Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plant-Pathogen Interactions (Proceedings of the Phytochemical Society of Europe)

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The many recent developments in plant sciences have important practical implications, particularly in the area of food production. This volume contains the proceedings of an international symposium on plant-pathogen interactions. Viral, bacterial, and fungal pathogens are all included and a
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Discover many things to see two hours or less from Houston, including living-history demonstrations, a Santa Claus museum, a livestock auction, and plenty of beaches. Find more barbecue than you can shake a stick at.

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HOUSTON AREA FOR THE NOVICE.......2006-10-24

As someone who is very familiar with houston and the surrounding area, i find this book a bit disappointing and dont agree with many of the authors suggestions, but if you are totally new to the area, this may be an good starter book I suppose, but frankly, stick to Galveston, Kemah, Brenham, Beaumont, and you'll have a good time and find lots to do in and around these places, frankly i dont care to drive two hours to some town of 300 and eat at some dive and stay at someone's house, id rather take in historical Galveston, or the Kemah boardwalk, or Crocket Street in Beaumont, but hey that's just me.

Not bad, but less than I expected.......2006-05-26

This book would be great for someone who really has nothing to do,loves to drive around, and won't be sad if they don't find much at the end. I was looking for more at the end of the journey especially with gas prices where they are now. Driving 2 hours just to have BBQ is not worth it to me. BUT if you are driving somewhere anyway and want to know what is along the way by all means this book will be informative. I say borrow it from the library.

Almost too much detail.......2005-02-23

We just moved to Houston and have been using this book to find fun places to go in Houston. It is a very detailed book and contains little mini-histories on each town in and around Houston. I am sometimes overwhelmed by how much is in here - it is sometimes tricky to figure out what is worth going to. I have supplemented this book with "147 Fun Things to do in Houston" which is much more user friendly. I find a fun thing to do in the 147 book, then I look in this book for other fun stuff that might be close to the real attraction. It is also handy to have a guide for nearby eateries.

Overall, this is a very handy book and if you really want to get to know Houston and surrounding areas well, this book will really help.

A great book!.......2004-01-26

We are new to Houston, and have lots of company, as well as liking to explore and find new restaurants, shops, activities, beautiful views, etc. for ourselves. We have learned so much about Houston and the surrounding area in a few short weeks thanks to this book. And, every recommendation we have tried has panned out well!!

less than perfect book.......2002-03-03

How many times have you considered the VFW a local eatery?
We tried using the book and found it to be a serious let down. A day trip to Sealy? What is the purpose? Hinze's Bar-B-Que is very good but you can find better without leaving Houston.
To be fair, we did not try all the trips, but the ones we did try left a lot to be desired. Not for people interested in getting out of the car.

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Increased interest in the role of women and minorities in establishing the canon of American literature has lead to renewed interest in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The essays in this volume set out to provide contemporary readers with a critical and historical interpretation of the novel that reflects the best of recent scholarship. In his introductin Eric J. Sundquist attempts to show that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" boldly takes issue with both proslavery arguments and prevailing prejudices among abolitionists, employing the forms of popular melodrama and heated rhetoric to carry its complex argument. The individual essays examine the influence of Stowe's novel on the characterization of women in the American novel and on later women writers, the role of women in the antislavery movement, the literary exchanges between Stowe and her contemporaries, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the tradition of the Gothic novel, and the characterizations of blacks in this novel and in later works.

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A great work on a Greater Work.......2005-01-07

This collection was really important to me during my graduate work on African American literature in the pre-Civil War period.
The essays are written by scholars who are experts in various aspects of Black and pre-Civil War literature as well as history. They delineate a lot about the Uncle Tom and its place in the literary and political discourse that it unleashed. This book and others of its series are extremely useful for students and professors because they gather together the best articles written in the scholarly journals by key authorities on texts. They should be used more often as textbooks in courses together with the text they are written about.

The Stowe Debate: Rhetorical Strategies in Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Bloom's Reviews: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Uncle Tom was certainly no "Uncle Tom"
Great Classic
A different perspective on a much avoided subject
great book at LSMS
Explains a Great Deal

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An international bestseller that sold more than 300,000 copies when it first appeared in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin was dismissed by some as abolitionist propaganda; yet Tolstoy deemed it a great work of literature "flowing from love of God and man."
Today, however, Harriet Beecher Stowe's stirring indictment of slavery is often confused with garish dramatizations that flourished for decades after the Civil War: productions that relied heavily on melodramatic simplifications of character totally alien to the original. Thus "Uncle Tom" has become a pejorative term for a subservient black, whereas Uncle Tom in the book is a man who, under the most inhumane of circumstances, never loses his human dignity.
" Uncle Tom's Cabin" is the most powerful and most enduring work of art ever written about American slavery," said Alfred Kazin.

