A Matter of Life & Death: Bioethics for the Children (Contemporary Social Issues Ser)

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When you're out of your element and on the road, it's smart to carry two attorneys in your back pocket. Stephen Colwell and Ann Shulman have researched the laws pertaining to travel scams and travel insurance, lost baggage and ticket fares, discrimination, business deductions, and the big question of whether to get the rental car insurance. No one wants to think about accidents and legal hassles when planning a summer frolic, and now, courtesy of Colwell and Shulman, some travel savvy will save you money, time, frustration, and injustice down the road.

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13 Going on 30
Christa Roberts
Manufacturer: Bantam Books for Young Readers
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ASIN: 0553494627
Release Date: 2004-04-13

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For some, 13 feels like it was just yesterday.

For Jenna, it was.

All Jenna Rink wants to be is pretty and popular. And on her thirteenth birthday, she gets her wish. When she wakes up, Jenna is stunned to find that she's . . . a grown-up! Read the novel based on the hilarious movie starring Jennifer Garner. Includes 8 pages of photos from the movie!

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USED BUT JUST AS DESCRIBED!!!.......2007-03-25

A little slow getting here, but other than that, just as described!!!!

My daughter thought the book was funny.......2004-08-18

(The following book review was written by Alexandra, my eight-year old daughter):

The book is really good and the movie is as good as the book.

Really Good Book.......2004-04-17

This Book is really good, if u like the movie u will like the book. It's funny, and really good.

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This book represents the most current, comprehensive, and authoritative study of integrins on the market today. It provides an overview of the diverse biological functions of integrins, including:

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Thermal Analysis (TA) has become an indispensable family of analytical techniques in the polymer research. The increased importance of these techniques can be seen as the result of three more or less parallel developments:

• a tempestuous development of TA measuring techniques in combination with a high degree of automation,

• the strongly increased understanding of the underlaying theory and,

• the increasing knowledge of the relation between the polymers' chemical structure and their physical properties.

These areas are still in their developmental stages, especially the third area. The increasing knowledge of the dependence of physical properties on chemical structure just accentuated more and more the need for accurate thermoanalytical measurements, and this knowledge is very important for the first stages of the development of new polymeric systems. Besides, the contribution of TA remains necessary for the technical and commercial development of such a new polymer system. The use of the various TA techniques in these processes is described in this book in nine chapters, while chapter ten illustrates the information obtained about different polymers during special case studies.

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MTDSC provides a step-change increase in the power of calorimetry to characterize virtually all polymer systems including curing systems, blends and semicrystalline polymers. It enables hidden transitions to be revealed, miscibility to be accurately assessed, and phases and interfaces in complex blends to be quantified. It also enables crystallinity in complex systems to be measured and provides new insights into melting behaviour. All of this is achieved by a simple modification of conventional DSC.

In 1992 a new calorimetric technique was introduced that superimposed a small modulation on top of the conventional linear temperature program typically used in differential scanning calorimetry. This was combined with a method of data analysis that enabled the sample’s response to the linear component of the temperature program to be separated from its response to the periodic component. In this way, for the first time, a signal equivalent to that of conventional DSC was obtained simultaneously with a measure of the sample’s heat capacity from the modulation. The new information this provided sparked a revolution in scanning calorimetry by enabling new insights to be gained into almost all aspects of polymer characteristics.

This book provides both a basic and advanced treatment of the theory of the technique followed by a detailed exposition of its application to reacting systems, blends and semicrystalline polymers by the leaders in all of these fields. It is an essential text for anybody interested in calorimetry or polymer characterization, especially if they have found that conventional DSC cannot help them with their problems.

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Taking Hegel's famous "Master-Slave Dialectic" as its starting point, this wide-ranging book examines portrayals of masters, slaves, and servants in works by Carlyle, Dickens, Eliot, Collins and others. The questions raised about modern mastery and slavery are pursued in relation to intriguing 19th century figures as the American slave-holder, the musician, the demagogue, and the Jew.

