Outdoor Trips That Teach

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Outdoor Trips That Teach
Eunice Magos , and Esther Hornnes
Manufacturer: Ellen Sussman Educational Services
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Gene Function: E. Coli and Its Heritable Elements
Robert E. Glass
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Gene Function: E-Coli and Its Heritable Elements
Robert E. Glass
Manufacturer: Univ of California Pr
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ASIN: 9992118547

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Gene Function E. Coli and its Heritable Elements.
Robert E. GLASS
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Gene Function: E. Coli and Its Heritable Elements
Robert E. Glass
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GENE FUNCTION: E.COLI AND ITS HERITABLE ELEMENTS

Manufacturer: UCLA Berkeley
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IAAKRU

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A guide to the most romantic sights, tastes, adventures and places to stay in Oregon, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia, and western Alberta. Explores the wine country of Washington and Oregon, the big cities, mountains and parks, scenic tours, the last frontier in Alaska, adventure outfitters, special retreats, exceptional outdoor activities, the top annual festivals and more. Includes listings of places with the most romantic lodging and dining as well as telephone numbers and addresses for romantic places to visit.

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Do Not Purchase.......2007-06-16

This item should not be sold any longer. Many of the places to stay listed in this book no longer exist. Do not purchase this book. It needs to be "put to rest".

Brief Stays in Heaven.......2000-07-15

We planned our honeymoon out of this book, and boy am I glad that we did. The places in here are all splurges, but it's money well spent. Jacuzzis, balconies, and all sorts of romantic touches. This book never steered us wrong. Plus it's a delight just to look at the photos, and dream of trying more spots.

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Myofibrillogenesis has been studied extensively over the last 100 years. Until recently, we have not had a comprehensive understanding of this fundamental process. The emergence of new technologies in molecular and cellular biology, combined with classical embryology, have started to unravel some of the complexities of myofibril assembly in striated muscles. In striated muscles, the contractile proteins are arranged in a highly ordered three dimensional lattice known as the sarcomere. The assembly of a myofibril involves the precise ordering of several proteins into a linear array of sarcomeres. Multiple isoforms in many of these proteins further complicate the process, making it difficult to define the precise role of each component. This volume has been compiled as a comprehensive reference on myofibrillogenesis. In addition, the book includes reviews on myofibrillar disarray under various pathological conditions, such as familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHC), and incorporates a section on the conduction system in the heart. Much of the information in this volume has not been described elsewhere. Presented in a manner to be of value to students and teachers alike, "Myofibrillogenesis" will be an invaluable reference source for all in the fields of muscle biology and heart development.

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Crystal pulling is an industrial process and provides the bulk of semiconductor crystals for the semiconductor industry. Initially a purely empirical process, the increase in importance and size of the industry has led to basic research into the fundamentals of the process - particularly the modelling of heat and mass transfer. The book has been written by the recognized authority on Czochralski crystal-growth techniques. It is an attempt to strengthen the interface between the practical crystal grower and the applied mathematician involved in analytical and computer modelling. Its focus is on the physics, chemistry and metallurgy of the process. From reviews: "... There is a need for a modern, non-trivial text on Czochralski growth ... and Dr. Hurle is eminently suited to write such a text."; "Dr. Hurle is probably uniquely qualified to write a book on ... (the Czochralski) growth process. ... He has published a great deal of very substantial as well as innovative work in this area."

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This best-selling text by John Taylor, now released in its second edition, introduces the study of uncertainties to lower division science students. Assuming no prior knowledge, the author introduces error analysis through the use of familiar examples ranging from carpentry to well-known historic experiments. Pertinent worked examples, simple exercises throughout the text, and numerous chapter-ending problems combine to make the book ideal for use in physics, chemistry, and engineering lab courses. The first edition of this book has been translated into six languages.

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anyone got a match???.......2007-07-25

This book is boring and basically is just another statistics book. if you have some sick twwisted interest in estimating error, buy this book otherwise find something more interesting. if you have to use this for a class, Im sorry, i feel your pain.

