This is a real "course", not just a number of experiments in a row to introduce techniques. The course takes you from soup to nuts in making a "biotechnology" product, instructing the student in the most important of molecular biology techniques along the way. Safety and record keeping are stressed. The student will gain technical knowledge and also will really see and understand how a product, in this course an enzyme, can be made from a cloned gene. The idea of teaching techniques on a continuum is really a great idea. Though the second edition is now a few years old, the methods are tried and true and haven't changed so don't let the date stop you. The writing is succinct and there are helpful hints for the instructor for getting the lab classroom set up, etc. I think this course would be appropriate for an advanced high school biotech class, a post-secondary technial school or college, or undergrad college class. I highly reccommend this book.

a very interesting comic book adaptation of the blair witch. gives a few different views of the history of burkittsville! a real delight for the true fan!!

I think this is a brilliant book because I wrote it. Now please stop trying to make me buy it.

The Book of Meditation is a stunning visual experience. However, more to the point, the information it contains is incredibly practical, detailed and easy to follow. Hence, content and visual appeal have come together to create a work of art and deep insight. Its breadth and scope leaves one ever more fascinated with this subject, and inspired to practice. I particularly liked the chapters on Japa and Chakras.

This writer should be in politics with his knack for making bad news enjoyable. The book is entertaining, educational, packed with information and evocative of Michael Moore's enthusiasm, even in the face of adversity. His chapter ending safety asides are sometimes side splitting - no injury pun intended! I'd recommend this book to anyone with a sociological curiosity or an industrial safety career or interest. You're bound to learn something new that makes the price of the book worth it!

The arrival of a mysterious busker and his hyptonic music heralds the beginning of a nightmare for the residents of a rural community.

This is an excellent book, a real edge-of-seat story - especially memorable and effective are an organic-food-growing farmer's battle to survive against commercialist farmers poisoning the land with their chemicals, as well as chilling scenes of insane horses driven to attack their owners and enigmatic tiny corn people who are glimpsed in the fields and whose appearance heralds death and disaster in the area.

I am glad O Henry escaped from his Texas prison, because his period of exile in Honduras provided him with beautiful fodder for this book. Actually, it is a series of linking vignettes about a mythical town (Coralio) in the mythical Central American "Banana Republic" of Anchuria. The protagonists are American and other foreign misfits who have formed a colony along the disease ridden coast of Anchuria. Achingly funny stories populate Cabbages and Kings, especially the one about an Irish Soldier of Fortune who gets swindled by a Guatemalan general and seeks revenge. Although extremely humourous, Cabbages and Kings is historically valuable as well. It provides an accurate representation of turn-of-the-century life in Caribbean Honduras.

How is it that the finest, wittiest, most humane writer in the United States was recently called "prurient" by a major book review? It would seem that the greatest threat to American letters remains the American literary establishment. Our greatest writers have always worked on the fringes of this establishment. One could list, for starters, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Ezra Pound. And Guy Davenport. The Cardiff Team shows this remarkable writer at his finest. As always, his fluent erudition and breadth of knowledge astounds. He moves with ease from Kafka in a nudist colony to the philosopher George Santyana eating dinner to Edgar Allan Poe reading about Chinese poetry (all excellent pieces) within the first twenty pages. The critic George Steiner wrote a number of years ago: "Davenport is among the very few truly original, truly autonomous voices now audible in American letters." This assesment hold true, more than ever. Davenport has developed a style and subject matter all of his own. But the gem of the collection is the moving title piece. We start in a vibrant metaphorical meadow created by an act of language, and brought to the story by an act of quotation (from Francis Ponge). We end in a geographical meadow, overhearing a delightful conversation about all sorts of learned things. That is to say, we overhear two people recognizing each other's humanity, like the people they speak of. In between these meadows, the most intelligent, sexy, and delightfully charming characters you can imagine (rakish children, single mothers, a lonely young boy, and a tutor finding himself ignorant even in his great knowledge) teach and learn about that central human mystery, desire, in all of its many open-ended forms. They grow to be comfortable in their own skin. The Cardiff Team continues a remarkable body of work unlike anything else in literature. Everything Davenport writes is essentially, wonderfully sane. His charcthers, like Davenport himself, wage war against what he has called the "meaness and smallness" that threatens to atrophy the world. As they learn from eachother, they teach US to recognize each other's humanity-- carnal, graceful, and most importantly, fundamental. That the accusation of prurience has been hurled at such work only shows how desperately we are in need of the lesson. -Jeremy Melius

This is an early book on the Toronto Blessing Revival that began on January 22, 1994 in a small church at the end of the runway of the Toronto Airport. God visited that church in a powerful way and it continues to this day. This church has had revival services every night since 1/20/94 (except Mondays) and visitors continue flock to this church from all over the world.

We love this Guy Buffet Journal. I bought one for myself, and one for my mother-in-law to use as a food and wine journal. We both soak labels off of wine that we love and paste it with a discription in the journal. Looks great in the kitchen also!