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Shelby Woo and her friends, Cindi and Noah, are on the case when the Mars rock at the Space Museum disappears, followed by $500,000 worth of gems. Original." ... Read more

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It's a classic!
The style for this book is sort of classic: lots of suspects, lots of clues, and a main character who's probably looking at it from the wrong angle. I managed to "solve" this one because of a "clue" that wasn't even a clue! The culprit is none other than someone you most likely expected but, at the same time, didn't expect, and has a classic villain personality. A great read!

ITS REALLY EXCITING!
OK!so there was this meuseum where this gem or rock was stolen and the young detective tries to solve it !It was so interesting because there were a lot of clues that leads to something else and there is some danger in some place that can let you keep reading.So I advice you to read this book .Actually this is the most wonderful book in the series because it easy to understand you will not get tangled up with big words that you will still have to look up in the dictionary .It is also the best way if you can not find it in your local bookstore I also advice you to buy it here in AMAZON.COM! ... Read more

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WTF is he talking about?
I can get into new-age stuff as well as the the next guy.Heck, I bought this book.Sorry to say I couldn't get past the first few pages.I found the writing to be dense and nonsensical.I can't remember the last time I threw any book away.This one went into the recycling bin.Can't recommend.

wow
Quite simply one of the greatest spiritual books ever written. The language is beautiful and the insights profound. What's just as incredible, though not too surprising, is that it's been out of print for years. So it goes.

Classic profound early Spiritual Writings of Adi Da Samraj
As Bubba Free John, these Essays were penned as a vast instruction manual on the unique Spiritual Offering of Adi Da Samraj, which as the book title suggests is 'The Enlightenment Of The Whole Body". This wisdom points to the limitations of both body and mind (and psyche, soul, and even attention itself) in contrast with the whole bodily transcendental spiritual outshining that is Avatar Adi Da Samraj's unique Reality-Teaching (and Spiritual Gift).

This book is a unique historical record of the development of Adi Da Samraj's Dharma Gift to humankind, full of love, wisdom, blessing, humor, heart-break, and sanity. Beautiful. Profound. Ego-obliterating. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Tung Chee Hwa, Sammo Hung, Shien Biau Woo, Chiang Wei-Kuo, John Chiang, Yang Fujia, Tung Chee-Chen, Yi Shu, ni Weidou, Winston Chang, Yang Fuyu, Chao Kuang Piu, Cheng Chemin, Chiang Hsiao-Yung, Zhou Xinfang, Mao Chi-Kuo, Alfred Chuang, Chiang Hsiao-Wu, Chiang Hsiao-Wen, Chen Jieru. Excerpt:Alfred S. Chuang (Chinese : ) was the founder, chairman, CEO and president of BEA Systems until it was purchased by Oracle in April 2008 . Prior to founding BEA, Chuang worked at Sun Microsystems . Chuang received a B.S. in computer science from the University of San Francisco and a master's degree in computer science with specialization in distributed data management from the University of California, Davis. His graduate thesis, "Table-Tabular Data Objects and their Use in Table Editing", remains one of California State Library's most frequently used reference materials on relational database development. Chuang is an alumnus of Wah Yan College, Hong Kong . Chuang has founded the startup Kryptonite Systems. References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Chao Kuang-piu, SBS (Chinese : ; Pinyin : CAO Guangbiao), is a Hong Kong industrial tycoon and philanthropist , sometimes referred to as Hong Kong 's "Wool Magnate". Life Chao was born in 1919 or 1920 in Ningbo . His father was also a successful businessman in Shanghai . In 1950, Chao went to Hong Kong to develop his own business. His career has been mainly involved in the Hong Kong textile industry. Chao was the main founder of the Dragonair , which was the first Chinese air company in Hong Kong. Chao also was the very first businessman who invested in Mainland China when the Chinese Economic Reform started in late 1970s. Chao is the current Honorary Chairman of the Wharton School's Global Alumni Forum in Hong Kong. He... ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2002, held in Toronto, Canada, in May 2002. The 42 revised full papers and 26 short papers presented together with four invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 173 submissions. The book offers topical sections on Web application development, knowledge management, deployment issues, semantics of information, system qualities, integration issues, analysis and adaption, retrieval and performance, requirement issues, schema matching and evolution, workflows, semantics and logical representations, understanding and using methods, and modeling objects and relationships. ... Read more

