Writing for Design Professionals: A Guide to Writing Successful Proposals, Letters, Brochures, Portfolios, Reports, Presentations, and Job Applications, Second Edition
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Writing for Design Professionals: A Guide to Writing Successful Proposals, Letters, Brochures, Portfolios, Reports, Presentations, and Job Applications, Second Edition
Stephen A. Kliment
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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ASIN: 0393731855

Book Description

How to master the complexities of effective writing in design practice.

Written and oral communication play a vital role in advancing design professionals' careers, yet few design schools offer training. Updated and expanded, this book presents the principles of clear writing, illustrated by realistic examples and exercises drawn from the world of practice, from marketing and promotion materials to reports and client communications. 16 pages of color, 10 pages of black-and-white illustrations.

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5 out of 5 stars Writing for Design Professionals is one of the most comprehensive, specific guides you could want........2006-12-14

Whether you're a student or a design professional, good writing is the key to advancing your career: a key too often missed in design schools which don't inform students how to improve writing skills. Enter the second, updated edition of Writing for Design Professionals, a survey expanded to consider internet marketing, communication and job hunting and which fills the gap in blending a focus on design professionals with instructionals and methods of clarifying and improving writing. From producing brochures and marketing through proposals and portfolio development to writing for school or media and producing appropriate public speeches, Writing for Design Professionals is one of the most comprehensive, specific guides you could want.

Diane C. Donovan
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5 out of 5 stars Inspiring for students and professionals.......2001-02-01

This is a much needed and appreciated book on clear and consice communication for students writing on their design projects, design statements for themselves about their portfolios, cover letters for employment purposes, not to mention all the aspects of proposals, business communication, applications, brochures, etc. As an educator in the design arts for over 25 years, I am especially happy to have this resource to share with design students and also find much useful information included for myself. Thanks for a great addition to my design library!

Making Bits & Pieces Mosaics: Creative Projects for Home and Garden
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Making Bits & Pieces Mosaics: Creative Projects for Home and Garden
Marlene Hurley Marshall
Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1580173071

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Bits and pieces, pique assiette, memoryware -- there are many names for this unique folk art technique that has flourished for centuries around the world. Mosaic art, revered for its intricacy and beauty, can now be made by anyone with the simple methods found in Making Bits & Pieces Mosaics.

Marshall's easy-to-follow techniques make it fun for readers to transform everyday items into one-of-a-kind works of art by attaching broken dishes, ceramics, jewelry, and glass to a wide range of surfaces. With clear, step-by-step directions and inspiring photographs, crafters can create fabulous projects of their own, including flower pots and vases, lamps, fireplace mantels, bird baths and bird houses, plant stands, garden tables, walkways, and more!

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5 out of 5 stars Must have book.......2007-01-07

Marlene, aside from being a good friend, a wonderful painter, and a beautiful woman, is an inspiration. Buy this book-- making things from broken china is calming, and fun.

2 out of 5 stars Don't buy this book for inspiration..........2004-04-29

I wish I hadn't spent the money on this book. While it does give you the basics of doing mosaics, there's maybe 6 pages of it. If you've ever done any tile work, then its useless. The rest of the book is centered on doing specific projects. Frankly, the example pieces in the book were downright ugly. Most of them looked like they were just a smashed plate re-assembled. There's really no color or design patterns. The rest had doll heads all over them, which I found pretty creepy. If you're a beginner, this might give you the basics but there should be better books out there. If you're looking for inspiration, there HAVE to be better books out there than this one.

3 out of 5 stars Meh.......2003-06-12

This book has a lot of finished pieces that I found to be almost ugly. The techniques as instructed are not as in depth as I have seen in other books. I recommend you purchase to accompany another mosaic book, but I would not make it my primary instructional book.

5 out of 5 stars Crafty Saturdays will never be the same!.......2002-01-03

I love the challenge of creative household projects and bounce back and forth between several different ones, but by far, mosaic tiling is my favorite! I used this book for the ideas & know how. It has great pictures and well thought ideas I had never thought of. I tiled my porch walk way with a wonderful mosaic tile design & I receive complement after complement (even from the mailman!). Everyone wants to know who did it!

