Fungal Genetics: Principles and Practice (Mycology Series, Vol 13)

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This is a concise guide to the combined use of classical and molecular methods for the genetic analysis and breeding of fungi. It presents basic concepts and experimental designs, and demonstrates the power of fungal genetics for applied research in biotechnology and phytopathology. Case studies of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida albicans, Aspergillus niger, Neurospora crassa, Podospora anserina, Phytophthora infestans and others are included.

Fungal Genetics: Principles and Practice (Mycology Series, Vol 13)

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cant wait for singlet 03.......1999-05-26

Frimers understanding of Chemistry has always made us see science as intriguing as it truly is.I just cant wait for singlet 03.

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Singlet Oxygen
Bengt Ranby , and J.F. Rabek
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Singlet Oxygen, UV-A and Ozone (Methods in Enzymology, Volume 319) (Methods in Enzymology)

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Recent advances in understanding the biological role of singlet oxygen in the pathways of cellular responses to ultraviolet-A radiation: its key position in photodynamical effects, and its generation by photochemical (dark) reactions, e.g. by cells of the immune system such as eosinophils and macrophages, are the focus of this volume. The new methods and techniques responsible for the rapid progress in this area are presented.

The critically acclaimed laboratory standard for more than forty years, Methods in Enzymology is one of the most highly respected publications in the field of biochemistry. Since 1955, each volume has been eagerly awaited, frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and reviewers alike. Now with more than 300 volumes (all of them still in print), the series contains much material still relevant today--truly an essential publication for researchers in all fields of life sciences.

Studies of excited state chemistry: Part 1. Hydrogen bonding and the potential for excited state proton transfer in pyridylpyrrole alcohol complexes. Part ... method for singlet oxygen : (Dissertation)

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Studies of excited state chemistry: Part 1. Hydrogen bonding and the potential for excited state proton transfer in pyridylpyrrole alcohol complexes. Part ... method for singlet oxygen : (Dissertation)
Laura Ann MacManus-Spencer
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Chemiluminescence determination of tetracycline based on radical production in a basic acetonitrile-hydrogen peroxide reaction [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]

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Chemiluminescence determination of tetracycline based on radical production in a basic acetonitrile-hydrogen peroxide reaction [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]
C. Lau , J. Lu , and M. Kai
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Here we report a rather simple and convenient chemiluminescence (CL) method for the determination of tetracycline (TC). It is based on the observation that tetracycline can greatly enhance an ultra-weak CL between H"2O"2 and acetonitrile in a basic alkaline solution. Light emission is intense and long-lived, and even with a simple set-up, a high sensitivity could be achieved. The linear range was 5@mM-200nM with a detection limit of 60nM. Singlet oxygen and hydroxyl radical are suggested to be involved in this new reaction, and the CL emitter is classified as the oxidized tetracycline, not tetracycline itself. As a preliminary application, this simple method has been successfully applied into the determination of tetracycline in the drugs.

Chemiluminescence from singlet oxygen under laminar flow condition in a micro-channel [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]

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Chemiluminescence from singlet oxygen under laminar flow condition in a micro-channel [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]
K. Tsukagoshi , K. Fukumoto , K. Noda , and R. Nakajima
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Singlet oxygen was generated by reaction of sodium hypochlorite and hydrogen peroxide in a micro-channel. The two reagent solutions were delivered into the micro-channel by syringe pumps, providing a laminar flow. Such a laminar flow forms a liquid-liquid interface instantly in a micro-channel, and then the interface collapses gradually through molecular diffusion with the residence times. The chemiluminescence from the singlet oxygen was emitted in the course of the collapse of the interface under laminar flow condition. The chemiluminescence intensity was observed continuously and stably in the micro-channel as long as the reagents were fed into the channel. We examined the features of the chemiluminescence emitted in the micro-channel by changing the flow rates of reagents and the detection points in the micro-channel. The data obtained were considered along with the residence times and diffusion lengths. We also examined the effects of antioxidants, such as sodium azide, histidine, nitroblue tetrazolium, and 2-propanol on the chemiluminescence intensity.

