Handbook of Statistical Genetics (2 Volume Set)

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From the Reviews of the First Edition:
"This magnificent book attempts to catalogue and introduce all aspects of modern statistical genetics...I can thoroughly recommend it."
Short Book Reviews of ISI
"...extremely well written and referenced work, which must come highly recommended..."
Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Provides comprehensive coverage of a thriving area of research
Features nine newly commissioned chapters
All existing chapters have been fully updated with new advances in the field and new references
Now includes a glossary of terms, and a list of acronyms and abbreviations.
Features extensive cross-referencing between chapters.
Each chapter is written by a leading international authority from the field.
Complemented by examples, case studies, and references to useful resources on the web.

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Good overview of topics on quantitative aspects of genetics.......2001-05-10

The book is a collection of chapters written by experts in their respective fields. It contains both basic topics of genetics like chromosome maps and protein analysis as well as recent developments in evolutionary genetics like coalescence and phylogenetics. The topics on genetic epidemiology like linkage and association cover the main ideas, but the mathematical subtlities are not adequately explained in some of the cases. Since the target audience of this book are statistical geneticists, it would have been more beneficial if more quantitative insights were given. The chapters by Bruce Weir, Nicholas Schork and Ranajit Chakraborty provide some interesting practical applications of statistical genetics. With lots of controversies going around, it is apt to include the chapter on the ethical issues regarding the use of statistics in genetics.

Handbook of Formulas and Software for Plant Geneticists and Breeders

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Handbook of Formulas and Software for Plant Geneticists and Breeders

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ASIN: 1560229497

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This book provides a comprehensive collection of articles that cover a wide range of issues and a detailed overview of the current state of the science of contaminated land. The opening chapter summarizes the origins and extent of the contaminated land problem and reviews some of the latest scientific developments that are underpinning effective contaminated land management. The new UK contaminated land framework is discussed in detail, clearly outlining this new regulation and its intentions. Following on from this, risk assessment and risk management are addressed and the options for site investigation are analyzed. One of the important reasons for the remediation of contaminated land is the concern over possible adverse effects on human health. Assessment and Reclamation of Contaminated Land deals specifically with issues relating to human exposure to contaminated land and current evidence linking contaminated land with effects on public health. Assessment and Reclamation of Contaminated Land has been contributed to by authors authoritative in their own specialist fields and will be an essential resource for those involved in the areas of land use planning and development, consultants and engineers in contaminated site investigation and remediation. It will also be of great interest to environmental regulators, and to both teachers and students in higher education.

The Re-Use of Contaminated Land: A Handbook of Risk Assessement

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The Re-Use of Contaminated Land: A Handbook of Risk Assessement
Tom Cairney
Manufacturer: Wiley
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Former industrial and urban land is increasingly being recycled, a practice which follows current political policy and is appropriate in the more heavily populated areas of Europe. The contamination which soils and water below such land may have suffered due to past industrial activities could pose future risks to new occupiers, or to the environment as a whole, and therefore it is important that an assessment of the risk is undertaken before such land is re-used. This volume has been written specifically to assist developers, consultants and planners who are involved in the reclamation of contaminated land in ensuring that such recycling does not expose the public or the wider environment to unacceptable risks. It provides a clear rationale for why such risk assessments are needed, outlines the current legislation regulating such activities, and indicates where the responsibilities lie for control of this development. Inevitably, the assessment approach of this book draws mainly on UK experiences and regulations but the methodology and basic principles provided are universal, and would be applicable when the safe recycling of contaminated land becomes a more important issue of development in other countries. The risk assessment approach advocated in the book will be valuable to many developers of contaminated land, since it is affordable and logical, and adequately diagnostic to identify sites where re-use will not be hazardous. The book describes a comprehensive range of risks which have been given due consideration as potential problems when former industrial land is reused, whilst also dispelling many of the vague and often unjustified concerns over land contamination.

Assessment and Reclamation of Contaminated Land.

