Pattern Formation in Zebrafish (Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation)

Book Description

Vertebrate embryos develop from a single cell via a complex succession of cell divisions, movements and inductive interactions. The zebrafish, Danio rerio, emerged in recent years as an excellent system in which to study genetic underpinnings of normal human development and its pathologies. Large-scale genetic screens identified thousands of mutant variants that allow in vivo dissection of developmental processes at single cell and molecular resolution.
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of zebrafish embryogenesis: formation and patterning of germ layers, gastrulation movements, and aspects of organogenesis, including formation of somites, cardiovascular system, pronephros and eyes.

Customer Reviews:

Folks: awesome........2003-06-04

I bought this book because I'd heard great things about Lilianna Solnica-Krezel & Helmut Koch (Editors)-- about their deep and fluid knowledge about all acquatic and pescunary matters, and I'll tell you this right now: their reputation is *earned,* folks. Wow! You want to learn from the best, about Zebrafish, you cannot hope to apprentice yourself to wiser or more shrewd sciensticians.

Lilianna Solnica-Krezel & Helmut Koch are like Zen masters of Zebrafish. They are Zebrafish superheroes. They are like the Presidents of the United States of America of Zebrafish.

Folks. I am not kidding about this. This anthology is like reading a holy text, on Zebrafish.

Pattern Formation in Zebrafish: bravo!

Book Description

This book shows why the protesters are wrong and how more reforms could save the millions of lives and improve the lives of hundred of others.

Hydropolitics in the Third World: Conflict and Cooperation in International River Basins

Average customer rating:

Poor writing too hard to overcome
Looking through a magnifying lens
Looking through a magnifying lens

Hydropolitics in the Third World: Conflict and Cooperation in International River Basins
Arun P. Elhance
Manufacturer: United States Institute of Peace Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Real Estate | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Water Supply & Land Use | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books

General & Reference | Technology | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

Look Inside Business Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books

Look Inside Outdoors & Nature Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 1878379909

Book Description

With 50 percent of the world's landmass covered by shared river basins, competition over water resources has always had the potential to spark violence. And the burgeoning populations and fast-developing industries of today's Third World are putting ever greater pressures on already scarce water resources.

Elhance explores the hydropolitics of six of the world's largest and most turbulent river basins. In each case, he examines the basin's physical, economic, and political geography; the possibilities for acute conflict; and efforts to develop bilateral and multilateral agreements for sharing water resources.

Customer Reviews:

Poor writing too hard to overcome.......2007-03-21

I was really interested in this subject and thought I chose this book carefully. I liked the table of contents and am sure that the author did a tremendous amount of reseach for this book. The style of writing, however, is so bad that I can't finish it. It is written in a droning, dry, over-generalized undergraduate academic style that puts you right to sleep. The author chose to write a formal report, full of unnecessarily long, awkward sentences and stiff language, and gave away the opportunity to tell the stories of these important river basins. This is not a complaint about wanting to be more entertained. There is a lot of information to convey and few readers will be familar with the details. Still, the pain of reading this book just isn't worth the time and effort it will take to finish.

Looking through a magnifying lens.......2000-07-28

"This is an extraordinary "window" on six, crucial geographical areas of the world which are described as if seen through a magnifying lens. Its most outstanding feature is the presentation of an overwhelming body of data in an extremely meaningful and orderly way through a detailed yet solid historical, economic, political account and reasoning for each area. Written in a quick-paced style, it guides and traps the reader into this fascinating journey piloted by the most basic yet offended need in the world: water."

