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This course manual instructs students in recombinant DNA techniques and other essential molecular biology techniques in the context of projects. The project approach inspires and captivates students; it involves them in the scientific experience, providing continuity to laboratory bench time and an understanding of the principles underlying the techniques presented.
Molecular Biology is a must for any department, operating under budgetary constraints that offers or plans to offer a course in molecular cloning.
Key Features
* Includes a glossary of over 200 terms important for understanding molecular biology
* Uses an inexpensive source of eukaryotic cells - great for schools on a budget
* Includes Methods Locator that provides instant access to the latest methods
* Contain clearly written, easy-to-follow, student-tested instructions:
* Sterile techniques
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* Recombinant DNA cloning
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* Colony hybridization
* Purification of plant DNA
* RNA purification
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* Purification of poly A+ RNA
* Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
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Very appropriate text for beginning molecular biologists........1999-04-10
This text was used in an undergraduate molecular biology lab course which i took, and it contained detailed information and suggestions which were extremely useful for beginning students. This text has continued to be useful, however, as a reference for commonly used protocols and for troubleshooting experiments.
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Illuminating text: Expert writers bring to life the city's history, culture, current affairs and, above all, the people. Incisive evaluations: From the majestic Grand Palace to boisterous Chinatown, and from refined Jim Thompson's House to sleazy Patpong, it's all here. Evocative photography: Insight Guides are renowned for their great pictures, which vividly convey a sense of everyday life. Pictorial guides to the Best of Bangkok: Selected highlights of the city, including the best walks, markets, nightlife and shopping. Area maps plus street atlas: Main sites are cross-referenced by number from text to maps and a street atlas proves the overall picture. Full listings: All the travel details, hotels and contact numbers you'll need.
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One of over 400 titles in the Insight series,
New edition, Fall, 1999. Part of an international travel series that goes beyond the Where to Stay and Where to Eat. Local writers convey the insider's perspective on how to get the most out of your trip. The photojournalistic approach captures the uniqueness of each culture and location.
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Simple highlights and concise "Insight" Bangkok.......2000-07-12
I would recommend this book to anyone who will spend a few days in Bangkok. It will encourage the reader to get an idea and to focus on a particular place to visit by flipping thru the vivid photos and accompanying concise text. When I went to Bangkok last year, I had only four days. I had to plan my days by the areas I wanted to visit and narrow my interests. Since I was not familiar with Thailand and its' culture, Insight Guide Bangkok, was great in helping me focus my trip. I even had a chance to take a day trip outside Bangkok (as recommended by the book) to the Northern ancient city of Ayuttaya and a day trip to a remote island South of Bangkok. My vacation to Bangkok turned out to be a memorial experience dispite the lack of time. The travel tips in the back of the book (marked in yellow pages) are lists of basic information at your finger "tips".
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glamour. access. scandal.
Ever wonder what your favorite pop divas are like AFTER the cameras stop rolling? What do they do behind closed doors? What are their parties like? What do they think about? What do they fight about? What do they really want? And who do they REALLY hook up with?
Kelly Kimball spent a summer as a backup dancer for Darcy Barnes, the biggest pop star in the world. Kelly's got the real story on Darcy, her life, her family, and her entourage -- and she's spilling it here for the first time. If you think the life of a superstar can't possibly be all it's cracked up to be, you're wrong. It's all that and more. And it's all inside Kelly's tell-all diary: Confessions of a Backup Dancer.
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This book vividly describes what it's like to see your favorite star off and on the camera.......2007-01-12
Kelly Kimball lives and breathes dancing. Whether it's at the dance studio where she works or in her basement, she is constantly working to get to a place where she doesn't have to think about her body, everything just does it for her. She wants to go THERE. THERE is a place where the music takes control of her body. Where she is oblivious to everything, where the music pulses through her body. Kelly gets a once-in-a-lifetime chance to dance with one of the world's most famous teen sensations; Darcy. Kelly learns what it's really like to live next to a pop star, and how Darcy changes herself to become an idol everyone cares about. Darcy is like any other girl offstage, but she takes on a mask, a glittering smile, for all the cameras and fans, which is ripped off the moment she leaves the cameras. Kelly is pressured to have two identities, one as K.K., a nobody who was discovered at a nightclub and has never taken a dance lesson in her life, and another as herself, Kelly, who's been taking dance for 12 years. Kelly begins to feel herself slip away from her family and friends, and must decide; does she want to put on a mask like all the others, or stay herself and risk being fired?
A great book for girls who dare to dream!.......2006-03-29
Lizzy Lottes(Glen Cove N.Y.)
This book is amazing if you want to ever become a dancer.
this book wants you want to chase your dreams.The main character Kelly fallows her dreams by trying out to be a back up dancer for a huge Pop star and along the way she find out that its not all what it cracked up to be. She also finds out that being a pop star is not easy and that its not always the glamerous life style she always thought it was. This book is great for any girl who ever dreams of becoming a dancer or anything she wants!!
