Author: Ph.D Lucy Pollard-Gott
Publisher: iUniverse
Keywords: literature, legend, world, characters, ranking, influential, fictional
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2010-01-20
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1440154392
ISBN-13: 9781440154393

Some of the most influential and interesting people in the world are fictional. Sherlock Holmes, Huck Finn, Pinocchio, Anna Karenina, Genji, and Superman, to name a few, may not have walked the Earth (or flown, in Superman’s case), but they certainly stride through our lives. They influence us personally: as childhood friends, catalysts to our dreams, or even fantasy lovers. Peruvian author and presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa, for one, confessed to a lifelong passion for Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. Characters can change the world. Witness the impact of Solzhenitsyn’s

Authors:Thomas Wolfe, Lucy Conniff, Richard S. Kennedy, Lucy
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Keywords: literary, studies, southern, angel, outline, homeward, autobiographical
Number of Pages: 99
Published: 2004-04
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0807129410
ISBN-13: 9780807129418

Readers of Thomas Wolfe’s Autobiographical Outline will better understand how his first and most widely read novel, Look Homeward, Angel, came into being. Superbly edited and annotated by Lucy Conniff and Richard Kennedy, this vibrant document records a young writer’s determination to forge art from the details of his life, providing an unparalleled view of a novelist’s mind at work. "Everything I write is immensely flavored with me," Wolfe stated. "The look about me will be transmuted and recreated in writing." Wolfe’s sprawling talent and his fascination with psychoanalysis are ref

Author: J. Richard Gott
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: time, travel, possibilities, physical, einstein, universe
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-09-19
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0618257357
ISBN-13: 9780618257355

In this fascinating book, the renowned astrophysicist J. Richard Gott leads time travel out of the world of H. G. Wells and into the realm of scientific possibility. Building on theories posited by Einstein and advanced by scientists such as Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne, Gott explains how time travel can actually occur. He describes, with boundless enthusiasm and humor, how travel to the future is not only possible but has already happened, and he contemplates whether travel to the past is also conceivable. Notable not only for its extraordinary subject matter and scientific brilliance, Time

Author: Jonatha Gott
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: enzymology, methods, volume, modification, rna
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2007-08-15
List price: $182.00
ISBN-10: 0123741556
ISBN-13: 9780123741554

The presence of modified nucleotides in cellular RNAs has been known for decades and over 100 distinct RNA modifications have been characterized to date. While the exact role of many of these modifications is still unclear, many are highly conserved across evolution and most contribute to the overall fitness of the organism. In recent years, new methods and bioinformatics approaches have been developed for the dissection of modification pathways and functions. These methods intersect a number of related fields, ranging from RNA processing to comparative genomics and systems biology. In add

Author: Jonatha M. Gott
Publisher: Humana Press
Keywords: methods, protocols, biology, molecular, modification, interference, editing, rna
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2004-04-15
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 1588292428
ISBN-13: 9781588292421

Case Western Reserve Univ. School of Medicine, Cleveland. Features readily reproducible protocols for discovering new genes or altering gene expression. Offers step-by-step instructions, and techniques for the identification and characterization of small RNAs. DNLM: RNA Editing--Laboratory Manuals.

Author: Mr. Richard Gott
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: nota, bene, yale, history, new, cuba
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2005-11-01
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0300111142
ISBN-13: 9780300111149

Events in Fidel Castro’s island nation often command international attention and just as often inspire controversy. Impassioned debate over situations as diverse as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Elián Gonzáles affair is characteristic not only of modern times but of centuries of Cuban history. In this concise and up-to-date book, British journalist Richard Gott casts a fresh eye on the history of the Caribbean island from its pre-Columbian origins to the present day. He provides a European perspective on a country that is perhaps too frequently seen solely from the American point of vie

Author: Richard Gott
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: venezuela, revolution, bolivarian, chavez, hugo
Number of Pages: 315
Published: 2005-08-25
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 1844675335
ISBN-13: 9781844675333

The only up-to-date book on the democratically elected president of Venezuela, and the US-assisted attempt—and failure—to depose him. The only first-hand report on contemporary Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, by veteran correspondent Richard Gott, places the country’s controversial and charismatic president in historical perspective, and examines his plans and programs. This new edition has a chapter on the attempted and failed military coup, Venezuela’s recent recall election, and discusses US covert intervention against this democratically elected public official. The spectre