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Is modern civilization fundamentally flawed? Is society itself a world threatening catastrophe?
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Broad-range discussion, totally grounded on fundamental questions........2005-11-30
So broad yet rightly detailed -- a rare combination in modern writing.
The book cannot be simplified into one idea, but the big question seems to be, are our cultural choices inhuman and even worse?
Clearly and sincerely written, so that anyone anywhere on the spectrum of opinion can appreciate the thoughts and motivations of the writer.
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Plasmids In Bacteria (Basic Life Sciences)
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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Indicators, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Several strains of bacteria unusually highly resistant to mercury were isolated from seawater and marine sediment samples and identified by 16S rDNA sequencing and were also characterized by a battery of biochemical and morphological tests. The bacterial isolates were identified to belong to the genera Pseudomonas, Alcaligenes, Brevibacterium and Bacillus. Many of the chosen isolates were tested for growth in the presence of different heavy metals and a variety of xenobiotics. Growth curves of all six bacteria highly resistant to mercury examined for growth at different concentrations of Hg exhibited prolonged lag phase, during which time necessary physiological adaptations to toxic milieu were undergone. All the strains tested for antibiotic resistance showed little to no effect of antibiotics on their normal growth. Results of this study demonstrate the occurrence of diverse groups of marine prokaryotes capable of high tolerance to mercury with a potential to degrade a variety of toxic heavy metals and xenobiotics.
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A collection of 50 indigenous meta-toluate tolerating bacteria isolated from oil-contaminated rhizosphere of Galega orientalis on selective medium was characterized and identified by classical and molecular methods. 16S rDNA partial sequencing showed the presence of five major lineages of the Bacteria domain. Gram-positive Rhodococcus, Bacillus and Arthrobacter and gram-negative Pseudomonas were the most abundant genera. Only one-fifth of the strains that tolerated m-toluate also degraded m-toluate. The inoculum Pseudomonas putida PaW85 was not found in the rhizosphere samples. The ability to degrade m-toluate by the TOL plasmid was detected only in species of the genus Pseudomonas. However, a few Rhodococcus erythropolis strains were found which were able to degrade m-toluate. A new finding was that Pseudomonas migulae strains and a few P. oryzihabitans strains were able to grow on m-toluate and most likely contained the TOL plasmid. Because strain specific differences in degradation abilities were found for P. oryzihabitans, separation at the strain level was important. For strain specific separation (GTG)"5 fingerprinting was the best method. A combination of the single locus ribotyping and the whole genomic fingerprinting techniques with the selective partial sequencing formed a practical molecular toolbox for studying genetic diversity of culturable bacteria in oil-contaminated rhizosphere.
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This digital document is a journal article from Applied Soil Ecology, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The abundance of metal-tolerant populations among culturable bacterial communities in arable soils of different texture and barren spoil of a former silver mine was determined. In addition, bacterial isolates were identified by MIDI-FAME profiling of total-cell fatty acids and plasmid-encoded tolerance to selected heavy metals, as well as the metal-tolerance patterns of the plasmid-containing isolates were ascertained. The difference in the bacterial numbers between the sandy-loam and clay soils was found, which was associated with the effect of higher concentrations of heavy metals, both total and soluble fractions, in the clay soil. The high proportions of metal-tolerant populations in both soils and the spoil were ascertained. In both soils, the bacterial isolates were mostly represented by Gram-negatives, and Variovorax paradoxus dominated in the spoil. Several isolates contained plasmids of the same size, however, only the tolerance to Zn and Cd appeared to be associated with the plasmids, as showed by the transformation data. Minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) data indicated that the plasmid-containing isolates developed tolerance to several metals tested. Such isolates as Methylobacterium mesopilicum and Flavobacterium from the sandy-loam soil, Pseudomonas gladioli from the clay soil and V. paradoxus from the spoil could be of great interest because of their high tolerance to Zn, Cu, Cd, or Ag, respectively.
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The Rough Guide to Travel health is the definitive health handbook wherever you are travelling. Now in its second edition, it is fully updated making it more indispensable than ever. The guide includes practical details on pre-trip planning, with advice on immunizations, medical kits, air travel and tips for travellers with specific needs. The heart of the guide is an A Z of potential problems and treatments, including homeopathy, herbal medicine and other complementary therapies. Written in a down-to-earth style and avoiding medical jargon, the guide gives the complete lowdown on health risks and vaccinations worldwide, plus comprehensive listings of international travel resources, websites and clinics. As well as this wealth of general advice, there are safety tips for specific types of trips, such as active travel skiing, scuba diving, climbing together with a handy section on first aid. Sometime, somewhere, you'll need this book don't leave home without it.
