Candida Hofer: Architecture Of Absence

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Candida Höfer creates meticulously composed images of public and institutional spaces marked with the richness of human activity, yet largely devoid of human presence. Whether a photograph of a national library or a lounge at Volkswagen's headquarters, Höfer's images ask us to conduct distanced, disengaged examinations through the windows she creates. The collected images present a universe wholly constructed by human intention, unearthing patterns of order and logic imposed on these spaces by their absent creators and inhabitants.

The Architecture of Absence examines Höfer's oeuvre and its relationship to the work of other noted students of renowned professors Bernd and Hilla Becher. An exhibition of this work will open at the University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach in January 2005, and travel to the co-organizing museum, the Norton Museum in Florida, among other venues.

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a calmed, laconic, maybe social phobia- attitude ..........2005-10-03

A quiet humor wanders like a ghost through the laconic photos of Candida Höfer -- no people can be seen but via the devices of the rooms, libraries, hotels, halls, museums, canteens -- one can suspect still the existence of human beings indirectly. With a similar humor understanding the physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg once wrote: "If the posterity of the year 35.000 (or another planet's class of sensible nature) would find a lady suit completely undone and if they wanted to determine the figure of the ladies who would have been covered with that, -- what figure would come out?" The aesthetic experiments of the German Photographer Candida Höfer activate such associations. One of her book publications is entitled "Room Monuments" (of course without any human being). Before the beginning of her studies (learning from the renowned professors Bernd and Hilla Becher in Duesseldorf, Germany) Candida Höfer had taken photographs of Turkish fellow citizens in business, tea-rooms and parks. The people then disappeared from her photos. Was this the bad influence of her studies with the married couple Bernd and Hilla Becher, who had photographed only the industry architecture of the German Ruhr district maniacally (stubbornly ignoring all that connections between Nazi-politicians and steel-industry, around Hitler and Krupp, Goebbels and Thyssen) ? Or is there hiding a shock, Candida Höfer experienced, as the role of her father, Werner Höfer, a famous TV-talkmaster in the 1960's, was criticized by investigating journalists, checking his own role in the Nazi-era? Did this chase the daughter in a kind of social phobia? Although there is a coffee-table book of Candida Höfer with live (locked in zoo animals) she mostly prefered to make pictures of prepared, dead animal bodies in museum collections. Is such a misanthropic distance necessary to create a counterbalance against traumata, suffered by the modern mass culture? Writers like Canetti (Austria) or Saul Bellow (USA) reacted with comparable feelings -- or philosophers like Arthur Schopenhauer (Germany) or Ortega y Gasset (Spain). Perhaps there is a third evident explanation of Candida Höfer's decision how to work (besides the Becher-studies and the father trauma): the minimalist aesthetics theory of the Bauhaus tradition; quiet, empty rooms help to fulfill a meditative, calmed, laconic life-style attitude -- a task to which the painting of Piet Mondrian or Josef Albers also felt obliged -- why not photography as well?

Perfectly Titled.......2005-03-14

As with other Becher students, Hofer's images are captivating because of their expansiveness and detail - neither of which are reflected in the layout of this book. The images are tiny for no apparent reason. This effectively reduces Hofer's amazing work to a series of oversized postage stamps.

Unless the design is intended as a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment of the title, this dilettante overview is a miserable failure.

I suggest purchasing Candida Hofer, A Monograph. It is large, bold and a substantial compendium of her work.

Devoted to the sweeping images themselves.......2004-12-13

The collaborative work of Constance W. Glenn, Mary-Kay Lombino, and Virginia Heckert, Candida Hofer: Architecture Of Absence is a spectacular full-color monograph featuring the photos of Candida Hofer, who has taken snapshots of cultural centers such as libraries, museums, theaters, cafes, waiting rooms, universities, and churches for over thirty years. The images reveal structures created to gather, organize, and perpetuate human purpose. An introductory essay guides the reader through the photographer's intent and efforts in capturing such locations on film, but the majority of Candida Hofer: Architecture Of Absence is simply devoted to the sweeping images themselves - empty of people at the time the picture is taken, yet showing rows of seats or broad hallways just waiting to be filled. This is an exceptional and welcome addition to architectural as well as photography collections.

