Science, nature and identity

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Jan-Christer Janson, Lars Rydén

"This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Protein Purification provides state-of-the-art coverage of chromatographic and electrophoretic protein separation and characterization methods. Balancing theory, procedures, and applications, it offers professionals and students in biochemistry, organic chemistry, and analytical chemistry quick access to a wide range of important techniques, including: gel filtration and ion exchange chromatography, affinity and covalent chromatography, reversed phase and hydrophobic interaction chromatography, electrophoresis in gels, immunoelectrophoresis and capillary electrophoresis, protein mapping by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, protein elution and blotting methods, and large-scale electrophoresis processes."--BOOK JACKET.

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John Middleton

"The Swahili of East Africa have a long and distinctive history as a literate, Muslim, urban, and mercantile society. In this book a leading Africanist presents the first full-length anthropological account of the Swahili and offers an original analysis of their little-understood and unusual culture." "Swahili towns, some urban with elegant stone buildings and others more rural with palm-leaf-matting houses, are spread along the thousand-mile East African coast. Because each local community is culturally different from its neighbors, previous historians and anthropologists have viewed the Swahili as a series of isolated and "detribalized" groups. John Middleton argues, on the contrary, that beneath the cultural variation is a single structure, that of a well-defined and complex trading society that has shown little change through the ages. Drawing on his own field research and on earlier writings on the Swahili, Middleton describes this centuries-old mercantile culture--its local and descent groupings, marriage patterns, religion, and values. He traces the history of their colonized past as subjects to Arabs, portuguese, British, and others and shows that, although their economic and political role has continually been a subordinate one, their sense of unique identity enables then to persist as an ongoing civilization."--BOOK JACKET.

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Carol Lerner

Descriptions and pictures of twenty plants mentioned in the Old Testament, including fig, lentil, olive, papyrus, and pomegranate.

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Phyllis Limbacher Tildes

A gentle, nearsighted peasant girl rescues the legendary Baba Babochka and is rewarded with a magic babushka that enables her to create beautiful "pysanky," or decorated eggs.