Altered States: Globalization, Sovereignty and Governance

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In Altered States, the authors provide practical recommendations for improved governance and for strengthening and reforming the United Nations. They explore the dynamics of globalization and discuss what makes today’s globalization distinct. They test the prevailing wisdom about sovereignty and state capacity, and sort out the humbug. They consider whether sovereignty itself is an impediment or a requirement to security and prosperity. And, in three urgent areas ripe for progress – preventing deadly conflict, providing opportunities for the young, and managing the many harms of climate change – they advance plans of action by which states, with others in the global community, can govern successfully in the future.

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Defensive Tactics for Law Enforcement, Public Safety and Correction Officers
Rick A. Flesch
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Includes: Use of Force, Positioning, Transporters, Pressure Points, Cuffing, Searching, Takedowns, Blocking/Striking, Escape Techniques, Impact Weapons, Ground Fighting, Weapon Defense, Handgun Retention and supplemental material.

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Do not buy this book........1999-02-28

This book is the single worst law enforcement book I have ever purchased. The quality of the print and pictures reminds me of the 80's.

The only thing worse that the print quality is the technical content. It is terrible.

The book is not well thought out. It does not provide the reader with a system to work with. Instead, it presents a set of techniques that do not relate well to each other and would not be effective for the intended purpose.

Additionally, the pictures are full of technical errors.

DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY ON THIS BOOK. I DID AND I AM SORRY.

There are many other books on this subject available from Amazon, spend your money on them.

Defensive Tactics for Law Enforcement, Public Safety and Correction Officers

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Defensive Tactics for Law Enforcement, Public Safety and Correction Officers

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Contaminated land can be reclaimed safely, provided the proposed end-use of the land is appropriate and based on thorough site investigation. This book examines the subject, reviewing current methods and strategies for safe and economical reclamation.

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Soil Management: Problems and Solutions
Michael A. Fullen , and John A. Catt
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The soil is a fundamental constituent of the Earth's system, maintaining a careful state of equilibrium within the biosphere. However, this natural balance is being increasingly disturbed by a variety of anthropogenic and natural processes, leading to the degradation of many soil environments. Soil Management provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the many problems, challenges and potential solutions, facing soil management in the twenty-first century. Covering a range of topics, including erosion, desertification, salinisation, soil structure, carbon sequestration, acidification and chemical pollution, the book also develops a prognosis for the future of soil management in the face of growing populations and global warming.

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Leaving Eden is a wide-ranging survey of what is arguably the greatest challenge facing humanity today: the preservation of the natural environment. Nisbet discusses the primary physical, chemical, and biological controls on the natural environment, focusing on the complex interplay between atmospheric and terrestrial elements such as the sun, the oceans, and the forests, and is concerned with the effects of human disruption of these natural systems. Integrating discussions of scientific puzzles with problems facing humanity at large, the author addresses issues such as the greenhouse effect, acid rain, deforestation, chlorofluorocarbons, nuclear waste, agricultural subsidies, and population management. The book also offers an extensive discussion of the ways in which the environment can be protected. With its particular emphasis on the interaction of human behavior and nature, this book is suitable not only for individuals interested in environmental studies, geography, economics, and earth science, but for all those concerned with the future of the Earth.

Leaving Eden : To Protect and Manage the Earth

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Leaving Eden : To Protect and Manage the Earth
E. G. Nisbet
Manufacturer: NY
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ASIN: B000MU4RG6

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Einstein's standard and battle-tested geometric theory of gravity--spacetime tells mass how to move and mass tells spacetime how to curve--is expounded in this book by Ignazio Ciufolini and John Wheeler. They give special attention to the theory's observational checks and to two of its consequences: the predicted existence of gravitomagnetism and the origin of inertia (local inertial frames) in Einstein's general relativity: inertia here arises from mass there.

