More easy to read popular books need to be written about plants transgenics. I was thrown at first because the first couple of chapters are about failures to incorporate DNA into plants, but that wasn't made clear until later. So you were reading thinking that this worked. Some of the figures have the wrong numbers but I didn't figure that out until I was reading the appendix. The book gets better when discussing successful attempts to incorporate DNA into plants. A lot of this work has been taken up by corporations that tend to work in secret. No wonder the public is suspicious of Genetically modified food. I am thankful for the light that this book throws upon the topic.

I can review the book if a reviewer's copy is supplied to me at my address:Dr.K.L.mehra, 38 Munirka Enclave,New Delhi-110067,India.I look forward to receive the copy.Thanks and with best wishes.K.L.Mehra

I have to say that this book promises much more than it offers. The Highly Original Thinking turns out to be a set of thinking rules which usefulness for chess is not clear. Also, the book is rater asystematic, but some people may find this entertaining.

Yes, Motwani is quirky, but he keeps you awake and alert. All of his books are wonderful; they are challenging, witty and instructive. His style (using many little stories, bizarre word games, weird astrological-type descriptions) rub some chess hardcores the wrong way (see Silman reviews and also the review of Chess under the Microscope by Taylor Kingston at chesscafe.com). But, for me, again, his style keeps me AWAKE. I can't count the number of nights I have fallen asleep with a book by Reuben Fine or John Nunn on my lap in front of me. So, I seek quirkiness in chess books, because the originality is so stimulating. This is one reason why My System by Nimzo. is such a classic. Plus, I liked The Syste, by Berliner for similar reasons. Finally, Motwani's annotations are very in depth and even his critics argue that there is a lot of good pure chess annotations in his work. I highly recommend all of his books.

The most moving theme explored in the book is the love of a parent for a child - one who has passed away - and the exploitation of that never-ending connection by people with an evil agenda. I've read it several times and would highly recommend it to those who also enjoy thrillers and mysteries.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and have reread it several times. It is a gripping mystery adventure with several unexpected twists to the story. Those who enjoy Gallico's other books will find the style of writing the same.

I was a little disappointed when I received the book. I found several inaccuracies in the text and many of the photos appear to be of captive or mounted birds.

It was an interesting read about the different types of raptors seen in North America.

Written like an informal, rather breezy guidebook, Higher than Everest describes how future adventurers might climb the highest mountains and cross the most dramatic landscapes on other planets and moons in our solar system. The author provides some general factual background for each destination, keeping the language simple (intelligent high school students could read this book easily). He gives only the briefest description of the technical needs of such expeditions, blurring distinctions between relatively straightforward ventures such as climbing the Moon's Mount Pico and much more difficult challenges like descending into Jupiter's atmosphere or landing atop a Venusian peak. Most of the real images of these destinations are helpful, though one wishes the author had given us more of them instead of his own photographs of similar landscapes on Earth. In one case - the ascent of Mars' Mount Olympus - the author shows us a proposed route for the expedition. Unfortunately, he does not use this helpful device for any of the other sites.

The author provides a true guided tour, focusing on the most spectacular features of the planets. Beautiful color pictures combine with informal second-person language ("Once on the surface your exploring party will make its way towards the mysterious source ..."). Despite -- or perhaps because of -- the coffee-table-book presentation, I learned more about Solar System here than in many planetary geology texts. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the subject, from curious middle schoolers to scientists.

I might be wrong but I don't think this author is American. His wording and thought process is a bit difficult to follow at times and I sometimes get the feeling that he is rambling.

As far as proposals go, there were only 18 ideas in the book. This book is definitely "self published" which makes it hard to read at times with the weird spacings, etc.

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A wonderful book to help you prepare for that magic moment. Aimed primarily at those proposing marriage I nonetheless found it invaluable when planning how to suggest to my wife that we reaffirm our vows. While I disagree with Marjorie's assessment that I was "completely wasted" when I first proposed to her 24 years ago I will be the first to admit that I'd comfortably exceeded appropriate Dutch Courage margins. Thanks to Jean Paul I think I'll make this time memorable for different reasons.

This is not a book to read if one wants to learn or understand the roots of Chinese medicine, but it is excellent if one is researching the many ways in which scholars can scoff at ancient thought.

If you are thick-enough skinned through broad study to withstand his caustic, debunker's conclusions, it is a very worthwhile book to have--if for no other reason than for the appended material on the seven or eight chapters added hundreds of years later to the Han-era Su Wen--from which have been derived a range of complex chronological acupuncture applications of curiosity to some.

