Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

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Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
Robert Boyle
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Published in 1686, this work attacked prevailing notions of the natural world that depicted "Nature" as a wise, benevolent and purposeful being. It represents one of the subtlest statements concerning the issues raised by the mechanical philosophy that emerged from the Scientific Revolution. This volume presents the first modern edition of the complete text, together with a historical introduction, a chronology of Boyle's life and notes on further reading.

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Family by family descriptions of the plant life of Papua New Guinea. Keys to aid in identification and numerous illustrations enable recognition of the plants included.

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The Second Creation deals with some of the most important issues confronting us today: genetic engineering and cloning, and the control that science has over the process of life. Written by the noted science author Colin Tudge, the book is based on interviews with Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell, the scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep. Its aim is to explain the story of how and why they came to cloning sheep and the implications for the future, from curing diseases to human cloning. But that's not easy to convey simply, according to Ian Wilmut:

The full story is, however, inescapably complicated. The science and technology of cloning, at least by our method, takes us into some of the most esoteric reaches of biology...

Their subject is complex and requires careful reading, but the reward is worth the effort. Inevitably, the issue of human cloning is looked at in some detail, and all three of the authors find the idea repugnant and do not believe society will accept it:

The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need not assume that it will ever become a common or significant feature of human life.

The book contains a comprehensive glossary to explain the scientific terms and abbreviations. Colin Tudge is the author of several books including The Engineer in the Garden, short-listed for the British Science Book Award. --Carina Trimingham, Amazon.co.uk

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The cloning of Dolly in 1996 from the cell of an adult sheep was a pivotal moment in history. For the first time, a team of scientists, led by Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell, was able to clone a whole mammal using a single cultured adult body cell, a breakthrough that revolutionized three technologies--genetic engineering, genomics, and cloning by nuclear transfer from adult cells--and brought science ever closer to the possibility of human cloning. In this definitive account, the scientists who accomplished this stunning feat explain their hypotheses and experiments, their conclusions, and the ethical and scientific ramifications of their work. Written with award-winning science writer Colin Tudge, The Second Creation is a landmark work that details the most exciting and challenging scientific discovery of the twentieth century.

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Fertility.......2006-05-18

Wonderful and interesting. Are scientists able to isolate the cells right before they undergo meiosis and use those cells for somatic nuclear transfer? For example, take a liver cell and perform a somatic nuclear transfer with a precursor cell (of the eggs)--the precursor cell undergoes meiosis to produce the ovum. It would give hope to infertile people and avoid the controversy of cloning.

BOOK REPORT APPROVAL.......2006-02-23

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR INFORMATION FOR REPORTS, THIS BOOK HAS PLENTY.

Insightful!.......2001-08-07

Science is breeding new technologies at an unprecedented rate, and with the birth of each advancement comes a new generation of ethical concerns. Few developments have rattled the world's moral cage more than cloning, and it behooves any professional to have a working knowledge of the foundations of the current debates surrounding the genetic sciences. Of course, understanding how Dolly the Lamb was cloned from an adult sheep is probably beyond the grasp of most readers. But authors Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell (the two leaders of the cloning team) and Colin Tudge (an experienced science writer) examine every inch of scientific ground the project covered. While many details are presented densely, this clearly written, first-person account of a momentous, history-making event is fascinating, particularly for readers of a scientific bent. We [...] recommend this book to any and all readers as a basic education in a field that has the potential to impact all of our businesses and our lives. Hello, Dolly.

silly, patronizing, hardly qualifies as journalism..........2000-07-21

I was eager to see what Wilmut thought about cloning after reading his excellent essay in the best-selling anthology The Human Cloning Debate. But I was stunned when I read this book. Unlike the other work, this book comes across as silly, even patronizing. The book reads as though Wilmut is attempting to capitalize on Dolly, rather than as a thoughtful reflection on veterinary biology or genetics or human families. It is also very boring, even with the ghostwriter! Save your money; this expensive vehicle is not the best or the most interesting of the crop of cloned cloning books.

The Best Book on Cloning.......2000-06-24

Ian Wilmut and Keith Cambell are the creators of Dolly the cloned sheep. They are also two of the three authors of this book. The book is all about how the historic event of cloning a mammal for the first time in history came about. It is wonderful reading and contains some great scientific insights. The only problem is that these two scientists have not embraced human cloning and all the good that it can do. It seems as if they stepped out of scientific mode and were forced to be against human cloning to keep their funding, placate their religions, and not become pariahs to the religious right. Great book. I highly recommend it for the fascinating story of cloning.

