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Complete and balanced, with essential coverage of learning, study, and time-management techniques, this book exposes readers to “how” to learn. Content is presented in such a way as to guide readers to become self-regulating learners and problem-solvers. Topics covered include strategies, learning attitudes, and learning styles, as well as time management. This book is a useful reference for those readers needing to brush up on their learning and time-management skills, making it a perfect tool for those going back into the workforce, or those readers considering continuing education.

Study Wise: A Program for Maximizing Your Learning Potential - 3 Book Package

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Study Wise: A Program for Maximizing Your Learning Potential - 3 Book Package

Manufacturer: Pearson -Prentice Hall
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ASIN: 0131143182

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3 Book Package Includes: Study Wise: A Program for Maximizing Your Learning Potential by Lawrence J. Greene, Study Skills: Do I Really Need This Stuff? by Steve Piscitelli, and College Study: The Essential Ingredients by Sally Lipsky.

College Study: The Essential Ingredients

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College Study: The Essential Ingredients
Sally Lipsky
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: B000OHYR2G

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Small telescopes have a lot to recommend them.
Cost is of course a consideration, but their most positive feature is sheer portability. Some manufacturers have tried to make large telescopes more portable (with mixed success), but the opposite approach, that of making small telescopes more effective, is what this book is all about.
Good 2-inch (60mm) telescopes are now available for beginners, and major American manufacturers now offer small, affordable computer-controlled instruments that are capable of superb results.
Stephen Tonkin has gathered the experience of users of small telescopes to provide an insight into just what is possible - for newcomers to astronomy or experienced observers who simply want to use a small, really portable telescope.

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Ten telescope essays plus one.......2001-05-29

This book is a collection of essays on experiences using small telescopes for observing the heavens. The discussions range from 60mm refractors thru 5 in. "go to" scopes, including a home made 4 in. Newtownian. There is also a short essay on radio astronomy which seems out of place in this text. This book would have been served by better organization. Some of the essays have good insights on observing with these small telescopes, but it pays to look through all the essays, even for those not dealing with the specific telescope one owns or is interested in. This book was published with beginners in mind, but the organization of the book may leave a beginner confused. This is a bit below the average of books in the "Practical Astronomy" series, but a good starting point for owners of telescopes 5 in. in diameter and smaller. The "Radio Telescope" essay, though out of place in this text, gives an insight into non-visual astronomy open to the amatuer astronomer.

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As in all chemical separation methods, selectivity is an important parameter for achieving separation. Also important is the optimization of the separation conditions to achieve high plate counts, speed and resolution. Obviously, in any given separation process, no separation can take place in the absence of selectivity even if millions of theoretical plates are easily attained.

This thematic issue of Journal of Chromatography A recognizes the importance of selectivity and optimization in maximizing separation in capillary electrophoresis by providing the reader with several review and research articles from experts in the field. The thematic issue is organized into six major parts, and in each part pertinent review articles are collected first followed by a number of original contributions.

This special volume has treated many of the selectivity and optimization issues that address the needs of those who use capillary electrophoresis. This will facilitate the widespread use of capillary electrophoresis as an important analytical separation tool for solving separation problems of practical importance in the life and other sciences.

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This new book, the first in 10 years to examine environmental microbe-metal interactions, summarizes the current understanding of the interaction of microorganisms and metals in the environment. It offers the reader a comprehensive overview of the field and a basis for improved models of metal cycling. It makes clear the significance of environmental microbe-metal interactions and provides clues for areas of futher investigation.

Metal-Microbe Interactions (Society for General Microbiology Special Publications, Vol 26)

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Metal-Microbe Interactions (Society for General Microbiology Special Publications, Vol 26)

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This new title provides information on the relationships of such biological materials as yeasts, fungi, and plasmids with metals they come in contact with. Readers will find in-depth discussions by noted experts in their respective fields on the toxicity of heavy metals, accumulation and
precipitation of sulphides, and the reactions of bacterial cell walls to the presence of metal ions. This volume is ideal for undergraduates and graduates, as well as researchers unfamiliar with metal-microbe interactions who are seeking a useful introduction to the field.