Looking through a magnifying lens.......2000-07-28

Community Water, Community Management: From System to Service in Rural Areas

Average customer rating:

Community Water, Community Management: From System to Service in Rural Areas
Ton Schouten , and Patrick Moriarty
Manufacturer: Practical Action
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Water Supply | Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books

Water Supply & Land Use | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books

Natural Resources | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Look Inside Outdoors & Nature Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books
ASIN: 1853395641

Book Description

* for post-graduate students, and implementers and managers of water supply systems
* based on more than 20 years practical experience
* 22 communities in 6 countries studied

Community management has become the leading concept for implementing water supply systems in rural areas in developing countries. In the early days it was seen as the answer to large-scale breakdown of water supply systems and the failure of government either to provide clean water itself or to devise a system whereby other agencies would supply it reliably and consistently. Now, after more than two decades of applying the concept, it is time to look back and consider the opportunities and constraints of community management in bringing water to the millions of people who need it. Is community management the right way to increase both the sustainability of water supply systems and the coverage of safe and reliable water supply in rural areas?

This book is based on the experience gained over twenty years of working to strengthen the capacities of rural communities to manage their own water supply systems. The day-to-day experiences of 22 communities in six different countries – with differing geographical, socio-economic and cultural settings – are at the heart of this book. Supplemented with research findings, it shows the power and creativity with which community people work to keep their water supply systems operational, and it also shows their struggle and difficulties. The authors bring to life the little things that can go wrong, the nitty-gritty details that are so crucial in making community management work, with clear sympathy for the people in the communities and the project staff working with them.

Countries featured: Kenya, Colombia, Guatemala, Cameroon, Pakistan, Nepal.

Water Resources and Economic Development (The Management of Water Resources Series, Volume 3)

Average customer rating:

Water Resources and Economic Development (The Management of Water Resources Series, Volume 3)
R. Chambers , A. Dinar , K. W. Easter , M. Falkenmark , Peter H. Gleick , C. W. Howe , M. Marchand , E. Ostrom , V. Ostrom , T. Scudder , and D. Whittington
Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Policy & Current Events | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Development & Growth | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Economic Policy & Development | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Natural Resources | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Real Estate | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Science | Subjects | Books

Water Supply & Land Use | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books

Water Supply | Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books

Look Inside Outdoors & Nature Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books
ASIN: 1840645016

Book Description

`Professor Saleth has collected some of the best work of the most creative thinkers in the water resources field today. I expect it to be one of the most-used volumes in my collection.'

- John B. Braden, University of Illinois

Including work by some of the world's leading economists, engineers, ecologists and social scientists, Water Resources and Economic Development is a unique collection due to its global perspectives and specific focus upon the recent experiences of the developing regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

It explores important topics such as basin and regional development, irrigation and agricultural development, water supply, sanitation and health, legal and institutional issues, water pricing and water markets, and policy trends and emerging issues.

Book Description

Right now, more than 1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water. Within the next 25 years, fully one-third of the world's population will experience severe water scarcity. It is clear that disparities in the availability and supply of fresh water are truly a matter of life and death, and constitute one of the great governance imperatives of our time.

This booklet summarizes the results of three decades of IDRC-supported research on water supply. It demonstrates that some of the most powerful responses to water scarcities have been mounted at the community or local level - in households, farmers' fields, villages, and city neighborhoods. With a focus on research findings, and failures, this booklet presents solidly grounded propositions for decision-makers and for researchers. It goes on to form a series of clear and pointed recommendations for policy design and future research efforts, and concludes with an eye to the future of water supply and a presentation of some of the key resources in the field.

The booklet also serves as the focal point for a IDRC thematic Web site on water: www.idrc.ca/water.

A Guide to the Formulation of Water Resources Strategy (World Bank Technical Paper)

Average customer rating:

A Guide to the Formulation of Water Resources Strategy (World Bank Technical Paper)
Guy J. M. Le Moigne , Ashok Subramanian , and Mei Xie
Manufacturer: World Bank Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Real Estate | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Natural Resources | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Water Supply & Land Use | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books

Water Supply | Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books

Water | Conservation | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books

Reference | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books

Look Inside Outdoors & Nature Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books
ASIN: 0821330381

Water, Electricity, and the Poor: Who Benefits from Utility Subsidies? (Directions in Development) (Directions in Development)

Average customer rating:

