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List Price: £17.99
Our Price: £10.47
Author:
Michael Smith
By The Collins Press
 Usual great style from Polar writer, 2008-03-07
A tiny museum in Castletownbere gave me an tantilising introduction to Tom Crean, and an Amazon search then introduced me to Michael Smith and The Unsung Hero. I just loved it - a wonderful heoric tale by a very skilled author, and having fallen madly in love with Tom Crean I have now read just about everything there is on Antartic Exploration at the turn of the Century. This book is of the period half a century earlier and is written in the same wonderful style, where Michael Smith brings into your life a little known and probably even less admired hero. The book covers Crozier's many travels into both the Artic and Antartic, and takes us to the time when the latter was being explored for the first time, and most interesting, getting named. So those coves and coasts and mountains - Ross Shelf, Cape Crozier, Mount Terror and Mount Erebus etc, all come from Croziers era. Also, and so disappointingly, came all those bad habits that plagued the later explorations - like dependancy on man hauling, not using locally caught game, using canvas tents etc.
This is just a great book - just one small criticism - the picture reproduction is lousy and it desperately needs a couple of detailed maps at the beginning, so you can keep referring back, rather than try and find the rather undetailed ones hidden in the text.
Mr Smith - I've read both your Tom Crean books - please find another 'unsung hero' for us!
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Author:
Neil A. Downie
By Princeton University Press
Wonderful excitement filled projects, 2005-01-06
What a great change, to see a "science book" with the sort of projects and demonstrations that will interest children of all ages, and quite a lot of adults. The "Vacuum bazooka" is an extremely powerful device - especially with a damned great wet/dry vacuum powering it. We used plastic 35mm film cannisters and got 100 feet (high) shots from ours. The fluid amplifier project is also nicely messy, but a great demonstration of some basic (electronic) theory. Highly recommended to those interested in practical science, with good theoretical backup and resources in the book.
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Author:
Daniel Holtom, Elizabeth Fisher
By Imperial College Press
 A very comprehensive, readable book., 2001-11-26
This book seems to have nearly everything you want if you really don't know where to start on your thesis. The chapters are well set out and give good advice about both layout and content of all possible sections of a thesis. Quite surprisingly this book is also very readable. I would recommend this book to any Undergraduate/Postgraduate in need of thesis advice.
List Price: £25.00
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Author:
Kathy Barker
By Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,U.S.
Perfect for beginner's level researchers, 2005-10-23
This is just the book I have been looking for. It contains information that is necessary for somebody who had never been to a research laboratory. The very basic details that more experienced co-workers will not always remember to tell are given very nicely in this book. It also includes information like those on the (sometimes untold) rules and etiquette of research groups, meetings and data presentation. These information may prevent a lot of painful experience and time loss. Therefore I consider this book a very useful reference for those who are new in research (like me).
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