EverQuest Box Set (Prima's Official Strategy Guide)

Book Description

Four Guides in One Box
Get full coverage of EverQuest worlds Ruins of Kunark and Shadows of Lucin (character creation, city maps, enemy stats), plus the EverQuest Players Guide, which will start every player off on the right foot. As a bonus, you even get the all new EverQuest Spell Book, which covers every spell in this massive world. No player should be without it!
This box set includes the following:
·EverQuest Player's Guide
·Shadows of Lucin: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
·Ruins of Kunark: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
·EverQuest Spell Book

Customer Reviews:

Not Really What I Needed.......2004-10-04

I agree with the previous reviewer. This guide was a help to this newbie but essentially boils down to "Where's the Beef?" The spell listing was nice and the guide cleared up a few questions I had about how to get some things done but as a "strategy" guide it left me cold.

Poor Value.......2004-01-03

This boxed collection of miniature Everquest strategy guides is a sketchy purchase, even at Amazon's discounted prices.

Consisting of four small paperback volumes, Prima's set is not much better than the included manual in the latest "Everquest Evolutions" retail software box. For example, even though there are two separate books dedicated to the expansions "Shadows of Luclin" and "Ruins of Kunark", much of the information is exactly the same, making you wonder why they bothered killing the trees to make them distict tomes in the first place. Worse, the information in the two expansion-specific books provide little or no insight into the various hunting zones, history, lore, quests, items, spells, and quirks of each. You will be able to obtain far more detailed and useful information from free Internet sites like EQAtlas.com, crgaming.com, and Allakhazam.com than you will reading the entire Prima series of "strategy guides". In fact, the guides even admit this glaring deficiency in the prefaces. Providing a disclaimer that the guides do not provide spoilers is admirable in terms of disclosure, but it also begs the question: why bother at all?

Here is my final assessment of this product.

Pros:
Newbies who lost their original game manuals may find something of value here
The spellbook is a nice reference, though there are always new spells and stat changes being done to the game

Cons:
The price
No quest spoilers
Few maps of "hunting" (adventuring) zones, dungeons, or anywhere dangerous--maps that are provided show no NPC detail
Little insight into gameplay strategies for each of the various classes, no new tips on how to adventure as a group or how to solo--basically, there's little reason to call these "strategy guides".
The Kunark guide is especially worthless with more emphasis on fan fiction-style anecdotes than on the game itself

Summary:
While it's nice to have a hard copy of spell lists and a few zone maps, the Prima books are a bad investment overall. At best, they are merely very high level guides to the game as a whole, and not very good ones at that. There is really no reason to purchase this product unless you lost your original manuals and don't feel like printing reams of data off of the Internet. However, the Internet is clearly the best avenue for players who want to improve their game.

No recommendation

Great Collection for any EQer from newbie-> expert.......2003-11-28

this is a very good collection of 4 books which help explain and understand EQ a little better. Covers from the orig.EQ-> SoL...sorry no coverage of LoY or LDoN. but the main thing in this collection is the Spell Book guide. It has most of the spells for all of the classes, no second guessing if you have all the spells you will need to become a powerful char. I highly recommend this collection of EQ guide books.

Book Description

The authors provide the reader with an extensive tool set for active and successful management of fixed income portfolios as well as for credits. The focus of discussion is on quantitative and, for credits, qualitative methods of portfolio management. These strategies may be employed for portfolio diversification and in order to outperform the benchmark. Methods applicable for different risk factors - duration, yield curve, basis, volatility and credit management - are illustrated in detail using a top-down and bottom-up approach.

Customer Reviews:

Wow ! this is cheap !.......2003-01-25

I find the content of this book has already been written hundreds of times..not only in other financial books but also in scores of academic papers...true, it has been written by outstanding market participants, but that price !! ouch , that price !!

diversification in fixed income portfolios.......2003-01-19

the book "fixed income and credit management" analyzes the interacting impact of different risk parameters and exposures on a fixed income portfolio, with special applications for euro and dollar investors.

Outstanding and Innovative.......2002-12-23

This is an excellent book for those in the fixed income asset management world to get to grips with what managing credit risk is all about.

As the market becomes more transparenet and increasingly liquid, more asset managers will need book slike this to provide them the initial knowledge on how to make and manage the right bets in their portfolios.

I look forward to the next release which whould have more quantitative details around the credit markets.

