Free and Unequal: The Biological Basis of Individual Liberty

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Free and Unequal: The Biological Basis of Individual Liberty
Roger J. Williams
Manufacturer: Liberty Fund
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ASIN: 0913966533

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Free & Unequal, The Biological Basis of Individual Liberty
Roger J. Williams
Manufacturer: U of Texas Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0FKJM

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FREE AND UNEQUAL The Biological Basis of Individual Liberty.
Roger J. Williams
Manufacturer: U of Texas Press
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Free and Unequal The Biological Basis of Individual Liberty.
Roger J. Williams
Manufacturer: U of Texas Press
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Free and Unequal: The Biological Basis of Individual Liberty.
Roger J. Williams
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Aquatic Plants - Another World
H. David Greene , and Michael W. Duttweiler
Manufacturer: Cornell University, Cornell Cooperative Exten
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General | Plants | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1577532090

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An excellent guide to the beaches of Maui.......2005-04-14

I'm a frequent visitor to Maui, and this book has helped me learn about the beaches not only of Maui, but of Moloka'i, Lana'i, and Kaho'olawe.

If you are looking for plenty of nice large color photos, this isn't the book. There are only two of them, on the front and back covers. But there are a reasonable number of good black-and-white shots. Plus, there are thirty useful maps.

What I like about this book is all the information about so many beaches I never would have known about. I've tried quite a few of them now.

There is more to Maui than just the beaches, but I think the beaches are the best part.

Oh yes, my favorite of the many beaches? Napili.

In depth info on practically every beach on Maui.......2000-10-17

I used this book when doing research for a web site during our one year stay on Maui. It's awesome! The in-depth info on every beach on the island is up-to-date and insightful, with tid-bits of info only locals know, including history, geography, what's offshore, and more!

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magnificent.......2000-07-18

Being from Hawaii, I found this book to be very true and accurate. It helped me experience beaches I didn't even know about.

Archaeological reconnaissance (surface survey) for Kalama Park, Kihei, Maui

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Archaeological reconnaissance (surface survey) for Kalama Park, Kihei, Maui
Charles Keau
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Archaeological reconnaissance in three Maui County beach parks and Kahului Sewage Treatment Plant

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Archaeological reconnaissance in three Maui County beach parks and Kahului Sewage Treatment Plant
Charles Keau
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Girls who adore Lurlene McDaniel's four-hanky reads will be attracted, then challenged, by this wise and restrained story about a teenager suffering through her mother's death from a brain tumor. Joan Abelove, whose widely praised first teen novel, Go and Come Back, dealt with a culture clash, here writes a very different kind of story. Like most 16-year-olds, Mindy judges and rejects her mother, fighting with her constantly--but always with a fond underlying remembrance of a time when they held hands and were close and comfortable. When her mother develops excruciating neck pain, Mindy is annoyed, convinced that her mom is just faking it for sympathy. With a cool detachment that hides her anxiety, Mindy goes about writing essays for her college applications while her mother undergoes tests in the hospital. Her oily and controlled father ("the man who had excused himself from my adolescence") tells her very little, so when surgery leaves her mother an empty shell, Mindy is taken unawares and left with all the unfinished business of mother/daughter conflict and love, her need to blame, and her anger at being left on her own. With penetrating insight, Abelove shows us a young woman working her way through a complex grief, in a book that will have all daughters (and their mothers) reaching for the Kleenex and resolving to express their love out loud. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell

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Mindy has always relied upon her mother-to listen to her, to ease the tension between Mindy and her withdrawn father, to love her. Then her mother is diagnosed with a brain tumor. After her surgery, she is no longer a laughing, lively presence. She has lost the power of speech, and her memory-and Mindy has lost her mother forever. Based upon Joan Abelove's own life, here is the wrenching story of a girl losing her mother early, a girl with a father who will not acknowledge what is going on-a girl who could have been you, or someone you know.

"Abelove draws this melancholy, but hopeful story with delicacy of word and feeling and creates three powerful, memorable characters in the members of the family. Though in sharp contrast to Go and Come Back, Abelove's first novel, this proves once again that Abelove can write books that are not only very complex but also vibrant and infused with tenderness."
-Booklist, starred review

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Mother's Impending Death.......2007-06-11

Mindy is a high school student, living with her mother and father. She's always thought things were pretty good and pretty normal with her family, although she hasn't really related well to her father since she was a child. He doesn't seem to listen to her much at all, and she misses the closeness they used to have when she was little. It doesn't matter all that much to her, though.

But now Mindy's mother is dying of a brain tumor. When she was first sick and would complain about feeling so awful, Mindy was a typical teenager toward her. She thought her mother was being overly dramatic and faking how bad things were. Mindy never believed there was something really wrong until her mother was very sick in the hospital and fading fast.

