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- Great Fiction, Nonfiction at its worst
- Stung Into Action
- Corrupt U. S. Government NOT PROTECTING ANIMALS!
- Every caring pet owner should read this book.
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Stolen For Profit
Judith Reitman
Manufacturer: Zebra
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Great Fiction, Nonfiction at its worst.......2003-10-10
Judith Reitman uses half-truths and hearsay to help create a panic involving a mythological pet theft ring that simply does not exist. Interview every dog researcher in the US and find that pets are too high strung to be research subjects. Even if pets were available as research subjects, they would not be suitable. Reitman uses "facts" from long ago to substantiate a supposed problem today. She warns to beware of the pet theft ring, when in fact you should beware of Judith Reitman.
Stung Into Action.......2001-01-19
This book is the most galvanizing force for action I've ever read in terms of casting a harsh glare on the animal theft crime rings "blessed" by the U.S. government and making one begin to fight back. That we cannot live in peace in our own neighborhoods without the insidious threat of having our family members stolen from their own back yards is bad enough -- that this hideous offence has been repeatedly brought to the attention of the powers that control it, only to be met with apathy and denial, is even worse. I encourage everyone who ever loved an animal, large or small, or who currently lives with a beloved companion animal, to read this book, then to follow the prevention guide found at the end. It may not help you to sleep at night after yet another realization that humankind is the most dangerous animal around, but it will provide a practical approach to protecting your companion(s) and to helping end this most horrible of Killing Fields.
Corrupt U. S. Government NOT PROTECTING ANIMALS!.......2000-01-23
"Stolen for Profit" is beyond a five star book. This is the most enlightening book I have ever read. I wish everyone in America could read this book. Do you know that the U. S. Department of Agriculture lisenses "dealers" to sell to medical research? Do you know that these "dealers" are stealing your pets on a regular basis? They look at animals as MONEY and nothing else. We have to fight back. The best way to begin is by reading this book. WE CAN STOP ANIMAL ABUSE IN THIS COUNTRY! Let politicians know that you will vote for NO CANDIDATE THAT DOES NOT ADDRESS ANIMAL RIGHTS!
Every caring pet owner should read this book........1997-04-21
This is an excellent inside view of what goes on in our world where animals are used for research and advises us to watch our furry friends as they could be at risk.
It should be read by everyone who owns a pet, dog or cat especially, as it will make you aware of how vulnerable your companion is.
I never thought about people stealing dogs from their own back yard or creeps answering the "free to good home" pet ads in the newspapers then selling these animals to research for big bucks until I read this book. Pet theft is a profitable business to some. It is sad and shocking for this type of activity to occur, but it does. It has taught me some invaluable safety tips for protecting my "best friends." I will no longer leave them unattended for any length of time. We must protect and safeguard our furry friends like we do our children. After all, don't you consider your pet(s) a part of your family ?! If you care about your pet(s), this is one book you must read.
Ramona Hand (rhand@net-connect.net)
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This digital document is an article from The Non-profit Times, published by NPT Publishing Group, Inc. on February 15, 2001. The length of the article is 1458 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Museums Acting Quickly To Return Nazi Loot.(American Association of Museum guidelines on how to deal with stolen art)
Author: Gina Bernacchi
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The Non-profit Times (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 15, 2001
Publisher: NPT Publishing Group, Inc.
Volume: 15
Issue: 4
Page: 16
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This digital document is an article from ColoradoBiz, published by Wiesner Publications, Inc. on May 1, 2004. The length of the article is 6436 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Precious mettle: country girl heals heartbreak of lost or stolen jewelry.(Top Women-Owned Businesses)(Directory)(Illustration)
Author: Mike Taylor
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ColoradoBiz (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2004
Publisher: Wiesner Publications, Inc.
Volume: 31
Issue: 5
Page: 26(9)
Article Type: Directory, Illustration
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For more than ten years, the Science for Conservators series has been the key basic texts for conservators throughout the world. Scientific concepts are basic ot the conservation of artefacts of every type, yet many conservators have little or no scientific training. These introductory volumes provide non-scientists with the essential theoretical background to their work.
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- How to measure a boat so you can model it.
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Boats: A Manual for Their Documentation
Lipke Paul
Manufacturer: AltaMira Press
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ASIN: 0942063171 |
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Published in association with the Museum Small Craft Association The first complete guide to measuring, recording, and preserving this important part of our cultural heritage, "Boats" provides advice from America's leading boat builders, architects and engineers, cultural historians and folk life specialists on how to care for boats and chronicle their individual histories. Extensively illustrated, bursting with time-saving hints and helpful assistance, and formatted to facilitate use in the field, "Boats" covers the waterfront: from simple pencil and tape measure to sophisticated computer-assisted documentation. For the curator of major maritime collections to the weekend sailor, this book offers step-by-step guidance for understanding and documenting sailing vessels.
