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Ann B. Ross's most recent novel, Miss Julia's School of Beauty, was a New York Times extended bestseller, with more fans drawn to Miss Julia's adventures every outing. Miss Julia Stands Her Ground finds our steel magnolia looking forward to many peaceful and happy years with her new husband, Sam. But she still has plenty to worry about. When Hazel Marie's troublemaking uncle, Brother Vernon Puckett, comes back to town, he claims to have conclusive proof that Little Lloyd is not the son of Miss Julia's late, philandering husband Wesley Lloyd Springer—a fact to which Miss Julia would have gladly subscribed a few years back. But that was then, before Miss Julia's life revolved around Little Lloyd, before that magical holiday when he became the apple of her eye.
With DNA testing the only possible way to settle the dispute, Miss Julia shudders at the thought of exhuming her dead husband's body. But her housekeeper Lillian has a few souvenirs of Wesley Lloyd's life tucked away that, though a little creepy, might just be the key to ending the whole ugly mess. Another hilarious adventure, Miss Julia Stands Her Ground confirms what we know in our hearts—family is always thicker than blood.
Praise for Ann B. Ross and the Miss Julia series:
“Miss Julia is one of the most delightful characters to come along in years.”
—Fannie Flagg
“Funny and endearing.”
—The Dallas Morning News
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Ann B. Ross's most recent novel, Miss Julia's School of Beauty, was a New York Times extended bestseller, with more fans drawn to Miss Julia's adventures every outing. Miss Julia Stands Her Ground finds our steel magnolia looking forward to many peaceful and happy years with her new husband, Sam. But she still has plenty to worry about. When Hazel Marie's troublemaking uncle, Brother Vernon Puckett, comes back to town, he claims to have conclusive proof that Little Lloyd is not the son of Miss Julia's late, philandering husband Wesley Lloyd Springer-a fact to which Miss Julia would have gladly subscribed a few years back. But that was then, before Miss Julia's life revolved around Little Lloyd, before that magical holiday when he became the apple of her eye. With DNA testing the only possible way to settle the dispute, Miss Julia shudders at the thought of exhuming her dead husband's body. But her housekeeper Lillian has a few souvenirs of Wesley Lloyd's life tucked away that, though a little creepy, might just be the key to ending the whole ugly mess. Another hilarious adventure, Miss Julia Stands Her Ground confirms what we know in our hearts-family is always thicker than blood.
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Miss Julia Stands Her Ground.......2007-08-24
The people Miss Julia loves most are under fire, and she goes to all lengths to keep them safe. Miss Julia is the heroine again!
Just As Good As Previous Miss Julia Books!.......2007-06-11
As a break from some of the heavier books I love to read, Miss Julia is a delight! Her outlook on life and those who are in her life never bore and I feel like I know these people.
I always pass my Miss Julia books on to my daughters as they love them as much as I.
Be sure to read this.......2007-05-13
Anna Ross writes such great books. Always fun to read
Go Miss Julia .......2007-05-02
MISS JULIA STANDS HER GROUND by Ann B. Ross (Penguin ISBN 978-0-14-303855-9) This is number seven in the series. I haven't read any of the others. I have been in cozy moods and liked this book taking place in the south. Maybe I should call it aged "southern comfort." Miss Julia may be a remarried widow and sixtyish senior citizen, but she is not one to sit around and twiddle her thumbs. She even has a policeman who rents a room from her.
Living in a small town did not stop Miss Julia from taking in Hazel Marie, her dead husband's mistress and their child Little Lloyd. Miss Julia is teaching Hazel a lot; however, some habits are hard to break. Miss Julia is a very wealthy widow, but is tight with her money which I gather is thanks to Wesley Lloyd Springer, her dead husband. Lillian works for Miss Julia and lets her know when she is not doing what she thinks is best, and she gets away with it. Another strong influence is lawyer Sam Murdoch, who is now Miss Julia's husband.
Things have been fine until Brother Vern Puckett, Hazel Marie's crooked "preacher" uncle, arrives in town. He is out to take control of Hazel Marie's money. He is out to prove Little Lloyd was not Wesley's child and even gets one guy to step forward and claim Little Lloyd as his own. Brother Vern is not the most upstanding person in any community. If he could prove that Wesley wasn't Little Lloyd's father, Miss Julia and Hazel would stand to lose quite a bit. If Brother Vern gets away with his claim, living arrangements and finances for Miss Julia and Hazel would be screwed up. Thanks goodness for DNA but how it is gotten to prove who Little Lloyd's father really is something else.