Dye-sensitized photodegradation of the fungicide carbendazim and related benzimidazoles [An article from: Chemosphere]

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Dye-sensitized photodegradation of the fungicide carbendazim and related benzimidazoles [An article from: Chemosphere]
J.P. Escalada , A. Pajares , J. Gianotti , and W. Massad
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The present work studies the visible-light-promoted photodegradation of the colorless fungicide carbendazim (methyl 2-benzimidazolecarbamate) and several 2-substituted benzimidazoles (SBZ's), in water or water-methanol solution, in the presence of air and, as a photosensitizer, the synthetic xanthene dye Rose Bengal (RB) or the natural pigment riboflavin (Rf). The results indicate that the degradation of each particular SBZ depends on its chemical structure and on the sensitizer employed. In the presence of RB, the degradation always operates via a singlet molecular oxygen (O"2(^1@D"g))-mediated mechanism, through a highly efficient process, as deduced from the comparison of the rate constants for physical and chemical quenching of O"2(^1@D"g). In the presence of Rf, the visible-light irradiation of any of the studied SBZ's produces a series of competitive processes that depend on the relative concentrations of Rf and SBZ. These processes include the quenching of excited singlet and triplet Rf states by the SBZ and the generation of both O"2(^1@D"g) and superoxide radical anion (O"2^?^-), the latter generated by electron transfer from excited Rf species to the dissolved oxygen. The overall result is the photodegradation of the SBZ and the photoprotection of the sensitizer.

Flow injection chemiluminescence determination of nitrofurazone in pharmaceutical preparations and biological fluids based on oxidation by singlet oxygen ... [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]

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Flow injection chemiluminescence determination of nitrofurazone in pharmaceutical preparations and biological fluids based on oxidation by singlet oxygen ... [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]
J. Du , L. Hao , Y. Li , and J. Lu
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A simple flow injection chemiluminescence (FI-CL) method was proposed for the determination of nitrofurazone. Strong CL signal was generated during the reaction of nitrofurazone with H"2O"2 and N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) in alkaline condition. The CL signal was proportional to the nitrofurazone concentration in the range 1.0x10^-^7 to 1.0x10^-^5gmL^-^1. The detection limit was 2x10^-^8gmL^-^1 nitrofurazone and the relative standard deviation was less than 4% (6.0x10^-^6gmL^-^1 nitrofurazone, n=11). The proposed method was successfully applied to the determination of nitrofurazone in compound furacillin nasal drops, human plasma and urine samples. The CL reaction mechanism was also discussed briefly. Singlet oxygen generated in the reaction between H"2O"2 and NBS was suggested to be participated in the CL reaction.

Mechanism of site-specific DNA damage induced by ozone [An article from: Mut.Res.-Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis]

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Mechanism of site-specific DNA damage induced by ozone [An article from: Mut.Res.-Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis]
K. Ito , S. Inoue , Y. Hiraku , and S. Kawanishi
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Ozone has been shown to induce lung tumors in mice. The reactivity of ozone with DNA in an aqueous solution was investigated by a DNA sequencing technique using ^3^2P-labeled DNA fragments. Ozone induced cleavages in the deoxyribose-phosphate backbone of double-stranded DNA, which were reduced by hydroxyl radical scavengers, suggesting the participation of hydroxyl radicals in the cleavages. The ozone-induced DNA cleavages were enhanced with piperidine treatment, which induces cleavages at sites of base modification, but the inhibitory effect of hydroxyl radical scavengers on the piperidine-induced cleavages was limited. Main piperidine-labile sites were guanine and thymine residues. Cleavages at some guanine and thymine residues after piperidine treatment became more predominant with denatured single-stranded DNA. Exposure of calf thymus DNA to ozone resulted in a dose-dependent increase of the 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine formation, which was partially inhibited by hydroxyl radical scavengers. ESR studies using 5,5-dimethylpyrroline-N-oxide (DMPO) showed that aqueous ozone produced the hydroxyl radical adduct of DMPO. In addition, the fluorescein-dependent chemiluminescence was detected during the decomposition of ozone in a buffer solution and the enhancing effect of D"2O was observed, suggesting the formation of singlet oxygen. However, no or little enhancing effect of D"2O on the ozone-induced DNA damage was observed. These results suggest that DNA backbone cleavages were caused by ozone via the production of hydroxyl radicals, while DNA base modifications were mainly caused by ozone itself and the participation of hydroxyl radicals and/or singlet oxygen in base modifications is small, if any. A possible link of ozone-induced DNA damage to inflammation-associated carcinogenesis as well as air pollution-related carcinogenesis is discussed.