5 out of 5 stars Step aside Martha Stewart!.......2000-12-10

Marlene Marshall is a gifted artist and writer. From her book, one can easily learn the beginning steps on the road to making unique pieces of art. Her style is straight forward and holds the reader's hand through the process without telling them how to be creative. The photos are wonderful and give the reader many ideas. Thanks to Marlene's book, I decided to tile a exposed heating duct in my dining room and it came out fantastic! It is often the subject of many dinner conversations with friends. This is truely a great gift for any craft person or budding artist. I can't wait for her next book!

The Face Of Forgiveness: Salvation And Redemption
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  • Only One Word to Describe This Book: REAL
The Face Of Forgiveness: Salvation And Redemption
Steven Katzman , and Anthony Bannon
Manufacturer: powerHouse Books
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ASIN: 1576872505

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"[Katzman's photographs] are as striking and powerful as anything brought back from a Vodoun ceremony in Haiti, or a primitivist church in Sicily. Yet they make no pretense of the documentarian's ethnological distance; they're snapped right there in the midst of the action—in the center of the mosh pit, let's say—and convey a raw, uncensored passion clearly indicating that the photographer himself has felt something of the experience that has swept these people up." (New York Press) Responding with intrigue to a newspaper ad that pleaded, "Come to the Miracle Tent. Come witness the blind see, the crippled walk, the deaf hear," photographer Steven Katzman, raised a conservative Jew, began photographing Christian revivals around his hometown of Sarasota, Florida. Katzman was then invited to visit the revival center of Christian America—the Brownsville Assembly of God, in Pensacola. There, Katzman found a pious evangelical community where God's presence is constantly witnessed in the immeasurable force of the congregation's expressions of religious ecstasy: the laying of hands, the screams and tears of joy and anguish and love as men and women are purged of suffering and sin. The congregation would rise to the point of collapse, lamenting and praying for those less fortunate in the world, being healed by the ever-present love of the faithful and the Lord. As Katzman peered through the lens of his camera, he also heard the desperate calls of the preacher: "Faith has no religion. Do I hear an Amen?" Katzman found what no one had expected—his faith. With sumptuous black-and-white photographs that recall the religious fervor of El Greco and the anguish of Francis Bacon, The Face of Forgiveness: Salvation and Redemption takes us inside evangelical meetings across the world and bears witness to the driving emotional faith of Christian revival, where emotion and love pours from the eyes and mouths of the faithful, praying and thanking the Lord.

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5 out of 5 stars Only One Word to Describe This Book: REAL.......2006-07-08

This book is absolutely the best example of the reality of Salvation, Forgiveness, Redemption, and Deliverance. Anyone who has experienced the saving power of Jesus Christ will recognize the truth in the pictures and testimony of Steven Katzman. The editorials written by the publisher and editors does not do this book justice. In fact, the "official reviews" are quite lame. I will not part with this book! I will keep it and enjoy it over and over again.

MTV'S BEAVIS AND BUTT HEAD THE BUTT FILES: Beavis and Butt-Head's Guide to Sci-fi and the Unknown (MTV's Beavis & Butt-Head)
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MTV'S BEAVIS AND BUTT HEAD THE BUTT FILES: Beavis and Butt-Head's Guide to Sci-fi and the Unknown (MTV's Beavis & Butt-Head)
Greg Grabianski , and Aimee Keillor
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ASIN: 0671014269

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5 out of 5 stars Mm heh, heh heh heh..... ummmm...... good.. mm heh.......1999-08-06

I liked this book. It combines two great things (huh huh huh, you said things), Science Fiction, and Beavis and Butt-head.

4 out of 5 stars Some of it's cool but some of it like, sucks.......1998-11-10

B&B take-offs on various sci-fi stuff. Funny, but didn't get the belly laughs out of me that the Ensucklopedia did. For fans only.