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Assessment and Reclamation of Contaminated Land.
R.e. Hester And R.m. Harrison
Manufacturer: Royal Soc. of Chemistry
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N6BBUO

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Contaminated Land Risk Assessment

Manufacturer: Construction Industry Research & Information Association (CIRIA)
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Binding: Paperback

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"I want to get at the blown glass of the early cloud chambers and the oozing noodles of wet nuclear emulsion; to the resounding crack of a high-voltage spark arcing across a high-tension chamber and leaving the lab stinking of ozone; to the silent, darkened room, with row after row of scanners sliding trackballs across projected bubble-chamber images. Pictures and pulses—I want to know where they came from, how pictures and counts got to be the bottom-line data of physics." (from the preface)

Image and Logic is the most detailed engagement to date with the impact of modern technology on what it means to "do" physics and to be a physicist. At the beginning of this century, physics was usually done by a lone researcher who put together experimental apparatus on a benchtop. Now experiments frequently are larger than a city block, and experimental physicists live very different lives: programming computers, working with industry, coordinating vast teams of scientists and engineers, and playing politics.

Peter L. Galison probes the material culture of experimental microphysics to reveal how the ever-increasing scale and complexity of apparatus have distanced physicists from the very science that drew them into experimenting, and have fragmented microphysics into different technical traditions much as apparatus have fragmented atoms to get at the fundamental building blocks of matter. At the same time, the necessity for teamwork in operating multimillion-dollar machines has created dynamic "trading zones," where instrument makers, theorists, and experimentalists meet, share knowledge, and coordinate the extraordinarily diverse pieces of the culture of modern microphysics: work, machines, evidence, and argument.

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The Soul Of A New Machine Part II: Ascension Into The Clouds.......2006-06-16

It's 2006, have you even picked up a science book lately? Why not? Nova and Discover enough? Well maybe Peter Galison can change all that. Think of him as the ultimate insider in a world that moves too fast for journalism to keep up with its leaks, spills and brilliant mistakes. Galison doesn't condescend to readers nor does he ream them with macho scibits; he's an academic who has a knack for talking out loud in front of any size audience, consisting of anybody willing to follow his investigations into the subcultures of science, with theorists on one phenomenological side and engineers on the other. Image & Logic is already considered a masterpiece by Galison's peers but he's yet to get the popular push that Carl Sagen and Stephen J. Gould got, and that's...ok. Just as Tracy Kidder managed to wrest computer technology from the clutches of lab-elitists and their cocktail napkin philistine pimps (CNPP) with his Soul of A New Machine, Galison will eventually vaporize the CNPP and the rest of us can breath easier. So go on, wean yourself off of the philistine's big hairy factoids and get some real, science under your belt.

Informative and Illuminating.......2002-01-03

Peter Galison presents an in-depth look at Experimental Physics in the 20th century, both to reveal its history and present an alternative view of scientific change in recent history. Starting with Wilson's first cloud chamber and progressing through WWII R&D up to and including the Superconducting SuperCollider Galison reveals major changes and redefinitions of what it means to be a practitioner of Experimental Physics. His approach applies a sociological perspective where theorists, experimentalists and instrumentalists share a dialog referred to by Galison as a "trading zone" where the previously assumed communication structures within and between Scientific disciplines are viewed as non-rigid, flexible and mutable. Along the way Galison provides fascinating examples of events and discoveries that illuminate the little known world of research and experiment in recent history. Among these examples are the fire at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator which brought about much greater regulatory involvement of the AEC. Also, the necessary use of MonteCarlo methods in the development of the H-Bomb where as Galison states "A hundred million degrees kelvin put the laboratory out of the picture..." ultimately leading to present day computer technology. For anyone within or outside of physics proper this book is truly an eye-opener to that almost invisible world of 20th century Experimental Physics.

Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics.(Brief Article): An article from: American Scientist

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Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics.(Brief Article): An article from: American Scientist

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Image & Logic: a Material Culture of Microphysics

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Image & Logic: a Material Culture of Microphysics
Peter Galison
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OP5W40

Image and Logic: Material Culture of Microphysics

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Image and Logic: Material Culture of Microphysics
Peter Galison
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OP22GG

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Against a back-drop of international terror and intrigue, Secret Service agent Cameron Roberts and first daughter Blair Powell return in Honor Guards.

When you're the president's daughter and the closest thing the country has to a first lady, your life is never really your own. When you're the woman charged to guard the first daughter, and you also happen to be her lover, every moment of every day is filled with challenges-and a mistake could cost you everything. Unbeknownst to either Blair Powell or Secret Service agent Cameron Roberts, they are at the center of a conspiracy that will rock the world when a net of violence and death draws down upon them and the nation. In a journey that begins on the streets of Paris's Left Bank and culminates in a wild flight for their lives, the president's daughter and those who are sworn to protect her wage a desperate struggle for survival.

