Jeff rey Green’s The Eyes of the People (EOP) poses the question of what popular empowerment might mean in twenty-fi rst-century liberal democracies. It diagnoses and takes critical aim at the widespread assumption that popular power must relate to the legislative capacity to determine the laws and norms shaping political life. Whereas leading paradigms of democracy—deliberative, aggregationist...

We propose herein a new method of DNA distribution, whereby DNA clones or PCR products are printed directly onto the pages of books and delivered to users along with relevant scientific information. DNA sheets, comprising water-soluble paper onto which DNA is spotted, can be bound into books. Readers can easily extract the DNA fragments from DNA sheets and amplify them using PCR. We show that D...

Book Information Title: The Secret of Apollo Systems Management in American and European Space Programs Author: Stephen B. Johnson Year of Publication: 2002 ISBN: 0-80188-542-6 Summary, Relevance and Discussion Although the title of this book places it on the reading list of those wishing to learn about Project Apollo, the subtitle reflects its actual content. The organization of the book is es...

A journalist, Vatanen, rescues an injured hare that his car hits in the outback of Finland. This seemingly random act of kindness triggers a lifechanging experience and Vatanen sets out on an increasingly farcical adventure leaving behind his job, his wife and worldly possessions. A liberating and popular European novella confirming Finns have a well-developed sense of humour. NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

When I was a medical student in 1993, my overseas elective was in Nazareth Hospital in The Galilee, then run by the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society (EMMS). It’s the oldest continually functioning hospital in Israel, and has come a long way since 1861. Malcolm Billings’ book tells the story of the Armenian tailor’s son from Ottoman Constantinople who trained in Medicine in Edinburgh and, af...

In The Invisible Hand of U.S. Commercial Banking, Margaret Polski provides an instructive account of the transformation in U.S. commercial banking during the latter part of the twentieth century. On one level, she uses this case study to explain the evolution from a highly regulated industry, where state and federal laws determined product lines, geographic locations, and prices, to a deregulat...

These are ‘passions’ I guess and we are blessed with hosts of quotes from Mandela to Einstein which motivate us to lead more fulfilling lives Just google them! One of my lifelong passions is golf and throughout my life it has always been there like a old friend whose stories never lose their mirth or warmth. It is both consistent and reliable in bonding lifelong friendships and providing much joy.

1 Anthropometric landmarks lend themselves to an effective posture prediction and, at the same time, facilitate the reconstruction of a geometric model of the human body. 2 Back-propagation multi-layer perceptron artifi cial neural networks (BP-MLP-ANN) can process multi-dimensional variables (such as 3D coordinates of landmarks, demographic characteristics, and posture data) in an integral way...

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