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No animal shakes the human consciousness quite like a bear, and few
compare to the giant short-faced bears that stalked North America
during the Pleistocene. Even among the mammoths and saber-toothed
cats, they were a staggering sight: on all fours, the biggest would
stare a six-foot person in the face and weigh close to a ton. On
hind legs they towered more than ten feet, with jaws powerful
enough to crush skulls and snap bones like twigs. The bears weren't
invincible, however. Despite their size, they were swept off the
planet in a mysterious wave of Ice Age extinctions more than ten
thousand years ago, then mostly forgotten. Chasing the Ghost Bear
is Mike Stark's journey into the bear's enigmatic story-its life,
disappearance, and rediscovery-and those trying to piece it
together today. An engaging guide through his intrepid search,
Stark's story leads us from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles to
a cornfield in Indiana, the far ends of the Arctic, the plains of
Texas, and the swamps of Florida. Part natural history, part
travelogue, and part meditation on extinction and loss, Chasing the
Ghost Bear returns these magnificent beasts to their rightful place
in our understanding of the world just an epoch past.
The Derelict Light takes place in Prohibition-era Astoria, Oregon,
a bleak and rain-soaked fishing town where violence and vice have
found a home at the edge of the continent. After the Great War the
city is awash in strife: civic leaders stoking economic ambitions,
Finnish socialists gunning for a revolution, gamblers and boozers
operating outside the law, and salmon fishermen just trying to
survive the most dangerous river on the West Coast. Then comes the
Ku Klux Klan in search of fresh recruits. When a fire destroys most
of the city, and a body is found hanging from the docks, the city
tears at its seams. Lines are drawn, and influence wields violence.
Inspired by historical events, The Derelict Light explores a
Pacific Northwest town in the grips of catastrophe, caught in a
bitter struggle between progress, greed, and human frailty.
Focusing on "Saccharomyces cerevisiae," the second edition of Yeast
Gene Analysis represents a major reworking of the original edition,
with many completely new chapters and major revisions to all
previous chapters. Originally published shortly after completion of
the yeast genome sequence, the new edition covers many of the major
genome-wide strategies that have been developed since then such as
microarray analysis of transcription, synthetic gene array studies,
protein microarrays and chemical genetic approaches. It represents
a valuable resource for any research laboratory using budding yeast
as their experimental system in which to identify new yeast gene
functions. The chapters are written in a readable style with useful
background information, technical tips and specific experimental
protocols included as appropriate, enabling both the novice and the
experienced yeast researcher to adopt new procedures with
confidence.
New chapters on:
* strain construction
* genome-wide two-hybrid approaches
* use of microarrays for transcript analysis
* real-time analysis of chromosome behaviour and FRET
* synthetic gene array technology and protein arrays
* chemical genomics and yeast prions
* RNA gene analysis and mitochondrial gene function analysis
* phylogenetic footprinting
* discovering human gene function and predicting yeast gene
function
Written by Tom 'Jack' Sullivan Green, AB of Bristol in the 1920s,
"Escape to the Sea" is an inspiring, first-hand account of survival
against the odds of an orphan boy in early Victorian England.
Recounted in a fluent style and peppered with dialogue, this
gripping tale of a seaman's life chronicles both tragedy and comedy
amongst the everyday lot of a working world unimaginable in the
modern era. Tom traces his early life when cholera claimed his
Irish immigrant parents in the London slums of 1848; being
apprenticed to a tailor before running away to sea to escape a
'miserable life'. His new life as an Ordinary Seaman began at
Rochester on a West Hartlepool-based ship, but when a new and
tyrannical skipper made terrifying death threats he was again
forced to run away.Walking from London to Liverpool in 1866 to try
his hand on trans-Atlantic passages, he gives a chilling account of
the last public hanging at Stafford of a murderer, William Collier.
Later in the same year, Tom's travels take him to Georgia, USA
where he gives an eye-witness account of the tragic plight of
slaves who were freed after the American Civil War. Homeless and
weakened by starvation and disease, they came to the river bank to
collect driftwood only to be grabbed by alligators. This
description and other harrowing sights he saw ashore leave a
searing impression of the aftermath of a devastating conflict.
Following various brushes with authority, Tom changes his name to
Jack Green and lies low taking shore jobs near Cardiff where he
turns down working digging the Severn Tunnel due to claustrophobia.
Eventually settling and marrying near Bristol, he experienced more
exotic times as a mariner before he 'swallowed the anchor'.These
included plying the former slave routes to West Africa;
accompanying the third mate of his ship with some locally-recruited
native sailors to collect the future bride of a chieftain which
incurred a series of adventures, some at gunpoint. "Escape to the
Sea" is complemented with documents such as the author's discharge
certificates, illustrations of vessels and harbours visited, maps
and photographs including his handwritten will, which required that
'when the breath is out of my body' it should be buried 'with no
ceremony whatsoever'. A modest end for a colourful character whose
wish was that his experiences should be made available to a wider
audience than his immediate family. This action-packed maritime
autobiography will be of especial interest to anyone with an
interest in maritime history, ships and shipping and anyone looking
for a good read.
Reliable Object-Oriented Software presents the underlying
principles associated with object-orientation and its practical
application. More than just another text on methodology, this 1998
book focuses on the fundamental concepts related to the process of
software development and architectural design in order to lay the
basis necessary for the development of robust, maintainable, and
evolvable software. The authors present both formal concepts and
practical applications. It includes proven problem-solving
techniques designed to develop readers' engineering judgement and
to focus their attention on the principles of good software design
and its successful application. In addition, an extensive
bibliography has been compiled to guide the reader in further
studies and to crystallize what is commonly accepted in the field
and what is still controversial.
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