Hell Creek, Montana: America's Key to the Prehistoric Past

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Hell Creek, Montana America's Key to the Prehistoric Past Dr. Lowell Dingus A natural, cultural, and personal portrait of a breathtaking treasure trove of dinosaur fossils, scientific discovery, and American history aleontologist Lowell Dingus first traveled to the Montana badlands surrounding Hell Creek as a student, and, enchanted, has returned many times since. Over the years, he learned that few places have hosted more mythic events in history than the creek's craggy, desolate bluffs-not only of the civilized development of the United States, but of the history of life as a whole. In this millennia-spanning biography of a single, self-contained locale, Dingus presents an epic tale -from the earthshaking reign of the dinosaurs to the first sett-lers on the land; from Lewis and Clark's adventures with its natural inhabitants to the first discovery of a T-Rex skele-ton; and from his own experiences with locals to the frighten-ing 1996 standoff between the FBI and a lawless group of radicals. The result is fascinating reading-universal and personal, thought-ful and illuminating. DR. LOWELL DINGUS is a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History where he directed the renovation of the fossil falls, and at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. He has co-authored several books on dinosaurs, including Walking on Eggs and The Mistaken Extinction. He lives in New York City. Science 0-312-31393-4 $22.95 $33.95 Canadian 5" x 71/8" / 256 pages Includes 15 bw photos, 4 illustrations, and 1 map July

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Hell Creek, Montana: America's Key to the Prehistoric Past
Lowell Dingus
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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How to Identify Mushrooms to Genus IV: Keys to Families and Genera
Daniel E. Stuntz
Manufacturer: Mad River Pr Inc
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Tecumseh, Shawnee Warrior-Statesman
James McCague
Manufacturer: Garrard Pub Co
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Tecumseh: Shawnee Warrior-Statesman
James McGague
Manufacturer: Garrard Publishing Company
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Binding: Hardcover
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Despite frequent media accounts of such unpleasant matters as mad cow disease and outbreaks of food poisoning at fast-food restaurants, Nicols Fox argues, we know too little about the threat that current methods of food manufacture and distribution pose to health. Citing Center for Disease Control figures that put the food poisoning count alone at more than 81 million cases a year in the United States, she notes that in many countries it is unsafe to eat the skins of uncooked vegetables, eggs, ground meat, and other staples. Part of the problem lies in advances in transportation and storage technology, which allow us to consume foods grown very far away and at all seasons; part lies in the fact that bacteria are evolving to survive efforts to contain them. Fox's book is alarming--but appropriately so.

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Spoiled apple juice. Tainted fast-food hamburgers. Contaminated raspberries. As reports of food-borne disease make the headlines with alarming regularity, we are beginning to wonder if every bite we take poses a risk. Are these food scares mere hype and hysteria, or is there a bigger and more frightening story behind the headlines? Journalist Nicols Fox tells in arresting detail what has happened to food and why. Drawing from scientific and medical journals and more than 100 interviews with epidemiologists, physicians, food scientists, USDA and FDA officials, farmers, distributors, and consumer victims, her findings are fascinating, provocative, and terrifying. Spoiled reveals--for the first time--how in the last twenty-five years we lost control of our food supply to a tangled and messy chain of factory farming and processing, high-tech packaging, mass distributors, and importing and exporting. By changing the way we produce, process, distribute, store, and prepare food, we have upset the subtle ecological balances of the food chain--and we have only begun to pay the price.

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Eating can be dangerous to your health!.......2004-05-16

Ok...I would not recommend this book to anyone who panics easily or does not have an 'iron' stomach. This book is not for the squeamish. Fox does an excellent job of researching the massive problems in our modern-day food industries. She not only includes the companies that prepare and can our foods (such as Gerber, Heinz, Del Monte, and the many less-well-known providers of meat), but she includes the cattle and chicken industries, and even restaurants.

This book caught my eye after the horrible breakout last summer in our local Chi-Chi's of Hepatitis A. Hep A is not supposed to be a killer, but the strain that hit this restaurant exposed a huge amount of people to illness...over 600. Among that group were people who had immune system problems such as diabetes, and there were four deaths from what is currently believed to be exposure through green onions. It was unfathonable to many that something such as green onions could lead to deaths; I still have a problem believing that was the source.

But Fox makes clear in this book that our foodstuffs are not as safe in many ways, as they used to be, due to modern industry practices, and the lobbying efforts of the industries in pursuit of the almight dollar.

The book is fascinating, and the only reason I gave a four star rating was due to the fact that many times Fox's writing seemed repetitious. I am certainly taking much more care of the way I prepare foods, and even which foods I shop for thanks to this book. Like many of the current books dealing with what could be 'doomsday' scenarios, I tend to take the books with a grain of salt...you can't spend your entire life being afraid of things. However, you can spend more time in care of your families, and I think this book is valuable for that reason.

