Protein-Solvent Interactions

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This work covers advances in the interactions of proteins with their solvent environment and provides fundamental physical information useful for the application of proteins in biotechnology and industrial processes. It discusses in detail structure, dynamic and thermodynamic aspects of protein hydration, as well as proteins in aqueous and organic solvents as they relate to protein function, stability and folding.

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Protein-Solvent Interactions
Roger Gregory
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUFPFI

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Two supposedly opposing arguments regarding the creation of the earth and mankind are explained. The debate as to which side has offered the more 'realistic' explanation has been one that has never been fully realised. Here, the attempt is to reconcile the arguments by denying the existence of neither and forging an explanation which justifies both sides - that creation and evolution both occurred, but at different times. The biggest question now is whether disciples of Christianity and science could actually bring themselves to recognise the existence of the opposing side and, if they did, would they accept that evolution is an epiphenomenon of creation as this, in a nutshell, is what the thesis is about.

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Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska—an area known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his attention. Memories of his grandmother’s cooking are juxtaposed with reflections about the old-fashioned outhouse on his property. When casting his eye on social progress, Kooser reminds us that the closing of local schools, thoughtless county weed control, and irresponsible housing development destroy more than just the view.

In the end, what makes life meaningful for Kooser are the ways in which his neighbors care for one another and how an afternoon walking with an old dog, or baking a pie, or decorating the house for Christmas can summon memories of his Iowa childhood. This writer is a seer in the truest sense of the word, discovering the extraordinary within the ordinary, the deep beneath the shallow, the abiding wisdom in the pithy Bohemian proverbs that are woven into his essays.

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Seasons in the Bohemian Alps.......2007-09-12

Ted Kooser, the poet, has written a beautiful little book of memories of his home. In this day of war and constant fear mongering it is a wonderful surprise to find a book this sweet. I passed it around my poetry group and some expected poetry. These small essays are like poetry in their beauty but they are vignettes about the people and the place.

Really, really good!.......2006-01-19

This book is easily the best I have read in years, in terms of the sheer ability to write and pass along interesting and intelligent thoughts. Admittedly, I identify with Mr. Kooser's purchase of a place in the country, and his clear enjoyment of the quiet, contemplative life, but the writing alone is worth the purchase for anyone. I actually thought it was a book of poems when I bought it but, no, it is even better. It is a poet writing a series of brief observations clearly, interestingly, and with great care. Thank you, Ted.

Concise Beauty.......2005-07-15

A wonderful book of concise snapshots of rural living. I loved to read each sentence slowly and get the gems packed into each lovingly crafted sentence. So many books these days are too repetitive and include superfulous information that doesn't add to the scene. Every word and sentence is worth reading here though! To me a mix of "The old man and the sea" combined with Willa Cather. Read it like you are eating a rich dessert; you don't need to eat it all in one setting or in large gulping bites. Treasure the book in comfortable places.

Nebraska's E. B. White . . ........2005-06-22

Poet (and now Poet Laureate) Ted Kooser wrote this collection of prose pieces while in his early sixties, all of them appreciations of his daily life and memories of family going back to his boyhood in Ames, Iowa. Living today in a farmhouse near little Gardner, Nebraska, not far from Lincoln, he first describes the rolling terrain of the land and its Czech and Bohemian settlers, whose descendants continue to provide a cultural identity to the region. The essays are sprinkled with Czech and Bohemian proverbs, reflecting the wry common-sense wisdom of the Old World that informs his point of view.

Not all of them essays, some are short prose poems, spun out usually in one or two long sentences that reach a breathless climax that is, well, breathtaking. Reading his work, you are struck by his sincerity and the intensity of his awareness. While a man of strong opinions, they are rarely expressed directly and only seldom ironically, as when he describes the willful spraying of herbicides in road ditches by two county workers who have no sense of the risks to their health and the environment.

Identified on the book jacket as a retired insurance executive, Kooser embodies a kind of risk aversion that celebrates what is steady, dependable, and unthreatening in his world. There are rarely shadows, and when they do appear it is with a surprise that is shocking, as when a woman tells of an elderly aunt whose family was murdered by a farm hand when she was a teenager. Even his bout with cancer is told with a kind of emotional reserve and matter-of-factness that belies the anxiety he experienced over a six-month period of recovery.

Kooser is clearly abreast of the modern world, but everywhere in his writing, there's a lightness of touch - a gentleness - that harks back to a quieter time in our social history. His touching memories of his father are a tender evocation of post-war America that would easily stand beside illustrations by Normal Rockwell. E. B. White's wonderful essays on rural living in "One Man's Meat" also come to mind. Like White's, his vision is informed by humor, but rarely at the expense of other people (unless you take exception to his characterization of Republicans as "smug"). Even pheasant and coyote hunters with their arsenals and SUVs are seen as earnest and only incidentally comical.