Loved it.......2005-07-08
Who doesn't want to be a teenage girl for just a few hours? This is a hilarious description of what it's like to be in the right place at the right time, and find yourself advancing faster than expected -- as a backup dancer for a major pop star. The backstage antics and pop star politics are funny and entertaining.
Confessions of a Backup Dancer Review.....GREAT!.......2005-05-23
Confessions of a Backup Dancer
By: Tucker Shaw
Confessions of a Backup Dancer is a nonfiction book about a girl, Kelly, who lives in San Diego and goes to an audition to later find herself going on a summer tour with the world's biggest pop star, Darcy Barnes. She gets all the insider secrets, and the real story behind all of the gossip. After getting in trouble with Darla Barnes, Darcy's control freak of a mother, Kelly is fired and then hired again by Darcy's rival, Pashmina. Over this hectic summer there are many true tests of friendship, loyalty, and "realness." I like how the characters are very real and put into real situations. Over the course of the book, there was not a character I didn't except for Darla.
This was a great book. It was unlike any book I have ever read. This book gets inside Kelly's head and actually tells the situations for what they are from her point of view. I felt like I was actually inside of her world throughout the story and I really got to know what pop stars really acted like behind all of that entourage and press. I would recommend this book to older teens around age fifteen and older. The whole book talks about realness and how important this is, and Kelly struggled with staying real all summer without letting anything spin out of control. I really loved this out-of-control, wacky, and real-life story and any teenage girl would enjoy reading Confessions of a Backup Dancer.
S. C.
I Confess, Confession of a Backup Dancer Was One Of The Best.......2005-04-09
Confessions of a Backup Dancer is a must read. Starting out in San Diego, where Kelly Kimball, an inspiring 17 year old dancer who claims to have been dancing for "350" years. Her best friend makes her audition for a all girl pop star group, however Kelly's moves don't quite groove with the judges. They need it more "real." However when Darcey Barnes manager sees her audition tape she thinks she has found the perfect person to fill in the dancer who got hurt. Darcey travles with the group and claims to be "Darcey's Best Friend." Kelly gets a nickname to be K.K. Kelly dances her way to the top of the group however after one night of showing off the audience when Darceys Pants rip, Kelly takes center stage. Darceys over protcetive mom get angry with Kelly and fires her from the tour. What happens next? Read to find out.
Confessions Of A Backup Dancer is one of the best books I have ever read and trust me, I love to read. I read this book attracted to the cover (yes I am aware of the saying, "Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover). However after I read the first computer diary entry I could not put the book down. This book keeps you on the edge of your seat wondering what is going to happen next. Has a great lesson in the end to it, but very realisitc and has incidents that teens face nowadays. Absoutley a must read.
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Until now, studies of dental and skeletal growth and development have often been treated as independent disciplines within the literature. Human Growth in the Past takes a fresh perspective by bringing together these two related fields of inquiry in a single volume whose purpose is to place methodological issues of growth and development in past populations within a strong theoretical framework. Contributions examine a variety of aspects of human growth in the past, drawing from both paleoanthropological and bioarchaeological data. The book covers a wide spectrum of topics, from patterns of growth in humans and their close relatives, innovative methods and applications of techniques and models for the study of growth, to estimation of age-at-death in subadults and infant mortality in archaeological samples. Human Growth in the Past will be of interest to biological anthropologists, and those in the related fields of dental anatomy, evolutionary biology, and developmental biology.
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Physics, once known as “natural philosophy,” is the most basic science, explaining the world we live in, from the largest scale down to the very, very, very smallest, and our understanding of it has changed over many centuries. In Black Bodies and Quantum Cats, science writer Jennifer Ouellette traces key developments in the field, setting descriptions of the fundamentals of physics in their historical context as well as against a broad cultural backdrop. Newton's laws are illustrated via the film Addams Family Values, while Back to the Future demonstrates the finer points of special relativity. Poe's “The Purloined Letter” serves to illuminate the mysterious nature of neutrinos, and Jeanette Winterson's novel Gut Symmetries provides an elegant metaphorical framework for string theory.
An enchanting and edifying read, Black Bodies and Quantum Cats shows that physics is not an arcane field of study but a profoundly human endeavor—and a fundamental part of our everyday world.