The authors explain the modern understanding of the link between gravitation and inertia in Einstein's theory, from the origin of inertia in some cosmological models of the universe, to the interpretation of the initial value formulation of Einstein's standard geometrodynamics; and from the devices and the methods used to determine the local inertial frames of reference, to the experiments used to detect and measure the "dragging of inertial frames of reference." In this book, Ciufolini and Wheeler emphasize present, past, and proposed tests of gravitational interaction, metric theories, and general relativity. They describe the numerous confirmations of the foundations of geometrodynamics and some proposed experiments, including space missions, to test some of its fundamental predictions--in particular gravitomagnetic field or "dragging of inertial frames" and gravitational waves.

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An Introduction to General Relativity?.......2004-01-22

John Archibald Wheeler does not need any introduction,neither by me, nor by anybody else:he is simply the greatest living authority on General Relativity!This book, written together with Ignazio Ciufolini,is as interesting as all his other books,and is well worth the price,despite what our friend Johngorno says!!
However,Johngorno is right in one respect:when the authors say ,in the Preface(page ix),that the "book may be used as an introduction to general relativity..." ,they are misleading the prospective reader!As a matter of fact ,if you have not had at least an introductory course in GR ,such as "A first course in General Relativity" by B.F. Schutz,don't even think about reading this book.Even the Mathematical Appendix at the end is not enough for someone not familiar with tensor calculus.The unaware reader who reaches page 21 ,for example,is hit on the head with the expression giving the Christoffel symbols as a fuction of the metric components: how is he or she supposed to guess that the comma represents a partial derivative,that sigma is a dummy index ,and therefore that there is a sum involved in this expression?He or she might turn to the mathematical index ,which will direct him or her to the Appendix,page 427,but this won't help much:the summation convention is not explained there,but at page 425,and in a very unconspicuous fashion!
So,albeit a great book on gravitation theory and experiment, this is definitely not an introduction to Einstein's theory of gravitation.It is rather aimed at the real "cognoscenti" in the field.
Having talked about the book's content,which is nothing short of outstanding,let us now turn to the form.To start with,the pictures are quite poor for a book priced at more than $90!And the paper is not that good either.
Finally,there are a few typos,which is no big deal,and some French spelling mistakes(e.g on pp.19 and 80,the proper spelling for the "fundamental memoir" by Ricci and Levi-Civita should be as follows:"Méthodes de calcul différentiel....etc".This is also excusable owing to the fact that one of the authors is American and the other Italian!And I do hope that one of them(if not both!) reads this review...

Don't Waste Your Money.......2002-04-04

I purchased my copy used (20$) and (after my initial delight at the bargain) was disappointed. I had hoped for a more technical intermediate-level expansion of Wheeler's intriguing but vague "Journey into Gravity and Spacetime." This book is instead largely a hodge-podge of specialty articles of interest only to advanced professionals in the field. Unless you have money to burn, invest it in another text, like "Gravitation," by Thorne, Wheeler, etc., which isn't great but is useful.

the book was great.......1999-05-06

This book tought me a lot about the physics of gravitation and inerti

Simple Science Experiments With Starting and Stopping (Simple Science Experiments)

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Simple Science Experiments With Starting and Stopping (Simple Science Experiments)
Eiji Orii , Masako Orii , and Kaoru Fujishima
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Within and without, gravity persists: Rest and motion

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Within and without, gravity persists: Rest and motion
Herbert Rost
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Gravitation and Inertia.: An article from: American Scientist

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Gravitation and Inertia.: An article from: American Scientist

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Challenge to create the space drive (SuDoc NAS 1.15:207295)

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Challenge to create the space drive (SuDoc NAS 1.15:207295)
Marc G. Millis
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Gravitation and Inertia

Manufacturer: Princeton Univ Pr
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L'Inertie, la force d'inertie: Leur nature physique et causale : reflexions sur les origines bathygenes des phenomenes gravitationnels

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L'Inertie, la force d'inertie: Leur nature physique et causale : reflexions sur les origines bathygenes des phenomenes gravitationnels
Lucien Hugolin
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ASIN: 2853670643

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This is a great book for a higher reading level........1999-03-30

This is a book of romance and forbidin love. I recomend this book to anyone who loves to read. You can find your own way to realate to this book no matter what type of book or lititure your in to. I would have to say that this book is for a higher reading level. To end my review I give this book a 5 star rating!

