Biology: A Guide to the Natural World

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Biology: A Guide to the Natural World remains the only book written and illustrated from the ground up for those with little knowledge of biology. The Third Edition retains its best features—rich, full-color art, an accessible writing style, and a full complement of digital resources—while substantially updating the content throughout to emphasize the relevancy of biology to readers' lives. A seven-part organization covers essential parts: atoms, molecules, and cells; energy and its transformation; how life goes on: genetics; life's organizing principle: evolution and the diversity of life; a bounty that feeds us all: plants; what makes the organism tick? animal anatomy and physiology; and the living world as a whole: ecology and behavior. For the promotion of biological literacy—to make individuals aware that they need it to participate in the workforce, make everyday decisions, and make informed choices at the ballot box.

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Cheaper than school bookstore.......2007-09-10

This is a required textbook for my intorductory biology class. Well laid out, easy to read. Tone is sometimes too conversational, I have to really pay attention to the facts. I saved nearly twenty dollars buying at amazon rather than at the school bookstore.

Confusing Text Book With Errors In Reference Section.......2005-12-13

There were many formatting errors in this book, such as the glossary columns being switched around-"G" doesn't belong in the middle of the "F" vocab. Some of the page #'s listed in the index were not correct. If you must use this book then you should know that the info can normally be found close to the page listed in the index. The figures/tables were very useful and restated the text in an organized manner, which helped the flow of the writing.

Biology -- A Guide to the Natural World.......2000-09-03

I found this book to much easier to read and understand from all the previous textbooks assigned to biology courses. The graphics and tables and examples are completely explained. The format asks questions and answers them in a simple, easily understandable text -- not like the mumbo jumbo that a person would have to read over and over to finally understand its meaning.

World Authors: 1900-1950, Four-Volume Set (Wilson Authors Series)

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The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

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All the benefits and liabilities of a good encyclopedia
The Literary Reference Guide
Highly recommended to get your theoretical bearings

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

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ASIN: 0801880106

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The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism has become the indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. The long-awaited second edition includes 48 new entries and subentries and has been revised throughout, taking account of ten years of rapidly changing scholarship.

While concentrating on the explosion of contemporary critical and theoretical works, the Guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of ideas and individuals ranging from Plato and Aristotle to twentieth-century scholars. It includes more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. It also examines developments in other disciplines which have shaped literary theory and criticism. An international, encyclopedic guide to the field's most important figures, schools, and movements, the new edition reflects the state of literary theory and criticism.

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All the benefits and liabilities of a good encyclopedia.......2004-06-25

Theory, so called, is vast and complex and historical and contradictory. This volume is brief and clear and present oriented and structural. That the field and its survey are incommensurate is necessary, but the user should be aware of these limitations. The entries are clear and non-dogmatic but they must betray the liabilities of summary: concise average readings that hide problems, relations, and other voices. At root, modern theory is not intelligible without philosophical contexts that go to the pre-socratics, but that cannot appear here. Some choices of inclusion and exclusion seem odd: a separate entry for Orwell and none for Deleuze, for instance. But on the whole, this book is useful and well done.

I bought it which is my highest rec.

The Literary Reference Guide.......2001-04-05

I'm going back into a Masters Program and plan to teach English for a living. Already this book has proved to be a valuable resource when surveying various schools of criticism. The cross-referenced index is a bit confusing, but this is a nice book that you may want to sit down with and read for awhile anyway. I've found some wonderful items in here, and it's fun to flip through, looking for previously unknown literary schools that may catch my interest. It's a great reference book, but also a compelling source of information and direction. I laid out the bucks for this book because I know it will be a handy reference for the next thirty years. Already it's directed me to some outside reading that has proved quite profitable. I'll keep this guide close by as long as I am a student of Literature.

Highly recommended to get your theoretical bearings.......2000-09-13

Provides a consise, and yet sufficiently nuanced and complex, summary of theoretical schools, practitioners, terms, and trends. Hefty and yet readable reference material -- cross-indexed with more thorough bibliographies for each entry.

Contemporary Issues in Bioethics (with InfoTrac )

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Contemporary Issues in Bioethics (with InfoTrac )
Great medical ethics resource!