Like his earlier Nan Jing translation, this is a scholarly work that is thick as paste at catching the holistic argument for the theory. In that book, Unschuld was comprehensive but maddeningly inconclusive--damning through a show of the controversies about interpretation over the centuries--while notably not supplying the relevant chronological data (there is some information in the preface). In this text, Su Wen, he damns through a show of contradictions in the text itself, prefering the view that there is after all no 'right' answer, since this is primitive sympathetic magic and little more. This latest work reeks with the haughtiness and grandeur of 'real' medical knowledge.

Unlike Unschuld's Nan Jing, his Su Wen is not at all 'readable' as such...it is a collection of essays on issues. The full text or anything like it is NOT present, though there are copious quotations used throughout to demonstrate contradictions, in order to show the developmental confusion of the authors. These confusions are certainly there: but Unschuld is certain in his view that they are nacent--that the theory is not much older than the Su Wen itself.

Three stars, because if you need it, you can bear with it, but if you are looking for something else, this ain't it!

While not a straight translation of the Su Wen, Unschuld gives us expert insight into the language and development of this seminal classical text. His commentaries discuss the fundamental ideas of the Su Wen and their historical contexts. It is essential reading for every practitioner.

A mission study resource with a globalized view of how to empower and liberate our ageing populations, not just occupy their time with harmless pastimes and "numbing down."

This mission study resource is aimed at helping churches work with the expanding issues of ageing and problems of the elderly. The approach is globalized which tends to water down specifics; however, a universal theme is the women's problems of worklessness and unproductinve ageing. The authors give a clear-cut description of how ageing has been viewed throughout the ages, the increasing problems of women in today's society, and last of all, how churches can aid the elderly in achieving empowerment and liberation, not just harmless pastimes and "numbing down." Interestingly, the authors repeatedly chastise the World Bank for increasing difficulties by insisting that impoverished governments eliminate programs which assist our ageing population. Marcia Maguire St Simons United Methodist Church, GA --church librarian

Make it past the cover - half a century of cinemagoing to his name, and Richie chooses the second-rate 'Gohatto'! - and most of what follows is highly recommended. But on page 246 Richie turns his attention to anime (Japanese animation), and soon finds space for the reactionary opinions of critic Kenji Sato (who bemoans "the thin, insubstantial reality of animation", dismissing everything from Starewicz to 'The Simpsons' in a half-dozen words) as well as several mistakes: Hayao Miyazaki's 'Princess Mononoke' is set in the Muromachi period (1392-1573), not "pre-history" (p.277); its American release was in 1999, not 2000 (p.251); and the original comic-book version of Katsuhiro Otomo's 'Akira' runs to six volumes, not four (p.250).

(Out of respect, I won't list the book's spelling errors. Suffice to say that they are there, as is a whopping historical blooper: I was in Japan when the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult nerve-gassed the Tokyo subway, and it wasn't in 1994!)

Understand that I'm not a fan of anime - most of it is cheap and/or nasty (though no more insubstantial than the average Hollywood blockbuster) - I'm a fan of Miyazaki, whose films are as superior to 'Pocket Monsters' as '2001: A Space Odyssey' is to 'The Adventures of Pluto Nash'. He is one of the most acclaimed directors in Japan today, not to mention the most popular. Richie does not have to be happy about this; he could at least acknowledge it. (According to the index, Miyazaki's latest masterpiece, the award-winning 'Spirited Away', is mentioned on p.251 - but turn to this page and there's nothing!)

Five out of five for the first 245 pages, minus one star for what's after that (from this point on it's the book that's thin and insubstantial, not animation) and another for shockingly sloppy proofreading.

Written by Donald Richie (who was cited as "the dean of Japan's art critics" by Time magazine), A Hundred Years Of Japanese Film: A Concise History, With A Selective Guide To Videos And DVDs is a selective yet richly detailed history of great Japanese films, generously illustrated with black-and-white photographs. A Hundred Years of Japanese Film focuses primarily on live-action movies, with only a brief look at Japanese documentaries and animated movies. For a scholarly, thoughtful, in-depth analysis on just about every classic Japanese movie, as well as a meaningful overview about the genre as a whole, A Hundred Years Of Japanese Film is clearly and justifiably the principle reference to consult!

The book provides accurate information on the ADHD child in general, but I found it to have little information on adolescent children. My search for this specific information was the reason I bought it, so I was somewhat disappointed.

As the mother of a "hyperactive" child and founder of the first parent support group for the parents of such children in Germany, I can fully endorse this book. To anyone who suspects that their child suffers from AD/HD, this book is an absolute must. It not only gives information on the symptoms of the syndrom, info on medicative treatments, but also valuable tips on structuring.