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Uncle Tom was certainly no "Uncle Tom".......2007-08-29

Back a few years ago, I bought the entire series of Library of America books, some 173 books, each with as many as 1,600 small-print pages. Typically, each volume contains several books (say novels) by an author.

The quality of the writing they have selected is marvelous. There are very few "dogs". Below are my ratings of all the stuff I've read so far (a miniscule fraction of the total library), along with, of course, my completely nonsensical (often sports or pop culture) author nicknames.

And they keep sending me new books faster than I can read the existing ones...

Practically all that I've read ranges from good to fantastic, and I stop reading ones I don't like, so almost all of the books cited below are worthy by my standards. No stars means good, * means especially good, ** means great, and I think I also gave one or two books ***. The numbers are the series # of the book out of the 173 published so far.

A book of Henry James' fiction (not in this series) that I read about 3 years ago got me started on this quest, a supplement to my quest of playing the entire history of baseball via APBA.

1. Herman "Franks" Melville: Typee* ("Idyllic") 316 pps
1. Herman "Franks" Melville: Omoo ("Picks up where Typee left off") 330 pps

2. Nathaniel "Nate the Skate" Hawthorne: Assorted Stories ("Some hard to follow") 301 pps

4. Harriet "and Ozzy" Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin** ("Uncle Tom is no 'Uncle Tom'") 520 pps

5. Mark "Shania" Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* ("Hilarious moments for a different kind of Tom") 216 pps

10. Nathaniel "Nate the Skate" Hawthorne: Fanshawe* ("Young scholar, romance, skullduggery") 114 pps

6. Jack "Gene" London: The Call of the Wild ("Savage") 86 pps
6. Jack "Gene" London: White Fang* ("Roger Vick-type dog-fighting
action") 198 pps

8. William Dean "Bailey" Howells: A Foregone Conclusion* ("Gripping, intricate romance") 172 pps
8. William Dean "Bailey" Howells: A Modern Instance ("Marriage gone awry in repressed times") 418 pps

11. Francis "Shibe" Parkman: Pioneers of France in the New World** ("What it was REALLY like") 330 pps
11. Francis "Shibe" Parkman: The Jesuits in North America* ("More of these accurate depictions") 382 pps

14. Henry "Don" Adams: Democracy** ("Real politics 1800's-style")

16. Washington "Dr. J" Irving: Early writings ("Boring at times") 87 pps

18. Stephen "Whooping" Crane: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ("Fascinating but grim") 74 pps
18. Stephen "Whooping" Crane: The Red Badge of Courage* ("True face of war") 134 pps

19. Edgar "Teletubbie" Poe: Assorted Stories ("Truly weird") 188 pps

29. Henry "Edgeron" James: Washington Square* ("Plain woman trapped") 190 pps

30. Edith Wharton "School": The House of Mirth* ("Reese Witherspoon plays role in movie") 348 pps

33. Frank "Chuck" Norris: Vandover and the Brute ("Wolf-man emerges") 260 pps
33. Frank "Chuck" Norris: McTeague** ("Greed prevails") 312 pps

35. Willa "Thrilla" Cather: Assorted stories ("Oblique") 76 pps

36. Theodore "Early" Dreiser: Sister Carrie** ("Young lives go opposite directions") 456 pps

37. Benjamin "Joe" Franklin Assorted Writings* ("Brilliant satire") 87 pps

39. Flannery "Father" O'Connor: Wise Blood ("Liked better at 25") 132 pps

55. Richard "Gary" Wright: Lawd Today!** ("Unforgettable humor, violence") 220 pps

59. Sinclair "Jerry" Lewis: Main Street* ("Small-town USA") 486 pps

69. "Ornery" Sarah Orne Jewett: Deephaven* ("Atmospheric")

72. John "Franken" Steinbeck: The Pastures of Heaven** ("Modern Gothic") 170 pps

74. Zora Neale "Zorro" Hurston: Jonah's Gourd Vine ("Black preacher")

97. James "I think I'm going" Baldwin: Go Tell it on the Mountain ("Conversion experience") 216 pps

101. Eudora "The Explorer" Welty: The Robber Bridegroom ("Ridiculous fairy tale") 88 pps

103. Brockden "Les" Brown: Wieland* ("Early Gothic chills") 228 pps

111. Henry "Etta" James: Assorted Stories 1864-74** ("Consistently compelling") 430 pps

117. F. Scott "Ella" Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise* ("Ultimately sublime") 252 pps

126. Dawn "Boog" Powell: Dance Night* ("Small-town romance in 1920's") 204 pps

134. Paul "Super" Bowles: The Sheltering Sky* ("Sophisticates lost in Africa") 252 pps

148. James T. "Turk" Farrell: Young Lonigan* ("Coming of age in tough streets") 176 pps

164. William Faulkner "Pontiac, Buick, GMC Trucks": Soldier's
Pay*** ("Unique, gripping") 256 pps
164. William Faulkner "Pontiac, Buick, GMC Trucks": Mosquitos** ("Indescribable romp") 284 pps
164. William Faulkner "Pontiac, Buick, GMC Trucks": Flags in the Dust ("Doomed family") 336 pps
164. William Faulkner "Pontiac, Buick, GMC Trucks": The Sound and the Fury ("Bewildering") 268 pps