The Role of Bioligands in Microbe-Metal Interactions: Emphasis on Subsurface Bacteria and Actinides

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The Role of Bioligands in Microbe-Metal Interactions: Emphasis on Subsurface Bacteria and Actinides
Anna Johnsson
Manufacturer: Goteborg University
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Metal-Microbe Interactions (Society for General Microbiology Special Publications, Vol 26)
Robert K.; Gadd, Geoffrey M. Poole
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Metal-Microbe Interactions (Special Publications of the Society for General Microbiology, Vol 26)

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Metal-Microbe Interactions (Special Publications of the Society for General Microbiology, Vol 26)
Robert K. Poole Geoffrey M. Gadd
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Flashman - From The Flashman Papers, 1839-1842
George Macdonald - Edited and Arranged Fraser
Manufacturer: Plume / Penguin Books
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Flashman, From the Flashman Papers, 1839-1842
George MacDonald FRASER
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A Cad for All Seasons

Flash of Genius

Flash-inating insight into the Victorian age

Flashman - an anti-hero for the ages

fun, smart but sometimes believable

Flashman from the Flashman Papers 1839-1842
George MacDonald Fraser
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A Cad for All Seasons.......2007-09-26

Flashman is a terrible, terrible human being who does many, many terrible things. Fraser's unique genius is making this waste of skin and his nefarious deeds side-splittingly funny. I think that many readers, though they might never admit it, will find themselves rooting for Harry Flashman (on occasion) despite all his myriad deficiencies.

Fraser's book, aside from being wickedly clever comedy, is also peppered with lots of interesting historical detail and insight into the more famous, powerful, and "respectable" folk who are, when all is said and done, probably responsible for greater crimes than those of our (anti)hero. All this in the inimitable voice of the dastardly Flashman.

Good stuff.

Flash of Genius.......2007-07-16

It was great fun and embarrassing to read this first book in what I am sure is an impressive series. Why embarrassing, you may ask; well I am an Indian.

Fraser certainly knows how to write a great satirical historical fiction. I have no idea about the Afghan war and for all its worth I would believe Flashman's papers as the truth. Fraser writes it that well. Flashman confesses to being a coward and a scoundrel and impressively is hailed as heroic, brave and loyal. This itself seems to bring truth to his story. It is so fantastical and detailed that one may believe his words by the end of half the novel.

I being from the lot of India's black n***** savages am quite impressed by the perspective of the Englishman - a soldier and a gentleman. His description of that era is accurate in its disgust. The action, in bed and battle, is a very telling account of a foreigner in a hellish land (hell for the Englishman, home for some others).

It starts off with Flashman's disgrace and elimination from school. He has a flash of an idea to take it easy in a cozy regiment. Depending on his dad's fortune he gets the colours and can't help continue being a scoundrel. He is then further disgraced by getting orders to go to India to assist the East India Company. Here the story keeps getting funnier, interesting and irresistible. His adventures in India seem to bring him glory whether he keeps going worse or not. Hailed for learning the native tongue he is rewarded by an assignment to Afghanistan. Poor fellow is a victim of his own success.

Soon the Afghan chapters turn rapidly as you breeze through his adventures with the Gilzais and Ghazis and Kabulis. He turns every misadventure into glory without lifting a finger. It's as if an angel of scoundrels watches over him. Every mistake he makes turns him to be more appreciated by the Afghans and the British alike. The description of the battle, the siege at Kabul, the retreat, the escape from Gul Shah, the Jallalabad fort fiasco and his constant good luck in cowardice is captivating. He keeps getting laurels for what any idiot would get flogged and hanged for. His ease with the natives and British Generals get him into cozy deals where he keeps getting patted and congratulated.

If anything, forget the outrageous humour, you should read the book as if it is a dated James Bond novel. Okay so Bond is brave, but Flashman - he doesn't have to be. Fraser writes out the fiction with great accuracy to dates and events and people involved. It is a fascinating read and insight into the feringhee's vision of Asia.

Other than that the characterisation is beautiful and plot smooth as silk. Elphy Bey, Hudson, Sale and Lady Sale, Akbar Khan, Gul Shah, and so many more great characters with their description as young Flashman speaks it is incredibly delightful. The book seemed to tell too much in too few words cause for all that happens, it takes only 294 pages to tell. I intend to read and collect every book in this series. The ending I thought was rightly tame, with the vile Flashman doubting his own wife after coming back to London 2 years later. It further establishes his character and how he lacks a backbone or honour.