Contemporary Issues in Bioethics (with InfoTrac )
Tom L. Beauchamp , and LeRoy Walters
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ASIN: 0534584411

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This anthology represents all of the most important points of view on the most pressing topics in bioethics. Containing current essays and actual medical and legal cases written by outstanding scholars from around the globe, this book provides readers with diverse range of standpoints, including those of medical researchers and practitioners, legal exerts, and philosophers.

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Contemporary Issues in Bioethics (with InfoTrac ).......2007-03-14

book arrived in excellent shape and on time with no problems

Great medical ethics resource!.......2007-02-10

With articles by medical doctors, lawyers, and ethicists, this book thoroughly explores many of the ethical and legal debates in medicine today. Patient autonomy, patient rights, ethical treatment of experimental subjects, palliative care, end-of-life decision making, stem cell research, and bioterrorism are all covered in-depth with arguements from different angles on every topic. I would highly recommend this book for anyone studying ethics, medicine, or law.

The Oxford Companion to English Literature

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A handy if heavy friend!
A worthy companion
A (Very Historical) Companion to English Literature
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very good refrence

The Oxford Companion to English Literature

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Based on the text of Margaret Drabble's 1995 edition, this sixth edition has been completely reworked and expanded. There are nearly 600 entirely new entries to reflect the new figures and issues of English Literature in the new millennium, and the existing entries have been extensively revised and updated to incorporate the latest scholarship. But this new edition remains faithful to Sir Paul Harvey's original vision of an authoritative work placing English literature from the Classical world, Europe, Latin America, and beyond. In addition to the extensive coverage of writers, works, literary theory, allusions, and characters, there are sixteen featured essay-style entries on key topics including black British literature, fantasy fiction, and modernism.

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A handy if heavy friend!.......2005-02-17

A wonderful resource and superbly edited by Ms Drabble to not only meet the founding principles of this work (which first appeared in the 1930's) but also to consider the ever changing parimeters of what good and great literature is, a highly subjective notion at best.
The title almost does not do this work justice, it bestows it with a crusty old British acaedemic image. You almost imagine having to blow the dust off it before you can begin! But it is so much more rich and diverse than this and should not be avoided by those made nervous by it's title; it is not the untouchable work it sounds like it may be.
If literature is a love of yours, whether by author or genre, then you will find this brilliantly informative. Don't be put off by this being such an enormous book, it needs to be, it will become a dear and chubby friend in no time!

A worthy companion.......2003-07-11

The first 'Oxford Companion to English Literature' was published in 1932 under the editorial direction of Sir Paul Harvey (no relation the American radio commentator). Half a century and five editions later, this is still a standard, authoritative reference work necessary for scholars and interested non-experts alike.

Under the editorship of Margaret Drabble, author and biographer (known for 'The Witch of Exmoor' and the more recently published 'The Peppered Moth'), this volume remains faithful to Harvey's intention of placing English literature in its widest possible context while exploring the deep classical and continental connections that underpin much of the history.

How can literature be divorced from cultural context? Surely it cannot be -- hence the newest entries into the edition include topics that read as if they were taken from today's best-seller shelf:

- Anglo-Indian Literature
- Simon Armitage
- Kate Atkinson
- Louis de Bernieres
- Censorship

- Ben Elton
- Gay and lesbian literature
- Hypertext
- A. L. Kennedy
- Lad's literature
- Literature of science
- New Criticism
- New Irish Playwrights
- Carol Shields
- Travel writing

This sample listing of the latest entries is representative of the more established categories, in that the entries (encyclopedic in character) include Authors, Subjects, Titles, Events, Characters and Critical Theory. The entries are unsigned (an ever-controversial practice in reference works such as this) -- well over a hundred contributors assisted in this volume, including the likes of Matthew Sweet, Salman Rushdie, Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, Katherine Duncan-Jones, and Brian Vickers.

This volume serves the general reader well in that one may follow cross-reference trails through the text. Take, for instance, Aaron the Moor -- the reader will be directed to Titus Andronicus, to which one is directed to Shakespeare, and from there a host of other cross-references historical and modern. Under the entry of Gabriel Josipovici, one is led back the entries of Rabelais and Bellow, influences as well as objects of Josipovici's study.

