Microbiology: A Centenary Approach

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This fascinating volume is a collection of landmark papers in microbiology that have appeared during the past century. Divided into five categories, diagnostic microbiology and epidemiology, pathogenesis and host response mechanisms, general and applied microbiology, molecular biology and physiology, and virology, the volume provides a general introduction and introduction to each paper selected. The introductions focus on the importance of each contribution as well as the historical context in which it was written. An engaging foreword by Dr. Joshua Lederberg provides additional perspective.

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This volume presents work from six different groups working on various aspects of cycloaddition chemistry. José Mascareñas gives us a very interesting account of the chemistry of &Bgr;-alkoxy-&ggr;-pyrones and related species. Al Padwa and Chris Staub discuss further advances in rhodium carbenoid chemistry and the unusual cycloaddition processes possible with these intermediates. Higher order cycloadditions mediated by transition metals highlight Jim Rigby's update on his group's efforts in this area. Lily Lee and John Snyder present us with a detailed account of the indole ring as a dienophile, challenging us to consider the untapped potential in this area. Brian Keay and Ian Hunt discuss the intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions of furan; a report that is both top-notch science, and what could be a great learning tool for students who need to see how fundamental chemical principles can and should be applied to synthetic problems. Finally, Kay Brummond introduces us to a new version of the Pauson-Khand reactions, one that will no doubt be further exploited in productive ways by her group well into the future.

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One summer in the 1980s, theoretical physicist F. David Peat went to a Blackfoot Sun Dance ceremony. Having spent all of his life steeped in and influenced by linear Western science, he was entranced by the Native American worldview and, through dialogue circles between scientists and native elders, he began to explore it in greater depth.

Blackfoot Physics is the account of his discoveries. In an edifying synthesis of anthropology, history, metaphysics, cosmology, and quantum theory, Peat compares the medicines, the myths, the languages—the entire perceptions of reality of the Western and indigenous peoples. What becomes apparent is the amazing resemblance between indigenous teachings and some of the insights that are emerging from modern science, a congruence that is as enlightening about the physical universe as it is about the circular evolution of humanity's understanding. Through Peat's insightful observations, he extends our understanding of ourselves, our understanding of the universe, and how the two intersect in a meaningful vision of human life in relation to a greater reality.

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Blackfoot Physics.......2007-07-17

When I found this book, as an archaeologist who works primarily with Plains First Nations, I was thrilled that someone had written an in-depth book about the worldview of the Blackfoot. Through my own experiences, I have gained some outsider insight into the wealth of Blackfoot culture and was eager to learn more.

Unfortunately, the title Blackfoot Physics is a misnomer. Though the author describes his experiences while waiting for the Sun Dance to begin in the first few chapters, most of the book discusses various traditional belief systems and world views ranging from various North America First Nations to various cultures, past and present, around the world. Much of this material is either very general in nature or is intended for those without any prior knowledge of these traditions, basically illustrating the point that all world views have value.

Although I thought that the author did a very good job of illustrating that other cultures have different (and just as valid) ways of viewing the world, I am concerned that people will believe that all aboriginal world views are the same. This erroneous perception could further strengthen the common "primitive societies" stereotypes that the author was trying to break down.

Fascinating Stuff.......2003-08-05

It takes a while to get into this book because the first chapter is a bit boring (needs some serious editing, in fact). But once past that hurdle, there's not a dull moment. While one might take issue with the author's apparent attitude that the Native American version of science is superior to that of the Western world's, there's no doubt that the Western world has missed a lot of vital information about the nature of reality. The Native Americans were shoved aside by the Western invaders, who seldom had the sense to acknowledge the wisdom (not to mention the mathematics and the astronomy and the way to make a decent canoe) that the natives had to offer; now we're learning that much of what the natives believed is echoed in the new physics that is still being examined.

A unique and original work of insight.......2003-02-13

Blackfoot Physics: A Journey Into The Native American Universe is a melding of anthropology, history, metaphysics, cosmology, and quantum theory. Written by F. David Peat (a theoretical physicist who has also studied Native American ceremonies and traditions such as the Blackfoot Sun Dance), Blackfoot Physics strives to bridge the gap between diverse understandings of the universe, while crafting parallels between science and spirituality. A unique and original work of insight, Blackfoot Physics in a unique and strongly recommended contribution to Metaphysical Philosophy and Native American Studies.

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Blackfoot Physics: A Journey Into the Native American Universe
F. David Peat
Manufacturer: Fourth Estate
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Edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Introduction by Lawrence N. Powell

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ONE OF THE BETTER OF THIS GENRE.......2004-10-08

This is one you will want to own and add to your collection. It is a wonderful first hand account by an American traveler, traveling through the Southern United States just prior to the Civil War. You have to remember the time in which it was written and take into concideration style, syntax, and most importantly, attitude. For the serious student of the Civil War, it is a must read and a must for the collection. Times were hard then, and this gives a great account of what one would have encountered at that time. This is one you will probably want to read twice, as a matter of fact. All in all, I highly recommend.

