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This updated and expanded edition of The Battle of Seattle invites readers to join the intensive debates within the antiglobalization movement. The uprising against the World Trade Organization in 1999 was the most visible and dramatic protest in the United States since the Vietnam War. Subsequent protests in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Prague, Cancun, and other cities have shown that there is a growing movement opposing globalization. The book roots these events globally in an anticapitalist history that includes the resistance to the IMF, the mass organizing campaigns of the nuclear-freeze movement in the 1980s, and the innovative tactics of environmentalists in the United States. Confronting Capitalism tackles the questions raised by the antiglobalization movement: How can a movement that claims to be global root itself in local communities? What happens to nonviolent tactics in an environment of increasingly ruthless policing? Can NGOs be agents of social transformation? Photographs, illustrations, and contributions from Naomi Klein, Stanley Aronowitz, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, and others are featured.
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- An Essential Tool
- Heard interview on the radio
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Women And the U.S. Budget: Where the Money Goes And What You Can Do About It
Jane Midgley
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The national budget represents the common resources of the people of the United States. Yet only a handful of experts understand the full impact of budget policy on the American people. Since women comprise just a fraction of national decision-makers, women's needs and perspectives are largely left out of budget policy - a critical absence during our current era of rising deficits, increasing military and security budgets, and cutbacks in public investment.
Women and the U.S. Budget helps fill the gap between the significance of the national budget in women's lives and the lack of information about it by focusing on budget literacy:
- In Part One, readers take on the role of "public investigator" and explore the questions: Where does the money come from? Where does the money go? Surplus or debt? and Who decides?
- Part Two connects the budget with national and international economies and examines what organizations are doing around the world to create gender-sensitive and people-centered budgets.
- Part Three describes values, guiding principles, and framework for a new budget for the United States, suggests ways to take action, and provides resources.
Part of a worldwide movement for more transparency and accountability in public budgeting, the book provides women and others with a tool for advocacy and action. It will appeal to a general audience as well as a variety of women's organizations, social service and labor union professionals, women community activists and elected officials, and students in a number of disciplines.
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An Essential Tool.......2006-02-21
Jane Midgley's WOMEN AND THE U.S. BUDGET is an important, significant and timely book, and it is assuredly not just for women. It presents direct and easy to comprehend information that serves as a tool in demystifying a process much in need of being demystified. If you are one of us, a woman or a man, who knows that there is something broken that needs fixing in our system and believes that individuals can fix things, then do not just add this book to your bookcase or to your coffee table. Read it. Use it. Become the P.I. (Private Investigator) Midgley urges you to become and make this book one of your essential tools for change.
Heard interview on the radio.......2005-12-27
I heard an interview with the author on KGNU and was so interested in what this book was about that I have decided to order it. I hope it is as good of a read as it was a radio show to listen to.
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Title: New books by and about WILPF members.(Women and the U.S. Budget: Where the Money Goes and What You Can Do About It)(Challenging U.S. Human Rights Violations Since 9/11)(Elise Boulding: A Life in the Cause of Peace)(Book review)
Author: Mary Zepernick
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Peace and Freedom (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 65
Issue: 2
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Grower Talks on Crop Culture
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This is the second edition of a highly successful textbook (over 50,000 copies sold) in which a highly illustrated, narrative text is combined with easy-to-use thoroughly reliable laboratory protocols. It contains a fully up-to-date collection of 12 rigorously tested and reliable lab experiments in molecular biology, developed at the internationally renowned Dolan DNA Learning Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, which culminate in the construction and cloning of a recombinant DNA molecule.
Proven through more than 10 years' of teaching at research and nonresearch colleges and universities, junior colleges, community colleges, and advanced biology programs in high school, this book has been successfully integrated into introductory biology, general biology, genetics, microbiology, cell biology, molecular genetics, and molecular biology courses.
The first eight chapters have been completely revised, extensively rewritten, and updated. The new coverage extends to the completion of the draft sequence of the human genome and the enormous impact these and other sequence data are having on medicine, research, and our view of human evolution. All sections on the concepts and techniques of molecular biology have been updated to reflect the current state of laboratory research.
The laboratory experiments cover basic techniques of gene isolation and analysis, honed by over 10 years of classroom use to be thoroughly reliable, even in the hands of teachers and students with no prior experience. Extensive prelab notes at the beginning of each experiment explain how to schedule and prepare, while flow charts and icons make the protocols easy to follow.
