gene delivery or gene transfer books

	Memories of a Lifetime: Florals & Nature: Artwork for Scrapbooks & Fabric-Transfer Crafts (Memories of a Lifetime)
	By: Inc. Sterling Publishing Co. ISBN: 1402719981 Publisher: Sterling/Chapelle Release Date: 01 April, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 62230	The pictures in this book are quite nice and the CD gives you the option of never having to cut it up. I just got the book and have not printed or otherwise used anything from the CD; however, when I copied them over to my hard drive for storage, I noticed that they come in two sizes: 72 dpi which is OK for use on web pages, and 250 dpi. The standard for printing is 300 dpi. That is what all my other CDs from Dover, Vintage Workshop etc. seem to have been. I'm not sure why Sterling chose to use only a 250 dpi resolution, but I expect a slightly reduced quality of print because of it. Not only does the book offer images to copy, the included CD insures that you will always have them at the ready. A little heavy on the victorian imagery, but an excellent re-usable resource.
	The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine
	By: Edwin Black, Abraham H. Foxman ISBN: 0786708417 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Release Date: March, 2001 Bioscience book rank: 52668	Glen Yeadon, author of Nazi Hydra in America, had this to say about The Transfer Agreement: <br /> <br />I found it very boring--it was steeped with internal Jewish politics and very little about the actual negotiations with the Nazis or the actual deal and its results. It is geared to Jewish historians and only vaguely to the war and the Nazis... I liked IBM and the War against the Weak - both were good and I bought this one on the strength of the other two. It tried to remain neutral rather than to place the blame on the Zionists. For example, there was no mention of the Zionist who helped load the trains in Hungary to Auschwitz, who was hanged in Israel in the 50s. That type of material was neatly sanitized by omission. This was an area of World History that I had no clue about prior to reading this book. This is indeed a tragic story of the plight of Jews in Europe during Hitler's regime. This book was so suspenseful I simply could not put it down. Black does an excellent job of engaging the reader and does not reveal the details of unfolding events until the last moment. Simply WOW! <br /> <br />As person who is not Jewish I think it is important for everybody to learn the lessons of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. However, equally important is that there were greedy and ideology zealots that contributed to the growth of the Third Reich via the Transfer Agreement, i.e., Sam Cohen and even Hoffien and Landauer. The Transfer Agreement was just that a business arrangement to transfer German Jews to Palestine in return German exports would be bought through Zionist entities to ensure the economic growth and wealth of Palestine. Moreover, what was incredibly stunning was the ability of the 18th Zionist Congress to go against the international boycott movement by suppressing the Revisionists- strong arming them into abandoning their ideology. <br /> <br />This makes me wonder what would have happened if the boycott prevailed and the Third Reich "cracked"? Would there still be a Germany today? Would we even have had the Holocaust? I know it may sound harsh and I am sure I will be labeled an anti-Semite because of this, but the reality is according to Black, the Zionists contributed significantly to the rise of the economic and military might of the Third Reich. <br /> <br />This book is simply a phenomenon in and of itself. It completely forces one to reshape how they view events during that time period. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to learn about a different dimension of relationships between the Third Reich, German Jews, and Zionists. This will definitely throw you off and have you thinking for days. Definitely one of my top 10 books of all time. <br /> <br />Researchers have recently unearthed `directives' sent from Heinrich Himmler to Dachau, and Mauthausen concentration camps to the effect that all inmates were to be bathed in showers providing insecticides, their heads cleared of hair, their heavy garments that bore Wool Collars were to be burned outright. The reason for such directives was to prevent lice, and leprosy from spreading among all other inmate prisoners. <br /> <br />Gypsies, Polish, Slavs, Soviets (Christians and Jews) who had been incarcerated during the war and routed into the five main Concentration Camps, {which had been established throughout the years 1933 to 1939}, were in their majority suffering lice parasite, notably on youngsters. Himmler ruled "they should be showered in insecticides twice per week in order to remove the nits attached to their hair - difficult to remove without specialized products." <br /> <br />Many inmates were homosexuals' prisoners of war, suffering from venereal diseases - transmissible. This parasite was widely spreading at the time Germany was lacking enough doctors to take care of the prevention process or even to guard against casual means of transmission. <br /> <br />Most doctors were preoccupied with war related engagements; on their priority list was first and foremost to take care of injuries from battles, research, and the last was to worry about concentration camps per se, unless in absolute emergencies like `fear that certain virus might not be contained and would be causing widespread damage'. <br /> <br />In very few pages of this book did the author speak of Concentration Camps - dispersed on ten pages? Even there he did it casually in the context that ""workers were rushed to construct a mysterious political concentration camp at a pastoral village called Dachau...."" """Every train entering Denmark was crowded with German Jewish refugees..""" indicative that the `Transfer' from Germany to Palestine (in transit through neutral Europe - France had fallen by then) gives credence to this book. <br /> <br />Perhaps written books on the `Pogrom' will soon be revisited and be traced back with more up to date material on these most fateful human tragedies of WWII. <br />
	Polaroid Manipulations: A Complete Visual Guide to Creating SX-70, Transfer, and Digital Prints (Photography for All Levels: Intermediate)