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Active Fixed Income and Credit Management
Frank Hagenstein
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUFS78

Book Description

This book provides a framework for understanding organism design including constraints, trends and major constellations of adaptive tactics. The fundamental organization revolves around organisms as problem solving machines - the key problems and alternative solutions.

Customer Reviews:

Phenotypes.......2005-09-20

I think the previous review is unfair. This is a good book and is very comprehensive on the topic. The illustrations could have been better, however. Too many references distract the reader. In general, this is a good book and deserves to be read by anyone who is interested in understanding the evolutionary bases of morphological variation. This book serves the needs of graduate students and established researchers. I congratulate the author for writing such a comprehensive treatise on phenotypic variation.

Extremely difficult to read........1999-10-22

This book tries to integrate molecular and evolutionaryknowledge over a wide range of scales in the attempt to understandphenotypes and phenotypic plasticity. It tries to do so using heirarchacal structure. The attempt is noteworthy, but the author's writing is so convoluted and repetitive that it is very difficult to understand what the author is trying to say. I read this book as part of a graduate student seminar class. All of the graduate students had great difficulty reading this book and complained greatly about the writing. The information in the book is valuable, but its sad that the author did not take the effort to write it in a coherent and understandable fashion. As written, the book certainly is not worth its current ($99) price. It MIGHT be worthwhile buying were it sold for $20 as a soft cover book.

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The second edition of Analytical Fluid Dynamics presents an expanded and updated treatment of inviscid and laminar viscous compressible flows from a theoretical viewpoint. It emphasizes basic assumptions, the physical aspects of flow, and the appropriate formulations of the governing equations for subsequent analytical treatment. Topics covered include · Basic concepts · A novel approach to linking complicated thermodynamics to the equations of motion · Shockwave dynamics · Calorically imperfect gas flows · Supersonic sweep · Shock-expansion interference · Unsteady, one-dimensional flows · First- and second-order boundary-layer theory Particularly noteworthy is a new, general treatment of forces and moments. The one-dimension flow chapter also discusses internal ballistics and the Riemann function method for solving hyperbolic equations. These two chapters, along with those dealing with thermodynamics, sweep, interference, imperfect gas glows, and several of the appendices are new to this edition. Analytical Fluid Dynamics: Second Edition answers the continued need for fluid dynamic books that combine physical insight with careful development of the corresponding mathematics. With his focus on the development of analytical skills for dealing with inviscid and viscous flow, the author achieves this goal and provides a text valuable as a research reference or a graduate-level text.

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Please wipe your feet first

The Prodigal daughter's sister

So Real

Hilarious & poignant story of self-discovery...

Hillarious and So True!

My Life as a Doormat: In Three Acts (Women of Faith Fiction #12)
Rene Gutteridge
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1595540849

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Act I: Avoid conflict at all costs. Even when someone signs you up for something you really don't want to do. Act II: Try to hold things together, even when your life is spinning out of control. Act III: (You'll have to read the book to learn how it all plays out.)

Playwright Leah Townsend doesn't think of herself as a doormat. In fact, her life is pretty good. There's the gorgeous and dependable Edward (even if he is a little dull), and her challenging career (even if the last two plays were flops). The trouble is, Leah's feeling restless these days. The new play isn't going well. Her agent is handing out ultimatums. And her boyfriend Edward, who insists Leah "doesn't handle conflict well," has the nerve to enroll her in a conflict-management class full of people she's sure are her polar opposites, including a conservative talk-radio host named Cinco Dublin who thrives on the very thing Leah wants to avoid--making waves. Can a conflict-challenged playwright ever learn to stand her ground...even if life doesn't come in three predictable acts?

Customer Reviews:

Please wipe your feet first.......2007-07-02

Leah Townsend is a struggling playwright who's trying to regain the momentum from the one hit play she had. She's in a relationship with Dr. Edward Crowse, a physics professor who makes all her decisions for her. Her family always assumes she is the perfect child because she does everything they tell her too. Her best friend thinks that Leah will support her no matter what the situation or what time. Leah has been ok with this until one day she decides to change. This leads to Edward enrolling her into an anger management class. Humiliated and reluctant, Leah goes expecting to blend in. However she soon discovers that being a doormat is not what she really wants to be in life.

