Advances in Inorganic Chemistry, Volume 51: Heme-Fe Proteins (Advances in Inorganic Chemistry)

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Advances in Inorganic Chemistry presents timely and informative summaries of the current progress in a variety of subject areas within inorganic chemistry, ranging from bioinorganic to solid state. This acclaimed serial features reviews written by experts in the area and is an indispensable reference to advanced researchers. Each volume of Advances in Inorganic Chemistry contains an index, and each chapter is fully referenced.

Advances in Inorganic Chemistry, Volume 51: Heme-Fe Proteins

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Advances in Inorganic Chemistry, Volume 51: Heme-Fe Proteins
A. G. Sykes
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A Dancing Matrix: How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses
Robin Marantz Henig
Manufacturer: Knopf
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A non-scientists view of emerging viruses

Good overview of emerging viruses, but a bit dated

Not well written but interesting

Lovely book on a fascinating topic

a must-read on what viruses are and how they work

A Dancing Matrix: How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses
Robin Henig
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Even as humanity reels beneath the assault of AIDS, epidemiologists are gearing themselves up for the plague's successor. It might be dengue fever, whose carrier, the Asian tiger mosquito, has recently appeared in the United States, or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which has been transmitted by contaminated human growth hormone. The next pandemic might be caused by any of a dozen viruses that were once confined to other species or territories but now place human beings at risk as we increasingly cross their boundaries.

Updated to include the latest research and developments, this fascinating and sometimes unsetting book sums up all that we currently know about viruses: what they are, how they spread, and how scientists are trying to outwit them. Interweaving theory and real-life medical drama, A Dancing Matrix is science reportage at its most suspenseful and informative.

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A non-scientists view of emerging viruses.......2004-01-12

As a regular science reader I found myself cringing at some of the 'facts' proposed by Ms.Henig. Several of them are more sterotype or rumour rather than fact. I agree with another reviewer who accuses the authour of cliche.

At one point she refers to disease as an "inconclusive negotiation for symbiosis, an over-stepping of the line by one side or the other, a biologic misinterpretation of borders."

All biology students should be wiping tears from their eyes at this point. Natural selection has no foresight. Viruses have evolved to survive (as have we). They are not attempting to live in peace and harmony with us anymore than we are trying to live in peace and harmony with them. If a virus can pass 1000 progeny to the next generation whilst being very virulent, or 100 progeny whilst being mildly virulent, it will evolve towards higher virulence.

There are some ok parts, but quite un-scientific and frustrating in parts.

Good overview of emerging viruses, but a bit dated.......2000-11-07

Overall I recommend this book, especially if you are just beginning to learn about virusus. A lot of specific details have changed since this book was published. For example, the chapter on AIDS, while being accurate in 1994, is now so out of date as to be somewhat offensive. However, the main point of the book, that humans are behaving in ways that greatly increase the risk of viral epidemics, is not at all dated. In fact, it is more relevant now than ever. Despite some details being out of date, the concepts presented in this book are accurate, and VERY, VERY important. However, if you are looking for specifics on emerging viruses, I would recommend reading a more current book. If you have a scientific background and want more details, I also recommend "The Coming Plague" by Laurie Garrett. Like this book, it has some inaccuracies, but I found it more interesting.

Not well written but interesting.......2000-04-21

The subject matter of this book sparkles though some mediocre writing. The book is not well organized and the author is fond of cliches such as "Professor Morse has a small office typical of college professors, crammed with books and old coffee mugs." Who cares! If the author had just focused on virulogy, it would have been better, but it is still an interesting read (though a bit dated now).

Lovely book on a fascinating topic.......1999-03-20

I really enjoyed this book! It tells gripping tales of real-life nightmares with energy, insight, and even charm. I also found it very well-informed and extremely clear. I knew almost nothing about this field before I picked up the book, and understood it easily. Henig is an outstanding science writer.

a must-read on what viruses are and how they work.......1999-03-17

I recently reread portions of this book -- the Primer on Viruses Chapter and the chapter on influenza -- to supplement my current reading of "The Coming Plague" by Laurie Garrett. Henig's book is a must-read for any layperson (like me) trying to attain literacy in the important area of emerging viruses.

I disagree somewhat with MVERNON's assessment: "A good read for those with a knowledge of the history of viruses but not their pure scientific background, but would leave those without, pondering far too much." I had no difficulty with this book, although of course it's not the same as reading a novel. Previous to reading it, I had read "The Selfish Gene," but nothing else relevant, so my background was very limited. The Primer may take a few readings, but it's worth it when the pieces -- DNA, RNA, proteins, genes, retroviruses, antigens and antibodies -- finally come into focus.

