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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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A tour through the world of film and television guided by the author actor Michael Sheard, best know as Mr Bronson of Grange Hill School. He looks behind the scenes with the other actors, extras, stand-ins, stuntmen and technicians who contribute to a production. ... Read more

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This volume is the definitive clinical text reference on a topic of major concern to anesthesiologists. The opening section, on hemostatic mechanisms, covers such topics as hypercoagulation and thrombotic disorders and pharmacologic manipulation of both hemostasis and coagulation. A section on clinical evaluation of patients with hemostatic dysfunction addresses issues such as perioperative blood loss and medical instrumentation for intraoperative evaluation of hemostasis. A section on transfusion therapy includes chapters on infectious risks of transfusions and complications of transfusion therapy. In a section on alternatives to transfusion therapy, the authors discuss such issues as induced hypotension and blood substitutes. A final section on special concerns covers topics such as perioperative coagulopathy in the specific instances of massive transfusions, cardiac surgery, obstetrics, and neonates. ... Read more

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BLOOD: Hemostasis, Transfusion, and Alternatives
K.C. Roberts, M.S., C.P., C.C.A. President, American Board of Clinical Autotransfusion,President/CEO, National Transfusion Services The information contained within this book has been valuable to the surgical transfusion programs I consult with.It offers a wonderful balance of traditional transfusion approaches while also doing an excellant job in describing the autologous alternatives for surgical patients that may require bank blood transfusions.The authors have included a section on the "medicallegal aspects of transfusion therapy," which are and will become more and more a problem for any clinician that transfuses blood components.With FDA regulations escalting there will be more need for such information.The last section titled "Special Concerns" includes some very good selections pertaining to the management of anemia, as well as section on general transfusion management, and the specialties of OB/GYN and "Massive Transfusion."If this book is revised I would like t ... Read more

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This handbook provides easy access to current practice and requirements in the main spoken language technologies. ... Read more

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a comprehensive information source for speech processing
This book gives a very comprehensive overview of all aspects of spoken language processing. It was written by leading members of the spokenlanguage community (Expert Advisory Group on Language EngineeringStandards). It is a very valuable reference source for designers of spokenlanguage systems. Each chapter is concluded by a set of recommendations.For readers with a linguistics or CS background, it provides acomprehensive survey of all aspects of spoken language processing, and canbe used as introduction to the field.Annoyingly, the book contains anumber of typos, and could benefit from thorough proofreading.The book isalso available as four reasonably priced paperbacks, some of which are notlisted in the Amazon Catalog. ... Read more

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Dictation systems, read-aloud software for the blind, speechcontrol of machinery, geographical information systems with speechinput and output, and educational software with `talking head'artificial tutorial agents are already on the market. The field isexpanding rapidly, and new methods and applications emerge almostdaily. But good sources of systematic information have not kept pacewith the body of information needed for development and evaluation ofthese systems. Much of this information is widely scattered throughspeech and acoustic engineering, linguistics, phonetics, andexperimental psychology.

The Handbook of Multimodal and Spoken Dialogue Systems presentscurrent and developing best practice in resource creation for speechinput/output software and hardware. This volume brings experts inthese fields together to give detailed `how to' information andrecommendations on planning spoken dialogue systems, designing andevaluating audiovisual and multimodal systems, and evaluating consumeroff-the-shelf products.

In addition to standard terminology in the field, the following topicsare covered in depth:+How to collect highquality data for designing, training, and evaluating multimodal andspeech dialogue systems;+How to evaluate real-life computersystems with speech input and output;+How to describe and modelhuman--computer dialogue precisely and in depth.Alsoincluded:+A fully searchable CD-ROM containinga hypertext version of the book in HTML format for fast look-up ofspecific points, convenient desktop use, and lightweight mobilereference; and+The first systematic medium-scale compendium ofterminology with definitions.This handbook has beenespecially designed for the needs of development engineers,decision-makers, researchers, and advanced level students in thefields of speech technology, multimodal interfaces, multimedia,computational linguistics, and phonetics. ... Read more