Great Classic.......2007-06-01

Our book club decided to read some old classics and we were all surprised to find that none of our members had read Uncle Tom's Cabin, except a French woman who had read it in school in French! A little hard to get into with the style of writing and the dialog, it soon became a real page-turner for me as I got caught up in the story and the characters. Stowe paints a very interesting picture of the times, and it provoked one of the best discussions that our book club has had. No wonder this book was a best seller, both in the US and Europe. Highly recommend this book!

A different perspective on a much avoided subject.......2007-05-25

This story is the most personal account of living in the time of slavery that I have ever read, and I thought it was phenomenal. It was poignant and well written, and it really tugged at the heart strings. What I enjoyed most about the story was how it looked at the point of view of so many players during the slave owning era (Northern compassionates, Southern slave owners with and without guilt, slaves, mothers, husbands, families, etc.). Since I am not from the South, I had a little trouble with the southern dialog, but it didn't keep me from understanding the flow of the story.
I am very glad that I read this book considering history classes don't really delve into the emotional and personal history of slavery in the South. School just treats this period of time as a "stain" on our history and doesn't like to confront it for what it was.
When I look back at the time this book was written, it must've blown people's hair back. For those people of the 1800's to see that slaves were not merely "property," but had the capability of having the same family values, religious beliefs, and sense of social insight as themselves must've made them think twice about the way they treated these people. No wonder why this book was one of the catalysts to spark the Civil War.
If you don't look at this story from the point it was written, you'll lose something in the translation. But if you imagine someone reading this before the Civil War and imagine what they are learning about the human soul, the equality of it whether it is white or not, you'll feel enriched.
I recommend that everyone read this story. It is full of so many valuable life lessons (content of character, faith, compassion, loyalty) that you shouldn't pass it up.

great book at LSMS.......2007-04-27

Uncle Tom's Cabin is a great inspiring book that shows true events in U.S. History. It is a book that shows how evil and cruel slavery really was. After Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the book during slavery, it helped everyone understand what was happening in their world and this book turned more people towards antislavery which fueled the Civil War. Uncle Tom's Cabin shows people to be kind towards others. This is a great book about the slave days and was enjoyable to read.

Explains a Great Deal.......2007-03-26

I read Uncle Tom's Cabin a few years ago, and was genuinely touched. I saw immediately why it became one of the most influential books in the history of our country, and possibly the world. The story of Uncle Tom is sure to leave you changed, whether you are black or white, racist or humanitarian. It really explains how different people viewed the institution of slavery. After reading this book, many die-hard proponents of slavery gave up defending it. And abollitionists were fired up more than ever before. If you read only 5 books this year, let Uncle Tom's Cabin be one of them. You'll never look at slavery, US history, or the plight of black people the same!

Harriet and the Runaway Book: The Story of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin;: The author, the book, and a tentative bibliography

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Author and Abolitionist (The Library of American Lives and Times)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Author and Abolitionist (The Library of American Lives and Times)
Ryan P. Randolph
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin (Famous Figures of the Civil War Era)

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Uncle Tom's Cabin
One Of The Best Books You Can Read

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin (Famous Figures of the Civil War Era)
Leeanne Gelletly
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Uncle Tom's Cabin.......2002-05-31

I chose this book to read was because I was suppose to read a historical fiction, but the reason that I chose this book out of all the other historical fiction books because it seemed to remind me of Abe Lincoln cabin.
The book is about slavery. The way that the author described time of slavery back and how everything there was so terrible. It makes me so glad that I live in this time now in this country. I wish that there were more that the black people could do instead of being treated like that. It was like time travel, when I
Reason why I liked it because it showed slavery from and black mans perspective and how slavery was for them. I didn't like was all the horrifying details it goes into slavery. Reason why I choose that book was because it's a good book about slavery and it shows you what really goes on in that time. It was like time travel, when I began to read it was boring, then it seemed that I was sent back in time and seeing the way that they were treated.

One Of The Best Books You Can Read.......2001-05-16

This is a really good book. I think all children should have this book in their possession. If they don't, parents you need to buy it.