The appendices are new features of this edition. The first appendix is a Chronology that lists the chronology of the production of English literature from c.1000 to 1999 side by side with major historical events in Britain and beyond, and the significant events in the lives of literary figures. Appendix 2 lists the Poets Laureate in chronological order, from 1619 (when the office unofficially began) to the present -- surprisingly, there have only been 21 (19 official). Appendix 3 lists major literary award winners: Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Library Association Carnegie Medalists, and Booker-McConnell Prize for Fiction. Obviously not all of these are British authors, but it helps to place British literature in the wider world context of the twentieth century (as all of these prizes are twentieth-century creations).

In addition to the encyclopedic entries, there are major essays scattered through the text. These include the following topics:

- Biography
- Black British Literature
- Children's Literature
- Detective Fiction
- Fantasy Fiction
- Ghost Stories
- Gothic Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- Metre
- Modernism
- Post-Colonial Literature
- Romanticism
- Science Fiction
- Spy Fiction
- Structuralism and Post-Structuralism

These essays include history and current development of the genre or topic, as well as bibliographic information for further research, which (regrettably) the smaller encyclopedic entries rarely have.

This is a terrific, one-volume reference that should serve well anyone with a need for quick and ready reference material. It should find a welcome home on the shelf of any avid reader, fan of literature and modern fiction, history, religion, or any devoted Anglophile.

A (Very Historical) Companion to English Literature.......2003-01-22

Disliking an Oxford Press book makes me feel like a heretic. The majority of their Companion books are superb, remarkably concise yet thorough works of scholarship. The English Companion is an unfortunate and surprising exception.

The entry for 'New Criticism' is an efficient example of the book's shortcomings. For one thing, there's a laundry list of authors, dates, and books but very little is said of the IDEAS that characterize New Criticism. The entries are generally hamstringed by a focus on the sociopolitical and historical aspects of writers and works. The effort is laudable but inappropriate and uneconomical for a reference work. In its most extreme form, the historical emphasis goes into bizarre detail about an author's upbringing -- is it really necessary that we know where an author went to grade school and when? Entries love to entertain tales of writers' deaths and and of their insignificant travellings. I often felt as though I were reading minibiographies.

One will also notice, in the case of 'New Criticism', the absence of any mention of the 'organic'. This is ridiculous and indicative of the book's lack of attention to concepts as such. There is a non-cross-referenced mention of 'organic' under Coleridge, yet even there it is only mentioned as one of his ideas, not in terms of what the theory tried to say. I would compare it to someone's asking, 'What does X mean?' This book's reply: 'X was one of so-and-so's ideas'. Too often, the response ends there. Literary theory entries are usually on the thin side, though the deconstruction essay is solid. However, even in the longest lit theory essays there is more of an emphasis on people and movements -- far less on ideas.

Along with the lack of depth (or conceptual emphasis), there's little sense of the overall significance of ideas, works or characters (ironic given the attempts at a social-historical approach): Caliban is mentioned in the Tempest entry, and even gets his own paragraph elsewhere, but there's nothing about his character as it's been re-elaborated and re-invented by a long tradition of English writers (Auden, Browning, Joyce, and Wilde for starters). There's nothing about Caliban's portrayal in that tradition, nor mention of Caliban's mirror, etc. Under 'hubris' (which is found, in turn, under a terse account of 'the Poetics'), there's nothing about Icarus, nor is there anything about hubris as a specific theme in so many works.

Speaking of hubris, it's baffling to me that Drabble's entry is longer than either Hill's or Heaney's. The general editor would have been better off focusing more of her energy on other writers: that expansive babbling space could have been put to stronger use had a more thorough background been given on either of those poets, among others.

Readers seeking to understand why an author alludes in his work to a character or poet will be little helped by nebulous terms like 'icily poised' or 'sensuously textured', which are more suggestive of gastronomic, rather than literary, criticism. To my mind a reference's primary function should be to offer a quick source of the 'essentials' of a book or of a writer's ideas, an understanding of which would illuminate one's reading of the alluding work. While I appreciate that entries shy away from 'this or that' critiques or strict (canonical) interpretations, giving lists of facts does an injustice to the works themselves and to the way these works have been interpreted by others. (Believe it or not, people CAN come to their own conclusions even after being introduced to an opinion.)