THE SOUTH ON THE EVE OF THE CIVIL WAR.......2002-06-24

Frederick Law Olmstead travelled extensively throughout the south during the antebellum period, as reflected in this book. He considered the effects of slavery on both blacks and whites and found it to have pernicious effects on both. Although written prior to the Civil War, the book (actually a series of extensive selections from the three original volumes based on his newspaper articles written during his travels)provides a rather indepth and refreshing look at well-known history and looks at the diverse roles played by blacks, white southerners, (and northerners!) in slavery. He also examines their views on the slave issue itself: some nascent Southern abolitionists and colonialists, as well as advocates of slavery, appeared rather intelligent and some otherwise. Many considered slavery an insoluble problem and others defended it as a necessary evil which benefitted blacks and whites alike(!). After completing his tour (including a rather interesting situation in which a black slave seriously injures a biracial runaway, has him clapped in irons and sent to jail - much to the amusement of some white southerners - & an enlightening discussion, especially in light of Talty's research showing persons of pure white descent, including adult foreigners and children who were originally indentured were kidnapped or illegally sold into slavery, of how demeanor would be an adequate determinant of whether or not a "white" slave was really free or not), he provides a critical analysis of slavery and its effects on the south.

The cotton kingdom: a traveller's observations on cotton and slavery in the American slave states. Based upon three former volumes of journeys and investigations...Second edition. Vol. 1.

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The cotton kingdom: a traveller's observations on cotton and slavery in the American slave states. Based upon three former volumes of journeys and investigations...Second edition. Vol. 1.
Frederick Law Olmsted
Manufacturer: University of Michigan Library
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By Frederick Law Olmsted.

The Correspondence of John Cotton (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)

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The Correspondence of John Cotton (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)
Sargent Jr. (ed.) Bush
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Release Date: 2000-12-07

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John Cotton (1584-1652) was a key figure in the English Puritan movement in the first half of the seventeenth century, a respected leader among his generation of emigrants from England to New England.

This volume collects all known surviving correspondence by and to Cotton. These 125 letters--more than 50 of which are here published for the first time--span the decades between 1621 and 1652, a period of great activity and change in the Puritan movement and in English history. Now carefully edited, annotated, and contextualized, the letters chart the trajectory of Cotton's career and revive a variety of voices from the troubled times surrounding Charles I's reign, including those of such prominent figures as Oliver Cromwell, Bishop John Williams, John Dod, and Thomas Hooker, as well as many little-known persons who wrote to Cotton for advice and guidance.

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This book is the first study to consider the relationship between a single commodity and its consumers. The popular fashion for Indian calicos in the seventeenth century and the genesis of the British cotton industry in the eighteenth century reflected new consumer forces at work within
Britain. The East India trade encouraged new patterns of domestic demand, patterns which were not eradicated even with the prohibition of most Indian fabrics in 1721. Parliamentarians and clergy decried the spread of popular fashions that diminished visible social distinctions and undercut
traditional manufactures. Nevertheless, the demand for cottons persisted, supporting Britain's cotton manufacturers. Beginning with the East Indian commerce and ending with the thriving industrial production of British manufacturers, this study assesses the social and economic factors of fashion
and commerce which sustained the cotton trade for over 140 years.

Cotton Patch for the Kingdom: Clarence Jordan's Demonstration Plot at Koinonia Farm

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Cotton Patch for the Kingdom: Clarence Jordan's Demonstration Plot at Koinonia Farm
Ann Louise Coble
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The Cotton Industry (Shire Albums)
Chris Aspin
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Imperfect Beauty
Charlotte Cotton
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Pre-Trial Services and the Future of Probation

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Pre-Trial Services and the Future of Probation
Mark Drakeford , Kevin Haines , Bev Cotton , and Mike Octigan
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Pre-Trial Services represents the first detailed attempt to investigate the role the Probation Service might play in improving the efficiency of the British criminal justice system. It uses an on-the-ground investigation of current practice, a history of pre-trial services in Wales and England, a review of the American experience, qualitative and quantitative material from selected probation areas and interviews with leading figures in the world of criminal justice.

The Hallelujah Revolution: The Rise of the New Christians

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Is this the shape of Chrisianity for the Millenium?

The Hallelujah Revolution: The Rise of the New Christians
Ian Cotton
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Is this the shape of Chrisianity for the Millenium?.......2000-07-27

`The Hallelujah Revolution' is a look at one of the most interesting Christian phenomena at the turn of the Millennium - the rapid growth of the Evangelical / Charismatic movement. A movement now spreading so rapidly that, according to Cotton, "far from being on the fringe, Evangelicals are currently taking over the mainstream."

