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Quick study buddy.......2007-05-14
Awesome comprehensive study guide that aids in getting through the material in a nutshell!
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Student Study Guide to accompany Microbiology: A Human Perspective
Eugene W Nester ,
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Appropriate for the non-major/allied health student, this authoritative text carefully explains the fundamentals, providing a general overview of the principles followed by more detailed explanations. With its easy-to-read writing style, Microbiology: A Human Perspective offers modern coverage on such topics as genomics, biofilms, and quorum sensing. A body systems approach is used in the coverage of diseases.
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Work more effectively and gauge your progress as you go along! This
Student Study Guide that is designed to accompany Black’s Microbiology: Principles & Explorations, 6
th Edition helps students to more closely examine important concepts through a variety of activities and exercises. The 26 chapters in this study guide parallel those of the textbook and include many activities, quizzes, and exercises for review and study.
Jackie Black’s bestselling text –
Microbiology: Principles & Explorations – brings microbiology to life with its special attention to lively applications and real-life connections. It covers such areas as microbial growth, multicellular parasites, control of microorganisms, host- microbe interactions, infectious diseases, and applied microbiology. The
Sixth Edition is also updated to include new sections on bioterrorism, microbial genetics, and immunology, arming readers with the latest examples and information.
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It's ok.......2006-02-19
It's an okay book. I needed it for a class. There are several mistakes on the diagrams (our professor noted which ones).
Lots of typos and missing info........2006-01-07
Good study guide when the answers were in the back. Sometimes the answers were off by one or non existent. If you can get past that, it does help, but jeez don't they employ a proofreader? For thirty bucks, I was kind of disappointed. The textbook is great.
Wonderfully Informative Book!!!.......2005-12-12
WOW! I love this book. Every time I read part of it I learn so much stuff that I never knew before. It is fairly advanced information but it is written in a very understandable way. I am in high school and I like it because it teaches in the same format as my school's biology text books. I use this book because I like to read about this stuff. It is so facinating. If you are in a high school biology class, read this and you will be light years ahead of every one else!
Great book for teachers and students.......2005-09-17
This text explains some very complex information in a very reader-friendly way. The photos, charts and practical examples of how microbiology impacts everyone's life make it very readable. I would recommend it for teachers and students!
Micro Made Easy.......2005-09-14
This is one of the best text books I have ever used. The information is clear, concise, and interesting. It gives examples throughout the book of how microbiology is being used now to help us.
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Microbiology, by Daniel Lim, is an ideal text for courses that mix biology majors and nonmajors and for shorter majors-level courses. This comprehensive textbook covers all fundamental topics in a balanced manner and features exquisite, full-color art throughout.
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Good but old.......2000-09-27
This is a very good book to indroduction to Microbiology, but its edition is old.
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Student Study Guide to accompany Microbiology
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A Nonsense book.......2006-04-12
This book makes the study difficult. It has only questions but no answers. Qustions can be framed by any one. so buy this book for a bunch of questions.This is the worst book I ever bought.spending mony for 260 page quetion bank.
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A Student Study Guide to Accompany Microbiology by Daniel Lim
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Principles of Mathematical Modelling: Ideas, Methods, Examples (Numerical Insights)
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Mathematical modeling is becoming increasingly versatile and multi-disciplinary. This text demonstrates the broadness of this field as the authors consider the principles of model construction and use common approaches to build models from a range of subject areas. The book reflects the interests and experiences of the authors, but it explores mathematical modeling across a wide range of applications, from mechanics to social science. A general approach is adopted, where ideas and examples are favored over rigorous mathematical procedures. This insightful book will be of interest to specialists, teachers, and students across a wide range of disciplines..
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The Spanish cleric Bartolomé de Las Casas is a key figure in the history of Spain’s conquest of the Americas. Las Casas condemned the torture and murder of natives by the conquistadores in reports to the Spanish royal court and in tracts such as A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552). For his unrelenting denunciation of the colonialists’ atrocities, Las Casas has been revered as a noble protector of the Indians and as a pioneering anti-imperialist. He has become a larger-than-life figure invoked by generations of anticolonialists in Europe and Latin America.