The book's scope is appropriate to literature, as literature tends to allude to so many disparate disciplines. But if one were truly trying to give an encyclopedic account of literature, the book would have to be much bigger. In this case, specialization suffers. I would have preferred a much more focused account of 'literature' as such; I'd then supplement this with other references focused, for example, on English history. One gets the sense that too many entries end up attenuated in this book.

On the positive side the plot summaries are strong and more nuanced, though many entries are badly written (full of odd, obscuring, convoluted syntax). Again, good editorship would have recognized this.

The book primarily succeeds as an enervated survey. Nevertheless, readers will occasionally happen upon some interesting, well-summarized topics.

I'm going to check out the Cambridgean counterpart to the Oxford Companion, and I'm hoping it will give a more in-depth account of ideas and themes. The other Oxford Companions are, however, truly amazing works and deserve a close look.

very good refrence.......1999-09-08

An excellent resource of information about English works of art

very good refrence.......1999-09-08

An excellent resource of information about English works of art

The Miracle of Bio-Identical Hormones: A Revolutionary Approach to Wellness for Men, Women and Children

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It was ok
Good stuff
Not the most useful book.
Cheryl Ellis, Allbooks highly recommends
A very thought-provoking and well-written book

The Miracle of Bio-Identical Hormones: A Revolutionary Approach to Wellness for Men, Women and Children
Michael E. Platt
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Natural Hormone Balance

When was the last time you read a health book that you couldn't put down?

"This is the most important health book published this year, or any year for that matter. It's an easy, fascinating, highly informative, even life- changing read." —Barbara Morris, R.Ph., author of the book "Put Old on Hold"

"Easy to read and filled with remarkable real life patient histories and case studies documenting dramatic results from achieving a balance with bio-identical hormones. This book will empower you to seek hormone balance, gain control of your weight and get on the road to wellness in your life." —Dana Reed-Kane, Pharm.D. FIACP, contributor to International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding

"Only a master of Dr. Platt's stature, with his enviable knowledge and command of human physiology, can weave a medical tapestry that is understood and appreciated by all, professionals as well as non-medical minds!" — Dr. M. Sohail A. Qureshi, London, England

"Make no mistake this is NOT a book just for menopausal women. Men women and children with a myriad of chronic conditions and debilitating illnesses will finally find answers in their quest to just "feel better." — Ellen Parris, as reviewed on Palm Springs Life

"I have known Dr. Platt for 25 years. He is a brilliant diagnostician. This book is an example of the way medicine should be practiced. — Leslie Todd, R.N., N.P., Ph.D.

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It was ok.......2007-10-07

I liked some of the information but it was not technical enough for me. . .Suzanne Somers does a better job in fact and this guy is a doctor. So that is telling. You can get something from it but it is not the best source of info on the subject.

Good stuff.......2007-08-23

I think Platt makes some important points. It's also important to know that he does focus alot on weight loss and the control of insulen. I have researched other sources who disagree with his perspective on estrogen. If you read this book be sure to also read Dr. Uzzi Reiss's book Natural Hormone Balance for Women. He has a very different perspective on bio-identical estrogen. He has also been prescribing these natural hormones for 20 years so he has lots of research and experience. I have been using the bio-identical estrogen and progesterone with fabulous results and no negative side effects! The progesterone without the estrogen just didn't really cut it. Both books speak intelligently to the complete disregard of women's health by drug companies in the name of profit. There aren't too many doctor's out there who know how to administer bio identical hormones.

Not the most useful book........2007-08-11

This has to be one of the least informative books I have ever purchased (on any subject). My suggestion would be to skip over this one.

Cheryl Ellis, Allbooks highly recommends.......2007-08-02

Genre: Health / Well Being

Title: The Miracle of Bio-Identical Hormones

Author: Michael E. Platt, M.D.

