A Guide to Methods for Estimating Microbial Numbers and Biomass in Fresh Water (Scientific Publications)

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During the past ten years, there has been intensive development in theoretical and experimental research of solitons in periodic media. This book provides a unique and informative account of the state-of-the-art in the field. The volume opens with a review of the existence of robust solitary pulses in systems built as a periodic concatenation of very different elements. Among the most famous examples of this type of systems are the dispersion management in fiber-optic telecommunication links, and (more recently) photonic crystals. A number of other systems belonging to the same broad class of spatially periodic strongly inhomogeneous media (such as the split-step and tandem models) have recently been identified in nonlinear optics, and transmission of solitary pulses in them was investigated in detail. Similar soliton dynamics occurs in temporal-domain counterparts of such systems, where they are subject to strong time-periodic modulation (for instance, the Feshbach-resonance management in Bose-Einstein condensates). Basis results obtained for all these systems are reviewed in the book. This timely work will serve as a useful resource for the soliton community.

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This introduction to materials science for engineers examines not only the physical and engineering properties of materials, but also their history, uses, development, and some of the implications of resource depletion, materials substitutions, and so forth. Topics covered include: the stone, copper, bronze, and iron ages; physical properties of metals, ceramics, and plastics; electrical and magnetic properties of metals, semiconductors, and insulators; band structure of metals; metallurgy of iron.

This new edition includes new developments in the last five years, updated graphs and other dated information and references.

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Best book on history of materials!.......2000-01-04

Even though I'm an anthropologist by training, I found this book to be the easiest, most knowledgable and enjoyable text I've ever seen on materials and the role they've played in shaping both mankind, culture and the history of the field of materials science. Dr Hummel has written a brilliant and enlightening explanation of what makes "it" all tick. But he doesn't stop there. Materials students will appreciate the scientific explanations, problems and colorful illustrations (in the center of the book)that make this a true scientific text (not just for laypersons like myself). If I were to give myself one book for Christmas, it would be this one.

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More stereotypes and fat-negativity truly NOT needed!

5 stars for the poetry, 2 for the stories

Too many suffering characters

It's About Time

From The Oswegonian (by myself)

What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology
Donna Jarrell , and Ira Sukrungruang
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Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession

ASIN: 0156029073

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This anthology of thirty works by some of our best contemporary American writers looks at our perennial American obsession: fat. It's everywhere, all around you, and maybe even on you. Now, America's consuming passion at last has its own anthology. From Andre Dubus's delicious story of a young woman more comfortable in her fat body than her thin one
("The Fat Girl"), to Tobias Wolff's tale of bonding over pancakes ("Hunters in the Snow"), Dorothy Allison's poem about food and love ("Dumpling Child"), Peter Carey's surreal tale of a fat-man revolution ("The Fat Man in History"), Wesley McNair's poetic celebration "Fat Heaven", and George Saunders's "The 400-pound CEO," this bountiful feast of fiction and poetry will ensure no reader ever looks at fat quite the same way again.

Including stories and poems by
Dorothy Allison
Frederick Busch
Peter Carey
Raymond Carver
Junot Díaz
Andre Dubus
Pam Houston
Jill McCorkle
George Saunders
Tobias Wolff

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More stereotypes and fat-negativity truly NOT needed!.......2005-03-09

What a disappointing book -- I had such high hopes!
I haven't found anything fat positive or inspiring in this book. Several of the stories have characters whose main purpose in life, no matter what is happening, is that they are sticking to their diets. Warped. Yuck. So many of the stories talk like dieting and depriving yourself are just the normal and correct course of life for a fat person.
I thought it might be good at the beginning of the introduction --but by the end of the introduction, they say, "This anthology is not intended to celebrate size but to celebrate self-acceptance; to acknowledge, matter-of-factly, our human value in spite of our human condition."
And they're right -- they are NOT celebrating size. And did that last sentence mean, "in spite of our fat"? Because self-acceptance still seems to be predicated upon the loss of weight, striving to be thin, and having the self-discipline (self-negation) to stick with carrots and celery sticks. Doesn't sit well with me. I'd like to see a book that promotes self-acceptance, period -- not "in spite of" the size and shape of our bodies.
If you are looking for stories that celebrate fat experience, that show that fat people can have wonderful lives and be healthy and happy and have loving relationships (all of which are TRUE), then don't look here. This is simply more fat-bashing.