Mindy is wracked with guilt over the way she has treated her mother lately, and she can't seem to come to terms with the fact that her mother is dying. Her father spends all of his time at the hospital and has grown even more distant from Mindy, who really needs his support. How will she be able to get through this and go on after her mother is gone?

I liked that things didn't all work out in the end of this book. It was a pretty realistic ending, where there was no miracle to make everything all better. I liked how the book showed Mindy trying to get on with her life and be a normal person, even though there was always a part of her thinking about her mother's death.

It seemed as though Mindy's mother lived long enough after they found the brain tumor that Mindy could have made things okay between them so when she died Mindy wouldn't have felt so much guilt. I also thought Mindy's father should have been able to see his daughter was hurting and should have been able to do something about it.

Saying it out loud.......2006-03-15

My book, "Saying it out loud" was very interesting. It was interesting because during the time that I read this wonderful book I realized how unfair life can be. By this I mean that you might have someone very special that you love but that person might not stay with you forever. Relating to the book, a 19-year-old girl Susan has her mother struggling for her life in the hospital. Her mother is in the hospital due to a brain tumor. One day Susan went to visit her mom and make her company like any other person would do. A week later she went to go visit her mother, Sarah at the hospital. Later that afternoon Dr. Lawrence walked in the room. She then talked to Susan about her mother's critical condition. The Dr. said that her mom's tumor was the size of an apple and was unfortunately increasing its size. She then said that her mom would have to be taken into surgery in order to remove the monster in her mother's head. Susan was very nervous and scared but she had hope. She knew the surgery would be successful and that her mom was going to be better soon. Mrs. Lawrence then gave Susan the date when her mother was going to be operated. It was a week from the present day. The week had passed and Susan was ready for the upcoming challenge. As Susan sat patiently in the lobby imagining her mom and herself together having a great time. Dr. Lawrence then interrupted Susan's thoughts. She had a disappointed and guilty look on her pale face. She then told Susan the terrible news. The Dr. then explained to her what had happened. "We lost your mother during surgery. She lost a lot of blood and the tumor was too big for us to handle. There wasn't even a little possibility of you mother surviving." As Susan threw her self on the ground she began to cry as loud as she could from the bottom of her heart. Unfortunately Susan lives on her own as she remembers the great times she spent with her mother, Sarah.

Saying it out loud.......2006-03-15

Gone but not forgotten.......2003-10-16

Mindy has just realized that her mom has a brain tumor. Throughout the book, Mindy reflects on the past events with her mom, and how much she has ignored her mom throughout her life. Mindy has to learn how to live with her mom's brain tumor and her dads neglectance. Gail, Mindy's best friend, helps her through many rough times, and helps her feal as if she belongs. Even though Midny is supposed to be concentrating on collage applications, she can not get her mind off of what is happening in her life.

Saying It Out Loud makes you think about how much you would miss someone, and how you only miss some people when they are gone. This book relates to life by showing the ups and down of life. Through out my life I have not liked my mom being in my life, but and having second thoughts about it.

Changed the way I think of my mother.......2003-09-10

I was having a lot of conflicts with my mother when I bought this book. I am glad I got it. It made me laugh and cry. I have read it many times! It is easy to read and best of all it makes you think twice about people you dislike.

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SAYING IT OUT LOUD
ABELOVE JOAN
Manufacturer: DK PUBLISHING
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PGHM6Y

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Saying It Out Loud
Joan Abelove
Manufacturer: Puffin
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJG6UU

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Saying My Name Out Loud

Manufacturer: Pleasure Dome Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0918870054

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Lovely book of 24 poems. Includes a couple of photographs.

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The transport volumes of the Biomembranes series were initiated with Volumes 125 and 126 of Methods in Enzymology. These two volumes covered Transport in Bacteria, Mitochondria, and Chloroplasts. Volumes 156 and 157 cover ATP-Driven Pumps and Related Transport.
The topic of biological membrane transport is a very timely one because a strong conceptual basis for its understanding now exists.

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Instrumental liquid chromatography: A practical manual on high-performance liquid chromatographic methods (Journal of Chromatography Library)
N. A Parris
Manufacturer: Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co
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ASIN: 0444414274

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Instrumental Liquid Chromatography. A Practical Manual on High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Methods.
N. A. Parris
Manufacturer: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JLESXU

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Developing a theory that seamlessly combines relativity and quantum mechanics, the most important conceptual breakthroughs in twentieth century physics, has proved to be a difficult and ongoing challenge. This book details how two distinguished physicists and Nobel laureates have explored this theme in two lectures given in Cambridge, England, in 1986 to commemorate the famous British physicist Paul Dirac. Given for nonspecialists and undergraduates, the talks transcribed in Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics focus on the fundamental problems of physics and the present state of our knowledge. Professor Feynman examines the nature of antiparticles, and in particular the relationship between quantum spin and statistics. Professor Weinberg speculates on how Einstein's theory of gravitation might be reconciled with quantum theory in the final law of physics. Highly accessible, deeply thought provoking, this book will appeal to all those interested in the development of modern physics.