This book was really difficult to read at first. I really didn't like the way that Leah was being treated by everyone. I couldn't stand that she wouldn't stand up to anybody in her family and friends and how she would just let them walk all over her. I really hated her boyfriend Edward. That guy was such a jerk especially after enrolling her in the anger management class. I mean what type of person does that just because someone tries out something new or disagrees with you? But then as I kept reading, I liked how Leah was changing. She learned to finally deal and resolve conflict instead of just always giving in. I liked how she knew that this could radically change her life and the relationships she was in. She changed her life completely and finally became happy instead of just settling for mediocrity. The anger management classes were fun to read, some of the characters I would have had problems keeping my temper with! I applauded to her decision with Edward. It was funny though to see how he tried to change for her or at least his thinking of what "change" really was. I enjoyed her relationship with Cinco, it was just what she needed. The title of this book really catches your eye as does the cover. It's a great chick lit book and it's one I think a lot of people should read. Don't be afraid to change.

The Prodigal daughter's sister.......2007-03-30

Leah Townsend has trapped herself into a corner of her own predictability and passiveness. It's no wonder that one of the characters she is writing about says what she only wishes she had the courage to say. Add a predictable/boring boyfriend, a conflict resolution class, a best friend who is making bad choices, a prodigal sister who has finally come home, a play to write and you have one messed up slice of life.

Gutteridge has written a very realistic character, full of flaws. She avoids conflict, lies, falls back on commitments, etc. But in the end finds the peace that she has been looking for. An enjoyable story, one that takes off from the start. I particularly enjoyed the humor of the writing process and talking to her characters. It's exactly what happens!

Beyond the chic lit surface, there is depth to this story as well. It is based somewhat on the parable of the prodigal son, where Leah is the son that stayed at home as the "good child." Characters develop as the story moves on and you come to like them better, or maybe most of the characters. There is also a bit irony in who is the worst off at avoidance issues - Leah or Edward. And look who signed up who for the conflict resolution class, and how! Talk about not wanting to face conflict. The author also throws in character foils and parallel plots. It's just full of things to discover, if you're looking. If not, it's still a great story.

So Real.......2007-02-03

Most books I read, even if I like them, are pretty predictable. By page 10 you already know basically what the ending is going to bring about. Well, this is one book that isn't predictable. I had no idea what was going to happen, and I couldn't have guessed the ending until almost the end. And if a good book is supposed to stir your emotions and make you feel something, then this was a great book. I thought a LOT about this book after I finished it.

The heroine is playwright Leah Townsend. And I absolutely hated her boyfriend. He wasn't SO bad, but then, he was! And when he signed her up for a conflict management support group, I felt her humiliation. But he lived to regret his mistake, as you will see if you read the book. This is a book that makes you examine your own choices and attitudes, and I like that in a book. I highly recommend it.

Hilarious & poignant story of self-discovery..........2006-11-12

Leah Townsend is a struggling playwright who skyrocketed to instant fame with the surprise success of her first play, The Twilight T-Zone. Since then, her writing -- and her relationship with her ever-dependable boyfriend, Edward -- has gone downhill. She can't seem to recapture the "magic" that made her first play a success, and as far the relationship goes, well -- suddenly Leah finds herself wanting more out of life (she's just not sure exactly what "more" means -- and if "more" involves conflict, well forget about it). When Edward interprets her desire for change as an inability to cope with conflict, Leah finds herself enrolled in a conflict management class with Cinco Dublin, a man who's everything she's not...and to whom she finds herself increasingly attracted.

Much like Tamara Leigh's Stealing Adda, Gutteridge provides her readers with a fascinating (and often humorous) glimpse into the life and career of a writer -- dealing with agents, writer's block, and self doubt -- and of course there's the inevitable romantic entanglement. There's even hilarious input from Jodie Bellarusa, the main character in Leah's work-in-progress. Leah's voice is fresh, funny, and oh-so-honest. In Leah, Gutteridge has crafted an incredibly hilarious, relatable, very real heroine. Leah's transformation from a pushover and a doormat to outspoken self-assurance is both incredibly entertaining and inspiring. This is the perfect summer read -- light and engrossing, with characters so real they'll stay with you long after you close the novel. Highly recommended.