5 stars for the poetry, 2 for the stories.......2004-11-17

A guest review by Lara Frater

Heroines: varied

31 stories and poems that have something to do with being fat by such authors as Frederick Busch, Junot Diaz, Jill McCorkle, Katherine Riegel, Rebecca Curtis, Donna Jarrell, and Raymond Carter.

What worked for me:

This book is only worth it for the poetry. So check out "Full Figure" by Allison Joseph, "Nouveau Big" by Katherine Riegel, "For the Man who likes my Thighs" by Denise Duhamel, and "When Fat Girls Dream" by J. L. Haddaway. These poems show the suffering and joy of fat women. The only short story that was interesting and somewhat fat positive was "The Displaced
Overweight Homemaker's Guide to Finding a Mate", and that was saved only by its humor.

Size-wise only the poems seemed to praise plus-sized people.

What didn't work for me:

Where do I start? With the exceptions of the entries listed above, most of the stories portray fat women and men as lazy, obsessed, out of control eaters, neurotic, and they could only lose weight and be happy if they received counseling and really tried.

Overall:
I recommend borrowing the book and not buying it. (Or perhaps getting it used.) The poems are much more positive than the short stories, but there just aren't enough of them.

If you liked "What are You Looking at?" you might also enjoy the "Love at Large", "Living Large" or "At Long Last, Love!" anthologies.

Too many suffering characters.......2004-03-18

The blurb at the top of the jacket says, "Here is fat in all its glory and grandeur - a large-hearted celebration of the human spirit and each individual's unique value, regardless of size."

But it isn't. I was hoping for some proud, in-your-face fat people who believed in themselves. But nearly all the fat characters in this story collection are miserable, and some are tragic. The only contented one is a cat.

Some of the stories are marvelously written. Junot Diaz' "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" paints an amazingly colorful picture of the culture of young Dominicans in New Jersey. And Rhoda Stamell's "Love for a Fat Man," set in a public health clinic in poverty-stricken Detroit, is one of the few stories where people change in positive ways. But several others, including S.L. Wisenberg's "Big Ruthie Imagines Sex Without Pain," present people with too much self-hatred to identify with or enjoy.

Perhaps I was looking for something that doesn't exist. I'm not heavy myself. I regard overweight as a health condition, not a character flaw. I have a chronic condition myself, multiple sclerosis. But unlike overweight people, I get sympathy for my problem, not blame. I interviewed several overweight people for my book, "The Art of Getting Well: Maximizing Health When You Have a Chronic Illness" (Hunter House 2002). Even though some of them are very fit aerobics instructors, most have a lot of self-doubt. I don't know if society put it there, or if there's something else about being heavy that hurts your self-esteem. Anyway, the protagonists in these stories are mostly damaged.

It's worth reading, though. There are more poems than stories. I very much liked J.L. Haddaway's "When Fat Girls Dream." I think this book could start a lot of valuable discussion about weight and society's attitude towards it.

David Spero RN, author of "The Art of Getting Well." Write "david at davidsperorn.com"

It's About Time.......2003-09-24

For anyone who loves fiction and has struggled with weight (or not) this is a wonderful, insightful book. The stories are funny, sad, and real. I'm so glad someone had the guts to put together this collection. The book makes you realize that it isn't fat that's obscene, it's America's gluttonous hyped obsession with perfection and "skin deep" body image. (My only complaint is that I wish the book had been fatter.)

