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Up to now so called ‘sniffer’ dogs are the most successful and widespread systems for the explosives detection at airports and in public areas. Dogs are able to detect explosives under various conditions. On the other hand dogs are living beings and their behavior and skills are influenced by numerous parameters (e.g. age, sex, trainer, daily condition, etc.). To overcome these problems concerning the detection of explosives and illicit substances by dogs’ chemical sensors seemed to be a valuable alternative for this application and therefore a valuable tool in counter terrorism.
The presented papers are an outcome of an NATO ARW which was hold in Moscow and cover different aspects of vapour and trace detection of explosive. Starting from different scenarios (airport security, inspection of large areas, freight screening, boarding passes, etc.) and taking into account the capability of dogs the chances of and demands on chemical sensors are discussed in view of their possible application. Several papers highlight the capability and possibilities of different methods and devices for the vapour detection of explosives (drift MS, high speed gas analyzers, ion mobility increment spectrometer, etc.). Information about the post explosion identification of explosives by LC/MS and the development of explosive standards for dog training and sensor testing are presented also.
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The New York Times Book of Fossils and Evolution (New York Times)
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A newly updated edition of the best articles on bird behavior and biology from The New York Times
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Readers of the Science Times section on Tuesdays in the New York Times are familiar with the high-quality features to be found there. Now the best science and nature articles have been collected in a series of books on Fish, Birds, Fossils and Evolution, and The Brain.
Fossils and Evolution covers topics like the evolution of "bigness," fossil finds, and the origin of life. A chapter on the evolution of humans explores much of the recent paleontological research into this controversial subject. These articles are a great overview of the research highlights that made splashes in the media, as well as the quiet discoveries that make science fascinating. --Therese Littleton
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A new 'pocket-sized' edition of this fascinating 3-dimensional science book.
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A great choice for the dinosaur-loving kid.......2002-05-09
My son (just six) has been crazy about dinosaurs for three years, and it has become increasingly difficult to find books with unfamiliar information that are also not too far beyond his comprehension. This book fills the bill beautifully, building on his existing knowledge and stretching him to see the dinosaurs in context. It combines the easy charm of a pop-up book with the sophistication of a geologic chart. We have also been thrilled with From Dinosaurs to Dodos by Lessem.
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For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy for the victims, and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison.
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Literature for the Post 9/11 Era.......2007-09-22
"Waiting for the Barbarians" seems like it was published in 2003 instead of 1980. It's an exploration of the psychic realities of living along the borders of a society that is bureaucratic, militaristic, terrorist-paranoid, and perhaps justifiable so. Perhaps.
And it's not simply political cant either. It has insight rather than just reaffirmation of typical beliefs. Coetzee questions everything and he knows more questions than most of us and dares to ask them too.
This is certainly a work for politicians and those in power, but it's a work for the rest of us too. I couldn't put it down.
So much depth to explore.......2007-08-02
To me, this is a book mostly about the strange and ambiguous nature of intimacy. Intimacy between people just as persons, between the sexes, between the torturer and his victim, between races, between present and past.
Coetzee points us to this in several places: here is a key one, where the magistrate is just beginning his strange, almost sexless relation with the half-blind girl: "I prowl around her, talking about our vagrancy ordinances, sick at myself. Her skin begins to glow in the warmth of the closed room. She tugs at her coat, opens her throat to the fire. The distance between myself and her torturers, I realize, is negligible; I shudder." But he washes her, caresses her - yet never has sex with her until near the end of the story, and in so doing destroys the relationship. It was founded on one kind of intimacy, one which did not break a surface, and also on another blindness, his, because it turns out the girl hated his care of her.
In the same way, he hovers between initially staying on the surface regarding knowledge of what the psychopathic torturers from the central Empire are doing to people, and breaking through into protest - which then destroys his comfortable life and his career and puts him on the run. Yet when the Empire's hounds have him in their power and could easily have killed him, they too hold back... perhaps it is just the thought of holding him available for the intimacy of further torture. The torturers feel that they gradually penetrate all layers to ultimately reach the truth...even when facts show them otherwise: the "truth" is meaningless, or the victim dies.
