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PH Determination of Acetic Acid-Sodium Acetate Buffer: An Application of Henderson-Hasselbalch Equation at Room Temperature

In article, we have reported the applying of Henderson-Hasselbalch equation in determination of pH of acetic acid and sodium acetate buffer solutions at about 298 Kelvin as room temperature. In preparation of these buffer solutions, we have taken 1.5 ml of glacial acetic acid into 100 ml of standard flask for making up 0.2M of acetic acid solution, and 0.64 gm of sodium acetate were dissolved into 100 ml distilled water. Now, we taken 36.2 ml prepared solution of sodium acetate into 100 ml of standard flask and added 14.8 ml of prepared acetic acid to make its volume 100 ml by using of distilled water, it is a buffer. In measuring of pH of prepared buffer solutions, we have been using a calibrated digital pen pH meter for accurate and quick reading. In observation, the pH of buffer solutions a quite fluctuation was appeared. But, it has gradually raised by adding small amount of basic 5N NaOH solution into buffer sample, and, an adjusted pH was being to 4.7 as well.

Experimental Investigation of Hardness and Impact Variability in Wooden Agricultural Equipment

This study was conducted to determine the hardness testing and Impact testing of selected Timbers to be used in agricultural implements in Pantnagar, Udam Singh Nagar, between September 2015 and April 2016. The Rockwell hardness test is generally performed when quick and direct reading is desirable. The Rockwell hardness test was carried on the Digital Hardness testing machine on HRV-Scale. The impact strength of a material is determined with a Charpy or Izod impact test named after their inventors. the hardness of different types of timber, namely, Teak, Sal, Java plum, Eucalyptus, Yellow teak, North Indian Rose timber, red cedar, Mango, Margosa and Lebbeck was found to be 75.4, 79.1, 68.2, 69.1, 64.0, 87.1, 30.8, 63.2, 61.7 and 64.3 respectively. the Impact Strength of different types of timber, namely, Eucalyptus, Yellow teak, Teak, Lebbeck, Java plum, Mango, Red cedar, North Indian Rose timber, Margosa and Sal was found to be 49.2, 39.23, 56.71, 52.21, 46.3, 48.37, 49.2, 45.23, 41.6 and 58.89 KJ/m2 respectively. And their standard deviations were as follows: yellow teak (0.67), Red cedar (1.09), North Indian Rose timber (2.12), Teak (0.23), Lebbeck (7.95), Java plum (0.34), Eucalyptus (0.34), Margosa (0.71), Mango (0.87) and Sal (1.36) respectively. The timber of North Indian rose timber and Sal was found suitable for making Plankar, pulley and bearing block. The timber of North Indian rose timber, Sal and Eucalyptus was found best for making plough bottom.

High-Risk Pregnancy Follow-Up: What the Childbirth Educator Needs to Know.

Women with a high-risk pregnancy or birth often need additional follow-up care. This article provides a summary of the current recommendations for follow-up after a high-risk pregnancy. It is intended to be a quick read for the busy childbirth educator and includes a table that summarizes the recommendations.

Inovasi Pembelajaran Kitab Kuning Di Pesantren Dalam Penguatan Literasi Keagamaan

This research aims to analyze the forms of innovation in the teaching of Kitab Kuning in Islamic boarding schools (Pesantren) to strengthen religious literacy. The study employs a library research approach, utilizing literature sources such as journals, books, dictionaries, documents, magazines, and other references. The research method involves a literature review. The results indicate that Pesantren is capable of producing students proficient in Arabic language and fundamental knowledge of religious studies. Various innovations can be implemented to enhance religious literacy, such as the use of technology through e-learning and online forums. Additionally, innovations in teaching models or methods, such as the ArRumuz method, which facilitates quick reading of religious texts, and problem-based learning methods, involving the study of issues in society, can contribute to strengthening religious literacy. Moreover, innovations in extracurricular activities, including programs like Qira’atul Kutub tutoring, Qira’atul Kutub study sessions, and achievement award and art performance programs, are also noteworthy.