Then a number of Miss Julia's church have signed a petition to have Miss Julia become the first woman elder of the church. Pastor Ledbetter is totally against that. How Miss Julia deals with that is another little thing added to the book.
Some other shenanigans take place, like money lending.
Feisty Miss Julia wins my heart!.......2007-03-18
When the Mitford series ended, I was at a loss, but Amazon recommended the Miss Julia Series. What a delight! If you're familiar with Father Tim and Cynthia from Mitford, NC, you will soon see how the antics and situations of Miss Julia compare. Page after page you will find yourself either laughing out loud or sniffling into your Kleenex. Miss Julia Stands Her Ground is only one of many excellent books about the loveable and sometimes unpredictable Miss Julia. I have read 4 or 5 of these books and have loved every one. So if you're up for a rollicking yet heart-warming story about a 60-ish year old whipper snapper of a lady, then pick up the first book in the series, "Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind." You'll fall in love with her and then work your way up to Miss Julia Stands Her Ground.
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From Robert Barnard, the internationally acclaimed Diamond Dagger-winning crime writer . . .
Some memories are better left buried in the past. Well-known author Graham Broadbent has managed to repress one particularly dangerous memory for many years, but a trip home to a school reunion brings back the shocking reality of a desperate youthful passion.
It all begins with a knock on Graham's hotel door. His visitor is nineteen-year-old Christa, who read in the newspaper that he would be in town. She introduces herself as his long-lost daughter. His daughter? It's true that many years ago Graham had a fling with Christa's mother, an exquisitely alluring school actress named Peggy Somers. The dates don't work, though. Graham maintains he was out of the country when Christa was conceived. He couldn't be her father.
He's almost sorry that he can't claim Christa, a lively young woman who intrigues him in a strange way. And what about Christa's mother, the formidable Peggy, who made such an impression when she portrayed Saint Joan in the school play all those years ago? Why would she have lied to Christa about her paternity? Why name Graham as the girl's father?
Separated from his wife, at loose ends in his writing, Graham takes the fateful step of searching out Peggy. It's a big mistake. Peggy's life, which started with such promise, has been a major disappointment. Now it's about to become a disaster. Peggy lies. She fabricates. She fantasizes. She is the kind of person who will destroy Graham if he lets her.
As Graham finds himself drawn increasingly into the turmoil surrounding this woman and her children, he must deal with deception and, ultimately, with murder. The sins of the past return to haunt the living, and the lives of those who survive will never be the same.
Writing with the piercing insight and wit for which he is renowned, Robert Barnard creates a poignant masterpiece of mystery, as thoughtful as it is entertaining.
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A Thoroughly Compelling Read.......2007-08-06
Robert Barnard, currently lives with his wife in Yorkshire. He was born in Essex on 23 November, 1936. Educated at the Royal Grammar School in Colchester and at Balliol College, Oxford, taking his Ph.D. from the University of Bergen, Norway, in 1972, he spent many years as a distinguished academic while establishing himself as one of today's most distinguished crime writers. His fascination with the pure detective story is evident in his many novels.
Novelist Graham Broadbent has a good life and one that he can enjoy thanks to the success of his writing. Like many of the characters he has invented and written about over the years, he prefers to keep a low profile, an unassuming man with no skeletons in his cupboard.
But all that changes one evening, an evening much like many others. He is about to leave to speak at his old school reunion when there is a knock on his hotel door. Standing there is an attractive young woman who tells him that she is twenty years old and that her name is Christa. She then drops the bombshell and tells Graham that he is her father. Graham finds himself embroiled in a mess of deception and lies. Something far beyond any book plot he has ever conceived.
deep character story .......2006-08-02
In Colchester, nineteen years old Christa greets somewhat almost famous author Graham Broadbent by saying "hi dad". She insists that he sired her, but he claims he was overseas at the time she would have been conceived. He knew her mother Peggy, but swears he has no children by any woman, but Christa insists her mom has said for years he was her biological dad before she leaves, disappointed in his denial.
Unable to let it go, Graham visits Peggy, who he enjoyed a fling with two decades ago, but also knows she appreciated all men she met in the early 1980s. However, Peggy stuns Graham when she sweetly says that he indeed sired a child by her, just not Christa. Astonished and confused he wants to meet his son. Drama queen Peggy arranges a dinner for him, her other "dads" and their children to meet one another. At the hostile affair, no one knows who sired whom except perhaps Peggy. She is unable to because someone murdered her.
