The Aerobic Endospore-Forming Bacteria: Classification and Identification (Special publications of the Society for General Microbiology)

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From celebrity murders to outrageous acts of vengeance and destruc- tion, North Americans are obsessed with tabloid crimes, and hungry for every last detail. Now the people from BADGEa national organization dedicated to the preservation of crime scenestake readers on an unforgettable tour of the sites of Americas most horrendous and unusual wrongdoings.

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YES, CRIME DOES INDEED PAY!.......2003-01-01

Who says crime doesn't pay? It paid for the members of BADGE (Bureau of Amateur Detectives and Gatherers for Evidence) who compiled this tongue-in-cheek , but quite useful, book that hopefully will make a killing. Why go to sunny Bermuda when you can visit rock-cold Alcatraz? Why hit the slopes of Colorado when you can ski along by the home of JonBenet Ramsey? Why bank on good taste when you can get a taste of real fun and drop by one of the banks robbed by Butch Cassidy and his Sundance kid? This state-by-state guide offers crime buffs (and the mere curious) the chance to trace the steps of murderers, thieves, spies, kidnappers and organized crime bosses. Not loving it would be, well, criminal.

I was hoping for more..........2002-04-23

This book really didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. I was expecting some more detail in the maps, and only a couple events in each state were highlighted. There were some really big cases completely ignored that I thought deserved attention more than the ones that he chose. California's Zodiac Killer and Florida's University of Florida Gainesville College Murders were among those that I was surprised to see were overlooked. I can only recommend this if you're looking for scant information on a very limited number of cases. Otherwise, look elsewhere.

Sites for Inquisitive Eyes.......2000-08-04

This guide to crime scenes in the United States is a wonderfully usable source book for both road warriors and armchair travelers. It provides detailed descriptions of famous and infamous crime sites, ranging alphabetically from Alcatraz Prison to bankrobber Butch Cassidy's cell in the Wyoming Territorial Prison, geographicallly from New York City (site of John Lennon's murder)to Honolulu(where Hawaii's only serial murder case remains unsolved). Packed with facts, vivid descriptions, useful details, maps and directions, it makes for a very informative and entertaining read--whether you follow one of these "paths of crime" or not.

Crime Scene USA: A Traveler's Guide to the Locations of Famous and Infamous Murders, Robberies, Kidnappings, and Other Unlawful Acts

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Crime Scene USA: A Traveler's Guide to the Locations of Famous and Infamous Murders, Robberies, Kidnappings, and Other Unlawful Acts
Neal S.; BADGE Yonover
Manufacturer: Hyperion Books for Children
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000L57URK

Book Description

Order and Exclusion is a rare and magnificent book of medieval history with clear relevance to today's headlines. Through the lens of the polemics of Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny, Dominique Iogna-Prat examines the process by which christianity transformed itself into Christendom, a powerful spiritual, social, and political system with pretensions to universality.

Iogna-Prat's close examination of a set of writings central to the history of Catholicism resolves into a deeply troubling study of the origins of attitudes that continue to shape world events. Iogna-Prat writes that "versions of fundamentalism nourished by the soil of an often terrible common history" show that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have all been capable of intolerance.

Peter the Venerable's writings had a far-reaching impact: the powerful network of Clunaic houses expanded from the founding of the original monastery of Cluny to dominate Christendom by the twelfth century. This Christendom, Iogna-Prat demonstrates, defined itself in part through its increasingly bitter struggles against its perceived enemies both within and without. Peter the Venerable's all-pervasive logic pitted the "order" of the monastery and its hierarchical society against all those-heretics, Jews, Muslims, lepers-outside its bounds. In his proclamations against Jews and Muslims, Peter devised a Christian anthropology: in his view, to be non-Christian was to be non-human. The power of the Church came at a great and lasting price.

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Brilliant and accurate micro-historical study.......2005-07-27

Order and Exclusion is a brilliant and accurate micro-historical study on the handling by Cluny of 11th century ideas opposing christianity. At that time Cluny was the most powerfull institute in Europe and the ideas of Peter the Venerable, wich are so accurately described in Order and Exclusion, would have major impact on the development of Europe. The ideas form the basis of every major prosecution of free thinking until the French revolution (and maybe even until now if I read the review of Paul J. Tetreault Jr. well).

The review "History or Propaganda? of August 22, 2004" by Paul J. Tetreault Jr. should not have been written. It is a shame and a warning to society that this man is a lawyer. I did read the book (in french) and was shocked by this review. The writer did not read the book, has no idea about history and generaly is driven by faith. He is a christian fundamentalist and writes as if he is a member of the inquisition. With all dangers related to this. If this represents the way lawyers work in the USA then let us be warned!