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When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, a new era in human history opened. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with this heart-rending account of six men and women who survived despite all the odds. A further chapter was added when, forty years later, he returned to Hiroshima to discover how the same six people had struggled to cope with catastrophe and with often crippling disease. The result is a devastating picture of the long-term effects of one bomb.Amazon.com Review
When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, few could haveanticipated its potential for devastation. Pulitzer prize-winningauthor John Hersey recorded the stories of Hiroshima residents shortlyafter the explosion and, in 1946, Hiroshima was published,giving the world first-hand accounts from people who had survivedit. The words of Miss Sasaki, Dr. Fujii, Mrs. Nakamara, FatherKleinsorg, Dr. Sasaki, and the Reverend Tanimoto gave a face to thestatistics that saturated the media and solicited an overwhelmingpublic response. Whether you believe the bomb made the difference inthe war or that it should never have been dropped,"Hiroshima" is a must read for all of us who live in theshadow of armed conflict. ... Read more

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The horror of the atomic bomb and a wake-up call for the future
Published in The New Yorker in 1946, "Hiroshima" was the result of in-depth personal interviews with six of the victims of the atomic blast that hastened the surrender of the Japanese in WW2.These victims were ordinary people going about their ordinary lives.Then, on a hot August day, there was a bright flash of light and the world they lived in changed forever.It is estimated that 100,000 people were killed in the first blast and, over the next few years, more than another 100,000 died as a result of radiation poisoning.Through up-close and personal interviews, the victims Hersey interviewed became very real people to me and I will never forget their accounts of the dreadfulness they experienced.They included a Japanese Methodist minister who was educated in the United States, a war widow and mother of three young children, a German Jesuit priest, an office clerk and two different doctors.Through their eyes I saw the dead and dying, the horrible burns, the wounds that didn't heal, the destruction of homes and the displacement of families, the lack of medical care and the absolute devastation everywhere.Through this article, the American people became acutely aware of the horrific affects of nuclear weapons.

Forty years later, the author returned to Hiroshima to again interview these same six people. One of the women had become a nun, another woman suffered with radiation sickness for years, one of them tried to erase all memory of the bombing, one had become a prosperous doctor in his own private clinic,one of them suffered from his wounds for the rest of life, and one of them wound up touring the United States to raise money to rebuild his church and help young girls injured in the blast to have reconstructive surgery.And, during all these years, two of these interviewees had died.

The impact this small book had on me went well beyond its 152 pages.I will never forget it andcan't help wondering about what the result will be now that so many countries have nuclear weapons.This book makes it all real.It is both an excellent piece of journalism as well as a wake-up call for the future.

An immensely powerful pathetic argument
John Hersey's slim little volume here is an immensely powerful pathetic argument against the dropping of nuclear weapons in particular and against war in general.He deals with the aftermath of the lifetimes of several survivors of the dropping of the first nuclear weapon on an inhabited place.Many were killed instantly, others were crushed in the debris and rubble, and others weren't as lucky - dying a slow death from burns and radiation.

This is an immensely humanizing work that I wish those in power would read or at least be aware of before they made devastating decisions.We in human race have been lucky enough that we haven't had to write a sequel to this book based on a different war and a different place on the same scale. Sadly, we write little ones every day.

required reading
The book is great.Gives a unique view into Japanese survivors of the A-Bomb.However, this edition for what ever reason, does not include the Aftermath epilogue. I needed that chapter for my class and was very upset this book did not have it.

Most boring book I have ever read
This review may annoy people who feel strongly about the book or the incident, but Hiroshima really is the driest read imaginable. I had to teach it to an extension English class and when the time came to discussing the text, all 24 students owned up to not reading it because it bored them senseless. I couldn't feel angry about that because I too found it so dull that I struggled to get through it. I ended up supplementing it with other non-fiction texts. Three successive classes have all proclaimed it the most "boring" book they have ever been asked to read for English. This review is more for teachers pondering using it as a study text. Don't! Your students will thank you for it.

An intimate look at the innocent victims of total war
Hard not to feel nostalgic for days when war was waged by warriors. A certain civility in that. Rules of engagement. Codes of honor. You think of Greeks, and Samurai, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade;" of French and German soldiers who meet in No Man's Land to share Christmas treats then return to opposing trenches.