The sharp sawed satire that has made Robert Barnard a popular author is less in your face than usual, but throughout the novel there is an ironic undercutting of the cast especially the lead protagonist. Mr. Barnard explores how an unanticipated incident can shake a person's demeanor forcing an abrupt change in the mask used to protect one from society intrusion as the former visage fails to shield anymore. Thus readers obtain a deep character story with a late murder mystery as Graham and the audience wonder who amidst the fathers and children killed the matriarch and more important does it really matter.
Harriet Klausner
Damage in the wake of a drama queen.......2006-07-06
Robert Barnard is a master storyteller who doesn't write the same book twice. I've enjoyed the humor and satire in many of his crime novels. Dying Flames is as good as anything he's written yet, and in a different vein.
Graham Broadbent's a successful novelist in his early 40's, divorced and childless. When he goes to a school reunion in his old hometown, a teenaged girl introduces herself as his daughter. He went to school with Peggy, and had a brief teenaged affair with her. But Graham could not have been this girl's father - she was born well after they'd left school and he'd lost contact with Peggy; and he was out of the country for months during the time the girl was conceived.
This surprise visit brings Graham back into contact with Peggy, who was the brilliant star of their school play. But Peggy hasn't used her huge acting talent professionally. She's deployed it in her life as a middle-class drama queen - starring in occasional amateur theatre productions and constant offstage antics. She plays fast and loose with the truth, and deceives and manipulates people - including her parents, ex-husband, daughter and teenaged son.
Graham is drawn into the drama himself. When Peggy disappears after staging a big public scene, he takes the kids to stay with him until she comes home. They settle in. The 14 year old boy starts to thrive there. Then Peggy's body is discovered, the murder case goes cold, and Graham pursues some leads himself.
A satisfying book: good murder mystery plot and well-developed interesting characters.
"I've got a father at last.".......2006-05-14
Robert Barnard's "Dying Flames" is a subtle psychological novel about a middle-aged novelist whose life takes a sudden and unexpected detour. Graham Broadbent is taken aback when one day, a beautiful nineteen-year-old girl named Christa knocks on his door and announces that she is his daughter. After "doing the maths," Graham realizes that there is no way that Christa's story can be true, but nevertheless, he is drawn into her dysfunctional family's soap opera. It turns out that a number of years before Christa was born, Graham had a brief affair with her mother, Peggy Somers. When he meets up with Peggy again, Graham soon learns that she is a deeply egotistical woman who manipulates and exploits everyone for her own gratification. What will happen to Peggy when someone tires of her schemes and selfishness?
Like other top-notch British writers, Barnard delves deeply into his character's psyches, exposing their motivations, strengths, and weaknesses. Graham has failed at marriage and has never wanted to be a parent. Yet, when he becomes reacquainted with Peggy, and learns that she has emotionally and physically left her children to fend for themselves, he discovers a caring side to himself that he never knew existed.
Besides expertly analyzing personalities and relationships, the author skillfully explores the intersection of the past and present. How do our youthful experiences affect us later in life? Graham thinks back to his infatuation with the young Peggy, a girl so vibrant and talented that everyone who knew her loved her. Unfortunately, Peggy became spoiled and craved the limelight as she grew older, resorting to deceit to satisfy her needs. This is a melancholy novel about the incredible damage that a person with beauty, charm, and an unchecked ego can do to those in her orbit. It is also a touching look at an isolated man's tentative steps towards personal redemption.
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Wonderful stories by great authors.......2006-06-19
All three stories were wonderful reads, with great writing and story lines. All three were so good that i can't decide which one i like best.
The first story The Way Home by linda howard is about a woman who learns more of and becomes closer to her lover after becoming pregnant.
A Stranger's son by emilie richards a famous rock star finding out he has a child and trying to become a father out of the public eye while also trying to get the love of the mother.
The Paternity Test by sherryl woods is about a woman who gets pregnant by her ex who she still loves but who is completly committed to his job in another city. Can they work it out and be a family?
they are all sweet heart warming stories.
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Literary Paternity, Literary Friendship: Essays in Honor of Stanley Corngold
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The twenty-one original essays in this volume offer a rigorous reconsideration of modern forms of paternity and friendship as they emerge in works by writers and philosophers from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Exploring various models of these twin themes, contributors examine writings of canonical figures such as Goethe, Schiller, HÜlderlin, Kleist, and Brentano, as well as Kafka, Benjamin, and Arendt. Together, the essays combine an emphasis on the German literary-philosophical tradition with comparative approaches, offering both theoretical discussions and sophisticated readings of crucial texts that have helped shape our contemporary literary engagement with paternity and friendship.