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How to measure a boat so you can model it........2000-05-06
This book was written by folks who are primarily interested in recording the history of small boats. My personal small boat reference library has 180 books in it and I have read all with careful attention to detail. More than half of them would be better reference books if the author had enjoyed the opportunity to study this book on documenting small boats. The scope of this book is such that there is truly something for all, no matter how specific your interest in small boats. I am a scale model builder. I enjoy getting each piece to look & work like the real thing. That means I need to be able to measure the real thing, draw it to scale and then reproduce it. This book defines the basic structure of a boat, gives you a working vocabulary and understanding of each part. I'm referring to parts that are there in plain view that are typically overlooked, but essential. Once you read this book (or the parts that interest you) and see the parts, you'll realize it was more difficult to write about measuring and drafting than it is to actually do it. The graphics in this book are excellent. If you own a boat, for which there are no plans and plan to build a model of it, this book is a "must-have" for the project. If you are a serious student of archaeology, you need this book. The book's index converts a book of great scope into a quick easy to use reference book. Finally, the bibliography alone is worth the price of the book. If I could only keep 5 of my books, this would definitely be on my keep list.
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In May 2001, billionaire Dennis Tito made history as the first "space tourist" he's the guy who paid $20 million to travel to the International Space Station. Since that landmark voyage, many others have followed in his footsteps all courtesy of Space Adventures, the first travel agency devoted exclusively to outer space.
But before you can blast off, there's plenty to learn. In this illustrated handbook, Space Adventures CEO Eric Anderson gives would-be space tourists the exact same training program that he gives to the billionaires. Here are step-by-step instructions for liftoff, sleeping in weightless environments, using the "vacuum toilet" on the spacecraft, living in zero gravity, and much more. It's all so informative, the instructors at Space Adventures are already integrating this handbook into their lesson plans.
With more than 25 illustrations (and a special full-color section showing popular vacation "destinations"), The Space Tourist's Handbook is fascinating reading for amateur astronauts of all ages.
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Good Book, Utilization Should Go Up in 2007.......2007-01-07
While the significant focus of the book is on orbital space toruism at $20 to $21 million a pop blast-off, (w/o spacewalk), Eric Anderson's book should become more relevant in late 2007 as testing of the commercial piloted suborbital vehicles will be tested above the Karmen Line. I enjoyed the book and commend it for reading by any one have the slightest interest in space affairs. The author should consider a new edition to be more inclusive of the more reasonably priced suborbital flights that hundreds, if not thousands, will purchase tickets to fly as the first decade ofthe 21st Century ends. The new FAA regulations effective in Februray should be reviewed and incorporated into the book and comparative analysis as to what regulations will be imposed in Singepore and the UAE as those commercial spaceports open on non-US regulated soil. But in all, I enjoyed the book, and cite it from time to time in research work writing in this area. It is effective and timely.
Another high quality offering from the folks at Quirk Books (highly recommended for student science enthusiasts!).......2006-08-27
The Space Tourist's Handbook is another educational, spunky offering from the folks over at Quirk Books (publishers of The Worst Case Scenario Handbook). It provides a decent treatment of the history of space travel, including overviews of edge-of-space aircraft and sub-orbital and orbital vehicles. Potential space tourism destinations, from space stations to the Moon, are also covered. The meat of the book discusses training for space flight, recommended packing, the logistics of launch and space travel, and, finally, life in space. Like any good travel guide, space travel options are ranked by relative cost, training effort required, and mission time. It also offers a comprehensive index for quick reference purposes.
Any engineer is going to know the majority of the information presented in this handbook, and anyone without an interest in space is going to be bored by it. The prime audience is students (and armchair enthusiasts) with an interest in science and engineering, who will no doubt glean both scientific facts and a healthy enthusiasm for the space industry.