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Award-winning artist Roberta Carter Clark has created a loyal following among painters with her timeless instruction. Her popular workshops have brought the joys of creating vivid portraits in oil and watercolor to countless artists. This is a classic compendium of her in-depth approach to portraiture.

Clark takes artists through a series of 24 step-by-step exercises in drawing the face. She demonstrates how her detailed drawing exercises--accurately indicating features, highlights and shadows--offer the most practical approach to creating a lively, successful portrait. Dozens of additional techniques and exercises show how to work in different mediums, avoid common errors and capture a subject's unique likeness.

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Incredible techniques.......2007-03-16

I work for an artist who owns a gallery in Lahaina, Maui for over 12 years & has a 30 year reputation as a respected International artist. As a budding artist, myself, I requested Jim Kingwell to critique' a painting of mine that was in progress - he handed me Roberta's book and told me that she was his teacher and great influencer in painting. After a few days I re-emerged from the book with a painting that captured not only the subject, my mother, but also captured the emotions I wanted to communicate. Jim could proceed to help me with small refinements...then he asked for the book back. He jokingly referred to it as his "bible". I since have ordered my own and Roberta's book on capturing children's portraits! A must have! Incredible guidance and techniques. Mahalo.

"...a standout, user-friendly instructional book..".......2000-02-12

A workshop guided by a master painter of portraits. Robert Carter Clark sets out here to teach you thoroughly from her professional experience, without cutting corners or resorting to caricature. Fully one-half of this fine book is given to draftsmanship. She begins with proportions of the head (male, female & infant) in Chapter One, then moves on to drawing features -- with special attention given to the windows of the soul, the eyes. Chapter Three is dedicated to drawing the body. In Chapter Four, Ms. Clark presents the difficult skill of capturing fabric folds. Chapter Five covers lighting for four different views. Charcoal portraiture comes next, then using color, stepping through hue, value, intensity, & flesh & hair tones.

Finally, she devotes chapters to painting portraits from life in oils & in watercolors. Oil techniques include wet-into-wet, monotone, & glazing.

"How to Paint Living Portraits" is a standout, user-friendly instructional book within a genre glutted with volumes that can be too light or too dense, or promise too much, too quickly. Roberta Carter Clark cooked this one right. She's an excellent teacher.

Bob Rixon, Pearl Art & Crafts

Very Informative........1999-07-13

Great for anyone that has some experience in painting but is just beginning portraits. Detailed step-by-step instructions work you through the process. Lots of illistrations and color pictures.

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How To Paint Living Portraits
Clark Roberta Carter
Manufacturer: North Light Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UIIXTC

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In this generously illustrated monograph the renowned South African photographer David Goldblatt explores the aftermath of Apartheid in and beyond Johannesburg. In the past decade David Goldblatt's documentary photographs of his native country have gained worldwide recognition for their intimate, unflinching views of a culture ravaged by prejudice and injustice. Since 1999 Goldblatt has focused primarily on large-format color works: land- and cityscapes that capture not only the country's fragile social structure but also its beautiful vistas and vibrant hues. Intersections is the first complete volume of Goldblatt's color work to date. His urban images dwell on the ostentatious developments mushrooming in and around Johannesburg as well as scenes of the everyday life of people who make their living within the city. His rural images capture the seductive vastness of the landscape, the damage done to the land by the mining industry, and the dignity of the people living on the land. His photographs capture the contrasts that represent South Africa: white and black, rural and urban, desperate and hopeful. They mark the emergence of an important new phase in the work of a photographer who, living among his subjects, uses his art to make sense of these very contradictions.

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Twenty-five years of print (and web) anarchy from the fringe publishing culture. This is the first study on both fanzines and alternative comics, from the end of the hippie underground press to the start of the Internet publishing boom. Publications covered include Sniffin Glue, Buffy zines and Ghost World as well as the Konvention of Alternative Komix. Essay contributors include Gary Groth of Fantagraphics and Steven Heller, author and NY Times art editor; interviews are with Peter Bagge Hate, and Joe Sacco of Safe Area Gorazde.

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Long before Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to a Brooklyn Dodger contract in 1945, Lester Rodney, the newly hired and first sports editor of the Communist Daily Worker, launched the campaign that proved decisive in eventually breaking baseball's color line.