A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (Notable American Authors)

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Amazing Documentation of an Amazing Story
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"it was a good book and I could read it over and over again.

A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (Notable American Authors)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded, together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work. The writer has aimed to tell what is true without regard to the effect it may have upon any person or party. It was her endeavor to honestly state the truth and readily admits there may be mistakes found within. A fabulous companion work to Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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This is an excellent source of information about slavery in the U.S. just before the Civil War. When proslavery critics of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851) charged that she did not accurately describe slavery, she published this fact-filled 1853 book demonstrating that her novel was accurate. This is a facsimile of an 1853 edition with the original small text enlarged to make it more easily read. There are no Adobe Reader restrictions on printing or copying. Teachers may freely make copies of up to up to 25 pages from this book for each student taking courses from them without written permission or royalty payment as long as at least one printed copy of the Inkling edition of this work is available for students in the school library.

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Amazing Documentation of an Amazing Story.......2006-09-19

Upon publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, HB Stowe was attacked immediately by pro-slavery writers. Her work was dismissed as fiction, an abolitionist's distorted view, and totally representing slavery in the South. Mrs. Stowe responded by collecting and expanding her factual documentation. She started to write a 25-page pamphlet, to be added as an appendix to the next edition of Cabin. But the work consumed her, as she confronted the stories of many escaped slaves, newspaper articles, court testimony, and even the text of state laws. The defense project grew to over 500 pages, and is a major work in its own right.

Frederick Douglas called it a major contribution to the war against slaveholders: "...for the 'Key' not only proves the correctness of every essential part of Uncle Tom's Cabin, but proves more and worse things against themurderous system than are alleged in that great book."

Historians and history teachers must have this book, as a reference and as an experience. Anyone who strives to understand the burning issues that ignited the War between the States needs this book. I recommend it.

A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin ebook.......2005-10-04

If you're teaching or studying black history, the Inkling ebook edition of A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (ISBN: B000BGQ9E4) is a great bargain. You get an exact facsimile of the classic 1853 edition with the original small type enlarged to fit 8.5x11 inch pages for easier reading and printing.

Best of all, despite Amazon's boilerplate remarks about "most publishers do not allow e-books to be printed" none of the restrictive digital rights management is turned on. You can print and copy all the pages you like.

A lot of people make fun of Uncle Tom's Cabin, make fun of it's mid-nineenth century literary style and neglecting the enormous impact it has had. Here's what George Orwell, the author of two literary classics, Animal Farm and 1984, said about Uncle Tom's Cabin:

"A type of book which we hardly seem to produce in these days, but which flowered with great richness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is what Chesterton called the "good bad book": that is, the kind of book that has no literary pretensions but which remains readable when more serious productions have perished....

Perhaps the supreme example of the "good bad" book is Uncle Tom's Cabin. It is an unintentionally ludicrous book, full of preposterous melodramatic incidents; it is also deeply moving and essentially true; it is hard to say which quality outweighs the other. But Uncle Tom's Cabin, after all, is trying to be serious and to deal with the real world.... And by the same token I would back Uncle Tom's Cabin to outlive the complete works of Virginia Woolf or George Moore, though I know of no strictly literary test which would show where the superiority lies."

Review.......2001-07-03

My reason for reading this book was to understand why some Blacks today are called 'Uncle Toms'. Once I began the book, I realized that I would have to stop looking at the book frrom the perspective of a Black woman in the year 2001. That the author was not a slave or a Black is very obvious, and her own misconceptions about Blacks are very disturbing. But she is, after all, writing from her the only point of view she knew. I found the book to be very engrossing, easy to read and also interesting enough to keep me from flipping to the end.

"it was a good book and I could read it over and over again........1999-04-22

"Uncle Tom's Cabin was a very good book. I wouldn't encourage younger people like 4th and 5th graders to read it, but I think everyone needs to read it by the time they graduate from school."

The life-work of the author of Uncle Tom's cabin

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The life-work of the author of Uncle Tom's cabin
Florine Thayer McCray
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The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872 (Civil War America)

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The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872 (Civil War America)
Lyde Cullen Sizer
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Release Date: 2000-08-30

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This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction, these women, as well as a larger mosaic of lesser-known writers, used their mainstream writings publicly to make sense of war, womanhood, Union, slavery, republicanism, heroism, and death.

Among the authors discussed are Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sara Willis Parton (Fanny Fern), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Although direct political or partisan power was denied to women, these writers actively participated in discussions of national issues through their sentimental novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and letters to the editor.

Sizer pays close attention to how these mostly middle-class women attempted to create a "rhetoric of unity," giving common purpose to women despite differences in class, race, and politics. This theme of unity was ultimately deployed to establish a white middle-class standard of womanhood, meant to exclude as well as include.

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