The Comprehensive Sourcebook of Bacterial Protein Toxins, Second Edition

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The Comprehensive Sourcebook of Bacterial Protein Toxins, Second Edition, provides an up-to-date description of the great advances made in our understanding of the structure, genetics, cellular, and molecular mechanisms of action of bacterial protein toxins over the past decade. This work follows and expands on the first edition (published in 1991), with 70% totally new content and full-color illustrations. Molecular biology, microbiology, immunology, cell biology, protein engineering, structural biochemistry, and clinical research in infectious diseases are brought together to provide a complete overview of the field.

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* Most up-to-date and comprehensive reference on the subject
* Addresses recent achievements in basic and applied toxin research
* Covers use of bacterial toxins in the development of new vaccines, immunodulators, and therapeutics against cancer and various neurological disorders
* Written by internationally recognized scientists, including Randall Holmes, a recent candidate for presidency of the American Society for Microbiology

Adp-Ribosylating Toxins and G Proteins: Insights into Signal Transduction (Pco-017-9)

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Adp-Ribosylating Toxins and G Proteins: Insights into Signal Transduction (Pco-017-9)
Joel Moss
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Bacterial Protein Toxins

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Bacterial Protein Toxins
Drusilla, Ed. Burns
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Bacterial Protein Toxins (Fems Symposium)

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Bacterial Protein Toxins (Fems Symposium)
J. E. Alouf , F. J. Fehrenbach , J. H. Freer , and J. Jeljaszewicz
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Bacterial Protein Toxins (HANDBOOK OF EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY)

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Bacterial Protein Toxins (HANDBOOK OF EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY)
K., Ed. Aktories
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In recent years remarkable progress has been accomplished with respect to our knowledge about bacterial protein toxins. This refers especially to structural aspects of protein toxins but also holds true for genetics, molecular biology and biochemical mechanisms underlying the action of toxins. This volume covers the very current and exciting aspects of up-to-date bacterial toxicology and comprehensively reviews the most important bacterial protein toxins such as the intracellular acting toxins which exhibit enzyme activity, as well as those toxins that interact with cell plasma membranes by damaging the membranes (pore formation) or stimulating cell receptors (superantigens). This is the most current reference work on these important bacterial protein toxins, which are presented from the point of view of different disciplines such as pharmacology, microbiology, cell biology and protein chemistry.

Bacterial Protein Toxins: 4th European Workshop, Urbino, July 3-July 6 1989 (International Journal of Medical Microbiology, Supplement 19)

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Bacterial Protein Toxins: 4th European Workshop, Urbino, July 3-July 6 1989 (International Journal of Medical Microbiology, Supplement 19)
Rino Rappuoli
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Bacterial Protein Toxins: Role in the Interference with Cell Growth Regulation (ADVANCES IN MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY)

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Bacterial Protein Toxins: Role in the Interference with Cell Growth Regulation (ADVANCES IN MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY)
Alistair J., Ed. Lax
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 052182091X

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Bacterial toxins that act inside cells interact very specifically with key components of the cell and some even manipulate the cell in subtle ways for their own purposes. These potent toxins, described in this book, will be of interest to both microbiologists and cell biologists. Some of these toxins are conventional multidomain toxins that are self-programmed to enter cells. Others are delivered by type III mechanisms, often as a package of potent molecules. The molecular targets for all these toxins mediate signal transduction and the cell cycle to regulate the crucial processes of cell growth, cell division and differentiation. Thus these potent toxins are not only responsible for disease, but also provide a powerful set of tools with which to interrogate the biology of the cell. In addition such toxins may act directly to promote carcinogenesis and hence their study is also of interest in a wider context.

Bacterial Protein Toxins: Second European Workshop Wepion, June 30-July 4, 1985

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Bacterial Protein Toxins: Second European Workshop Wepion, June 30-July 4, 1985

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Bacterial Protein Toxins: Third European Workshop Uberlingen, June 28-July 3, 1987, Supplement 17 (Bacterial Protein Toxins)

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Best Guide Book to Diving in Bali.......2000-09-14

This guide is the most exhaustive book of Indonesian dive sites available. Its Bali site descriptions are even better than books that focus only on that island.

Great reading; it's really fun and entertaining. Non-illustrated reef fish guide in the back is a bit useless, now that there are a couple of good field guides available. And the Cemuluk site map was slightly misleading, but no major problem to the intrepid.

