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Author: noodly | 4 July 2009 | Views: 137
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Synopsis: Having trouble getting an artistic idea out of your head and onto the screen? Want to produce amazing creations in Elements without reading pages and pages of instructions? How to Cheat in Elements is the can?t-miss book with the can-do attitude. Under the expert guidance of Elements masters David Asch and Steve Caplin, you?ll get the hands-on experience needed to quickly craft inspired images that captivate the imagination.
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Author: noodly | 4 July 2009 | Views: 194
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Boy Alone: A Brother's Memoir Boy Alone: A Brother's Memoir Karl Taro Greenfeld | ISBN: 0061136662 | PDF | 366 pages | May 2009 | 2 MB Sibling rivalry—and love—of a ravaging kind is the subject of this unsparing memoir of the author's life with his severely autistic brother. Journalist Greenfeld (Standard Deviations) describes his brother, Noah, as a spitting, jibbering, finger-twiddling, head-bobbing idiot; unable to speak or clean himself and given to violent tantrums, Noah and his utter indifference to others makes him permanently alone. But Karl feels almost as alienated; with his parents preoccupied with Noah's needs (and Noah's celebrity after his father, Joshua, wrote a bestselling account of his illness in A Child Called Noah), he turns to drugs and petty crime in the teenage wasteland of suburban Los Angeles. Greenfeld doesn't flinch in his depiction of Noah's raging dysfunctions or his critique of a callous mental health-care system and arrogant autism-research establishment. (He's especially hard on the psychoanalytic theories of the Viennese charlatan Bruno Bettelheim.) But the author's self-portrait is equally lacerating; he often wallows in self-pity—I return home stoned, drunk, puking on myself as I sit defecating into the toilet, crying to my parents... that I am a failure—and owns up to the coldness that Noah's condition can provoke in him. The result is a bleak but affecting chronicle of a family simultaneously shattered and bound tight by autism.
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Author: noodly | 4 July 2009 | Views: 289
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Seafood and Freshwater Toxins This second edition provides an overview of the expanding scope of the field from several perspectives. Incorporating pharmacology, toxicology, chemistry, ecology, and economics, it covers several categories of toxins by function and biomechanism, potential pharmacological applications, and legal and economic perspectives. New toxins such as pfiestra, gambierol, and polycavernoside are described by their individual chemical structure, ecobiology, metabolism, detection methods, determination, pharmacology, and toxicology. Logically organized for clear understanding, this edition includes more information on the biological aspects of the bloom, the effects and actions of each toxin with emphasis on human response, detection and analysis, and food safety issues such as regulation and international trade implications.
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Author: noodly | 4 July 2009 | Views: 125
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James E Westheider - The Vietnam War James E Westheider - The Vietnam War Greenwood Press | 2007 | ISBN: 0313337551 | Pages: 248 | PDF | 2.58 MB The Vietnam War was different from most previous U.S. wars of the twentieth century. It was an undeclared and limited war. The draft to supply the soldiers and serious problems in the Selective Service system meant that the burden of the war was carried disproportionately by minorities and working class whites, many of whom did not want to serve. While many Americans saw service in Vietnam as their patriotic duty, others opposed the war. This is the story of the men and women who served in that war, whether overseas in active combat or in support roles in Viet Nam and stateside. Working from newspaper and other primary accounts, including soldiers" letters to and from home, government documents, interviews with Vietnam Era veterans, and other resources, James E. Westheider covers these issues of the war: The draft and problems in the Selective Service System. Draft resistance and the antiwar movement Can you be "Black and Navy Too?" African Americans and the Armed Forces The effects of climate and terrrain on fighting Life in camp, the food, and types of R & R Morale Getting along with the South Vietnamese Casualties and medical treatment Reception back in the United States Problems of transition: jobs, employment, posttraumatic stress syndrome The book also includes a timeline to put dates and events in better perspective; a comprehensive, topically arranged bibliography; and a thorough index.
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