Mama Was My Teacher: Growing Up In A Small Southern Town

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Go back in time to 1917 in a small town in Southeast Alabama. A boy was born in his home, suckled by a half-black, half-Creek Indian, actually knew and talked with a former family slave, nurtured in a large, caring and loving low-income family. His mother taught him the lessons of life that really mattered, and molded him into the man he is now. Growing up in the town he grew to love and still loves, he and his two sisters and two brothers were happy with what little they had. They had loving, caring, excellent teachers, lots of friends to play and grow up with, plenty to eat, and adequate clothes to wear. They went to Sunday School and church religiously. Their mama and daddy had little education, but their mama was wise beyond her schooling. She loved people, and showed her love for them by what she did, not what she said. This love and care for family and others, and the blessings of growing up in a small Southern town in the 1920s and 1930s, are the themes of this book.

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The drama behind the DNA

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The Double Helix

The Double Helix: The Story Behind the Discovery of DNA
James D. Watson
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"Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders," writes James Watson in The Double Helix, his account of his codiscovery (along with Francis Crick) of the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick won Nobel Prizes for their work, and their names are memorized by biology students around the world. But as in all of history, the real story behind the deceptively simple outcome was messy, intense, and sometimes truly hilarious. To preserve the "real" story for the world, James Watson attempted to record his first impressions as soon after the events of 1951-1953 as possible, with all their unpleasant realities and "spirit of adventure" intact.

Watson holds nothing back when revealing the petty sniping and backbiting among his colleagues, while acknowledging that he himself was a willing participant in the melodrama. In particular, Watson reveals his mixed feelings about his famous colleague in discovery, Francis Crick, who many thought of as an arrogant man who talked too much, and whose brilliance was appreciated by few. This is the joy of The Double Helix--instead of a chronicle of stainless-steel heroes toiling away in their sparkling labs, Watson's chronicle gives readers an idea of what living science is like, warts and all. The Double Helix is a startling window into the scientific method, full of insight and wit, and packed with the kind of science anecdotes that are told and retold in the halls of universities and laboratories everywhere. It's the stuff of legends. --Therese Littleton

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The classic personal account of one of the great scientific discoveries of the century.

By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only twenty-four, a brilliant young zoologist hungry to make his mark. His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thrilling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of science's greatest unsolved mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of brilliant scientists with great gifts, very human ambitions, and bitter rivalries. With humility unspoiled by false modesty, Watson relates his and Crick's desperate efforts to beat Linus Pauling to the Holy Grail of the life sciences, the identification of the basic building block of life. He is impressed by the achievements of the young man he was, but clear-eyed about his limitations. Never has such a brilliant scientist also been so gifted, and so truthful, in capturing in words the flavor of his work.

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Which edition to get ?.......2007-04-18

I ended up getting copies of two different paperback editions.

The Simon & Schuster Touchstone Book, with a little bit of an introduction by Sylvia Nasar, has easy-to-read print and the photographs are pleasantly large. Good for reading in the subway.

But the Norton Critical edition, edited by Gunther S. Stent, is the one to get if you can only afford one. Its typeface leaves much to be desired, and, in my copy, some of the pages are hard to read because the printer seems to have run out of ink in the middle of the job. But the edition has materials that are indispensable for an understanding of this classic work of science. I enjoyed, most of all, Stent's essay "reviewing the reviews," showing both the wisdom (by some) and the foolishness (by others) with which the Double Helix was received by the scientific community.

DNA discovery.......2007-03-18

Excellent book formulating the personalities and egos behind the race for DNA. Interesting and well written. Add a star if you are in the field.

The drama behind the DNA.......2007-03-09

I read this as a requirement for a class but actually found it interesting. It show the human sides to the people behing the discovery of DNA and exposes the drama and gossip going on. It also shows just how difficult it was and is to be a woman scientist (Rosalind's story).
It is a short book, an easy read, I recommend it.

Understated Account of a Really Big Event.......2002-11-08

Clarification is in order. First of all, this is not a substantive science book. For all the significance of the discovery it chronicles, The Double Helix never bothers to explain how, for example, x-ray crystallography actually works, or what the difference between a keto- and an -enol is, or even why Watson's and Crick's discovery brought on a new era in the life sciences. Aspiring students of genetics and molecular biology are urged to inquire elsewhere for answers to these questions.