Cotton spends the first half of the book looking at the characteristics and origins of this movement. He defines these new Christians as follows: Evangelicals believe that the essence of the Gospels consists in the doctrine of salvation by faith in the atoning death of Christ. They therefore deny that either good works or the sacraments have any saving efficacy, while seeing themselves as having a responsibility to bring others to Christ. The term `Charismatic' refers to Christians who seek a post conversion experience called `baptism in the Holy Spirit'. Such baptism may bring one or more of these gifts: - ability to speak in tongues, to perform healing through prayer, to prophesy, to discern spirits, perform exorcisms and deliverances, and, receive dreams and visions.

Cotton sees the social origins of the E/C movement as arising from the particular uncertainties of the late Twentieth Century. These enduring uncertainties and the impotence of rationalism in solving them created a Zeitgeist in which people desire simultaneously both the solid certainties of doctrine, and the fluid outpourings of charisma. The E/C movement derives its doctrinal certainty from the Bible, while its outpourings of charisma lead to social action from a sense of community responsibility. The examples given of faith in action, supplanting ineffective social welfare agencies, are of Ichthus (runs many programs, such as for teenagers on drugs), and Pecan (a successful back to work scheme). They have a touching directness and unpretentiousness about them.

The accounts of conversion experiences provide compelling reading, both for the human interest, and because of the obvious transformational effect of the conversion. The section (chapter 8) on the drug induced conversion of both `tripping' partners shows how the change becomes real, extends through all aspects of their lives, and out into the community around them.

However in the second half of the book Cotton digs himself into a hole and he cannot get out of it. He implicitly accepts the Freudian view of religion as psychopathology. Freud claimed religion has as its source a neurotic remnant of infantile adoration of the father. The adult, unable to face the uncertainties of living, projects the infantile adoration of the father onto an imagined `super-father' we call God, who becomes responsible for controlling all the uncertainties of life beyond our control.

From this present but unstated axiom Cotton shoulders the self-defeating task of examining the inspirational or divine from a materialist perspective. In a range of reductive chapters he tries to source the religious experience to psychological origins, or organic determinants in the brain. He cites the association of stress and uncertainty in people in the pre-conversion phase. He notes the similarities between the processes of conversion and brain washing. He peruses the `religious' experiences of Huxley who took LSD and Mescaline, and the surgeon Wilder Penfield's work on electrical stimulation of parts of the cerebral cortex. But he leaves the important questions unasked: Does the documented association of stress and uncertainty with the pre conversion state necessarily devalue the conversion? Have LSD experiences been real enough to sustain a lifetime of LSD religion, and have they wrought transformational changes to values? If electrical stimulation of the cortex leads to an experience with religious content does this imply a non-validity of faith, and does the same apply when such stimulation leads to experiences involving hunger or sexual content?

There are interesting chapters on misdiagnoses in claimed miracle cures, on an experiment on therapeutic touch, and on Michael Persinger's laboratory induced mystical experiences. There is also a fashionably obligatory but pointless chapter on Left/Right Brain functioning.

This book is an interesting work, but ultimately limited by its reductive approach, which is insufficient to explain the teleological shift to a set of higher values. There is no doubt that transformational changes are wrought in the lives of converts, and these changes go well beyond the shedding of one ideology for commitment to another. They include better mental health and more effective lives over a range of areas, and in particular, improved social relations and greater ability to face and deal with problems. Any work attempting to fairly assess the E/C movement must address this issue. And there is also a wider theological issue that requires addressing: How can the E/C movement be so effective and lead to enduring and far reaching transformational changes in the lives of converts when at its heart there is a self contradictory paradox?

The paradox of Christian fundamentalism is that an omnipotent and omnipresent God is bound by the same space/time limitations that bind you and I. God is, in effect, trapped in His decreed limitation set by the Dispensation of Grace 2000 years ago, when at a precise point in history the Divine and Temporal intersected. The fundamentalist Christian claim is that God's grace and presence in the lives of man can only be validated by commitment to today's version of what transpired at that time, through the redeeming blood of Christ in the Atonement. But what of God? Is He bound by these rules, or can He redeem whosoever He chooses, or even send later exhalted souls to guide men?

An omnipotent and omnipresent God contradicts the fundamentalist reference back to the a priori requirement of the Atonement. Yet, despite their essentially mechanistic theology there is a transformational power at work in these Christians. How can this be? What are the implications?

As cotton says, "Clearly we are living through the fastest expansion of Christianity ever...." It is a pity his account of `the rise of the new Christians' did not look at some of these other questions that dogged his heels at every step.

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