This collection honors Stanley Corngold, an influential scholar and teacher who has taught German at Princeton University for more than thirty years.
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Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
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Although commonly believed that males are more promiscuous than females, new research has revealed that female infidelity is a common occurrence throughout the animal kingdom. Female Infidelity and Paternal Uncertainty is the first book to address how males deal with the consequences of female infidelity and the strategies they have evolved to try to avoid the possibility of raising an offspring they unknowingly did not sire. Each chapter deals with a specific evolved strategy developed to aid males in either limiting opportunities for their mate to be unfaithful or to ‘correct’ the by-products of infidelity should it occur. With sections including mate guarding, intra-vaginal tactics and paternity assessment, this book will appeal to researchers and graduate students in behavioral biology, evolutionary psychology, human sexuality, anthropology, sociology, reproductive health and medicine.
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evolutionary psychology on adderall xr 20mg.......2005-11-30
I've had an early look at this book, and it will certainly live up to any expectations you have. Every topic is covered lucidly, especially the chapter on the "Social Mirror." The authors present convincing arguments that male adaptations have evolved to unconsciously combat female infidelity and related concerns. Two thumbs up - sure to be a hit at HBES 06.
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Jane Jeffry, suburban sleuth extraordinare, and her friend, Detective Mel VanDyne, have braved a blizzard to join her friend Shelley at a Colorado ski resort. In spite of having all their kids along, Jane and Shelley imagine a few mindless days of relaxation. But their hopes are dashed on their first attempt to ski when Jane careens into a snowman that hides a very real -- and every dead -- body.
The slopes are littered with suspects -- a convention of genealogists led by a political fruitcake who thinks she's going to put her hand-picked Tsar on the Russian throne, a mysterious crimson-clad skier who's always on the horizon, and ex-stockbroker who's hiding from his investors, and an irate tribe of Native Americans. Jane has to take a census of the suspects and make some grave assumptions about who was vacationing with malicious intent.
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Chicago Suburbs Rise To the Colorado Rockies. Creme Goes Sour (and makes tangy, multi-cultural soup)........2006-08-30
Mel's bad mood used for mild humor was a good reader (tow) "in" for me, especially when he admitted to wanting to keep his funk. Jane's contrast to Mel, from her chipper mode, was a pleasant change for "who's got the slump." Jane rambled along easily with her off-duty detective's gripes, as they maneuvered a snow-packed, Colorado mountain road en route to a resort of which Shelley's husband was considering purchase, with a group of investors.
The pair of murders in this icy plot were intriguingly entangled. The first downed body was set in a somewhat classic "stop the cameras" scene; the second provided a more unique "snow job" presentation. I'm not comfortable seeming to be so easy going about people killing people (Jane, as usual, uncovered both deaths). But, cozy mysteries are meant to be light, to relieve the digging efforts, with perfect shovels provided for poking around in the criminal mind, with the hope of unearthing enough "crime-stopper" clues to show How To detoxify motivations, and How To flat-line compulsions to carry on-and-on-and-through-to-the-bitter-end with revenge, greed, seething anger, and/or love un-attained. Have I missed anything?
Oh. Yeah:
-- "The RUSSIANS are COMING!" (To dinner? With a historic succession of Tsars?)
-- "INDIANS are beating Tom Tom's!" (WHO's in the modern-day stew! What burial grounds agenda?)
Regarding exposing the criminal mind, here is a quote from Jane:
>> "... If a murderer were really that clever, he'd have thought of a better way to solve his problem than to kill Mr. (xxx) -- and maybe Mrs. (xxx), too."
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Additional brief passages of that type of insight referencing criminal craniums have been genetically peppered (can't forget my genes) into this # 6 (See my Listmania and other reviews) in Jill Churchill's Jane Jeffry series.
As a Colorado native I was, of course, successfully baited by Jane's basing some of her Sherlock processes from an evaluation of what she described as a Colorado rugged-character-attitude (see the book for details), and her feelings of being seen as an outsider.