Second, to label The Double Helix a book on scientific method is almost equally misleading - the reason being that there is no room in the rarefied formalism extolled by the likes of Karl Popper for Watson's subjectivity and sarcasm, not to mention the latter's frequent excursions on nubile au pairs and the deplorable student housing market at Cambridge.

Third (not that it matters for an appreciation of the book, but it's a common misunderstanding), Watson and Crick did not discover DNA itself, or even the function of DNA. Rather, they were awarded the Nobel Prize for solving the molecular structure of DNA.

With those clarifications in mind, The Double Helix is a profitable read. Watson shows us non-scientists that the practice of science is "just" another human endeavor, and not some remote, sterilized activity conducted by emotional eunuchs in white coats. Watson's first-person narrative is downright conversational, as if he's talking shop over a pint of stout in an English pub. He is unabashedly honest about both his ambitions and his naivete (he was only 23 at the time the events in the book took place). And his sometimes scathing portrayals of his colleagues - in all their brilliance and banality - give the impression that working in a world-class research facility is a lot like working anywhere else.

Francis Crick comes across as that certain guy we all knew in college (wherever and whenever that was) - impish and boisterous, egocentric but big-hearted, who might be dapper if he didn't sleep in his clothes, whose eccentricity is the bane of faculty advisors, whose attention is everywhere but on task, whose breath sometimes smells like beer after lunch, and whose serendipitous genius comes through at all the right times. The supporting cast is equally colorful: Maurice Wilkins, the quintessential English academic stuffed corpse; Rosalind Franklin, a Freudian caricature of icy feminine competence in a man's world; the godlike Linus Pauling playing with his tinker toy molecular models in California.

And it wasn't just his colleagues who made Watson's work interesting. There were the aforementioned au pairs, the pubs and the parties and the formal receptions, there was the professional competitiveness between the English and the Americans - with Watson (a Yank in Cambridge) more of an American insurance policy against the Brits getting all the credit for solving DNA if Pauling wasn't fast enough. And there was the Cold War, which had an impact on research priorities and, sometimes, hampered communication in the scientific community.

But most importantly - although Watson never deigns to make this point explicit - The Double Helix is a fascinating chronicle of the scientific method in action, notwithstanding the politics, the distractions, and the idiosyncrasies of the protagonists. The task itself was daunting. Watson and Crick already knew what DNA was composed of, and they knew with some certainty the proportions in which the bases were represented, but there could only be one correct way to put all the pieces together and the haystack was a big one. The researchers were quick to offer and to accept criticism, and false leads were abandoned without regard to ego or sunk time. Even though each wanted to get there first, London shared their findings with Cambridge, Cambridge shared their insights with London, and England and California held nothing from each other for long - admirable examples of the "sociable competition" of science that expedites discovery.

In the end, Watson's and Crick's success relied heavily on Wilkins's and Franklin's crystallography, with important contributions from whomever happened to stop by the lab during the two year period, and insights from conferences and the textbooks and articles Watson happened to read at the time. Creativity, serendipity, and openness to the ideas of others eventually yielded hypotheses, which were tested using Pauling's modeling methods. It could not have been done alone, as Watson makes clear, and the structure of DNA would have been discovered sooner or later. While ultimately it doesn't matter who gets the credit for the discovery, the world seems a better place for James Watson's being involved, if only because The Double Helix is such an entertaining read.

The Double Helix.......2002-10-29

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA written by James D. Watson is a rather engaging with a easily readable down to earth style book on the discovery of the structure of DNA. James D. Watson and Francis Crick worked on the structure of DNA, as did other of the time L. Pauling and R. Franklin were hot on the heals of Watson and Crick.

This is the story of how they made history, a story by a scientist about scientists, this is a superbly human tale of how a very unusual 23 year old American saw his chance for scientific immortality and set out to seize it.

If you like reading about about discovery and how it was done, then you'll like this book. Written in a folksy mannor, this is a book that is thrilling as you get to experience the discovery firsthand. Here you'll read about observation, the suspense of making this discovery before others and the mounting tension associated with science. You'll feel Watson's brilliance come through the narrative, his frank tone mixed with humor all making this a fast read, but never boring.

You'll be transported back to college, Cambridge, off to London and Paris, experience things like wine, movies, and girls, but you'll feel the undertone of scientific politics at its finest. This is a very entertaining book about the beautiful experience of making a great scientific discovery.

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Learn how antioxidants reduce the side-effects of chemotherapy and may even make it more effective.