Great for first year laboratory science.......2007-01-05

This book is written for the introductory physics student, but it helped me get a good understanding of experimental error in my chemistry lab. The author presents error analysis using simple scenerios and without going too deep into calculus and statistics.

Great "second pass" book.......2007-01-03

Even if you have achieved a high level of mathematical sophistication, this book is a great read. I find myself gaining great new insights to basic principles due to Taylor's logical developments. This is simply the best available introductory text on error analysis.

Clear, easy, many examples.......2006-11-14

I used this book in high school to prepare for physics competitions. This is as good as I have seen it get. I only wish we used this book in college. The author goes through a lot of effort to explain and provide clear examples for every concept.

A Review of 'Introduction to Error Analysis'.......2006-03-13

This text is a valuable companion for students of the sciences, or anyone interested in experimental error, its propagation or effects on experiments or products. Lacking mathematical rigor, the book is great for the beginner or non-Mathematician.

An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements.

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An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements.
John Taylor
Manufacturer: Mill Valley: University Science 1982.
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Introduction to Error Analysis, An: the Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements

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Introduction to Error Analysis, An: the Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements
John R. Taylor
Manufacturer: University Science Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000LZOXLQ

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"A fine-grained light like that of a nineteenth-century Danish landscape painting shimmers throughout these gorgeously tactile and tactful poems."-John Ashbery

"A heady heady brew-O'Hara conversation, Ashbery sophistication, Koch hilarity, Schuyler shapeliness, Guest adventures, Notley grain, Mayer utopia, Padgett whimsy, Oulipo oofs."-Bob Holman, National Poetry Series judge

Mlinko was hailed by Publishers Weekly as "one of the most exciting American poets under 40." Her Starred Wire reaches across continents of language where, as in Borges, dream logic dictates an interactive, delirious exploration of art and childhood, place and possibility.

Author of Matinees, Ange Mlinko lives in Brooklyn with her husband and young son.

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A delightfully unpredictable experience.......2006-02-10

Starred Wire is a collection of poetry written to the beat of a different drummer. Taking liberties with rhymes, anagrams, puns, palindromes, free-verse, stream-of-consciousness, and other techniques, each work has a different natural rhythm, and all leave a vibrant imprint on the senses. Poems to provoke impetuous inspiration, Starred Wire is a delightfully unpredictable experience. Everything's Carousing: Even the Baroque gets lost in it. / Grass vests the dirt lest wind, twanging the skyscrapers // that merely sleeve the elevators, as we go sleeveless / except for the atmosphere, file it under "oceans." // Recalling the equations derived for ballistics- / aiming cannonballs is not like squaring lintels, // and skyscrapers are all lintel. / There isn't a straight line amidst all these that never meet; // I will write away for it. A sound that breaks / "the record and the tie with the most singles in a season." // Sparrows petulantly, like petals, adding subtracting / to crumb-strewn cafe tables, then boarding the ferries.

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A drum roll for Densmore.......2007-06-24

Excellent work by Densmore in this candid biography. You not only gets under the skin of the author, but also gets an excellent account of the day-to-day ups and downs of one of the greatest rock bands of all time. Densmore is as good a writer as he is a drummer. An important document that you can't do without, if you're into the life and times of The Doors.

The Lizard King as seen by the Everyman who played behind him.......2007-05-13

I feel sorry for John Densmore. Despite having been a rock star, the member of what was one of the world's top half dozen rock groups, with all the groupies and money and glamor that that entailed, he remains at this book's writing phenomenally insecure - a nebbish who never found himself despite immersing himself in the California human potential culture purported to deliver exactly that.

He's insecure about girls, insecure about who's his friend, insecure about his drab middle-class roots, insecure about his life prospects and failure to have accomplished much of anything until he became part of the Doors. Some of the introspection in here is so bare and revealing it's almost embarrassing to read. The picture of this naïve Everyman locked into a creative foursome with Jim Morrison, the quintessential dangerous and destructive rock star, is priceless.