What do they say? Assessment of oral reading fluency in early primary school children: A scoping review

Recent studies have shown concern regarding an increased risk of functional illiteracy. A way to reverse this trend concerns focusing on improving reading fluency assessment. However, reading fluency assessment, which concerns quick, accurate and expressive reading, knows many shortcomings. To learn how to overcome these shortcomings, we conducted a scoping review. This review included primary and grey literature regarding the assessment and definitions of reading fluency and its underlying components within early primary education. Searches resulted in 107 relevant records. The results indicate that definitions of reading fluency are frequently not provided, and show discrepancies with assessment procedures.

PubMed4Hh: A Point-of-Care Mobile App for Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Support for Nurse Residents in Maryland.

Evidence-based clinical decision-making is considered a core competency for professional nurses. However, barriers such as lack of time in clinical practice; information overload; restricted access to resources; lack of evidence appraisal skills, awareness, and knowledge; and unreliable resources prevent them from adopting evidence-based practice. This study examined the usefulness of the PubMed4Hh (PubMed for Handhelds) mobile application for clinical decision-making at the point of care among Maryland newly licensed RNs. Using iOS and Android smartphones, 178 newly licensed RNs participated in a 6-month trial from November 2019 to April 2020. Nurses manually entered free-text queries or used voice inputs on the "Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome" or "askMEDLINE" search engines. The results retrieved were presented as journal article abstracts or short summaries called "the bottom line," designed for quick reading at the point of care. Both Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome and askMEDLINE were rated highly for their usefulness, and participants said they would continue using PubMed4Hh and recommend it to others. Newly licensed RNs had a significantly higher perception of the usefulness of PubMed4Hh when the results of "the bottom line" or abstracts confirmed, led, or modified their nursing skills, knowledge, or the patient's care plan.

Living Well With Cancer: A Solution-Focused Approach by Dominic Bray

This book is a quick read and is written with humour and humility by Dr Dominic Bray, a British consultant clinical psychologist. It is structured in ten short chapters with most pages having footnotes giving optional extra details for clarity or self-deprecating quips which British readers will recognize as a sign of understated yet assured competence.

NanoViromics: long-read sequencing of dsRNA for plant virus and viroid rapid detection.

There is a global need for identifying viral pathogens, as well as for providing certified clean plant materials, in order to limit the spread of viral diseases. A key component of management programs for viral-like diseases is having a diagnostic tool that is quick, reliable, inexpensive, and easy to use. We have developed and validated a dsRNA-based nanopore sequencing protocol as a reliable method for detecting viruses and viroids in grapevines. We compared our method, which we term direct-cDNA sequencing from dsRNA (dsRNAcD), to direct RNA sequencing from rRNA-depleted total RNA (rdTotalRNA), and found that it provided more viral reads from infected samples. Indeed, dsRNAcD was able to detect all of the viruses and viroids detected using Illumina MiSeq sequencing (dsRNA-MiSeq). Furthermore, dsRNAcD sequencing was also able to detect low-abundance viruses that rdTotalRNA sequencing failed to detect. Additionally, rdTotalRNA sequencing resulted in a false-positive viroid identification due to the misannotation of a host-driven read. Two taxonomic classification workflows, DIAMOND & MEGAN (DIA & MEG) and Centrifuge & Recentrifuge (Cent & Rec), were also evaluated for quick and accurate read classification. Although the results from both workflows were similar, we identified pros and cons for both workflows. Our study shows that dsRNAcD sequencing and the proposed data analysis workflows are suitable for consistent detection of viruses and viroids, particularly in grapevines where mixed viral infections are common.

Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction by Gordon C. Rhea

Reviewed by: Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction by Gordon C. Rhea Caroline Wood Newhall (bio) Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction. By Gordon C. Rhea. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021. Pp. 200. Cloth, $29.95.) Gordon C. Rhea’s latest work on Stephen A. Swails is a welcome and compelling biography of a “long-forgotten central participant” in the “political history [of Kingstree, South Carolina], in the story of African Americans’ participation in the Civil War, and in South Carolina’s Reconstruction experience” (xi–xii). Swails, a Black Pennsylvanian who achieved fame as the first Black commissioned officer in the history of the United States, spent his life after the war dedicated to the intertwined causes of justice, Black equality, and uplift through education and property holding in South Carolina. This quick read serves as an informative microhistory of the tumultuous events that informed Swails’s life from the early 1830s to his death in 1900. As Rhea notes, “Biographies of the nearly 200,000 African Americans who fought in the war are exceedingly rare” (xii), and his research into Swails is a necessary step in bringing greater attention to Swails and to the devastatingly difficult circumstances African Americans faced in the South after the Civil War. Earlier works have examined Swails’s career to some degree, [End Page 266] including Eric Foner’s Freedom’s Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Office-holders during Reconstruction (1996) and William E. Jenkinson III’s Stephen A. Swails: Soldier, Politician, and Lawyer (1998), but no published works have so thoroughly examined Swails’s life from childhood, to his military service, to his tumultuous career in Reconstruction-era South Carolina as a member of the Freedmen’s Bureau and later the state legislature. The book is composed of eleven brief chapters. The first six largely focus on the lead-up to the Civil War and the service of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts, as well as background information on reactions to Black soldiers and their experiences in war. Chapters 7 through 11 deal with Swails’s postwar life and career and form the bulk of original research and insights that make this work a significant contribution to the historiography of the period. Rhea relies on the research of Hugh MacDougall, an attorney in Cooperstown, New York, and Jenkinson, an attorney in South Carolina, as well as Swails’s personal papers, Freedmen’s Bureau records, and Swails’s correspondence with South Carolina governors and federal officials. Rhea’s work is a welcome addition to the field wherein the complexities of Reconstruction and the persistent terrorism embittered white supremacists used against African Americans and pro-equality whites receives significant examination. As such, it is in good company with the work of historians such as Cynthia Nicoletti, Bradley Proctor, Benjamin Ginsberg, and Adam Domby, and presents an excellent discussion of South Carolina’s highly contested postwar elections. Rhea’s discussion in chapter 9 of white supremacists’ use of violence to undermine democratic processes is especially rich in detail on the challenges that people like Swails and his family faced, as well as the connections between violent events in South Carolina, the passage of federal legislation such as the Ku Klux Klan Act in 1871, and the end of Reconstruction with the election of Rutherford B. Hayes to the presidency in 1877. Rhea illuminates Swails’s involvement in these processes, including a near firefight on the floor of the state legislature in 1876 and a horrifying day in 1878 wherein Red Shirt members of the Democratic Executive Committee nearly lynched Swails in front of one of his children. White residents threatened to execute Swails if he remained in South Carolina, while both President Hayes and Governor Wade Hampton, a former Confederate, proclaimed they could do nothing about it. This violent intimidation and thwarting of justice meant that Swails was forced to live in Washington, D.C., for the next twenty-two years while his family, whom he often visited, remained in Kingstree, South Carolina. One critique of this work is that Swails’s story does not begin in earnest until chapter 7, in part...

Private and Secure Medical Data Transmission Using Wireless Network with QR Code

Abstract: In medical management, more and more information technology is applied to improve work efficiency. For example, the hospital information management system is used for basic information and medical management of patients, and the onedimensional and two-dimensional codes on the wrist are used for quick reading or inputting patient identification (ID), etc. Although computerization is more convenient, due to immature technology or management flaws, there are certain security risks in various typical scenarios, such as disclosure of user privacy through reporting transparency, lack of strict control over the consultation of confidential medical records, the absence of technical verification for the confirmation of the infusion, etc. Identity is easy to fake, payment is inconvenient, etc. Security issues are discussed in more detail below. Healthcare applications are considered a promising area for wireless sensor networks, where patients can be monitored using wireless medical networks (WMN). Current trends in WMN healthcare research focus on reliable patient communication, patient mobility, and energy-efficient delivery.