But in the hostile anti-Communist climate of those years and for many years after, Rodney's story remained largely unknown. It therefore came as a surprise to many when Arnold Rampersad, in his authoritative 1997 biography of Jackie Robinson, wrote: "In the campaign to end Jim Crow in baseball, the most vigorous efforts came from the Communist press, most notably from Lester Rodney. " Now Press Box Red tells the story of that remarkable 11-year campaign and of Rodney's unique career covering sports for the Daily Worker until he left the Communist Party in 1958.

Press Box Red is packed with first-hand accounts of Rodney's challenges to the high muck-a-mucks of professional and collegiate sports, and contains frank and frequently humorous encounters with owners, managers, and coaches like Branch Rickey, Larry MacPhail, Bill Veeck, Leo Durocher, Casey Stengel, Nat Holman, Clair Bee and numerous athletes including Robinson, Roy Campanella, Joe DiMaggio, Satchel Paige, Peewee Reese, Joe Louis, Henry Armstrong, and many others. It's a story every fan will love.

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Really good.......2006-12-11

Irwin Silber's biography of Lester Rodney is an excellent book about sports, particularly baseball. And though I'm hardly a baseball fan, the style and subject are snappy and engaging. More importantly, Press Box Red explains the activist campaign mounted to desegregate baseball and the far-reaching affects of breaking the color line in "America's pastime". Rodney's anecdotal story-telling and vignettes of great ballplayers--Black and white--reads more like a sports column than a history book. This is also a wonderful insight into a little explored dynamic of Communist Party, though a bit more background on the Party could have been provided for the reader unfamiliar.

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Sarah Raymond was an unmarried woman of twenty-four who in May 1865--barely a month after the end of the Civil War--mounted her beloved pony and headed west alongside the wagon carrying her mother and two younger brothers. They traveled by wagon train over the Great Plains toward the Rocky Mountains, with no certain idea of where they would settle themselves but a strong desire to leave war-torn Missouri behind and start a new life.
Days on the Road is the story of this remarkable journey and of the young woman who made it. Written on the trail and originally published in 1902, it is a tribute to all of the emigrants who made their way west and the tale of a truly extraordinary woman.

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Great Read!.......2006-11-10

This diary is well written and thoughtful. The detail is really vivid.

Absolutely wonderful!.......2006-09-16

I found this diary charming and informative. Having always had a fascination with the time period and wagon trains, I couldn't put this book down. By the end of the book, I was saddened by the fact that Sarah didn't continue recording her life in Montana. I felt as if I had known her personally and was touched by the whole accounting of her travels.

Depictions of life on the trail.......2003-07-20

Enhanced with a Foreword by Mary Barmeyer O'Brien, Days On The Road: Crossing The Plains In 1865 is the personal diary of Sarah Raymond Herndon, a young pioneer woman who, as the dust from the Civil War settled, left the battle-scarred state of Missouri with her family and traveled overland to the Rocky Mountains in search of a new place to live and a new life to build. Sarah's daily insights, her depictions of life on the trail, her descriptions of the hardships, the triumphs, and the evocations of her memories, combine to form a vivid and accurate image of pioneer life through the words of a pioneer who headed west to escape the ravages of the American Civil War to start her life anew. Days On The Road is a welcome and strongly recommended addition to 19th Century American Studies reading lists and history collections.

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One of the glib new "facts of life" is the conviction that American girls founder badly in adolescence, their confidence and I.Q. points plummeting as they wriggle into the restrictive pop culture roles assigned to their gender. This loss of self is well supported by research, true, but parents and educators who've heard this often enough must long to scream at the professional handwringers, "So fix it!" Girls Seen and Heard is a sincere, often artful attempt to do just that.