	By: Kathleen Carr ISBN: 0817455558 Publisher: Amphoto Books Release Date: September, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 488717	This book is awesome! I wanted to purchase it at a major chain and decided to look here instead. I got 4 books for the price of one! I highly reccomend this if you are interested in excelling at your transfer techniques. I've been wanting both of her books for awhile now and I finally splurged and got them both. When I first flipped through this book I was blown away and amazed by the content. This book is the number one resource for helping you along with your Polaroid SX-70 manipulations. She also provides some brief information on transfers and emulsion lifts (If you want to know more you should invest in a copy of her other book "Polaroid Transfers". It is HIGHLY informative. The author guides you step by step and even provides some background information on how the processes were discovered. She also offers a lot of inspirational material in an advanced techniques section of the book. At the end of the book there are artist galleries with drop-dead-gorgeous work! <br /> <br />I especially find the handcoloring section of this book to be very helpful. I wasn't really aware that I could add some color to my SX-70 manips. She goes in-depth about each medium that can be used to enhance the color (Prismacolor markers, watercolors, pastels, etc.) She also provides some useful information on how to enhance the Polaroids digitally in Photoshop. <br /> <br />I recommend this book highly to anyone who wants to get into the alternative processes with the Polaroid medium. Don't hesitate... get a copy today! I have been doing SX-70 manipulations for about 4 years and to this point have been totally self taught. I have looked at some galleries online and had previously wondered how some people were able to achieve such vibrant colors with their work, had their lines squiggle to such a great extent, etc. I now have the answers to all my questions. I am so grateful to Kathleen for writing this book (thank you!). <br /> <br />There is so much valuable information in this book that I know I will be using it to expand my skills and experiment with new ideas for years to come. If you are a new or seasoned manipulator, this book is a MUST HAVE! 5 Stars!!! <br /> <br />-dave walker (tucson, az)
	Memories of a Lifetime: Alphabets & Ornaments: Artwork for Scrapbooks & Fabric-Transfer Crafts (Memories of a Lifetime)
	By: Anna Corba ISBN: 1402719957 Publisher: Sterling/Chapelle Release Date: 01 April, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 367337	Though the images on the CD are nice, the whole concept would have benefited from using an image type that supports transparency. As they are presented here, the individual images have to be cropped (either manually or on the computer) to eliminate the white background. This is especially annoying with bits of lace or doilies, in cases where you might want to apply the image to a darker background. <br /> <br />I also would have liked to see some actual fonts included (not all the "alphabets" are even complete... sometimes there are only two or three letters). The selection of images is nice, though, so I'll give the book two stars. I was dissapointed that none of the "alphabets" are actual fonts, so you can't make your own titles and such. You can only use the few individual letters they provide. But the graphics on the cd are easy to use and easy to crop to the size you want.
	Real Resumes for Social Work and Counseling Jobs: Including Real Resumes Used to Change Careers and Transfer Skills to Other Industries (Real-resumes (Real-Resumes Series)
	By: Anne McKinney ISBN: 1885288263 Publisher: Prep Publishing Release Date: 01 April, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 489342	This book helped me write a killer resume to land my job right out of graduate school. The model cover letters and resumes were great in giving me an example to follow. I'm ordering more to give to friends who are graduating this year!
	Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer
	By: James Welty, Charles E. Wicks, Gregory L. Rorrer, Robert E. Wilson ISBN: 0470128682 Publisher: Wiley Release Date: 12 November, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 239869	Some chapters were very useful and infomative. However I was dissapointed with most of the fluid mechanics. I would have liked more information about setting up the relevant equations. These chapters are very short and do not provide sufficient information. I highly recommend this book to anyone new at the subject, it is really a very good text. The derivations are not confusing at all, in fact they are some of the easiest to follow. The way the book is written makes a hard subject relatively easy to understand. Converting units is one of the easiest thing in the world, and if the problems you have with this book are because of unit conversions then you shouldn't be reading a transport book. I also can't understand why someone would say that this book goes over vector calculus very poorly? It is not supposed to go over it at all! You can't expect the author to hold your hand the whole time, he needs to assume you have some knowledge before you read a book especially one on transport. Maciej should check out Harry Potter or something less involved. Another thing about Biskups review that irritates me, is how can you say you are a chemical engineer and don't know multivariable calculus? This kid is so dumb. I am chemical engineer too, and I love all calculus even easier forms like multivariable which you are required to know. How else can you get through thermodynamics genius? I believe this college level fluids textbooks is severely underwritten. The authors assume too much about your knowledge in the field of fluids. The derivations are short and confusing. There are hardly any examples that you can fall back on if you get confused when you try to workout a problem. The chapters are really short. Plus, there isn't an appendix for unit conversions but they use multiple kinds of english and SI units throughout the "examples" and end of chapter problems. As a chemical engineering student, this book is one of if not the worst textbooks I have ever used and sadly owned. I suggest you go to class and pay close attention to your notes because you will only use this book to look up the problems you get assigned.Also, this book assumes that you know multivariable calculus like you're a math major. Goes through vector calculus very poorly and does not show how to work out the problems, but rather skips important parts about it. Hope you kept your calculus book and notes from your previous semester!