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His fearless satirical assaults on formidable opponents like General Motors, the National Rifle Association and George W. Bush's White House, have made Michael Moore both a box office hit filmmaker and a bestselling author. For the first time this definitive biography traces the untold story of the 30 years of struggles and failures that led to his "overnight" success. To write this revealing, inspirational, often hilarious book, about the quintessential late bloomer, investigative reporter Roger Rapoport interviewed 250 people who played key roles in Michael Moore's life, from the nuns at his boyhood Catholic school to Ralph Nader and other employers - not to mention a seven-foot chicken! Anyone who loves (or detests) Michael Moore will find Citizen Moore an eye-opening book. ... Read more

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Moderately interesting but insubstantial
Michael Moore's a fascinating figure, and I have equal parts respect for his iconoclasm and disdain for the self-righteous and impractical politics that informs it. I found Bowling for Columbine - for my money Moore's creative peak thus far - entertaining but disingenuous, although ultimately honest enough to admit that the easy, pat, leftie answers didn't really cuit the mustard.

Roger Rappaport's biography doesn't feature any direct, for-purpose interviews with Moore, and is even-handed enough: it tracks, sympathetically, his early progress through the Flint Voice up to his ill-fated and short editorship of Mother Jones, but then unsheathes the knife in the context of Moore's failure to "stay true to his roots" or reciprocate help or acknowledgment from people who have helped him on his way up.

Rappaport's most damning criticism is Moore's hypocrisy: his refusal to confront his own critics, and his own poor sportsmanship (if not quite underhandedness) in cutting them off at the knees. That said, there's nothing like a knock-out blow here, and Rappaport's attempt to affect a New Journalism-style sizzling literary style falls flat - most of Rappaport's efforts at clever wordcraft leads not so much to zip and sparkle as ambiguity and confusion. Once the early history - with which Rappaport seems more familiar - is dispensed with the book moves at a real clip - too much of a clip, really - spending very little time on any of Moore's projects, and certainly including little if any useful political or social analysis of them.

All in all a passable read if you're stuck in an airport terminal, but Michael Moore is an interesting - and politically significant - enough character to warrant a better biography than this.

Fascinating portrait of flawed hero
Michael Moore is a public gadfly, muckraker, and professional pest -- the kind of person we need many more of in these days of lapdog mainstream media. He's also, it would appear, a hero and a villain, a self-absorbed, self-promoting egomaniac who's a champion of the downtrodden masses and yet treats real individuals shabbily. A spokesman for the poor who lives in Manhattan splendor. A sentimentalist who can be totally unsentimental at times. A human being in all his contradictions. (In short, he's like all of us -- only a lot more so.)

Moore's a complex individual and his complexity is fully on view in this meticulously researched book. The bottom line (for fans of bottom lines): Whether you love Moore or hate him -- the reviews never add, "or are totally indifferent to him," do they? -- you'll find something in this book to make you think, just for a moment, the other way. (And Moore is, after all, a brilliant filmmaker and humorist -- for that we can forgive him some of his tresspasses.)

My only quibble with the book itself is that it could have used a professional copy editor. Really how, hard is, it to learn, to put commas in, the right place? The poor editing sometimes distracts from the story.

But in the end Roger Rapoport has produced a book well worth reading about someone who, despite all his flaws, is well worth paying attention to.

A fascinating look at a complicated man
Within the past two weeks, by sheer happenstance (I found them on the public library's new acquisitions shelves), I've read two books by left/liberals about Michael Moore. This was the second - the first was Jesse Larner's "Forgive Us Our Spins" - and this is clearly the better of the two.
I wanted to read about Michael Moore because I agree with him on almost everything and it troubled me that he sometimes undercuts his own cause through misleading his audience, thus giving ammunition to his political enemies. The two most obvious cases in point: (1)Contrary to the whole theme of "Roger and Me", Roger Smith of GM did indeed give Moore an extended interview; (2)"Fahrenheit 9/11"'s depiction of happy Iraqi children, while unstaged, was clearly misleading about the reality of pre-war Iraq.
Rapoport describes these and other shortcomings of Moore, but he also shows Moore's great strengths. And he does so with very little editorializing. Instead he quotes his many interview sources at great length, which is far preferable to putting their thoughts into his own words.And he also quotes some wonderful Moore passages which make one realize that, despite his obvious, frustrating faults - which inevitably detract from his potential impact - Moore is much needed.He gains a wide audience for countless matters that need attention - and action - and he shows the sins and corruption of so many of the rich and powerful.
As Ralph Nader says (p. 202) : "Overall Michael Moore is definitely a plus. But the problem is that if you become the issue, the subject of your message is defused."