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As leading experts in geometric algebra, Chris Doran and Anthony Lasenby have led many new developments in the field over the last ten years. This book provides an introduction to the subject, covering applications such as black hole physics and quantum computing. Suitable as a textbook for graduate courses on the physical applications of geometric algebra, the volume is also a valuable reference for researchers working in the fields of relativity and quantum theory.

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makes your head buzz..........2007-08-04

I'm reading this book somewhat in parallel with Hestenes' New Foundations for Classical Mechanics. Both are fantastic books (Hestenes' predates this one), and in some parts they are complementary, while of course they overlap in the foundations and many special topics. What is so fascinating about Geometric Algebra and Calculus? I think it's mainly the recognition that many seemingly complicated theorems of mathematical physics really become much clearer - in a sense of getting a guts feeling about the geometry. The method opens a way to look at the same thing from totally different angles: If one can't imagine something based on geometric arguments, one can take the presented formalism and translate it back into geometry, and suddenly things become clear.
Is the book (or that by Hestenes) basic and easy to understand or are they difficult? Certainly they require some work by the reader. To follow the entire book, one really can't do without learning to master the formalism of geometric algebra, which is simple, yet sometimes bizarre. I suspect though that it is only bizarre to the one who "knows it all" already: The student or scientist who has grown familiar with vector spaces, matrix notation and wiggling around with tensor notation, needs to go through the same exercises as the bloody beginner to whom even the idea of a vector may not be clear. In fact, the beginner could be at a real advantage to not being poisoned by vector calculus. For example, take the very basic notation for a geometric product of two multi-vectors: ab = a.b + a^b (the sum of inner and outer product). What's so confusing about it? Nothing, really, after one really understands what "+" here means. But it happens often enough that one only thinks about this product in terms of the right hand side of the equation, because those are totally familiar for anyone who took basic linear algebra, and then ends up making simple things complicated again. I must say that it was like loosing shadows from the eyes to see how the formulations in this book and Hestenes' work explain so well why it is that the quantum mechanical psi function needs to be complex, or better yet what really the i means in physics, and how the entire set of Maxwell equations (all 4 of them) are one simple continuity equation. That's the kind of thing that makes your head buzz. I'm not done with these books, but I have a clear feeling that in the end I will have an entry point to understand QM and parts of general relativity not just formally (especially QM) but really develop a guts feeling for it.
One thing that I'm still a bit missing in any of the books related to geometric algebra is classical continuum mechanics. This may be so because many of the authors are immersed in fields related to cosmology. In this book, one can find a tiny little bit also about elasticity (linear and nonlinear). However, I keep wondering what it would be like to reformulate the entire underlying theory of continuum mechanics (about deforming solids, elastic or viscoelastic or plastic, about fluid flow, about polarized materials, biological active materials, etc). Could something new be learned? I bet it could!

Provides a very interesting point of view.......2007-02-22

Provides a very interesting point of view, absolutely necessary for grasping the bolts and plumbing of modern physics.

The material covered was not present in other texts that I had a look at so this book serves as a good corner stone to build advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on.

A powerful mathematical language for physics and engineering.......2004-08-01

This is a well-written book on a very interesting and important subject: geometric algebra (GA) is a powerful and elegant mathematical language -- based on the works of Hamilton, Grassmann and Clifford -- that is especially well-suited for spacetime physics and several fields of engineering.

The authors adopt David Hestenes' viewpoint of a graded GA as a unified mathematical language that is coordinate-free, thereby stressing the fundamental role of geometric invariants in physics.

In fact, the elementary vector analysis -- which pervades almost all undergraduate (and even) graduate approaches to electrodynamics -- finds its roots in the misguided Gibbsian approach: Gibbs advocated abandoning Hamilton's quaternions and just work with scalar and cross products of vectors. However, the cross product has a major flaw: it only exists in three (or seven) dimensions -- if we require that (i) it should have just two factors, (ii) to be orthogonal to the factors, and (iii) to have length equal to the corresponding parallelogram.

Electrodynamics and relativistic physics, particularly, are elegantly presented through GA and otherwise cumbersome calculations may be circumvented in a simple and insightful way.

Mainstream physics and engineering cannot overlook GA anymore.

