All Kinds of Farms (Yellow Umbrella Books)

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This is a most instructive and entertaining little book which describes in lucid style methods which have been applied to successful breeding of birds and animals. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pierides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include: A General Survey - A Continental Race Horse Breeder Defines In-Breeding - Purity of Strain and Stamina - In-Breeding Described - Out-Crossing and In-Crossing - How to In-Breed - Strain: What is it? - Like Produces Like - What In-Breeding Has Done for Horses, Cattle and Sheep - In-Breeding Dogs, Poultry and Pigeons - What In-Breeding Has Done for the Fur Fancy - In-Breeding in our Canary Rooms - How Close Can One In-Breed - Conclusion

Gilman's United States farm register: Real estate of all kinds bought, sold, or exchanged on commission ... [v. 1]

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Gilman's United States farm register: Real estate of all kinds bought, sold, or exchanged on commission ... [v. 1]
John Gilman
Manufacturer: J. Gilman
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B00087AS20

In-breeding: What it is and what it does: a treatise of the greates value to breeders of all kinds of farm and fancy stock; the secret of many breeders' success

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In-breeding: What it is and what it does: a treatise of the greates value to breeders of all kinds of farm and fancy stock; the secret of many breeders' success
C. A House
Manufacturer: Watmoughs Ltd
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00088TAMI

The young farmers' manual: Detailing the manipulations of the farm in a plain and intelligible manner : with illustrations of all kinds and styles of fence ... for using them in the most skillful manner

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The young farmers' manual: Detailing the manipulations of the farm in a plain and intelligible manner : with illustrations of all kinds and styles of fence ... for using them in the most skillful manner
Sereno Edwards Todd
Manufacturer: Printed by C. van Benthuysen
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0008AMJYM

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A PARENTS’ CHOICE AWARD-WINNING SERIES

Every child is a scientist at heart, but most science books are dry and boring. They lecture rather than guide, reciting facts instead of giving students the tools to solve the problem. But not Science Smart Junior! By embedding science in the story of the hilarious misadventures of Angie, Barnaby, Bridget, and Babette, Science Smart Junior helps students understand the science behind such concepts as
··States of Matter
·Motions and Forces
·Engergy
·Living Systems
·Reproduction adn Heredity
·Ecoysystems
·Adaptation, Evolution, and Diversity
·The Geosphere
·They Hydrosphere and Atmosphere
·Earth and the Solar System

Aligned to national science standards and filled with page after page of safe, household-friendly experiments, Science Smart Junior teaches core curriculum as it sparks the imagination. Part of The Princeton Review’s award-winning Smart Junior series, this is the perfect book for the curious scientist in every student.

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Great read!.......2003-02-09

An excellent step-by-step guide through the wonders of science. Any curious middle schooler will LOVE this book. My son did.

The Smart Guide to Better Sex: Supplements & Herbs to Fire Up Your Sex Life

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fascinating information
Broad but Shallow Survey
Lack of credibility a serious flaw in such a book
WOW - HOT STUFF!
An excellent resource!

The Smart Guide to Better Sex: Supplements & Herbs to Fire Up Your Sex Life
John Morgenthaler
Manufacturer: Smart Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1890572012

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From Andro to Zinc...supplements and herbs to fire up your sex life.

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fascinating information.......2000-11-27

I don't know how much of this information I will actually USE, but I was fascinated by the number and variety of natural,non-prescription products available and their specific uses. Of course, I would do additional research and follow up on the apparently excellentreferences in this book before using any of the products, but there is an enormous wealth and variety of information in this book. It appears to be well researched.

Broad but Shallow Survey.......2000-10-30

They cover a lot of ground but don't really seem to understand what they're talking about. For example, l-arginine is covered but they fail to mention that it may be most useful to vegatarians who may lack this amino acid found largely in meat diets. What really disappointed me was a lack of convincing first-hand discussions and a healthly skepticism. I'd expect anyone who recommended a love potion to have least tried it themselves! There is no clue that they have done so. They should have given the reader a better, more realistic idea of what to expect. Take yohimbe, for example. It's a very strong herb that works but with significant downsides- one does not come away with an understanding of the complexity of the experience. There are better books on the subject!

