Month: March 2013

“Syria No Longer Exists,” Says Well-Placed Source in Damascus

“Syria No Longer Exists,” Says Well-Placed Source in Damascus

Posted by | Mar 28, 2013 | ,

A WND Exclusive By F. Michael Maloof Washington, March 28, 2013 – Iran and Hezbollah have effectively taken over Syria, guiding the nation’s military operations and functions of government, as the Lebanese resistance group’s fighters have begun to flood into the Damascus area, reveals a well-placed source in the Syrian capital. To make a “long version really short, Syria no longer exists,” the source told WND. The government of Syria and the running of the Syrian military are no longer are under the command of the Syrians, he explained. “Lebanon also is no more,” the source added. Like Syria,...

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Book Review: Reading Essays: An Invitation

Book Review: Reading Essays: An Invitation

Posted by | Mar 27, 2013 |

Author: G. Douglas Atkins Publisher: University of Georgia Press – 276 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar G. Douglas Atkins, a professor of English at the University of Kansas, shows us in this helpful book how to read, enjoy, and benefit from essays, a form of writing that has been around for over 400 years. He points out that there are currently, many books prevailing on how to enjoyably and beneficially read works of drama, fiction and poetry; but not many on the essay. Atkins presents and discusses 25 essays in this collection that he has used in his...

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Book Review: Launching the Antibiotic Era: Personal Accounts of the Discovery and Use of the First Antibiotics

Posted by | Mar 26, 2013 |

Editors: Carol L. Moberg and Zanvil A. Cohn Publisher: Rockefeller University Press – 97 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani On October 23, 1939, the antibiotic gramicidin was discovered by Rene Dubos. It was the first antibacterial agent obtained from natural resources through rational pursuit. Fifty years later a symposium was held on October 23, 1989 at Rockefeller University in New York City. This book is about Rene Dubos and his contributions to science in particular and humanity in general.  The editors write in the Preface that Dubos was better known as a biographer, a philosopher of humankind and staunch protector of the environment than as a microbiologist in his earlier career. Why was the discovery of gramicidin important? Because it was ‘a novel medium for the growth of the tubercle bacillus,’ the editors write. For Dubos, it was one of the “exciting milestones in his early career at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.” My guess is that most readers have not heard of gramicidin but they certainly know about penicillin. But it was the work on gramicidin that led the two English scientists Ernest Chain and Howard Foley to revive the “dormant research” on penicillin that Alexander Fleming found accidentally in 1928, writes Moberg in the book’s final essay Friend of the Good Earth: Rene Dubos (1901-1982). Although he was first trained as an agronomist, then as...

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Book Review: Architecture for Dummies

Book Review: Architecture for Dummies

Posted by | Mar 26, 2013 |

Author: Deborah K. Dietsch. Foreword by Robert A.M. Stern, Dean of the Yale School of Architecture Publisher: For Dummies – An Imprint of Wiley Publishing – 308 Book Review by: Venkat Subramaniam This book can be read by non-architects to learn about architecture or by architects as a reference source. If you are planning on a custom-built structure as your new residence or a commercial building for your business, this book can provide you a lot of knowledge and helpful insight. It gets you thinking on areas you didn’t consider. And there is no doubt a lot of information...

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Book Review: Financial Fresh Start

Book Review: Financial Fresh Start

Posted by | Mar 25, 2013 |

Author: Shari Olefson Publisher: Amacom Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram Shari Olefson provides advice on how to rebuild your financial life. The 2008 collapse of the financial sector added millions more people to the rolls of the unemployed. Today 22,282,247 people have no jobs, according to the website  www.USDebtClock.org, which gets its facts and figures from Federal government agencies. And according to Kevin Drum, author of the Aug 03, 2012 Mother Earth article Will Congress Screw Underwater Homeowners on December 31? some $700 billion in equity had been lost by ‘underwater’ homeowners, or those owing more to lenders than...

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