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From 1932 to 1945, the Japanese occupied Korea. Organized in seven vivid scenes, Kim's fictionalized memoir tells the story of one family's experience, as told by the boy. The narrative starts in 1933 with a dramatic iced-river crossing into Manchuria, when the boy was just a year old, a story the boy knows from the many times his mother has told him the tale. Next scene and we're in 1938. The boy and his family have moved back to Korea, where the boy is the new boy in school and is learning new routines like bowing his head toward where the Japanese emperor is supposed to be in Tokyo. He does as he is told, but wonders if the emperor knows the children are bowing to him, wonders if he's asleep, or eating breakfast--or maybe even in the toilet. He pictures someone knocking on the door, saying, "Your Majesty! The children, the children! They are bowing to Your Majesty!" and him saying, "Wait a minute! I have my pants down!"

A few years later, the children are told they need new names--the Koreans must renounce their family names and take Japanese ones instead. Later, his father takes him to the cemetery to ask forgiveness from their ancestors for the humiliation of losing their names. The scenes continue as the boy grows up, mingling the experiences of childhood with the history of the occupation, seen in the small day-to-day moments that bring history alive. Richard Kim uses a simple but powerful voice to evoke painful times, a loving family, and a strong spirit of survival. Lost Names is a beautifully written tribute to the people of Korea that is subtle, moving, and hard to put down.

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In this classic tale, Richard Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers forced the Koreans to renounce their own names and adopt Japanese names instead, the book follows one Korean family through the Japanese occupation to the surrender of the Japanese empire. Lost Names is at once a loving memory of family and a vivid portrayal of life in a time of anguish.

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Insightful and uplifting.......2007-10-10

While reading this book I got the impression that it was a memoir. It is actally not so please be aware of this when reading. Considering that it is fiction the author was surprisingly "tame" in telling the story. I was expecting another depressing memoir of a family destroyed by the Japanese occupation. In Kim's book, however, the family's suffering is more subtle and their eventual triump refreshing. It's nice to not read a book where everyone and their mothers die a painful death. This book gave a lot of insight into the lives of Koreans during the occupation. It was also nice to know that not all of the imperial Japanese soldiers were as gruesome as they were in the Rape of Nanjing.

Nonfiction bogged down by fiction.......2007-06-15

The "scenes from a Korean boyhood" in this book, which are evidently based on actual events, are very compelling and convey powerfully what life was like under the Japanese occupation of Korea. So that's the reason to read this book. Unfortunately, these scenes are set in a kind of fiction jello that connects one episode with another by means of impressionistic accounts of the Korean landscape and so on. This sort of writing is much less successful, and you'll find your eyes sliding past some of it. Kim is not as skillful at blending fiction and nonfiction as, say, Dave Eggers, and one wishes the author had related more about the father, who had been imprisoned by the Japanese, or the grandparents, or even the village, which was located in what is now North Korea. However, that would be a different book. Lost Names is not difficult reading and is certainly a good place to begin learning about what Koreans endured during World War II.

Lost Names.......2007-04-05

Imperialism is something that is often associated exclusively with the West. The histories of the British colonization of India and the Spanish colonies of Latin America abound, but many fail to notice the history of the Empire of Japan, which held Eastern Asia prior to and during the Second World War. Richard Kim writes about his childhood experience in Korea from 1932 to 1945 in his book Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood and focuses on the situation of Japanese imperialism on the Korean peninsula, and the effects of the colonization.
Richard sees first hand how Japan influence on Korea is affecting his family life, school, and friendships. The book begins with an image of Kim's family leaving Korea for a job and being stopped by the Japanese Imperial Army. This was the first of the scenes that were told through the eyes of Richard Kim. The book goes on to depict six more stories, separated by chapters.
Japan is painted as an outside influence, which is taking over Korea in a more passive way. The narrator describes the Japanese as not bad people, but people who are distinct from the native Koreans, and collectively more powerful and all-surrendering when it comes to their Emperor. This is shown when the narrator talks about how the books gets it's name, in which the Koreans are made to give up their Korean names in exchange for a Japanese name. Showing the strong nature of his family the name chosen by his father means "Foundation of Rock."
Throughout the book, Koreans are portrayed as being in control in Korea behind the thick wall of Japanese occupation. This is largely personified in the character of Kim's college-educated father, whose firm anti-Japanese standpoints are looked-up-to by much of the local community. In spite of this, many Koreans are portrayed to be people who are indebted to the Japanese - shown by the character of Kim's teacher.
Aside from the educated people, Koreans are portrayed as being unaware of the events around the world at the time, shown by the narrator's mother's obliviousness to the unfolding of German invasions in Europe and Japanese occupations in China. These chapters's focus on day-to-day event, which make it very important to the overall understanding the reader, gets of the depth of the effects of the Japanese colonization.
Overall this book was very informative, one is able to see the true impact of the Japanese during World War II. However, not every event depicted in the story is completely true is still shows a first hand perspective in a new way, through a child eye. I would recommend the book to anyone interested in history or the impact of war. Just keep in mind this is not completely factual, but it will give you a better understanding of Korean history.

