Animal Rights: Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion (Opposing Viewpoints Juniors)

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Animal Rights.......2006-05-19

This book tells me that along with people, animal have rights. Generally speaking,animal experimentation is good in most cases. As long as the scientist is actually working on finding a cure for something, then it is a good thing.Although some animals are treated unfairly sometimes, I think that animal experimentation is ethical because we can make sure medicines are safe and get advances in medicines, and because it is helping to decrease human suffering. For example, it has provided us with antibiotics and vaccines, insulin for diabetes, treatments for leukemia, and has made possible advances in medical technology, such as blood transfusion and the heart lung machine.
The majority of animal testing is used for developing new treatments for disease, and fundamental biological medical research. All prescription drugs must be tested before they are allowed on the market. To get rid of animal experiments would be to stop modern medicine, to allow human suffering, and to put human's health at risk, by allowing products on the market without testing the level of toxicity. Humans share about ninety-nine percent of their genes with chimpanzees and only a little bit less with monkeys. This makes these animals a good guide to the human body.
Along with providing research, it also serves as a way to reduce human suffering. With experimentation, we have been able to use anesthetics during surgery. Without anesthesia, the patient would feel every cut that the doctor made. It also is responsible for bringing us the polio vaccine. "I wonder how many of the people out protesting on animal experimentation on top of their stools skipped their polio vaccines when they were younger," says John D. Porter of the Division of Laboratory Animal Research.
Animal experimentation has also decreased the number of endangered species around the world. By breeding these animals, scientists are able to create more of the species. This will hopefully lead into no more endangered species. Later on, we will not have to breed them any more because they will breed on there own.
Experiments have helped a number of people and animals for a many reasons. Many people protest because they think that the animals I the labs are being mistreated. All experiments have to be approved by the Animal Rights Committee. If the terms are not met, then the experiments are illegal, and the scientist is forbidden from the experiment. Every animal is given the best care before, during, and after the experiment. Animal experimentation is ethical and should continue until there are no diseases or
allergies at all.

Armenia with Nagorno Karabagh, 2nd: The Bradt Travel Guide
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Top notch guide for in-country travel

good effort

excellent effort., well worth buying

Armenia with Nagorno Karabagh, 2nd: The Bradt Travel Guide
Nicholas Holding
Manufacturer: Bradt Travel Guides
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Binding: Paperback

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Georgia, 3rd: The Bradt Travel Guide

ASIN: 1841621633

Book Description

This guide is still the only one in English to offer comprehensive information on travel in Armenia, a destination well worth visiting in its own right. This rural retreat enjoys an astonishingly well-preserved legacy of monastic buildings, often set in magnificent locations. Nicholas Holding covers a wide spectrum of activities that give Armenia a huge potential for visitors, including birding, hiking, the arts, architectural tours, botanical trips, angling, horseriding, and caving.

Features include:

*A variety of sections with strong appeal to visitors: architecture, wildlife, religion, and culture

*Vital practical details on visas, red tape, land border crossings, health, and safety, plus useful words and phrases

*Full and half-day excursions from the capital, Yerevan

*The territory of Nagorno Karabagh

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Top notch guide for in-country travel.......2005-06-20

I recently moved to Armenia and purchased this book right before leaving the USA. My interest was mainly to use it to find neat places to go in the countryside, and this book definitely fills that purpose. We live in Yerevan, the capital, which is fairly well documented by the book.
Our second weekend in the country we decided to travel up one of the nearby mountains - wife and three young children - to go sledding in April - and not speaking ANY Armenian yet. All we had to go on was the region map on page 106 and the narative description on the authors travels. We made it to our destination (and two meter deep snow) easily.
Just this past weekend we used the book again to visit an old (1000AD) castle ruins and some monestaries hidden in the forests of the Lori region. The narative in the book was once again precise in all details - our only issue was when we encountered a newly paved road that was described as being in poor condition in the book (time has passed since the writting).
I specially commend the book for those interested in getting out and around to the more remote areas.
The book would be considerably better with maps of every town that the main roads turn in and color pictures mixed in with the text (right now the pictures are all at the center of the book). Yerevan itself is changing rapidly and may not be quite as described, but the countryside is almost identical to when the author visited.

good effort.......2004-04-07

I agree with the other reviewer - it's a good effort and fairly well written. My main issues with this book are 1) that the photographs are incredibly bleak. If I had not visited Armenia last year, I definitely would not have based on the pictures. 2) The Nagorno Karabagh section was very light. It basically seemed like an after thought that was tacked on the last minute.