The brainchild of activists at the Ms. Foundation for Women, the book sets out collaborative assignments for mothers, godmothers, grandmothers, aunts, and daughters that encourage girls to believe in themselves, explore their options, and learn to command respect. Happily, it pointedly puts to rest the myth that helping girls has to mean hurting boys. For older women, each of the 52 life lessons is a chance to recall gifts, setbacks, and growing pains and truthfully share these with the next generation. A lesson in resilience, for example, admits that every life has dead ends and explores why some people are able to turn their anger toward transforming stressful situations. The activity suggested is to divide a list of personal and global injustices into those that can't be changed (a girl's height, the amount of rain forest already destroyed) and those that can be affected by well-aimed efforts. Though the ambitious scope of the book is sometimes daunting, its abundant, imaginative object lessons would also work beautifully if read and used piecemeal. --Francesca Coltrera

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The early nineties opened our eyes to the crisis facing young women in this country, as bestsellers like Reviving Ophelia explored the startling loss of confidence that besets girls at adolescence. In response, the Ms. Foundation created Take Our Daughters to Work Day: a national intervention which became successful beyond all imagination. Every last Thursday in April, for one day, millions of girls experience the adult workplace firsthand. As the Ms. Foundation discovered, girls come away from that experience with important lessons that lead to a lifetime of confidence. These lessons, gathered together in Girls Seen and Heard, can help girls soar when they take their place as women in the world and in the workforce. Girls learn how to make their voices heard, take control of their lives, and invest in their futures. Following practical instructions that reach beyond theory, girls gain the knowledge necessary to collaborate with others; to network and negotiate; to effect change; and to rise to all of life's challenges. An interactive manual for parents of girls of all ages, the book includes a reader's group guide and a resource directory. Published to coincide with Take Our Daughters to Work Day 1998, the messages in this book are indispensable for girls: believe in your abilities, explore your options, command respect. To date, the focus has been on defining the problems that beset girls at adolescence; here, finally, are long-term concrete solutions that will help girls turn their dreams of the future into reality.

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Great Book for all ages.......2000-10-27

Upon hearing about this book, I immediately rushed to the book store to grab a copy. As a seven year participant of Take Our Daughters to Work Day, I know the great impact that the Ms. Foundation has had on the lives of countless young women across the nation. Each of the 52 stories describe life lessons which all young women should learn: be open to new possibilities, develop mentors, gain your independence. Truly, this book is a must-read for all.

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GIRLS SEEN AND HEARD

Manufacturer: Penguin Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HZVYV2

Seen but Not Heard: A Young Girl's Burden

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Seen but Not Heard: A Young Girl's Burden
Patricia Bolten
Manufacturer: Vantage Press
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Susan Be Smooth (A hand-book of good grooming for girls, especially girls under twenty, who want to be seen and heard)

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Susan Be Smooth (A hand-book of good grooming for girls, especially girls under twenty, who want to be seen and heard)
Nell Giles
Manufacturer: Hale, Cushman & Flint
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: B0007FZDZ0

Programmed neglect: Not seen, not heard : report on girls programming in the United States

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Programmed neglect: Not seen, not heard : report on girls programming in the United States
Martha Lucia Garcia
Manufacturer: Ms. Foundation for Women
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006PDE98

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SUSAN , BE SMOOTH : A handbook of good grooming for girls, especially girls under twenty who want to be seen and Heard
Nell Giles
Manufacturer: Ralph T. Hale & Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NZBID0

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Susan, be smooth!: A hand-book of good grooming for girls, especially girls under twenty, who want to be seen and heard
Nell Giles Ahern
Manufacturer: C.T. Brandford Co
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007DWS6Y

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Susan, Be Smooth: A Handbook of Good Grooming for Girls, Especially Girls Under Twenty, Who Want to be Seen and Heard
Nell Giles
Manufacturer: Ralph T. Hale
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KTQJYW

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What does it take to become a Marine Officer? This engaging book transports readers through the culture shock of Marine Officer Candidates School, a ten-week physical, intellectual, and emotional testing ground that every fourth candidate fails to complete. The Sergeant Instructors' intensity is palpable as candidates are made to strip away civilian habits and attitudes, replacing them the Marine Corps ethos in the hopes of becoming officers. Anecdotes and personal recollections of OCS by two generations of officers provide instructive, poignant, and humorous interludes for the reader. A second focus of the book involves research into the demographics, attitudes, and opinions of two groups of officers, separated in time by 50 years. This comparison across a wide range of personal and social issues and beliefs renders some surprising results that lie in opposition to conventional wisdom. From the older generation, the reader will better understand the lifelong impact of the Marine leadership experience. From today's officers, the reader will discover the motivations of today's allegedly soft and coddled young people to follow the difficult path to a lieutenant's gold bars. This book is required reading for anyone with an interest in the Marine Corps and its culture.