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A phenomenal book on adjuvants in cancer therapy that is both conservative and very thorough.......2006-05-20

For a few decades a few scientists, some of them Nobel laureates, have believed that antioxidants may prevent and even help to treat cancer. Some of the ideas and clinical results have been very promising, but have not received the attention they deserve. Even worse, unsubstantiated and even false claims have been bandied about by some of those who claim to know everything about the antioxidants, which makes anyone who touches the subject appear to be disreputable.

Enter Ralph Moss, PhD, formerly of Sloan-Kettering, who has done a first-rate job of going through myriad journals and papers and establishing which ideas about the use of antioxidants are scientifically proven. This book has no less than 460 references to papers on the subject, in other words, every contention of Dr. Moss's is well documented. This certainly isn't a rah-rah book; Moss carefully explains that certain antioxidants are known to worsen certain cancers; this is a field in which carelessness is particularly disasterous.

One of the most intriguing points he raises is that some cancers have been known to remit in response to large doses of CoEnzyme Q 10, a molecule that younger people are able to produce on their own, but which older people must ingest from their diet.

This book is so well researched and written that it ought to be read by anyone with cancer, as one would expect of a book written by the protégé of one of the Nobel laureates who first started thinking about the use of antioxidants to prevent and treat cancer. Albert von Szent-Györgi, one of the brighter Nobel laureates of the last century, mulled all this high up on his intellectual Mount Olympus; Dr. Moss has taken this down to us lesser mortals by putting his thoughts into understandable English and documenting what experimental proof there is for the use of antioxidants in treating cancer.

Useful information for co-doctoring.......2004-08-24

All cancer patients must co-doctor if they are going to survive. Most cancer doctors will warn against the harmful effects of taking antioxidants with chemotherapy or radiation treatments. This book completely debunks that medical school dogma.

As a cancer patient, you need to arm yourself with factual knowledge. This is one of the books you need to study and share with your doctor. It covers specific combinations of chemotherapy drugs and antioxidant supplements. If you can't agree on what you should take, find another doctor.

It would have been helpful if Dr. Moss had mentioned some of the animal foods which contain high doses of Vitamin A and other antioxidants, but his emphasis is on supplements and "fruits and vegetables." I still recommend you study this book closely BEFORE you agree to a treatment regimen for your cancer.

Must read for anybody with cancer.......2004-07-02

This book provides concise information regarding nutritional supplements that are effective in fighting cancer. I am battling Colon Cancer. Traditional medicine has its place, but the statistics were not very comforting. I thus have spent a great deal of time researching CAM (complimentary alternative medicines). One is quickly overwhelmed by the volume of (often contradictory) information available via web and books. For this, Dr. Moss is a goldmine. This book allows one to setup an affordable supplement program based on current scientific research, not quackery. I am happy to report that I have done very well with the chemo, and am confident that I will beat this cancer.

I recommend that you visit his website cancerdecisions.com, and consider buying his detailed report for your cancer. He covers all traditional complimentary treatments that are helpful, and has spent great deal of time investigating the offshore clinics. I purchased the Colon Cancer report. It is the best money I have spent since I was diagnosed.

A great companion for cancer patients.......2003-08-13

I bought this book (and some others) after my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in March of 2003. Although, we had read a few negative things about using antioxidants with conventional therapies, this book gave us the courage (with solid scientific research of Dr. Moss) to apply antioxidant therapy WITH conventional therapies such as Chemo. I am writing this review to testify that the outcome in our case was nothing short of miracle. After chemo, the pathology report indicated a complete response. Now, my beloved wife is one more statistic showing synergy of conventional therapy with alternative therapy(if you can call antioxidants an alternative). Throughout the book, it shows that Dr. Moss is writing this book to help cancer patients. Use this book towards your goal of optimizing conventional, mainstream, treatments such as chemo and radiation. We have. I wish there was more specific information(in a table format) on how much of each antioxidants have shown to be effective in various cancer treatments. Nonetheless, one can tailor a regimen with guidelines provided in this book.

Pretty Good Work, but.............2001-03-12

This book is a concise summary of current research on how different antioxidants can help heal and prevent cancer. For each antioxidant, there is also info on how it interacts with "establishment" cancer therapies such as radiation and chemotherapy. It also debunks the widespread myth that taking antioxidants will weaken the effect of chemotherapy.

