Biological-Agents Books

I read this book which I thought was important to do
in Lieu of what's going on in the world today. I found
it very informative and easy to understand. I recommend
this book to anyone who is feeling any anxiety about
what is going with Terrorism & Chemical Warefare and can't
make heads or tails of what the news says. This helped
make things clearer for me.

Bravo Mr. Hoenig! This concise handbook expertly defines the terms and details of chemical warfare. I think that most readers will benefit from this book. Universities, hospitals, government agencies,etc... should make this required reading.

I am so excited that there is a fast and easy to read resource on this current topic. We should all know more about chemical warfare today. I definitely recommend this book. It is important given the fears we all now face.

This is a terrific resource on terrorism. Considering the current problems we now face, I highly recommend this book to everyone. It applies to us all. College students and professors take note: this is an excellent learning tool. I am very impressed with the author's knowledge on this subject. This is a vital resource.

Always looking for new books on this subject as they are few and far between. This book is written by a cop who knows the business. Really like the way its written, funny at times as well as informatove, good read actually enjoyed what can be dry material. Highly recommended.

Have read thru this book 2x now just got it a while ago. I like the way everything is laid out in a logical progression. Plenty of photographs, very clear, shows a lot of close ups. It is hard to find good material on this subject except for some of the early stuff like Applegate's book and Tear Gas Munitions by Swaerengen. Those books are dated though, this one is up to date.
Plenty of info!!! The pepper spray chapter is worth the price alone.

Great source of material about this subject. Everything is covered and in great detail. Not just another book listing manufacturer's info, but includes the history of the products as well - interesting reading and great photos (old historical and new photos). Chapter on gas masks makes things clear as well.

I bought this book after the events of 9-11,or as it was shortly after the anthrax scare there after.I bought the book because I was grossly ignorant as to what to do in the event of a terriost attack of a chemical or biological nature.After reading this book I now feel I have the confidence to take the necessary steps to protect myself and my family.This subject was obviously researched well by the author,the book is laid out in an easy to read and use foremat.I now feel well imformed and ready as I can be.

I bought this book after the events of 9-11,or as it was shortly after the anthrax scare there after.I bought the book because I was grossly ignorant as to what to do in the event of a terriost attack of a chemical or biological nature.After reading this book I now feel I have the confidence to take the nessary steps to protect myself and my family.This subject was obviously researched well by the author,the book is laid out in an easy to read and use foremat.I now feel well imformed and ready as I can be.

Chemical and biological warfare is very much a real concern in our world. In the aftermath of 9-11, I found this book to contain very clear and easy-to-read information about how I can best protect myself and my family in the case of exposure to these toxic agents. The descriptions, symptoms, treatments and prevention are presented in a way that allows ordinary people like me to assess potentially dangerous situations quickly enough to possibly even save lives. The truth is that in many instances knowing the facts can reduce fear and keep damage at a minimum. The information in this book is presented in a way that is factual, concise and not sensationalized. I think in our current world situation that this book is a must-read for positively everyone!

The pleasure of memoirs is that for all that they allow a circumscribed vision of things they tend to offer coherent narratives of the past, and let you know "what it was like." This famous memoir by Celeste Albaret, Proust's housekeeper for ten years while he was writing his masterpeice, gives us thus a better and more complete view of the writer during his most productive years than could be imagined otherwise. Albaret was not a writer herself--the memoir was composed by others who shaped her oral reminiscences--but this work is beautifully shaped, and flows wonderfully. Almost all the major questions anyone would have about Proust--how he wrote, what he was like, who the bases were for the characters in his novel, and what his relations with his family were like--are answered in due course, and though Albaret retains her biases (she refuses to give much credence to his affairs with his chauffeur and others, for example) she is still as honest as can be. It's clear that she considered knowing and working for Proust the great event of her life, and she feels bound to tell as much as what she saw as she can.

If you're a writer, you can't help but feel curious about the habits of other writers -- particularly the great ones, the writers you admire. How and when did they work? How did they accomplish their masterpieces? Of course, a cross-section of famous writers only demonstrates that there is no one way of working. Hemingway got up at dawn and wrote until lunch or so. Kafka had supper late in the evening and then began to write after ten or eleven o'clock, when everyone else was going to bed. Evidently day is as good as night, if you have talent and the will to write.

One of the more unusual schedules had to be that of Marcel Proust. Unlike Kafka, who wrote at night even though he had to get up in the morning to go to the insurance firm where he worked, Proust was a man of independent means and was thus able to maintain as irregular a schedule as he liked. Or rather, his schedule was highly regularized, it just wasn't exactly "normal." Typically, Proust woke up around four in the afternoon -- if he even really slept that much, which is an open question. Upon awakening, he would "smoke," which was his term for a fumigation process meant to relieve his asthma. Afterward he would drink one or sometimes two cups of cafe au lait prepared according to very stringent requirements. Sometimes he would eat a croissant, sometimes not. If he were staying home for the evening, as he often did in the years he was writing A la Recherche du temps perdu, he might begin work right after this "breakfast." If he was going out, he might not return until the middle of the night. Arriving home at, say, three in the morning, he might spend a few hours telling his chambermaid all about his evening -- and then, at perhaps six in the morning, after having been up all night, he would begin to write. What's more, he always wrote in bed. It really gives new meaning, when you consider this, to the famous opening line of his masterwork: "Longtemps je me suis couche de bonne heure." For a long time I went to bed early -- this was written by a man lying in bed after having been up all night.

