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The second edition of Comprehensive Biotechnology continues the tradition of the first inclusive work on this dynamic field by presenting up-to-date and essential entries on the principles and practice of biotechnology. The integration of the latest relevant science and industry practice with fundamental biotechnology concepts is presented with entries from internationally recognized world-leaders in their given fields. With two volumes covering basic fundamentals, and four volumes of applications, from environmental biotechnology and safety to medical biotechnology and healthcare, this work serves the needs of newcomers as well as established experts combining the latest relevant science and industry practice in a manageable format.

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Nobody knows Africa like Lonely Planet. Our 12th edition takes you on a Serengeti safari, reveals the best spot to view Victoria Falls and tells you where to see surfing hippos. Whether you’re after big-name highlights or lesser-known adventures, this guide has got it all covered. Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip. In This Guide: Wildlife guide reveals the continent’s top spots for animal encounters. Explore with itineraries covering Cairo to Cape Town and everywhere in-between. Green Index helps to make your travels more eco-friendly. ... Read more

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Very disappointing book
This is a very disappointing book.The countries are not really covered.One cannot have an overview of Africa by reading this book.Too many pages are unnecessarily spent on the standard features like visas,places to stay in the capitals,dangers,etc. Furthermore, mostly big towns are covered.There are no references to the indigenous cultures of each country,no indication of the comparative merits of each place within each country,and,above all,no comparison of the various countries--so one cannot decide which are the best countries to visit.Finally,most countries are presented in a positive light,as if each writer set out to compete with the rest,which does not help at all.Books of this sort,that cover many countries,must help the reader decide which countries are worth visiting and which are not,something that this book utterly fails to do--an excellent example of a book that succeeds in this,but from another part of the world,is Moon's "South Pacific".

Out of Date
So out of date!!Several countries do not seem to have any presence on the ground.The email sources don't go anywhere, and Lonely Planet's web site has no further info.Much of the how-to comes from the U.S. State Department's web site.

Going to Africa - get this book
Lonely Planet Africa on a Shoestring

If you're going to several countries in Africa then get this book. very helpful and useful, though much was out-of-date when i arrived at certain locations - but is it possible to have a book on 52? countries and keep it up to date?

Helpful maps and recommendations, places to stay, eat etc. though all you have got to do is open your eyes and ask the lcoals and they fill you in.

Helpful general guide.

Superb !
Very good mix of general information about the continent and the individual countries (with surprise, I learned some things I didn't know about Africa) and practical travel advice, specific to individual countries, all in no-nonsense, simple, easily understandable language, and all this from the perspective of a young, budget-conscious (not the Fodor-type) traveler.

Africe! Here I come!
I traveled S.A. for almost a year, using LP guidebook to S.A. And, I got used to the way that the authors would give recommendations for hostals, etc. and their maps that correllated to the restaurants, hostals, etc.And the Africa book did not let me down; it is arranged the same way as the S.A. book is.And I love the fact that some of their books are available as a download.The L.P. books are big, (and they need to be for these big countries), but after lugging the S.A. book around, I was happy to see another choice. ... Read more

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The author examines Yeats' poetry in the context of the political situation in Ireland from the anti-Irish conscription campaign in Spring 1918 to Yeats' death in January 1939. ... Read more

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Chapters: Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham, Paul Butler, George Henry Cassidy, Frank Russell Barry, Bernard Heywood, Michael Humphrey Dickens Whinney, Patrick Burnet Harris, Sir Edwyn Hoskyns, 12th Baronet, Gordon David Savage, George Ridding, Henry Mosley, John Denis Wakeling. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham is the diocesan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham in the Province of York. The diocese covers 847 square miles (2,190 km) including the whole of Nottinghamshire and a small area of South Yorkshire. The see is in the town of Southwell where the seat is located at the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary (also known as Southwell Minster), which was elevated to cathedral status in 1884. The diocese was created in 1884 under Queen Victoria. Until 2005 it was known simply by the name "Southwell"; Nottingham was added to the title in that year. The current bishop is the Right Reverend Paul Roger Butler, the 11th Lord Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham, who signs + Paul Southwell. Bishop Paul was installed at Southwell Minster on 27 February 2010. There are 314 church buildings in the Diocese. The Bishop is assisted by the suffragan Bishop of Sherwood, the current incumbent being Tony Porter. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1302945 ... Read more