From The Oswegonian (by myself).......2003-09-24

My first thoughts were "Bad timing, Ira."
Publishing a "fat fiction anthology" right now might seem tantamount to endorsing al-Qaeda, with Dr. Phil's new diet book dominating store shelves and airwaves and with an unprecedented number of local and regional news stories doing "lose-weight-or-die" features as well. (When a potential customer calls up "What Are You Looking At?" on Amazon.com, they are offered a "package deal-order it along with Dr. Phil's diet book and get $11 off.)
It's exactly what Oswego professor Ira Sukrungruang has done, though-and it's selling well. Critical and reader response to "What Are You Looking At?: The First Fat Fiction Anthology" has been good since its September 9 release, says Sukrungruang, who will speak about the book on October 2 at River's End Books in Oswego.
Perhaps it's because with story after story on the news networks bemoaning the health risks of obesity and hour after hour of talk show dedicated to people wanting to "get fit," some overweight people are just saying "Sweet living Lord, I need a little reinforcement here!"
At any rate, the collection itself is what merits review, more than the stories themselves, which have largely been culled from other sources. Sukrungruang says that "fat has been kind of an obsession" for he and his co-editor Donna Jarrell, both of whom characterize themselves as having grown up fat. "It's what we lived with," Sukrungruang says.
A variety of writers ranging from Ray Carver and Tobias Wolff to Sukrungruang and his wife, a fellow Oswego professor and poet, contributed to the anthology; even the oldest of the stories are very contemporary. Sukrungruang says that while he was at first shocked to find how much material was available on the topic, he later ended up leaving a lot of good work on the cutting room floor.
So much so, in fact, that he and Jarrell have signed with Harvest Books to follow up "What Are You Looking At?" with a second volume-this one dedicated entirely to personal experience essays that revolve around being fat.
It was a chore to find an agent to represent them, Sukrungruang says, because anthologies are rarely profitable for agents. Once they found someone to bring their work to potential publishers, though, it took only a few weeks to find the book a home at Harvest. The largest buyer of the book is also the nation's largest bookstore chain, Barnes & Noble, where students reported seeing the book a couple of weeks before its September 9 release date.
The anthology itself is a great blend of touching and humorous stories, blending the established writers and the "staples" of fat fiction with relative unknowns and gems found in the rough. They are told from a variety of perspectives and, for someone who has been thin (often not just "average," but actually "too thin") for most of my life, it's an interesting way to see through the eyes of the folks who catch a lot of ridicule in an image-conscious society like ours.

Sportin' a 'Tude: What Your Attitude Says When You're Not Looking

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A wonderful look at middle age and it's foibles.
A wonderful look at middle age and it's foibles.

Sportin' a 'Tude: What Your Attitude Says When You're Not Looking
Patsy Clairmont
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Readers will be smiling in agreement as Patsy Clairmont takes an honest look at our attitudes and what they communicate to others. Honest, lighthearted, and typically Patsy, this book reveals the many ways our attitudes speak volumes--especially when we're not looking!

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A wonderful look at middle age and it's foibles........1999-07-26

It was so helpful to learn that I'm not alone in this 'middle age' thing. I'm normal afterall. She made me take a light hearted but honest look at what I cannot change and helped me to relax and enjoy where I am at this particular stage in my life.

A wonderful look at middle age and it's foibles........1999-07-26

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What Are You Looking At?
George, Newell, Crosby Bonsall
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What Flavor is Your Personality? Discover Who You Are by Looking at What You Eat

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Utterly Riduculous
A under appectiated Book
As deep as a magazine article
Examines how our olfactory system works
The nose knows - or at least takes good guesses

What Flavor is Your Personality? Discover Who You Are by Looking at What You Eat
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Taste-test your personality in this addictive book.

The ice cream you prefer, the spices and scents you love and the foods you enjoy can reveal the kind of person you are and even predict the ideal lover or mate for you. Based on his own numerous scientific studies, Dr. Hirsch shows you how food preferences provide important clues about personality types and can even predict behavior.

Not only can you tell what kind of a person you are by the ice cream you eat--a vanilla lover is a risk-taker with a hectic schedule, a chocolate lover is the life of the party and likes to be the center of attention--but you can even choose your mate by the ice cream he or she prefers.

Dr. Hirsch reveals that men with the most active sex lives responded most strongly to the odor of lavender as well as oriental spices and cola. Learn why pregnant women crave certain foods, why some foods trigger headaches, why some leading chefs have a poor sense of taste, how certain foods can reveal our hidden psyches and the roles food plays in different religions and cultures. Each chapter contains simple, fun-filled quizzes based on the food and scents we prefer so that you can discover the real you.

Dr. Hirsch has been featured on:
--Today
--20/20
--Oprah
--Good Morning America
--CBS This Morning
--Dateline

and in:
--McCall's
--Psychology Today
--Entrepreneur
--Cosmopolitan
--Ladies' Home Journal
--Redbook
--Seventeen

Customer Reviews:

Utterly Riduculous.......2004-10-30

Thankfully I did not pay any money for this book. My airhead roommate, who counts taking online quizzes as one of her hobbies, owns it. Unsurprisingly, it was dead wrong on every question, probably because there is absolutely no scientific basis behind it. The only thing your favorite foods reveal is -- *gasp!* -- what you like to eat, and possibly how you were raised. If you enjoy taking those banal quizzes in magazines, and are surprised by how "accurate" they are, by all means read this book. But for everyone else, save your time.

