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The book was in perfect condition. I purchased the book as "NEW" and I still paid a cheaper price than I would have at my school's book store. I was very pleased with the sale and hope to do business with this seller again.

After having enjoyed Michelin guides for years, I believe that this is a better buy. It contains much (if not all) of the same information in a layout that is easier to use and in a typeface that is easier to read. It takes you through sights, attractions, restaurants, and bars in a logical street by street manner. Saves lots of time in planning. I recommend it highly.

The first half of the book is a well-organized, easily understandable review of the literature on pedophilia.
The second half of the book is a well-organized, easily understandable review of the literature on exhibitionism.
One question, though: why didn't they just publish two different books?

This book was one of the best books I was required to read in my classes. These two write so clearly and they have some very interesting ideas from research, such as storytelling, conflict, violence, and sexuality/religion.
Good for anyone interested in families..doesn't read like a textbook!

The best part of this book is that it's about ME!

Finally, some great shots of our soldiers doing what they do best: helping others. Beautiful reproduction and a great gift for any member of the military community.

This introduction to the biochemical and medical aspects of plasma proteins is presented here in a form suitable for medical students and undergraduates in the biological sciences. There are few comparable introductory texts.

The book opens with a brief history of plasma proteins in which the close inter-relationship between advances in physico-chemical techniques and their application in the plasma proteins, is emphasized.

Chapters include:
- The Nature, Shape and Structure of Plasma Proteins
- Characterisation, Measurement, and Isolation of Plasma Proteins
- Survey of Human Plasma Proteins
- Function and Metabolism of Plasma Proteins
- Disturbances of Plasma Proteins in Disease

The authors are both involved in teaching and research in the plasma protein field, having received much of their post-graduate training in the Department of Experimental Pathology at Birmingham, England. This department enjoys a high reputation for its investigations into many aspects of plasma proteins.

Index. 117 pgs. 13 illustrations.

Well of course its outstanding. Pictures of beautiful women in swim suits?
What review could anyone otherwise give?
But, Amazon, where s this years?

I lived on the edge of the poquosin country for a decade, and it seemed so wild, so untouched, so empty that it couldn't have had a history. But of course it did, and Professor Jack Temple Kirby has written it in his expected elegant style.

A poquosin is a slightly higher and drier patch in the soggy coastal plain of the American South, with its center in the Great Dismal Swamp of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. It might have been logical that with an entire rich continent to expand into, the early white settlers would have passed by this unhealthy and difficult country. But that is not how people behave.

Kirby divides the people into the cosmopolitans and the inhabitants, or as he calls them, the hinterlanders.

The cosmopolitans lived on the fringes of the swamp, were educated and had capital and skills. They wished to employ these close to home. They financed canals, roads and railroads and hired the inhabitants or paid for the resources they could gather, primarily shingles, but also furs, turpentine, fish.

The hinterlanders were marginal characters, especially the black slaves, getting by on canal digging, trapping, fishing, logging, turpentining and farming. Yet, ironically, they were also independent. For the slaves, especially, working on their own, away from their owners, being a "swamper" was a kind of freedom.

Kirby also interprets these men and women as more or less conscious rejecters of consumer society. "Free workers used their wages to resist modernity."

I don't think this is the correct reading. They consumed avidly when they had the money, which was seldom. That they did not abandon their hard, sickly life was probably because it is easier to be a poor man in the country than in the city. For a long time, cities had not much to offer the debilitated, illiterate, unskilled poquosin-man.

Once that changed, the people escaped. For the blacks, with lower material expectations, this happened around 1916. Whites, slightly more demanding, did not flee until 1940. (See my review of Linda Flowers' "Throwed Away: Failures of Progress in Eastern North Carolina.")

Left behind were the helpless and feckless. Kirby has not much to say about them, except to lament the "tragedy of a people unable to sustain themselves harmoniously on a rural landscape." Well, as Peter Huber wrote in "Hard Green" (see my review), the peasant squatting over a cow-dung fire is not green, he's just poor. The people of the area did sustain themselves harmoniously, they were just desperately poor.

It isn't in Kirby's book, but in 1966, Sen. Bill Spong of Virginia made a hunger tour of the area and found whole communities -- almost all black women and children, the men were gone -- that sustained themselves on an annual two-months' worth of low-paid labor in vegetable canneries, plus whatever they could scratch out of their gardens. They were hungry, but they had not rejected modernity. Modernity had rejected them.

As in Kirby's book "Mockingbird Song" (see my review), which is an expansion geographically of the themes in "Poquosin," the author weaves his human story with ecological history. Trees, or the disappearance of them, dominate ecological writing about the South. For Donald Edward Davis, writing about the southern Appalachians in "Where There Are Mountains," the missing tree is the American chestnut. For Kirby, it is the longleaf pine -- always described as tall and stately.

The piney woods are still piney, but today the trees are slash pines. Hogs and turpentining almost extinguished the longleaf. Kirby understates the violence of the turpentine camps, being more concerned about the trees. They were more brutal but less picturesque than Hollywood's idea of Dodge City, and there was no tradition, not even a mythical one, of freelance agents of justice who cleaned up the camps.

Kirby arguably also understates the impact of diseases in preserving the premodern life of the poquosins. Robert Desowitz, in "Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?" has a good summary of how malaria, hookworm, yellow fever and other diseases beat down the Southerner, white or black.

I am not particularly sympathetic to the yearnings of writers like Kirby or Flowers or Davis for the old rural South. I lived in it, and the modern South is nicer. But Kirby's books about the South are stimulating, valuable, engaging. The real history of the South was much different from the opposing, highly politicized versions its young people more commonly are exposed to today. They should all get a good dose of Kirby.

Terrific calendar!! I am a lifelong Blazers fan!! Win or lose - I am loyal.