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One Of Us: Officers Of The Marines.......2006-11-10

Terrific book!! Brings back many memories. Just wish I could afford to give it to all my Marine Corps associates.

Very interesting historically informative.......2005-09-19

The author paints a vivid description of the differences in the OCS/TBS training between his era and the current one. It was excellent in the historical persepective. However, I was a bit disappointed at the lack of specificity in the current standards and practices. I had hoped to gain moe insight in the how the officers leading today's Marines are selected and trained.

However, for those interested in the rich culture and history of the US Marine Corps - you won't be disappointed in this book.

Informative look at OCS and beyond.......2005-06-06

To start, this rating is actually two grades averaged: purely as a book, One Of Us gets three stars. The writing is directed at facts, not style, and it's recounting a process rather than a story, since the author. There are certainly great moments, especially where Ruppert interviews his old OCS classmates. But there are also horrifically boring moments, like the chapter analyzing demographic and survey data on OCS classes, and most of the writing is simply average both in style and in ability to hold interest.

As an information resource, however, this book is second to none and gets five solid stars. It is first and foremost a thorough examination of what today's OCS is like, the process and stress candidates must undergo, and excellent preparation for anyone planning to attend. The information Ruppert gives on TBS is also useful, though less specific. Anyone reading this will instantly have great insight into how Marine officers are trained and what those trainees should expect, if not a kind of cheat sheet on how to act and hopefully succeed. In a way, Ruppert is actually probably doing OCS a service in its mission of selection: anyone thinking of going to OCS will get such a solid picture of the experience that it'll probably either scare them far away or motivate them for the challenge.

The bottom line is that this book should be required for anyone interested in becoming a Marine officer, but others should save the time and money. For those looking for a great narrative of Marine training, read Thomas Ricks' outstanding book Making The Corps, a book Ruppert actually mentions several times.

Cant find it at stores.......2005-01-12

First let me say that i am only 14, turning 15 on the 18th, but that i am already preparing to become ean officer in the marine corps. I have already sent my information to the naval academy so they will monitor my grades and stuff, and i am doing my best pyhysicaly and mentally to prepare for what is to come. I usually read a book from the library and then review it, but the library doesnt have it. Might have something to do with the 50 dollar price tag, but regardless, they dont carry it. And being only fourteen i dont have a credit card, so i cant order this book online. I need to ask my dad to but it for me. So i probably wont read tis book for a long time.

But based on what ive been able to gather from all of the past reviews is that you learn how to lead marines fdrom this book. OR at least youre ready for OCS. So im gonna try to find it, even though i wont need it for like ten years,( 3.5 years of high school, 4 years of College, hopefully the naval academy, and 2 years on my mission for my church) But when i need this book, i will have it so instilled in my memory that i am confident it will have been worth the fifty bucks,and all the time im gonna use to find a copy.

Great Book on Marine Corp OCS and TBS.......2005-01-12

I was curious about OCS and TBS and bought this book to get some info. The book is well written. It compares OCS now to OCS back in the 50s. The information in the book is valuable. I have learned so much from reading this book about being a Marine Corp. Officer. I highly recommend this book to those who are thinking of joining up or have family or friends who have. It is important to learn what these men and women go through for almost a year in training to be who they are.

One of Us : Officers of Marines--Their Training, Traditions, and Values

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One of Us : Officers of Marines--Their Training, Traditions, and Values
Jack Ruppert
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OR9BHC

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RITUALS OF TRUCE AND THE OTHER ISRAELI—a highly provocative and infinitely approachable book which confronts history with a generous act of imagination, as it presents us with a practical ethics for the present and for the future of the Israel-Palestine question. The book's title responds to the writings of Palestinian author and human rights activist Raja Shehadeh, who has called for "rituals of truce" between Israelis and Palestinians, with the hope of finding "an other Israeli" in the process. * * * * *

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An important book with a sense of humor about its importance.......2004-03-08