A well-rounded biographical treatment essential for any who would understand the filmmaker's creations and methods.
Michael Moore is both a hit film maker and best-selling author, so any who have followed his works in either medium will find CITIZEN MOORE the perfect biographical reference to understanding his life and times. Veteran investigative reporter Roger Rapoport interviews over two hundred friends, producers, agents, employees and actors who all contribute different insights: the result is a well-rounded biographical treatment essential for any who would understand the filmmaker's creations and methods.

Diane C. Donovan
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Available again by popular demand,this all-time classic edition of The Night Before Christmas is the definitive version of Moore's original poem, illustrated with color stone lithographs. A faithful reproduction of the McLoughlin Bros. edition from 1870, the original antique book was saved from the 1871 Chicago fire. In its magical pages, scenes of an old-fashioned Christmas come to life, complete with visions of sugar-plums and a jolly old St. Nicholas.Readers of all ages will join in the celebration of a nineteenth-century Christmas they won't soon forget. ... Read more

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This book has no business being for sale.
This book seems to have 4 or 5 versions of the story being told all at once, and out of order. The pictures didn't correlate to the text. It was completely confusing and very frustrating, as I was really looking forward to reading the timeless tale to my daughter on Christmas Eve night. A blind and deaf person must have put the book together. It is the only explanation.

This book looks so authentic it resembles the real thing!
The Night Before Christmas-or A visit by St. Nicholas is a Christmas poem that is a must-read piece of literature. This particular version- is a reproduction of the original copy.The illustrations and print areabsolutely beautiful . It takes the reader back in time to an era whichtruly captivates thereal meaning of Christmas through the eyes of aninnocent child. This classic work can be read over and over by anyone atany age. This particular version will add to anyone's heirloom Christmascollections and will no doubt be left on display for all to enjoy! ... Read more

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Recently expanded to 2 volumes, Short Protocols in Molecular Biology, Fifth Edition, provides condensed descriptions of more than 700 methods compiled from Current Protocols in Molecular Biology. Includes new chapters on chromatin assembly and analysis, nucleic acid arrays, generation and use of combinatorial libraries, discovery and analysis of differentially expressed genes in single cells and cell populations.

The book is specifically designed to provide quick access to step-by-step instructions for the essential methods used in every major area of molecular biological research

Short Protocols in Molecular Biology, Fifth Edition is an authoritative and indispensable guide for all life scientists, researchers, and students at the graduate and advanced undergraduate level

Expanded to 2 volumes. ... Read more

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no longer short
I used a previous edition of this book in graduate school, and it was an excellent resource.Covering a broad range of protocols in a complete but concise manner, it was a single albeit fat volume that was portable and reasonably priced. In comparison to Maniatis and the full version of CP, this edition remains less extensive and less expensive, however in expanding to 2 volumes it has lost the advantage of portability that was (what I thought) really set it apart from others.The price of this edition has also increased to the point where the value of owning a personal copy has become highly questionable.

an excellent brief reference book
This is a well-organized, clear, short reference work.Well done

The (little) Red book...
Here is the little red bok.
If the big one is too expensive for you, you can always buy this. You'll find inside all the important protocols and data for molecular biology.It's up to date, and clearly presented.
Try it, and then buy the big one!

A very good reference manual
This book is an essential tool for people in the scientific field such as Molecular Biology (obviously), Biochemistry, and Neuroscience. It is comprehensive and up-to-date as far as the techniques are concerned. It isgood value in a sense that you don't have to buy the whole "CurrentProtocols Series" which costs an arm and a leg if you do. Althoughnowadays, a lot of "kits" are commercially available, thetechniques found in this book explain principles and provide differentalternatives suited for your needs. Molecular Cloning by Maniatis et al.,although needs updating, is still a helpful reference in my opinion and itcomplements this book.

A Must-Have for any Molecular Biologist...
I originally bought this book as a secondary source of information (Maniatis has ben my bible now for a few years...) but as time has progressed I have found myself using this book more and more.Theprotocols are easy to follow, logically placed, give enough information soyou understand what it is you are doing, are up to date, and are all in onevolume.Yes, this has effectively replaced my copy of Molecular Cloning(which is indesperate need of an update).Great job! ... Read more