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Chapters: Louis Armstrong, Bernard Baruch, Dizzy Gillespie, May Robson, Ellis Parker Butler, Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., Lemuel E. Quigg, Hermann Grab, Flushing Cemetery, Frederic Storm. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 69. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 July 6, 1971) nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an "inventive" cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers. With his distinctive gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also greatly skilled at scat singing, or vocalizing using syllables instead of actual lyrics. Renowned for his charismatic stage presence and deep, instantly recognizable voice almost as much as for his trumpet-playing, Armstrong's influence extends well beyond jazz music, and by the end of his career in the 1960s, he was widely regarded as a profound influence on popular music in general. Armstrong often stated in public interviews that he was born on July 4, 1900, a date that has been noted in many biographies. Although he died in 1971, it was not until the mid-1980s that his true birth date of August 4, 1901 was discovered through the examination of baptismal records. Armstrong was born into a very poor family in New Orleans, Louisiana, the grandson of slaves. He spent his youth in poverty, in a rough neighborhood of Uptown New Orleans, known as Back of Town, as his father, William Armstrong (18811922), abandoned the family when Louis was an infant and took up with another woman. His mo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18313 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, William Butler Yeats, Sheridan le Fanu, John Millington Synge, George Bernard Shaw, Maria Edgeworth, Lafcadio Hearn, Charles Robert Maturin, Frank Harris, William Hamilton Maxwell, Lady Morgan, Gilbert Austin, Ethel Lilian Voynich, Thomas Mayne-Reid, Douglas Hyde, George William Russell, Thomas Moore, George Moore, William Allingham, Marguerite de Blessington, Henry de Vere Stacpoole, John Carey. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Oscar Wilde, de son nom complet Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, est un écrivain irlandais, né à Dublin en Irlande le 16 octobre 1854 au 21 Westland Row, et mort à Paris d'une méningite le 30 novembre 1900. Oscar Wilde est le fils de Sir William Robert Wills Wilde, chirurgien irlandais, et de Jane Francesca Elgee ("Speranza"), poétesse et nationaliste irlandaise. Oscar fait d'abord de brillantes études au Trinity College de Dublin, puis au collège Magdalen d'Oxford ; il s'y distingue par son goût pour la discussion, le raffinement, ce qui lui vaudra d'être raillé par ses camarades. Cela ne l'empêcha pas de défendre avec les poings sa réputation (son frère était boxeur), ce qui est paradoxal et contredit l'image de dandy qu'il laissera à la postérité. Lord Alfred Douglas, surnommé « Bosie », et Oscar Wilde.En 1878, il reçoit le Newdigate Prize pour son poème sur Ravenne. Il en profite pour créer le mouvement de l'Art pour l'Art. Après l'obtention de son diplôme à Magdalen, Wilde retourne à Dublin, où il rencontre Florence Balcombe, dont il s'amourache. Quand il apprend ses fiançailles avec Bram Stoker, Wilde lui annonce son intention de quitter définitivement l'Irlande. Wilde s'installe à Londres en 1879 : séduisant, raffiné et subtil, il est ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Dom Bernard Orchard OSB MA (born 3 May 1910, died aged 96 on 28 November 2006) was an English Catholic Benedictine monk, headmaster and biblical scholar. John Archibald Henslowe Orchard, the son of a farmer, was born in Bromley, Kent. He was educated at Ealing Priory School (to which he would in later life return as headmaster), and on leaving in 1927 became its first pupil since foundation in 1902 to go to university, winning a place at Fitzwilliam House, in the University of Cambridge, where he read History and Economics. At Ealing Priory he shared classes with Reginald C. Fuller with whom he would in later life collaborate on scholarly projects. After graduating Orchard taught initially at a preparatory school before in 1932 taking the monastic habit at Downside Abbey, adopting the name Bernard; he was subsequently ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1939. At Downside he both taught at the school, took the role of choirmaster and began his career as a biblical scholar under the tutelage of Abbots John Chapman and Christopher Butler. From 1943 he took advantage of Divino Afflante Spiritu, the papal encyclical of Pope Pius XII, which for the first time permitted modern methods of biblical criticism to be employed by Catholics, to embark upon a Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture, eventually published in 1951. After 13 years at Downside its then Abbot, Sigebert Trafford, instructed Orchard to take on the headship of Ealing Priory School. The school, which had been established in 1902 as a dependency of Downside, was by 1945 in a state in which closure rather than growth seemed the more likely prospect. Orchard, however, threw himself into the task of revitalising the school, which he renamed St Benedict's School, and b... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16200367 ... Read more

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This translation is intended to supplement a work entitled "The Authoress of the Odyssey", which I published in 1897. I could not give the whole "Odyssey" in that book without making it unwieldy, I therefore epitomised my translation, which was already completed and which I now publish in full. ... Read more