The one fully sexual relationship the magistrate has is really the least intimate..."in the middle of the sexual act I found myself losing my way like a storyteller losing the thread of his story." Intimacy is not to be found where one might expect it.
The "barbarians" (really just simple nomads) are seen by the Empire's citizens as completely alien - the closest they come to contact is when some are stripped naked and brutally, bloodily beaten in public. On the viewers' faces he sees "...the same expression: not hatred, not bloodlust, but a curiosity so intense that their bodies are drained by it and only their eyes meet, organs of a new and ravening appetite."
And again ..his excavations of ancient sites represent an attempt to reach an intimacy with the past - "In a heap of ashes I have found fragments of sun-dried clay pottery and something brown which may once have been a leather shoe or cap but which fell to pieces before my eyes."
This is a profound work, not one to take in fully at one reading. There is room for much contemplation on the theme of eyes and sight, the role they play: and on the idea of "belonging" - where does one feel at home, what is the emotional depth that stems from long acquaintance with a place, or way of life, or person. All really relate to the central concept of intimacy.
Timeless Classic.......2007-07-29
While this book is only 152 pages in length, it is written with a tremendous sense of authority and simplicity by Coetzee. The novel follows the last days of a civilian magistrate in the frontier outpost of an unnamed empire. We encounter the magistrate as the the Empire sends a military commander, Captain Joll (the only named character in the book)to help prevent the encroachment of the "barbarians". During the early course of the book, the magistrate comes to question both the real threat of the barbarians and righteousness of the empire -- while the magistrate was begin to reflect on this during the latter years of his life, this became more evident to him through his encounter with a "barbarian" girl after her torture by the military.
This book can be read as a reflection and allegory on previous colonial times but also is quite relevant for America today. The powerful messages contained in this book force the reader to reflect on any culture that is different than us and the way we perceive threat -- real or not -- in a modern world.
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Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.......2007-07-09
Twenty-five years, a couple of masterpieces and a Nobel ago, J. M. Coetzee wrote a short novel o large relevance. "Waiting for the Barbarians" is nowadays as important and urgent as when it was published. Little could the writer know in what chaos the world would be in the early 21st Century and that the events as close as the ones narrated in his novel were taking place in the name of freedom.
"Waiting for the Barbarians" is set in a time and place never identified which makes the novel sort of a universal version of a known time and place. But, at the same time, this distinguishes the book as both timeless and placeless. Coetzee writes, above all, about politics - even though for some he is talking about the human condition. As a matter of fact, both aspects are closely linked in this novel.
The main character and narrator is a man we only know as the Magistrate. He works for a certain Empire. Close to it there are barbarian tribes that rarely reach the border. The Empire suspects that the barbarians are preparing to mutiny. Nomads are captured and interrogated in the most ugly form, including violence and humiliation. Someone realizes that ''pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.''
The Empire sees threat in everywhere and everybody. Just like a contemporary empire whose government invades countries and kills people in the name of what he thinks is right, disguising these events and something helpful.
"Waiting for the Barbarians" exploits the chain between human condition and politics. The narrative reaches the dark side of both. And however much the narrative can be called an allegory it is still to close to our reality for pretending that it is just fiction.
An Importand Book.......2007-06-20
I respect what Coetzee has done in this novel, and I imagine I will read more of him--I may even go back and reread the center section of this particular novel--but I don't believe I will become as smitten by him as so many others seem to be.
Coetzee uses several devices that work very well in the novel.
I have rarely read a present tense novel that did not seem gimmicky and somehow bombastic, but the tense works very well in Barbarians--so well I was often unaware of it. And the use of defamiliarization, even within an already exotic landscape, works very well. The power of that opening image: "I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wires." Brings to mind the train wreck in opening of Robinson's Housekeeping. Perhaps it is the steel and glass (Robinson's train and Coetzee's sunglasses) these materials being common, yet essential hallmarks of civilization. Both books draw out the tensions between the idea of civilization and that inner human wildness. For Coetzee that inner landscape is full of darkness, desire, guilt. In Robinson's novel the wilderness is less violent, less bestial, but just as dark and unfathomed.