Hillarious and So True!.......2006-10-24

Laugh out loud funny, Rene Gutteridge's new book, My Life as a Doormat (In Three Acts), will keep you amused and cheering for playwright Leah Townsend and the crazy participants in her conflict management class. When Leah's boyfriend, Edward, enrolls her in the class without her consent, Leah has no choice but to attend--she wouldn't want to create a conflict. An obstacle course of hilarious challenges, an agent handing out ultimatums, a boyfriend who likes things status quo, and an intriguing talk-radio host who wants to upend the stodgy stability of her doormat life make this a fast read. This inventive comedy is filled with page-turning quirks and twists. For example, a fictional main character from the current play Leah is writing interjects her "thoughts" about the author's daily decisions--a delight for anyone wanting to "read" a writer's mind. The entertaining conflicts stack like a row of dominos ready to topple, and it's all Leah can do to keep from engaging in the very thing the guy she's most interested in loves the best--cheering on the waves that could sweep her heart overboard if she doesn't learn to stand her ground.

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Stolen valor by a dog robber

Stolen Valor

A MUST for all real veterans

Ask for the MOS number

Symptomatic of a culture of narcissism?

Stolen Valor : How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History
BURKETT , and Glenna Whitley
Manufacturer: INGRAM BOOK COMPANY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 096670360X

Customer Reviews:

Stolen valor by a dog robber.......2007-09-27

I was put in touch with B.G. Burkett by the editor at Random House to help this fellow and had several phone calls with Mr. Burkett. He told me that he had a friend inside the NPRC (National Personnel Records Center) pulling DD214s for him. This is highly against the law, but since the Bush family later awarded him for his book STOLEN VALOR, and his book was named in a law, it is difficult to punish someone for these types of criminal acts. Burkett was in the 199th Light Infantry Brigade (Separate) in Vietnam and writes that he was a "dog robber" in his book. That is someone who steals usually for the black market. Down the line, some low-ranking sergeant usually ends up paying for all that he stole. Is this the expert that you need? Most of us who served in combat knew all about these phonies like Dan Rather, the crying boonie hatted slob at the Wall, but Burkett went off about PTSD as if he had been a PhD in it. Burkett paints most, if not all, combat Vietnam vets as robbing the government. Good way to get on 60 Minutes and other liberal causes for sure, but name one government program that doesn't have its share of thieves?

I have the DA1594 (radio logs) form my unit F Company, 51st LRP (Airborne) Infantry and then-Lieutenant B. G. Burkett according to his book was the RRF (Ready Reactionary Force) platoon leader for the months of May/June 1968. In these radio logs his name is mentioned on three separate occasions and he refused to come out and aid our six-man teams in heavy combat.

Mister Burkett, has been smearing my name because I confronted him with these facts and why he smeared two good soldier's names who served with valor in Vietnam? B.G. Burkett dodged, avoided the questions and hid as he did in Vietnam in May/June 1968. Once a coward, always a coward and thus his constant put down of those men who served in Vietnam who were awarded the CIB (Combat Infantryman's Badge) that he could have earned, but cowards always run away from combat.

Don C. Hall
Author of 'I SERVED'
Producer of 'SILENT VICTORY'

Stolen Valor.......2007-09-09

This is a must read for all. Especially those of us who grew during the Vietnam War. This book is well-written, never dull and will enlighten, educate and perhaps change your view of the role the media plays in our lives. As I've always suspected, the media is without honor.

A MUST for all real veterans.......2007-03-08

This book answered a lot of questions I always had as a Vietnam veteran. How could so many men have been there when it was unpopular at the time to say you were? Many famous people are caught saying they were veterans that either were not or wore medals they were never awarded. For example, the newsman Dan Rather, among many others in this book, claims to be a Vietnam era Veteran when in fact it is revealed and documented that he was thrown out of the Marines in the first weeks of boot camp. Riveting reading and well documented.

Ask for the MOS number.......2007-02-27

There are many things that "everybody knows" which are, nevertheless, not true. For example, "everybody knows" that old people in America's cities are so poor they are forced to eat canned dog food. That was a deliberate hoax.

One of the cruelest, most invidious of these false beliefs is that America's Vietnam veterans came home as drug-addicted, homicidal or suicidal, mentally unstable losers.

Of course, we see these human wrecks all over, so it must be true. They wear their now tattered cammies, their hair long in rejection of Army ways, they can't hold a job, they're drunks and addicts, and many of them are one half-step from a violent outbreak. They weep at the wall of the Vietnam Memorial.

The only part of that picture that is accurate is that a lot of these pretend vets are drunks and addicts -- losers. But they were never in anybody`s army.

