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The Most Offending Soul Alive

Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life

By: Judith M. Heimann

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The Most Offending Soul Alive

Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life

By: Judith M. Heimann

An English eccentric and adventurer, Tom Harrisson (1911-1976) sought knowledge and renown in a dizzying number of fields, while breaking most of the rules of civilized society. He was a precursor in the field of modern market research; he won the DSO for his World War II service in Borneo; he led efforts to save the orangutan, the green sea turtle, and other endangered species; he discovered the oldest modern human skull known at the time. This hugely enjoyable story of Harrisson's extravagant, controversial life offers a sympathetic and insightful look at a charismatic figure who offended as many people as he impressed at the twilight of colonialism on the fringes of the British empire.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824821998

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9780824821999

Using Nature's Shuttle

The making of the first genetically modified plants and the people who did it

By: Judith M. Heimann

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Using Nature's Shuttle

The making of the first genetically modified plants and the people who did it

By: Judith M. Heimann

Using Nature's Shuttle' is a suspenseful, by turns comic or tragic, but always lively account of how young, idealistic scientists - often the first of their families to go to a university - engaged in basic research that led them to make history in the new fields of plant microbiology and molecular biology. The book passes on the true story of what young scientists in a public Belgian university learned about a million-year-old single cell soil bacterium. This bacterium was able to genetically modify certain plants to produce food that only that bacterium strain could eat. These scientists and their colleagues and rivals figured out how to use that knowledge to genetically modify a variety of plants to make them safer and healthier for man, beast, and the environment. Their genetic modifications made plants cheaper and easier for farmers to grow as well as capable of improving the health and welfare of people in the Third World. The author, Judith M. Heimann, a former diplomat and writer of three published non-fiction books and contributor to two TV documentaries based on them, tells this multi-sided story chiefly through the information she gathered by conducting intensive interviews of each of more than two dozen of the scientists involved. She sees this book as presenting the actual science, as opposed to the current rash of anti-science on this subject, and as encouraging a new generation of young people to opt for careers in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics subjects).

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194

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BRILL

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9086868800

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9789086868803

Paying Calls in Shangri-La

Scenes from a Woman’s Life in American Diplomacy

By: Judith M. Heimann

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Paying Calls in Shangri-La

Scenes from a Woman’s Life in American Diplomacy

By: Judith M. Heimann

Judith M. Heimann entered the diplomatic life in 1958 to join her husband, John, in Jakarta, Indonesia, at his American Embassy post. This, her first time out of the United States, would set her on a path across the continents as she mastered the fine points of diplomatic culture. She did so first as a spouse, then as a diplomat herself, thus becoming part of one of the Foreign Service’s first tandem couples. Heimann’s lively recollections of her life in Africa, Asia, and Europe show us that when it comes to reconciling our government’s requirements with the other government’s wants, shuttle diplomacy, Skype, and email cannot match on-the-ground interaction. The ability to gauge and finesse gesture, tone of voice, and unspoken assumptions became her stock-in-trade as she navigated, time and again, remarkably delicate situations. This insightful and witty memoir gives us a behind-the-scenes look at a rarely explored experience: that of one of the very first married female diplomats, who played an unsung but significant role in some of the important international events of the past fifty years. To those who know something of today’s world of diplomacy, Paying Calls in Shangri-La will be an enlightening tour through the way it used to be—and for aspiring Foreign Service officers and students, it will be an inspiration. Published in association with ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series

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Ohio University Press

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0821445782

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9780821445785

The Airmen and the Headhunters

A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II

By: Judith M. Heimann

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The Airmen and the Headhunters

A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II

By: Judith M. Heimann

A true story of downed B-24s in Japanese-occupied Borneo and a native tribe that “makes us—like the airmen—rethink our definitions of civilized and savage” (Entertainment Weekly). November 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut themselves loose from their parachutes—only to be met by loincloth-wearing natives silently materializing out of the mountainous jungle. Would these Dayak tribesmen turn the starving airmen over to the hostile Japanese occupiers? Or would the Dayaks risk vicious reprisals to get the airmen safely home in a desperate game of hide-and-seek? A cinematic survival story featuring a bamboo airstrip built on a rice paddy, a mad British major, and a blowpipe-wielding army that helped destroy one of the last Japanese strongholds, The Airmen and the Headhunters is also a gripping tale of wartime heroism unlike any other you have read.

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HMH

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0547416067

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9780547416069

Paying Calls in Shangri-La

Scenes from a Woman’s Life in American Diplomacy

By: Judith M. Heimann

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Scenes from a Woman’s Life in American Diplomacy

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Ohio University Press

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The Most Offending Soul Alive

Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life

By: Judith M. Heimann

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Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824821998

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Book's by Judith M. Heimann

The Most Offending Soul Alive

The Most Offending Soul Alive

Using Nature's Shuttle

Using Nature's Shuttle

Paying Calls in Shangri-La

Paying Calls in Shangri-La

The Airmen and the Headhunters

The Airmen and the Headhunters

Paying Calls in Shangri-La

Paying Calls in Shangri-La

The Most Offending Soul Alive

The Most Offending Soul Alive

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