Private and Secure Medical Data Transmission Using Wireless Network with QR Code

Abstract: In medical management, more and more information technology is applied to improve work efficiency. For example, the hospital information management system is used for basic information and medical management of patients, and the onedimensional and two-dimensional codes on the wrist are used for quick reading or inputting patient identification (ID), etc. Although computerization is more convenient, due to immature technology or management flaws, there are certain security risks in various typical scenarios, such as disclosure of user privacy through reporting transparency, lack of strict control over the consultation of confidential medical records, the absence of technical verification for the confirmation of the infusion, etc. Identity is easy to fake, payment is inconvenient, etc. Security issues are discussed in more detail below. Healthcare applications are considered a promising area for wireless sensor networks, where patients can be monitored using wireless medical networks (WMN). Current trends in WMN healthcare research focus on reliable patient communication, patient mobility, and energy-efficient delivery.

Systematic Review Reporting - Writing concisely and precisely.

Systematic reviews rank at the top of the evidence hierarchy. Concise writing implies drafting the systematic review article succinctly, i.e. using as few words to express as full an extent of the research effort as possible. Precise writing means drafting the text with accuracy especially with respect to the methodological and statistical aspects. The Abstract ought to be succinct and structured to allow for editors, peer reviewers and readers to get the gist of the key aspects of the systematic review with a quick read. The readership needs to be able to critically appraisal systematic reviews for their internal and external validity rapidly. The Abstract also needs to be standalone, representing an independent summary that can be fully understood without the need for reading the full paper. The standard structure of the main text of a scientific article called IMRaD (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion) applies equally to systematic reviews in the same way as it does to any other kinds of research manuscripts whether related to laboratory experiments or clinical trials. Restricting the word count limits to those imposed by journals may at first seem difficult, even unfair, to systematic reviewers. However, with the availability of online appendices to transparently and fully report the details of the methods, results and other aspects of the work undertaken allows for a succinct print or PDF article. Writing a shorter manuscript is more effortful than writing a longer report. This commentary is aimed at novice systematic reviewers to help them learn the written and unwritten writing rules in order to assist them in producing impactful publications to support evidence-based medicine.

The Effectiveness of Using Semantic Mapping Strategy in Teaching Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text

This research was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of using semantic mapping strategy in teaching reading comprehension of narrative text and the significant difference on reading comprehension of narrative text between two groups: who were taught using semantic mapping strategy and those who were taught using quick reading method. The design of this study was experimental study. The population of this study was the eighth grade students of SMP 3 Bonai Darusalam in the academic year of 2023. The number of the subjects was 60 students. The data were obtained by administering reading test to the VIII B as control group and VIII C as experimental group. The research was started by giving pre-test, treatments, and post-test to both experimental and control groups. The data of the test were analyzed by using t-test formula to know the difference of the students’ comprehension in reading narrative text between two groups. In the pre-test, the average score of the experimental group was 51.2667 and the control group was 64. The average score of post-test of the experimental group was 76. 0667 while the control one was 70.6667. The result of the t-test of mean difference was 8.939 and t-table was 2.00. It means that t-value is higher than t-table (8.939>2.00). The calculation revealed that the hypothesis about a significant difference on reading comprehension between students who were taught narrative text by using semantic mapping strategy and those who are taught by using quick reading method was accepted. Based on the research conducted, it was proved that the use of semantic mapping strategy is effective as a strategy to improve teaching reading achievement of narrative text to the eighth year students of SMP 3 Bonai Darusalam.

Cryptoblend: An AI-Powered Tool for Aggregation and Summarization of Cryptocurrency News

In the last decade, the techniques of news aggregation and summarization have been increasingly gaining relevance for providing users on the web with condensed and unbiased information. Indeed, the recent development of successful machine learning algorithms, such as those based on the transformers architecture, have made it possible to create effective tools for capturing and elaborating news from the Internet. In this regard, this work proposes, for the first time in the literature to the best of the authors’ knowledge, a methodology for the application of such techniques in news related to cryptocurrencies and the blockchain, whose quick reading can be deemed as extremely useful to operators in the financial sector. Specifically, cutting-edge solutions in the field of natural language processing were employed to cluster news by topic and summarize the corresponding articles published by different newspapers. The results achieved on 22,282 news articles show the effectiveness of the proposed methodology in most of the cases, with 86.8% of the examined summaries being considered as coherent and 95.7% of the corresponding articles correctly aggregated. This methodology was implemented in a freely accessible web application.