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Dostoevsky's Occasional Writings
David (ed., Trans.); Dostoevsky, Fyodor Magarshack
Manufacturer: Random House
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ASIN: B000J0J08E

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Dostoevskys Occasional Writings
Dostoevsky/magarshac
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OCCASIONAL WRITINGS. Selected, translated & introduced by David Magarshack

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OCCASIONAL WRITINGS. Selected, translated & introduced by David Magarshack
Fyodor. Dostoevsky
Manufacturer: Random House,
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Binding: Hardcover
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Dostoevskys Occasional Writings
David Magarshack
Manufacturer: RANDOM HOUSE
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ASIN: B000WSUJBK

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Although recognition of reminiscing as a potentially adaptive process can be traced back over 30 years to the seminal work of Robert Butler as discussed in the Foreword, there has been little effort to consolidate the work and paint a complete picture of reminiscing as an entity. Here, reminiscing is presented as a multi-disciplinary topic, examining the theory of, and research on, reminiscing. The book also discusses the different ways of conducting life-review interviews and explores therapeutic applications.; Contributors to this book, many of whom are pioneers and leading figures in the field, discuss and elaborate their latest thinking and research findings from multiple perspectives. The volume's strength derives from its multi-disciplinary nursing, psychiatry, psychology, gerontology, community advocacy and multinational Australia, Canada, England, Sweden and the United States treatment. James Birren, Irene Burnside, and Phillipe Cappeliez are a few of the eminent scholars authoring this volume.

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A Multi-disciplinary Review of Reminiscence.......2000-03-27

This academically written book offers a step-by-step research and methodological approach to the "Art and Science of Reminiscence". Each chapter is written by experts in their field. The compilation of these experts/contributors provide a concise review of this topics history, future and most importantly its practical applications. Excellent resource manual for scholars interested in furthering their knowledge base on reminiscence. The reference bibliography itself is and outstanding tool for continued research for it lists most international scholars involved in reminiscence.

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When Christopher Columbus landed on the Caribbean islands, he found tribes of people still firmly rooted in the stone age. Within decades, however, Spanish explorers had made contact with cultures in the Mesoamerican isthmus that lay beyond the Caribbean who possessed far greater technological prowess. The Historical Atlas of Ancient America describes in vivid detail the religions, politics, economics, and agricultural systems of the wealthy and highly influential Aztec and Mayan civilizations, along with those of their predecessors, the Olmec and Toltec. Specially commissioned maps and superb full-color photographs of temples, towns, and artifacts help to bring these amazing empires to life

Coverage includes:
* Introduction: Origins of Mesoamerican culture
* The Olmec: The ideal of noble birth; kings and deities; the creation of writing and calendrical systems
* The Olmec Interregnum: Huastec culture; links between landscape and architecture
* The Rise of the Maya: Tikal, the Great Pyramid; awareness of geometry; trade contacts
* The Classic Maya: Sacred architecture; jaguar thrones; Palenque, Temple of the Inscriptions
* Building Empires: City planning and urbanization
* New Beginnings: Military versus mercantile prowess; importance of the priesthood
* The Aztecs: Usurpers of an old throne; Montezuma's visions; Spanish dominance.