Lack of credibility a serious flaw in such a book.......2000-09-28

Neither author evidently has any professional degree or apparent qualification to write a scientific book. I think that most readers would find them to be considerably more credible if they had such a degree, especially in view of the fact that Morgenthaler and Simms frequently foray onto (and beyond) the fringes of scientific knowledge. Such speculation would perhaps be tolerable if it were being espoused by someone who had a solid base of scientific training who had very sound reasons for conjecturing in this manner; it is difficult if not impossible for a reader who has no scientific background to judge whether or not the speculations of authors who have no scientific training are credible. The cover art and one of the fonts used in the text of this book can be best described as comical; they further detract from the credibility of the book.

WOW - HOT STUFF!.......1999-11-12

John Morgenthaler and Mia Simms did a great job with the Smart Guide to Better Sex. This Fascinating and easy-to understand books provides convinving scientific evidence about those dietary supplements that'll help lift your libido. A must read for anyone who wants to put more zing into his or her sex life

An excellent resource!.......1999-11-12

This book speaks to sexual enhancement which is the key to sucessful aging.

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It's a kid's dream! Collect bacteria and fungi samples from around the house and watch them grow into colorful (and disgusting) crops!

Petri dishes, swabs, and gelatin outfit young scientists with everything they need for safe experimentation. An endless number of "crops" are possible, giving this kit endless play-and-learn value.

Awards and honors for Bacteria Farm:
2004 Parents' Choice Approved Award
2004 Creative Child Seal of Excellence Award: Educational Science Toys category

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HELP!.......2007-03-05

Having read the other two reviews, we are now stumped as to what to do next. We have no agar at home as suggested in the first review and we, like the others, immediately got a hard lump of gelatin. I think the proportions are off...perhaps 1/4 tsp. of gelatin to 1/3 cup of water? Wish the SmartLab folks published a suggestion somewhere....we may fiddle around a bit to see if we can get the right mixture...VERY frustrating!

Bacteria Farm - Bad news, good news.......2006-09-17

The BAD: Well, we had the exact same experience as the previous reviewer. We tried several batches and ended up with semisolid glop immediately upon removing the heat. The "recipe" must have wrong proportions.

The GOOD: So, with frustrated parents and kids, I remembered high school bio, and nutrient agar. Hey, we had this nice kit with petri dishes, neat book, an experiment plan, etc. Why waste it? A quick search on the internet got a quick 'n' dirty recipe for nutrient agar, which worked like a charm. Nice and pourable and smooth. The trick with agar is that it melts at near water boiling point, but doesn't "re-gel" until much cooler, giving you plenty of time to cool it then pour it.
Here's a short version: you will need lowfat or fat-free chicken broth, and agar. For agar, we found it at a health food store, as "Agar-agar". Follow the directions on the pack - powdered agar is probably 1/2 teaspoon per 1/3 cup broth, flakes more like 1 tsp per 1/3 cup. We got agar flakes, so here's what I did:
Measure 2/3 cup chicken broth into a saucepan. While COLD (before heating), stir in 2 teaspoons agar flakes. Now, heat the broth+agar to boiling over medium heat, stirring occasionally, then reduce and simmer about 4-5 minutes. Then, let it cool 6, 7, 8 minutes or so, not too long. I poured it into a pyrex cup with a spout and filled the dishes from that. Came out like a professional lab! Was set well within an hour.

The UGLY: we hope to get nice yukky colonies out of this.

Still Trying to Get the Kit Started :(.......2006-06-29

I was excited when we got our kit, because I thought that this would be a neat project for my girls, ages 9, 8, 6 1/2. I took out the items and arranged them as the instructions said. Then I got the small saucepan as the directions instructed and carefully followed how it told me to boil the water and add the gelatin.