But then here comes Nanking, Stalingrad, London, Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. Total war, as the phrase goes. A reversion to tribal days, perhaps, when warring foes fell men, women, and children alike, to void vengeance. A weapon now to instill dread, to sap the will, to raise the costs of conflict.

Hiroshima: August 6, 1945, 8:15 a.m. That's when John Hersey`s story begins, with "a noiseless flash." It begins not in the White House, nor in the Imperial Palace or the B-29 that dropped the bomb. But in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, where Toshiko has just turned to speak to a co-worker. In the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital, where Dr. Sasaki walks down the corridor, a blood specimen in hand. In the minds of six who survived, at a half dozen points across the city, at the instant the atomic bomb exploded.

Here Hersey does not pontificate, excuse, blame, or rage. He reports. With meticulous detail, in short, clear, declarative sentences, with controlled understatement. To describe a human experience so beyond words and thought that it can be grasped only through the senses.

So, through the eyes and ears of these six hibakusha, literally, "explosion-affected persons," we see the scarred multitudes fleeing the fires, hear the shocked silence of the radiated dying, feel the flames, and smell the putrefying flesh. Working like a novelist, Hersey puts us there, scene upon scene, with dialogue and pertinent detail, to show the reality on a human scale. Not commenting, but showing:

"The hurt ones were quiet; no one wept, much less screamed in pain; no one complained; none of the many who died did so noisily; not even the children cried; very few people even spoke."

And:

"Mr. Tanimoto found about twenty men and women on the sandspit. He drove the boat onto the bank and urged them to get aboard. They did not move and he realized they were too weak to lift themselves. He reached down and took a woman by the hands, but her skin slipped off in huge, glovelike pieces."

Or:

"He saw a uniform. Thinking there was just one soldier, he approached with the water. When he had penetrated the bushes he saw there were about twenty men, and they were all in exactly the same nightmarish state: their faces were wholly burned, their eyesockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks."

And:

"She kept the small corpse in her arms for four days, even though it started smelling bad on the second day."

Though a Yale and Cambridge educated journalist, novelist, and Pulitzer Prize winner, Hersey uses simple words, simple sentences, and a direct, conversational tone to tell a story that would dwarf any language. He gives the numbers: 6,000 degrees centigrade; 70,000 of 90,000 buildings destroyed; 100,000 killed, another 100,000 hurt in a city of 245,000. But cold facts, Hersey realizes, cannot encompass the horror. Only by reliving the day and its aftermath through the eyes, ears, and words of those who experienced it can we approach it. Simply and hauntingly, Hersey places us at ground zero, with austere language that vibrates with intensity:

"They told her that her mother, father, and baby brother...had all been given up as certainly dead...Her friends then left her to think that piece of news over. Later, some men picked her up by the arms and legs and carried her quite a distance to a truck. For about an hour, the truck moved over a bumpy road, and Miss Sasaki, who had become convinced that she was dulled to pain, discovered that she was not."

A year later, the August 31, 1946 edition of The New Yorker devoted all its space to Hersey's Hiroshima. Newspapers worldwide reprinted it; it was read aloud over radio. Since then it has, for good reason, become a classic of American nonfiction.

In its final chapter, Hersey quotes a Hiroshima priest who had been away from his mission house the morning of the attack:

"It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians. The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us a clear answer to this question?"

Some 65 years later, while some still await an answer, Hersey's Hiroshima still breathes a clear reply.
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Hwang Woo-suk is a South Korean veterinarian researcher. He was a professor of theriogenology and biotechnology at Seoul National University (dismissed on March 20, 2006) who became infamous for fabricating a series of experiments, which appeared in high profile journals, in the field of stem cell research. Until November 2005, he was considered one of the pioneering experts in the field of stem cell research, best known for two articles published in the journal Science in 2004 and 2005 where he fraudulently reported to have succeeded in creating human embryonic stem cells by cloning. Both papers were later editorially retracted after they were found to contain a large amount of fabricated data. He has admitted to various charges of fraud. On May 12, 2006, Hwang was "indicted on embezzlement and bioethics law violations linked to faked stem cell research." Korea Times reported on June 10, 2007 that "The university expelled him and the government rescinded its financial and legal support. The government has subsequently barred Hwang from conducting human cloning research. ... Read more