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The ultimate insider's guide to Glasgow, the unique city of the future, is Footprint's newest handbook. Useful for journey-takers of all ages and budgets, the Glasgow Handbook includes walking routes around the city's nooks and crannies, a special at-a-glance cuisine section to suit all budgets and tastes, and a spotlight on the funky Glasgow lifestyle from art galleries to club nightlife. Packed with helpful hints on what to do if it's raining (and it will rain), where to find the best cafe lattes and how to take in the many festivals, Footprint's Glasgow Handbook is perfect for the traveler who wants to escape the crowd and experience the spirit of the city. Footprint travel guides are synonymous with discovery and adventure -- their purpose is to convey the very essence of a destination and to feel its pulse. Eye-opening, accurate, and reliable information is given in each guide, ensuring that every trip is memorable, enlightening, and informing. Footprint's guidebooks are the future of travel, stressing a sensitivity to local issues.

Footprint Glasgow (Footprint Glasgow Handbook)

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Footprint Glasgow (Footprint Glasgow Handbook)
Alan Murphy
Manufacturer: Footprint Handbooks
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Frommer's Edinburgh & Glasgow (Frommer's Complete)

ASIN: 1904777015

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Smart, contemporary and compact guide helping travellers discover more from their city visit. Covers main attractions but also gives the freedom to escape the tourist trail.

Footprints in the Valley: A History of Valley County, Montana (Three Volumes)

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Footprints in the Valley: A History of Valley County, Montana (Three Volumes)
History Committee of the Pioneer Museum
Manufacturer: Glasgow Courier & Printing
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Joan Mark offers an interpretive biography of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904–53), who spent twenty-five years living among the Bambuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest in what is now Zaire. On the Epulu River he constructed Camp Putnam as a harmonious multiracial community. He modeled his camp on the “dude ranches” of the American West, taking in paying guests while running a medical clinic and occasionally offering legal aid to the local people, and assumed the role of intermediary between locals and visitors, including Colin M. Turnbull, author of the classic Forest People. Mark describes Putnam’s mercurial relations with family and with his African and American wives—and follows him to his sad and violent end. She places Patrick Putnam within the context of three different anthropological traditions and examines his contribution as an expert on pygmies.

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heartbreakingly wonderful
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PENROD AND SAM up to date
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King of the Pygmies
Jonathon Scott Fuqua
Manufacturer: Candlewick
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ASIN: 0763614181
Release Date: 2005-10-11

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When a teenage boy begins to hear voices, his uncle offers him an alternative explanation in this poignant, provocative novel from award-winning author Jonathon Scott Fuqua.

Havre-de-Grace, Maryland isn't the kind of place where miracles happen. That's why when fifteen-year-old Penn starts to hear voices, he is terrified. These aren't just any voices, though - they are the thoughts of people close to him. He can hear his parents' unspoken gripes with each other. He can hear his retarded brother's silent anxieties. He can hear his neighbor's descent into quiet desperation. And he can hear his girlfriend's tentative feelings of tenderness. His momma wants him to go to a therapist to get treated for schizophrenia, but his similarly gifted Uncle Hewitt, a former police chief turned town drunk, tells him the truth: Penn's ability to hear other people's thoughts and take away their pain doesn't make him sick. It makes him special. From the acclaimed author of THE WILLOUGHBY SPIT WONDER, DARBY, and THE REAPPEARANCE OF SAM WEBBER comes a compelling story of a young man's struggle to come to terms with his disability - a novel of courage, determination, and hope.

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heartbreakingly wonderful.......2007-08-24

One of my all time favorite books. When regular teen Penn starts hearing voices in his head he realizes that he has the power to help people because he can hear their thoughts. Penn's depressed elderly neighbor seems to confirm that he has a new power after her thoughts are recieved by him and he helps her. Penn's similarly afflicted uncle Hewitt helps him to get through this terrible time and ultimately helps Penn and his family make some very important decisions.
The only downfall of this book is that Penn also has a retarted older brother. This kind of detracts from the real issues and takes away from all of the other issues that Penn is dealing with (girls, school, life, friends, etc.)
This is a unique and not-written-about-enough look into the world of the mentally ill and a must read for teens who are going through troubled times.