This is a book, this is not a book. I think Magritte would agree with me when saying this about Benjamin Hollander's work. One part citation, one part recitation, one part interior monologue, one part exterior dialogue makes for a complicated read that asks questions that are begging to be asked. However, in asking the important questions about conflict, the writer and the book take into account that the solutions may not necessarily exist in the current discussions about the conflict, but rather in asking fundamentaly different questions. There's a tension that can only be called frustration over a problem that is at once local and foreign. It's as if the book and its auther are refugees from each other and are searching for nothing more than a mode of communication regarding something that has pages and pages of preemptive "essays" in anticipation of the dialogue. How, in this kind of atmosphere, where the opinions are formed and declared before the discussion ensues, are answers to be found? At this point, it's safe to say that the conflict in question is the Israel/Palestine crisis. This book doesn't claim to be the spawn of a Jimmy Carter peace effort, but rather an intriguing inquiry into a problem that has been fought within the context of a stalemate. If you are looking for a political diatribe you will not find it here; however, if you are looking to read something that is fresh and invigorating, something that posits a problem outside of the normal battlefield in which you can't see the hills from the craters, then read this book. Even if you don't know what the green line is, or why this latest intifada broke out, you will gain a perspective outside of our sound bite culture into the possible rituals of truce that exist beyond the assumed positions of friend, foe and other.

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The quality and availability of fresh water are of critical importance to human and ecosystem health. Given its central role in the functioning of all living systems, water is arguably the most important of all natural resources.

Produced biennially, The World's Water provides a comprehensive examination of issues surrounding freshwater resources and their use. It offers analysis of the most significant trends worldwide along with the most current data available on a variety of water-related topics. This 2000-2001 edition features overview chapters on:

water as a human right
water and food
desalination
stocks and flows of fresh water
international watersheds and water-related conflicts
water reclamation/recycling
the removal of dams

It also includes brief reports on issues such as arsenic in ground water in Bangladesh, the collection of fog as a source of water in remote regions, the role of nongovernmental organizations in meeting basic water needs, and an update on water and the internet. Following the overview chapters are more than thirty charts and tables that offer data on topics including: water use by country, agricultural water use, salinization, endangered aquatic species, major rivers in China, dam capacity, desalination capacity, and more.

The World's Water is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of information and analysis on freshwater resources and the political, economic, scientific, and technological issues associated with them. It is an essential reference for water resource professionals in government agencies and nongovernmental organizations, researchers, students, and anyone concerned with water and its use.

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The science resource I have been waiting for!!

The Science resource I have been waiting for!!

The Nature Yearbook of Science and Technology 2001 (Nature Yearbook of Science & Technology)

Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0312238428

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From ocean drilling to leptons, asteroid showers to Malaria, and genetically modified food to Tyrannosaurus Sue, this is an annual yearbook for science and related communities. Carrying one of the most prestigious brands in science, this book provides a vast range of invaluable information for the serious scientist as well as the general reader. This book contains a chronology of the year's major science news broken down by week, articles on science and society, facts and figures on science research, top institutes and scientists, funding, international organizations, annual prizes, and discussions of the commercial exploitation of science and technology. Additionally, there will be a country by country guide to science infrastructure from international collaborations to museums, an analysis of technology and business, and selections from Nature's famous "Daedalus" column. This tremendous publication is completely unique and will revolutionize the field.

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The science resource I have been waiting for!!.......2001-07-10

If you are going to have one paper resource on your desk it has to be the Nature Yearbook! Whether you are looking for the name of the CEO or the annual company R&D spend this reference book has it all. For speed it even beats the net - rather than spending ages trawling company websites for the right contact, the Yearbook has it all in one place. It also has great essays on this year's biggest stories, an analysis of big international players (Japan v USA v EU) and even favourite Nature columnist 'Daedalus'.

If you need Science info at your finger tips, I highly recommend you buy this!

The Science resource I have been waiting for!!.......2001-07-10

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This volume of The FAO Yearbook of Fishery Statistics: Aquaculture Production, includes summary tables and revisions for data on fish, crustaceans, mollusks and other aquatic animals and plants produced from all culture practices for the years 1992-2001. The statistics are measured in units of quantity and value, and are presented by country or territory, species, culture environment and year, and in various other aggregates. In order to provide complete coverage of aquaculture production statistics throughout the world, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has used the best information available to make estimates, in cases where officially reported national statistics are lacking or are considered unreliable. This trilingual publication is in English, French and Spanish.

The Nature Yearbook of Science and Technology 2001

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The Nature Yearbook of Science and Technology 2001
Declan (Edt)/ Butler, Declan (Ed Butler
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan 01/1//2001
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5OTMW

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