The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe

Reviewed by: The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War by Kenneth W. Noe Adam H. Petty (bio) The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War. Kenneth W. Noe. Baton Rouge: Louisiana States University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-8071-7320-6. 680 pp., cloth, $59.95. Kenneth Noe’s latest book, The Howling Storm, investigates the role weather played in the American Civil War. In particular, it focuses on weather’s effect on military campaigns. The book is foremost a narrative history. Most of its chapters are dedicated to retelling events in Virginia or the western theater, although there are occasional excursions to the Trans-Mississippi. The weather’s impact on Northern and Southern agriculture also receives some attention in Noe’s book, as does the soldiers’ yearly struggle to make themselves comfortable in winter quarters. While The Howling Storm is not encyclopedic, it covers a remarkable amount of ground for a single volume. As for the book’s argument, Noe contends that “a full understanding of the war requires regrounding it in the physical environment” (1). Not surprisingly, he concludes that “weather shaped every campaign, often more decisively than we have fathomed” (9). Moreover, in many instances, the weather “favored the Union cause and—perhaps even more—emancipation” (493). Better equipped boys in blue could withstand the elements with greater ease then their counterparts in gray. He also observes that Northern agriculture did not suffer the [End Page 433] catastrophic damage that spring rains and summer droughts inflicted on the Confederacy, resulting in food shortages south of the Mason-Dixon line. The Howling Storm, with just shy of five hundred pages of text, is not a quick read. Nor is it a page-turner. The many descriptions of soldiers suffering through the mud, rain, heat, and cold might prove monotonous to some readers. That being said, The Howling Storm is a very useful book. Its achievement lies in gathering an enormous amount of information about Civil War weather in one volume. In the past, good military historians included information about the weather in their campaign studies, but Noe’s book provides a relatively compact resource that historians can reference to see what the weather was up to at crucial moments of the Civil War. Because of the book’s broad approach, Noe is able to see larger patterns in the weather, conclusions that would escape more focused studies. For instance, he will note when a cold snap or a torrential downpour that affected one campaign was part of a larger weather system that was also affecting operations in a different theater. One concern that I have about this book is that it could mislead those who read it to think that weather was the most important factor controlling the events of the war. I do not mean to say that Noe asserts this or intended this outcome. Rather, it is simply a danger that comes with relying on any one analytical lens to tell a story. While Noe’s work provides a nice corrective to those who might have been tempted to ignore the weather’s influence, I think it is best read in conjunction with other military histories of the war, allowing readers to weigh the merits of weather as an explanatory tool. The Howling Storm is a great resource for those wanting to add a little information about the weather to their Civil War course, especially for historians who do not specialize in military history. All in all, lay readers and historians alike owe Noe a collective “Huzzah!” for this mammoth work and important contribution to Civil War history. Adam H. Petty History Department Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Adam H. Petty ADAM H. PETTY is a historian and documentary editor with the Joseph Smith Papers. He is the author of The Battle of the Wilderness in Myth and Memory: Reconsidering Virginia’s Most Notorious Civil War Battlefield (2019). Copyright © 2022 The Kent State University Press

IMPROVING READING SKILLS USING THE QUICK READING METHOD IN LEARNING INDONESIAN LANGUAGE SHORT STORY READING MATERIALS CLASS III at SDN Bandung II

This study aims to determine the improvement of students' reading skills by using the Quick Reading in learning Indonesian short story reading material for class III at SDN Bandung II, Banjar District, Pandeglang Regency. This type of research is a class action research with the John Eliot model using two cycles. The subjects of this study were third grade students of SDN Bandung II for the 2021/2022 academic year, totaling 16 students. Based on the problem formulation regarding students' low understanding of the Indonesian language, it encourages the author to conduct research on how the teacher's efforts to improve understanding in fast reading short story material for elementary school students in this research use the Quick Reading method. This research method refers to the classroom action research design according to John Elliot which includes (1) planning, (2) action, (3) observation, and (4) reflection.The results showed that the use of the quick reading could improve learning activities and students' ability to read short stories. The increase in reading comprehension ability using the quick reading in the first cycle was the initial condition was 67.75 increased to 74.62, the second cycle increased by in the initial condition 74.62 increased to 85.