Doctors give drugs of which they know little
into bodies of which they know less
for diseases of which they know nothing at all. Voltaire

In this fascinating book, Dr. Platt with proven case studies brings awareness of a healthy alternative to a largely pill popping society.
An internist for over 35 years, his purpose is to teach those searching for relief of many debilitating disorders, that hormones control the body, in fact, every cell of the body. When the hormones are tested, usually through an easy saliva test, then put into balance, many find relief from their world of pain and disabilities. Arthritis, ADHD, Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, Menopause and Cancer are just a few mentioned but there are many more life altering ailments that balancing hormones would give the person a new lease on life.
Dr. Platt is one of a select few that deal with the cause of an illness instead of the symptoms. Unfortunately most doctors are not educated in natural hormones. Most of their knowledge from medical school is learned based on research done by pharmaceutical companies.
"Bio-identical hormones are hormone supplements whose biochemical structures are identical to those produced by the body," therefore minimizing potential risks. They are usually prepared from a natural base such as soy or yam and are FDA approved. The ultimate advantage is that the dosage is tailored to the individual's own hormonal requirement. The preferred method of delivery is creams, gels and suppositories, so they are absorbed directly into the bloodstream.
Dr. Platt encourages the public to become proactive in their own health and not to rely solely on the health system. Doctors will not change the current approach to care unless we, the patients demand better alternatives. He challenges our minds to think about the power of the current systems, relying on pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
This book is brilliantly written and laid out so that anyone reading it can easily understand his well- researched opinion.
Michael E. Platt is a board-certified internist based in California. He maintains a medical practice devoted to wellness and preventive medicine. He is nationally and internationally known and in my opinion, we should all listen and learn form his opinions. Personally, I wish I lived close enough to be under his care.
I not only highly recommend this book but will insist my family and friends read it!
Reviewer: Cheryl Ellis, Allbooks Reviews

A very thought-provoking and well-written book.......2007-07-17

Reviewed by Cherie Fisher for Reader Views (6/07)

Dr. Michael E. Platt's new book "The Miracle of Bio-Identical Hormones" --how I lost my fatigue, hot flashes, ADHD, ADD, fibromyalgia, PMS, osteoporosis, weight, sexual dysfunction, anger migraines -- is very thought-provoking and well-written. In this book Dr. Platt takes on the traditional medical community who primarily base their treatments on clinical studies funded by pharmaceutical companies. His frustration lies in the fact that there is little to no incentive for studies about natural hormone supplements because no patents are available for these products and patents are where the real money is. I found the book to be very well-written and reader-friendly for the lay person.

Dr. Platt's approach was very well-organized and his ideas seem to be ahead of his time. As there are almost no research studies done on Dr. Platt's approach, he used case studies from his clinical practice to support his claims. He is a board certified internist with over 35 years of clinical experience. He approaches illnesses looking for the cause, instead of just treating the symptoms, and has had tremendous success over the years. His premise is that because hormones control every system in the body, the underlying causes of illnesses happen when they are out of balance. Dr. Platt writes in his book "Until doctors get back to treating their patients instead of lab tests, until they start listening to patients instead of drug companies, and until they open themselves to a more logical and healthful approach to medicine, we are destined to remain on the bottom of the list of civilized countries when it comes to health care."

I found "The Miracle of Bio-Identical Hormones" to be very interesting and I went to Dr. Platt's website to see what it offered. He has a free evaluation that you can take to see if you possibly have imbalanced hormones. I took and received an immediate answer. While the premise of the book is excellent and I agree with a lot of what he is saying, I am having a hard time locating a physician in my area that follows his premise. Hopefully, that will change as more information is released on this topic and physicians see success in the treatments. I applaud Dr. Platt's efforts and hope that his approach will inspire the medical community.

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Great for quick studying
Very helpful.
good
Great reference for college bio
Good supplement

Biology (Cliffs Quick Review)
I. Edward Alcamo , and Kelly Schweitzer
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CliffsQuickReview course guides cover the essentials of your toughest subjects. Get a firm grip on core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions.

Whether you're new to elements, atoms, and molecules or just brushing up on your knowledge of the subject, CliffsQuickReview Biology can help. This guide carries biological studies into topics such as organic compounds, cellular respiration, transgenic animals, and human reproduction. You'll also tackle other concepts, including

The process of photosynthesis
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CliffsQuickReview Biology acts as a supplement to your other learning materials. Use this reference in any way that fits your personal style for study and review — you decide what works best with your needs. You can flip through the book until you find what you're looking for — it's organized to gradually build on key concepts. Here are just a few other ways you can search for topics:

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With titles available for all the most popular high school and college courses, CliffsQuickReview guides are comprehensive resources that can help you get the best possible grades.

