, February 24-29, 1980

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ASIN: 0866890033

The Ultimate Guide to the World's Best Wedding & Honeymoon Destinations
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Good but not enough

Waste of time and money

Great overview... good starting place for trip-planning...

The Ultimate Guide to the World's Best Wedding & Honeymoon Destinations
Elizabeth Lluch
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ASIN: 1887169350

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Offers 300 pages of indepth information and stunning photography on over 200 of the most popular wedding and honeymoon destinations from around the globe.

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Good but not enough.......2006-03-10

I bought this book hoping that it would help me to pick a honeymoon place around the world. Even though it has a lot of good information it lacks at variety of places in terms of price. If you are looking to spend 600 to 3000 a night for your honeymoon, this book has it all.
but if you want to explore more affordable places , this book is NOT your guide.

Waste of time and money.......2006-02-28

This book seems like a collection of glossy travel brochures. There is little information given for comparison (e.g. trying to decide which region to go to) and a lot of the text is repeated verbatim for many of the resorts. The 'useful information' provided for each resort includes things such as "the gift shop has an excellent collection of souvenir t-shirts." I really doubt anyone is choosing their wedding/honeymoon destination based on this. However, my biggest problem with this book is that it seems to favor certain resort chains, which makes me question its objectivity. Specifically, 2 Sheraton resorts that we have visited in Hawaii on previous vacations were given superb reviews. In our experience, they were a little run-down (with the rooms in sore need of renovation) and had below average facilities (obviously a beautiful natural setting, but disappointing swimming pools, etc). Fine for a four-day getaway, but I would have been very disappointed had I read this review and gone there for my honeymoon or wedding. This makes me question the accuracy of the other writeups in the book.

Great overview... good starting place for trip-planning..........2004-08-02

This book has provided me with a fantastic starting point for honeymoon-planning... As someone who has had a fairly extensive and diversified travel "portfolio", I have found this book to be very helpful in providing me with ideas for new and exotic places to visit. It's not packed with too much information, but gives enough of an overview to let you know whether you would like to pursue more details or if the hotel is not quite what you are looking for...

One drawback: not a great book if you are looking for a low-budget vacation, as most of the hotels included in it are quite pricey... If you are looking for a more economical vacation, I would recommend something like "Hip Hotels: Budget".

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This collection of powerful stories reveals the complex and wondrous world of the Blackfoot nation in the nineteenth century. The thirty tales transcribed by George Bird Grinnell provide an intimate look into Blackfoot culture and philosophy and remind us of tribal values to be upheld and taught. Classic tales of adventure speak of deeds accomplished, and cultural heroes roam across an arresting Native landscape of legend and history. Ancient stories, captured in oral tradition, cast the shadow of the Blackfoot people far into the past and provide foundation and meaning for their lives in the present. The final section of this book is an insightful overview of the history and culture of the Blackfoot Nation. First published in 1892, Blackfoot Lodge Tales is based on George Bird Grinnell’s personal interactions with the Blackfoot people.

A member of the Blackfeet Tribe and a historian, Thedis Berthelson Crowe provides an indigenous perspective of the Blackfoot Lodge Tales in her new introduction to this edition. Her great-great grandfather, William Russell, served as the Blackfoot interpreter for Grinnell.

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As they were following up the river, they saw at a distance three old bulls lying down close to a cut bank. Heavy Collar left his party, and went out to kill one of these bulls, and when he had come close to them, he shot one and killed it right there. He cut it up, and, as he was hungry, he went down into a ravine below him, to roast a piece of meat; for he had left his party a long way behind, and night was now coming on. As he was roasting the meat, he thought,--for he was very tired,--"It is a pity I did not bring one of my young men with me. He could go up on that hill and get some hair from that bull's head, and I could wipe out my gun."

Crimsoned Prairie: The Indian Wars (A Da Capo Paperback)

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An objective look at the Indian Wars

Crimsoned Prairie: The Indian Wars (A Da Capo Paperback)
S. L. A. Marshall
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ASIN: 0306802260

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An objective look at the Indian Wars.......2000-12-09

The majority of Marshall's books are written after interviewing soldiers who just got out of combat. He served as an official historian for the Pacific and European Theaters of Operations in World War II, Korea, and went to Vietnam as both an observer and an advisor. For obvious reasons, he could not question veterans of the Great Plaines Indian Wars. This book, therefore, is somewhat of a departure for Marshall.

The main purpose of "Crimson Prairie" is to show what tactic worked and which did not. Discussing several battles, Marshall demonstrates that the United States Army was not prepared to engage in the gorilla-like fighting that the specialty of Native-Americans. Indeed, he shows that the white soldiers failed time and again in the face of superior tactics because they constantly underestimated their opponents and their training had not prepared them for fighting Native-Americans.

