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* SIGNED by author on title page, no inscription. * Stated First Edition. * Book cover like new, slight wear at end caps - pages clean, bright and unmarked spine like new. * Jacket like new, light shelf wear. * Proceeds benefit Friends of the Pleasant Hill Library. * "Honest and reliable service - every book hand-packaged with care." The complete story of the colossal pipe organ and the fabled Philadelphia retail palace that has been its showcase for 90 years. The Reigning Monarch of All Instruments was built in California and exhibited at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair as the world's largest pipe organ. In 1909, millionaire merchants John and Rodman Wanamaker made it the centerpiece of their magnificent new store. Dozens of store artisans enlarged the organ over 18 years to maintain it as the world's largest-a virtual symphony orchestra in pipes. Wanamaker's showcased its unparalleled cultural achievement in brilliant after-hours concerts featuring Leopold Stokowski, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the world's foremost musicians. Ray Biswanger's riveting presentation, which unfolds like a great novel, includes intriguing store lore, the fascinating history of the 17-ton Wanamaker Founder's Bell, and never-before-published insights into the private lives of the Wanamaker family and the famous artists whose lives were intertwined with this world-acclaimed historic treasure. Written for the general public and organ enthusiast alike, this sumptuous, highly readable book is published in a hardbound coffeetable format with 18 chapters, 5 appendices, complete specifications, the current console layout, and comprehensive endnotes. Informative and intriguing, the 302-page work features more than 270 illustrations, many of them full-page prints. Includes entire chapters on the St. Louis World's Fair and the Wanamaker Founder's Bell, much never-before-published material from newly unsealed archives of the Wanamaker Store, the Henry Willis organ factory, and other fascinating sources that reveal the complete, personal story behind the creation of one of the great artistic achievements of man., Friends of the Wanamaker Organ Press, 1999, 4, Facsimile in full leather binding of the rare edition printed in Moscow 1946. 311 p. of Arabic text and 21 p. of introduction in Russian. Archive studies and publication series no. ( 2 ). The mountain war in the North Caucasus generated thousands of documents, most from Russian officials but also a large number from the mountain peoples.85 Among mountain sources, however, only two chronicles dealt comprehensively with the military campaigns and their religious context. The first was kept by Qurban Ali al-'Ashilti and edited by Imam Shamil himself. Unfortunately, after Shamil's surrender this irreplaceable source was burned by the author out of fear that the chronicle would be used by the Russians as the basis for mass arrests.86 The second was Muhammad Tahir al-Qarakhi's The Shining of Daghestani Swords in Certain Campaigns of Shamil. This document, treasured by the mountaineers and widely circulatedsometimes in shortened, altered or otherwise corrupted redactionswas not published in a reliable scholarly edition until 1941. Yet, today, specialists recognize it as perhaps the single most revealing indigenous account of the mountain war. The compiler of The Shining of Daghestani Swords, in spite of his prominence in the Sufi brotherhood, remains to us an obscure figure. We know virtually nothing of his early life except that he studied under the alim Hajj Dibir of Khunuk. There al-Qarakhi mastered Quranic Arabic, familiarized himself with principles of Islamic law, read the Life of the Prophet and Arabic poetry. Al-Qarakhi's knowledge of Arabic was not unusual in early nineteenth-century Daghestan. The Soviet Arabist I.Iu.Krachkovskii has shown that, across the eastern portion of the North Caucasus among the peoples of Daghestan, Chechnia, and Ingushetia, there was a serious interest in classical Arabic dating to the late eighteenth century.87 Marius Canard has added that Arabic instruction was routinely provided to young boys in Daghestan mountain communities. Shamil himself began reading Arabic at age six.88 For most of the nineteenth century, Arabic constituted the written lingua franca of the North Caucasus, a link connecting the diverse peoples of the region with each other and to the wider Islamic world.89 Al-Qarakhi's intense religiosity and his consequent devotion to the sacred language of Arabic led him to identify with the mountain insurgency from its outset and to celebrate its great deeds. When the "first imam" Ghazi Muhammad was killed at Gimrah in 1832, al-Qarakhi mourned the passing in an Arabic elegy Al-Qarakhi's acquaintance with Shamil can be assumed at this time because Shamil arranged Ghazi Muhammad's burial rites.90 In 1846 al-Qarakhi was attached to Shamil as an expert in Islamic matters. After the battle at Kutisha, al-Qarakhi composed an Arabic poem "for the imam's consolation and for the noble naibs' exhortation."91 Two years later after the defeat at Akhdi, he wrote similar consolatory verses for the imam.92 From the evidence it is not clear to what extent al-Qarakhi involved himself in actual fighting between 1832 and 1849, but an explanatory aside in his chronicle hinted that he had seen action before the Russians besieged the insurgents' fortress at Chokha in 1849. That siege, however, left him a "weakened and broken" man, unable to participate any longer in the ghazwa because of "weakness and pain in his joints. In the winter of 1850 al-Qarakhi settled in the awul Darghiyya. There he became one of Shamil's closest lieutenants, his confidant and virtual alter ego. The moment of