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Not what i was looking for........2006-07-05
I have read many scientific publications in my life so when I do read book with a scientific focus I have many standards that I like to have fulfilled(in other words im very anal lol). The only reason that I rate this book as low as I did is only because I was completely expecting a book like Stephen Hawking's, A Breif History of Time (great book by the way!!!) I have taken physics in highschool and in college and I felt that her delivery of many physics concepts were too dumbed down and many fruitful aspects of them were left out for the sake of either complexity or any other reason(cannot think of why else they would be left out lol). I also found that many of the ways she tried to deliver the physics topics were rather questionable and left me with a bitter tase in my mouth. Overall I was dissapointed because I bought the book without doing any backround research on it beforehand. If you are looking for a Physics book like those written by Stephen Hawkings then this isn't the book for you. If you are interested in Physics and have no prior knowlege of the subject then this is the book for you. Sorry for any misspelled words, names, ect..
Ps.. Because i am a biology major I had to add this in...at the end of the second chapter she states that "some textbooks in Alabama still contain a disclaimer stating that evolution is just a "theory""...but i mean evolution IS a theory...its not neccesarily considered a fact even though there is overwhelming evidence in support of it. I believe evolution is true but maybe i'm just misinterpreting what she ment by this statement. To me I thought that it implied that evolution is a fact when in reality it isn't. Evolution as I see it is the best way to decribe life and how it came to be AS OF NOW, (maybe there will be a better theory in the future?)because fact is too strong a word it doesnt leave room for the grey areas....but thats just my opinion. and if I have misunderstood this statement i am truely sorry i just think there is nothing wrong with being a theory lol.
like sjg, she entices you into an amusing essay .......2006-07-01
Real science made fun.In easy bites, she starts with an anecdote, like SJ Gould and teases you into understanding principles of physics you never thought you coud learn. In an antiscience age, in an antirational age, this is to be cherished
Marvin Thalenberg MD
Way more fun than I thought I'd have..........2006-04-21
I found this a curiously fun sort of read-different from my usual choice of reading entertainment. I don't typically read science books, mostly because I'm lazy and don't want to work at understanding something really technical (many science writers put off the general public by delving too deeply), but hey folks, the author makes the science easy to grasp. And the writing style is witty, light and intelligent. Ouellette has a gift for marrying science, history and storytelling.
What's especially appealing is the way the author connects seemingly esoteric science with our everyday life-Reddi-whip (the physics of foam), velcro (biomimicry)-and illuminates the process by which scientists and inventors impact our lives. I loved the references to literature and pop culture that segue into the science or serve as examples of the science in action.
There's something for everyone. Science fans will get an enlightening and lively look into the history and people behind the discoveries. Those more interested in history will learn a thing or two about the science (painlessly). And old English majors, like me, will appreciate the storytelling.
Science Writing for the Masses.......2006-04-20
If Jennifer Ouellette had been writing books like this when I was a kid, she'd have been my favorite explicator of science. Instead, I was reading Isaac Asimov, who was fun and interesting but a scientist himself, with a tendency to focus on minute details that were sometimes a little bewildering to someone just getting her feet wet. Ouellette knows not only how to get her physics-phobic audience's attention, but avoids bogging them down in technicalities.
Occasionally, the techniques of writing for a general audience call for the sacrifice of precision in favor of broader generalities, like "rounding off" the technical details of lens grinding, which are best left to a more in-depth discussion of the topic. But as a non-scientist who's been reading science writing for the last 30 years as well as teaching it at the university level, I can truthfully say that very little is lost in this book. In this case, "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down," to quote Mary Poppins. Not too many people are eager to read about physics, whether it's cloaked in pop culture or not, but Ouellette slyly draws you in with doses of the Olsen Twins, the Addams Family, and the DaVinci Code. By the end of the book, you'll catch yourself thinking that maybe physics isn't so terrifying, and certainly not boring. And if you're not getting the nitty-gritty details here, well, you can always go read Richard Feynman, or try plowing through Stephen Hawking.
And you're not going to read about flying monks in any of their books.
Fun but Flawed.......2006-04-19
Jennifer's Ouellette's venture into the esoteric realms of science is light and fun, but, I'm sorry to say, it is sprinkled with factual errors. Here are just a few:
In her discussion of telescopes, she says the objective lens of a refracting telescope is concave, to gather light. This is just not so. The objective lens is always convex. Millions of teleswcope and astronomy buffs know this. How come the two academioc gurus who praise this book in its front matter didn't catch it? They couldn't have read it carefully. Most high school physics students would spot the error.
More errors: In her discussion of spherical aberration in lenses she says the aberration is the result of faulty grinmding of the lenses. Not so. The aberrration is inherent in the spherical curvature itself. A lens that is ground to a perfect spherical curvatue will still exhibit the aberration. The fault is not in the grinding, but in the design.
Spherical lenses, that is, lenes with surfaces that are part of a perfect sphere, are the easiest to grind; that's why lenses have been made this way for centuries. Only recently, since about 1920, have methods for making aspheric lenses been developed. Aspheric lenses have non-spherical curvatures which correct for the aberrations caused by spherical surfaces. A common aspheric lens is the Schmidt corrector lens used in many reflecting telescopes.