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In the Bronx of the 1930s, 15-year-old Billy Bathgate hooks up with a legendary mobster, Dutch Schultz. Schultz becomes an unlikely surrogate parent to the boy, introducing him to the ways of the world and training Billy to follow in his footsteps. After Billy falls for Schulz's latest girlfriend, he begins to question the actions of the mob he was so eager to join. As he seeks to protect the young woman, he gains strength in following his own heart and makes a courageous passage from boyhood to adulthood. E.L Doctorow won the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for this novel.

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In 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old high-school dropout, has captured the attention of infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of racketeering. The product of an East Bronx upbringing by his half-crazy Irish Catholic mother, after his Jewish father left them long ago, Billy is captivated by the world of money, sex, and high society the charismatic Schultz has to offer. But it is also a world of extortion, brutality, and murder, where Billy finds himself involved in a dangerous affair with Schultz's girlfriend. Relive this story through the title character's driving narrative, a child's thoughts and feelings filtered through the sensibilities of an adult, and the result is E.L. Doctorow's most convincing and appealing portrayal of a young boy's life. Converging mythology and history, one of America's most admired authors has captured the romance of gangsters and criminal enterprise that continues to fascinate the American psyche today.

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Always reliable Doctorow.......2007-05-31

I had read "The March" and "Ragtime," so I figured "Billy Bathgate" would be excellent, and it was. On the surface, it's a simple story of the last few months of gangster Dutch Schultz's life. But Doctorow tells the story through the eyes of Billy Bathgate, a teenager who gets in with Schultz's gang as a go-fer. Doctorow's writing is, as always, superb, and more than just a recitation of facts, going deeply into the gangsters' world and their behaviors, and how they operated within society.

I'm still not sure if Billy Bathgate was based on a real person or if he is entirely fictional, but telling the story through his experiences as a lesser member of the gang allowed an inside look at Schultz without disturbing the facts.

A very readable and fascinating look into the New York crime scene of the 1930's.

Guilty pleasure with literary merit.......2007-03-30

We've all read scores of stories in which a young, spunky kid makes his way up the criminal ladder with his wit and little tricks...but this is by Doctorow, so it's done better than most. The book contains some of the standard themes inherent in the drama -- the thugs, the incredibly sexy woman that no one can resist, betrayal, and death. However, it often defies expectations and leads the reader to really share with Billy's emotions. All the scenes, whether they be about torture, sex, familial love, or childish musings, connect to universal emotions.

The only problem I had with this book was the ending. I was thoroughly enjoying it and unable to focus on my work until I finished but towards the very end it just got...unimpressive. While everything did wrap up well, it seemed more like an easy or expected conclusion than one that was original and fitting to the characters themselves. But overall, it's a great read.

great crime story from a different angle.......2006-03-13

Billy Bathgate sucks you into a world of a down and out street wise kid who is seduced by a low level seedy mobster into being his protoge. The writting is crisp and the story sharp. Very entertaining and probably Doctorows best work.

A squeamish review .......2006-03-05

I believe that I am just too squeamish for a book like this. The opening scene of the novel in which the narrator observes the gangster Dutch Schultz torture and torment to death his former close associate and friend, the gangster Bo Weinberg was just so vivid, so strong and so repulsive that it made it difficult for me to go on reading.
There is so much real cruelty in the world , so much terrible pain that I cannot find any pleasure at all in reading about it 'fictionalized'.
Doctorow's talents as a writer, his skill in creating riveting dialogue are not in question.
But for me anyway the whole presentation of cruelty and torture is just not something I want to read.

A youth's improbable role models.......2006-02-20

E.L. Doctorow's descriptive historical fiction follows a period of time during the formative years of young Billy Bathgate a 15 year old fatherless street kid from the ghettoes of the Bronx. The time is the mid 1930's with the U.S. in the throes of the Depression. The advent of prohibition assured that gangsterism ruled the urban landscape.

Bathgate who lived in a squalid and tiny tenement apartment with his mentally unbalanced Irish Catholic mom was hanging out on the streets doing juggling tricks at which he was adept. He unwittingly came to be noticed by the notorious mobster Dutch Schultz. Intrigued by the aura of the powerful crime boss, Bathgate soon ingratiated himself to the truculent Schultz. He became and errand boy and good luck charm to the gang. Nurtured under the wing of the fostering Otto "Abbadabba" Berman, the financial brains of the organization, Bathgate soon had both Schultz and Berman as father figures to esteem. Even at such a tender age he managed to discern both the good and evil in his surrogate fathers.

