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Beyond Form Criticism: Essays in Old Testament Literary Criticism (Sources for Biblical and Theological Study. Old Testament, 2)
Published in Hardcover by Eisenbrauns (September, 1992)
Author: Paul R. House
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One starting place for contemporary literary study
This volume takes its title from the 1968 address of James Muilenburg, "Form Criticism and Beyond." Most of the book is a collection of excerpts from the work of the pioneering biblical literary critics of the 1970's and 1980's. Articles and sections of books by the likes of Robert Alter, Phyllis Trible, Michael V. Fox, and Shimon Bar-Efrat appear. In general, these books are better read in their entirety and are still widely available, but the excerpts are well chosen and some may find it convenient to have them all in one place. There are a few original essays produced mostly by lesser-known, but talented scholars. The collection adequately points to the past, present, and future of literary study of the Bible. The literary paradigm has grown steadily and now surpasses its historical predecessor (though not by as much as is often presumed). By reading the selections in this volume, one can observe the rise and development of this movement up until the time when the collection was produced. The original essays point to what were then potential future avenues of study. Even ten years ago, however, few could have predicted the extent of the methdological explosion which has taken place. For the uninitiated, this volume is a convenient way to start catching up on literary study of the Bible. Those well versed in the area will discover little new information. Anyone wanting to become well acquainted with the field in its present state will have to go considerably farther than this volume will take them.


Bioseparations: Downstream Processing for Biotechnology
Published in Hardcover by John Wiley & Sons (08 February, 1988)
Authors: Paul A. Belter, E. L. Cussler, and Wei-Shou Hu
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A classic text, but outdated and ill-maintained
When first published in 1988, this was one of the few - if not the only - comprehensive textbook for engineers on separation of biological molecules. It quickly, and deservedly, became the mainstay of senior/graduate bioseparation courses. That was over a decade ago, and as the biotechnology industry has evolved away from antibiotics, solvents and organic acids towards high-value recombinant proteins, the book's content has become progressively outdated. The sections on centrifugation, solvent extraction, adsorption isotherms, and linear breakthrough curves in column adsorption are well done and highly recommended to anyone seeking a brief but solid introduction to these areas. However, both the examples and the content of the chromatography section are disappointingly old-fashioned. Readers seeking information on chromatography would be better off with a recent edition of Scopes' Protein Purification book, or Ladisch's new bioseparation text. Electrokinetic methods are given short shrift, and the exciting applications of bioseparations to genomics, proteomics and drug lead identification are absent, having emerged after the book. Finally, readers should beware the many errors in equations and homework problems, which have stood stubbornly uncorrected through numerous reprintings.


Black Pride and Black Prejudice
Published in Hardcover by Princeton Univ Pr (October, 2002)
Authors: Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza
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more junk science
im not going call these men racist or bigots, because there not. i belive there reasons for doing this book were valid enough, however, i think its another example of, 'well if some negroes can be prejudice, that negates white racism.' now i dont know if thats the authors motivation, but its a tacit argument i see being used more and more by certain folks. its the "they can go into a bank and eat at any restaurant, so now racism is not a problem." thats what i felt when reading this book. also, i feel there studys showing higher levels of "anti-semitism" in the black community are grossly exerageted.
i lived in san diego, and all my white frinds were extremly "anti semitic". i dont know if they hated jews, but always were saying things that would be deemed "insensitive"... my white friends they would constanly say things like "don't be a jew, give me some" which means they wanted you to share whatever you had. they always made little comments like that and i would be schocked they were so open with saying such things. i never heard any of my black friends say anything of this nature. i have heard black people say when talking about something "well you know hes a jew", but nothing beyond. now that statement implies something, but no one would verbalize what its suppose to mean.