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Recent Finds of Western United States

Atlas of Ancient America (Cultural Atlas of)
Michael Coe
Manufacturer: Facts on File
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Recent Finds of Western United States.......1997-08-30

I would appreciate hearing from Mr. Micheal Coe regarding the several, separate finds of skulls showing morphology of possible proto-Caucasoid characteristics, recently the Kenniwick Man. On page 15 of the Atlas of Ancient America, written some tens years ago, Mr. Coe states catagorically " -----there is no doubt among physical anthropologists that native Americans are all of Mongoloid racial stock". Will he be willing to consider the possibility of even earlier migrants coming from other places of the Old World

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Clone - The Road to Dolly, & the Path Ahead
Gina Kolata
Manufacturer: New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc. 1998
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NVCKPE

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Clone - The Road To Dolly, And The Path Ahead -
Gina Kolata -
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Clone the Road To Dolly & the Path Ahead
Gina Kolata
Manufacturer: PENGUIN PUTNAM * TRADE
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CLONE: THE ROAD TO DOLLY AND THE PATH AHEAD
GINA KOLATA
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Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead
Gina Kolata
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pros and cons of a science-for-general-audience book

One Big Yawn

A Tale of Science & Myth on the 'road to Dolly'.

Interesting but too sensationalistic

Evenhanded, but little on real clones (identical twins)

Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead
Gina Kolata
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Understanding Cloning (Science Made Accessible)

The Kite Runner

ASIN: 0688166342

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In February 1997 a group of Scottish livestock scientists announced that they had cloned a lamb using a cell from an adult sheep. "When the time comes to write the history of our age, this quiet birth, the creation of this little lamb, will stand out," says award-winning science writer Gina Kolata. In Clone, she gives a clear account of the technical background to Dolly's birth, but what makes the book really shine is her coverage of the history and social conflicts of cloning. She weaves stories of fraud, scandal, irreproducible results, and pig-headed determination into a solid framework of philosophy, science, and ethics.

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The birth of Dolly -- the world's first clone -- placed in our hands the secret of creation. Few discoveries have so altered our notion of what it means to be human, or presented such a Gordian knot of ethical, spiritual, and scientific questions. Noted science journalist Gina Kolata broke the news nationally in The New York Times and was the first reporter to speak with Dr. Ian Wilmut, the embryologist who cloned Dolly. Now Kolata reveals the story behind Dolly, interweaving the social and cultural tales of our fear and fascination with cloning, reaching back nearly a century, with the riveting scientific accountof how a clone came to be and the mind-boggling questions Dolly presents for our future.

Clone is a compelling blend of scientific suspense, dreams dashed, and frauds exposed, with provocative philosophical questions and an astute assessment of why Dolly's birth was only possible now. Like The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Lucy, and Chaos, this book gives us a window on history in the making, and an understanding of its profound effect on our lives.

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pros and cons of a science-for-general-audience book.......2005-01-08

This book shows a typical pros and cons of a science-for-general-audience type of book. Kolata, one of the most famous author in this field, offers numerous numbers of intriguing anecdotes in the peripheral realm of cloning. For instance, I found the Karl Ilmensee affair quite Intriguing , and a question like "what if a newspaper breaks the embargo policy of Nature (which happened)?" was answered to my satisfaction.

However, no story sheds much light on the central issue of biology. I would not be surprised if many general readers of this book would think that the purpose of the cloning of sheep was to generate some artificial protein in non-human live stock. Three technologies developed in 80's and 90's, namely recombinant protein expression, transgenic animal, and cloning are very confusing for non-scientists lay persons, but author never try to disentangle this confusions.

For me, I wish Kolata took a further step to provide some coherent hypothesis to explain the fundamental nature of this eureka event, as she has a good background in humanities. This type of the once-in-a-decade discovery has a nature to defy the conventional thought prevailing the era. Almost no developmental biologists thought the chromosome from somatic cells of adult mammal could gain totipotency by such a "primitive" method. Why can some scientist have the insight, while others can't? Is this a necessary byproduct of what Kuhn called paradigm? Or could this be at least an partial evidence of the relativism or instrumentalism advocated by WV Quine, or some other social contructivist? (or just a serendipitous application of "Don't worry Principle" that Sydney Brenner called?)

Neverthless, Kolata shows a great story-telling skills and I would recommend this book.