Was That A Review ?.......2004-12-07

A previous "review" entitled "History or Propaganda?" should not have been posted. The writer of this "review" admits in his last paragraph that he has not even read the book! This reminds me of Bill Murray's review of films on Saturday Night Live. Murray would concede that he had not actually viewed the movies under consideration (but at least he made this admission UP FRONT!).

I am going to purchase "Order and Exclusion." And though I have not read it yet, I am going to give it five stars anyway, because I did read a rave review of it in the August 10, 2003 LA Times Book Review. And that review was offered by a Yale University professor of religion.

History or Propaganda?.......2004-08-22

I was searching for titles on Peter of Cluny because an article in Christian History magazine showed that Peter understood that the only way to defeat militant Islam was to approach Muslims with love, learn what they believe, and attempt to share the Gospel with them.

Peter opposed the Crusades. He understood that while the Crusaders might win military victories they would not eliminate the ideas that motivated Muslims to conquer most of the known world because Jihad is commanded by Koran. Peter actually traveled to Toledo in former Moorish Spain and had books from Islam's vast libraries there - including Koran - translated from Arabic to Latin - he even hired a Muslim to be sure the translations were correct.

Peter then wrote two books, the first to Christians explaining what Islam teaches and the second to Muslims refuting Islam. Interestingly, Peter noticed that much of Islam - including the rejection of the deity of Christ - was simply a regurgitation of Christian heresies that had arisen and been refuted before Muhammad was even born. As such Peter saw Islam not as a separate religion but as a heretical form of Christianity.

As a lawyer working on a Ph.D. I know there is a bias prevalent in academia today that views all religions - and anybody who acts on the basis of his faith - with contempt. But true scholars know that you can only judge a religion on the basis of what its authoritative documents teach, not on the basis of what its supposed adherents say or do.

It adds nothing to our understanding to show that anybody can be intolerant, regardless of the faith he claims to profess. But it is important to understand that both Judaism and Christianity teach love your neighbor as you love yourself, a rule not shared by Islam.

I have not read Order & Exclusion and have posted these comments based solely on the publisher's synopsis, which definitely desuades me from purchasing the book. It seems likely the author does not present Cluny or Christendom in light of the real differences between the teachings of Islam compared to Judaism and Christianity but rather in light of the current academic contempt for all religion.

Forgotten Faces: A Window Into Our Immigrant Past (Forgotten Faces - America's Lost History)

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California immigrant history brought to life!
Explores a unique aspect of America's history
A Unique Glimpse Into Past Lives

Forgotten Faces: A Window Into Our Immigrant Past (Forgotten Faces - America's Lost History)
Ronald William Horne , Lisa Montanarelli , and Geoffrey Link
Manufacturer: Personal Genesis Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

Forgotten Faces - A Window Into Our Immigrant Past reveals, for the first time, lost American history encapsulated in a beautiful but neglected art form. Forgotten Faces is the first book to explore memorial portraiture as a distinctive art form and acknowledge its contribution to our country's valued history. In doing so, it reveals a never-before-published photo-panorama of American immigration at the turn of the twentieth century.

Forgotten Faces presents a first-ever collection of over 350 well-preserved photo-ceramic memorial portraits. The beginning of a series titled, Forgotten Faces - America's Lost History, it demonstrates how a similarly beautiful collection of memorial portraits awaits discovery and exhibition from every major city in the United States.

Photo-Ceramic memorial portraits are photographs of the deceased mounted directly on their tombstones. They are made of ceramics the quality of the finest china but made to last outdoors for centuries. This edition now includes 10 pages of color plates - including rare images of immigrants from 28 different nations. It includes examples from Colma, California's historic Holy Cross and Italian cemeteries as well as other U.S. and European locations.

Forgotten Faces details the technology, history and cultural influence of memorial portraits as both art and artifact. Forgotten Faces alerts readers to the fact these treasured artifacts are vanishing from our heritage and recommends methods for documenting them before they disappear.

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California immigrant history brought to life!.......2006-03-12

Galleys and unfinished titles typically aren't mentioned here but keep an eye out for the finished version of FORGOTTEN FACES: A WINDOW NTO OUR IMMIGRANT PAST: it's a unique coverage of photo-ceramic memorial grave portraits and provides an outstanding survey of memorial portraiture as its own art form. This could have been mentioned under our art review section but is featured here for its important cultural insights as well: California immigrant history comes to life in an outstanding visual and written survey of a unique art and memorial form which should not be missed.