Second Creation: The Age of Biological Control by the Scientists Who Cloned Dolly

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Very Entertaining (a little short in Science)

Second Creation: The Age of Biological Control by the Scientists Who Cloned Dolly
Ian Wilmut , Keith Campbell , and Colin Tudge
Manufacturer: Headline Book Publishing
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Very Entertaining (a little short in Science).......2002-05-18

This a book that talks about cloning (though I think you knew that already), what I did not liked is that this book is plagued with descriptions about the physical appearance of the authors, their families, the places they come from, their personalities, etc. Don't get me wrong, I admire this couple of investigators, what they did is a landmark in biological science, but I expected more science and less digresion. The scientific part of the book is interesting, you don't need to be an expert to understand the principles of cloning in this writing style. The rest of it is bearable. I recommend this book even though I disliked so many non relevant facts.

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Chromatographic and Electrophoretic Methods (The Prentice Hall Laboratory Information Series)
Thomas J. Bruno
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Chromatography: A laboratory handbook of chromatographic and electrophoretic methods
Erich Heftmann
Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold
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Chromatography: Fundamentals and applications of chromatographic and electrophoretic methods (Journal of chromatography library)

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Chromatography: Fundamentals and Applications of Chromatographic and Electrophoretic Methods/Part B: Applications (Journal of Chromatography library (Journal of Chromatography Library)
Erich Heftmann
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Chromatography: Fundamentals and Applications of Chromatographic and Electrophoretic Methods; Part A: Fundamentals and Techniques (Journal of Chromatography Library)
Erich Heftmann
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Chromatography: Fundamentals and Applications of Chromatographic and Electrophoretic Methods. Part a Fundamentals & Techniques
E. , Ed. Heftmann
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Stochastische Methoden besitzen in vielen Teilen der Technik und Informatik eine hohe Relevanz. So beruhen z.B. die meisten modernen Verfahren der digitalen Nachrichtenübertragung, der Schaltkreissimulation aber auch der Verfahrenstechnik und des Financial Engineering auf stochastischen Prinzipien.

Das Buch bietet eine fundierte und anwendungsbezogene Einführung in die Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Statistik. Im Zentrum stehen nach einer grundlegenden Behandlung der Maß- und Integrationstheorie sowie der Grundlagen der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie stochastische Prozesse, insbesonders Poisson-Prozesse, Martingale und Brownsche Bewegungen.

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Fuzzy Theorie und Stochastik. Modelle und Anwendungen in der Diskussion.

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Fuzzy Theorie und Stochastik. Modelle und Anwendungen in der Diskussion.
Rudolf (Hrsg.) Seising
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False Advertising.......2001-10-11

Jerzy Andrzejewski's Ashes and Diamonds is a complete rip-off if you are in it for the diamonds. My copy only included the ashes part. After getting over the fact that I had been duped into buying all ashes and no diamonds, I began to enjoy the beauty of the ashes.
Andrzejewski does a spectacular job in presenting ashes. The ashes in this book are the remains of Poland after the Second World War. The Poles seek to pick up the pieces of their war- torn country and move on towards a "new Poland", one that embodies freedom and happiness. However the road to this promised land is very elusive, and people often blindly pick sides in a new battle to define Poland. The result is only more ashes.
The part of the book that really made it worth reading for me was its fresh look at the heart of mankind. In my opinion, Andrzejewski does not present a people who held on to morality and goodness through even the toughest of times. He presents a people who, when pressured, revealed the predominately black makeup of a human heart that allows a person to do evil in order to survive or merely to get ahead. Some characters deal with this blackness in themselves and in others, often feeling let down and confused. One example of this is in a conversation between Podgorski and Kossecki after the war is over. Kossecki is burdened after the war with the knowledge that, when in the camp, he did not behave as the honorable man he thought himself to be before the war. He took part in beating people to save his own hide. In their conversation, Kossecki looks for answers to make himself feel okay. Then Podgorski, speaking about the time before the war, says "People had confidence in themselves, in their courage and their morality. Certain things seemed impossible. Life then simply did not present such desperate alternatives. A man had a right to think of himself as decent and incapable of exceeding certain limits. Only criminals did so. But nowadays I've met so many people who broke down and failed this or that test that I don't attach much importance to what a man thinks of himself. Until a man faces the test he can deceive himself endlessly." Kossecki is disappointed in the blackness of his own heart and Podgorski is disappointed in others who let him down. Through some character's painful realization that people are often not as good as they would like to believe, I was forced to ask myself how I would react in such horrible circumstances. Would a terrible situation reveal diamonds or ashes in my own heart? I believe Andrzejewski's greatest success in Ashes and Diamonds is his ability to make me question myself, even though the novel is set in a foreign land and in a time period I will never live in.
However, in my opinion Andrzejewski does a poor job of developing the characters. There are just way too many of them to really know much at all about any of them (I counted 47). It is a pretty good sign that there are too many characters when you have to keep notes just to remember who the main characters are. It is possibly lacking in plot as well. Perhaps through predominately using dialogue and not action, Andrzejewski was attempting to offer a glimpse into the minds of the characters. If this is the case, he could have done a better job by limiting the number of characters and spending more time with each of them. It would seem that if a lot of dialogue was included at the expense of plot, we would at least know more about the characters. Unfortunately this is not the case.
Overall, I enjoyed Andrzejewski's beautiful presentation of ashes. However, if he intended to complement the ashes with diamonds, I missed it. From the young gang of boys, about whom it would be hard to conjure up anything good to say, to the older party leaders who seemed lost and were often driven by personal success rather than by a desire for a free and happy people, they all seemed ashier than a lotionless Arab on a cold day. If you open Ashes and Diamonds to find diamonds inside, perhaps you will have better chances looking in a box of crackerjacks.