Separating historical reality from myth, Daniel Castro provides a nuanced, revisionist assessment of the friar’s career, writings, and political activities. Castro argues that Las Casas was very much an imperialist. Intent on converting the Indians to Christianity, the religion of the colonizers, Las Casas simply offered the natives another face of empire: a paternalistic, ecclesiastical imperialism. Castro contends that while the friar was a skilled political manipulator, influential at what was arguably the world’s most powerful sixteenth-century imperial court, his advocacy on behalf of the natives had little impact on their lives. Analyzing Las Casas’s extensive writings, Castro points out that in his many years in the Americas, Las Casas spent very little time among the indigenous people he professed to love, and he made virtually no effort to learn their languages. He saw himself as an emissary from a superior culture with a divine mandate to impose a set of ideas and beliefs on the colonized. He differed from his compatriots primarily in his antipathy to violence as the means for achieving conversion.
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The Waterboys were formed in 1983 by Mike Scott and have continued under his leadership in several guises to the present day. Their songs, largely written by Scott, often contain literary references and are frequently concerned with spirituality. Both the group and its members' solo careers have received much praise from both rock and folk music critics. In fact, Scott's unique mix of Celtic folk music and rock and roll has been credited as promoting the scope of Irish folk music, and has built a strong and loyal fan base across the world.
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The book examines the role of Mike Scott, an interesting and unique character, driven artistically by his geographic and spiritual experiences, emphasizing a continuity between The Waterboys and his solo work over nearly twenty-five years, saying, "To me there's no difference between Mike Scott and The Waterboys; they both mean the same thing. They mean myself and whoever are my current travelling musical companions."
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The Face of Another
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Like an elegantly chilling postscript to
The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident–a man who has lost his face and, with it, his connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him.
His only entry back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable. But soon he finds that such a mask is more than a disguise: it is an alternate self–a self that is capable of anything. A remorseless meditation on nature, identity and the social contract,
The Face of Another is an intellectual horror story of the highest order.
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A face to meet the faces that we meet..........2007-05-16
Everyone knows that in Japanese society there's hardly anything worse than losing face. Kobo Abe starts with this cultural taboo and amplifies it to its logically nightmarish extreme as he explores the existential horror experienced by a scientist who literally loses his face in a laboratory accident. Hideously disfigured and shunned even by his former friends and colleagues, the narrator of *The Face of Another* describes in harrowing detail the totality of his isolation from human contact--especially from his conventional, well-meaning wife--and his desperate plan to create for himself a life-like mask that will reopen the `doorway' between him and the community of others.
The novel itself is written as an extended address to the aforementioned wife and meant to be read after he carries out his intention of seducing her as the `stranger' the mask allows him to become. Between the elaborate preparation of the mask and the ill-fated seduction, Abe's narrator travels a zig-zag path between cynicism and self-loathing, psychological breakdown and philosophical speculation as he confronts the elusive nature of human relations and personal identity. His mask gives him a passport to cross the border forbidden the faceless and to re-enter society. Even more, it grants him the radical freedom to be someone else, to be anyone else...to be everyone else. But at what price? If he must wear a mask has he really accomplished anything? Is he really being seen by others or is his `true' self as invisible as before--and just who is he, anyway? How does he choose his mask? Does a mask ultimately reveal or conceal? Which mask will his estranged wife be seduced by? And if she is seduced, has she been unfaithful? Has she betrayed him with himself? As he contemplates these labyrinthine questions, Abe's narrator comes to understand how even people with undamaged faces are also wearing a mask when they're with others. Is the face itself nothing but a mask made of flesh?
This eerie, thought-provoking novel operates on several different levels. But what makes it more than just another Jeckyll & Hyde tale of evil doubles, shadow-selves, and dual identities is the profound philosophical dialectic that Abe engages in throughout. A mystery, thriller, horror novel all in one, *The Face of Another* is a sophisticated meditation on that most enigmatic question of all: who exactly are we?
At times Abe's story drags, at other times his musings are difficult to follow, almost as if some vital connection between his observations had been lost in translation, and, therefore minus one-star, but, the last fifty pages or so are as powerful as anything you're likely to read. For the most part, *The Face of Another* is a riveting and disturbing work that, like Abe's classic *The Woman in the Dunes,* I won't soon--if ever--forget. You probably won't either.
The absurdity is almost a character........2007-04-03
This book begins odd and gets creepy and ends, I believe, scary. At the outset you have a feeling of sympathy for the character, which grows into 1 of 2 things as the book progresses - detached fascination with Abe's character study, or revulsion. Possibly both.