I have not nearly visited all the sites in the book, but I never got one "bum steer" from the information I took from it. It's got a wonderful travel practicalities section in the back. Hands down, the best available maps of snorkeling and diving sites.

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One of the best diving guides ever.......2004-04-02

This is even worth the read if you are not going to Indonesia to dive. If you ARE going, it is essential. The photos are unsurpassed and the photo reproduction quality is superb.

Great Book.......1999-08-04

You really can't make it all over Indonesia to go diving witout a lot of time and money so the book covers a lot of territory. They do have good diving stories in general, beautiful color photos and quality maps. I intend to buy the Asia's Top Dive Sites because this book is so good.

Diving Indonesia: A Guide to the World's Greatest Diving (Periplus Action Guides)

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The Most Comprehensive Diving Guide to Indonesia

Diving Indonesia: A Guide to the World's Greatest Diving (Periplus Action Guides)
Kal Muller , and David Pickell
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Diving Indonesia: A Guide to the WorldÕs Greatest Diving

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The Most Comprehensive Diving Guide to Indonesia.......2004-03-22

Covers virtually all areas with diving facilities, from popular ones like Bali or North Sulawesi to little-known gems like the Tukangbesi Islands of South-East Sulawesi or the Raja Ampat Islands of West Papua. No information for snorkellers though.

Underwater Indonesia a guide to the World's Greatest Diving

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Underwater Indonesia a guide to the World's Greatest Diving
Kal Muller
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ASIN: B000LCM4ZQ

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The sequel to the award-winning Remembering Slavery, a groundbreaking book-and-CD set of interviews about the segregation-era South.

Remembering Jim Crow, the groundbreaking sequel to Remembering Slavery, is an extraordinary opportunity to read and hear the voices of black southerners who were firsthand witnesses to one of the most heartbreaking and troubling chapters in America's history. Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil project at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book-and-CD set presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever recorded of African American life in the racially segregated South.

In vivid, compelling stories, men and women from all walks of life tell how their most ordinary activities were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression—in the workplace, on street corners, and above all in the public facilities and institutions that systematically demeaned, disenfranchised, and disempowered black people, condemning them to second-class citizenship. At the same time, Remembering Jim Crow is a testament to how black southerners fought back against the system, raising children, building churches and schools, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a society that denied them the most basic rights. The result is a powerful story of survival enriched by vivid memories of individual, family, and community triumphs and tragedies.

Remembering Jim Crow is accompanied by two one-hour compact discs of the companion radio documentary produced by American RadioWorks. A transcript of the audio programs is included in the book's appendix, and the book is illustrated with fifty rare segregation-era photographs collected from African American families who participated in the oral history project. Boxed set: hardcover book with 2 one-hour compact discs; 50 black-and-white photographs.

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A Worthy Read.......2004-02-25

This is an interesting angle to present a sad era in America's history. This book does not give a history book type of fact presentation, it presents the facts from the people who actually experienced it.

This is a vital book if for only one reason, so that the children born after this era know what it was like so it is never repeated.

I enjoyed the oral history that is presentated and I would recommend this book if you want a greater understanding of this time.

Remembering Jim Crow.......2003-04-21

REMEMBERING JIM CROW is a colletion of first hand accounts of life in the Jim Crow south. The stories are compelling and at the same time sad.

The stories create the atmosphere that one is sitting in one of the elderly story tellers living room listening to them.

This book is especially worthwhile for non-African-Amercians readers, because virtually all African-Americans that have roots in the south, know these stories all too well.