As in the first edition of this book, the laboratory course is completely supported by quality-assured products from the Carolina Biological Supply Company, from bulk reagents, to useable reagent systems, to single-use kits, thus satisfying a broad range of teaching applications.
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My High School Textbook.......2007-07-04
This was used for my high school semester course "DNA Sci part 1" textbook used with Watson's Recombinant DNA textbook. DNA Science:A 1st Course, 2nd edi was useful in supplementing the updates in recent genetic advances and some newer, better graphic representations. I found this to be an easy textbook to read, although not intended for those without a biology and chemistry background since the book does not waste much ink on describing what should have already been learned. The other students in my class seemed to find this book to be a clear, understandable textbook as well.
A very good first course textbook that keeps a student (or any person) interested. Nice big, clear print as well. The laboratories were the standard same as in the Recombinant DNA textbook.
Not Bad.......2005-08-03
I havent read much of this yet, we really wont be using much until the second quarter but so far it seems not bad i hope this review is as helpful to you as it would have been for me oh yeah dna is interesting
Great Intro to Genetic Science.......2005-07-28
This is the best single source of information on Genetic Science I have run across. Comprehensive from history, to theory, to lab practice. Highly recommended! Great illustrations and very clearly written. Its targeted to people with a serious interest in the field, definitely not for the "Genetic Science for Dummies" crowd.
Good enough for the first course........2004-11-20
Early on it is suggested that the reason the Watson/Crick team elucidated the molecular structure of DNA first is because one of them was a biologist. Good point. Allow me to state though, the book would be greatly improved if one of the authors was an English Major. Disjointed referents and misplaced series are distracting. I think the book was written to be used with a syllabus and study guide unless the reader knows the subject so well that nudges are unecessary. Try Watson's DNA book.
spotless.......2004-03-21
This book is the best book on the subject on the market. The subject matter is juxtaposed by easy yet informative experiments that can be carried out in a normal scholastic setting. I hear the writers are all hotties.
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- Great book for introduction to biotech lab procedure
- good overview of basic recombinant DNA techniques
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DNA Science: A First Course in Recombinant DNA Technology
David Micklos
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DNA Science: A First Course, Second Edition
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Great book for introduction to biotech lab procedure.......1998-12-15
This book contains step by step instructions for performing DNA manipulations. The background information is limited but adequate but the methods are explained excellently.
good overview of basic recombinant DNA techniques.......1998-11-10
IDEAL TEXT BOOK THAT MODERATELY COVERS BASIC LABORATORY TECHNIQUES USED IN RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY. GOOD SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR A LAB WRITE-UP.
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Biology Today: A Course for First Examination
M. D. Robson , and
A. G. Morgan
Manufacturer: Nelson Thornes (Publishers) Ltd
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ASIN: 0333223594 |
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First Biology Course
P. T. Bunyan
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This highly regarded work fills the need for a treatment of elementary discrete mathematics that provides a core of mathematical terminology and concepts as well as emphasizes computer applications. Includes numerous elementary applications to computing and examples with solutions.
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Problems and Methods for Lithospheric Exploration (Ettore Majorana International Science Series: Physical Sciences)
Roberto Cassinis
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Abridged.......2005-12-07
The listing doesn't indicate this is an abridged edition, only about half the size of the original: for the full text, try Michael Mitchell's "Simplicissimus" (1903517427).
First actual erbildungsroman-Parsifal, Peter sellers movie.......1997-09-28
This book is fantastic, if you can get through the hhistorical passages (it did happen during the tthirty-years war). This book is an example of an erbildiungs roman, a story of a person growing up and growing out. A lot like Parsifal (i've heard) or more exactly like Candide. Also some hints of Muchhausen's fantastic adventures. If you can get it, and you have some patience, you'll find this one of the better books of all time! It should be noted that this story was first printed as a series in a newpaper/journal shortly after the discovey of the printing press. Also, the next book in the series (the runagate courage) is the founding part of the "Three Penny Opera" and other German novels od the period. Courage is the mother! Also there is another adventure about Hopalong, one of simple's sidekicks. Please try it, you'll be amazed. Sbruce@mcs.net!!
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