Karen Sadler,
Science Education,
University of Pittsburgh

Will change the way you eat.......2002-09-15

This book is a brilliant investigation into the present state of our food supply. Many of us have read scattered news items about food poisoning outbreaks here and there, but have never really noticed what's been happening to our food supply. In this book, Fox brings together hundreds of stories of outbreaks, and through them, brings the elusive big picture into focus. Fox takes us behind the burger counters back to the factory farm, where chickens are sick, and cows are fattened up on the dung and bedding from the sick chickens. The manure from the chicken-dung eating cows is spread on apple orchards, and all of the sudden organic apple cider must be pasteurized to kill the e. coli. Before reading this book, I wondered why eating raw cookie dough never made me sick as a child, but now we're cautioned never even to consider such dangerous habits. As Fox explains, eating raw eggs wasn't dangerous before, but thanks to modern agribusiness practices, chickens have salmonella in their ovaries, so all eggs must be assumed to be tainted As a result, the only safe egg these days is one whose yolk is cooked solid- -eating eggs sunny-side up is akin to Russian roulette.

Fox's main message is that it is vitally important to know who grew your food and how, as well as who cooked your food. If you choose to eat meat, you should know where the meat came from. In the interests of making a profit, factory farms feed meat and milk animals waste products including diseased animal parts and dung. Even if the animals are able to digest such a diet, bacteria and other pathogens from such a diet eventually end up on our plates. Hamburger meat is exceptionally risky since a single pound can include meat from hundreds of individual cows, and if any one of those hundreds carries a pathogen, the entire lot of meat will be tainted. The only way to be reasonably sure of getting healthy meat is to purchase it from a farmer that you know, someone whose farm you can visit in person. Meanwhile, food handlers and preparers seem to be less and less familiar with basic rules of food safety. Fox mentions supermarket workers who don't know the dangers of dented or bulging cans, and teenagers earning minimum wage frying meat at burger joints who have never cooked anything before in their lives. She stresses how important it is not to assume that food is safe just because it is on sale. Sure, the USDA, FDA, and threat of lawsuits give the consumer some protection, but a lawsuit is of little use in bringing a child back to life after a little case of food poisoning.

Living in Dubai, my husband and I experience at least one incidence of food poisoning per month, despite being cautious about where and what we eat. We have learned to inspect every package carefully in the supermarket, considering the country of origin, the condition of the container, and the manner in which the goods are stored. In restaurants, we choose our food not by what looks tastiest, but instead by what is least likely to be tainted. We've seen supermarket food handlers at the deli counter blithely lift dripping raw chickens over cooked ones and we've become vegetarians out of necessity. In this book, Fox argues that it's up to American consumers to see that their food supply doesn't continue to go the same way.

A thorough and detailed work.......2000-12-31

I have just read this book - it took me almost four months. The thoroughness and attention to detail held me spellbound throughout. Future readers must be prepared to read, enjoy, savour and ABSORB this book to give it its just desserts. Ms. Fox throws buckets of icy water into our faces to cause us to think about the food we eat. I will not become a vegetarian - as she has - because man is by nature and heritage a carnivore. Besides she cites as many - if not more - problems with fruit, vegetables (especially raw)and their juices as with meats, which we must learn better to prepare. Certainly a (pre)cautionary tale for all!

Important reading for everyone........1999-03-29

I found out about the book because it was referenced at the end of Robin Cook's book Toxin. The author gives detailed accounts of numerous outbreaks of contaminated food. She shows that what we were lead to believe was an isolated incident, is not an isolated incident. I was amazed to find out that Russia demanded higher standards for the chickens that are shipped to their country, but as American citizens we have not asked for higher standards.

She points out that consumers have been blamed for not using proper food handling when in fact the food producer is at fault for not providing safe food.

While I really liked the book, I gave it only 4 stars because at times the book can be a little too detailed. I found it difficult to keep reading the book at times.

What You Don't Know Will Hurt You.......1999-03-26

Fox's well-researched book is shocking. Mad Cow Disease is a trivial problem compared to some of the others revealed in this fascinating investigation into the underbelly and oversights of America's food industry.

But also check out Peter Phillips' CENSORED 1999's top censored news story for an additional jolt: a government near you soon will be wholly beholden to any corporation which chooses to violate the already-established food laws. If the powers that be get their way, the stories in fox's SPOILED will be barely the tip of the iceberg in a few short years.

Wake up, America! Read this book and raise some hell! How? Call your local, state, and federal representatives and tell them you're not going to take it any longer!