Fun to read and educational, I couldn't put it down until I finished.......2005-11-24
In one of the most unique formats for such a book, the author has produced a highly educational and yet entertaining book on space travel. Written in a tourist handbook style, it starts with a series of vacation postcard style pictures including space pictures, vehicles, and training. From there you turn to the various potential space destinations. This section includes Spaceports you might leave from and destinations you might go to such as a space station or the moon. Now that you have picked your destination you have to choose how to get there. The next section of the book covers space vehicles and systems you might use, what to do when you get there and the approximate price. This section includes information on zero-gravity flights, sub-orbital flights, space shuttle flights, Soyuz flights, and even trans-lunar cruises. For each of them it shows the approximate cost range, training time, and mission time. Of course it includes a section on space flight training including the various exams you will have to pass, equipment training, physical training, etc. Typical of most foreign tourism books it even includes a section on space travel dos and don'ts, personal items to bring along, and even how to approach and dock with a space station. The section on life on the spacecraft includes how to do the common tasks you take for granted here on earth including how to sleep in zero gravity, how to spacewalk, eating, drinking, bathing, and even using the toilet. And, when you are done with the trip the tourist handbook ends with a section on the voyage home. This section includes information on things like reentry and landing. An innovative way to learn about the space industry and what an astronaut goes through, or what you will go through to become a space tourist, this is brilliantly done and a fascinating read. Scattered throughout the book are some tongue-in-cheek comments that just make it all the more entertaining. The Space Tourist's Handbook is highly entertaining and educational and as such a highly recommended read.
Your Trip Into Space.......2005-11-01
One of my favorite volumes in my collection of space-related books is a library discard titled "Your Trip Into Space."
The book by Lynn Poole -- "Producer of The Johns Hopkins TV Science Review," the title page proudly proclaims -- was published in 1953, four years before the beep heard 'round the world ushered in the space age, and eight years before anyone would actually take their own trip into space.
It's a fascinating piece both for what it got right, years before the U.S. would being serious work on putting a man into space, and for what it got wrong. Practically on the eve of Sputnik and then Gagarin, the book boldly pronounces, "No one can give you the precise time and exact date for departure. We are willing to take a chance on predicting that man will fly out into space within your lifetime, at least within fifty years." Emphasis theirs.
Looking back from a little more than that half-century later, "Your Trip Into Space" really isn't of much use if you're actually planning your trip into space. But it is a captivating snapshot of the state of spaceflight -- and public perception thereof -- at that moment in time.
Fast-forward now to the present, and a new book with a title that echoes the spirit of that half-century-old library discard, "The Space Tourist's Handbook." This book's bona fides are equally impressive, with the name on the spine belonging to Eric Anderson, president of tourism company Space Adventures. (The author credit beneath Anderson's name adds, "And Joshua Piven, co-author of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook.")
To be honest, I wasn't entirely sure what to expect from the book when I first heard about it, and Piven's author credit did little to allay that. The success of his above-listed work has spawned a variety of imitators, how-to guides that promise the reader everything up to and including, literally, superpowers. I feared a book that might have some interesting information, but, in living up to its title, would fall as flat as those would-be Supermen. On the flip side, there was also the possibility that it would go the other way, serving as nothing more than a 192-page brochure for Space Adventures.
The book's similarity to its spiritual forebear was pleasantly surprising. Like the earlier book, "The Space Tourist's Handbook" uses the conceit of preparing you for "your trip into space" to present a surprisingly complete picture of the state of human spaceflight at this particular moment in time. From the space shuttle to Soyuz to SpaceShipOne to Shenzhou (and many other things that don't start with S), the book provides an overview of all the major elements of spaceflight in 2005. A person who knew nothing about current events in space could pick up the book and in a couple of hours be relatively conversant about what's going on today. And for the reader taking the book off the shelf as far into the future as "Your Trip Into Space" is into the past would get an excellent idea of what was going on in this moment in history.
There are times when that spaceflight overview is shoehorned into the book's space tourism approach. The book notes the prospect of the space shuttle being used for tourism may be "tantalizing," and, while it notes that there is "no indication" that the government plans for it to be put to such use, to say that's an understatement would be an understatement. The book also notes that a spacewalk is "space tourism's ultimate walk on the wild side--the outer-space equivalent of bungee-jumping, parasailing, and skydiving all rolled into one amazing rush." And that description may be true, but overlooks the fact that while EVA may be "just a single step outside your door," that's one giant leap that no space tourist will be taking any time soon. (The space tourism bias also shows up in such ways as when it promises that "you will be an official astronaut upon completion of your sub-orbital flight." That's "official" according to whom, exactly?)
Those issues aside, the amazing thing about "The Space Tourist's Handbook" is that, in addition to providing an overview of the state of modern spaceflight, it actually lives up to its name. Unlike Poole's book, a person could actually read this book as preparation for their own trip into space. Granted, that's more because of the difference in the age than the difference in authors -- though, to be sure, Anderson has done his part to bring the change about -- but it adds a level of excitement knowing that chapters that still read almost like science fiction are, in fact, rooted in fact.