Historical novel at its best.......2000-04-07

There are many ways to get to grips with the complicated realities of the post-WW2 Eastern Europe but reading Ashes and Diamonds is arguably the best of them. Rather then reading some dry history book which would necessary have less feeling for the stories of individual people, Ashes and Diamonds tells history exactly by concentrating on the peculiar life stories of the main characters. It shows how the unsettled and chaotic situation of postwar Poland gave rise to some weird coalitions in politics, strange passions or totally unreasonable expectations of the people who had to live then. Since we can afford the luxury of informed hindsight and already know that by 1949 Poland became communist, it is interesting to watch Poland in the period when things were not at all clear yet.

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Great Escape!

Ashes to Diamonds
Michelle Ann Hollstein
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Mrs. Davis, states in her Will, that she is to be cremated. It is her wish that the ashes are to be made into a beautiful blue diamond. But in her Will, there are stipulations. In order for her grandchildren to inherit their two million dollars each; her spoiled rotten, selfish granddaughter, Diana, must give the diamond to someone less fortunate. If she does not heed her Grandmother's wishes, then she will bear the gypsy curse that has been bestowed upon the diamond. Little did Diana know how powerful a gypsy curse could be until she ignores her Grandmother's desires. Diana's greediness reopens the door from Earth to Niberia, releasing the disembodied Nammu from her bodiless entrapment. Nammu, the evil Ruler of Niberia, is free once again to terrorize. And this time she's out for revenge. Come join us in another adventurous journey to Niberia. Where there is nonstop action, magic and seduction. And discover for yourself the chain of events that leads to the rising of the Lost City of Atlantis.

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Great Escape!.......2007-06-18

I have read the first two books in the trilogy of the Niberian Chronicles. Once I started reading I couldn't put the book down. There are so many twists and unexpected turns you have to keep reading to see what is going to happen next. A lot of fun.

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Ashes And Diamonds

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Ashes and Diamonds
Jerzy Andrzejewski
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Ashes and diamonds ; Kanal ; A generation: Three films (Classic film scripts)

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Ashes and diamonds ; Kanal ; A generation: Three films (Classic film scripts)
Jerzy Andrzejewski
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Ashes and diamonds. Kanal. A generation: Three films (Modern film scripts)

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Ashes and diamonds. Kanal. A generation: Three films (Modern film scripts)
Andrzej Wajda
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Ashes and Diamonds/Kanal/a Generation: 3 Films (Classic film scripts)

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Ashes and Diamonds/Kanal/a Generation: 3 Films (Classic film scripts)
Andrzej Wajda
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Fly Ash and Coal Conversion By-Products: Characterization, Utilization, and Disposal III : Symposium (Materials Research Society Symposia, Vol 86)

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Fly Ash and Coal Conversion By-Products: Characterization, Utilization, and Disposal III : Symposium (Materials Research Society Symposia, Vol 86)
Gregory J. McCarthy , F. P. Glasser , Della M. Roy , and Sidney Diamond
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Land of Ashes and Diamonds (European Contemporary Classics - Theatre)

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Land of Ashes and Diamonds (European Contemporary Classics - Theatre)
Eugenio Barba
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The art of memory: Andrzej Wajda's war trilogy.("A Generation")("Kanal")("Ashes and Diamonds"): An article from: Cineaste

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The art of memory: Andrzej Wajda's war trilogy.("A Generation")("Kanal")("Ashes and Diamonds"): An article from: Cineaste
Stuart Liebman
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Release Date: 2006-12-28

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Title: The art of memory: Andrzej Wajda's war trilogy.("A Generation")("Kanal")("Ashes and Diamonds")
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