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Always better.......2007-08-12

The best part of this series is that I do not get bored. The characters keep growing with each book. And the introduction of some new characters and their own perspectives of the things happening around them and to them helps drive the story. Cool stuff

Book 4 in the series.......2006-08-14

Again, as with the first 3 books in the series, I could not put it down.

#4--Still great!.......2006-07-28

This is the fourth in the Honor Series and is just as exceptional as the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd novels.

I've become familiar with the characters in this series. I hurt when things don't go well and it brings joy to my heart when their lives go well.

Blair continues to be a target for any left-wing group trying to make a point about America. Cameron and her team have their work cut out for them as they venture to France.

When I finished it, I was looking for book #5, immediately.

Don't pass the Honor Series by. Radclyffe is a fantastic writer.

Another Winner in the Honor Series.......2006-05-23

Whether you read Radclyffe's series books, like the Justice series or the Honor series or the Provincetown series, or you read one of her stand-alone romances, you can not go wrong.

I have been reading lesbian fiction for many years, and can honestly say that I have never come across a writer that has so affected me. Her characters are strong, intelligent, and romantic. Naysayers will say that Radclyffe's characters are too perfect almost never flawed - either in looks or character. That may be true, but aren't you tired of the genre's penchant for ordinary? Radclyffe's characters are always enchanting, intoxicating, enticing, and intense. The stories, particularly in the series books, are all first class. Most of her series books are page-turners. And in two of the books, I actually turned to the last page to make sure that the main characters survived - something I never do.

Radclyffe let us believe, at least for the duration of each of her books, that the grand passion, the true love, the happy-ever-after are all possible. She lets us believe that being a strong, intelligent woman does not mean that we will be alone and/or isolated.

The only caveat I have is to read the series books in order. And if you enjoy watching a writer grow, then read the non-series books in the order they were written and watch Radclyffe's talent grow before your very eyes.

Absolutely Wonderful!.......2006-02-10

Only the talented Radclyffe could come up with a story like this! The plot is based on the events of 9/11. When the towers are hit, First Daughter Blair Powell is attacked and almost killed by a group of well-trained men... one of whom is a Secret Service Agent assigned to her security team. In walks (or runs) her security chief and lover, Cameron Roberts. Cam shoots the traitor before he call pull the trigger on Blair. After secreting Blair from New York City, Cameron agrees to take them to the home of one of Blair's friends from college. They can't go to any of the established safe houses or let anyone know where they are because of the unexpected breech in security. As Cam struggles to keep her lover safe, Blair struggles with her own feelings about the dangers of Cam's profession.

This series gets better each time I read it (this was my third time). Rad brings the characters to life unlike any other author in the genre. The reader can almost imagine running into Blair and Cam on the street. Rad brings dimension to her book and gives the reader an additional bonus with the development of other character relationships, the most obvious being the one between SS Agent Paula Stark and FBI Agent Renee Savard.

This story is so well told, the reader is apt to believe there actually was a plot to take the First Daughter on 9/11.

A MUST HAVE BOOK.

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Sub par WWII novel
Too much...WAY too much
Great Literature, But Not a Good Story Well Told
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Guard of Honor (Modern Library)
James Gould Cozzens
Manufacturer: Modern Library
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ASIN: 0679603050
Release Date: 1998-05-26

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Guard of Honor is a neglected masterpiece that stands comparison with the greatest novels of the Second World War--essayist Noel Perrin deemed it "probably the best war novel of the twentieth century."
----James Gould Cozzens's Guard of Honor won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949. The novel balances a vast cast of intricately enmeshed characters as they react over the course of three tense days in September 1943 to a racial incident on a U.S. Army airbase in Florida. The reader is acutely aware of the war raging abroad and the effect it has had, or will have, on the multitude of servicemen who populate Cozzens's immense canvas. As Noel Perrin commented in The Washington Post Book World: "There is material for two or three hundred movies in Guard of Honor."
----"No other American novelist of our time writes with such profound understanding of the wellsprings of human character and of the social pressures that help to form it," said Orville Prescott in The New York Times. As Brendan Gill observed in The New Yorker: "Every page of Guard of Honor gives the impression of a writer at the very top of his powers setting out to accomplish nothing less than his masterwork."