Worse yet, and despite B.G. Burkett`s massive expose, which was published as long ago as 1998, the same people who for political reasons latched onto the "crazed Viet vet" stereotype in the `70s, `80s and `90s are now applying this heinous lie to Iraq and Afghanistan vets.

They don`t (so far) have derelicts in tattered uniforms to point to -- the 21st century vets are either still on active duty or markedly normal looking after they`ve mustered out; and the civilian junkies and drunks have been unable to use surplus store fatigues to con reporters and peaceniks. But the horror stories are published again and again in newspapers. The country's most listened to radio news, National Public Radio, utters one of these phony stories about once a week.

Despite Burkett's huge effort, things have not changed much since the incident he relates: A group of real vets (Burkett among them) gathered for a memorial. A television crew arrived. Burkett attempted to interest the young lady reporter in the civic success of the vets. No, no, said the young lady. She'd rather talk to the "real vets" over there, the ragged derelicts.

As Burkett details over and over again, it is often a matter of very little checking to discover that these ragamuffins were never in the service. (The phenomenon is not restricted only to Viet vets or young lady reporters. Since "Stolen Valor" was published, the Associated Press published an outrageous libel on the 7th Calvary, based on the "testimony" of men who falsely claimed to be there or falsely claimed to have been decorated. See my review of Robert Bateman's "No Gun Ri: A Military History of the Korean War Incident.")

As Burkett demonstrates, the fake vets aren't all slovenly drunks. He helped expose a number of more respectable fakers, who claimed medals they hadn't won. Some were still in the Reserves, and in one bizarre incident, on active duty at the highest level in the Navy.

It is a scandal that the Pentagon has done little to protect the integrity of its system of awards for valor and sacrifice.

No one denies that crimes occur in war, or that a proportion of men in combat do suffer psychological breakdowns. What is properly denied is that a large proportion of combat troops are ruined, or that Vietnam veterans were/are especially likely to break down.

Burkett offers a number of methods of checking claims about active military service. One he does not mention that offers an easy first cut is to ask a vet his "MOS number." MOS stands for Military Occupational Specialty. Every genuine vet had an MOS number.

Symptomatic of a culture of narcissism?.......2007-01-24

Far from being tedious, I couldn't put this book down when it first came out. The author's thesis reflected my own experience growing up in the '60's and 70's (1974 HS grad), knowing many vets, including relatives and friends, who did not resemble the phony "bush vet" stereotype emerging in TV and film. I served in the Marine Corps 1981-84 after college as a Lt. in the infantry, and again, among the many vets I served with, I knew no one with the "whacked out vet" persona.
I became a police officer in 1985, and in the ensuing 20 plus years I have encountered scores of phony "traumatized" vets among the alcoholics, drug addicts and petty criminals living by choice at the margins of society. The symptoms are as noted: secret special forces ops, classified service records, an inability to respond intelligibly to questions about unit, MOS, places of service in-country, sob-inducing stories of atrocities committed, etc. As reviewers have noted, one's unit & MOS are things that are pretty ingrained(I spent the bulk of my tour with Bravo Co., 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, attached to 1st Marines, 1st Mar Div, FMF Pac at Camp Pendleton... MOS: 0302, Infantry Ofc. Total decorations: one Sea Service Deployment Ribbon). I don't know how many times I had to explain to a self decribed Viet vet what the acronym MOS meant, and then the reply would be generic or nonsensical. I have always been explicit that I never saw combat (in fact, I was on Okinawa on a West Pac deployment when Grenada and the bombing of the barracks in Beirut occured), believing that to claim that experience would be a dishonorable lie,and a slap in the face to those who did. This, I always felt compelled to dissect the lies of these phony vets, so at least they would understand there was at least one person they hadn't conned. And perhaps in the process, I wanted in some way to speak up for the genuine Vietnam veterans.

It's telling that this is one of the books that has received hundreds of reviews, indicating it has struck a significant nerve. The syndrome it describes is, I believe, just another manifestation of a narcissistic culture of celebrity victimhood that encourages identification with a false self, an inflated ego image, rather than encourage the authentic suffering entailed by a search for one's true self and authentic identity. These phony "whacked out" vets are simply creating their own version of the kind of manipulative celebrity persona which has been increasingly and pervasively glorified in our culture.