Blowed up and impressed!!!.......2006-05-31

This is a good book. This is a good book from the beginning to the end. This is the kind of book that every person, young adult to adult, should read, because it is about being human, understanding another person's delimas, and walking in someone else's shoes.
Penn Swayne is a normal kid in an East Coast town that lacks even a hint of magic, when he starts to hear voices. They sound like the people around him, some funny, others crushingly sad. Mostly they leave him at a loss for what to do and fearful of being diagnosed, loosely, as insane. Thankfully his truly insane Uncle Hewitt tells him not to worry. He's not insane, he's special, a king of sorts for what he can do.
King of the Pygmies is about reality vs. magic, about illness vs. gifts, and control vs. no control. It's funny, sad, and pretty gut wrenching. This book should be read. I've never read anything better about a subject I know too well.
Now, one last word. I read the previous reviewer's remarks about the author being liberal for speaking out against the administration. Therefore, this librarian, which is what they said they are, would ban the book from his or her readers. This really makes me nervous. Is this what we've come to? He/she call the book's content good but say that the writer, for speaking his mind in some article in a magazine no one reads, unacceptable. Well I find that unacceptable, and everyone else should, too. Books should be judged for others by content, not by personal agendas.
This is a special book, written exceptionally well, dealing with a difficult subject, the onset of a mental illness that will change Penrod Swayne's life. In this time and day, how many teens and even adults are experiencing similar issues? If you're a student, a teacher, or work in an office, it's entertaining and informing. It is what a book should be.

When a book is more than a book.......2006-04-04

At some point, one must come clean as to their identity and why they are writing. I don't seek to hide my point of origin just as I would hope someone contesting the material that I write would reveal their point of view to me. I am a librarian. A good one. I care about the youth whom I serve and seek to provide them with the best possible materials. However, there are times when one must dabble in certain subterfuge, and this book is that time. Right away I admit that it is not about the book, at least not completely. I actually enjoyed the story enough and can acknowledge its value. What I don't acknowledge and in fact disavow completely is the author's politics and how they have ruined his work for me.

Last summer, Mr. Fuqua had an article in a highly regarded literary journal that need not be named. Like most YA librarians, I recieve it in order to find appropriate materials for my clientel. And curious as I was, I read the piece on Mr. Fuqua, who, after some back and forth about his life and ideas, said that he is, "more scared of this administration," than the possibility of developing cancer. There we have it. Politics enters literature, and I do not feel good about the mix. Why he pushed so hard to reveal himself, I do not know. No matter, I will take simple action to deny developing minds access to his work, including his last book that takes place in the Cold War. Mr. Fuqua, it seems, wants all to know and identify him as an anti-war anti-America, anti-president, and anti-establishment writer. If he chooses to take this risk, he must know that others will choose a similar path and write him off according to our own moral compass and patriotic sensibility.

In all of us, there comes a point when one must stand up. Mr. Fuqua's story is entertaining enough. I can even see its value and will now take pains to search for other books that might give comfort to those afflicted by mental illness or know of someone with these issues. But his assault on America's ethics continue throughout his story with disheartening images of an untraditional family, of a fall-down drunk, and the writer's constant questions about human sanity and insanity that might cause readers, when all is said and done, to question their own more than the main character's.

King of the Pygmies is more than just a book. It is an issue hidden in a story, and because that issue is important, it gives some value to a book that really shouldn't be read by young minds of any sort. Save it, I think, for adults who understand that aspects of this pleasing story are drivel.

PENROD AND SAM up to date.......2006-03-22

Penrod has been named after a grandfather, Penrod who must have been himself named after the beloved YA book by Booth Tarkington, PENROD AND SAM, a wonderful story of a boy and his dog. This boy Penn has even bigger problems than the original Penrod. For one thing, he is coming down with schizophrenia, a condition which in this book is characterized by the ability to hear the thoughts of other people (or maybe not). Penn's no good uncle has had this condition for many years and he tells his nephew, no, it's not schizophrenia, it is that we are both Pygmies, we are a sacred totemic tribe much misunderstood by society. As victims of Pygmy Syndrome, argues Uncle Hewitt, we are not to be tampered with by medicine or treatment. Hewitt announces that both Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, two of Hollywood's smaller stars, are actually Pygmies too.

I think maybe the author got to this point in his story and realized that he was way off base, for he spend the last pages of the book (SPOILER AHEAD) with an earnest note to teen readers urging them to seek medical help if they think they might be schizophrenic.