Doctorow begins his novel on a tugboat in New York harbor. Bathgate has secreted himself aboard to witness the dispatching of a previously trustworthy lieutenant of Schultz, Bo Weinberg. Weinberg was being fitted for cement shoes and had been accompanied by a lovely young married socialite Drew Preston. Preston also aboard belowdecks would become Schultz's moll. Bathgate, now a trusted gang member, was commissioned with the duty of being Preston's protector.

Schultz, being pursued for prosecution by among others Thomas E. Dewey, successfully petitioned the courts to move his trial to bucolic upstate Onondaga. The gang including Bathgate and Preston take up summer residence there with Schultz running his various illegal businesses by proxy. Schultz acting as the civic minded model citizen is positively influencing the town who will be his jury. As the trial approaches Berman at Schultz's request orders Bathgate to accompany Preston to Saratoga to get her out of the way. As a result of this episode, they have an affair. The lovesick Bathgate protects her from what he fears will be an assassination as she potentially becomes a liability in Schultz's eyes.

The story follows further episodes of the inner workings of Schultz gang and Bathgates maturation under the guidance of his mentor Berman. Doctorow's finale assures that evil will be punished yet Bathgate is saved by his ability to recognize the difference between right and wrong and shelter himself from trouble.

Doctorow is extremely accomplished in this genre of historical fiction. His expressive articulate descriptions of his settings is his trademark. He successfully manages to tranform fact into plausible intriguing storytelling with well developed and often ambiguous, conflicted characters.

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Billy Bathgate (BOMC)

Manufacturer: Random House
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Trade paperback version of the Random House hardcover.

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Billy Bathgate

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Billy Bathgate
E.L. Doctorow
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Billy Bathgate
E.L. Doctorow
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Billy Bathgate
E.L. Doctorow
Manufacturer: New York: Random House, 1989
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Billy Bathgate
E L Doctorow
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Billy Bathgate

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Billy Bathgate

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Billy Bathgate
E. L. Doctorow
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At a mystery conference in Manchester, Katie Williams makes her move on a burly Scotsman...and winds up falling in love before the night is over...

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As good as "All Creatures Great and Small" -- and better!.......2007-03-20

If you loved the book "All Creatures Great and Small," you will love this book. This book is billed as a romance, but the meet and greet and fall-in-love happen in the first 10 pages. The other 350 pages are a simple, sweet story (ok, there are some racy scenes!) about a woman who goes to live with her new love in the Scottish highlands on his farm. He is a sheep farmer who loves what he does. They are poor as church mice but happy and in love. The story is sweet and gentle, describing her love for her husband and how it grows, his growing trust of her, interwoven with the realities of life on a sheep farm (muck, mud, and lambs!). I loved it not only for the appeal of the romance, but for the gentle way it is told. Truly a gem.

OMG soooo good!.......2007-03-09

This book was a hilarious story that gives hope to all forty something divorcees. MacAlister has triumphed again. She offers a book about the romance and work involved in a relationship.Her book continues after happily ever after and shows her increasing depth as an author.

Fun Reading! MacAlister Creates The BEST Men!.......2007-01-07

OMG! (This is what this book has evolved me into...a 36 yr old woman who just typed "OMG"!!!) I adored this book! Laugh out loud funny with a sexy leading man - two "musts" in a wonderfully fun and romantic read by an author who has perfected romantic comedy. ;)

fun and sexy.......2007-01-07

This is a fun, easy to read romance. What's not to love?

A good one.......2006-11-09

This was a fun book to read. I am a big fan of Katie MacAlister and I think this was one of my favorites.

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Kilt (Playwrights Canada Press)
Jonathan Wilson
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The "kilt" in question belongs to Mac, a young Scots soldier fighing in Africa during the Second World War, and is later worn by his grandson Tom-when he works as a table dancer in a Toronto gay club. That break with tradition upsets Tom's mother, Esther, and the rift in their relationship comes to a head when they travel to Scotland for Mac's funeral...

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One of the brighest writers in Romance today!

Men in Kilts

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A romantic comedy set in Scotland.