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Buying the Night Flight: The Autobiography of a Woman Foreign Correspondent
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  • Trailblazer In A Skirt
  • A PROFILE OF COURAGE
  • An insightful and fantastic adventure.
Buying the Night Flight: The Autobiography of a Woman Foreign Correspondent
Georgie Anne Geyer
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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ASIN: 0226289915

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Buying the Night Flight is Georgie Anne Geyer's retelling of her thrilling rise from cub reporter to foreign correspondent as she made her way into the male-dominated world of journalism. Geyer transports the reader to Guatemala, Cuba, Egypt, Russia, and Cambodia, recounting the history and politics, adventure and exhaustion of the time from a truly unique perspective. Told with brilliance and dead-on honesty, this book vividly captures the triumphs of a determined and talented young reporter.

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4 out of 5 stars Trailblazer In A Skirt.......2004-12-31

Let me make two things clear: "Buying the Night Flight" is a good autobiography, and it is also the account of a woman's amazing career as a trailblazer in the field of journalism.

Geyer was truly a pioneer and a real lady. As a female foreign correspondent, something of a rarity back in the old days, she had to overcome a lot of obstacles. Not only was she not as respected as her male counterparts in her profession, she was also in a line of work that's very physically and mentally demanding for a woman. What's more, as one of the first female foreign correspondents, Geyer really had no one to look up to or to learn from. She had to make up a lot of her own rules as she went along. But as she marches into uncharted territories, whether it's the deep Columbian jungles ruled by the rebels, or a hostage crisis in Egypt, she proves to us time and time again in this book that not only did she succeeded in surviving each assignment with the most fascinating stories and interviews, what's more, she's always done it with class and stylish prose.

What I loved most about this book is Geyer's unrelenting criticism and analyses on herself through each situation. Being pretty much the very first female foreign correspondent, Geyer is acutely aware of her limitations as a woman. But she had also learned that there are many advantages to being a woman, namely that women are more sensitive, and are actually able to get men to open up more. At the same time, Geyer is also honest about the sacrifices that she's had to make in her personal life in order to gain the achievements in her professional life. That's another element that makes this book a good autobiography, because it's such a truthful introspective on the author.

Geyer is also one of those journalist who has a strong moral conviction in what she does, and is not afraid to voice her own subjective opinion on each subject. She's unabashedly American, and carries that naive, moralistic optimism which is very endearing. It makes her book a very revealing read.

5 out of 5 stars A PROFILE OF COURAGE.......2001-08-12

I know Geogie Anne Geyer personally. We met first in Poland in the 1980's when she covered my country after the military coup in 1981. I have red her autobiography several times. I translated it to Polish in jail, when I was a political prisoner of the communists. This woman is a unique example of an investigative journalist. If she had fought in the wars, she would become a war hero. But she covers all the wars and revolutions that broke out during her mature life.What I like about Georgie Anne ("GeeGee") is her sharp mind and toughness. She always gets to the heart of the matter. But (a unique feature) she's also a lovely woman who never looses her charm. I recommend her book to everyone who is conscious of the World we live in. DAVID MARIUS DASTYCH (60),a veteran international journalist, Warsaw, Poland. E-Mail me at: starm@poczta.onet.pl Date: August 12, 2001 on Sunday

5 out of 5 stars An insightful and fantastic adventure........1998-07-18

Ms. Geyer reveals her life and work as a wonderful adventure. As one of the first women foreign correspondents, she was where the action was. She provides us not only with brilliant insight into the geo-political events of Vietnam, Central America, and the USSR, but makes each of her tours an adventure. Ms. Geyer is truly a gifted writer. You have so much fun reading about her adventures, you may not realize you are learning a lot about foreign politics at the same time. This is a great book.
Buying The Night Flight - The Autobiography Of A Woman Foreign Correspondent - Radcliffe Biography Series
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    Buying The Night Flight - The Autobiography Of A Woman Foreign Correspondent - Radcliffe Biography Series
    Georgie Anne Geyer
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      Georgie Anne (Author) Geyer
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      Breaking Away: Coleridge in Scotland
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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      Breaking Away: Coleridge in Scotland
      Carol Kyros Walker
      Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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      1. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland

      ASIN: 0300096410

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      When Samuel Taylor Coleridge set out on a tour of Scotland with his friends William and Dorothy Wordsworth in the summer of 1803, his wits were as sharp as ever but his health, professional career, marriage, and friendship with William and his sister Dorothy were in a deteriorating state. On the fifteenth day of their travels, the Wordsworths and Coleridge parted ways, ostensibly so that Coleridge could return home. Instead he pursued his own Scottish tour, finding pleasure in his solitude, speed, and endurance.