One Big Yawn.......2001-07-13

As a biochemistry major I was very excited about reading this book. I expected it to have in depth details on cloning and mention true clones such as identical twins. What a disappointment. The book went on and on for numerous pages about the ethical ramifications of cloning (yes, those exact same ethical ramifications TV and newspapers dealt with ad nauseam). Which yes, are important, but not enough to drone on about especially after readers have heard them all 10 times before. I actually found myself sighing and rolling my eyes over some of the ethical stances that were mentioned because they were so silly. I continued reading the book for a while in hopes that it would get better. It didn't. I finally threw the book under my bed (the black hole of bookdom) without ever finishing it.

A Tale of Science & Myth on the 'road to Dolly'........2000-10-04

Looking for an accessible guide to cloning together with sex, scandal, a putative hoax, a fraud claim, counterclaims, industrial secrets and a cast of maverick scientists and myths that makes for a greatly entertaining true story ? To find a single book which has the potential to affect one's ideas and thoughts as to what it means to be human is a rarity, but some readers might be so affected by this work. Thematically weaving between the key historical developments leading to claims for the first cloning success using adult tissue and discussions of the moral ethics of whether and why such research be conducted, Kolata's account of the making of `Dolly' the sheep reminded me of Watson's `The Double helix'. Not only do we read here about the manipulation of genetic material outside the realms of human replication and fertility, we are continually provoked with the wider issues relating to food production processess, the social responsibilies of the research scientist, and the role of science journalism in informing public opinion.We are also exposed to the less attractive side of running the day-to-day life of the research laboratory - the struggle with grant competition; peer pressure, review and publication demands; conference attendance and institutional sponsor politics. Kolata provides all of this in a very well written and researched book including frank (and seemingly) honest biographies of the leading players in the `road to Dolly'. The story as presented here covers a period of just over one hundred years following Weismann's discovery of the `loss of information' with subsequent cellular differentiations of dividing tissue. Within twenty years or so the role of the cell nucleus had been determined, and by 1938, Spemann's `Embryonic Development and Induction' proposed the very nuclear transplant experiment that was to succeed some 60 years later. The first successful accounts of this technique involved the use of the embryonic frog tissue in the 1950s by Briggs & King, but the older, more differentiated cell' nuclei proved harder to handle and maintain. In the early 1960s, Gurdon succeeds with the transfer of what were thought to be adult, fully differentiated cells taken from amphibian intestines. At about the same time as these developments were unfolding, the first symposia to address the possibility of cloning and its implications for ethics had taken place. The end of the 1960s had seen the advent of gene isolation (though curiously little is said about the discovery of DNA itself and the significance of the newly founded growth area of molecular biology) and within the next ten years we had moved from the in vitro fertilisation of mice to Louise Brown, born in 1978. That same year saw the publication of a non-fiction book claiming that the real-life `rich, eccentric Max' has himself cloned with the assistance of a World renown scientist known by the pseudonym `Darwin' with the assistance of a seventeen year old virgin called `sparrow', who gives birth to a healthy baby boy. I would recommend reading Kolata for her retelling of the Rorvik (1978) story if for no other reason. The following year saw Illmensee claim to have cloned the first mice using the nucleus of embryonic stem cells and, again, we are both entertained and informed by Kolata's telling of this most remarkable tale of intrigue and collegiate suspicion of happenings in the laboratory. It was not until the 1980s` and 90s that successful sheep, cow and eventually monkey cloning was to be completed (all still using embryonic nuclear material transfer) at least suggesting that there was no in principle reason to believe adult cloning to be beyond possibility. However, very few scientists apparently held this latter belief - and these few were not encouraged to pursue their ideas. Now suitably brought up to speed with our history of embryology, experimental biology techniques and the sweat involved in conducting seemingly unglamorous basic laboratory science, we are finally introduced to Ian Wilmut, whose research group were to achieve what to many was still `biologically impossible'. Wilmut and his colleage Campbell postulated that the problem of cloning transplants was perhaps with tranfering the nuclear DNA at such a time inappropriate to the natural activity phases of the cell cycle. Campbell determined that the so colled G0 (G-nought) phase of the cell cycle was one of synchrony and, combined with the technique of halting induced by nutritional deprivation, thought that it was during this period that cell `reprogramming' would be more likely successful. In March, 1996 the first clones of a mammal (sheep) were born using differentiated embryonic cell nuclei, but their announcement was largely lost to the wider world outside that of a handful of agricultural scientists. However, in July of the same year, the first sheep cloned from the fully-differentiated cell nuclei of adult tissue was born to Wilmut's lab. However, the news that was to reach the world over had first to wait out a period of great secrecy and gossip-mongering. The (true) story is revealed lucidly here, and provides another reason to read Kolata's book. And yes, in this account she was named for Dolly Parton.