excellent effort., well worth buying.......2004-02-11

This the first guidebook by a major publisher to this wonderful country. The book has a couple of quirks but makes up for it
with lots of detail and a real passion for the country.
It's a huge leap forward from the 'Georgia with Armenia' book previously published by Bradt. There are maps for each marz (province) and a smattering of city maps - Yerevan, Gyumri and Ejmiatsin. My main quibbles is that the selection of restaurants in Yerevan isn't as good as it could have been, and that the author has a clear fascination for trains which may not be shared by all readers. For example, most of the space devoted to Kapan, one of the nicer regional cities, refers to the trains and carriages stranded there. Otherwise, it's well written and obviously very thoroughly researched. The only place I can see which was missed is the Amaras monastery in Karabakh.

Georgia with Armenia, 2nd: The Bradt Travel Guide

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Georgia with Armenia, 2nd: The Bradt Travel Guide
Tim Burford
Manufacturer: Bradt Travel Guides
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Armenia with Nagorno Karabagh, 2nd: The Bradt Travel Guide

ASIN: 184162053X

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The most up-to-date and detailed source of hard facts for independent travelers and hikers on getting to and around this little-explored but very welcoming ex-Soviet state. Thorough coverage of the increasingly cosmopolitan capital, Tbilisi, and provincial towns are provided.

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Another Quality Book from Usborne.......2000-04-20

In typical Usborne fashion this book covers the building of the Egyptian pyramids with a thourough body of facts and intricate illustrations for children. The reading level is around fourth grade and up but it would be a great read-aloud for second to third graders as well. I also like the fact that, as noted on the back of the book, the paper is made from trees grown in a "sustainable forest" setting a good example for our kids.

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Great intro to Ancient Egypt

Who Built the Pyramid?
Meredith Hooper
Manufacturer: Candlewick
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 076360786X
Release Date: 2001-10-01

Book Description

A truly egalitarian look at how a real pyramid was built.

Who DID build the pyramid? In this innovative nonfiction title, everyone
from the mighty king to the lowly water carrier claims to have built this
massive monument. And whether you’re asking the high priest or the stone mason, each person has a good reason to claim credit for a real pyramid that was built more than four thousand years ago. With lively text and bold illustrations, Meredith Hooper and Robin Heighway-Bury create an unusual, carefully researched look at one of the wonders of ancient Egypt. Meredith Hooper has worked with Egyptologists at the British Museum in London and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to create this story—and fact-filled endnotes provide even more fascinating information.

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Great intro to Ancient Egypt.......2003-03-27

I teach preschool age children---for two years I've taught Egypt and read this to them---they LOVE it! The art is bold, so are the characters! Everyone has a right to claim---they built the pyramid. This story invites all sorts of questions from the kids, such as, "why is that mans face like that? Why is that man darker than the others? Why are they wearing diapers?" :)
Which, thrillingly, invites discussion answers, such as, "that man is pulling a huge stone up a ramp. Hes big because its hard work, hes sweaty because its hot in the desert and hes dark from being in the sun all day with hardly any clothes on....etc"
"See the river in the background? Thats the Nile! Remember, the river that flows upwards?"
I also liked the part where they DO mention that you can't fit a piece of paper between each stone block of the pyramid. Another amazing fact that just happens to be in there and contributes to the overall quality.
The story takes a page from each person who might have contributed to the entire construction of a pyramid, from Pharoah down to water carrier. At the end of the book, there are some pictures of what the pyramid and Senwosret the Pharoah looked like. Enjoyable for a variety of childhood ages and levels. The kids really pick up on the theme and are educated at the same time----hey, why aren't there more books like this out there???

Who Built the Pyramids? (Usborne Starting Point History)

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Who Built the Pyramids? (Usborne Starting Point History)
Phil Roxbee Cox
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The Man Who Built the Great Pyramid
Mrs. Sydney Bristowe
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Mounds and Pyramids-Who Built Them? : the Mystery of Sun Worshipping: Origin of Celts, Welsh and the "Native" Americans

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The Pyramid Builders: A Close-Up Look at the World's Great Pyramids and the Rulers Who Built Them (The Unfolding World)

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The Pyramid Builders: A Close-Up Look at the World's Great Pyramids and the Rulers Who Built Them (The Unfolding World)

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Who Built the Pyramid
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The man who built the Great pyramid,
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Waiting for Agnes: Inspired By the True Story of Coral Castle

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Waiting for Agnes: Inspired By the True Story of Coral Castle
Joe Bullard
Manufacturer: Full Moon Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PLSEG6

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Coral Castle was built by a Latvian immigrant named Ed Leedskalnin. This book is about why Ed left his home in Latvia, moved to Florida, and built Coral Castle.