As I might describe Jane's thought process about that (this is not a quote from the novel; it's my paraphrase, and a bad one):
"What's this? I, an outsider? Moi?? How can this be? Here I am, just friendly-little-ole, saunter-around-comedienne, me (who also happens to be a great Mom, a world-syndicated, dancing-or-stumbling-comedically-around-kids, laid-back, but-perfected-by-flaw-acknowledgment, type of Mom). What can I say? I'm good. You'd better believe it! Or, I'll make you a bad guy in one of my books!"
(Jill Churchill, a.k.a. Janice Brooks, isn't the only author of mysteries in this series; Jane Jeffry is too, and in this one Jane provides her theory on the whereabouts and whereas's of THE IMAGINATION.)
The above paraphrase exposes part of what I enjoy about Jane, who she is, her approach to a life she loves, as a spunky suburban housewife.
Dealing with being an outsider, working around privacy issues, is handled tastefully and tellingly in this plot. I particularly liked the scene in which Jane and Shelley interrogated Tenny, the resort owner's niece, about a recent murder of a family member. At first the sleuthing pair felt awkward manipulating a personal conversation, especially at such an emotionally sensitive time, to obtain private information which felt to them to be none of their business.
You be the judge, of how Jane turns a "busy body" squeamishness into a win-for-all instead of a "free-for-all."
The high chill of the Colorado Rockies may be a climatic antithesis to the heavy heat of Australian Outback, but from some angles, those cultures could be seen as kindred geographic gestalts, at least in being playgrounds in which rugged individualism can flourish, if not in providing sanctuary for privacy issues. Crocodile Dundee would have approved of Jane and Shelley's style of nosiness into emotionally vulnerability areas, and he's one of my favorite characters from any culture-clash-comedy.
Yeah, I know, the culture clash in FROM HERE TO PATERNITY was not about Australia; it was about Chicago suburbs Vs. Colorado Rockies. But, I don't see many common denominators between those two geographic mecca's. Well, there is one, a viral aversion to anything phony. People in both places seem to grow titanium craniums for personality integrity:
"I am what I am."
Only difference is that Jane, as a "military brat," (as she describes herself) has honed a few effective social graces and sees her genuineness as appealing across cultural lines. Colorado mountain people (the rugged individualist, hermit types) rarely wonder how anyone perceives them. They just are. And they often want to be left alone in peace. Try prodding a bear in hibernation.
I was surprised to notice, when I had gotten well into the novel, that I was enjoying the change of environment (of course being a Rocky-Mountain-foothills native might have helped) from the suburban neighborhood with Jane and Shelley's next-door visits, each in their separate domains, though connecting nearly constantly. At the resort the sleuthing pair were sharing close, well-appointed quarters, along with Mel and all their kids (with Paul in the distant background as usual, but "there" ... somewhere ... rather than out-of-town).
Maybe I should add an aside here to clarify that, as has been the case throughout this Jill Churchill series, the adults carry the show, while the kids remain in the background adding a bit of fun warmth periodically. This is in contrast to Diane Mott Davidson's Goldilocks series, in which the teen-angst Vs a Mom being compelled to cater-to-everybody, has often been the prime plot, especially in the earlier books in that (culinary) crime novel series. This is not to criticize either focus of adults/kids in these two mystery series. Both styles have their unique values, issues-to-pursue, and reader appeals.
The skiing lessons and clues for studying family histories were a bonus in this one, and were successfully succinct. I believe I could use them to get going on either a search of my genetic trees, or a slip down the slopes. If I were so inclined. However, being dined in one eye and bereft in the other, I believe I'll pass the skis to the bunnies.
Linda Shelnutt
NOTE TO SHOPPERS (that loveable breed of folk glorified by Jane & Shelley in this mystery series):
-- Speaking of mountain grown, etc., Amazon now sells groceries, even the gourmet stuff including Quinoa (keenwah), an amazingly nutritious (and nutty delicious) grain which was originally grown only by the Inca Indians in high mountains of exotic countries outside the USA.
-- That Super-grain is currently being grown at White Mountain Farms in the San Juan range of the Colorado Rockies. I'm hoping the White Mountain Farms quinoa will be for sale here at some point.
-- The current vendors of Quinoa on Amazon are also impressive, and sell at very competitive prices. I'm ready to try the vender here which (unlike White Mountain farms) offers pre-washed Quinoa, so I don't have to rinse off the saponin coating (a natural insecticide which has developed around this grain over its eons of evolution).