Fuqua never really engages us in this story. I didn't really care whether or not Penn was schizophrenic or not. He has an older brother of 21, handsome and rugged as a movie star, who is mildly retarded and works at Burger King. The relationship of Penn and Matty is mildly interesting, but it makes you wonder, how many different ways can author Jonathon Scott Fuqua dabble in disability and mental illness? He seems drawn to these "different" characters not from any genuine interest in them but because his research has shown him that they might be a new colorful bunch for the prolific writer to spin tales about.

Penn has a cute romance with a newcomer to Havre de Grace (Maryland), a Filipina-American girl his own age (15 or so) called Daisy. She is quite sympathetic, although Penn tries to hide his spiralling schizophrenic episodes from her. In one of the worse episodes he throws himself into a vacant lot where generations of bums like his uncle have left behind shards of broken bottles, so that his thrashing and tormented tremors slash his skin in a million pieces, leaving his backside gummed with blood. Penn's mother, Belinda Wallace, is another strong female character. It's possible that Fuqua was attempting to write a strong family-based fable about schizophrenia, and then got sidetracked when he realized that his story was falling between two stools. It turns out to be neither an allegory nor a very realistic tale.

However the author can sketch out a romance between an awkward boy and a more self-possessed girl, and I eagerly look forward to reading more books by this modern day Booth Tarkington.

I wonder if I was a real Pygmy what I would think of the book; it takes an awfully facetious attitude towards Pygmies. And what about the character Colin Turnbull, a man who may or may not exist? Is he a figure in Uncle Hewitt's imagination? Or is it all a weird coincidence that the real life Colin Turnbull was the anthropologist who wrote extensively about the oppressed Pygmy peoples of the world?

Inside Look.......2006-03-11

Revealing look at experiences and beliefs when diagnosed with this illness. I had a chance to see why reality seems one way for some. One reality for the character but what everyone else views as reality or truth is different. And how the character was able fight through to the truth. A good book for adolescents and teenagers on this journey.

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King Of The Pygmies
Thomas A. Lahey
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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King of the Pygmies
Thomas A Lahey
Manufacturer: ST ANTHONY GUILD PRESS
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ASIN: B000UDAV9C

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King of the Pygmies
Thomas A Lahey
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The King Of The World In The Land Of The Pygmies -

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The King Of The World In The Land Of The Pygmies -
Joan Mark -
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KING OF THE PYGMIES
Thomas A. Lahey
Manufacturer: NY
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ASIN: B000N6MIQU

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King of the Pygmies
Scott Jonathon Fuqua
Manufacturer: Candlewick Press
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THE KING OF THE WORLD IN THE LAND OF THE PYGMIES
Joan MARK
Manufacturer: University of Nebraska
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King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies.

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ASIN: B000ICKVJK

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Prion diseases, also known as Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs), exist in both humans (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)) and animals (scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), chronic wasting disease) and have the unique property of being infectious, sporadic or genetic in origin.

Although the precise nature of the infectious agent responsible for TSEs is not definitely identified, it is now clearly demonstrated that a protein named PrP (for Prion Protein) plays a critical role in the transmission and pathogenesis of TSEs.

This book provides the general description as well as the details of the techniques currently used for the study of prion diseases. Taking into account the pivotal role played by PrP it is not surprising that many Chapters of this book deal with the purification, the detection and the characterization of the different forms of this protein. In addition, in vitro, cellular and animal models specifically adapted to the study of TSEs, as well as bio-safety procedures are described. Each Chapter is written by scientists involved for many years in their respective domain of prion biology who give the best of their knowledge in this technical document. This volume is a very useful tool for any laboratory which recently decided to contribute to the study of TSEs as well as for teams already engaged in this field for many years but interested in extending their technical capacity toward new methods.

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Purification of PrPC and the Pathological Isoform of Prion Protein (PrPsc or PrP-res)

Animal Models of TSEs

Cell Culture Models of TSEs

PrPsc Immunohistochemistry

Western Immunoblotting Techniques

Antibody Production and ELISA

TSE Strain Typing in Mice

Biosafety and Decontamination Procedures

Cell-free Conversion of Prion Proteins

Cytotoxicity of PrP Peptides

Cyclic Amplification of Prion Protein Misfolding

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Researchers and clinicians in the fields of cell biology, biomedicine, neuroscience/neuropathology, veterinary medicine and biochemistry.