Explores a unique aspect of America's history .......2005-02-06

Forgotten Faces explores a unique aspect of America's history - the photo-ceramic memorial portraits upon tombstones, long-forgotten art in plain sight. Black-and-white photographs througout reveal the skill and emotion behind these images, which remain perfectly preserved despite ornamenting tombstones for almost a century. The text discusses epitaphs and inscriptions on the tombstones with the portraits, as well as surveying what is known about the men and women whose likenesses have been captured to heartrending perfection. Images of immigrants from 28 nations from cemeteries in various American and European locations combine to create a unique cross-section of photographic art and history combined.

A Unique Glimpse Into Past Lives.......2004-07-23

Forgotten Faces offers a surprisingly detailed look into our history. The text is easily read. Although the portraits are the heart of the book, the author's descriptions and insights enliven the images.
I was impressed by the breadth of knowledge about the portraits. Questions I had while reading were often answered in a following chapter. The book is a pleasantly thorough treatment of a little known area of our history.
This book has left me with a new outlook on memorials in general and with a hope that around the country further research into these memorial portraits will be undertaken.

The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present

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your mother's mother , mother
A Must Purchase
A Must Purchase
Beautiful pictures, beautifully captioned
Good intentions, amazing illustrations, poor captions.

The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present

Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 025333635X

Book Description

This comprehensive pictorial history tells the story of Black women in eight parts: Family Life, Work, Hair, Resistance, Class, Education, Religion and Community, and Inner Life. In addition to 302 carefully chosen images, the editors provide descriptive captions and quotations from letters, diaries, journals, and other sources.

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your mother's mother , mother.......2007-01-21

i was amazed at the photos. i could not help but to wonder if any of these women and men could be my ancestors. you see so many similarites in the faces on the pages to people you see everyday. i wish there were more in the captions to explain the photos. but when you consider the time that many of these photographs were taken, the captions are in the faces and the demeanor of the subjects. why? is probably the question that could never be answered. and if a reasonable explanation could somehow be given it wouldn't be enough. no matter how broken the mother, father, sister, brother in these photograghs looked. i wish they could all know that their unbearable weight, sorrow and pain helped to develop a strong, defiant, capable and proud race of people.

A Must Purchase.......2001-11-29

This book covers generations of history. The pictures are
breath-taking....it gives you a sincere sense of purpose.

A Must Purchase.......2001-11-29

This book covers generations of history. The pictures are
breath-taking....it gives you a sincere sense of purpose.

Beautiful pictures, beautifully captioned.......2001-01-02

This is a marvelous and moving selection of visual moments, carefully chosen and elegantly captioned. It is refreshingly free of the stuffily convoluted prose one would expect of a book from an academic press. Although the pictures could be said to speak for themselves (and sometimes they can), the information supplied by the gracefully literate writer(s) is helpful and interesting.

Groups of photographs can be wonderful to look at. This collection rises far above what it might have been by means of the exquisite care that was taken in its selection and the highly accessible captioning that accompanies the images.

Good intentions, amazing illustrations, poor captions........2000-12-09

The visual imagery in this collection is terrific, enabling readers' memory, longing, wisdom, regret, sorrow, enormous admiration (of the subjects and all that they represent)- and wonderment. The people and the settings resonate. These are important images. You might well be moved to tears. There is no shortage of emotional appeal to the viewer. One cannot be unaffected by this collection, and all that it represents.

In addition, historically important works of art (engravings and paintings) are reproduced - although unfortunately none in color. The captioning is - for a work of this scope and size, and for illustrations of such power - inconsistent and therefore disappointing, though.

Because it's published by an academic press, I expected a more careful and rigorous treatment. Books of this scope and ambition are few and far between, and one treasures the illustrations - the historic visual record - in and of itself. It's dicey to criticize a collection that has as its focus such a compelling (and neglected) subject: the history of African American women.

The subject matter is terrific - but the book is less so. One wishes that the editors had had an editor. (Why, for example, is the "b" of "black" capitalized? To my knowledge this is not conventional usage, and it detracts.)

So what happened? At times the work seems rushed. For example, three people are photographed, two are identified by name, the third called "unknown." In fact, the writer means "unidentified." Accompanying a photo of a shoeless farm worker is the caption telling one, redundantly, that she is barefoot. A number of captions identify the subject as "Unidentified woman, [location, date.]" That seems lifted directly from states' historical societies' archives. One expects more - or less - but not words that merely interfere with one's experience. One does not need to be told that a photograph is a "photograph."