      This book draws on Coleridge's letters and notebooks to look at his travels with the Wordsworths from his own point of view and to record and photograph the journey he experienced after he parted from them. Carol Kyros Walker, editor of Dorothy Wordsworth's own Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, now retraces Coleridge's very different Scottish tour and recounts his adventures there. In a remarkable photographic and literary essay, she argues that Coleridge's speed (263 miles in eight days), energy, reflections, notes, and letters all betray a man of great talent who was breaking away -- from the Wordsworths, from his wife, from his life in the Lake District, and from a dry phase in his writing career.

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      5 out of 5 stars Excellent book.......2006-08-29

      This is a sequel to Walker's "Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland" (1997). It covers what happened to Coleridge after he separated from the Wordsworth's on the third week. You would be advised to read "Recollections" before reading this.

      Everything about these books is a true pleasure and obvious labor of love. Not only is Carol Walker a skilled photographer, literary historian and writer, but a hiker and thorough researcher. These books are of real and lasting scholarly merit, but they are also truly enjoyable, and also make excellent coffee table pieces! What more could you want, every book should be like this, it's one of my favorites, comparable to the Norton Annotated series (Huck Finn, Xmas Carol, etc..).

      Most of the book is photos but the first 25 pages is a great literary history of Coleridge and Worsdworth, and their relationship and falling out, and how that played into their trip to Scotland. It is entirely human and understandable and gets to the core of the matter of what is friendship.

      5 out of 5 stars An Incredibly Beautiful Book.......2005-12-12

      The pictures in this book of Scotland's lakes, fields and mountains are breathtaking. Carol Walker follows Coleridge's 263 mile walking tour from over 200 years ago. Mostly color photos record all the sights along the way, and what sights they are. The text consists of a short but thorough history of the tour, and at the end pages from Coleridge's travel journal and letters written during his journey. There are very useful maps that pinpoint each place Coleridge past along the way. Books like this usually disappoint me because of the paucity of pictures. This book is a work of art with equal laurels earned by the author, the photographer and the book designer. It is one of those books you just love to hold and turn the pages. It is so obvious that everyone concerned with this project took great pride in their work. I have a personal library of 10,000 volumes. This is the single most beautiful book I own.
      Coleridge's Writings, Volume 4: On Religion and Psychology.(Book Review): An article from: Wordsworth Circle
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        Coleridge's Writings, Volume 4: On Religion and Psychology.(Book Review): An article from: Wordsworth Circle
        Adam Potkay
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        Breaking Away - Coleridge in Scotland
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          C Walker
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          Reshaping Fatherhood: The Social Construction of Shared Parenting (Understanding Families series)
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            Anna Dienhart
            Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc
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            Current research on fatherhood often focuses on minimal changes men have made in their participation in family life. Anna Dienhart argues that men have indeed made significant changes to their family roles, but those changes are often masked in existing discourses on fatherhood. In Reshaping Fatherhood, Dienhart’s qualitative study of 18 shared parenting couples explores both men’s and women’s resourcefulness and shows how these couples have deliberately co-created alternatives to traditional parenting roles. Using these narrative accounts, Dienhart offers several options for creating a family structure that allows both mothers and fathers to participate actively in parenting.

            Dienhart emphasizes that "tag-team parenting," a common technique that couples use to juggle the responsibilities of a hectic family life, relies on both the interchangeability of parental tasks as well as the specialization by preference. Dienhart compares shared parenting to a dance that demands continuous revision of the perceptions and activities of fatherhood and motherhood. She challenges family researchers to move beyond deficit and comparative model perspectives about the complexities of gendered family life as she offers alternative ideas about division-of-labor patterns, men’s relational capabilities in child care, the preeminence of men’s provider role, and traditional notions about gender and politics in families.