The chambermaid who was Proust's nocturnal confidante during the last decade of his life -- precisely when he was writing his masterwork -- outlived him by more than sixty years. (Proust died in 1922, Ms. Albaret in 1984). For the bulk of those years, she maintained a strict silence about her former employer, honoring Proust's own sense of privacy. But finally, late in life, she felt the need to set the record straight and thus agreed to be interviewed for this "as told to" memoir. This is fortunate for fans of Proust, and for fans of literature in general, for her memoir is as intimate a portrait as you can find of any writer. It is the kind of view you produce of a person whom you love, respect, admire, but also serve in the most minute and detailed capacities. You can practically smell Proust's underwear in this book -- which is not to say that it's a lurid tell-all, because it isn't. Ms. Albaret seemed only too content to keep Proust's underwear perfectly clean.

Too clean, some critics have said. And it is true that Ms. Albaret flatly denies Proust's homosexuality. She admits he went to a certain male brothel, but only -- in her view -- to gather information for his book. Otherwise, if he had any trysts during her decade with him, she didn't see them, or didn't want to. But then again, so what? Do you really have to look for stains in the man's underwear? In comparison to all the vanguard writers who were absolute jerks, it comes as something of a relief to read of a writer who comes off as a sweet, generous, nostalgic, insightful man.

Not that Proust didn't have his eccentricities, because certainly he did: his nocturnal schedule, abstemious diet, the cork walls lining his bedroom to prevent noise, the curtains closed to keep out the sunlight. It can almost be harrowing to read of Ms. Albaret's indoctrination into Proust's neurotic universe, and yet at the same time you can recognize that this controlled climate was necessary to enable Proust to recreate the splendid universe of memories in his book. Ms. Albaret says it best herself:

"Now I realize M. Proust's whole object, his whole great sacrifice for his work, was to set himself outside time in order to rediscover it. When there is no more time, there is silence. He needed that silence in order to hear only the voices he wanted to hear, the voices that are in his books. I didn't think about that at the time. But now when I'm alone at night and can't sleep, I seem to see him as he surely must have been in his room after I had left him -- alone too, but in his own night, working at his notebooks when, outside, the sun had long been up."

And perhaps that is also the truest thing anyone can really say of a writer's schedule. Hemingway's dawn, Kafka's evening, Proust's night -- what they all have in common is their own internal rhythm, a private sequence of sun and moon. It was Proust's thesis that writing could recover time lost in reality, and yet the unspoken irony is that in reality you also lose time just in order to write.

The book gives an excellent overview of parasitic and synergistic relations between insects and fungi. I was looking very long for a treatment of the subject in total, very happy now, that I found it.

Biology often reveals worlds within worlds, and this book does an excellent job of describing the extraordinarily complex relationships between insects and fungi. Yeast-eating beetles! Fungi hiding in the leaves of plants! Ants that tend fungus gardens - like tiny mushroom farmers! This scholarly volume will open your eyes to some of the more subtle wonders of nature.

The information of this pocket-size publication is used world-wide as a guide for evaluation and controlling workplace exposures to chemical substances and physical agents. Threshold Limit Value (TLV) occupational exposure guidelines are recommended for more than 700 chemical substances and physical agents. There are more than 50 Biological Exposure Indices (BEI) which cover more than 80 chemical substances. Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) registry numbers are listed for each chemical. Introductions to each section and appendices provide philosophical bases and practical recommendations for using TLVs and BEIs.

A 'terrorist-induced' epidemic using biological weapons - most likely smallpox - is almost certainly about to happen.

The Illuminati need to destroy & ressurect the nation in order to bring about the New World Order in accordance with Masonic 'Ark Mariner' traditions of Enoch & Noah.

This may be the most important book you ever read.

I reccomend reading "The New World Order", also available bere.

To whom it may concern:

This informative and educational book is especially interesting to this honorably discharged Vietnam veteran, and I'm sure it will be of interest to anyone else who served over there and has helped explain why the major health problems that have struck me in the prime of my life. I'm quite sure that Agent Orange had a lot to do with my heart problems and my neurological problems, as well. This molecule, the MOST dangerous ever made by man, is not only responsible for my figurative death, but, also, the ongoing deaths of those unfortunate and innocent Vietnamese who are STILL dying in record numbers. Of course, this supposedly caring country will NOT own up to its evil and willful destruction of Vietnam and its once-beautiful country. It used Vietnam as a proving ground for its further poisoning of other 3rd world countries, such as Iraq. What a tragedy and a farce!

this is a great reference book which could easily be used as a text book for a graduate or under graduate course.

I highly recommend this book to any one in the field.

As a colleague of Dr. Melnick, I am delighted to be able to provide the most positive review. This book serves well both as a primer for PCPs on the general subject of biological, chemical, and radilogical terrorism and as a quick reference. Beyond its target audience, other medical and public health professionals, including EMS professionals, will find this volume very useful.

The book is well organized with concise sections where appropriate for each disease or agent on microbiology and epidemiology, presentation and treatment, post-exposure prohylaxis, and prevention. The illustrations are useful aids in differential diagnosis, and diagnostic, lab evaluation, and treatment information is given in clear tables.

The ease with which RDDs (dirty bombs) can be constructed and the recent federal full-scale exercise scenario makes the chapter on radiological terrorism timely.

The chapters on mental health issues related to terrorism and the key link between public health response and the PCP are welcome and emphasize matters often ignored.

This volume is a worthy contribution to the preparation of PCPs and others to deal with terrorism threats. Dr. Melnick's style is easy to read and conversational, making this book on a very dark subject a pleasure to read.