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Electron microscopy has a special place among the wide range of techniques available for viral research. With electron microscopy, a virologist can follow the course of viral infections by visualizing cell damage and viral replication. Each virus family has its own structural and functional attributes, but attention is usually focused on the pathogenic and health-threatening viruses. The Ebola and Marburg filoviruses are notorious among these.

In Ebola and Marburg Viruses: A View of Infection Using Electron Microscopy, the authors combine recent published and unpublished literature with insights developed in over 30 years in electron microscopy and 15 years in virology to tell the story of filoviruses and how they invade and conquer their hosts. The book describes the dynamic properties of these viruses and follows the stages of filoviral infection from the individual cell to the whole organism, constructing the sequential events of filoviral infections.

The book also demonstrates that, rather than a curiosity, the electron microscope is an integral tool in studies of viral infection and the pathological process. Ebola and Marburg Viruses: A View of Infection Using Electron Microscopy includes over 100 outstanding micrographs of filoviruses and the cell and tissue damage they cause during infection, as well as time course studies of Marburg infection in test animals.

The book is addressed to investigators in the widely diversified fields of medicine and biology. For this reason, the authors, Dr. Elena Ryabchikova and Dr. Barbara Price, have carefully elucidated concepts familiar to virologists that may be unfamiliar to nonvirologists. The book is also designed to provide opportunities for investigators specializing in viruses to correlate their findings with the work of electron microscopists. ... Read more

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Focusing on Marburg, a contentious university town where voters demonstrated strong electoral support for Adolf Hitler's National Socialist party, this imaginative study discusses the political role of small-town organizational life and painstakingly reconstructs the full range of Nazi sympathizers' cross-affiliations with local voluntary groups. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (11)

Originality & Taste Matters!
For others to make such harsh & negative reviews one can only conclude that Cakes in Bloom may very well be on to something special, and could very well be a threat to the other gateau makers.Actually, having sampled cake from one of the many frou frou cake makers, my taste buds clearly smacked of Betty Crocker, except it was far from the moist.Personally what a cake looks like outside and how it tastes makes all the difference in the world.The many cake designers using typical, decorative hard paste icing cakes for me has become a bit passe, not to forget, unpleasing to the palate.Anna von Marburg must have something that no one else has...could it be originality and taste!?Mais oui!

Sloppy and Unprofessional
For the few ideas you might get from this book, it's not worth the price. You can find better ideas from many other authors. The work, as others have noted, is pretty unforgivably sloppy. I would be embarrassed to deliver many of the cakes pictured. And there's an interesting little copyright caveat that all the ideas belong to the author and are not to be used by others. Well, who would want to, anyway?

NOT for Wilton method die-hards!
I'm surprised at the aggressively negative reviews I find of this book!Why fans of traditional cake decorating find a book like this creative gem so threatening, I don't know.

Meanwhile, back to the book:one of the stars in my cake decorating collection for its creativity and passion and its distinct LACK of traditional, predictable work.The color-by-numbers type of decorators might find Von Marburg's style impossible to emulate (is that the threat?) but some of us welcome her addition to this genre with open arms since she alone swings the average of this art decidedly in a free-er, looser direction.She's the one extreme and Lesley Herbert is the other and we're all free to find the point on that continuum which suits us the most...

Von Marburg is not for decorators who feel that perfect piping and stringwork is the end-all, be-all.She is what French country cooking is to haute cuisine -- a whole different world and far, far more fun.

Sorry, but this one isn't very good...
I saw this one at the bookstore and was just leafing through it and nothing really caught my eye, but I decided to come here and get some opinions on it to see if it was worth a second look; it wasn't surprising what I found. I went back and looked again to check on the complaints and sure enough, the photos in this book are pretty bad. It is true that they are set at odd angles and that the cakes themselves...many of them do appear to look sloppy.

I didn't see any cake designs that interested me anyway.

I am grateful to have this site to check up on books (like this one) and save my money although I do hope the author tries again with something better-just to balance out this dog of a book.

cakes in bloom
I have a large collection of cake decorating books and I like this one very much. The author has created a number of cakes easy to make for a fairly experienced cake maker which are extraordinarily artistic. I like her book and those by Colette more than any others. People who like perfectly crafted traditional cakes may disagree but I think these two authors are in a class by themselves. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1877 edition by N. G. Elwert, Marburg in Hessen. ... Read more

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In March 2001, the National Institutes of Health issued the following warning: "The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading."Furthermore, because of the rapid increase in Internet-based information, many hours can be wasted searching, selecting, and printing.This book was created for medical professionals, students, and members of the general public who want to conduct medical research using the most advanced tools available and spending the least amount of time doing so.Download Description
This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to Marburg virus. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to Marburg virus. If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing hundreds of web pages. ... Read more