America was transiting from harmless British Invasion into superficially benign Flower Power, but Morrison meanwhile was wearing black, singing about sex and death, leading concerts that were like dark seances with somber endings, and challenging bandmates and audiences alike to confront their darker selves and deeper fears. He scared the hell out of the likes of John Densmore.

Morrison, as we know from organist Ray Manzarek's book "Light My Fire", once demanded that Densmore be kicked out of the group; he was just too neurotic and got on Morrison's nerves. Densmore found Morrison, particularly as his alcoholism and erratic behavior grew, so disturbing that Densmore had chronic skin rashes from the stress.

Densmore represents a certain sad byway of that era - people whose pursuit of peace and love, meditation and marijuana, sought to cover or compensate for intense feelings of inadequacy. Many young people who haven't quite found their way in life can feel lost in this way. Marijuana seducing them into compulsive introspection certainly couldn't have helped much. But accomplishing something - like, say, being a pretty fine jazz-rock drummer as Densmore was and putting out a unique body of work like the Doors' music - ought to have helped someone get past that. Densmore doesn't seem to have done so, remaining both lost and searching well into middle-age, and failing to see that maturity required moving beyond that. (Although later chapters touching on his men's movement involvement with Robert Bly suggest that perhaps he was getting a clue about this.)

Densmore's insecurity notwithstanding, this is still a worthwhile book. His painful honesty renders his memoir less varnished than Manzarek's and occasionally more convincing. Densmore gets us a little closer to what really happened with Morrison's death. Most signs point to an accidental heroin overdose, with the heroin provided by girlfriend Pam Courson, who later OD'ed herself, and who was being pursued by a French count who also used and also died of it. Densmore also gets us closer than Manzarek to the tragic sense Morrison projected and held of himself, that he told people he didn't think he'd live beyond youth, that he started every day rebelling against the universe before breakfast. Densmore found playing live behind him "intoxicating ... my new religion," but saw what a price Morrison paid for the edge-living that fed his fire, too brightly and too quickly consumed. A Doors concert, Densmore says, left "everyone in attendance ... cleansed - security guards included. What a show. A truly religious experience. Much better than church. Almost as good as sex! Better! A communion with twenty thousand people."

Densmore loved him as well as fearing him; some passages of the book are written as the letters Densmore would be writing him, if he could. Densmore finds common themes in Morrison's self-destruction and the suicide of Densmore's own mentally ill brother, including his own survivor's guilt and wondering if he could have done more to have saved either - concluding, ultimately, that no, he couldn't. Morrison in a later age might have gone through rehab, but at that time his associates had no clue about what he was doing or how to deal with it. A pity. There have been many dead rock musicians but few took so much potential with them when they went.

Long Live John Densmore!.......2007-03-17

This book is phenomenal. I wish I could thank John Densmore in person! If I could meet him, I would thank him for all the work he did and all the junk he put up with while he was with the Doors. What a legacy! I never even liked the Doors before I read this book, and I never knew that they were that popular (not far behind the Stones and the Beatles). Now I consider myself to be a super-fan, and I have to be honest and say that it is more because of this book than the actual music!

I love that I was able to learn about THE DOORS from this book, NOT JUST Jim Morrison. There are so many books out there on Jim, who was only one quarter of the group. He provided the charisma and many of the lyrics, but he had almost nothing to do with the actual arrangement of the songs musically. The other three band members are extremely talented musicians and they should be recognized for that. Instead, when most people think of the Doors, they only think of Jim... the very one who caused the band's downfall in the media and ultimately their early cessation. Finally, we get an inside look at the OTHER three members and their invaluable contribution to a rock legend that will never die.