Thanks to the University of Nebraska Press for bringing this fine book to print. Each page is a pleasure.

"Over and over again.".......2004-09-27

I am not the sort of person who revisits books. I tend to move on to things that are new since there is so much out there calling to be read. But with Koozer's "Local Wonders" I have had to make an exception. I have read certain sections of it 3 times already and find them as compelling each time. This collection of four seasonal essays contains so many examples of wonderful writing that I am amazed that this book has not received more attention than it has. I was raised in New England, but I " know" many of the people and situations that Koozer is so eloquently writing about. This is a book to be read and your leisure because it is very much like spending time with an old and wise friend. I cannot recommend it enough.

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A provocative mystery

An uneven work

Complicated, nuanced, thought-provoking

Dark hilarity

The Egyptologist: A Novel
Arthur Phillips
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ASIN: 0812972597
Release Date: 2005-05-24

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From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Australia to the ballrooms of Boston by way of Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, and a royal court in turmoil.
Just as Howard Carter unveils the tomb of Tutankhamun, making the most dazzling find in the history of archaeology, Oxford-educated Egyptologist Ralph Trilipush is digging himself into trouble, having staked his professional reputation and his fiancée’s fortune on a scrap of hieroglyphic pornography. Meanwhile, a relentless Australian detective sets off on the case of his career, spanning the globe in search of a murderer. And another murderer. And possibly another murderer. The confluence of these seemingly separate stories results in an explosive ending, at once inevitable and utterly unpredictable.

Arthur Phillips leads this expedition to its unforgettable climax with all the wit and narrative bravado that made Prague one of the most critically acclaimed novels of 2002. Exploring issues of class, greed, ambition, and the very human hunger for eternal life, this staggering second novel gives us a glimpse of Phillips’s range and maturity–and is sure to earn him further acclaim as one of the most exciting authors of his generation.

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Just as Howard Carter unveils the tomb of Tutankhamun, making the most dazzling find in the history of archaeology, Oxford-educated Egyptologist Ralph Trilipush is digging himself into trouble, having staked his professional reputation and his fiancÃƒÂ©e's fortune on a scrap of hieroglyphic pornography. Meanwhile, a relentless Australian detective sets off on the case of his career, spanning the globe in search of a murderer. And another murderer. And possibly another murderer. The confluence of these seemingly separate stories results in an explosive ending, at once inevitable and utterly unpredictable.

Arthur Phillips leads this expedition to its unforgettable climax with all the wit and narrative bravado that made Prague one of the most critically acclaimed novels of 2002. Exploring issues of class, greed, ambition, and the very human hunger for eternal life, this staggering second novel gives us a glimpse of Phillips's range and maturity—and is sure to earn him further acclaim as one of the most exciting authors of his generation.

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Skip this and move on.......2007-06-11

Had it figured out on page 40. Worse, the book is unengaging, and the switching from point-of-view to point-of-view seems contrived and tedious. Nancy Pearl, famous librarian at the Seattle Public Library says she gives a book 50 pages to engage her, and if it does not she moves on. I should have moved on.

A provocative mystery.......2007-06-10

This is one of those books that I read with low expectations and ended up being overwhelmed by how much I enjoyed it. I learned of this author through reviews of his new work, "Angelica" but decided to start with him in paperback, selecting this novel by the good word of mouth it had received. The pacing of the novel and the way in which it is laid out before the reader is both entertaining and thought-provoking. The story is easy to follow but forces the reader to make connections and think. This was one of those mysteries where you are sure what happens at the end, but you are still wondering about it days later.

An uneven work.......2007-06-03

A convoluted and bizarre tale. Highly engaging at times, rather boring and frustrating at others. My appreciation of it was uneven and the end--which I saw coming from about five miles away--left me feeling rather ambivalent.

Complicated, nuanced, thought-provoking.......2007-05-25

Clearly certain reviews (People magazine, I'm looking at you) did this book a massive disservice. Michael Crighton, this is not. But if you enjoy Margaret Atwoodian layers of narrative and reversals and reveals, I do recommend "The Egyptologist." Like all such books, it might would be stronger for a unifying afterward, but then, that would very likely undercut the final, pathetic note of the story.

I will also say, I think The New Yorker is off their collective nut if they think Prof. Trilipush's biggest problem is mental illness. Just the contrary, the problem is not his grasp on reality, but rather that he has been sold a bill of goods, and is unwittingly attempting (with v. little malice, as far as I can tell) to build his life on a lie.