The philosophical musings are there, but what hasn't been mentioned here is the flawed narrator. The musings themselves may be bs, but because our sympathy hasn't been completely destroyed when they begin, we give them the benefit of the doubt. That they become more and more absurd is to give an idea of the heightened sense of fear in the narrator about the impending action. At first we disagree with what he says (early on) but at the same time, due to our involvement, ask 'to what extent could that be true, or to what extent is it in fact true, if we look at it in a slightly different light?'
I personally prefer this to Kangaroo Notebook, which, while outrageous and a fun read, is effective not for its realism, but for its fantasy. This book, on the other hand, produces its effects more believably, because there's really nothing to prevent this exact person from existing.
I feel it is an interesting predecessor to Vanilla Sky based of course on the mask and also on the theme of isolation. It also reminds me of Palahniuk's 'Survivor' through the looking glass - a very opposite character, introverted, but also because of the ending - a very similar truncation that implies...
Engrossing read.
5-stars for the eerie film version by master director Hiroshi Teshigahara.......2006-11-10
Criterion (Collection DVD) is releasing (July 2007) THE FACE OF ANOTHER (TANIN NO KAO), director/artist Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1966 film version of Kobo Abe's novel. The film version is a fine complement to the book. Tatsuya Nakadai, perhaps best known to American filmgoer's as the "king" in RAN (1985; Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of Shakespeare's KING LEAR) is the lead, joined by the famous, esteemed Machiko Kyo as his wife. The film is in black and white (often high-contrast), which adds to the overall weirdness. The 60s atmosphere is amusing yet not in conflict with the serious philosophical and psychological themes. The memorable, haunting "waltz" from the film is available in a compilation CD from the Nonesuch label, "The Film Music of Toru Takemitsu." Film Music of Takemitsu
The Region 2 version DVD is currently available from Eureka/MoC (Masters of Cinema) and is sold on Amazon's British web site. It has a full-length audio commentary by Tony Rayns. Region-Free DVD players are available here at Amazon.
Also coming in July, Criterion will release DVDs of two more Teshigahara adaptations of Kobe Abe novels: WOMAN IN THE DUNES and PITFALL. All three films will be available with a fourth DVD (extras) in a Teshigahara DVD box-set. Criterion Coll: Three Films By Hiroshi Teshigahara
Suspenseful with a mind boggling affect!.......2004-10-26
I loved this book and will be giving it for holiday gifts this year. The philosophical musings are incredibly powerful and thought provoking, while the prose is intense and suspenseful. After page 83, I found myself yelling outloud to the narrator whose journal we read as he attempts to deal with the aftermath of an accident that has stolen his face. I dare you to read this book and look at your self and others the same way you did before.
a disgrace to Abe.......2000-03-26
I've loved most of the Abe that I've read, but this one was terrible. The "philosophical musings" mentioned by one reviewer are complete BS. The main character constantly reads deep philosophical meaning into things that are very straightforward. Don't waste your money on this--read The Woman in the Dunes or Kangaroo Notebook instead.
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Not Just Another Pretty Face
Peter Filichia
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An Oldie but Goodie.......2005-08-15
I happened to browsing through my large book collection when I came across this Harlequin Temptation. The title struck me right away and I remembered reading it years ago. Taking a bit of time to relax back, I really found myself re-enjoying this novel.
Pierce Kingston is a famous movie star. He makes twelve million for a picture, but some crazed fan has been harrassing him, making his family anxious. In comes Nikki, the bodyguard.
Okay, now the story line is a bit cliched so I gave it four stars, but you really can't help but to enjoy this one. Just Another Pretty Face has all the elements. Hot guy, hot girl, hot sex ... what more can you ask for.
Take a chance on an oldie but goodie.
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Another Pretty Face: Transfer Faces for the Dollmaker
Elspeth
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The Face of Another
Manufacturer: Charles Tuttle
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The Japanese novelist Kobo Abe has often been compared to Kafka and this 1966 novel suggests an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis. Abe's narrator is a scientist who has been hideously deformed in a laboratory accident, a man who has lost his face in a society where "losing face" is a synonym for humiliation. Alienated from his fellows, sexually rejected by his wife, the injured man painstakingly sets out to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable. Yet once he achieves his goal, he realizes that he has not fashioned a disguise, but an alternate self a self that is capable of anything. The Face of Another is an intellectual horror story of the highest order.
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