The one thing lacking in the book is its omission of foods rich in the various nutrients discussed. For example, in the first chapter on vitamin A, Dr. Moss never once mentions any foods where vitamin A is found (like liver, butter, eggs, cod liver oil, etc) and implies that one should take supplements. He also keeps repeating that people should eat lots of brightly colored fruits and vegetables every day to get their lion's share of antioxidants, but he does not inform the reader that many of the antioxidants he discusses are not found in fruits and vegetables, but in animal foods and fats only (vitamin A, for example). Zinc, selenium, CoQ10, and lipoic acid are also concentrated in foods like oysters, organ meats, seafood, and red meat--not fruits and vegetables. Of course, fruits and vegetables are good foods, but for a complete antioxidant picture, one must include organic animal foods as well.

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The Antioxidants.......2004-02-13

Passwater authoritatively explains what free radicals and reactive oxygen species are, and then explains how antioxidants can prevent cancer and a host of conditions allegedly associated with the aging process.

Passwater discusses impressive epidemiological data on Vitamins C and E and includes detailed discussions of what scientists have discovered, including through some of his own clinical research.

You will not be disappointed. Very highly recommended!

Continuing education!.......2000-08-26

We've come a long way from the 1,000 MG of Vitamin C that was heralded as the best thing for our bodies back in the late 1096s. Now scientists have isolated a number of antioxidants that are crucially beneficial to maintaining our good health. Nutritionists like Passwater are passing that information on to the public. Passwater's book is one of the best I've seen when it comes to explaining the body's need for these antioxidants that are too limited in foods to do us enough good. He is clear and concise. This is a good reference book to own.

Nuts shell out big nutrition in small packages: nuts are loaded with protein, fiber and antioxidants, which may protect against heart disease and cancer.(HEALTHY ... An article from: Food & Fitness Advisor

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Nuts shell out big nutrition in small packages: nuts are loaded with protein, fiber and antioxidants, which may protect against heart disease and cancer.(HEALTHY ... An article from: Food & Fitness Advisor
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Release Date: 2007-09-11

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Protective role of Apigenin on the status of lipid peroxidation and antioxidant defense against hepatocarcinogenesis in Wistar albino rats.: An article ... Journal of Phytotherapy & Phytopharmacology

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Protective role of Apigenin on the status of lipid peroxidation and antioxidant defense against hepatocarcinogenesis in Wistar albino rats.: An article ... Journal of Phytotherapy & Phytopharmacology
J. Prince Vijeya Singh , K. Selvendiran , S. Mumtaz Banu , R. Padmavathi , and D. Sakthisekaran
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This digital document is an article from Phytomedicine: International Journal of Phytotherapy & Phytopharmacology, published by Urban & Fischer Verlag on April 1, 2004. The length of the article is 4407 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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Vera Bradley is more than just a company. It's a community of people who enjoy working together. Part of that enjoyment has to do with good food! In the pages of this book,you will find inspired seasonal menues. You will meet some of the Vera Bradley friends and family all over the country in the photography and the recipes they have shared with us. Co-founders Barbara Bradley Baekgaard and Patricia Miller invite you into their homes where the food preparation took place. Share a passion for food and fun as you explore Cooking with Friends!

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The Best Cookbook.......2007-05-29

This is a great cookbook. It is easy recipes. There is something for everyone in here. I have tried multiple recipes in this book and they are all Wonderful and very easy. It is one of those cookbooks, that you can use for every meal. I highly recomend this. I own many many cookbooks and I have to say this is one of the best.

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Beautiful Book.......2006-07-06

I have bought this book and cooked many of the recipes,,,The desserts are especially wonderful. I absoutly loved the colorful pictures and the history of Children's Hospital. I have given this book as a gift to a least a dozen people, and they have all loved it.You will not be disappointed!!! I also read that all the money goes to the Children's Fund at the Children's Hospital..., just another reason to own this perfect cookbook.

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The Small Town Big Kitchen Cookbook, is all about home, hearth and heart.

Italian-American Annette Marie Vitalone shares recipes from her family and friends certain to invoke memories of favorite childhood recipes. Amateur and seasoned chefs alike will indulge their cravings for apple pie, baked manicotti and traditional Italian Christmas cookies, just a few of the time-honored classics no longer found at the local Italian bakery.

Annette's Old World heritage and New World techniques are evident in the recipes and commentary in the Small Town Big Kitchen Cookbook. The creations are sure to stir fond reminiscences and create new memories and traditions for years to come.

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