            This timely book is ideal for professionals and students in family studies, sociology of the family, family psychology, and gender studies.

            Military Justice in America: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, 1775-1980
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              Jonathan Lurie
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              A unique but largely neglected part of the American legal system, the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces marks its fiftieth anniversary in 2001. In Military Justice in America, Jonathan Lurie chronicles the struggles leading to the Court's creation, as well as its subsequent efforts to fulfill a difficult and sometimes controversial mission. Illuminating and fairminded, Lurie's work provides a new and valuable perspective on the uneasy relations between civil and military authority.

              Both comprehensive and detailed, Military Justice in America explores the history of the Court, which finally emerged in the wake of the national debates over the confrontation between civilian commitment to due process and individual rights and the military's demand for discipline. Deftly summarizing the Court's prehistory, Lurie then examines the Court's performance during its early years, amidst a growing civil rights movement and an increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam. He also shows how the Court matured as an institution, with its own procedures and personality, and analyzes its stormy relationship with the office of the Judge Advocate General. Along the way, he gives due attention to civilian control of the military, the essential differences between civilian and military jurisprudence, the ongoing interplay between law and politics.

              Drawing on a wide range of manuscript collections, court files, and personal interviews, Lurie's work also critically assesses the Court's overall effectiveness. In particular, Lurie looks closely at the Court's efforts to maintain its independence, to insulate the courts-martial process from improper influence, and to fashion a just jurisprudence based on the Bill of Rights. He argues that, despite its undeniable achievements, the Court's performance has not lived up to its full potential and, further, has been seriously compromised by its continued accountability to the Senate Armed Services Committee. In the end, however, he points to the Court as an essential example (and reminder) of how, in our democracy, even the military must, in theory at least, answer to civilian authority.

              Military Justice in America substantially abridges and revises two previous and heavily annotated volumes--Arming Military Justice and Pursuing Military Justice--originally commissioned by the Court for a much more limited readership. This new one-volume paperback edition has been prepared with a considerably wider readership in mind. Much more accessible and affordable than its predecessors, it will be especially appealing for anyone interested in American law, military history, and civil-military history.

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              The File on the Tsar
              Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
              • Conspiracy Theory it's not
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              • "Plots have I laid"
              • Interesting as a reflection of it's time
              The File on the Tsar
              Anthony Summers , and Tom Mangold
              Manufacturer: Orion mass market paperback
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              Book Description

              The world was told that the last Tsar of Russia and his family were butchered in the 'cellar massacre' at Ekaterinburg in 1918. Yet diplomats and reporters did not believe it. And the longest court case of the century failed to explode Anna Anderson's claim to be the Tsar's youngest daughter, Grand Duchess Anastasia. Anthony Summers and Tom Mangold spent five years tracking down witnesses and long-lost documents. The search led to Moscow, Tokyo and Washington and their persistence finally paid off when they found a suppressed official dossier - the File on the Tsar. It shows that the public was fed a lie. The Romanovs did not all die at Ekaterinburg, but became pawns in an international power game, involving Lenin, the Kaiser, the British Royal Family and British Intelligence. And in London, over 80 years later, the cover-up goes on.

              Customer Reviews:

              5 out of 5 stars Conspiracy Theory it's not.......2006-11-03

              Many people have dismissed "File on the Tsar" as another Conspiracy theory, however it is far from that. File on the Tsar, is an extremelly well researched investiagtion into an alternative theory about the fate of the Romanovs.

              Many people dismiss this book because it does not hold that the family was massacred at Ekaterinburg. The fact is that contrary to popular belief the massacre is still a theory, it has not been proven as fact, and the File on the Tsar provides informative generally unknown information on how some of the evidence for a massacre was fabricated.

              WARNING SPOILER

              Spoiler; For instance when the massacre theory was first being investigated shortly after the Romanovs disapeared, it was claimed that they were shot in the dinning room, not the basement.

              Secondly three seperate investigations were conducted, the last investigation is the only one that ever saw light, primarily because it was the most shocking. Early investigators did not find nearly as many bullet holes, bayonet holes, ect . . . as later ones.