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Rulers and Their Times: Group 3
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Biology: The Dynamics of Life is a comprehensive high school biology program designed to capture the interest of all students. The text uses analogies, models, and hundreds of illustrations to help students more easily comprehend major biological concepts. The engaging narrative and special feature essays continually reveal to students the connection between biology and everyday life, technology, societal issues, and other areas of the curriculum. Each chapter offers numerous opportuities for hands-on experiences that engage students in using scientific methods and in developing critical thinking skills.
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Biology.......2000-11-01
This book has really helped me learn about science. It is simple and really explains complexted matters in a way anyone can understand. I recomend this book to anyone who feels that they want to understand sicence. Happy reading.
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Unit 1: Ecology Unit 2: The Cell Unit 3: Genetics Unit 4: History of Biological Diversity Unit 5: Bacteria, Viruses, Protists, and Fungi Unit 6: Plants Unit 7: Invertebrates Unit 8: Vertebrates Unit 9: The Human Body
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Biology text review.......2005-01-09
This book is one of the worst biology books I have ever read. The descriptions are very confusing and the questions at the end of the sections are meaningless. I would not recommend this book for high school biology when there are so many better texts on the market.
Good book for college biology I and II.......2004-09-18
I had to use this book for my college I and II classes. I must say the book is very complete. Sometimes written on a high level but then again some topics of biology are hard in general like genetics and animal physiology. For really good test preparation questions, I was recommended to also get:
The Ultimate Study Guide for Biology: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations (Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3). These three guides made me life much easier because the questions showed me what to expect on my actual college exams.
useless textbook.......2003-11-21
the main problem with this book is that you need a huge vocabulary to understand what its talking about. This book is not adapted for high school students. I was astonished how long and pointless the descriptions are. Although the labs are very good, it took my class several readings to understand the material. The main problem with this book is that its not written with kids in mind. I liked the materials at the back of the book (such as, how to use a microscope) as these are very useful, however I am not impressed with the contents of the book itself. It is extremely heavy and bulky and contains much unneded information. Although it has its' pros, there are too many cons.
Interesting and Fun to Read.......2000-04-22
This book really helped me with AP Bio and i really got into it! It focused on all the important information and gave great examples! its a new edition and is updated. go out and buy this book, if you read it thoroughly it will give you ultimate preparation or a good background in Biology!
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Celebration Cakes: Their production and decorating
M. Howkins
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Advances in Algebra and Model Theory (Algebra, Logic and Applications)
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Contains 25 surveys in algebra and model theory, all written by leading experts in the field. The surveys are based around talks given at conferences held in Essen, 1994, and Dresden, 1995. Each contribution is written in such a way as to highlight the ideas that were discussed at the conferences, and also to stimulate open research problems in a form accessible to the whole mathematical community. The topics include field and ring theory as well as groups, ordered algebraic structure and their relationship to model theory. Several papers deal with infinite permutation groups, abelian groups, modules and their relatives and representations. Model theoretic aspects include quantifier elimination in skew fields, Hilbert's 17th problem, (aleph-0)-categorical structures and Boolean algebras. Moreover symmetry questions and automorphism groups of orders are covered. This work contains 25 surveys in algebra and model theory, each is written in such a way as to highlight the ideas that were discussed at Conferences, and also to stimulate open research problems in a form accessible to the whole mathematical community.
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Advances in Petri Nets 1989 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
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The main idea behind the series of volumes Advances in Petri Nets is to present to the general computer science community recent results which are the most representative and significant for the development of the area. The papers for the volumes are drawn mainly from the annual International Conferences on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets. Selected papers from the latest conference are independently refereed, and revised and extended as necessary. Some further papers submitted directly to the editor are included. Advances in Petri Nets 1990 covers the Tenth International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets held in Bonn, Germany, in June 1989. Additional highlights of this volume include a tutorial on refinements of Petri nets by W. Brauer, R. Gold, and W. Vogler, and a tutorial on analysis and synthesis of free choice systems by J. Esparza and M. Silva, both prepared in the framework of the ESPRIT Basic Research Actions Project DEMON.
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- Genius in Fragments and Sketches
- GREAT INTRODUCTION TO BORGES'S SHORTER WORKS
- excellent if you're in the proper frame of mind
- One of my favorite books of all time.
- Brain-wrenchingly beautiful
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Dreamtigers (Texas Pan American Series)
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Dreamtigers has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of
Great Books of the Western World. It has been acknowledged by its author as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations,
Dreamtigers at first glance appears to be a sampler—albeit a dazzling one—of the master's work. Upon closer examination, however, the reader discovers the book to be a subtly and organically unified self-revelation.