An Indian I am and proud of it, but Flashman is funny as hell and I won't deny it. Fraser is a brilliant writer and could probably lecture history at the best Universities, but here he let's us enjoy an unparalleled satire of the British soldier in India. Also, Indian canteens today would not really sicken a pig, but a European may well stay away from it. Cheers to our health and to that of Flashman.

Flash-inating insight into the Victorian age.......2007-03-24

Have you ever wondered what it was really like in the Victorian age? How the heroes of the "Charge of the Light Brigade" and "Last stand at Rorke's Drift", to name a few epic events in British military history, really behaved when they weren't fighting for Queen, country and the honor of their regiment while keeping a stiff upper lip?
Well, meet Flashman: scoundrel, cad, drunkard, incompetent, coward, anti-hero and (even for those times, but even more so now) totally politically incorrect. And those are his good qualities. At the first sign of danger and/or trouble, his instinct is always to run like hell to save his own skin and the devil take the hindmost. Mothers & fathers, keep your daughters (and husbands your wives) as far away from him as possible, because he chases after anything in a skirt and uses every trick in the book (and a few out of it) to get laid. The Flashman Papers are his memoirs, and he "tells it like it is", sparing no punches.
And you really can learn a lot about history from him, for while trying to keep his skin intact, he manages to land smack in the middle of some of the most famous historical events (Flashy was there at the charge of the Light Brigade, at the retreat from Kabul in 1842, at Custer's defeat at Little Big Horn to name just a few) and rubs elbows with some of the most famous people of that era: Raglan, Queen Victoria, Lincoln, Custer, Kit Carson - to name just a few.
For example, in "Flashman", you get a historically accurate look at how the British got kicked out of Afghanistan in 1842 during the First Afghan War (Bush take notice: "history is a mirror of the past/and a lesson for the present" as an old Persian proverb goes).
So, read "Flashman", the first novel in the series about the adventures of Harry Flashman, as he lies, steals and wenches his way through the Victorian age.
Anyway, having read this book I'm still not sure what to think about Flashman: if I like to hate, or hate to like him. What I do know is this: I want to read the next adventure of the Flashman Papers! So I've ordered the next couple of books in this series. The only reason I gave this book only four stars, is because this series can only get better!

Flashman - an anti-hero for the ages.......2007-03-12

I'm not sure what it says about me, but I seem to fall more for anti-heroes than for heroes themselves. Whether it is Lee Child's creation Jack Reacher, or Bernard Cornwell's murderous Richard Sharpe, or Shakespeare's Falstaff, I just find these guys so darn compelling even though I'm perpetually glad they don't live next door.

George MacDonald Fraser's drunken rake, Harry Flashman, joins the ranks of the truly great anti-heroes of literature. A handsome coward with impeccable timing to get himself in the worst trouble imaginable, Flashman was not born great, will not achieve greatness, but is more than willing to have greatness thrust upon him by others. He's also the kind of guy who, when accused of being drunk on gin and beer, will go to great pains to correct you - I may be a drunk, but I am not so uncivilized as to mix my drinks.

Flashman's story is told as "the Flashman Papers," so the novel is one long narrative - Flashman has written his autobiography. And what an autobiography it is! Kicked out of school for drunkenness, Flashman enters the British army only after wheedling a handsome annuity from his father and taking his father's mistress. To Flashman, the army is a chance to look smart in a uniform and have an idle, safe career as an officer's aide - plenty of time for perpetual bachelor Flashman to dally with bored officer's wives and daughters. So Flashman chooses to join up with a British unit that just returned from India, on the reasonable grounds that these guys just finished their stint in hell, and nobody's going to ask them to go back into harm's way.

Flashman's plans go awry in two major ways. First, he finds himself betrothed to the gorgeous Scottish wench Elspeth, who is as naive and stupid as Flashman is cynical and cunning. The conditions of the engagement perfectly summarize Flashman - he has his way with Elspeth, and when her uncle tells Flashman that he can either marry Elspeth or fight a duel, Flashman naturally chooses marriage. Then, Flashman must leave Elspeth behind (no worries there) because Flashman gets sent abroad with his regiment - first to India, and then to Afghanistan (major worries there).