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Tougher than the Lectures on Physics.......2007-03-21

When I read the lectures on physics, I was hoping to understand the reasoning behind the exclusion principle, and was disappointed to find that RPF felt that this was too complex for undergraduates, so he asked them to take it on faith for the moment.

Here he is talking to a more advanced audience, and explains it - he was right, it's tough. I'm still struggling to understand it, but I have confidence that this is a good book to help.

Recommended.......2007-01-17

From Richard Feynman, with love. Need more to be said? Read it, and read it again. This one can be read all over again once in a while and does not get boring.

Great Lectures. Requires Math Background........2006-02-19

This short book, Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics, offers two lectures: Richard Feynman's The Reason for Antiparticles and Steven Weinberg's Toward the Final Laws of Physics. These two talks comprise the 1986 Dirac Memorial lectures at Cambridge University. Both presentations are cogently structured and make fascinating reading.

The talks were directed at an advanced audience, one that was familiar with quantum mechanics. Unlike many popular presentations by Feynman and Weinberg, these lectures are not suitable for the general layman.

However, these lectures are accessible to a persistent (perhaps, stubborn) layman with a calculus background and a deep interest in particle physics. I am not a physicist, but I did take my share of physics, chemistry, and math courses several decades ago. I encountered Schrodinger's equation in more than one class, but not relativistic quantum mechanics. However, having recently read Bruce Schumm's wonderful review of particle physics (titled Deep Down Things), I was sufficiently motivated to work my way through both Dirac memorial lectures.

Richard Feynman's lecture, The Reason for Antiparticles, is decidedly the more difficult. Feynman first demonstrates that quantum mechanics and relativity together require the existence of antiparticles, and then shows that they also establish the spin-statistics connection. Within a few pages advanced mathematical expressions appear and then persistently stay in the foreground for nearly the entire talk.

Although understanding Feynman's mathematics is critical for a full and deep appreciation of his exposition, with careful, repeated readings the stubborn layman will have sudden moments of enlightenment and can come away with a deeper understanding of antiparticles and spin statistics. For readers engaged in some self-tutorial readings, it may prove helpful to return occasionally to this classic Feynman lecture to qualitatively measure progress. I have no doubt that, on a deeper level, Feynman's lecture will similarly challenge and enlighten physics majors as well.

Steven Weinberg discusses his speculations on the shape of a final underlying theory of particle physics. Initially, his talk is deceptively easy as few mathematical expressions are used. However, about midway a Lagrangian density equation appears, ratcheting the difficulty several notches, as Weinberg considers a theoretical framework based on quantum mechanics and a few symmetry principles, that is also mathematically consistent with the Lagrangian dynamical principle. After discussion of some limitations of the Standard Model, Weinberg concludes his talk with a somewhat mathematical introduction to string theory.

Physics by two of the very best!.......1999-09-25

As usual, the best physics books are short and to the point, as is this one. The two Dirac lectures may serve as a perfectly good mini physics course all by themselves. I always enjoy a Feynman lecture, and this is no exception. He cuts to the chase without sacrificing the plot. But, I must say, in this case the Wienberg lecture is the better of the two. Weinberg's style has a particular grace & beauty about it that gently exposes the aesthetic meaning of the search for a picture of nature.

Two of the best give great insight into fundamentals........1998-11-18

Feynman yet again gives great insight into the laws of physics, this time exploring the reasons for existence of anti-particles, starting from the dirac equation etc.. Plus some really outstanding photographs, that fella Weinberg will be chuffed to have his name mentioned on the book cover!

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Kathy Acker pushed literary boundaries with a vigor and creative fire that made her one of America's preeminent experimental writers and her books cult classics. Now Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper have distilled the incredible variety of Acker's body of work into a single volume that reads like a communique from the front lines of late-twentieth-century America. Acker was a literary pirate whose prodigious output drew promiscuously from popular culture, the classics of Western civilization, current events, and the raw material of her own life. Her vision questions everything we take for granted -- the authority of parents, government, and the law; sexuality and the policing of desire -- and puts in its place a universe of polymorphous perversity and shameless, playful freakery. Spanning Acker's '70s punk interventions through more than a dozen major novels, Essential Acker is an indispensable overview of the work of this distinctive American writer and a reminder of her challenge to and influence on writers of the future. "Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other I know." -- Tom LeClair, The New York Times Book Review

Kathy Acker. Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker.(Book Review): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction

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Kathy Acker. Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker.(Book Review): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Robert Buckeye
Manufacturer: Review of Contemporary Fiction
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on June 22, 2003. The length of the article is 522 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: Kathy Acker. Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker.(Book Review)
Author: Robert Buckeye
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2003
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: 23 Issue: 2 Page: 121(2)

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