John, I hope you check this page once in a while to see the reviews of your book. I was born in the middle of your heyday (1969) and I grew up probably able to name only a handful of Doors songs. Now I practically feel like an expert thanks to your book. You are absolutely right that new fans keep cropping up even after all these years. Would you believe that three of my favorite tunes are not even from among your mega hits? (Soul Kitchen ROCKS) Thank you for what you taught us about Jim. But more than that, thank you for teaching us about ALL of the Doors members. Thank you for all the details you provided about the messages behind the songs and the unique instrumentation and the reactions by the fans and events in your private life - the list is endless. I find myself wanting more because your story is so fascinating. Your book is filled with passion - and most compelling, is your MEMORY. I was riveted by your detailed accounts of specific conversations and impressions that you had. I am so glad you put it down on paper before it was lost forever. Your book is very COMPLETE, HONEST, humorous, tear-jerking, well-written and damn hard to put down. A+++

Sterile Bio On The Doors.......2007-02-17

This book does not offer any great insight to The Doors or Jim Morrison. John Densmore was in the Doors, he hated working with Jim and that's all your really find out from the book. The book is boring. It was not until much later in Densmore's life does he realize that for all Jim's problems he was a songwritting genius.

John Signed mine in person! weeeeeeeeeeeee.......2007-02-04

I was just flipping around in Amazon here and came into this. It's been since 1991? Man I am getting Old! But not as old as John haha. The news hit that he was coming to town, before the net and cell phones, drew a line of people must have been 1/4 mile long, not kidding, to our Tower Records store. I Must of waited 2 hours to say hi and get mine signed. Glad I was not in the back of that line ha. John has got to be one of the best drummers ever. So under rated, never comes up on peoples all time list. Weird. not kidding what I am about to say, back then I had just about the same hair as Jim and was in my prime 20's and long before this day of visit people would tell me I sorta pass for looking like Jim, face and all. I am 6 foot was about 180 then. The hair has gone and the weight is up but what the hey. anyhoo

I was wondering if he would notice as I walked up, he doesn't see anyone really till they are right up on you, as people after people moving thru like cattle. Sure enough he took a double take on me! ha! One of my greatest stories ever! He actually stood back and gave me a quick up and down and just peered into my eyes, yes they are close to the same. Like I said it was a cattle push thru so we just said hi and thanks for coming out and pumped hands. I didn't say anything; I just knew what he was thinking. I should of entered into look a like shows back them. Oh well. Water under a bridge!

Heck, I was so stuned the way he looked at me, I just couldnt say anything, my brain frooze. You think your alright, then you meet such a person and its like DUH UH UH

To bad John didn't play with the 21st C Doors, I knew Ian could only do so much as Jim, but the real deal for me to go was if John was going to be there, for most bands once they change time keepers it just all sounds dif. In Ray's book Ray said Jim wanted to get rid of John, and Ray said he flipped on Jim and said NO! We can't! Ray pleaded with Jim on how good he was and it would mess everything up. And Ray was the man who put it all together and pretty much ran the band. Jim just partied and went along with it all. I still play all this music after 25 years. John really pops in the ipod. 25 years?! Man I am getting Old! But not as old as John!! HA

anyhoo. John, you're the man! I still have the book on my shelf haha.

Riders on the Storm My Life with Jim Morrison and The Doors

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Riders on the Storm My Life with Jim Morrison and The Doors
John Densmore
Manufacturer: Delacorte Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I8DILC

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Riders On the Storm: My Life With Jim Morrison and the Doors
John Densmore
Manufacturer: Dell Publ.
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ASIN: B000NQM09U

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Riders on the Storm; My Life with Jim Morrison and The Doors
John Densmore
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Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors
John Densmore
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Riders on the Storm: My Life With Jim Morrison and The Doors.
John. Densmore
Manufacturer: Delacorte Press New York, NY
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ASIN: B000O65JFQ

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Fascinating, but don't let this be your first book about modern warships

Rebuilding the Royal Navy: Warship Design since 1945
D. K. Brown , and George Moore
Manufacturer: US Naval Institute Press
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ASIN: 1591147050