Korean pride triumphs.......2005-09-21

This was probably my favorite of the books we read in the Japanese History course I took my senior year of college. Young Richard Kim spent the majority of his childhood in his native Korea while it was under occupation by the Japanese, who were not very nice to or tolerant of his people, no matter they were the majority and the occupying Japanese were the minority. There are many hardships and much prejudice he faces growing up, from neighbors, the government, teachers, and schoolmates, but he never loses his sense of pride and Korean nationalism, constantly being reminded by his parents (who are ministers) and his grandmother to remain aware of where he comes from, his identity, the sustained hope that the Japanese won't always be in Korea, and to do well in school and set a fine example to the Japanese, since he mustn't let those Japanese boys at school think they're better than he is. When WWII comes along, everyone suffers the normal wartime deprivations, such as food shortages and bombing raids, but it is especially hard for the Koreans in the midst. Young Richard is forced, along with his classmates, to bow in the direction of the Emperor each morning, recite an ode of allegiance to the Emperor and Japanese government, and, worst of all, to even change his family name. All Koreans are forced to change their surnames to Japanese surnames, although Richard's father is clever and changes their family's name to one with the root meaning "rock," which of course is a reference to Saint Peter and the family's religious faith, a reference the Japanese won't get. It's enough to take away and try to usurp one's culture, traditions, customs, language, and way of life, but when you take away someone's name, that is in a way the ultimate erasure of their identity. Even when forced to, at least on the surface, speak a foreign language, submit to foreign leaders, and follow alien customs, there's still the comfort of knowing your base identity, your name, is still the same, but taking it away makes this prejudice and attempted usurpation of Korean culture incredibly personal and insulting.

It didn't really bother me that some of these memories and thoughts are very complex and detailed for a child as young as Richard is in the beginning. Many times memories of traumatic defining events are stronger and more vivid and real precisely because they were so awful and traumatic, leaving more impact than something as mundane as, say, eating breakfast or walking the dog. And even if some gaps in Richard's memory may have been filled in by what he imagines happened or what his family have told him happened, it doesn't lessen the emotional impact of these events in the slightest. And I like how it was told in the present tense; since discovering quite some time ago that books can be written in the present tense and there's no rule written in stone saying you must only and always write in the past tense, I've much preferred books written in the present tense. It makes the events seem more real and gripping, full of suspense and tension, like constantly wondering what's going to happen next, living right in the moment.

No blame, just poetry.......2005-08-28

A beautifully written book that places you in Korea during the second world war. Fast reading, and well paced told from the POV of a very (maybe too!) wise young boy. Only thing that got me down was knowing that it ended just before the next war again wreaked such damage and havoc, and there was no post script. Definitely worth reading.

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Northeast Asia's Stunted Regionalism: Bilateral Distrust in the Shadow of Globalization
Gilbert Rozman
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Although Northeast Asia could be on the verge of becoming the world's third great region, expanding economic ties have not been supported by security cooperation and trust. Gilbert Rozman traces the problems in establishing regionalism over 15 years. Relying on many sources in the languages of the region, he offers a detailed picture of conflicting strategies in China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea. While covering U.S. globalization policies, he draws attention to debates about bilateral relations in the four countries, along with shifting outcomes over six periods.