Another aspect of "Crimson Prairie" concerns the idea that the white people were the sole aggressor in the Indian Wars. Marshall demonstrates that on a number of occasions Native-Americans acted as savagely and aggressively against non-threatening outposts. The author shows that the bloodshed was not as one-sided as many people believe. Marshall does not support or side with either side. Instead he uses an analytic and objective style that shows that both sides committed atrocities, although the Americans proved more aggressive and their abhorrent actions proved far more brutal than the Native-American's.

For those who enjoy Marshall's work, this book is a must have. His expertise in dissecting operations is apparent throughout the pages and his prose, as always, is impeccable.

Stories from Where We Live -- The Great North American Prairie
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A rich blend of generations of voices and stories

Stories from Where We Live -- The Great North American Prairie

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ASIN: 1571316302

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The North American Prairie stretches from Alberta and Saskatchewan south to Texas, and from the edge of the Rockies east to Illinois. In the same vein as its predecessor about the North Atlantic Coast, this book gathers the literature of the North American Prairie as a way to introduce young readers to the region’s natural heritage. Herein readers will enjoy songs and narratives of Plains Indians, tales of 19th-century settlers, and contemporary essays and poems.

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Great for the classroom.......2007-01-10

This book is great for the classroom when covering either prairie ecosystems or demonstrating how different styles of writing can relate to one topic. Great stories for kids. I also use these stories when I am at the prairie preserve with a class.

Praise for Stories from Where We Live.......2001-08-07

Minneapolis Star-Tribune, July 29, 2001: "This book is a wonderful reference, beautifully illustrated."

A rich blend of generations of voices and stories.......2001-07-04

These stories of the North American prairie lands provide a rich blend of generations of voices and stories of natural history and the land, blending poems, stories and essays with insights on both native peoples, geography and wildlife. The result is a multi-faceted collection which doesn't neatly fit into singular categories of natural history, geography or culture; but which embraces them all.

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (Prairie State Books)

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Enjoy a trip to the Midwest of the past

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (Prairie State Books)
Margaret Fuller
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Enjoy a trip to the Midwest of the past.......2002-12-16

Many American literature textbooks cover the topic of Transcendentalism with selections from just Emerson and Thoreau. Why they don't include some of the essays of Margaret Fuller is a mystery, especially in our current age of political correctness and emphasis on diversity. She provides a woman's opinion of life in general and of the landscape and people of the Midwest in particular in this, her first published book.

_Summer on the Lakes, in 1843_ is first and foremost a travelogue of Fuller's tour of the Midwest, and we follow her to Chicago and Milwaukee and into rural Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Her trip not only predates her friends' visits to the same area (Emerson first came through by stagecoach in 1850, and Thoreau took the train in 1861) but it also offers more observations about the people and the living conditions out on the prairie. Fuller had more time to spend roaming and adventuring, and she seems to have been more interested in the local culture than the men later were. (Or perhaps Emerson and Thoreau figured that Margaret Fuller had already provided the world with descriptions of the region, so they need not bother.) Midwestern readers should particularly enjoy the historic look at familiar landscapes, written at a time when white settlements were just beginning to congeal and take hold.

Secondarily, Fuller focuses much of her writing on the plight of American Indians and also of women in general. She had read a great deal about the native people and seems disappointed to find that most of the Black Hawk War survivors had already moved west by the time of her visit. She also points a critical eye to the fate of the members of her gender who were helping to eke out a living on the prairie: "The great drawback upon the lives of these settlers, at present, is the unfitness of the women for their new lot." ... All domestic labor "must often be performed, sick or well, by the mother and daughters, to whom a city education has imparted neither the strength nor skill now demanded." (p. 38) And yet, many of the people she meets seem to be happy; and while life is hard and without most amenities, entertainment (even the occasional piano!) and merriment can abound.

The narrative tends to languish when Fuller digresses into long-winded stories of the plights of specific women she either knew personally or heard about second- or even thirdhand. While these plot interruptions get tedious to the casual reader, they are further glimpses of feminine life in the early 19th century. Seen in that light, they can provide interesting diversions to the travelogue.

Original illustrations by Fuller's traveling companion, Sarah Ann Clarke (sister of James Freeman Clarke) augment the text. This edition's introduction by Susan Belasco Smith helps to bring perspective to the trip and the writing. Recommended especially for residents of northern Illinois and to anyone interested in Midwestern history, transcendentalism, or women's studies. [This reviewer was an Illinois resident when these comments were written.]

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Blackfeet (Tribes of Native America)

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Crimsoned Prairie
S. L. A. Marshall
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Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide

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Ethnobotany in Schools
Best book of ethnobotany for this region

Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide
Kelly Kindscher
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Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide
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ASIN: 0700605266

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The Plains Indians found medicinal value in more than two hundred species of native prairie plants. Unfortunately, modern American culture has not paid much attention.

