rna methods or rna protocols books

	The Scientific Investigation of Mass Graves: Towards Protocols and Standard Operating Procedures
	By: Margaret Cox, Ambika Flavel, Ian Hanson, Joanna Laver, Roland Wessling ISBN: 0521865875 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Release Date: 12 November, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 898767
	Electron Microscopy: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology)
	By: John Kuo ISBN: 1588295737 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 27 February, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 884670	This book covers pretty much all of the modern techniques used in biological electron microscopy. It emphasizes the availability of many protocols for both Transmission and Scanning EM. Every chapter has a detailed protocol and a full list of accompanying references, in case the reader wants to know more about a specific topic/technique. <br /> <br />It is highly recommended for every student, lab tech, or researcher that wants to have an overview of the existing modern techniques or dare trying a new technique. It's format, with its 600+ pages is not very practical as a lab handbook, but the content information of strict high quality. <br /> <br />I have more than 10yrs of experience in biological cryo-EM, and I find this book a very useful addition to my ever growing collection.
	TCP/IP JumpStart: Internet Protocol Basics
	By: Andrew G. Blank ISBN: 0782141013 Publisher: Sybex Release Date: 18 April, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 95333	I'm working my way through this and it's doing a good job of giving me a good overall background. So far, I like it. When it came to explaining things, I liked the book. I though it did a very good job of making complicated concepts very basic and easy to understand.<p>Unfortunate, what I gained in clarity in the author's analogies was lost when he started to give actual examples with numbers in them. <p>For example, page 161 where he is giving an example on sub net masks. The example starts by stating "10001001101 is the binary representation of 1,102 = 11 bits are needed in the subnet mask." That is not correct 1,102 = 10001001110. So does that mean since the last bit is zero that only 10 bits are needed? - or do we still need 11 bits? - examples should help clarify the point, not add to the confusion. <p>Another example is on page 97. It gives a formula to figure out the number of available networks in a network class - and using this formula it would mean a Class A network would have 2^7 networks (8 bits minus 1 because the first bit is zero to designate it a Class A) which equals 128. But his summary chart on that same page says 126 - and just a few pages before (page 93) he walks you through an detailed example of how many networks are in a class A, but he gives you an answer of 127. So what is right? 126, 127 or 128? <p>Are you confused, because by the time I was done reading just two chapters I was. Unfortunately, the book is riddled with these inconsistencies. If you are new to TCP IP, have a need to understand network addressing and are only going to get one book, this is not the one. Clearly there is a market for a book like this--it's just too bad this one is so bad. The writing is good, but the things Mr. Blank writes are so frequently incorrect or oversimplified to the point of meaninglessness.<p>Here are some major issues:<p>- Oversimplification. I suppose that's OK, particularly if this text is aimed at elementary or middle school students, who can't deal as well with the details. In the Introduction, we're told that, among others, "decision-makers", network administrators, small business owners, and TCP/IP instructors, are the intended audience.<p>- Major misconceptions. For example, UDP and TCP are the two most important transport layer protocols but not the only ones (SCTP, as well as, arguably, TLS and others). Classful IP addresses have been deprecated for years. And so on.<p>- More specific errors of fact. Things like saying that a host is "any device... on a network..." with an IP address--that's wrong. Ditto for claiming the the sender/builder of a packet has to know the destination's hardware address (highlighted as a "Tip") or that TCP data is chunked into "packets" or that the Internet layer "contains" ARP. And on and on and on.<p>- Condescending layout. Yes, the layout is condescending, with the special symbols placed above every page number to indicate whether or not the current "topic" continues on the next page; the "NOTE"'s spread throughout, letting the reader know what's coming up in the next paragraph; simple-minded end of chapter review questions; and so on.<p>- Minimal content. Two full pages at the start of every chapter for the number, title, and list of chapter topics. Lots and lots of white space within the text, plus huge header fonts, plus two full pages (at least) for review questions at the end of every chapter, plus way too many screenshots of Windows dialog boxes.<p>If you must buy this book, realize that you won't know as much about TCP/IP as you think you do, and be prepared to be corrected if you go on with your networking education.