My first hint of trouble was when the gelatin didn't dissolve in the boiling water like it said. Instead, I got one giant lump of gelatin. Undeterred, I put my 16 years of cooking experience to use and tried using a wisk to wisk it smooth. I accomplished several lumps as I tried to salvage the gelating with more boling water and a fast hand. ...no luck. I got lumpy gel at one point and decided that was the best I was going to get, so I let it cool for a minute before I poured it into the dishes. (I didn't want to pour boiling hot gel into the dishes and crack them.)

I literally waited 1 min before checking the gel, and it was solid. Hot, solid gel in the pan not going anywhere. According to the directions, you let it cool for 10 min before pouring. According to my spatula in the lump of gel, I had "gel on a spatula".

After shaking it loose, peeling it, and scraping it, I managed to get the gel back into the pan. "Okay, one more try," I thought as I put it in the microwave in a dish to see if I could take a small time out to relax since I was now very frustrated. In the meantime, my 3 girls kept coming in, "Hey, Mom! Is that the bacteria?" "Is it ready YET?" "When will it be done?"

By now I was not feeling very excited about this project. Needless to say, I am sitting here taking my time out as my girls are poking at a lump of gelatin. I am wondering if the author, Luann Columbo, TRIED this project before writing about it. I am wondering if Smart Lab was smart enough to make sure this worked before publishing it. I know that I am a fairly intelligent person who is pretty good at following directions, and I cannot figure out how to get the gelatin to work so we can start the bacteria farming.

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Bug IQ (Smart Kids)
Roger Priddy
Manufacturer: Priddy Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

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ASIN: 0312496974
Release Date: 2006-05-30

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A look at the strange, microscopic world of bugs and other little critters. Get a bugs eye view of the world with the Bugs Life board game. Build a glow-in-the-dark bug menagerie.

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Brain Smart poster set
Donna Kuntzler
Manufacturer: Zephyr Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 156976137X

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Teacher/artist Donna Kunzler created these posters to help your students gain valuable knowledge about their brains and themselves at an early age. Each poster is set up in a child-friendly format—colorful, easy-to-understand graphics and text. You’ll have five posters that explore the physiology of the brain and three posters that deal with different ways to improve their brain and thinking: “Your Brain”; “Brain Lobes”; “Neurons”; “Left and Right Hemispheres of Your Brain”; “More Brain Lobes”; “Train Your Brain”; “Keep Your Brain Healthy”; and “Different Ways of Being Brainy.”

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Pretty good help for a struggling bio student!
Good for a reveiw or intro

Biology Smart
Deborah Guest
Manufacturer: Princeton Review
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0679769080
Release Date: 1996-08-13

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"Prokaryotic what? Musculoskeletal who? Meiosis? Are you talkin' to me? Are you a confused, hopeless biology student? Well despair no more, because help has arrived! You hold in your hands the key to a symbiotic relationship between your brain and the swirling mass of concepts and terms called biology: Biology Smart-Science Made Easy.

Biology Smart takes you through the basics, like:
-- cellular structure
-- general and organic chemistry
-- ecology
-- human physiology
-- chromosomes, mitosis, and meiosis

And best of all, Biology Smart is written an easy-to-digest format, with:
-- review questions
-- diagrams
-- a glossary at the end of each chapter, and
-- helpful tips

Biology Smart is brought to you by the people at The Princeton Review. Famous for helping over 2 million students prepare for every exam in the biosphere, we're uniquely qualified to whip you and that mess of biology work in front of you into shape. We're not promising that you'll be gazing longingly at pictures of DNA when you're through, but we're pretty sure that the word gameotogenesis will never make you quake with fear again. In fact, Biology Smart is so attuned to biology, that it's printed on bio-degradable, recycled paper. Cool, huh?