alQarakhi's transformation apparently occurred when the imam consulted his inner circle concerning the wisdom of naming his second son Ghazi Muhammad the naib of Qarata. The so-called "consultation" amounted to an exercise in divination based on a Quranic verse. Al-Qarakhi "saw immediately that the sense of the Quranic lineindicates that the office of naib has been ordained to him [Ghazi Muhummed]." Persuaded by al-Qarakhi's exegesis, the imam proceeded to name his second son to the position, even though Ghazi Muhammad had not yet reached his majority After performing this service for Shamil, alQarakhi was invited to live "in the imam's quarters." "Season after season" al-Qarakhi stayed there until 1855, when Shamil's eldest son Jamal al-Din returned from Russian captivity.94 At some point after 1850 al-Qarakhi received from Shamil a directive to prepare a chronicle of the mountain war. This was a very sensitive assignment with profound political implications. In the event of victory over the Russians, the chronicle would identify Shamil, as the human architect of the mountaineers' triumph, with God's wisdom; in the event of defeat, the document would convey to future warriors the precious memory of a holy war gloriously waged in God's name. Al-Qarakhi dutifully gathered materials for the chronicle until the prisoner exchange of March 1855 freed Shamil's eldest son Jamal al-Din from Russian confmement.95 The return of Jamal al-Din evidently disrupted the fragile comity in the Naqshbandi leadership. After sixteen years among the Russians, Jamal al-Din had learned the Russian language and Russian customs. He had developed friendships with his captors, including General Leontii Pavlovich Nikolai, who helped negotiate the prisoner exchange.96 Almost immediately after being reunited with his father, Jamal al-Din and his cousin Hamza "spoke with the imam about making peace with the Russian tsar and urged him towards it." These pleas for peace did not impress the imam, but they did excite irritation at Shamil's eldest son and nephew: "It was said," al-Qarakhi reported, "that [the Russians] freed these two only for this [peace initiative]."97 The hint in the lines is palpable: Jamal al-Din and al-Qarakhi quarreled over peace policy. Although the imam took al-Qarakhi's position on the political matter, he could not be seen as choosing intimacy with a trusted advisor over his son. That is the likeliest explanation for the termination of Shamil's close relationship with al-Qarakhi. During the subsequent fighting against the Russians, al-Qarakhi "became separated from Shamil."98 The separation may have occurred because al-Qarakhi was physically unable to campaign, whereas the imam rushed from place to place in a vain effort to stave off defeat. Perhaps, however, the "separation" happened suddenly in late July/early August 1859, when the remnants of Shamil's state collapsed swiftly under Russian pressure. Between August 21 and September 6, 1859 Shamil and his immediate entourage were trapped in the mountain awul Ghunib. By the time the final siege had commenced, al-Qarakhi had come to the attention of the Russian high command. Perhaps Bariatinskii learned of al-Qarakhi's status in the Naqshbandi brotherhood from GeneralL. P.Nikolai who had cultivated close relations with the insurgents and had been involved in the 1855 peace feelers. At any rate, in late August al-Qarakhi was sent by the Russians into Ghunib to negotiate Shamil's surrender (Russian - Muslim confrontation in Caucasus), 1946, 6, 445+[3 ad] pages with diagrams, plates, tables and indexes. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") issued in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. First edition.In the Master's tournament 36 participants were divided into four group of nine each, labelled A, B, C and D. First-round pairings saw Group A play against Group B, and Group C against D. After the first stage the players with the three lowest scores in each group retired from the tourney, with the consolation prizes according to their scores. The remaining six masters in each of the four of the four groups proceeded to play a second stage - A playing C and B meeting D. The two lowest scores from each group then withdrew with further consolation prizes. Of the sixteen remaining competitors (four in each group), A then played D and B faced C - thus completing the round-robin among the four groups. A fourth stage pitted group members against each other - A playing A, etc. The seven lowest players were then eliminated. Of the remainder Schlechter didn't appear destined for the winner's circle. Four successive victories in the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th rounds (Johner, Marco Fahrni and Bur) had propelled him into a half-point lead over Maroczy. A loss to Bernstein in the 17th round dropped him into a tie for first with Maroczy and Janowski. The blow by blow continuation is here in contained in this wonderful production.Condition:Corners bumped. Front head corner bumped else a near fine copy without jacket as issued.., Caissa Editions, 2005, 4, Bandera Press, 2016. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Good/Good (). [6], vi, 425, [1] pages. Illustrations. Includes Foreword by George Church. Also includes Preface, Acknowledgments, and Endnotes. Several pages wrinkled, some ink underlining to text. Some wear to dust jacket edges. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Inscription reads: Margaret, Keep up the good work connecting science & the patient community. --Luke Timmerman. Lee Hood, a son of the American West, was perhaps an unlikely candidate to transform biology. But with ferocious drive, he led a team at Caltech that developed the automated DNA sequencer, the tool that paved the way for the Human Genome Project. Luke Timmerman is a journalist, author, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Timmerman Report, a biotech newsletter. The book was named one of the Top 100 Indie Books of 2017 by Kirkus Reviews. Forbes called it a "must read" popular science book. Timmerman is the founder and editor of Timmerman Report, a biotech industry newsletter. Timmerman has a bachelor's in journalism from the University of Wisconsin, and was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT. In 2015, Scientific American named him one of the 100 most influential people in biotech. Leroy "Lee" Edward Hood (born October 10, 1938) is an American biologist who has served on the faculties at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Washington. Hood has developed ground-breaking scientific instruments which made possible major advances in the biological sciences and the medical sciences. These include the first gas phase protein sequencer (1982), for determining the amino acids that make up a given protein; a DNA synthesizer (1983), to synthesize short sections of DNA; a peptide synthesizer (1984), to combine amino acids into longer peptides and short proteins; the first automated DNA sequencer (1986), to identify the order of nucleotides in DNA; ink-jet oligonucleotide technology for synthesizing DNA and nanostring technology for analyzing single molecules of DNA and RNA. The protein sequencer, DNA synthesizer, peptide synthesizer, and DNA sequencer were commercialized through Applied Biosystems, Inc. and the ink-jet technology was commercialized through Agilent Technologies. The automated DNA sequencer was an enabling technology for the Human Genome Project. The peptide synthesizer was used in the synthesis of the HIV protease by Stephen Kent and others, and the development of a protease inhibitor for AIDS treatment. Hood established the first cross-disciplinary biology department, the Department of Molecular Biotechnology (MBT), at the University of Washington in 1992, and co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology in 2000. Hood is credited with introducing the term "systems biology", and advocates for "P4 medicine", medicine that is "predictive, personalized, preventive, and participatory." Scientific American counted him among the 10 most influential people in the field of biotechnology in 2015 Derived from a Kirkus review: A debut biography examines a biologist whose DNA sequencing work paved the way for the Human Genome Project. Biotech journalist Timmerman met Leroy "Lee" Edward Hood as a Seattle Times reporter in 2001. Bill Gates had lured Hood to the University of Washington in 1991 with $12 million for a molecular biotechnology department, but in 1999 Hood resigned to found the Institute for Systems Biology. The book shrewdly opens with this turning point, then retreats to Hood's birth in Montana in 1938 and proceeds chronologically. A football quarterback and Westinghouse Science Talent Search finalist, Hood looked to professors to provide the positive example his alcoholic father didn't. Caltech hosted much of Hood's career, from undergraduate years-when he was president of the freshman class-to two decades on staff. While at Caltech, he co-wrote a biochemistry textbook and headed a cancer research center. "Never prone to self-doubt," Hood was dedicated to innovation, and his work on a DNA sequencing machine would prove as revolutionary to the genomics field as the printing press has been in Western culture. Such farsightedness accounts for him winning the 2002 Kyoto Prize and a 2013 National Medal of Science-limited consolation for missing out on a Nobel Prize in the 1980s. One chapter title sums Hood up perfectly: "A Visionary, Not a Manager." Timmerman builds a painstaking picture of a determined researcher whose entrepreneurial spirit made up for what he lacked in interpersonal skills. Although distant and dismissive of bureaucracy, Hood earned tenure at Caltech at age 35 and became a department chair at 41. In this thorough biography, Timmerman's admiration of a man who was still working 84-hour weeks well into his 70s comes through clearly. Yet the author never shies away from the contradictions of this forceful personality. A fine tribute to a forerunner of today's personalized medicine and wellness monitoring; Hood deserves to be a household name. Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes. In contrast to genetics, which refers to the study of individual genes and their roles in inheritance, genomics aims at the collective characterization and quantification of all of an organism's genes, their interrelations and influence on the organism. Genes may direct the production of proteins with the assistance of enzymes and messenger molecules. In turn, proteins make up body structures such as organs and tissues as well as control chemical reactions and carry signals between cells. Genomics also involves the sequencing and analysis of genomes through uses of high throughput DNA sequencing and bioinformatics to assemble and analyze the function and structure of entire genomes. Advances in genomics have triggered a revolution in discovery-based research and systems biology to facilitate understanding of even the most complex biological systems such as the brain. The field also includes studies of intragenomic (within the genome) phenomena such as epistasis (effect of one gene on another), pleiotropy (one gene affecting more than one trait), heterosis (hybrid vigour), and other interactions between loci and alleles within the genome., Bandera Press, 2016, 2.5, Paperback / softback. New. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Inducing of Earthquakes by Underground Nuclear Explosions: Environmental and Ecological Problems, held in Moscow, Russia, November 9-12, 1994, 6<