Northeast Asia's Stunted Regionalism: Bilateral Distrust in the Shadow of Globalization.(Book Review) : An article from: Journal of East Asian Studies

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Northeast Asia's Stunted Regionalism: Bilateral Distrust in the Shadow of Globalization.(Book Review) : An article from: Journal of East Asian Studies
John Ravenhill
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Title: Northeast Asia's Stunted Regionalism: Bilateral Distrust in the Shadow of Globalization.(Book Review)
Author: John Ravenhill
Publication: Journal of East Asian Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2005
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Volume: 5 Issue: 3 Page: 524(3)

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Savings God's Green Earth - A Religous Approach to Envorinental Proactivity

It's Easy to be Green

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Saving God's Green Earth: Rediscovering the Church's Responsibility to Environmental Stewardship
Tri Robinson , and Jason Chatraw
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For hundreds of years, the church championed the beauty of God's creation, demonstrating in many ways how it points to the Creator. However, over the last century, the evangelical church has let the value of caring for creation slip away. Author and pastor Tri Robinson makes a compelling case for the biblical mandate behind environmental stewardship and shows the church what it can do about this eroding value.

Through sharing both his own personal story and the story of his church in response to environmental concerns, Robinson clearly shows how important this value is and how effective it is in showing others the Creator. Not only does Robinson inspire the reader to care for the environment, he reveals a clear pathway to making the value of environmental stewardship real in both the life of the reader and the Christian community in which he or she is involved.

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Savings God's Green Earth - A Religous Approach to Envorinental Proactivity.......2007-07-21

I am the committee executive for our church (Prysterian Church in DC). This book is an excellent source of ideas and methods to bring a strong enviromental approach to the church and is congregation. The book also assists in overcoming objevctions as to the logic of the church becoming involved in the eniromental movement.

It's Easy to be Green.......2007-06-22

Tri Robinson delivers in this impassioned call to the church to return to its roots when it comes to caring for the environment. As the pastor of a large evangelical church, Robinson shares passionately how he rediscovered the biblical mandate to care for creation and how he put that into action within his church.

Filled with theological insights and practical applications, this book is a great primer for any Christian or church leader looking to provide a pathway for his or her church to engage other church members in this value. A must read!!!

straight to the recycle bin.......2007-06-21

Once I was able to get past the numerous, glaring grammatical errors, I found myself looking for something of substance that would both challenge me to think more about the church's responsibility of environmental stewardship along with an applicable toolset for creating/operating such a ministry at my own church. I was disappointed in finding little of either.

Robinson's attempt to stay entirely apolitical renders the book ineffective and never provides a true context for redefining the ideals of conservation as Rod Dreher so aptly did in his book from last year, Crunchy Cons. Nor does Robinson attempt to give a new framework for a new approach to the American consumerist lifestyle and incorporating "cradle to cradle" thinking into our shopping habits. Yvon Chouinard's Let My People Go Surfing does this in a far more inspirational manner and addresses truly incorporating these philosophies back into the organization.

Additionally, Robinson never addresses the architectural toxicity of most church buildings today, failing to touch on both new builds and retrofitting existing structures. Considering this is perhaps the greatest environmental impact many churches will collectively make on the environment, I was disappointed to find such a gapping void instead of a few chapters on this topic.

Lastly, Robinson ignores the fiscal costs and savings of both incorporating a greener approach to church and Christian ministry. Considering that having financials to back up ideas can help saw many conservative people in the church, this would have been a useful addition as would have benchmarks for gauging participation over time in new environmental ministries.

I'd recommend skipping this unenlightened drivel and getting Crunchy Cons and Let My People Go Surfing. They might actually encourage you to do some real thinking.

Excellent book.......2007-05-13

I think this is an excellent book, I provided one to my pastor, but have not heard back from him, I hope he agrees. Very good message in this book for any Christian that would believe the church needs to do more in this area.

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