While in Afghanistan, Flashman takes part in one of England's worst military blunders. Britain's army is carved to pieces, thanks to the sheer incompetence of its commanding officer. Flashman is, very relunctantly, forced to put his skin in harm's way. The fact that Flashman survives is not surprising - he's writing his autobiography, after all. But it is the way he survives - by being the most cowardly soldier imaginable - that gives the novel its spice. The fact that, as a survivor, Flashman keeps getting saddled with charges of heroism just adds to the fun . . . and Flashman's manners are too refined for him to correct anyone of their misapprehension.

A must-read for fans of historical fiction, "Flashman" is the first novel in a highly praised and much-adored series. Check it out.

fun, smart but sometimes believable.......2007-03-08

As an account of the disastrous Afghan campaign of the early Victorian era, this novel succeeds beyond expectations. In terms of character and plot development, one sometimes gets the impression that any movie of the Indiana Jones series is more realistic. Only for history buffs (like myself).

Flashman. From The Flashman Papers 1839-1842

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Flashman. From The Flashman Papers 1839-1842
GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER
Manufacturer: Barrie & Jenkins
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KFSWTG

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Part memoir, part diplomatic history, Born a Foreigner traces Ambassador Crosss personal odyssey as a boy born in Beijing to missionary parents, a teenager under the Japanese occupation of North China, a Japanese-speaking Marine Corps officer in WWII, and as a diplomat posted to sensitive areas throughout the world. Crosss authoritative and invaluable account of his Vietnam experience as chief of CORDS in I Corps adds significantly to the literature on the Vietnam War. Covering the long sweep of historical events in Asia from revolutionary China in the 1920s and 1930s to the full normalization of Sino-American diplomatic relations in 1979 and their aftermath in Taiwan, Crosss memoir will interest anyone seeking an insiders view of U.S. relations with Asia.

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U.S. Policy with a Human Face.......2001-07-10

Charles T. Cross's, Born a Foreigner presents an intimate look into American diplomacy in Asia. "Chuck" Cross was born in Beijing to American missionary parents, and lived there until he left for college just before World War II. In Marine intelligence in the war, Cross was in the major battles in the Pacific theater, including Saipan and Iwo Jima. After the war and after graduate school at Yale, Cross entered the Foreign Service. Posts starting with Taiwan quickly followed each other: Indonesia right after its independence, Hong Kong, Washington, D.C. during the McCarthy era, Malaya just before independence, and London. From there he was assigned to Vietnam, then back to Singapore as ambassador (1969-1971), Hong Kong as consul general (1974-1977), and finally as the first director of the American Institute in Taiwan. To my mind, Cross's memoir makes two special contributions. First and foremost is his love for China, from his youthful school memories, to when the Marines first entered Peking in the fall of 1945 at the end of the war, to his view of China through the eyes of an American diplomat. As he says, "being born a `foreigner' in China carries with it a lifetime load of...attitudes, affections, possibly even insights, which I have taken from country to country in Asia." Cross's personal story of his relationship with China gave me new insights into this complex country. A second contribution is Cross's experience and view of Vietnam. Here is a wholly different perspective of our role in that conflict than I, in my twenties in that era, got from the media of the 1960s and 1970s. Cross presents no pat answers to the right or wrong of our involvement. As a senior officer at U.S. headquarters in Danang for two years, including during the Tet Offensive, Cross's assignment was to help strengthen the South Vietnamese people so they would be more resistant to the Vietcong. The `pacification' program worked hamlet by hamlet to help the people defend themselves, aid in establishing schools and hospitals and to provide relief for the massive number of refugees. Meeting corruption among the district chiefs and political crosscurrents in headquarters, Cross, at the end of his tour there in 1969, assessed their work as "making slow but real progress against the VC." From his base in headquarters, Cross participated in many briefings, explaining his broad views of military and political strategy, but not softening the realities of the war. Looking back on his time in Vietnam, he wrote that never again did he become so emotionally involved with a country and he "began a process of thinking back and forth about Vietnam, which has continued to this day-drawing conclusions and then rejecting them, looking for new and different meanings, finding none...." In 1972, Cross was a "diplomat in residence" at the University of Michigan and experienced first hand the student views of the war, and in the 1980s taught a course on Vietnam at the University of Washington, a subject that most professors did not care to touch. Yet Vietnam has affected all U.S. policy since: Now wars must be short, have clear objectives and predefined endings, must use high-tech firepower from the air to avoid American casualties, and above all, must have public support. Throughout the book, Cross recognizes his wife Shirley's role in their diplomatic assignments as well as her independent accomplishments in teaching wherever they went. In this memoir, Cross has accomplished a remarkable feat of telling the story of American policy through their experiences without boasting. A self-deprecating sense of humor, modesty, and balance come through chapter by chapter and give abstract U.S. foreign policy a human face. I recommend it.