Compared to what ?.......2004-01-30

This is truly a great book for any one who is interested in not just physics, but physical reality. Although the ideas expressed therein have a long history and are by no means as uniquely those of its authors as were Albert Einstein's in his day, I believe that they will have comparable lasting value. Moreover the synthesis presented in this book, which builds pre-eminently on the work of Hestenes, is absolutely superb. Interested readers need not take my word for these claims, but are invited to prove it to themselves.

Although the above should be a sufficient review, my experience nevertheless indicates that it is a good idea to warn potentially enthusiastic readers against several common semantic misconceptions, lest they jump to conclusions which prevent them from ever taking that vital first step. Thus let it be clearly understood that Geometric Algebra is NOT:
(1) A replacement for linear/matrix/tensor algebra (on the contrary, it is a very nice complement to these formalisms).
(2) Identical, or even very close, to Emil Artin's earlier excellent book on bilinear forms with the title "Geometric Algebra".
(3) Another name for the enormous field "algebraic geometry" (it is indeed appropriate that the word stemming from "geometry" comes first in "geometric algebra").
(4) Just another reformulation of complex / quaternion / octonian analysis; for it connects all these purely algebraic objects, and many generalizations thereof, to Felix Klein's Erlangen Programme and Sophus Lie's theory of continuous groups.
(5) The ultimate theory of everything (although it probably will eventually be found to have something to do with it).

Geometric algebra IS a practical and natural (canonical) tool for formulating physical and mathematical problems in homogeneous spaces in a fully covariant fashion. But more importantly, you do not need to understand all those words in order to benefit from it, and this book is an excellent place for physicists of all stripes to start.

Articulate Path to the Future.......2003-07-19

The quality and importance of this book could hardly be overstated. Geometric algebra might casually be considered the "correct" generalization of linear algebra. By considering, for a start, directed line segments, the linear algebra courses presently taught in some high schools and all universities achieve miracles. Although viewed by a few of the slower students as merely unpleasant bookkeeping systems, linear algebra derives its power from allowing algebraic manipulation of sophisticated aggregate objects, namely vectors. The benefits are not just computational, but stem more importantly from a more powerful and more unified, although slightly more abstract point of view than a student had before studying. Geometric algebra is all that and much more. By extending consideration from directed line segments to the inclusion of direct plane segments, directed elements of three space, etc., an extremely flexible and elegant mathematical tool arises. It allows a deeper, quicker, and more concise treatment of essentially all of modern differential geometry. Its applications throughout physics are at once simplifications of ordinary matrix treatments and occasions to allow much greater insight.

Geometric algebra is a great theory, one of highest importance. It will, undoubtedly, find a dominant place in our mathematics curriculum at the highest speed allowed by our educational systems (the highest speed being actually quite slow). This book is an especially good place to begin study. It starts from the most elementary principles, and exposes the material with very thoughtful, clear presentation. The economy and elegance of the geometric algebra itself allows this one substantial but not enormous book to reveal great insights into many branches of study, from differential geometry and its applications to gravity theory to quantum mechanics and classical mechanics.

If I had no books in my library, I would purchase a Bible. If I had only the Bible in my library, I would purchase this book next. I would certainly study this book in all detail before making a third purchase. My library already has several books in it. None of them will be read further until I finish every line, every exercise of this book. It's an important theory, and it is explained in a very useful and articulate way. This would, of course, be entirely expected if the authors were from Oxford University. Since they are only from Cambridge, we might not have expected as much, but we got it, nonetheless.

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Through close examination of the formal as well as thematic organization of Cormac McCarthy's eight novels, this volume offers a radically new assessment of the work of an author who has often been described as one of the greatest contemporary American novelists. In opposition to existing McCarthy scholarship--which tends to concentrate on the regional dimensions of his work, viewing it within the literary and mythopoetic traditions of the South and Southwest--Holloway argues that McCarthy's full significance can only be understood if his work is contextualized within the broader political, economic, and intellectual discourses of the period in which his novels have been produced. Drawing on the ideas of Marxist thinkers such as Fredric Jameson, George Lukacs, and Jean-Paul Sartre, he shows how McCarthy's late modernism resists many of the postmodern assumptions about literary narrative that have come to shape our understanding of aesthetics in recent times.