Water, Electricity, and the Poor: Who Benefits from Utility Subsidies? (Directions in Development) (Directions in Development)
Vivien Foster , Jonathan Halpern , and Quentin Wodon
Manufacturer: World Bank Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Company Profiles | Biography & History | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Development & Growth | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Sustainable Development | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Natural Resources | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Oil & Energy | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Product Description

This book is an extremely thorough and readable review of how effective utility subsidies are in reaching the poor. It makes sobering reading for policy makers who have implemented such subsidy programmes, who are looking for ways to ameliorate heavy price increases, or who believed that these subsidies were useful instruments for alleviating poverty. - Catherine Waddams, Director, Center for Competition Policy School of Management, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom This study makes a fine contribution, theoretical and empirical, in an area where much nonsense has been preached, and many misconceptions have long been accepted as gospel. Analyzing a mass of material, the authors quantify the extent to which the most commonly applied forms of utility subsidies are regressive. And they then offer a range of practical measures that can be taken to correct the problem. - John Nellis, Senior Fellow Center for Global Development, Washington, DC While consumer utility subsidies are widespread in both the water and electricity sectors, their effectiveness in reaching and distributing resources to the poor is the subject of much debate. Water, Electricity, and the Poor brings together empirical evidence on subsidy performance across a wide range of countries. It documents the prevalence of consumer subsidies, provides a typology of the many variants found in the developing world, and presents a number of indicators useful in assessing the degree to which such subsidies benefit the poor, focusing on three key concepts: beneficiary incidence, benefit incidence, and materiality. The findings on subsidy performance will be useful to policy makers, utility regulators, and sector practitioners who are contemplating introducing, eliminating, or modifying utility subsidies, and to those who view consumer utility subsidies as a social protection instrument. With contributions by Roohi Abdullah

Download Description

""This book is an extremely thorough and readable review of how effective utility subsidies are in reaching the poor. It makes sobering reading for policy makers who have implemented such subsidy programmes, who are looking for ways to ameliorate heavy price increases, or who believed that these subsidies were useful instruments for alleviating poverty." - Catherine Waddams, Director, Center for Competition Policy School of Management, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom "This study makes a fine contribution, theoretical and empirical, in an area where much nonsense has been preached, and many misconceptions have long been accepted as gospel. Analyzing a mass of material, the authors quantify the extent to which the most commonly applied forms of utility subsidies are regressive. And they then offer a range of practical measures that can be taken to correct the problem." - John Nellis, Senior Fellow Center for Global Development, Washington, DC While consumer utility subsidies are widespread in both the water and electricity sectors, their effectiveness in reaching and distributing resources to the poor is the subject of much debate. Water, Electricity, and the Poor brings together empirical evidence on subsidy performance across a wide range of countries. It documents the prevalence of consumer subsidies, provides a typology of the many variants found in the developing world, and presents a number of indicators useful in assessing the degree to which such subsidies benefit the poor, focusing on three key concepts: beneficiary incidence, benefit incidence, and materiality. The findings on subsidy performance will be useful to policy makers, utility regulators, and sector practitioners who are contemplating introducing, eliminating, or modifying utility subsidies, and to those who view consumer utility subsidies as a social protection instrument. "

Bridging Troubled Waters: Assessing the World Bank Water Resources Strategy (Operation Evaluation Studies)

Average customer rating:

Bridging Troubled Waters: Assessing the World Bank Water Resources Strategy (Operation Evaluation Studies)
George Keith Pitman
Manufacturer: World Bank Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Real Estate | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Reference | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Natural Resources | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Conservation | Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books

Water Supply & Land Use | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Reference | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0821351400

Dams as Aid (Routledge Studies in Development and Society)

Average customer rating:

Dams as Aid (Routledge Studies in Development and Society)
Anne Usher
Manufacturer: Routledge
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Development & Growth | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Economic Policy & Development | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Natural Resources | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Social Work | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Water Supply & Land Use | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books

Book Description

Dams as Aid is a critical analysis of the funding and building of dams in the developing world. Drawing on the experiences in the Nordic region, Usher explores the mechanisms through which international aid subsidizes dams to create new markets, and the environmental and political economy struggles therein. Case studies of dams in Chile, Tanzania, and Laos are explored in depth to provide a broad international comparative framework.