Occasionally, the editors engage in assumptions regarding the illustrations that, in my view, interfere with the power of the imagery, and reduce the value of this compilation. Guessing as to the subjects' activities in a photograph by Jack Delano, they write that a woman and several children are "possibly waiting for the husband and father to get his hair cut." In fact, one cannot know, and do not need to know, what the people were doing that day. The photo is about much more than that. Another incredible photo of a woman and a girl is accompanied by more guesswork as to the relationship of the subjects (mother and daughter?). There is wordiness to many of the captions. Worst case, there is sometimes unintentional patronization: subjects are identified as "lovely young women," (p. 81) or "fashionable," "attractive" (p.4). The end result is a sense that this book was rushed, and that - despite the impressive pool of archival material from which it was assembled - some corners were cut. The editors use interesting and illuminating quotations in places - but meagerly. There is brief index of names of subjects, and names of quoted women, omitting place names and more.

I wish that the authors of this work either done more, or less. Mostly, I wish that they had more convincingly respected the ability of these powerful and important illustrations to speak clearly to the reader, and had also trusted readers to make the connections between text and visual imagery that is so satisfying and essential to the meaningful experience of organized archival material.

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Africa South - here Africa of the Past and Africa of the future come face to face
Harm Blij
Manufacturer: Northwestern University
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IOTT9Q

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Archaeology Magazine July / August 2003 Pompeii's New Past * Spoils of War * Man of 1000 Faces
Archaeology Magazine
Manufacturer: Archaeology Institute of America
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WJ2EU8

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Discover December 1997 -Is This The Face of the Past, A Linguist's Ebonics, Waves of Solid Matter (The World of Science, Vol 18 No. 12)

Manufacturer: Discover
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000NE6JMG

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The face of Australia: The land & the people, the past & the present
David Hansen
Manufacturer: Child & Associates
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 086777181X

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The Face of Survival Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Past and Present
Michael Riff
Manufacturer: Vallentine Mitchell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0OQME

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The Face of Survival: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Past and Present
Michael Riff
Manufacturer: NYU Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0853032203
Release Date: 1993-01-01

Book Description

In the 1930s, almost five million Jews lived in central Eastern Europe. Ninety percent of these lives were lost in the Holocaust, and the most optimistic estimate puts the number of Jews in that region today at 150,000. Through words and pictures, The Face of Survival tells the story behind the statistics of Eastern European Jewry since the turn of the century, a story that is one of survival as well as destruction.

The Face of Survival combines over one hundred never before published photographs with narrative and autobiographical text to capture Jewish life, history and culture in Eastern Europe, revealing the vitality and fortitude of a people determined to survive in the face of enormous odds. Despite new ambiguities since the collapse of Communism, as well as intermarriage, emigration, and renewed anti-Semitism, Jews continue to live as Jews in Eastern Europe.

The photographs presented here attest to the survival of these communities, testimony to the tenacity and courage of individuals as well as to the strength of Jewish cohesiveness.

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Face of the Past
Paul Jordan
Manufacturer: ANCHOR PRESS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OLL1SK

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yes!.......2004-12-19

Well put together, very encompassing, good explanations...... It doesn't need a paragraph to describe it. If you like Da Vinci or want to learn more about him, this is a great place to start!

One of the best on Leonardo........2003-09-05

This excellent book focuses on Leonardo's drawings in the Royal Library at Windsor. Everyone has seen the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, but Leonardo's greatest achievments are found in his drawings. Vivid HIGH QUALITY color reproductions are accompanied by insightful commentary and historical/biographical information. The book covers the whole breadth of Leonardo's intellectual development. 100 color drawings by history's greatest draftsman, and indeed one of most powerful minds the world has ever seen. As the book says "...[Leonardo's] drawings [are] the pure expression of his genius, boundless and magnificent."
What more could one want in a book? 5/5

Leonardo Da Vinci.......2001-01-12

I never imagined that through a "child book" I would learn about this master-genious and moreover to be capable to comprehend the "details" about his art. I really enojoyed reading this book, I learn more about his famous paints and why they are considered pieces of art. I was motivaded to read more over the other great art's men such as Picasso or Michael Angel Buonorrati; I never thought that could be an easy way to understand this genious. I strongly recommend this book and the other series too; you can not only learn but also share with your child and encourage him to develop his talents or just enhance your "general culture" reading this great book. The talent consist in explaing complex ideas using a "simple language" that everybody can understand. There is not reason to became so sophisticated and not be able to "share" what you learn with the rest of the world. When you learn a good joke you want to tell the rest about it; it is meaningless if you just keep it for yourself...

Good.......2000-07-05

It's not the best Da vinci book, but it has a LOT of drawings.

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