              SPOILERS END HERE

              Even the discovery of bodies does not prove that the alternative theory in File on the Tsar is untrue. The Imperial grave was opened more then once after the family was believed to have been shot and buried, and the remains could have been disturbed.

              In short File on the Tsar simply provides comprehensive information, and an alternative theory as to the familys fate, whats more it also could explain the absence of two bodies from the Imperial grve site. The massacre theory does not.

              Is it somewhat dated? Yes. Unproven by modern science and DNA? No.

              All scientific and fernsic evidence can equally be used to support the File on the Tsar's theory, as it can the massacre.

              I recomend if nothing else, that even if you disagree, that you read it.

              4 out of 5 stars hmmmm... Very interesting read.......2006-05-10

              Anthony Summers and Tom Mangfold did something extrordinary when they discovered Sokolov's original file on the Tsar. They discovered he had withheld evidence to what he found on the Tsar's murder. The book pretty much dispells of the Sokolov investigation and its faults and is way ahead of its time in that sense. But of course the second half of the book has lost most of its validity since the bodies have been located. But it is interesting how many people claimed to have seen the Empress and her daughters alive and being used by Lenin as pawns. It's a perfect story for those in Russia who still believe that the Romanov bones are not authentic. I think they are though. The part of the book which discusses Anna Anderson is very interesting as well, and makes you wonder how this woman could have truly been a Polish factory girl.

              4 out of 5 stars Good for the time it was written.......2006-01-02

              Many people have criticized this book because it can be labled as a "conspiracy theory." However, it is remarkably well-researched and has some valuble info, such as the fact that Anastasia and Alexey couldn't possibly have been burned to ashes within one night out in the open. The authors can be forgiven, as it is an attempt to explain the fate of the Romanovs before the definitive DNA analysis concluded that at least 9 of the inhabitants of the Ipatiev house were brutally murdered. Also, it was written before Yurovsky's testimony came to light. I don't think it merits Henry Kissinger's "crap" statement about it. It is outdated, but its authors nevertheless command respect from historians. It was right about one thing - that the Sokolov investigation was fixed and Medvedev's testimony is unreliable, as Yurovsky's "confession" demonstrates. If one wants a definitive book about the fate of Nicky and Alix, I suggest Robert K. Massie's "The Romanovs: The Final Chapter."

              3 out of 5 stars "Plots have I laid".......2001-11-12

              Sadly, with the advent of DNA and the fall of the iron curtain there is less and less mystery in history.

              This book is a fine example of the fog and questions which surronunded the death (or disappereance) of the russian imperial family. However, as time has moved along, we now know that most of the ideas the authors suggest never occured.

              That said I liked the book and felt that it gave a good treatmeant of the context within which the last Tsar and his family met their tragic end. The reader must always exercise caution about the conclusions even as you enjoy the text.

              2 out of 5 stars Interesting as a reflection of it's time.......2000-03-29

              File on the Tsar is interesting as a compilation of escape theories popular in the 1970's, most of which have since been proven to be false, particularly in Radzinsky's The Last Tsar (which would be a good book to read after this one). Still, the writing style is engaging and the photos are well chosen. Take it's theories with a grain of salt and it is a fun read.
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                                  This collection of the most important methodologies for the analysis of the structure and function of flavoproteins ranges from wet to dry chemistry. These step-by-step methods-developed by leading experimentalists to work reliably-include the most commonly used techniques as well as a wide range of spectrophotometric protocols that allow direct monitoring of flavins in real time, in the steady state, or as reaction intermediates. Among the techniques detailed are freeze-quench methods, EPR spectroscopy, CD spectroscopy, vibrational spectroscopy (SERRS), and nuclear magnetic resonance. Also discussed are a variety of therapeutic applications for flavins and flavoproteins that go far beyond the use of riboflavin as a vitamin supplement. Flavoprotein Protocols offers to both experts in the field and to those working on a flavin-containing protein for the first time a wealth of proven methods and laboratory experience that will enhance their understanding of structure/function relationships in the proteins and of the effects of the protein environment on flavin chemistry.

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