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One of the brighest writers in Romance today!.......2004-12-19

Katie Macalister with her Noble Intentions gave us delights and out-right howls as she blithely waltzed her way through Regency England. In her second book, she taught us romance with Improper English, a brilliantly witty book with characters to live long in the imagination and heart. Her third book found her once again in Regency era, and she proved yet another time she has a way with the clumsy heroine. Her fourth full book finds Katie back in contemporaries, this time doing to the Scots what she did to the Brits in Improper English. Another of her `first person' adventures that will have you laughing till your sides are sore. Personally, I find writing in 1st person a pain, and I usually have a problem reading them. It makes me feel like I am crawling around inside someone's head. However, Katie Macalister is at home in first person, a master at it, so she soon makes one forget this `immediate' narrative is not how everyone should do it. Katie avoids all the 1st person pitfalls that make the structure slightly claustrophobic with all the I, me and my...she sparkles, intrigues and is just one of the freshest voices to hit romance (and young adult, too, as Katie Maxwell for Dorchester's Smooch Line).

So buckle up, for Katie gives you romance, love and the whole damn thing - sheep included. She blows the lid of the time honoured secret of what DOES a Scotsman wear under the kilt? It is wildly comical and fast becoming Katie's trademark - she gives you the less than perfect heroine. I find it so comfy her females are so very human.

Kathie Williams is a mystery writer in England for a writers' conference. She's a bit overwhelmed by jet lag and ends up sleeping through a big part of the first day - unfortunately it is in the hotel lobby! Not bad enough she naps in public, she drools on her new silk blouse! Embarrassed, Kathie is ready to crawl under the table and hide ...but for one thing: Iain MacLaren. The handsome Scotsman is also attending the mystery writers conference. Sparks fly between the two and suddenly, she believes in love at first sight. Kathie falls desperately for the Alpha Scot, so she is delighted when Iain insists she come visit him in Scotland after the conference ends.

Wow what a storybook romance, right? You meet the man of your dreams, he is to-die-for sexy, has a kilt and does not mind you drooled on yourself in public! Wrong, as Kathie soon finds out. Iain is divorced with two grown sons. The first one hates her on site and thinks she is a floozy. Luckily, the second one is more welcoming. But then, waiting for them is Iain's neighbor, once upon a time lover, and she is determined to break up the romance in quick order.

Despite a man less than forth coming about his true feelings, a neighbor who wants to bury the hatchet - in Kathie's head, a son-in-law to be from hell, and flocks of smelly sheep, love finds a way. Then Kathie has to face a Scottish wedding from Hell, with her domineering mother and Iain's first wife making it the wedding event of the year.

Katie writes about Scotland with a true voice. Being a Scot, I often have to cringe at some of the mistakes of Yank writers when they use Scotland as a setting. She keeps it true, right down to the sheep and the realities of the business side of it.

I laughed, I cried. Don't think it gets any better!

Keep them coming, Katie! They are a sparkling delight!

When traditional lenders said no to kilts, SBA program said yes: Seattle company is now selling thousands of skirts to men.(7(A) Loan Program): An article from: San Diego Business Journal

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When traditional lenders said no to kilts, SBA program said yes: Seattle company is now selling thousands of skirts to men.(7(A) Loan Program): An article from: San Diego Business Journal
Brad Broberg
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Title: When traditional lenders said no to kilts, SBA program said yes: Seattle company is now selling thousands of skirts to men.(7(A) Loan Program)
Author: Brad Broberg
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When traditional lenders said no to kilts, SBA program said yes; Seattle company is now selling thousands of skirts to men.(7(A) Loan Program)(United States. ... from: San Fernando Valley Business Journal

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When traditional lenders said no to kilts, SBA program said yes; Seattle company is now selling thousands of skirts to men.(7(A) Loan Program)(United States. ... from: San Fernando Valley Business Journal
Brad Broberg
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This digital document is an article from San Fernando Valley Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on May 10, 2004. The length of the article is 1128 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: When traditional lenders said no to kilts, SBA program said yes; Seattle company is now selling thousands of skirts to men.(7(A) Loan Program)(United States. Small Business Administration)(UTILIKILTS CO.)
Author: Brad Broberg
Publication: San Fernando Valley Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 10, 2004
Publisher: CBJ, L.P.
Volume: 9 Issue: 10 Page: S4(1)

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The cutters' practical guide to the cutting and making all kinds of trousers, breeches, & knickers: To which is added chapters dealing with the cutting ... of Highland kilts, leggings, gaiters, etc

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The cutters' practical guide to the cutting and making all kinds of trousers, breeches, & knickers: To which is added chapters dealing with the cutting ... of Highland kilts, leggings, gaiters, etc
W. D. F Vincent
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Making a kilt: Sew a man's traditional kilt or a woman's kilt skirt

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Making a kilt: Sew a man's traditional kilt or a woman's kilt skirt
Ann Stewart
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