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On first flick I thought Yeah Great! the stuff in this book really nice and I'd love to have most of it somewhere in my house...where can I buy them!! On second read I soon started to relise that producing great finishes on furniture, lamp shades, curtains, floors and walls is not as hard as it looks and even someone like ME can achieve it. This book is fantastically laid out with big colourful, basic pictures which take you through the procedures step by step from start to finished product. It's an excellent book if you want some great, and visually stunning effects around the house without needing a degree in interior or graphic design. There are even templates in the back if you want to use the patterns straight from the book. There are also many different colour samples if you're not to sure of what colours go well together. It's also great for making gifts too! If you like to dabble in a little bit of art and craft then this book should definately make it to your bookshelf.

I am a kid ending seventh grade now, but previously I needed to do a report on the grasslands. It was a terrific resource and had many wonderful photographs and maps complete with captions. I still have the book sitting right here on my desk, and as I look at it's cover i know I'll be heading to the other books in this series in the future!

In 1980 Harold Bernard published his research into natural cycles and the dust bowl era in the US during the 1930s, which lead to his prediction of an even worse dust bowl era around 2020, unpredictable weather patterns around the turn of the century, and serious implications for agriculture and feeding the growing world population.

His predictions are based on the greenhouse effect superimposed upon natural cycles, the dominant one of which has a period of 180 years. The cold part of the cycle appeared in the 1890s and 1980s while the warm part of the cycle appeared in the 1930s and is due to reappear about 2020. Industrialization and the emission of CO2 took off after the Second World War so man's influence on the 180-year cycle was minimal up to that time. However, the greenhouse effect superimposed on the trough of the cold cycle lead to temperatures in the 1970s being slightly higher than were predicted for the natural cycle alone. As the year 2000 roughly marks the mid point between the cold trough and the warm peak the ever-increasing greenhouse effect will be added to the natural warming part of the cycle producing much higher temperatures than would otherwise have been true.

A long succession of record high temperatures throughout the US, coupled with low precipitation, strong winds and poor agricultural practices, resulted in the 1930s dust bowl era when 350 million tons of the world's richest top soil decimated agricultural production and brought great hardship. However, Bernard's detailed analysis of weather patterns over the United States during the 1930s showed that local communities and large regions of the US suffered anomalous weather patterns bringing record low temperatures or very high rainfall. High air temperatures warmed the oceans causing record levels of hurricane activity, the northward migration of fish and the opening of the far-northern ice pack to shipping. Higher and very intensive rainfall caused many homes to be lost and roads and bridges to be washed away. During the 1930s almost every spot in the US suffered record-setting extremes of weather which caused property damage and lowered agricultural production.

As Bernard could foresee even worse times in the new century, the book was written as a plea to governments to take immediate action to reduce fossil fuel use, lower the CO2 -induced global warming and thus forestall the hardship that lay ahead. However, anticipating that his words would fall on deaf ears he predicted that the CO2-produced climatic warming would begin to accelerate at the turn of the century and that in the period 2010-2020 we would go into a climate warmer than anything humankind has experienced in the last 1000 years. We can expect higher temperatures than when England and East Prussia grew grapes, glacier boundaries were 500-600 feet higher than today, and sheep and woodlands were found in southwest Greenland. Warmer summers, however, can be offset by bitter winters and we can anticipate lower temperatures than those which brought harsh frosts to the Mediterranean and caused the River Tiber and the River Nile to freeze over. In the past there was moisture in the Sahara and a 200-year drought in North America where summer temperatures on the Great Plains reached 120F so we must expect similar occurrences anywhere in the world. Climatic warming is magnified in the polar regions so we must expect ice sheets to slowly disintegrate.

Because of the speed of change, we will have immense difficulty adjusting and agriculture will struggle with the vastly altered patterns of temperature and rainfall. In 1976 world grain reserves had dwindled to 31 days while the difference between a good and bad harvest (such as 1972 and 1974) amounted to about 10% or 36 days of annual world consumption. He points out that the grain-producing areas of the world, including the US, have been drawing down their water tables at unsustainable rates and that if the US were to lose its capacity to export grain about 21% of total exports would be wiped out, with grave implications for feeding the growing world population and the US economy.

In closing, he emphasized that the key issue is the enormous consequences we face when the greenhouse threat becomes a reality - especially the consequences for world agriculture. The cause of the problem is our dependence upon fossil fuels and the build up of CO2. We must reduce our dependence upon petroleum, develop renewable energy sources and make the switch to renewables as soon as possible.
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This was the first book of his that I bought. It is very well done like all the rest. It is a good book to get your "feet wet" and to decide if you want to go any further into his work. I liked it very much, and recommend it as an introduction.

My heartfelt thanks go to Dr Pinski for this excellent book. Having read Pinski's compelling case for hair replacement my wife has put her fears of the treatment aside and has finally realised that the comb-over look was just "not her."

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Mr. Ramsey is not only an excellent writer, he also is a very good instructor. I've read his work in Sensors magazine, and heard him speak a couple of times at Sensors Expo & Conference. I was very happy to discover he's authored a book -- he's hit the nail on the head.

Given the emphasis on personal responsibility of patients for their health issues, and on the value to physicians of their patients seeking information and "partnering" with their health care team as an active member, this book should serve as a valuable resource for anyone dealing with conditions ranging from acne to venous thrombosis. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy called attention in 1996 to the "silent epidemic" that he described as "a wave of illness, injuries and even deaths caused by prescription drugs" resulting in over two million spitalizations, an extra three million visits, and a $100 billion a year in additional health-care costs and lost productivity. Solomon Huriash has provided a tool to address that epidemic. Pharmacies, physicians, libraries, and book stalls should stock and recommend this book for the public good.

The Handbook of Neurotoxicology is an excellent reference book. It is particularly helpful in giving descriptions of medical and/or cognitive complications that might be expected from unusual toxins. I find it to be a helpful resource!

This text details nearly everything one need to know for a basic understanding of radiation effects on electronic components and systems. Lots of very useful tables and graphs that are needed nearly daily by the radiation experts as well as the beginners in the field. Andy & Len have done a great job putting all this information in a very understandable format. A must reference/test for everyone in the Space Radiation business. Dr. Michael K. Gauthier, ICS RADIATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.