	Fairies and Elves Iron-on Transfer Patterns (Iron-On Transfers)
	By: Marty Noble ISBN: 0486400921 Publisher: Dover Publications Release Date: 15 January, 1998 Bioscience book rank: 480836	New grand-daughter and my daughter want this childs quilt to be fairies. I search ALLLLLLL over for fairy pattern with out success and was sooo happy to find these on-line. They are beautiful. I bought this book because I wanted to transfer the pictures on to fabric so I could do needle work with them. I found about 100 other uses as well. The Pictures were very clear and had bold lines that made it easy to see when tranfered. The faries themselves were very pretty, and even though there were about 50-75 different fairies, they all seemed to have their own personality. I found I was able to use them on fabric, wood, and even on my wall! I transfered some to my wall to make a mural and it worked great! You can use each picture more then once, but I found that the image started to fade, and it's best if only used once or twice. They would make very cute t-shirts if you wanted to transfer them, and then paint it. I can't think of anything you couldn't use them for, as it says in the book, transfers to anything that can absorb ink!
	Memories of a Lifetime: Fairies & Angels: Artwork for Scrapbooks & Fabric-Transfer Crafts (Memories of a Lifetime)
	By: Nancy Rosin ISBN: 1402726406 Publisher: Sterling/Chapelle Release Date: 01 September, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 153276	SO worth it! You can use these images for cards, scrapbooks, altered books, the options are endless! You'll need them all (ok, WANT them all) ;) Good book, paper texture is OK, some pictures are bed quality ( one can see pixels or colour spills over the edges ... ) Let me say so, half book is super good, other half I will give to my children for play. Ive had this book in my wish list for months and finally got it..I wish id gotten it sooner now..its lovely,nice paper texture,wonderful pictures,beautiful colors..perfect for card making,and decoupage,,,or Altered art projects..its just a lovely offering..B.W.
	Radiative Heat Transfer
	By: Michael F. Modest ISBN: 0125031637 Publisher: Academic Press Release Date: 27 February, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 395792	Now in an updated and expanded second edition, Radiative Heat Transfer by Michael F. Modest is a college-level mechanical and chemical engineering textbook, specifically written and intended for advanced students already familiar with basic calculus. Individual chapters address radiative exchange between a variety of surfaces; equations, functions, and methodologies; the influence of conduction and convention, and much, much more. An advanced resource and an excellent text or supplement to engineering education, Radiative Heat Transfer is especially commended to students of Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering.
	Teach What You Know: A Practical Leader's Guide to Knowledge Transfer Using Peer Mentoring
	By: Steve Trautman ISBN: 0137143680 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Release Date: 04 February, 2008 Bioscience book rank: 192237	Good, practical advice. For the impatient, you can read this book on O'Reilly's online service. <br /> <br />From Chapter 4: "The training plan is perhaps the most important tool in the entire book. If you take advantage of only one idea, I hope it will be this one." This book is a very clear, easy-to-read book about how to duplicate abilities to carry out repeatable tasks. And lest you think, "my task is special or too complex," think again. For better or worse, a lot of what we do every day is repeatable and not particularly creative. It makes sense to be able to train more people to share those burdens, anything from computer system configuration to project logistics, at the lowest cost to the current experts in our organization. It's all about getting more people up to speed, so we can all concentrate on the interesting part of the work: the creative and problem-solving parts. <br /> <br />For mentoring that part, try searching "lucid quality" on the web. I highly recommend this book to people that value quality in the workplace. I'm amazed how relevant the information is to different companies and possibly even personal/family life. I work in the high tech industry, customer support. Everything I've read so far (I'm only half way through) has been totally worthwhile and applicable to me and the team I work with. I believe the ideas presented would also be much needed at the coffee shop where my wife works. Pretty basic sensible stuff once you get down to it, but isn't it the basics where we often come up short? <br /> <br />I like the clear writing style. It's refreshing to read something where the intent is obviously to educate the reader, as opposed to some authors that appear to be trying to convince the reader how intelligent the author is. It's one thing to show how much a writer knows, it's an entirely different thing to help a reader learn valuable information efficiently. I think Steve is clearly and thankfully in the second group. <br /> <br />I think this is one of the most valuable books in my library.