this is why i cant trust there "data". you never know if someone is lying no matter how scientific the study is. if someone asked you a question about disliking blacks or jews, do you honestly think that someone will admit so, even if it is supposed to be anonymous. hell no. then racist people go and say, look at how high the anti semitism level is in the black community.
[on a side not i suggest you read the book my cornell west and rabbi lerner:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0452275911/qid=1038014099/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/104-6489853-4203118

also, i am not and have not considered myself an "afrocentrist", but there total refusal to investagate any claims of the "afrocentrist" is pathetic. [by the way, when they used the term 'afrocentrism' it always seemed to be conveyed in a negative tone as though its tottaly invaild position to hold such beliefs.] they try to negate any claims by saying there cospiriacie theorist, and that the more education a black person has, the more likely you are to belive such things. maybe educated blacks belive such things because they have studied them, and historical evidence can prove such things.
{on a side note i suggest you search books by CHEIKH ANTA DIOP since he was one of many that has done extensive sceintific research in this field}

i dunno if i liked this book. it seemed a little one sided and somewhat suspicious. sure, 2 white men can do a book on black america and its culture, but i feel they are short sided and dont throughly explore why black people have the views they do. i also feel that the anti semitism was greatly exagerated. because jesse jackson or al sharpton said something that was anti semitic 20 years ago dosent mean they still are, or that all black people are. why dosent he quote some other christian evangelist like phill grham and his numerous anti semitic and anti everything remarks.

this book was ok. i dont think the authors mean any harm, i just dont agree with most of there data, though some of its truthfull.

as a counter, i suggest you read that book by cornell west and rabbi learner, as well as "race matters" by cornell west which is an excellent book.


Blueberry Culture
Published in Hardcover by Dr Norman F Childers Phd (June, 1966)
Authors: Norman F. Chiders and Paul Eck
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A complete book on blueberry culture in North America
This book of 1967 gives interesting technical informations on high-bush blueberry culture. Yes, the book is quite old, but it gives specific informations that you can not find esaily in more recent books (the kind of soils for example, irrigation).


Books, Bricks and Bytes: Libraries in the Twenty-First Century
Published in Paperback by Transaction Pub (February, 1998)
Authors: Stephen R. Graubard and Paul Leclerc
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Interesting articles: unfortunately it is very dry!
Books, Bricks and Bytes : Libraries in the Twenty-First Century has fascinating articles written by articulate experts. Unfortunately, the articles are also extremely dry and hard to read.


Britain's Secret Propaganda War
Published in Hardcover by Sutton Publishing (01 February, 1999)
Authors: Paul Lashmar, James Oliver, and Paul Lashmar
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Bits and pieces of information barely coming out
There is enough information here for a book, but the authors seem to be obsessed by all the information which has not been officially released. The most they can say about some things is, "One was a plan to inject nerve gas into the Egyptian leader's office. The scheme was allegedly approved by Eden before he suspended it in preference for military intervention." (pp. 70-71). As a reader who finds secrets enticing, I found their comments on the more exciting topics, which this book is not supposed to be about, entirely in character. Sometimes I found the terminology a bit confusing: "The RAF flew operations to drop propaganda leaflets on the Egyptian population. The problem was that the `leaflet bombs' were designed to explode at 1,000 ft, using an altitude fuse, and scatter paper over a wide area. However, because of barometric differences in Egypt, the bombs exploded at just 6 ft causing death or injury to any Egyptian in the vicinity - a real own goal." (p. 71). If this book is to be a guide for government activities in Arab parts of the world, the story of a British director of a station broadcasting Arabic propaganda is a lesson that should impress some people:

Then, as D-Day for Operation Musketeer arrived, he was told to change the name of the station to The Voice of Britain. Grasping exactly what was about to happen, the director of the station went on air and warned the Egyptian audience that it would shortly be hearing lies and might experience bombing. It was not to believe the lies and must endure the bombs; these acts were not those of Englishmen who knew Arabia and cared for Arab people. He was promptly arrested by the British military for his trouble. The director was brought back to England and removed from any public platform. (p. 73).

There was also an Arab News Agency, "secretly funded by the British government," (p. 72) which had been "the short-lived and now defunct Balkan News Agency." (p. 72). It had been evacuated to Egypt when the Germans invaded the Balkans. It provided an Arabic language teletype service, charging "very little for its service and frequently gave it away without charge." (p. 73). When England was ready for its pre-emptive strike, "Tom Little and his Cairo team were not in favor of Anthony Eden's military intervention and thought that the British cabinet was misreading Nasser. This stance must have been pretty clear to the Egyptians as Little managed to retain a friendship with Nasser throughout these difficult times." (p. 73). This book is supposed to be about the activities of people like Sefton Delmer, who was added to the Cairo staff "as the Suez crisis worsened in the summer of 1956, the British cabinet's plan for toppling Nasser called for several months of psychological warfare to be followed by military intervention if this did not work." (p. 70). "Delmer and Stevenson's propaganda objective was to equate Nasser with Hitler, which was Eden's view." (p. 70).