Development and Conservation of Groundwater Resources and Water Related Natural Disasters and Their Mitigation (Water Resources Series,No 66/E89iif1)

Average customer rating:

Development and Conservation of Groundwater Resources and Water Related Natural Disasters and Their Mitigation (Water Resources Series,No 66/E89iif1)

Manufacturer: United Nations Pubns
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Real Estate | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

General | Science | Subjects | Books

Water Supply & Land Use | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books

Book Description

The powerful new technique of maximum entropy, which has its roots in probability theory, provides a much needed extension of the established principles of rational inference in the sciences. It allows the interpretation of incomplete and noisy data, to provide a description of the underlying physical system, and has found application in both practical and theoretical studies ranging form image enhancement to nuclear physics, from statistical mechanics to economics. This book is a diverse collection of introductory articles based on a series of interdisciplinary lectures covering the fundamentals of the maximum entropy approach and Bayesian methods, as well as the application of the method to various problems of data analysis in the physical sciences.

Book Description

Ten ridiculously stereotypical consumer victims (a yuppie, a housewife, a retiree, a jock, a bible thumper, a cowboy, a preppy, a gamer, a goth, and a white suburban gangsta) find themselves unable to leave the mall one day. There is nothing stopping them. The doors are unlocked. Other shoppers are able to come and go as they please. But for some inexplicable reason, these ten people cannot pry themselves away from their shopping miasma. The mall closes, and they won't leave. Days pass, and they're still there, eating meals in the food court and sleeping in department store bedroom displays. Then they begin to die off, one by one, murdered by a mysterious killer, and they still won't allow themselves to escape.

Carlton Mellick III's "The Menstruating Mall" is both a modernized take on Luis Bunuel's "The Exterminating Angel," and a parody of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None." Featuring mock mall advertisements by retard punk hero Food Fortunata and cover art by Skin242.

Customer Reviews:

Fun, satirical, read.......2007-09-20

I read this book in between my college classes. It is fast paced and fun to read and made me laugh out loud about a dozen times. The characters are hilariously stereotypical but definitely that way by design. This book has definitely surreal moments and circumstances, as the title mentions, the mall is literally menstruating, which even though that is hard to picture or understand, it actually makes sense in the context of this book. I've read other books by Carlton Mellick III and I would say that this is one of his best. The plot is well fleshed out and the setting is very strange and compelling. Oh, and the illustrations are killer!

Don't shop at this mall!.......2007-08-31

Okay, there is this really big suburban shopping mall, but ordinary really big, not biggest-in-the-world big. On a Friday afternoon, it is pretty crowded, with lots of different kinds of people, some more ordinary than others. One of them is a guy named John, and he is a bit lonely, a workaholic, a bit drab, and very consumerismistic (probably not a word, so equate it with "Yuppie"). When the mall is about to close, John goes to leave . . . but cannot. He simply cannot get even close to the door, before he loses all ability to move forward. He does more shopping, tries to leave again, and still cannot. John really wants to go, so that he can work overtime and earn more money, so he can buy more things. He simply cannot leave. John even looks around for security guards, who would normally escort out those who will not leave, but he cannot find one. Not one. Frustrated and beginning to despair, John hides . . . in the john.

The next day dawns, John eats at the food court, and still cannot leave. He starts to notice that there are several people there, whom he saw the day before. As time goes on, it becomes clear that there are ten people who cannot leave the mall, and each is the epitome of whatever he or she is. John the Yuppie, Jen the Preppy, Spyder the Gamer, Cedrick the White Gangsta, Aaron the Cowboy, Brock the Jock, Chloe the Goth Girl, an old man (he does not give his name, I believe) who is the Retiree, Wyoming the Housewife, and Carole the Super-religious. The ten of them try to figure out how to escape the mall, but none of their ideas work. Then, they notice that nobody else is in the mall any more. There are many people standing outside, staring inside, expressionlessly.