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Spoiled: The Dangerous Truth About a Food Chain Gone Haywire. (book reviews): An article from: Journal of Economic Issues
Thomas R. DeGregori
Manufacturer: Association for Evolutionary Economics
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Association for Evolutionary Economics on September 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1667 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Spoiled: The Dangerous Truth About a Food Chain Gone Haywire. (book reviews)
Author: Thomas R. DeGregori
Publication: Journal of Economic Issues (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1998
Publisher: Association for Evolutionary Economics
Volume: v32 Issue: n3 Page: p905(4)

Article Type: Book Review

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This textbook for students and practitioners presents a practical approach to decomposition techniques in optimization. It provides an appropriate blend of theoretical background and practical applications in engineering and science, which makes the book interesting for practitioners, as well as engineering, operations research and applied economics graduate and postgraduate students. "Decomposition Techniques in Mathematical Programming" is based on clarifying, illustrative and computational examples and applications from electrical, mechanical, energy and civil engineering as well as applied mathematics and economics. It addresses decomposition in linear programming, mixed-integer linear programming, nonlinear programming, and mixed-integer nonlinear programming, and provides rigorous decomposition algorithms as well as heuristic ones. Practical applications are developed up to working algorithms that can be readily used. The theoretical background of the book is deep enough to be of interest to applied mathematicians. It includes end of chapter exercises and the solutions of the even numbered exercises are included as an appendix.

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Featuring Hemingway's only full-length play, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War brilliantly evokes the tumultuous Spain of the 1930s. These works, which grew from Hemingway's adventures as a newspaper correspondent in and around besieged Madrid, movingly portray the effects of war on soldiers, civilians, and the correspondents sent to cover it.

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up to the mark.......2007-03-11

As expected very good. interesting to see how Hemimgway's play compares with his stories. It's of its time as are the stories. His laconic detached non involved style a bit bloodless.

Some of Hem's very best stuff.......2004-12-31

I wasn't sure about a Hemingway play. Sure, Papa is one of my favorite fiction writers, but could he write for the stage as well as he wrote stories?

The Fifth Column proved to be every bit as good as Hemingway's best fiction. The deep characters and fascinating, realistic sequence of events are brilliantly written. The reader can picture the drama as if it was being acted out before him.

I've recommended this book to several people; some are hesitant to read it because the story's setting (the Spanish Civil War) doesn't interest them. But in Hemingway's fiction, the setting is not as important as how people and the things that happen to them are communicated on the page. He was a truly master writer, able to make characters and situations fascinating regardless of what the reader thought of the story's setting.

One suggestion: I read the four short stories before I read the play, and I strongly recommend that sequence. Reading the stories first enables you to see transition of the events from real life to Hemingway's mind, then to the page, and finally to the stage. Seeing this transition will give the reader an appreciation for Hemingway's ability to so brilliantly put into words his own observations and experiences.

If you are a Hemingway fan, or if you just like good fiction, it doesn't get much better than this.

Educational Fiction.......2003-06-06

The Fifth Column part of the book is very entertaining. I enjoyed it more than the four stories. Give this book a chance if you have any interest in either the Spanish Civil War or Ernest Hemingway. Also try A SUN ALSO RISES. That book is good as well.

THE FIFTH COLUMN - And four unpublished stories of the Spanish Civil War: The Denunciation; The Butterfly and the Tank; Night Before Battle; Under the Ridge

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THE FIFTH COLUMN - And four unpublished stories of the Spanish Civil War: The Denunciation; The Butterfly and the Tank; Night Before Battle; Under the Ridge
Ernest Hemingway
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THE FIFTH COLUMN AND FOUR STORIES OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

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THE FIFTH COLUMN AND FOUR STORIES OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

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The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War
Ernest Hemingway
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The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War
Ernest Hemingway
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THE FIFTH COLUMN and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (The Complete Works of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 11 of the original 20 Volume Set)

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THE FIFTH COLUMN and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (The Complete Works of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 11 of the original 20 Volume Set)

Manufacturer: Easton Press
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Binding: Leather Bound

Fifth Column and Four Unpublished Stories of the Spanish Civil War

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Fifth Column and Four Unpublished Stories of the Spanish Civil War
Ernest Hemingway
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The Fifth Column and Four Unpublished Stories of the Spanish Civil War

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The Fifth Column and Four Unpublished Stories of the Spanish Civil War
Ernest Hemingway
Manufacturer: Charles Schriber's Sons
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Fifth Column, The - and Four Unpublished Stories of the Spanish Civil War

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Fifth Column, The - and Four Unpublished Stories of the Spanish Civil War
Ernest Hemingway
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The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War
Ernest Hemingway
Manufacturer: The Easton Press, 1990
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