A necessary book.......2002-10-08

This is an absolutely superb book, comprised of recollections of the Jim Crow years in the form of oral histories. It can be read through, or picked up at any part. There is an appropriate amount of historical introduction to each chapter.
This material needs to be read, and remembered. There was a long time in our history when, although there was no more slavery, African Americans were treated as a separate serf class, under constant pressures and reminders of their lower status. Whites used pervasive legal and social downward pressures to keep African Americans out of an equal education, and equal access to public facilities, much less the right to equal jobs and the right to vote -- and then claimed that African Americans' lack of achievement was a racial fault. If an African American violated one of the many social taboos, the sanctions ranged from a beating, to loss of job, and even being lynched.
While whites benefited from Jim Crow, the whites, also, were trapped in the system. They were also forced to abide by legal segregation, and were subject to social pressure if they were too liberal (being called "n* lover," "white n*," etc.).
What led to the mindset that the end of slavery should lead to continued legal and social oppression of African Americans? It was part of white American culture. Lincoln himself said that he was not "in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry.... [T]here must be the position of superior and inferior. I am as much as any other man in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race." In 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes traded the end of southern post-war Reconstruction for the electoral votes he needed to win the presidency. Southern states then were free to institute the Jim Crow system.
I believe we are more subject to peer pressure than we would like to believe. Although reviewer McInerney asserts that "no civilized person" would benefit from Jim Crow, I feel many otherwise-good people were trapped and/or blinded by their own interests and surroundings. When allowed, and even encouraged, their evil side showed itself. On this topic, see John Griffin's _Black Like Me_, on the different faces that whites showed to other whites, and to African Americans.
While we are certain that we wouldn't go back to that system, we shouldn't be so sure that we, also, wouldn't be trapped by it if we were born into it. Consider that Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy (to a large extent) didn't take effective action to end segregation.
This book is excellent. Those dreadful and shameful times -- and the vestiges which still continue -- must not be forgotten.

Reveals how blacks fought against the system.......2002-04-10

This slipcased book and 2-cd set supplements the written word with oral history, gathering the voices of men and women who were firsthand witnesses to segregation in the south. Stories by men and women from all walks of life reveal how blacks fought against the system, built communities, and ran businesses in a society which denied them basic rights. Remembering Jim Crow offers the reader a comprehensive, involving, highly recommended presentation.

Slavery The Sequel.......2002-03-14

Any illusions about the freedom and equality that were alleged to have been given to African Americans in this country following the Civil War were just that, illusions. The reality of America's version of Apartheid was legitimized in 1896 in the United States Supreme Court with the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson. When the de-facto segregation that Plessy allowed was added to the de jure laws that followed, whatever emancipation had been promised was firmly repudiated. It is even legitimate to go back to 1877 when Rutherford B. Hayes and his party sold out, and swapped the presidency for the removal of federal troops from the south.

"Remembering Jim Crow", is a brilliant collection of first hand accounts of life under Jim Crow by those who were victimized by its laws. A large cast collected these verbal accounts over several years, and they accomplished no less than the preservation of a sinister part of this country's history. A time that W.E.B. Dubois characterized as, "living behind the veil". Combined with the book, "At The Hands Of Person's Unknown", which I commented extensively on, these two books, and if you choose the accompanying CD of the interviews, provides a wide, if horrific view of these eight decades.

These testimonies are also notable for the speakers who identify by name the people and families that victimized them. This is not ancient history that many would like to forget. These people who survived and speak of Jim Crow are alive, and so a presumption that their tormentors are alive is reasonable. The end of the book includes portions of a documentary that was made as part of this project with National Public Radio. Happily some of the whites that were interviewed in Iberia Perish in Louisiana remember and look with regret on what they did and did not do. Their willingness to speak on the record is admirable. But lest anyone think that all is solved there are also people who went on the record bemoaning their never having enjoyed the privileges that Jim Crow gave whites. A man named Barrow expressed himself thusly, "That was awful nice, you know, you'd go hunting, "Boy clean those ducks", you know, "Skin that dear", uh, "Shine my shoes". I believe I could have gone for that. Yeah I think you could have too".

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Between 1550 and 1850, how were the English people able to transform themselves from a disparate group of individuals and localities into an imperial power? This book supplements Raymond Williams' seminal work on the country and the city by applying exciting new interdisciplinary perspectives on the question. During the great age of mercantilism, new conceptions of space, time, and social identity began to emerge that are still with us today. This collection of essays by major scholars looks afresh at central issues of early modern English history.

Raymond Williams: A Political Life (Celtic Radicals)

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Raymond Williams: A Political Life (Celtic Radicals)
W. John Morgan
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The Enforcer: Spilotro.......2007-01-30

I was looking for a good summary of mob connections between Las Vegas and other cities. The book does a pretty good job of summarizing Tony Spilotro's life and the activity of the Chicago and Milwaukee mobs in Las Vegas, but there is too much Bill Roemer in the book. It reads like a war story told over drinks in a tavern.

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