White settlers did learn a few plant-based remedies from the Indians, and a few prairie plants were prescribed by frontier doctors. A couple dozen prairie species were listed as drugs in the U.S. Pharmacopeia at one time or another, and one or two, like the Purple Coneflower, found their way into the bottles of patent medicine.

But in both the number of species used and the varieties of treatments administered, Indians were far more proficient than white settlers. Their familiarity with the plants of the prairie was comprehensive--there probably were Indian names for all prairie plants, and they recognized more varieties of some species than scientists do today. Their knowledge was refined and exact enough that they could successfully administer medicinal doses of plants that are poisonous. All of the species used by frontier doctors were used first by Indians.

In Medicinal Plants of the Prairie, ethnobotanist Kelly Kindscher documents the medicinal use of 203 native prairie plants by the Plains Indians. Using information gleaned from archival materials, interviews, and fieldwork, Kindscher describes plant-based treatments for ailments ranging from hyperactivity to syphilis, from arthritis to worms. He also explains the use of internal and external medications, smoke treatments, moxa (the burning of a medicinal substance on the skin), and the doctrine of signatures (the belief that the form or characteristics of a plant are signatures or signs that reveal its medicinal uses). He adds information on recent pharmacological findings to further illuminate the medicinal nature of these plants.

Not since 1919 has the ethnobotany of native Great Plains plants been examined so thoroughly. Kindscher's study is the first to encompass the entire Prairie Bioregion, a one-million-square-mile area bounded by Texas on the south, Canada on the north, the Rocky Mountains on the west, and the deciduous forests of Missouri, Indiana, and Wisconsin in the east. Along with information on the medicinal uses of prairie plants by the Indians, Kindscher also lists Indian, common, and scientific names and describes Anglo folk uses, medical uses, scientific research, and cultivation. Descriptions of the plants are supplemented by 44 exquisite line drawings and over 100 range maps.

This book will help increase appreciation for prairie plants at a time when prairies and their biodiversity urgently need protection throughout the region.

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Ethnobotany in Schools.......2001-05-26

As a high school science teacher on the Omaha Indian Reservation, both my students and myself found this book to be an invaluable resource this past fall. As my students did their ethnobotanical survey of the reservation, I often found them waiting to use my one copy of the book. (I will be getting additional copies for the upcoming school year.) We found the information to be both accurate and thorough. The students especially enjoyed the well drawn pictures and easy to follow format. I would suggest this book to anyone interested in plains ethnobotany.

Best book of ethnobotany for this region.......2000-04-01

Medicinal Wild Plants contains information on nomenclature, habitat, Indian use, Anglo folk use, use in medical history, some entries for recent scientific research, and cultivation. Kindscher frequently cites Eclectic medical use for the plants. These books are authoritative. Kindscher has thoroughly studied the ethnobotany of each and presented the most useful information. What is most striking to me about these books are Kindscher's frequent comments revealing that he has personally seen and tasted these plants, and sometimes tested the methods he writes about, something rare in the ethnobotanical literatue of North America.

Native Tribes of the Plains and Prairie (Johnson, Michael, Native Tribes of North America.)

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Native Tribes of the Plains and Prairie (Johnson, Michael, Native Tribes of North America.)
Michael Johnson
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People of the Plains and Prairies (Thompson, Linda, Native Peoples, Native Lands.)

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People of the Plains and Prairies (Thompson, Linda, Native Peoples, Native Lands.)
Linda Thompson
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Satisfactory
Excellent source for Native American flora/fauna folklore

Prairie Smoke
Melvin R. Gilmore
Manufacturer: Minnesota Historical Society Press
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This book tells the traditional stories and describes the lifeways of some of the first people of the Plains: the Pawnee, Sioux, Hidatsa, Mandan, Arikara, and Omaha Indians. Through these stories, readers learn of the essential ties Native peoples have to the land.

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Satisfactory.......2001-09-17

It may be that the best thing about this book is Gilmore's folksy style of writing. He brings alive and makes more readable Native American myths of the Plains' tribes. My chief complaint is that he credits no one for his quotes. He includes a bibliography but no footnotes. It's not a huge omission in a work like this but it means you end of taking a lot of what he says on faith alone.

Excellent source for Native American flora/fauna folklore.......1999-01-09

This book contains short accounts of actual myths and folklores of Native American tribes from the Missouri River Region. Excellent for discovering the stories surrounding some geological features around the Missouri River valley. A good read.

Arrest and movement,: An essay on space and time in the representational art of the ancient Near East
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Arrest and movement,: An essay on space and time in the representational art of the ancient Near East
H. A Groenewegen-Frankfort
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