My credentials? I worked for American Optical Company as a lens grinder. Later, as a TV science writer, I wrote a TV script in collaboration with Dr. John strong, physicist at the Johns Hop0kins University. Strong put the aluminum reflecting surface on the Hale telescope at Mt. Palomar and was known world-wide for his design of a diffraction grating ruling engine capable of making 6 inch gratings.
I have also written a column on science and natuire for a weekly newspaper for over 15 years. Like Ms. Ouellette, I try to keep my science writing light enough to be interesting to a general readership, but I try very hard to get my facts straight.
Perhaps the author and her publisher should employ the services of a scientifically trained editor to pick out the mistakes before publication.
For better science writing, Ken Volduzi
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The Canadian Prairie has long been represented as a timeless and unchanging location, defined by settlement and landscape. Now, a new generation of writers and historians challenge that perception and argue, instead, that it is a region with an evolving culture and history. This collection of ten essays explores a more contemporary prairie identity, and reconfigures "the prairie" as a construct that is non-linear and diverse, responding to the impact of geographical, historical, and political currents. These writers explore the connections between document and imagination, between history and culture, and between geography and time.
The subjects of the essays range widely: the non-linear structure of Carol Shield's The Stone Diaries; the impact of Aberhart's Social Credit, Marshall McLuhan, and Mesopotamian myth on Robert Kroetsch's prairie postmodernism; the role of document in long prairie poems; the connection between cultural tourism and heritage; the theme of regeneration in Margaret Laurence's Manawaka writing; the influence of imagination on geography in Thomas Wharton's Icefields; and the effects on an alpine climber of pre-WWII ideological concepts of time and individualism.
Customer Reviews:
A compendium of ten perceptive and informative essays from contributors who explore contemporary Canadian prairie identity.......2005-11-14
Collaboratively compiled, organized, and edited by Alison Calder (English Department, University of Manitoba) and Robert Wardhaugh (History Department, University of Western Ontario), History, Literature, And The Writing Of The Canadian Prairies is a compendium of ten perceptive and informative essays from contributors who explore contemporary Canadian prairie identity and reconfigure "the prairie" as a construct that is both non-linear and diverse, responding to the impact of geographical, historical, and political trends. Included are Calder and Wardhaugh's "Introduction: When Is the Prairie?"; Frances W. Kaye's "The Tantalizing Possiblity of Living on the Plains"; Claire Omhovere's The Melting of Time in Thomas Wharton's Icefields"; Nina van Gessel's "Autogeology: Limestone and Life Narrative in Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries"; Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson's "Coyote as Culprit: 'Her-story' and the Feminist Fantastic in Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The Cure for Death by Lightning"; Russell Morton Brown's "Robert Kroetsch, Marshall McLuhan, and Canada's Prairie Postmodernism: The Aberhart Effect"; S. Leigh Matthews' "The 'Precarious Perch' of the 'Decent Woman': Spatial (De)Construction of Gender in Women's Prairie Memoirs"; Dennis Cooley's "Documents in the Postmodern Long Prairie Poem"; Sarah Payne's "Reconstructions of Literary Settings in North America's Prairie Regions: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Red Cloud, Nebraska, and Neepawa, Manitoba"; Debra Dudek's "A Timeless Imagined Prairie: Return and Regeneration in Margaret Laurence's Manawaka Novels"; and Cam McEachern's "Time's Grip along the Atabasca, 1920s and 1930s". Additionally enhanced with an extensive Bibliography, History, Literature, And The Writing Of The Canadian Prairies is a welcome and seminal contribution to the growing field of Canadian Literary Studies.
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This digital document is an article from Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, published by Canadian Ethnic Studies Association on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 874 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Deemed Unsuitable: Blacks from Oklahoma Move to the Canadian Prairies in Search of Equality in the Early 20th Century only to find Racism in their New Home. (Book Reviews/Recensions). (book review)
Author: John C. Lehr
Publication:
Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2000
Publisher: Canadian Ethnic Studies Association
Volume: 32
Issue: 2
Page: 149(2)
Article Type: Book Review
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Book Description
This digital document is an article from Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2005. The length of the article is 829 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: History, Literature and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies.(Book Review)
Author: Neil Querengesser
Publication:
Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 37
Issue: 2
Page: 127(2)
Article Type: Book Review
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Book Description
This digital document is an article from Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, published by Canadian Ethnic Studies Association on June 22, 1998. The length of the article is 909 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Severing the Ties that Bind. Government Repression of Indigenous Religious Ceremonies on the Prairies. (Book Reviews / Recensions). (book review)
Author: Patricia A. McCormack
Publication:
Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1998
Publisher: Canadian Ethnic Studies Association
Volume: 30
Issue: 2
Page: 161(2)
Article Type: Book Review
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