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Great for quick studying .......2007-07-08

This book was a great help in addition to my text book in Biology. It helps to compact information so I was able to pick out only the facts. This is a great tool for people who are trying to CLEP their Biology.

Very helpful........2007-01-16

I used this book to help me prepare for the PRAXIS II content knowledge test in biology (it's one of those awful standardized tests). It was generally very good at covering all of the topics necessary in a concise and easy-to-understand manner. There were occasions when I was less impressed by the way in which a topic was explained or laid out, but it is definitely a good supplement or review for someone who has other sources for learning or re-learning the material. (My main gripe was with photosynthesis.) But for a 200 page book on the vast topic of biology, it certainly did its job, and helped me pass my test.

good .......2005-09-02

The book was what I needed but I later had to find more information to complete my work. Overall the book was fine. The service, well it took forever to get here, but okay.

Great reference for college bio.......2004-08-15

This book is definitely written in a reader friendly manner. It's nice and brief. It gets right to the point without having to read the same passage over and over again. I also recommend:
The Ultimate Study Guide for Biology: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations
(Volume 1: isbn 1933023007)
(Volume 2: isbn 1933023015)
(Volume 3: isbn 1933023023)
These three study guides helped me to get excellent grades. They had the kind of questions that I got on my college biology tests. The Biology Cliff Notes made biology learning a lot faster.

Good supplement.......2003-08-31

This is a good supplement for those taking a biology class. Explains things in a nice, condensed version. Reinforces knowledge in an easy, concise manner.
Recommend to parents helping their children with their high school biology class.

Clinical Nutrition of the Essential Trace Elements and Minerals (Nutrition and Health)

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Clinical Nutrition of the Essential Trace Elements and Minerals (Nutrition and Health)

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Despite widespread interest in nutrition and the public's appetite for fresh information from health professionals, health care providers often lack accurate, clinically relevant, and current information on topics of special concern to their patients. In Clinical Nutrition of the Essential Trace Elements and Minerals: The Guide for Health Professionals, John Bogden, PhD, Leslie Klevay, MD, and a host of recognized experts address this major gap in the literature with a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of the biological roles and clinical importance of mineral and trace element nutrients. These authoritative researchers and clinicians review the clinical relevance of trace elements and minerals such as chromium, copper, fluoride, iron, iodine, molybdenum, manganese, selenium, zinc, calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus to a wide variety of medical conditions. Among the diseases treated are genetic, endocrine, skeletal, cardiovascular, kidney, gastrointestinal, infectious, surgical, and ophthalmologic disorders. The authors also discuss trace element and mineral nutrition in healthy people, with chapters on pregnancy, lactation, adolescents, and older people. Chapters on preagricultural and modern consumption patterns, epidemiology, and laboratory diagnostic tests are also included. Timely and comprehensive, Clinical Nutrition of the Essential Trace Elements and Minerals: The Guide for Health Professionals offers today's physicians, nutritionists, and dietitians an authoritative resource replete with sound dietary and medical advice suitable for daily use with their clients and patients.

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Essential Information.......2006-02-16

This book is a necessary trace element we all should read, and translate to our understanding, to learn how the trace minerals we are told are poisonous actually help us be healthier when we consume them in their proper balance.

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Not my favorite book!
very introductory
an introduction to gentics Analyis
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An Introduction to Genetic Analysis
Anthony J.F. Griffiths , Susan R. Wessler , Richard C. Lewontin , William M. Gelbart , David T. Suzuki , and Jeffrey H. Miller
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Not my favorite book!.......2007-08-07

I found this book to be confusing and hard to decipher at times!! I sometimes had to read the paragraph several times to get it and then I would find later in the book somewhere, what I was confused about was explained somewhat better. This book caused me to waste a lot of time trying figure out things. Perhaps better organization would be helpful. I wouldn't recomend this book.

very introductory.......2007-05-29

Covers the topics very basically. Good for an undergrad class but not anything more.

an introduction to gentics Analyis.......2007-04-14

The first time we recieved this book it was the answers to text questions only. The second time we did not order it but somehow by just looking at the web site it got orderd thus we had to return it cause we had already purchased it somewhere else.