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This comprehensive treatment of topics related to the science and engineering of filled thermoplastics reviews the current state-of-the-art. The first volume "Raw Materials and Processing" is devoted to the scientific, engineering and practical issues related to selection and characterization of raw materials and processing technologies. The first chapter deals with a review of the current understanding of structure-property relationships in thermoplastic matrices on both macroscopical and microstructural levels. The second chapter covers the manufacture and characterization of most common natural and synthetic fillers in great depth. Surface modifications of particulate fillers and the effects of filler-filler and filler-matrix interactions on the processing and performance of filled thermoplastics are reviewed in the third chapter. Finally, rheology of thermoplastic compounds including the theoretical background of processing of these materials is presented in the fourth chapter.

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The quality of physical models is decisive for the understanding of the physical processes in semiconductor devices and for a reliable prediction of the behavior of a new generation of devices. The first part of the book contains a critical review on models for silicon device simulators, which rely on moments of the Boltzmann equation. With reference to fundamental experimental and theoretical work, an extensive collection of widely used models is discussed in terms of physical accuracy and application results. The second part outlines the derivation of physics-based models for bulk mobility, band-to-band tunneling, defect-assisted tunneling, thermal recombination, non-ideal metal-semiconductor contact, and direct and multiphonon-assisted tunneling through insulating layers, all from a microscopic level. The models are compared with experimental data and applied to a number of simulation examples. This part also describes some new approaches of "taylored quantum mechanics” for deriving device models from "first principles” and the fundamental problems therein.

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strange.......1999-09-13

Does anyone can explain, how the book's rank over 750,000 and no one have reviewed it ?

Modelling of Interface Carrier Transport for Device Simulation (Computational Microelectronics)

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Modelling of Interface Carrier Transport for Device Simulation (Computational Microelectronics)
Dietmar Schroeder
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag Telos
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Binding: Hardcover

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The book contains a comprehensive review of the physics, modelling and simulation of electron transport at interfaces in semiconductor devices. Particular emphasis is put on the consistent derivation of interface or boundary conditions for semiconductor device simulation. It combines a review of existing interface charge transport models with original developments. A unified representation of charge transport at semiconductor interfaces is introduced. Models for the most important interfaces are derived, classified within the unique modelling framework, and discussed in the context of device simulation. Discretization methods for numerical solution techniques are presented.

Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices 2001: SISPAD 01

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Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices 2001: SISPAD 01

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ASIN: 3211837086

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This volume contains the Proceedings of the International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Devices and Processes, SISPAD 01, held on September 5–7, 2001, in Athens. The conference provided an open forum for the presentation of the latest results and trends in process and device simulation. The trend towards shrinking device dimensions and increasing complexity in process technology demands the continuous development of advanced models describing basic physical phenomena involved. New simulation tools are developed to complete the hierarchy in the Technology Computer Aided Design simulation chain between microscopic and macroscopic approaches. The conference program featured 8 invited papers, 60 papers for oral presentation and 34 papers for poster presentation, selected from a total of 165 abstracts from 30 countries around the world. These papers disclose new and interesting concepts for simulating processes and devices.

Transport Simulation in Microelectronics (Progress in Numerical Simulation for Microelectronics)

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Transport Simulation in Microelectronics (Progress in Numerical Simulation for Microelectronics)
Alfred Kersch , and William J. Mokoroff
Manufacturer: Birkhauser
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ASIN: 3764351683

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dangerous liasons.......1999-04-21

I REALLY LIKED THIS BOOK. ALTHOUGH I FELT THAT ZILIA WAS A PITYFUL GIRL WHOM NEEDED TO TAKE CONTROL OVER HER SITUATION BUT SHE WAS A GOOD CHARACTER. I THINK SHE HAD A GREAT LIFE IN THE END. THE BOOK IS A QUICK READ AND ENJOYABLE. GREAT TO READ WHILE WATCHING THE MOVIE CRUEL INTENTIONS 1999. HOPE YOU LIKE IT TOO.

Wonderful critique of Enlightenment France.......1999-02-17

Graffigny has been neglected too long. Her fictional heroine's commentary is as effective a response to the marginalization of women as Olympe de Gouges' "Rights of Women and Citizen". Perhaps more importantly, it's an entertaining narrative of a young girls journey towards independance and her own definition of autonomy.

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