There is also a certain controlled nature behind both books. They share a level of abstraction in the narrative that place them near the realm of fable. Though I appreciate such things, I tend not to be as taken in by them. As with Robinson's book, I found certain sections of the book more compelling than others--those sections where the characters stood vivid and acting in their world. In Robinson's novel that included the last section of the book when Silvie and Ruthie come into their own. In Barbarians it was the central part of the book, the narrator's journey to repatriate the Native; when the character's inner struggle clarified into outer action, that emerged as the most engaging.
The narrator of Barbarians is never named. Nor is the place or the empire. The novel strives for universality. It could be any empire, the narrator could be any middling bureaucrat. And though I see the point of it, I don't find the device as compelling as real place and time. I compare the book to Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, they share something of theme (empire, myth, nation, barbarity) but McCarthy's work is grounded in a particularly place and time (1850s American West). With this grounding, McCarthy avoids the intellectualization of the theme. If and when the reader recognizes the somewhat well worn, post-modern ideas of the novel (inner darkness, powerlessness in the face of circumstance, the nature of evil) the reader is not left to think about them, to examine them from a comfortable distance, but must instead, given the hyper-reality of Meridian, feel these themes on a gut level. In this way the ideas gain an emotional depth, even if they are somewhat familiar.
And just as personal preference, I did not like the narrator of Barbarians. I know why he had to be the narrator, but his laziness, his paternalism, his strange sexual tendencies, his passivity and guilt irked me. I was curious to see how he would act, how his desires and fears would drive him, but I never felt real empathy for him. Perhaps that would be different if I were a South African and it was 1980. But my reaction to the narrator is emblematic of my experience with the entire novel. I was engaged and curious, but I was never fully taken in.
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With invective all the more deadly for its grace and wit, Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's magazine, presents a portrait of a feckless American establishment gone large in the stomach and soft in the head. This acerbic commentary on the insouciance of the monied ruling class concludes with a forewarning piece where Lapham looks at the fate of indolent ruling classes throughout history.
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Excellent, product condition as described.......2007-08-06
Perfectly satisfied with the transaction. The book condition was as it was described. Will recommend the seller without any hesitation.
Intelligence combined with clever writing.......2003-04-27
Lewis Latham has served for some time in the role of 'a voice crying in the wilderness'. I am often amazed of the breadth of his historical perspective and his currently 'unamerican' willingness, or rather eagerness, to reach below the surface of events and bring to light essences which an informed and engaged electorate need to be conscious of, but will rarely have the opportunity to consider if they rely solely upon the mainstream U S media for information. A Lewis Latham essay is like a trip to another part of the globe without the jet lag. This collection continues his excellent tradition and the truths contained within, while topical, are timeless in value. If you care about the world and our place in it, and you wish to be challenged to reconsider your assumptions about reality, reading Mr. Latham is a must.
A great read for political hacks everywhere........1999-03-18
Most political books are either so slanted and partisan they induce literary vomiting, or so bland and general they say nothing at all. This book is well written, well researched and just funny. Sarcasm in its highest form paralells the very literature it mocks, and this book succeeds in that. To anyone who enjoys the sport of Americna politics, or just wonders where this democracy-on-prozac is headed, I highly recomend it.
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Esperando a Los Barbaros / Waiting for the Barbarians (Contemporanea / Contemporary)
J. M. Coetzee
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Waiting for the barbarians
Christopher Wiseman
Manufacturer: Fiddlehead Poetry Books
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This digital document is an article from Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, published by Bibliographical Society of Canada on September 22, 1996. The length of the article is 3644 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: Waiting for the barbarians: rare books and the new university in Canada.
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Date: September 22, 1996
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Volume: 34
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Waiting for the Barbarians
J. M. Coetzee
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Waiting For The Barbarians
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ASIN: B000OHOMYE |
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