Good.......2005-09-22

It was just as described, and I am happy with the item I got. Thanks a lot!

Ok Genetics Book.......2005-09-06

The questions in the back of each chapter are really helpful. Sometimes the chapter itself is a bit vague. The chapter describing bacteria genetics was done very poorly. Even my TA agreed that the way it's written is hard for beginners to understand.

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Poor images, rubbish translation, pompous waffle.

Bio-Architecture, First Edition
Javier Senosiain
Manufacturer: Architectural Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Bio-Architecture studies the natural principles of animal and human constructions from several different perspectives, and presents a great part of the knowledge that gives origin and shape to built form.

Organic architecture offers a design approach arising from natural principles, bringing us back to local history, tradition, and cultural roots to give us built forms which are in harmony with nature. It also shows how architects can take advantage of the resources that contemporary technology has placed within our grasp.

Bio-Architecture is a unique book that studies the natural principles of animal and human constructions from several different perspectives and looks at what gives origin and shape to built form. The text gives an informative, inspiring overview of the drive toward organically informed design both intrinsically and aesthetically using a wide variety of international examples.

Javier Senosiain is an architect and an historian. He has pursued his interest in Organic Architecture across the globe drawing parallels between Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic dome and the spider's web; between Santiago Calatrava's Cathedral of St John in NY and the roots of a tree. Where nature has inspired form, Senosiain has made a career of analyzing and applying the principles he sees in some very creative writing and architecture.

* Beautiful book inspires readers to design with the environment in mind
* Comparative study of the engineering principles in nature and built structures outlines the fundamentals of architectural design
* International examples show how architects use different locations and climates to inform specific biological forms and techniques

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Poor images, rubbish translation, pompous waffle........2005-04-19

I paid rather a lot for this slim volume, and am very dissatisfied with it. Firstly, the content. The language is pompous and peppered with annoying quotations intended to support the author in making a point. Occasionally, the link between text and quotation is so tenuous that the inclusion of a comment is baffling. There is lots of pompous waffle, self-evident observations, and meaningless statements, not to mention some very involved (and hugely patronising) schematics supposed to elucidate the design process. The poor quality of the translation may not help (see below), but Senosiain is the offender here.

Furthermore, Senosiain makes a number of completely unsubstantiated comments, e.g. p. 73 "The Tower of Babel was built with clay approximately 27,000 years ago." There is no conclusive evidence to support this claim, and one wonders how many other comments show a similar disregard for scientific rigour. He also fails to engage with the (increasingly important) need for ecologically-friendly building to a satisfactory extent.

Many of the images (e.g. Fig 1.52 on page 42) appear to have been scanned and then enlarged with all the loss of resolution one might expect from such a process. This detracts hugely from a book which, like other architectural works, relies heavily on images to make a point.

The translation is atrocious. This may occasionally add to the impression of patronising pomposity (e.g. "savage beasts" used in preference to the more usual "wild animals" on page 76). In other places, no attempt has been made at translation at all. The Dogon people of Mali and Burkina Faso are referred to using the Spanish plural "Dogones" (p. 72), not usual in English. Similarly, the "nuraghe" (usual use in English of the Italian plural of singular "nuraga") structures of Sardinia are referred to using the Hispanicised plural "nuragas" (p. 78).

Even worse, the same section on page 78 refers to the location of the "nuragas" as being in "Cerdeña". It was only a fleeting knowldege of Spanish coupled with an acquaintance with the "nuraghe" as structures which enabled me to work out that "Cerdeña" is the un-translated Spanish word for Sardinia. Why has this word escaped translation?

As a final example of the poor quality of the translation, the work uses the word "Eskimo", long ago discarded in English language material in favour of the ethonym "Inuit" because of the racist connotations of "Eskimo". It means "raw flesh eater", and was applied to the Inuit in a derogatory fashion by neighbouring tribes. This again shows the lack of linguistic sensitivity which pervades the translation. This is totally and utterly unnecessary. The translator seems to have had little grasp of the subject, or even of the process of Spanish-English translation.

In my estimation, the book seriously undermines the reputation of Elsevier for quality publications. It suggests a lack of rigour in the selection and assessment of the translator. Coupled with the image resolution problems referred to above, the whole thing smacks of total disregard for the reader.

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