Even if the $20 million price tag for a Soyuz ticket is slightly out of your budget, the space tourism hints can be fascinating reading while you're waiting for suborbital costs to fall -- the book shares everything from how to prepare for a spaceflight medical exam to how to pass the psychological exam (though one wonders if the tips for seeming sane were actually left over form one Piven's other projects) to what to expect during cosmonaut training to why not to play chess in space (I suggest a new strategy -- let the Russkie win.)
To top it off, furthering its idea that the era of spaceflight for the average man is upon us, a card in the back of the book offers you a chance to enter to win a free suborbital spaceflight.
So when will we actually see someone use this book as preparation for a ride as a passenger on a suborbital spaceflight? I am willing to take a chance on predicting that man will fly out into space on commercial flights within your lifetime, at least within fifty years."
And probably a lot sooner.
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A must for Basketry Harvesting!!!.......2004-03-24
I've got to say when I was looking for a book to help me harvest plants and such for basketry making I would have never come across this book if it wasn't for my sister-in-Law. She told me that she had this great book about plants, history, etc. of the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Canada that might be helpful. I bought it hoping it might help. Well I've got the book and its perfect! The author did a wonderful job in discription of the plants, and their uses and she went on to other things that are very useful in basketry! I would recomend this book for anyone wanting to harvest plants for basketry. I would also recomend that the sellers of this book make it more available for those into basketry, not only because of the plants, but also the history of basketry!
Ethnobotany gem.......2001-08-06
Nancy Turner's book on plant uses by the First Peoples of British Columbia is a treasure house of ancient knowledge: how the plants of the Pacific Northwest were used by the original inhabitants. In an aboriginal technology, plants were used in almost every aspect of life: housing, clothing, transportation, weapons, fishing lines, basketry--all depended on skillful manipulation of plant materials. Organized by plant group, each plant's uses are discussed. The book will appeal to craft workers as much as anthropologists and other students of native woods lore because the methods of preparation are included.
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Handbook of Museum Technology
Manufacturer: Research & Education Assn
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America's Science Museums
Victor J. Danilov
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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ASIN: 0313258651 |
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Science museums, although they comprise less than 20 percent of the nearly 7,000 cultural institutions known as "museums" in the United States, have become America's most popular type of museum. From New Bedford to Waikiki, America's Science Museums assesses the nations scientific and technological museums and related institutions, examining their histories, operations, and offerings. This reference volume looks at the many different types of such institutions, including some that are not called "museums" but that are museum-like in their operations such as aquariums, botanical gardens, arboretums, planetariums, and zoos. In addition, some related facilities, such as marinelife and wildlife parks, and research sites with visitor centers, such as observatories and NASA space centers, are included. Most of the museums described in the twelve sections of this unique, comprehensive guide were selected because of their stature in the field, while others were included because of their age, specialty, or novelty. Overall, the museums detailed here represent a cross-section of the rapidly expanding science museum field, and they illustrate why science museums have become so popular and instrumental in furthering science literacy across the U.S. The book's twelve sections focus on aquariums, marine museums, and marine-life parks; aviation and space museums; botanical gardens, conservatories, and arboretums; industrial history museums; maritime and naval museums; medical and health museums; natural history museums; planetariums and observatories; science and technology centers; transport, automobile, and railway museums; zoos and wildlife parks; and other science/technology museums. Thorough descriptions of the 480 museums and related institutions provide comparative information on the nature, development, facilities, collections and offerings of each. An ideal reference for college courses dealing with the history, philosophy, collections, exhibits, operations, and management of museums and for other researchers seeking background information and insight into the special merits of the leading institutions in the fields of science and technology.
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Museums and Galleries: A Teachers' Handbook
Gene Adams
Manufacturer: Hyperion Books
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ASIN: 0091823587 |
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For the past 30 years, conservation scientists at the British Museum have been world leaders in research into the sources and effects of emissions from display and storage systems in museums. A valuable object may be housed in an enclosure such as a cupboard or showcase to improve its physical security; however, this may inadvertently put an object at risk, due to emissions of harmful gases from the storage and display materials. All materials used in the storage and display of artefacts at the British Museum now have to pass one or more tests before they can be used. This has made a dramatic impact on the stability of the collection.This Occasional Paper was compiled in response to numerous enquiries received by the British Museum from a wide range of professionals: designers, architects, conservators, collectors, curators, and showcase manufacturers, and indeed anyone involved in the task of creating a safe environment for precious objects. It has now been brought up to date and revised. It is not the intention to cover all the preventive conservation aspects of storage or display. The aim of this publication is to explain the background to why materials need to be tested for use with artefacts and provide a comprehensive test manual, including full test methods for evaluating storage and display materials, with the relative merits and drawbacks of each test discussed. Practical implementation of results is considered and methods to mitigate the effects of unsuitable materials are suggested.
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