beginning notes on Born a Foreigner.......2001-06-18

Born a Foreigner was an amazing account of one American's experience as a member of the American presence. It is very personal throughout, but deals with a wide range of events and experiences. It begins and ends in China and covers 80 years of American relations with China and the relations of Americans with Chinese. In between, there is a life as a missionary's son in pre-WWII China under Japanese occupation, the United States Marine Corps in the major WWII battles, including Iwo Jima and 32 years in U.S. Foreign Service. The book is educational and informative, while the person element makes it an interesting read. I highly recommend this book.

could have been worse............2000-06-22

Missionary Kids (MKs) have been an important part of my life. My Godfather grew up in China-the son of a missionary MD. My father served on a mission board for over 30 years and missionaries were regular visitors in our home. Generally speaking I have found that while MKs occasionally have problems adjusting to the "we are the only important country in the world" attitude so common in USA, their cross-cultural childhoods usually give them a worldview that is uncommonly sophisticated and nuanced. So I began reading "Born a Foreigner" with high expectations because it was written by the son of missionaries to China.

Unfortunately, not all MKs turn out sophisticated and nuanced. Charles Cross evidently decided that the best way to leverage his childhood experiences was to join the Foreign Service and become what can only be called a professional Ugly American. For example, in the late `60s after losing a bunch of debates while defending the USA's actions in Vietnam, he abandoned his family and a cushy post in England so he could become a part of the "pacification" effort. "Pacification" in Vietnam was a program of assassination, torture, and concentration camps that provoked howls of outrage from virtually every sentient being on the planet. Not surprisingly, almost all the official USA documents on the subject are STILL classified. But does Cross express any regrets about his contributions to massive human rights abuses? Not at all. He does note disapproval from his mother but mostly he decries the lack of pacification's effectiveness.

When Hannah Arendt covered the trial of Adolf Eichmann, she was struck by the "banality of evil." Somehow, between professional wrestling and James Bond flicks, we have come to believe that the bad guys are at least interesting. Wrong! Cross's book proves that evil is not merely banal, it is arrogant (he implies that passing a few difficult course at Carleton or Yale are enough to qualify a person to make life-and-death decisions for the yellow folks on earth) clueless (he writes how astonished his missionary aunt was that some of her Chinese students joined the Communist Revolution) and totally lacking in curiosity (he was posted in Indonesia in the period immediately after de-colonialization and all he can write about is the difficulty of getting good servants, the lack of air conditioning, the unruliness of the mobs, and the poor conditions for playing tennis.)

The most that can be said for this dismal memoir about a wretchedly lived life is that it could have been worse...it could have been longer.

Essential Idioms in English for the Foreign Born (Chinese Version)

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Undated paperback. Text in English and Chinese. Illustrated with drawings.

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A Natural Born Foreigner
Ernesto de la Torre
Manufacturer: Ernesto de la Torre
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ASIN: B000V19522

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Ernesto de la Torres is the tale of a life well lived. His mouthwatering account of voyages from one continent to another includes encounters with Cuban prisons, French chambermaids, and martini drinking Yankees. Through it all, he never loses sight of his goal, to live as though he would die tomorrow, and learn as though he would live forever. (276 pp. with color photographs included)

Foreigners or friends, a handbook;: The churchman's approach to the foreign-born and their children,

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Foreigners or friends, a handbook;: The churchman's approach to the foreign-born and their children,
Thomas Burgess
Manufacturer: Department of missions and church extension
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction Lerner reinterprets her own work nearly forty years later and gives new recognition to the major significance of Sarah Grimke's feminist writings.

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