Dark hilarity.......2007-03-27

I love a book that makes me pick up the phone and call someone just to read one sentence out loud. Reminds me of The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester, with very dark, subtle humor and tremendously unreliable narrators. If you have a fondness for epistolary novels with narrators whose company you might abhor but whose letters are twisty and funny, you will find this book grimly comic fun.

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amateurish blather
Confusing and long-winded
Dull and Dry
Another strong entry in this wonderful series.

Lord of the Silent: A Novel of Suspense
Elizabeth Peters
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ASIN: 0380817144
Release Date: 2002-04-02

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Amelia Peabody Emerson is the Mary Poppins of Egypt. Forthright, intrepid, and industrious, she brooks no nonsense from anyone and is armed with an apparently magical parasol. As the legions of fans of Elizabeth Peters's Edwardian archeological mystery series know, Amelia is also possessed of a swift temper, an incorrigible curiosity, and an uncanny proclivity for attracting trouble. But in 1915, with the world gripped by the madness of war, trouble is endemic. In an effort to prevent their son Ramses from being coerced into working for British intelligence (in the sort of endeavor that nearly got him killed a year earlier when he infiltrated a band of Egyptian nationalists and prevented a Turkish-backed uprising), Amelia and husband Emerson and the rest of their dizzyingly large entourage flee England for the reassuringly stoic splendor of their beloved Egyptian ruins.

So much for a quiet dig among the mastabas. With their usual luck, the family promptly finds itself inundated by would-be assassins and nosy journalists. Amelia quickly deduces that Ramses's undercover work is at the root of both threat and curiosity; more puzzling is the appearance of the odd corpse or two and a rash of stunningly efficient tomb robberies. When Ramses and his wife, Nefret, travel to Luxor to check on the security of some of their old excavations, they find an all-too-familiar irritant behind the robberies. It would be telling to reveal his identity, but fans of the series will soon figure it out, with the aid of a little suspension of disbelief. With Ramses and Nefret on one hand, and Amelia and Emerson on the other, engaged in "protecting" the other side from conflict and trouble, the novel unfolds in a merry chase of misdirection and miscommunication.

There is a comforting consistency to Peters's series. By now, all of the characters' quirks are etched in stone like so many well-worn hieroglyphs. Amelia's narrative has the familiarity of a treasured and oft-read letter from a slightly batty aunt. Even the miraculous return of (no, I really can't say), though perhaps intended as a radical plot twist, adheres to the most genteel of mystery traditions, à la Doyle and Christie. Innovation can be overrated; with Peters's flawless record of producing amusing, easily digested novels showing no signs of faltering, fans should devour this morsel--and wait impatiently for the next tasty installment. --Kelly Flynn

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For archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her family, the allure of Egypt remains as powerful as ever, even in this tense time of World War. But nowhere in this desert land is safe -- especially for Amelia's son Ramses and his beautiful new wife Nefret. Treachery and peril are pursuing the two young lovers across the length and breadth of this strange, exotic world, strengthening a bond of passion and devotion that only death can sever. And the grim discovery of a recent corpse in a tomb where it does not belong is pulling Amelia deeper into a furious desert storm of intrigue, corruption, kidnapping, and murder -- and toward dark revelations that threaten to awaken the past...and alter the family's destiny.

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Another intriguing book from Peters........2007-10-05

I have enjoyed this whole series and it keeps going strong with Lord of the Silent.

amateurish blather.......2006-12-09

Elizabeth Peters (aka Barbara Michaels) used to know how to write a great, scary mystery. Now she needs to hang it up.

Confusing and long-winded.......2006-06-14

This was the first of Ms. Peters' books that I read. Maybe if I had had the background of the other books, I would have found it more interesting. As it was, I kept thinking "Get on with it already". There were too many exceprts about Nefret and her hubby and then it would switch back to Peabody and Emerson, and it rarely went back to the murder. When it did, there were so many characters and so many nicknames for characters that I was totally confused and often had to go back in the book to see who was who. The setting in this book and Peabody's wit kept me reading, though.

Dull and Dry.......2005-11-17

I was thoroughly disappointed while reading Lord of Silent, as the overall action and suspense was kept almost at a minimum.

It seems almost as if Peters went on a long tangent about the Emerson's family life, writing a lot of filler to go along with the main plot. Until the last forty pages or so, I struggled to get through the book because there was no suspense at all. No cliff-hangers or anything of the sort.

Ramses and Nefret, though darling, only thickened the struggle. I don't think that all the interaction between them was really necessary; perhaps Peters wanted to throw in some romance, but is wasn't working.

Lord of the Silent is a sheer failure of Peters's story-telling skills, as in many of her other books her talent proves to be quite brilliant. Save your money and buy a different Peters's book.