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This fourth and final volume in the bestselling series on Royal Navy warship development presents an in-depth and lucid account of British warship construction in the challenging half-century since World War II. After considering the wartime legacy and lingering austerity, the authors cover some of the ambitious ideas for the bigger ships like the reconstruction of the carrier Victorious, and the conversion of fleet destroyers into anti-submarine frigates. But most of the book is devoted to new construction, with chapters on all the major categories and new information on designs that remained on the drawing board. It concludes with a survey of the most significant technological innovations and an analysis of the impact of the Falklands War. D. K. Brown's personal knowledge and experience and George Moore's in-depth research on declassified material add up to a crowning finale of an internationally acclaimed series. 200 plans and illustrations. 10 x 12 inches.

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Fascinating, but don't let this be your first book about modern warships.......2005-10-25

The consummately experienced D. K. Brown herein offers an enrapturing look into the design and construction of postwar ships for the Royal Navy. It is not a history of the ships by any means; rather, it is a history of their design. Brown offers insight into designers' minds, discussing why decisions were made and weighing their merit. For example, many wonder why two classes of similarly-sized escorts (Types 42 & 22) were built simultaneously. Brown explains that because of the different roles the ships were designed for, and hence different equipment and other requirements, a common hull would probably have proven less efficient. He also describes in detail the evolution of strategic thinking and design philosophy that came about after the cancellation of the CVA-01 large carrier cancelled in 1966. Together with the politics and economics of modern warship building, Brown reviews some of the advances to the art of naval architecture made by Royal Navy constructors since the last world war, and looks ahead to some new developments on the horizon.

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With stocks reduced, and plans revised, relations between states with nuclear arsenals have been transformed after the Cold War. However, Patrick Morgan argues that these changes have not been accompanied by great advances in our knowledge of whether and how deterrence works. He accordingly explores the state of deterrence theory and its continuing relevance under conditions of nuclear proliferation, collective security organizations, and a revolution in military affairs.

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Patrick Morgan's authoritative study revisits the place of deterrence after the Cold War. By assessing and questioning the state of modern deterrence theory, particularly under conditions of nuclear proliferation, Morgan argues that there are basic flaws in the design of the theory that ultimately limits its utility. Given the probable patterns of future international politics, he suggests that greater attention be paid to 'general' deterrence as opposed to 'immediate' deterrence and to examining the deterrent capabilities of collective actors such as NATO and the UN Security Council. Finally he contends that the revolution in military affairs can promote less reliance on deterrence by retaliatory threats, support better collective management of peace and security and permit us to outgrow nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. This new major work builds upon Patrick Morgan's landmark book, Deterrence (1983).

Nuclear deterrence, then and now.: An article from: Policy Review

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Nuclear deterrence, then and now.: An article from: Policy Review
Daniel Goure
Manufacturer: Hoover Institution Press
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This digital document is an article from Policy Review, published by Hoover Institution Press on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 5610 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: Nuclear deterrence, then and now.
Author: Daniel Goure
Publication: Policy Review (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2002
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
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An environmental travelogue that documents the changes in the Great Lakes since the publication of "The Late, Great Lakes."

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The Late, Great Lakes are still kicking........2001-09-11

15 years after his journey around the Great Lakes region, recorded in his almost famous book "The Late, Great Lakes", Ashworth made a return trip to review the state of things. "Great Lakes Journey" is an account of this second visit, during which he explores many of the same issues covered in his first book, visits with many of the same people that he interviewed 15 years prior, and tries to draw a bead on the health of the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes region. There are some success stories---many of the hideously polluted areas have improved---as well as variety of new issues that plague the largest source of fresh water in the world. Urban sprawl and the invasion of 'exotic' species are two of the most significant problems that Ashworth uncovers in this very readable, cold-eyed assesment of the life and health of one of the States most important, and most disregarded, natural resources. Highly recommended for anyone interested in environmental issues, Great Lakes ecology, or for anyone passionate about the incomparable Sweetwater Seas.

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