The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-
dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.

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Bad.......2007-04-05

This is a pitiful excuse for a novel. I read about 6 books a month, and rarely, once I have started one, do I give up on it. After about 150 pages I threw this one in the trash. I wouldn't even give it to a friend or donate it to charity. It defiles the paper it is written on...why? Because it is soooo booooring. Rather than wade thru this thing, paint a wall and watch it dry.

Sub par WWII novel.......2004-11-17

I really looked forward to reading this book thinking it was on the same level as "The Caine Mutiny" or "The Naked and the Dead" but I was sorely disappointed. It's simply boring even while there's supposedly a world war going on. What's worse is there's no discernible plot. Another reviewer suggested sticking to Herman Wouk and I agree. His three books: "The Caine Mutiny", "The Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance" are about the best WWII novels that I know of.

Too much...WAY too much.......2004-03-18

One reviewer called "Guard of Honor" a "Dickens of a novel", and it's easy to see what he was getting at: a big book, bustling with characters and situations, covering a time and place from many angles to make a detailed portrait...that's what Charles Dickens did best, and that's what Cozzens certainly INTENDS to do, but it simply does not come off. There is just too much fat here, too many long, long scenes that go nowhere and provide no particular insight, too many long, long conversations that all too obviously serve only to mouth the author's philosophy, too much anticipation for too little payoff. Buried far underneath all this is a good story, a great writing style, and a few good characters. Critic Noel Perrin's singular enthusiasm for this novel is touching, but this is NOT the great novel of World War 2. Leave that to Mr. Jones or Mr. Wouk.

Great Literature, But Not a Good Story Well Told.......2003-08-04

A novel of intricate characterizations of a huge number of participants in a bureaucracy, Guard of Honor would probably appeal more to lovers of Great Literature than to lovers of a Good Story Well Told. It is a very long and detailed book. What plot there is involves attempts of some of the lead characters to avoid doing the morally-correct action. Few characters are likeable; few have much integrity. The author likes very long sentences; many paragraphs are absolutely incomprehensible. The ending was quite unsatisfactory to me. However, all those characters are distinctive and memorable - not a small achievement. And, the author certainly understands the dynamics of a bureaucracy. The book is enjoying a small revival due to a rave review in the American Scholar magazine.

Strong black coffee, not a soy latte.......2001-10-31

Cozzens' masterful social novels, of which "Guard of Honor" is the towering apex, have been erased from the history of American literature by its guardian - the academic establishment - because of his thorny conservatism and unadorned steel-and-rivets prose style. It's our loss. If you compare the ambition and artistic discipline of this wise and sober novel to, say, the latest annual installment of navel-gazing from Philip Roth (to name a writer who enjoys a comparable level of esteem today), you can only shake your head at the profound dumbing-down of our culture.

Inasmuch as only a fraction of any armed force directly participates in combat, this stunningly broad study of a Florida air force base in the latter stage of World War II is actually more relevant to the history of our participation in that struggle than a book like "The Naked and the Dead". And its look at an early chapter in the unfinished story of race integration in America is arguably more germane than ever, although its conclusions do not sit comfortably. (No televised talking head could hope to express them and still keep his job.) If you're interested in a truly adult novel, in the best sense of the word, you can't do much better than this one.

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Guard of Honor

Manufacturer: Harcourt, Brace and Company,New York
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Binding: Hardcover
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Guard of Honor is a large scale, very busy, very masculine novel of three tense September days at the big air base in Ocanara, Florida in 1943.

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Mouse Guard 6 A Return to Honor
David Petersen
Manufacturer: Archaia
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1932386297

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In Mouse Guard, mice struggle to live safely and prosper among all of the world's harsh conditions and predators. Lush full color small press comic book story telling, in an unusual 8 x 8 inch format.

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A Teen's Point of View
I loved it!
Is it a dancing night Fairy Lady....?
READ THIS BOOK!

The Perilous Guard

Manufacturer: Scholastic Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0590460579

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A Teen's Point of View.......2006-03-28

This book is so great! It's about a spunky girl who fends for herself, but there's also lots of romance, adventure and magic. A must-read! This book should be as well known as the Harry Potter ones.