Another strong entry in this wonderful series........2005-10-30

This book is another page-turner. I so enjoy the Emersons when they are right in the thick of things. This book is a little different though because there appears to be two parallel stories at first, and the older Emersons are in Cairo following one thread, and the two younger Emersons are in Luxor following another thread. But of course they end up investigating together, and that iw when the fun begins. It's nice to see Ramses and Nefret in their newly-wed bliss. Let me tell you, Indiana Jones has nothing on our Ramses. But Emerson and his Amelia are no slouches either. We also see a new and more emotional Amelia and that is a good thing. She does her utmost to keep her son away from harm in this book and neither of them have gotten over his harrowing escape from death in the last book. But there's still lots of danger, tomb-robbing and deaths in this one and it's such a great deal of fun getting to the bottom of it with these four amazing people.

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Predictable but charming
Real truths hidden within this book....you decide
Native American X-Files...
the Seventh Mesa

The Seventh Mesa: A Novel
Mary Summer Rain , and Mary Summer Rain
Manufacturer: Hampton Roads Publishing Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1571740120

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Predictable but charming.......2007-05-12

I was so excited to get my copy of The Seventh Mesa. I had read most of the author's ealier works and found them insightful. I was disappointed with this novel. It has the flowery descriptors used by MSR, but the plot, pace, and mystery itself were very basic and predictable. It was like reading a youth mystery with large words. I didn't even read it straight though. I got bored after a few chapters, skipped and skimmed, and it gave me about an hour of enjoyable distraction. This wasn't on the same level as the other things she had written. I suppose the teachings and prophecies of No-Eyes create more palatable subject matter.

Real truths hidden within this book....you decide.......2005-05-27

I have read a number of Mary Summer Rain books. I found this one to be amoung one the top 3 that I have enjoyed of the many books in my collection. I was drawn to come back and read more after I set it down. I love the introduction of characters in the beginning. It gives the reader background and brings them into the story. I kept asking myself through out the book, "are these some actual truths being shared in a fictional setting". Read for youself and you decide.

This book brings characters from unrelated settings together in a quest to return a valuable papyrus, that was taken from a hidden chamber under the seventh mesa in the desert. There is mystery and histroy found. Blending a number of cultures and even star people (aliens) all existed together with great knowledge. This underground chamber is waiting for man kind change and mature to reveal its mysteries back to man kind. I like the way Mary Summer Rain portrays Native American people in a correct light.

Native American X-Files..........2002-07-21

...with a smidge of Stargate as well. The plot's been done before but it can still be fun if given the right twist. The ending's rather obvious so I'm giving anything away by explaining that this is one of those stories where a small group of people are drawn together by fate or inhuman forces or whatever to discover that humans are descendants of aliens and that all ancient monuments were really built by them, etc. It's hard to tell though if the author is presenting this seriously as some sort of secret wisdom or if she is simply letting her imagination run wild.

I'm glad I got this book used because I never would want to pay full price for this (if I had, I might have been less willing to give three stars). The emotion behind it is very warm and light hearted, although the author's writing style kept me from full enjoyment. The prose is amateurish and naive to the point of distraction. It reminded me of early Nancy Drew, of all things. (Seriously. Try to read those again as an adult.) The story was very slow to get going, one of the plot points is abandoned towards the end, and I had to force myself to get to the finish. I was constantly reminded about why you should stick to writing what you know. For example, if you're going to make a character an anthropoligist, been sure you know a good deal about anthropology. Or if you set the story on a college campus, know something about what life there's like. And really know that a professor is not allowed to date one of his students, flaunt it all over campus, including in front of his boss, and have everyone accept it. The story is best when it sticks to the one thing the author seems to know, which is Native American culture and ceremonies. Nevertheless, the intent behind the book seems so well meaning, I just couldn't hate it. And I do think in the right hands it could even make a good tv movie.

the Seventh Mesa.......2001-06-23

This is a wonderful novel. There is a treasure of knowledge hiddden in the mesa. Four people learn about this sacred place and seek to find it. What they find is most amazing. This book will hold you attention from start to finish

Amelia Edwards: Traveller, Novelist & Egyptologist

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Amelia Edwards: Traveller, Novelist & Egyptologist
Joan Rees
Manufacturer: Rubicon Press
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This, the first biography of Amelia Edwards, sets out her work as the founder of the Egypt Exploration Society and writer of A Thousand Miles up the Nile in the context of her previous career as novelist and journalist. It traces her development from a multi-gifted child to an adventurous and unconventional woman and finally to her life as a dedicated and reclusive worker in the cause of exploring and safeguarding the antiquities of Egypt.

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The Egyptologist - A Novel
Arthur Phillips
Manufacturer: Random House Inc
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NXX088

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The Egyptologist: A Novel
Arthur Phillips
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