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Pretty good help for a struggling bio student!.......2001-09-08

I purchased this book last year on my friend's advice. For certain areas of study, I found it helpful in explaining terms and processes, but at other times I found in undetailed and in lack of substantial information. Before all my tests, I cross-referenced my textbook and this book, and it was usually helpful in these situations. Don't buy this book and think that it's gonna substitute your textbook, though! It just makes Bio a little more student-friendly by using cute terms, puns, and cartoons. It was very helpful with the digestive system and the complicated process or photosynthesis. Overall, it's a somewhat usefull book--but not the best.

Good for a reveiw or intro.......2000-03-26

This book can be used as an introduction to biology, or serve as a review. It is written in an easy to understand way that is suitable for all ages. It is a great companion to your Biology textbook. My only compliant is that it doesn't go into detail about many subjects it covers(e.g. endocrine system, nervous system). You just get the basics from this book.

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Brewing Yeast Fermentation Performance

Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited
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Binding: Hardcover

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Field Responsive Polymers: Electroresponsive, Photoresponsive, and Responsive Polymers in Chemistry and Biology (Acs Symposium Series)

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Field Responsive Polymers: Electroresponsive, Photoresponsive, and Responsive Polymers in Chemistry and Biology (Acs Symposium Series)

Manufacturer: An American Chemical Society Publication
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0841235988

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Field responsive polymers, or smart polymers, will play a key role in the emergence of a wide array of new devices such as those manufactured by the aerospace, communications, and biomedical industries. The twenty-two chapters in this volume present state-of-the-art research and discuss some of the potential applications of electroresponsive, photoresponsive, and responsive polymers in chemistry and biology. Topics discussed include: microwave active responsive polymers; the design of solid polymer electrolytes for electrochromic devices; thin films for electro-optic modular applications, photorefractive and NLO polymers; thermoreversible polymers and the application of responsive polymers in peptide drug delivery systems. This comprehensive resource is perfect for polymer scientists, materials scientists, and physicists.

Magnetogasdynamic Flow Acceleration in a Scramjet Nozzle

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Magnetogasdynamic Flow Acceleration in a Scramjet Nozzle

Manufacturer: Storming Media
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 1423519264

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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A356624. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: The effect of magnetogasdynamic (MGD) interactions on flow acceleration and thrust in a scramjet accelerator/nozzle are examined numerically at a free-stream flight condition of Mach 8. The parameters of conductivity pattern and load factor are varied in both inviscid and viscous flow regimes with the intent of increasing axial force exerted on the flow through a scramjet accelerator. The numerical code solves the Navier-Stokes equations with additional source terms for the MGD forces and energy interactions. An accelerating Lorentz force is applied to the flow resulting from a constant magnetic field and an electric field produced by two continuous side wall electrodes. The specific thrust across the accelerator/nozzle is improved in the MGD solutions over the non-MGD solutions when the load factor is increased and an electron beam type ionization pattern is used. The largest increase in specific thrust is observed in viscous and inviscid flow regimes with a load factor of 1.8 producing 226% and 154% thrust increases, respectively. Flows showing increases in specific thrust with higher load factors also show significant increases in temperature due to the energy interaction term.

Marine Biologists (Scientists at Work (Smart Apple Media).)

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So you want to be a marine biologist....

Marine Biologists (Scientists at Work (Smart Apple Media).)
Julie Haydon
Manufacturer: Smart Apple Media
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 1583405402

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So you want to be a marine biologist...........2005-02-09

Books like this should really help children get interested in scientific occupations. Explains what marine biologists do and the education required. Gives a brief history, lists important discoveries, shows the technology and tools of marine biology. There is an interview with a PhD student named Marah Newman. The book design is colorful, interesting, and varied. The photographs and illustrations are excellent. There are several suggested activities. There is a list of web sites, glossary, and index for further research. Karen Woodworth Roman, Children's Science Book Review

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