Then, the first person dies, possibly by suicide, but probably not. Is the killer one of the remaining nine? They try to piece is together, but no luck. Another one dies, and it clearly is murder. The killer leaves a message behind, that the remaining eight can survive, if they can prove they are able to break out of their respective stereotypes. They act weirder and weirder, trying to prove they can go beyond their typical, mundane selves.

This sounds strange? It gets much, much more bizarre after that, ending up in what could be described as a suburban consumerist nightmare dreamscape. By the way, the title of the book is not symbolic, but literal. Does anyone survive? I will not tell. Would you want any of them to survive, by the end? I am not sure I did.

This is one of the most bizarre books that I have read, and I am sure that Carlton Mellick III (the author) would take that as the highest praise. I have read two other books of his: Sea of the Patchwork Cats (Avant Punk Book Club) and Punk Land, and those two are also some of the most bizarre books I have read. This author strives (and sometimes strains) to be bizarre. On to specifics:

While very strange, there is also a very, very interesting story here. I often found it revolting and disgusting, but it was also riveting. I had trouble stopping, despite often wanting to find a seek out the nearest incinerator in which to deposit this book.

By the way, this is not a novel, by formal definition. While it has over two hundred pages (which are not numbered!), it also has very large print, and it is littered with "illustrations" or "advertisements". I used the word "littered" very intentionally, as they were definitely the part of the book I liked the least. These pictures are on a par with public restroom (or high school bathroom) graffiti. I refer to both the quality of these line drawings, and to the vulgar, profane, and consistently scatological content of the drawings. They are parodies of advertisements of well-known franchise stores. I am surprised that the author, the illustrator, and/or the publisher did not get sued by many of these chains. I guess that the drawings are no outrageously insulting that they figured that no one could possibly take them seriously. I did not take them seriously, nor did I find them funny.

I did not enjoy reading this book. I did not hate reading this book. I will never read it again. I will never forget it. I will try to, but I fear that I will fail. But, I could not stop reading it either. When you were a little kid, and had a loose tooth, did you wiggle it, even though it hurt? That is a good analogy for reading this book. Wiggle, wiggle. Ow! Wiggle, wiggle.

Read this instead of Stephen King.......2007-07-11

Faster, funner, grosser, funnier, cleverer, weirder... everything "-er." If you're sick of the same old 400 pg. snooze with a little twist at the end, read this instead. It's got the humor and the horror that makes a great horror movie, plus the pacing to get you through it.

One of Mellick's best.......2007-06-19

This book is hyper fun. Ten characters shopping in a mall suddenly find that they can't bring themselves to leave, the mall closes, they are stuck there and find themselves in the middle of a mall-world that in undergoing some fundamental shift. The mall itself is like some kind of living being that is on its period and transforming in some weird ways. If that isn't distraction enough, the characters are starting to be killed off one by one in very strange and hilarious ways by a serial killer. This book is surreal, funny, irreverent, satirical, and touching. I highly recommend it!

Mellick's Best.......2007-01-24

This was the first Carlton Mellick III book I read and was the first Bizarro genre book I read. Since then I have delved deeply into the genre, but I always keep coming back to this book.

Other reviewers have summarized the plot, so read other reviews to find out what the book is about. What is not discussed enough is the densely woven story that Father Mellick has for us. By using stereotypes, Mellick can easily target so many hypocrisies of human nature. But there is also an incredible amount of satire that is easy to miss at work in the book. The scenes at the mall bar are easily, the best parodies Mellick has done of the "common man."

I feel I could write a book on just interrupting this book. Buy this now, if you don't have it. It could just change your life.

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books