Dreamtigers explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world. The central vision of the work is that of a recluse in the "enveloping serenity " of a library, looking ahead to the time when he will have disappeared but in the timeless world of his books will continue his dialogue with the immortals of the past — Homer, Don Quixote, Shakespeare. Like Homer, the maker of these dreams is afflicted with failing sight. Still, he dreams of tigers real and imagined and reflects upon of a life that, above all, has been intensely introspective, a life of calm self-possession and absorption in the world of the imagination. At the same time he is keenly aware of that other Borges, the public figure about whom he reads with mixed emotions: "It's the other one, it's Borges, that things happen to."
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Genius in Fragments and Sketches.......2003-11-06
Jorge Luis Borges will be remembered as one of the outstanding writers of the twentieth century. I am continually awed by his imagination, by his incredible breadth, and by his command of language.
At one point Borges considered this particular collection of miscellany - odd poems, stories, parables, sketches, fragments, and fictional quotations - to be a mirror of his life, and even possibly a work that would outlast his widely admired Ficciones and El Aleph. Dreamtigers is indeed fascinating, but it likely to be more fully appreciated by readers already familiar with Borges. A reader new to Jorge Luis Borges might begin with Ficciones, The Aleph, Labyrinths, or Seven Nights.
The prose was translated by Mildred Boyer and the poetry by Harold Morland. The arrangement is by Borges himself, and reflects an association of ideas, not a chronological grouping. Any reader acquainted with his works undoubtedly recognizes that Borges often returns to favorite themes in various guises, sometime deliberately, other times unintentionally.
This collection seems more personal and biographical than his better known works. The dedication is to an Argentine poet, long dead, that Borges once unreservedly criticized. The essay Dreamtigers is a personal reflection on the limits of creativity. The Draped Mirrors is a haunting recollection about a friend that suffered a uniquely personal (from Borges perspective) mental illness. Borges and I explores the confused identity of Borges the writer and Borges the man. Other essays are less biographical, and reveal his deep fascination with the thoughts and ideas of other writers, especially Homer, Dante, Plato, Coleridge, and Cervantes.
Dreamtigers is evenly divided between prose and poetry. Borges began his literary career as a poet and only gradually moved to prose. Amazingly, his poetry is as remarkable as his prose. Many poems reflect his vast knowledge and interests - the inevitable passage of time, the game of chess, mirrors, Anglo-Saxon grammar, and Ariosto and the Arabs. Others are more biographical, often touching on themes that were also subjects of essays. The poetic translation by Harold Morland is excellent.
GREAT INTRODUCTION TO BORGES'S SHORTER WORKS.......2001-05-24
I give this book 4 stars because I honestly don't feel that it's his best collection. That honor would go to his collection of short stories entitled, THE BOOK OF SAND. LABYRINTHS comes in a close second or third. But for the beginning Borges reader, this is an EXCELLENT place to start. The book is divided into two primary parts: Borges's parables and super-short stories; and his poems. There's nothing over three pages long in here, except the introduction. Naturally, I found lots of quotable lines and paragraphs in this work. The translation is very good, too. It definitely sounds like Borges, and the tranlators even manage to get some of his poems to rhyme while still getting across that Borgesian feeling. You'd almost think that all of this stuff was written in English to begin with. Assuming you haven't read Borges, he's very intellectual, knows lots about history and books, and loves to write on the subjects of tigers, yellow, blindness, Dante, Martin Fierro, and *the other Borges*. Hope you like this book.
excellent if you're in the proper frame of mind.......1999-10-31
dreamtigers has languished on my shelf for over a year... for some reason i just couldn't get into it. foolish me.
this little book broken into two parts- a collection of short pieces some poetry. all very brief- the longest passage occupies a little over two pages.
what i'm really struck by is how personal this collection is. i've seen borges as a towering intellect but rather cold. dreamtigers has forced me to re-evaluate this- there's tenderness, loss and affection in these works.
borges is always dazzling, and the second part is a good introduction to his poetry, of which i understand there is a lot. the introductory and appendix notes are most illuminating.
One of my favorite books of all time........1998-10-07
I am not an avid reader of poetry, but Dreamtigers (which is about half poetry, half prose) ranks in my top five favorite books of all time. Borges never ceases to amaze me. I am always being reminded of his work as I read other books. It's actually kind of hard to put into words, but Dreamtigers is one of the most complete books ever written -- it amplifies and compliments itself and gives you a truly unique insight into the mind and the world.
Truly unique.
Brain-wrenchingly beautiful.......1998-06-08
A marvelous book. More enjoyable than "Ficciones," if that is possible. The way the scattered thread of prose and poetry are in actuality spinning around the librarian himself are evident after a few reads through; a book far more structured than apparent on the first trip though it.
I have never wanted to read Spanish more than after reading this.
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Dreamtigers
Jorge Luis Borges
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