Interesting but too sensationalistic.......1998-10-07

Clone: The Road to Dolly... is an interesting book outlining the research that contributed to the creation of the first mammalian clone and its philosophical implications.

There is much in the book to recommend it. It places the work in its correct historical context by describing the chain of discoveries, beginning with those in the early part of this century, that eventually led to Dolly.

However, the book is needlessly sensationalistic in the way it describes science and scientists, seeming to draw parallels with the worlds of power politics and showbiz. Science is really a more subdued and low-key affair - as exemplified by the very lab that created Dolly.

My major objection is that the book appears to take as its underlying assumption that the public (or a large segment) is opposed to science and treats its acheivements with profound suspicion. I agree that there exists a vocal minority that thinks this way and may have its roots in various fundamentalist movements. However, the majority of people that I have met, while frequently poorly informed, are not antagonistic to science, but rather are interested in enjoying the fruits of its labor. This may be why, as the book says, while various self-styled experts debate the ethics of cloning, infertile couples are lining up for possible medical applications. It is only when the public is either denied the benefits of science, or is not educated about what these benefits may be, that it grows resentful. This issue seems to have been overlooked. On the other hand, comparisons with the atomic bomb are abundant, though meaningless. The bomb has killed thousands and was created for that express purpose. Cloning has created very little and destroyed nothing, except a few egos.

Fortuneately, although the book begins grimly, it seems to end on a fairly optimistic note, moving away from its opening notions that cloning is an evil, dirty business.

The bottom line is that whatever else it may do, cloning does not undermine human dignity. A person's dignity arises from his or her actions, not whether they were born as a twin, testtube baby or clone. We would do well to remember that. To my mind, the most profound line in this book full of lines that compete for that honor is one attributed to a Scottish farmer who says, in some perplexity, 'I don't understand the big deal. A sheep is still a sheep.'

Evenhanded, but little on real clones (identical twins).......1998-09-21

The author of this book is mostly evenhanded; she clearly describes almost all the points of view about human cloning, no matter how profound or silly. However, she almost completely ignores the consensus viewpoint of most identical twins, triplets, and quads.

Identicals are a significant minority population, real human clones who view the entire cloning debate as silliness at best and bias against identicals at worst. Some societies used to kill identicals at birth, viewing them as evil!

No book about cloning is complete without serious consideration of living identicals.

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Title: Clone: The Road to Dolly, and the Path Ahead. (book reviews)
Author: Robert Cook-Deegan
Publication: Issues in Science and Technology (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1998
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
Volume: v14 Issue: n3 Page: p90(5)

Article Type: Book Review

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Re-localize now!.......2007-03-24

As global warming becomes a household word and something the mainstream is waking up to, Whose Common Future provides a remarkable and useful explanation of the world's accelerating environmental crisis. The authors trace the crisis to the usurpation of locally- managed resources such as streams, forests, street space and even radio wavelengths, by state governments and big business. The destruction of local communities to remove their power to conserve local resources, the authors asset, is the true tragedy of the commons.

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