I loved it!.......2005-04-30

I just listened to "The Perilous Guard" on tape on my way to work and it was a wonderful way to start and end the day. The story was carefuuly presented so as to draw the reader, in my case listener, ever more deeply into the tangled web of intrigue and suspense. The dialogue between the main characters was especially well crafted, and in the end, I sat in my driveway refusing to go inside until the very end of the story. "The Perilous Guard" is a story about the Faery Folk of England and takes place during the reigns of Queens Mary and Elizabeth. The historic aspect made it fun, and the portrayal of the Faery Folk was interesting. I'm giving this book to my mom for Mother's Day, confident she'll love it. I especially recommend the audio version of this book. The reader has the most beautiful English accent and the loviness of her voice and the skill with which she renders the characters only adds to the story.

Is it a dancing night Fairy Lady....?.......2005-04-03

How can I describe the thrill of reading this book? I picked it up one day when I wanted something to read that didn't require much thought and being twenty I didn't think it would be too taxing.

I was wrong, I could not put this book down! I read the whole thing through in one day and read it again the next day! It was very original with a few historical facts woven in for to bring a sense of realism to the story. I enjoyed the fact that the heroine was not a perfect and lovely girl, but gawky and awkward as many of us are. I find the hero and his brother both fascinating.

Randall was very endearing as the bard, I wanted to put my arms around him and tell what a good job he did. The last scene with the fairy queen was wonderful, her attempt to have revenge in such a subtle way was superb!

And when she knelt to Kate in the queen's salute I felt like crying too! It is an endearing and sweet novel for any girl, my sisters and even my brother's adore the story. A great buy for any of your friends who like to read.

READ THIS BOOK!.......2004-08-07

"The Perilous Guard" by Elizabeth Marie Pope was a thrilling read that i could not put down from the moment i picked it up.
This book combines wonderfully the traights of historical fiction, a romance, mystery, and of course, magic.
The story is about unremakable Kate sutton who is banshed by Queen Mary Tudor to the dismal castle Perilous Guard. There Kate must uncover the dreadful secret that haunts the castle and its woods, while finding the power within her to outsmart the cold hearted Queen of the fairies and save the man she loves from commiting the ultimate sacrifice, to right the wrong he commited years ago...
The characthers in the book are well developed and you feel something for each of them from the witty and brave Kate, to the dark and troubled Christopher. This book weaves and extrodinary tale about the power of love and redemption and the courage to fight the fears in one's self.

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Guard of Honor
William P. Kennedy
Manufacturer: St Martins Mass Market Paper
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For His Honor: From Schoolroom Failure to Whitehouse Honor Guard, Terry Johnson's Witness for Christ

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Eye-opening, heartwarming, & spiritual

For His Honor: From Schoolroom Failure to Whitehouse Honor Guard, Terry Johnson's Witness for Christ
Terry Johnson
Manufacturer: Shelter Publications
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Great Book.......2005-01-07

Terry Johnson struggled through grade school because of a dyslexia problem that wasn't diagnosed untill later. Staright out of High School he was taken by the Air Force. His plan was to become a chaplian but at the end of basic training he was thrust into the police acadamey. Now normally that wouldn't be a big problem but Johnson is a Seventh-Day Adventist and believed that he should not kill another human. He went through weapons qualifying anyways and missed the target every time no matter the range. He was held bac for a second round of qualifying. During that time a friend was trying out for the Presidential Honor Gaurd. He asked Johnson to come along as moral support. To make a long story short Johnson was forced to try out. He didn't think he stood a chance becuase he couldn't even march properly. He ended up making it, becoming the first handicapped (dyslexic) person to serve in the Honor Gaurd. Also he was the first black from Oregon to and the first Adventist to serve in the Honor Gaurd. This is his inspiring story of his time in the Honor Gaurd, interspersed with stories from his child-hood. If you like this book try "The Unlikeliest Hero" also from Pacific Press.

Eye-opening, heartwarming, & spiritual.......1997-11-20

This was one of the first, definetly the best, testimonial that I have ever read. I loved that the author let you get away a little and then pulled you right back in. I would recommend this book to anyone who is struggling in or wants to strengthen their religion!

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Guard Of Honor
William P. Kennedy
Manufacturer: St Martins Mass Market Paper
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTNXE2

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Guard of Honor
James Gould Cozzens
Manufacturer: Permabooks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JZACK4

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Guard of Honor
Cozzens Gould James
Manufacturer: Franklin Library
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Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000RIKMUI

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