The Passenger and Stella Maris

The Passenger <i>and</i> Stella Maris

LA LECTURE « KALÉIDOSCOPIQUE » EN LIGNE

Kaleidoscopic reading online. The hypothesis Angela Pop examines is that the Internet brings with it new textual-discursive practices, including a new type of reading: kaleidoscopic reading. This emerges from information published in digital frames created by the world of Internet. It is characterized by a non-linear reception path, in which the reader follows milestones created by hyperlinks, in the page displayed by the computer. It is a quick reading, which goes from text to hypertext and aims to familiarize the readers with the content they are reading. An issue in an online environment concerns the role the internet user might play. Pop distinguishes three such online roles: 1. first, the internet reader [from the French lecteurnaute, i.e. lecteur + internaute (=internet user)] is the passive reader who only enjoys Internet content. He only reads texts written by others, and for him the Internet is a source of information. 2. second, a virtual author, one who publishes various papers (and content), which makes us consider him an author in the real world. 3. A third role is played by the internet scriptor (in French: scriptornaute) a person who makes comments online, on texts published by virtual authors. A transition of the Internet user from one “role” to another can take place in the process of kaleidoscopic reading. Pop identifies three essential types of kaleidoscopic reading: circular, spiral and open. “Ecrilecture” (from the French écrire=to write + lecture=to read) coexists with online kaleidoscopic reading. Article history: Received 30 June 2022; Revised 1 September 2022; Accepted 3 September 2022; Available online 20 September 2022; Available print 30 September 2022. REZUMAT. Lectura caleidoscopică online. Ipoteza pe care o studiem este aceea că Internetul generează practici textual-discursive noi, printre care și un nou tip de lectură: lectura caleidoscopică. Ea apare odată cu activitatea consumatorului de conținut al cadrelor digitale create de lumea informaticii și a Internetului. Acest tip de lectură se caracterizează printr-un parcurs al receptării non-linear, în care cititorul urmează jaloanele hyperlinkurilor din spațiul paginii afișate de calculator. Este o lectură rapidă, care trece de la text la hypertext și de la un modul textual la un altul. Ea are ca scop doar familiarizarea cititorului cu conținutul pe care-l parcurge. În mediul online se pune problema rolurilor utilizatorului de Internet care acționează prin gest (gestul de a face click de exemplu) pentru a-și manifesta prezența. Distingem trei asemenea roluri, pe care le vom denumi: lectornaut, autor virtual și scriptornaut. 1. Lectornautul este cititorul pasiv care „consumă” conținutul Internetului ca pe un spectacol. El doar parcurge textele scrise de alții online, se informează pornind de la ceea ce citește. 2. Îl numim autor virtual pe cel care publică, pe diverse site-uri Internet, materiale de importanța celor care ne fac să-l considerăm autor și în lumea reală. 3. Rolul de scriptornaut este cel în care enunțiatorul situat online comentează textele publicate de autorii virtuali. În timpul lecturii caleidoscopice poate avea loc trecerea internautului de la un „ rol” la altul. Distingem trei tipuri esențiale de lectură caleidoscopică: cu parcurs circular, în spirală și cu parcurs deschis. „Ecrilectura” coexistă cu lectura caleidoscopică online. Cuvinte-cheie: Internet, comunicare, lectură „caleidoscopică”, lector, autor virtual, scriptornaut, „ecrilectură”