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New Perspective Feels Like Home To Me.......2003-08-01

Anyone who has read much McCarthy develops a feel for his world, and David Holloway's analysis doesn't try to alter that as much as to awaken you to what was there all along.

The "late modern" McCarthy writes on his own terms, often creating a mythology all his own. And McCarthy is definitely a blue collar writer. Legends abound about him disdaining commercialism and refusing money when he had none (just to make a speaking appearance, according to an ex-wife).

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Reorienting the field of American literary modernism, Christopher Schedler defines an intercultural form of representation termed "border modernism" that challenges the aesthetic hegemony of metropolitan ("high") modernism. In this study, Schedler compares the works of European and Anglo-American modernists with the works of Mexican, Native American, and Chicano writers who engaged with modernist theories and practices. In the process he uncovers a unique intercultural aesthetic produced in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico aimed at modernizing the "native" literary traditions of the Americas. Addressing issues of migration, cultural identity, and ethnography, Border Modernism is a major contribution to current debates over the origins and development of American literary modernism and a new model for transnational and intercultural reconstructions of American literary history.

Borders and margins: Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism (Teoria y critica de la cultura y literatura)

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Encounters Across Borders: The Changing Visions of Spanish Modernism, 1890-1930

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Encounters Across Borders: The Changing Visions of Spanish Modernism, 1890-1930
Mary Lee Bretz
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Experimenting on the Borders of Modernism: Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage

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Experimenting on the Borders of Modernism: Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage
Kristin Bluemel
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History of Nowhere: Border Space (Language, Discourse, Society)

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History of Nowhere: Border Space (Language, Discourse, Society)
Richard Robinson
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A study of Central and Eastern European bordersand identity in twentieth-century narrative.

Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Border Crossings)

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What's It About? Woolf's Camera,Radio,LPs,Car,Mags&our PCs

Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Border Crossings)
Pamela Caughie
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This collection of ten original essays is the first to read Virginia Woolf through the prism of our technological present. Expanding on the work of feminist and cultural critics of the past two decades, this volume offers a sustained reflection on the relationship between Walter Benjamin's analyses of mass culture and technology and Woolf's cultural productions of the 1920s and 1930s. It also brings out the extent to which Woolf was beginning to image the technological society then taking shape. This book takes part in contemporary efforts to rethink modernism as a more globalized and technologized phenomenon

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What's It About? Woolf's Camera,Radio,LPs,Car,Mags&our PCs.......2000-02-03

I wondered what this essay collection would be about when itarrived in the mail. Additionally, would I understand it well enoughto enjoy it? Would I finish reading it because it contained interesting, creative, original, insightful, and lucid commentary? Would I prefer to keep the book?

The answer to all of the above questions is a resounding "yes".

The ten essays, all of excellent quality and very engaging, are about Virginia Woolf and her relationship/experience with 20th century communication media and machines - the cinema,cameras and photography, gramaphones, fast cars, radios and the BBC, telescopes and Zeiss binoculars, fashion magazines, mass production and books, and also our changing connection to Woolf when we connect with her writing via a PC ; her attitude toward the mechanized production of art as well the ideas of Walter Benjamin on the same; scholarily yet accessible interpretations of Woolf's (fiction and non-fiction) and Benjamin's writings on art with aura (an orginal painting has an aura and the postcard of the painting in the museum shop does not); the literary, political, artistic, intellectual, social, and personal dialogue and debate which Woolf conducted with herself and others about the birth and proliferation of these machine(gun)s, new means of (re)production, new products; and much more.

These essays are all that one would expect from the most avant-garde critics/readers of Woolf today. Thanks to the original and detailed research of the contributors and the standards of the editor, this outstanding book is well worth one's most valuable resource: time

Leslie K. Hankins' digital alteration of Man Ray's photographs of Woolf and Benjamin (along with the other illustrations in the book) makes up for the volume being issued without a dustjacket. The binding is well done as is the front cover's illustration of a phonograph from the 1920s.

Tarry not with getting this one. It will go out-of-print quickly like most of Garland's titles.

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Title: Encounters across Borders: The Changing Visions of Spanish Modernism, 1890-1930.(Book Review)
Author: Donald Shaw
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Noguchi's multiform modernism.(The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey Without Borders)(Book review): An article from: Art Journal

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Amy Lyford
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Title: Noguchi's multiform modernism.(The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey Without Borders)(Book review)
Author: Amy Lyford
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