	The Church Visible: The Ceremonial Life and Protocol of the Roman Catholic Church
	By: James-Charles Noonan, Archbishop John P. Foley ISBN: 0670867454 Publisher: Viking Adult Release Date: 01 May, 1996 Bioscience book rank: 59834	For starters, this isn't a general interest book. Only people who have personal interest in protocol, vestments, precedence, ceremony, etc. If you're looking for something lighter, this isn't the way to go, especially with almost no copies around being sold for less than $100. <br /> <br />If you're like me and you're into these things, this book is a pretty good investment. It's also a must-have reference books if you're, say, an organizer for a party that will have Catholic clerics as guests. The book even gives proper seating plans and the proper order for processions. <br /> <br />It offers more than what you can find by simply looking on the internet. Like, the most authoritative source on the net is probably the New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia, but the problem with the Catholic Encyclopedia is that their articles are ridiculously ancient, having been written before 1920. Remember that after Vatican II, a lot of the rules, procedures and vestments changed, so a lot of what the Catholic Encyclopedia has is just irrelevant today. The Church Visible has more current info. <br /> <br />It has a few flaws. Even with the ridiculously-high market price that's out for this book these days, it's still rather lacking. The author tells us about the vestments and clothes, including their histories. However, he fails to tell us why the vestments are the way they are, what symbolism was put into why they look that way. If the vestments had no reason for being the way they are, then they're useless. There is great symbolism in them and we must not forget that. <br /> <br />It would have been nice if the author could have included info about the Eastern Catholic vestments, rites, protocol, precedence, etc. <br /> <br />A couple extra bonuses in the book, in the back they have the names and addresses of various Roman tailors where you can buy the goods, and the beginning section of the book has some stuff to do with Conclaves. In the case of the latter, however, the info on Conclaves isn't as in-depth as you'd probably like. For books that give a deeper study into Conclaves and current events with the Church, look for books by John Allen, which are far more in-depth than The Church Visible. <br /> <br />This book came out ten years ago. I think it's a good idea for them to make a new edition of it, not only to keep everything updated, but also so that the high prices for the book can be lowered. This book is a disappointment to the serious scholar of the ceremonial traditions of the Roman Catholic Church. While the sections on current etiquette and papal knighthoods are rather handy (at least if you're planning to have dinner with an Archbishop anytime soon), the large section on clerical dress is inaccurate beyond belief, particularly when it is realized that the author had been a seminarian who studied in Rome. Besides a lack of knowledge of pre-Vatican II usages, there is a certain tone of disdain or impatience taken toward them that this reviewer, an experienced Master of Ceremonies at two churches that offer the traditional Latin Mass with full approval from Rome, does not consider to be a very "catholic" attitude in any sense. Much more useful, fully accurate information on Catholic clerical dress, insignia, and ceremonial will be found in the classic and easily-found (though out-of-print) manuals of Nainfa and McCloud, and the rare (but well worth it) "Ius Pontificalium" of Mgr Nabuco. To sum up, this item will be an expensive, pretentious, mostly misinformative waste of money for the average reader who wants to know more about the externals of Catholic worship and protocol. Fascinating work detailing the sometimes bewildering and archaic sights, sounds and ceremonies of the upper echelons of the Roman Church. A "must-read" for Vatican watchers and liturgists. This book describes the proper forms and protocols of upper-Church functions and rites and relates the history and proper usage of the emblems and insignia. This book is decidedly traditional... if you're looking for expressions of post Vatican II liturgical experimentalism, you will not find it here.
	Wireless Mesh Networks: Architectures and Protocols
	By: Ekram Hossain, Kin K. Leung ISBN: 0387688382 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 30 November, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 706309
	Rna-Protein Interaction Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology) (Methods in Molecular Biology)
	By: Susan R. Haynes ISBN: 0896035689 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 15 August, 1999 Bioscience book rank: 904237	This book is really good for beginner. RNA-Protein interaction in transcription, post-transcription and translation is really interest and important. So this book will be a guide for research which intrested in this mechanism.
	Transgenic Mouse Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology) (Methods in Molecular Biology)
	By: Marten H. Hofker, Jan van Deursen ISBN: 0896039153 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 20 August, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 841762
	Overcoming Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Therapist Protocol (Best Practices : Empirically Based Treatment Protocols Series)
	By: Larry Smyth ISBN: 1572241624 Publisher: New Harbinger Publications Release Date: 01 January, 1999 Bioscience book rank: 403105
	Short Protocols in Immunology
	By: John E. Coligan ISBN: 0471715786 Publisher: Wiley Release Date: 02 May, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 860391
	The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
	By: UNKNOWN ISBN: 0739467034 Publisher: Release Date: 2005 Bioscience book rank: 944689