A under appectiated Book.......2004-09-13

I found out about this book by a book review done in my favorite magazine, JANE. They had picked this book as a new hot topic as it was being released.

After reading the review I HAD to pick it up. I was thrilled with it. I even had my library get it so other people could check it out.

It definatly was great at being pretty on the money about your personality.

For anyone thats skeptical, CHECK IT OUT. Its a great laugh and you might just learn something about yourself.......

As deep as a magazine article.......2003-06-14

I think the premise of this book is interesting - reflecting who you are by the tastes you prefer....the psychology of personality, the power of smell in memory and in attraction. The chapter titles enticed me (but it all seems to be advertising, with no depth) -- the writing and the information imparted in this book is no deeper than a magazine article. The book is probably worth paging through for fifteen minutes...you will catch all the information you need -- and will ever get from it -- that way.

Examines how our olfactory system works.......2001-04-25

What Flavor Is Your Personality?: Discover Who Your Are By Looking At What You Eat is an informative examination of the research accomplished by the "Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation" that is an entertaining as it is instructive. As the foundation's Neurological Director, Dr. Alan Hirsch examines how our olfactory system works and how people with like personalities share preferences for various foods and scents. Numerous quizzes and surveys enable the reader to determine his or her true personality -- and that of friends, families and colleagues. What Flavor Is Your Personality? is a unique, insightful, original, and enthusiastically recommended addition to any personal or professoinal self-improvement, or self-discovery, or self-help reading list and reference collection.

The nose knows - or at least takes good guesses.......2001-04-11

This book is really about the world of smell first, taste second - and the findings, meanings, ramifications, and just plain weird and thrilling things neurologists, psychiatrists, educators, and all sorts of additional folks have learned in the past several decades about olfactory stimuli.

Dr. Alan Hirsch is a neurologist and a psychiatrist, and has published a study entitled "Effects of Garlic Bread and Family Interactions." He has my vote. The results of that study, and a series of other, equally engaging ones (on migraines and fragrance, firefighters' loss of smell, nostalgia, the effects of "malodors" and more) are included in the wonderful appendix of this very entertaining book.

Considering the wealth of understanding and information that Hirsch has at his disposal, this book is a bit "lite, " and the chapter on meat is quite general. But the narrative seems to be grounded in Hirsh's research, and in his especially playful and hopeful sense of human possibility.

In addition, Hirsch mentions some strange and interesting things: for example, research into humans and smell has shown that certain floral smells are stimulating, ever so slightly anxiety-provoking, and therefore promote learning in test subjects. (Your third grade teacher who "smelled good" may actually have enhanced your ability to learn - by wearing perfume.) Male chefs - for a variety of reasons - have senses of smell that are often less acute than the diners in the restaurant. In order to make foods "taste like themselves," artificial flavoring often does the trick better than natural flavorings. Men and women have very different noses. (Men, think twice about taking a female date to a barbecue.) If someone "smells right," it's a very, very good thing - for a developing relationship. Likewise, the "wrong" smell jinxes things - utterly. However, men are turned off by many fewer smells than are women.

Much of research has been done by Hirsch. The index is a bit scanty, but on the other hand I have no idea how he managed in this book to describe me to a T based on my preferences in food and odors. I pestered family and friends and they, too, were impressed with his on-target analysis of their psyches and behaviors - based on food and odor preferences.

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You are invited into a world of heartwarming short stories that will bring a tear to your eye and wisdom to your motherhood. Gigi Schweikert pens inspirational stories that seem almost painted across the pages as she delivers portrait after portrait of love and nurturing that will quite likely change your life as a mom. Schweikert has already proven her abilities to write to the needs of mom's everywhere in her previous books for the Motherhood Club: I'm a Good Mother, Holding the World by the Hand, and There's a Perfect Little Angel in Every Child. After reading this beautifully-crafted book, if you listen closely you may hear God whisper, "I see a mother looking at Me."

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Changes making it easier to find what you're looking for at library : An article from: Boulder County Business Report
Barbara Buchman
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Do You Hear What I See? (Looking At the World In New Ways)

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Celebrate Reading Series

Do You Hear What I See? Looking at the World in New Ways

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For what are you looking?
Raymond B Drukker
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How to Read & Understand Financial Statements When You Dont Know What You Are Looking at: For Business Owners and Investors

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