-- Now (while I remain a semi-hermit on a mesa surrounded by the Colorado Rockies) I can buy QUINOA, SAFFRON Strands, JASMINE TEA, KONA COFFEE BEANS (learned about those through Cleo Coyle's coffeehouse series of mysteries, see my Listmania and reviews), LAVENDER ESSENTIAL OIL (learned about EO's through Dr. BJ Ferrell who recommends Young Living EO's, see my Listmania and reviews) ...
-- All in one cart through my laptop PC!!!
This is a great series........1998-10-14
I have read all the books in this series and I find them wonderfully amusing. It's a quick, light-hearted read that puts a smile on your face and not a scare in your pants. I love this series and can't wait for more, more, more.
Churchill again amuses with useful clues and painful puns........1996-08-09
Jane Jeffrey applies her well-honed motherwit in this
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become a suspect, and expose several crimes, and their
criminals while learning useful information about
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Genetic Ties and the Family: The Impact of Paternity Testing on Parents and Children
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Genetic Ties and the Family brings together experts in history, law, ethics, philosophy, psychology, social work, and sociology to explore the tension between biological and social conceptions of parentage. The contributors consider the effect of DNA-based paternity testing on family relationships and discuss the ethical, legal, and social implications.
These essays reflect the changing concepts of parenthood, along with social factors that heighten conflict, such as single-parent adoption, gay and lesbian parents, child support laws, and new reproductive technologies. Building on scholarship of the last quarter century -- including the latest developments in law and social science research -- this volume will inform the development of legislation regulating genetic testing and the use of test results in establishing parental rights.
Contributors: Lori B. Andrews, J.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law; Elizabeth Bartholet, J.D., Harvard Law School; Jeffrey Blustein, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Nancy E. Dowd, J.D., Levin College of Law, University of Florida; Michael Grossberg, Ph.D., Indiana University; Dorothy Nelkin, B.A., New York University; Jeffrey Parness, J.D., North Illinois University College of Law; Dianne Scott-Jones, Ph.D., Boston College; Daniel Wulff, Ph.D., Raymond A. Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville.
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How to DNA test your family relationships is a condensed and informative guide to molecular biology techniques used in studying biological relations with close and distant family members. You may have heard of mitochondrial Eve and nuclear adam. Now read about how to test DNA and answer questions of your true historic identity, ethnicity, religion, and even geographical origin.
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Basics of DNA testing.......2003-06-29
The book covers useful basic approaches in paternity and genealogy testing, which are sometimes not explained even in biology textbooks. This book covers fundamental prinicpals of DNA work in this field. Highly recommed for purchase by those who want to learn the nuts and bold of all procedure involved in such tests. If you are a genealogist, lawyer, or just curious - this book will give you a very nice short but detailed overview of the techniques used in such type of work. The book is spiced with stories and examples.
This book is outdated and was published in 2000.......2003-06-11
I highly recommend purchasing any DNA and genealogy books written in 2003 and later as we come into 2004. This book is already outdated as it was published in 2000 and science has advanced with new cutting edge technology in DNA and genealogy testing and new interpretations.
Good book for genealogists.......2002-02-23
The book contains much valuable information for those who have concerns or problems related to the use of DNA technology in genealogical and forensic applications. It is well presented and to the point. The book certainly provides a useful background for someone who would like to know more about genomics. It does include some good discussions of the practical applications with balanced consideration of the controversies, although it may be too technical for many genealogists (and for many others right on the money). The paternity discussions are excellent.
Edwin M. Knights, MD, Director of GeneSaver® [...]
This is where to start!.......2001-08-18
Not having any prior knowledge or experience in science, this book helped explain what all the DNA phenomenon is about. The examples and information excited me about doing my own search and testing that it is now my hobby! It's the hottest topic amongst my friends and neighbors who are also getting the book and ready to dig into their "presumed" family history. I guess I'm most satisfied in that it helped me realize how powerful DNA is and as they say, knowledge is power!
This is where to start!.......2001-08-18
Not having any prior knowledge or experience in science, this book helped explain what all the DNA phenomenon is about. The examples and information excited me about doing my own search and testing that it is now my hobby! It's the hottest topic amongst my friends and neighbors who are also getting the book and ready to dig into their "presumed" family history. I guess I'm most satisfied in that it helped me realize how powerful DNA is and as they say, knowledge is power!
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Three plays translated and adapted from Argentinian playwright Eduardo Pavlovsky's original Spanish into English by Paul Verdier. The plays deal with the "dirty war" during the military repression in Argentina in the late 1970's.
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