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A pane of glass, no more than three inches thick, separates store from sidewalk. On one side, an air-conditioned interior welcomes those who can afford the merchandise inside; on the other, from the weather-beaten street, passersby may, in the time-honored ritual of window shopping, look for free.

Window retail displays of the high-end kind, in which a temporary mise-en-sc ne presents expensive merchandise, have been neglected as a design discipline although they play a significant role in our consumer culture. Forefront features displays by such designers as Simon Doonan, David Hoey, John Field, Janet Wardley, and Kozo Fujimoto, in venues including Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, Gucci, Herm s, Moschino, Shreve, Crump & Low, and Vin on. Window dressers and window shoppers alike will delight in this colorful parade of displays.

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Highly recommended.......2005-09-14

"Forefront" is a beautiful, compelling book that explores the realms between fashion as art and as commerce,and the cultural identities shaped by clothing and accessories through their display. The text and its graphic presentation set up the critical framework through which to view this rich experience of virtual window shopping. I highly recommend "Forefront" to anyone interested in art, architecture, history, consumerism, sociology, psychology, retail, and fashion design.

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dad says best he's read

Stores: Retail Display and Design
Vilma Barr , and Katherine Field
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Binding: Paperback

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dad says best he's read.......2001-03-11

My dad says Stores by Vilma Barr is the best on the subject that he has read. As the author of The Joy of Quitting, he should know. He's been there and done that. Now, enuf of this... I have to get back to Geometry. Good reading,Willy

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Holidays on Display
Jr., William L. Bird
Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press
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For millions of people the annual visit to a department store to view the festive window displays and visit Saint Nicholas in his winter wonderland is a treasured holiday tradition. But how did holiday traditions like this begin? Author William L. Bird, Jr. traces their evolution as holiday decorations moved from shop windows to building exteriors and out into the street in the form of parade floats. Packed with rarely seen photographs, Holidays on Display makes it easy to see why we have such lasting emotional attachments to animated Christmas windows, passing parades, and the ambient glow of holiday lights.

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neverending ideas for visual designers

Store Windows No. 11
Martin M. Pegler
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From cover to cover, the pages of this volume overflow with color photographs of imaginative, unconventional store windows to inspire display designers, store owners, and managers of all types of retail establishments. Clever themes, outrageous props, and head-turning arrangements of merchandise make this tour of store windows one that should be looked into by anyone who is responsible for drawing customers into a store. This completely up-to-date review includes information about the key creative personnel involved in each project.

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neverending ideas for visual designers.......2000-07-13

Store windows no.10 is like the bag of Marry Popins: every time I thumbed the pages, looking for new, non-conventional ideas to a new store window I need to do - I found few of them. No need to be an excellent English reader, the pictures speak for themselfs.

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Windows: The Art of Retail Display
Mary Portas
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Selling products of all kinds in the world's most successful, most elegant stores has become increasingly creative, subtle, and sophisticated. And if the eyes are windows to the soul, then a shop's windows reveal the soul of the store. They communicate the store's essence in an unblinking front that remains on view long after the close of the business day. Window displays are the retailer's most economical form of advertising: they bring glamour, fun, theater, and art to the streets, while visibly expressing the store's image and aspiration. Long noted for the verve and originality of her contributions to visual merchandising, Mary Portas brings her personal insights to this selection of the world's best window displays, from Barneys in New York, Marshall Fields in Chicago, and Tiffany in San Francisco to Printemps and Cline in Paris, Harvey Nichols in London, Valentino in Milan, and Wako in Japan. Her examples also include little-known shops with special display qualities all their own. A complete and inspirational guide to the subject, the book examines how to use space and props, the effective use of lighting, the essence of styling, the use of color, the key role of mannequins, the special characteristics of seasonal windows, and how to achieve miracles on tight budgets. As the products available to consumers everywhere become increasingly similar, only retailers with the clearest image and the greatest skills in attracting attention will succeed. For anyone professionally concerned with retailing, design, and visual communication, this book will be an essential resource.

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