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 | | By: Kåre Lehmann Nielsen ISBN: 1588296768 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 05 June, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 1749486
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 | | By: Heide Schatten, Abraham Eisenstark ISBN: 1588296199 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 22 August, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 1684205
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![]() | | By: Courtney Doyle ISBN: 1413475108 Publisher: Xlibris Corp Release Date: 07 January, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 1677604
| The FIX Guide was written by 30 financial services professionals. It details the methods of connecting to counterparties, choosing FIX engines and networks, testing an implementation, training and a model "rules of engagement" for use with counterparties. Diagrams are included that outline the message flow for fixed income. This Guide was written for business managers, trading desk personnel, IT and back office staff. More information is available on the FIX website fixprotocol.org.
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<br />To receive the book right away order one from the used section which are new from the publisher. Otherwise the books are printed when ordered and take 3-4 weeks to arrive. Disclaimer: I am one of the editors of the FIX Guide. |
 | | By: John M.S. Bartlett, David Stirling ISBN: 0896036278 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 01 August, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 1298581
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 | | By: Dayton Ward ISBN: 0977070808 Publisher: Phobos Impact Release Date: 25 March, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 1049041
| I'm not even going to go into detail on this one, as I usually do with my reviews. This book is BAD. Random characters dying left and right in meaningless ways that contribute nothing to the story. As a previous reviewer said...It plays out like a bad video game, you know the ones that cost $4.99 at Kmart by some obscure gaming company nobody has ever heard of? Like that.
The Genesis Protocol is a surprisingly intimate story, the majority of which takes place within the confines of the EDN project. As such the story is heavily dependent on the reader quickly identifying with the main characters and Ward expedites the character development with built-in relationships that allow you to do just that.
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<br />Senator Christopher for example, who arrives for a fact finding tour of EDN as the story opens, is the father of one of the missing scientists, Elizabeth Christopher, and combat hardened Gunnery Sergeant Donovan Hassler has a history with the EDN security chief Shannon Rolero.
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<br />Those relationships allow the author to provide much of the exposition within the character interactions allowing the narrative to move quickly forward and the suspense to build quickly.
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<br />Ward writes with the assurance of someone completely at home with his subject. He also pays particular attention to each character using the right vernacular. The jarheads sound like jarheads, the scientists like scientists and the politicians just like politicians.
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<br />The story itself is simple, straightforward and filled with tension. The cover may lead you to think that The Genesis Protocol is a retelling of Jurassic Park and while it does share some similarities with that book, they are two entirely different stories. There are no dinosaurs running around "New Eden". The terrors the protagonists face in The Genesis Protocol are man-made which makes them even more horrifying.
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While I appreciate this clever novel's attempt to craft a genuinely creepy and terrifying atmosphere with its impossible animals and otherworldly plants-all created with the help of a predictably nefarious and covert Skunkworks-like project-the human characters are shallow cutouts that amount to little more than video game escapees. There's no real sense to the almost random tasks and aimless wandering the central characters endure or how a cadre of Special Forces marines becomes involved. So many names of the soon-to-be doomed soldiers are introduced mere sentences before they meet grizzly deaths that I lost track of how many the platoon had to begin with. The missteps the soldiers and scientists run into are, as novelist Dayton Ward puts in towards the middle of this junior-high-level adventure, "...like something out of a Scooby-Doo cartoon." The reader is given an omniscient perspective of the doomed attempt to rescue stranded scientists and engineers from peril as if dropped into a video game complete with cut-scenes that bring us back to a NORAD-like control room where politicians attempt to keep everyone in the proverbial dark. It's a shame, too. In the right hands, or at least in hands that aren't so juvenile, this material has the potential to be a starkly visceral and macabre cautionary tale akin to the best that Michael Crichton can offer. However, even the overabundance of single paragraph internal thoughts of these characters can't rescue the text from lack of attention, just as I'm sure the marines, in their uncountable but dutifully named selves, can't rescue the scientists from their fates |
![]() | | By: Kenneth D. Reed ISBN: 1586761447 Publisher: WestNet Learning Release Date: 25 September, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 1278670
| This was a great savings over the school price for the book. Was very quick to arrive and was in great condition. |
 | | By: Marie-Isabel Aguilar ISBN: 0896039773 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 15 December, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 453822
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![]() | | By: Philip J. Flores, Jeffrey M. Georgi ISBN: B000KD3D4C Publisher: U.S. Department of Health Release Date: 2005 Bioscience book rank: 1708556
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 | | By: Margaret H. Baron ISBN: 1588292967 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 15 October, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 1573387
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 | | By: Gregg B. Fields ISBN: 1588295508 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 11 May, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 1595445
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