I have to comment briefly on the negative reviews I read; I also have the sense that some people seemingly read a different book. For one, the author went out of his way to describe himself as a rear echelon pogue, complete with photo in clean starched utilities during his Vietnam tour.
Moreover, I'm pretty independent politically (voted for Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Kerry)& I didn't get the powerful conservative OR liberal bias that some reviewers have criticized.
At the same time I understand the psychological and emotional consequnces of traumatic experiences,and I don't suggest that disorders like PTSD don't exist, nor do I beleive the author is doing so.(I'm currently working on my thsis for a Master's in Counseling Psychology).

In sum, this book is a great public service, and I congratulate the authors for their courage and perseverance in bringing it forth.

Stolen Valor : How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History

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Stolen Valor : How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History
B.; Whitley, Glenna Burke
Manufacturer: Verity Press, Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K1SFTW

Book Description

Throughout their entire history, the sedentary civilizations of China and Europe had to deal with nomads and "barbarians." This unique volume explores their drastically different responses: China "chose" containment while Europe "chose" expansion. Migration played a crucial role in this interaction. Issuing from two population centers, the sedentary one in the West and the nomadic one in the East, two powerful population streams confronted each other in the Eurasian Steppe. This confrontation was a crucial factor in determining patterns of Eurasian history--it destroyed existing states, created new ones, and drastically changed the balance of power. Even today, while Russian populations in Asia contract, the population pressures in China and Central Asia continue to build and are likely to spill over across the border. This book shows how we are witnessing the beginning of a new cycle of the age-old contest.

Customer Reviews:

The Role of Migration.......2005-03-04

A topnotch historian examines a very unusual aspect of Eurasian history: the interaction of several types of civilization in the Eurasian Steppe. It is very well written, destined for scholar and layman, and is a wonderful contribution to this complex subject. It is a detailed, expert, and well thought out examination of an often contradictory and hard to untangle history of migrations...

Very informative.......2002-06-13

If you have any interest in this area of study, or need a book to help you a with a term paper on this subject, this is the one for you. It has loads of information and is very well organized and written. It also has a very comprehensive bibliography, so if you need to delve further into any specific areas, there are numerous suggestions. Highly recommended.

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Paul Strathern (Curie and Radioactivity, Hawking and Black Holes) argues that the advances of molecular biology in the last half of the 20th century are comparable to the gains of nuclear physics in the first: both sciences have given us vast power over our world, and both have challenged our morality with dangerous choices. Strathern also quickly points out that, not coincidentally, both fields arose from the work of ambitious, sometimes foolish, all-too-human researchers.

This 128-page installment in Strathern's The Big Idea series details the work of two brazen wags who were central to the birth of molecular biology: Francis Crick and James Watson. Calling them a "pair of comedians," Strathern describes the tandem research style of the loud and cocksure Crick and the unassuming, gangly Watson. Like an action-flick cop team, the likable pair almost bumbled their way to discovering DNA's zippered helix pattern, with the brilliant, beer-swilling Crick getting called to task by his superiors as Watson quietly pursued hit-and-miss models to crack the code.

One of the better books in The Big Idea series, Crick, Watson, and DNA even includes a decent primer on genetics. In just an hour or so, you'll have a good grasp of the field and more than a few chuckles at the antics of two of its greats. --Paul Hughes

Customer Reviews:

Drama meets science.......2000-08-08

I started the read as research for a project, but halfway in approached it as leisure reading. The personalities involved in the race to break the code, the unorthodox methods that Crick and Watson applied, and the dynamics of the scientific development (or MISdevelopment) that led to the discovery are all intriguing for the average science buff.

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To the Rescue! The SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation Program (SeaWorld Education Series)

Manufacturer: A SeaWorld Publication
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1893698068

Product Description

The SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation Program is an important part of SeaWorld's commitment to conservation, research and education. Though this program, SeaWorld and Busch Gardens devote around-the-clock and across-the-globe resources to rescue, treat, shelter and release thousands of stranded, sick and injured animals. The Program offers wildlife experts the opportunity to learn about the kinds of environmental problems that impact wild animals. Rescued animals provide insights into their species biology and ecology, and the information gathered from wildlife rescues can be used in making wildlife management decisions.

Chapters include:

Why do animals strand?

SeaWorld to the Rescue!

Partners in Animal Rescue

Rescued Animals

Back To Sea

Species Conservation

and 'Why Help Animals?

Appendices includes a glossary, web sites, bibilography, books for young readers and an index.

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