Chapter One is called "Indonesia: Prelude to Slaughter." The simple explanation of everything has always been: "As a result of Sukarno's overthrow some 500,000 Indonesians - suspected Communists - were killed." (p. 1). In late 1965, "Britain sent a Foreign Office propaganda specialist with 100,000 pounds `to do anything I could to get rid of Sukarno.'" (p. 1). "By 1959, Britain's investments in Indonesia were in the region of 300 million pounds." (p. 2) The Indonesian Communist Party, "which by 1965 had a membership of over 10 million - the largest Communist Party in the non-Communist world" (p. 3) was supporting Ahmed Sukarno, who had been declared Indonesia's first president in 1945. "And in 1955, Sukarno held the Bandung Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement, increasing suspicion in both Britain and the USA. . . . On May 18, 1958, the Indonesians shot down one of those B-26s and captured the pilot, an American named Allen Pope." (p. 3). If you didn't know anything about "those B-26s," you might be unaware that CIA planes were carrying out bombing missions to aid insurgents, something that the British and Americans now do openly over parts of Iraq, since the last failure of everybody to rebel against a leading enemy, in Iraq. In Indonesia, the biggest support for regime change was in the army. According to BBC correspondent Roland Challis, "So it's not particularly surprising . . . you would get army people saying, look, this old fool is past his time. You know, he's going gaga, he's in bed with 700 wives. And of course, one would get rid of him." (p. 5). At the start of the coup, "Six key army generals were killed," (p. 6) but Soeharto had been at a military hospital visiting his son and set about eliminating those Communists who would be the main obstacle to military rule. Sukarno "attempted to preserve his power and to prevent an all-out bloodbath," (p. 8) but the slaughter seemed to favor British and American interests. Roland Challis noticed how propaganda "was managing to transfer the whole idea of Communism on to the Chinese minority in Indonesia. It turned into an ethnic thing." (p. 8). In 1990, American investigative journalists revealed that the CIA supplied "as many as 5,000 names of suspected senior members of the PKI . . . In effect it was a hit-list which helped the army in its bloody task of physically eradicating the PKI: US Embassy officials followed the progress by checking off names as reports arrived of individual murders and arrests." (p. 9). This book is mainly about the people who were supposed to make it seem like a good idea at the time.


British Cathedrals
Published in Hardcover by William Morrow & Company (October, 1980)
Author: Paul Johnson
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British Cathedrals
Besides architectual information, a short history of the catholic church, its politics, hierarchy, and it relations to the commoner is included.


Butterfly & Moth
Published in Library Binding by Bt Bound (October, 1999)
Author: Paul Whalley
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Plain, plain, plain: When will this book ever end?
I love Eyewitness books, but I thought this book was boring. This book has some obeious facts about butterfly life cycles, some butter fly facts, and some moth facts. But when you read the book it seems like the book will never end because the book is so repetitive.


Cadogan Madrid Seville Barcelona (Cadogan Guides)
Published in Paperback by Cadogan Guides (01 December, 2000)
Authors: Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls
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A good addition
--A usually funny and differently slanted approach not found elsewhere. I found this not sufficient for basic touring. It is short on some how-to and on pictures to identify/remind you where you are. Still, its light weight, half-inch skininess allowed me to carry it for its better writing style, and seemingly deeper, readable content.


Cassell Military Classics: Hitler's Greatest Defeat: The Collapse of Army Group Centre, June 1944
Published in Paperback by Cassell Academic (June, 2001)
Author: Paul Adair
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Short book on the Eastern Front
There are not very many books on the Eastern Front written for the general public, and this isn't one of the exceptions, in spite of its length (it's less than 200 pages all told, including bibliography, notes and index). That being said, you have to wonder at the brevity of the book, given the subject and the material presented. Basically the first third of the book backgrounds the story, the last 10-15% serves as an epitaph for the soldiers (especially the Germans) who fought in the battle. The remaining ca. 80 pages or so consist of a brief description of the opening of the Soviet Summer offensive in 1944 in White Russia. This is interesting, but again, given the specialized nature of the subject you wonder why more focus wasn't given...


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