A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee by John Reeves

Reviewed by: A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee by John Reeves Christopher B. Bean A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. By John Reeves. (New York and London: Pegasus Books, 2021. Pp. [xii], 270. $28.95, ISBN 978-1-64313-700-1.) Few things bring to mind the carnage of the Civil War more than the two words the Wilderness. The fierceness, casualties, horror, and inconclusiveness of that battle embody the struggle between the North and the Confederate South. In his latest work, John Reeves chronicles this most notorious battle. A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee focuses primarily on the interplay between the commanders of the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia. By the time the two commanders met in the woods of northern Virginia in the spring of 1864, both Grant and Lee were coming to be seen as their respective side's savior. Grant was perhaps the last chance for the North to prevent the Union from irretrievably cleaving. The Confederacy invested Lee with its hopes and dreams of independence. Without exaggeration, the fate of the United States, regardless of the outcome, rested on the shoulders of these two men when they confronted one another for the first time in the war. In sixteen chapters, Reeves recounts the ordeal of the Wilderness—although the last three chapters focus on events after the battle, including a chapter on the battle of Spotsylvania Court House. In order to spotlight the soldier's battle, Reeves follows the actions of Private William Reeves (no relation to the author), of the Seventy-Sixth New York Voluntary Infantry Regiment, and Brigadier General James Wadsworth, Reeves's division commander. As the author notes, Private Reeves's "story represented the experiences of tens of thousands of young men from all across America. … His tragic death epitomized the steep price that was paid for saving the Union" (p. 224). The author's description of these two men's actions during battle and their ultimate deaths is riveting. Through these two men, the author hits the familiar aspects of the battle—the Orange Turnpike, Orange Plank Road, Saunders Field, the conflagration in the woods—as well as the actions of the major participants, including Generals Winfield S. Hancock, Ambrose E. Burnside, James Longstreet, and, of course, Grant and Lee. Reeves is especially strong in two areas. He highlights the confusion of the battle, which was often obscured to the participants by the woods, and his description of what awaited any wounded soldier at the hands of the medical professionals is worth the read. The book's title aside, Reeves's work focuses primarily on the common soldier. His descriptions of their experiences during the battle are excellent. This focus comes, however, at the expense of fleshing out the experiences of Grant and Lee. Beyond cursory quotations and orders from Grant and Lee, the chess game that occurs between all opposing commanders in battle remains underwhelming. Furthermore, the strategic forces pressing down from Washington, D.C., on Grant and from Richmond on Lee are practically nonexistent. This reviewer can appreciate the necessity for vigilance against going down rabbit holes when doing a battlefield biography, but nothing occurs within a vacuum. Reeves's work, thus, falls short in chronicling the entirety of the Wilderness story that exists in Gordon C. Rhea's The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5–6, 1864 (Baton Rouge, 1994) and Noah Andre Trudeau's [End Page 571] Bloody Roads South: The Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May–June 1864 (Boston, 1989). In closing, more well-placed maps are warranted. Without maps, a less knowledgeable reader becomes as confused following the action and whereabouts as the actual participants. Those criticisms aside, Reeves's work is a quick read and easy to understand. This reviewer highly recommends this work for any student wanting an introduction to the Wilderness. Christopher B. Bean East Central University Copyright © 2022 The Southern Historical Association

Roadside Geology of Northern and Central California, Second Edition

Book Review| August 03, 2022 Roadside Geology of Northern and Central California, Second Edition Robert Anderson Robert Anderson 2552 Humphrey Road, Loomis, CA 9565 Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Environmental & Engineering Geoscience (2022) 28 (3): 331. https://doi.org/10.2113/gseegeosci.28.3.331 Article history first online: 03 Aug 2022 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Anderson; Roadside Geology of Northern and Central California, Second Edition. Environmental & Engineering Geoscience 2022;; 28 (3): 331. doi: https://doi.org/10.2113/gseegeosci.28.3.331 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyEnvironmental & Engineering Geoscience Search Advanced Search Reading Roadside Geology of Northern and Central California, Second Edition (Alt and Hyndman, 2016), was like getting reacquainted with an old friend. A few things were different but nothing of consequence. For those looking for a short overview of local and regional geology along the alignments described, it is an easy and quick read supported by color images, easy-to-read cross sections, and simplified local geologic maps. At $26.00, the book is small enough to carry in a day pack or suitcase and travels well. The book is quite a bargain and would make a great gift for anyone... You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.