KISS Guide to Feng Shui (Keep It Simple Series)

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Differentiates between New Age and Scientific Feng Shui

Not so simple

Fabulous, Fun, and Practical Guide to Using Feng Shui1

Harmony and Happiness

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KISS Guide to Feng Shui (Keep It Simple Series)
Stephen Skinner
Manufacturer: DK ADULT
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Kiss the competition goodbye! Energize your life with DK's KISS Guide to Feng Shui. Read about feng shui practices originally known only to ancient Chinese philosophers. Understand ch'i -- the energy that flows through our bodies and everything around us. Learn how to find a good feng shui practitioner, what to expect, and how much you should pay. Discover which remedies work best in particular situations. Improve your home and property with practical feng shui tips such as an auspicious position for your bed. Give any office space a feng shui makeover, from analyzing entrances to providing beneficial water features. The Keep It Simple Series is the new standard in how-to books! Written by leading experts, each book includes full-color photographs and illustrations throughout, making these the first and only truly accessible guides for beginners. The KISS format is designed to help readers build confidence from the start, and learn gradually and thoroughly to the very last page. Much more than introductions to various subjects, these inspiring and innovative books are the ones that readers can trust!

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Differentiates between New Age and Scientific Feng Shui.......2007-06-18

Whew! Thank you for delivering a book that sets apart the American "New Age" Feng Shui from the Traditional Chinese Feng Shui derived from Science and Math.

Feng Shui is more than rearranging furniture and hanging mirrors. This book delves into the history, the reasoning, common sense, and the scientific.

It explains that BELIEF and CULTURE is the reasoning for hanging bagua mirrors and other remedies-a physical reminder in the home of tradition. Much like wearing a cross pendant is the ever present reminder of Christian faith. It makes no sense at all for people to hang flutes from their ceilings if they don't know why they are doing it-although this book does explain the mythology and reasoning involved.

Far more valuable are the chapters explaining the calculation of your personal Kua number, the use of a Lo Pan, and other Compass School information.

The history detailed makes a nice backdrop for the information, though if you're impatient you can skip it and not be lost when you get to the meat of the book.

I've had this book for years and its served me well as a reference for when I go apartment hunting. I also reference it when designing floor plans for my dream home-a long term hobby of mine.

Great book, laid out well and informative. [..] . I highly recommend KISS Feng Shui as a resource that delivers on scientific feng shui and common sense, while putting "American New Age/Black Hat/Intuitive" Feng Shui in its place.

Not so simple.......2006-03-22

I'm still trying to get into this book. There is a lot of subject matter with mulitple origins, interpretations and applications of feng shui. Whew! I'm not finding this KISS publication to be that simple. However, lots of info and pictures!

Fabulous, Fun, and Practical Guide to Using Feng Shui1.......2003-07-31

The Keep it Simple Series distinguishes itself from other series like the Idiot and Dummie Guides by its extensive use of color and photographs. However, the superior content far outweighs the appealing cosmetics of the book's layout and design. In a nutsell, Stephen Skinner knows what he's talking about. In fact, he's a world renowned expert in the field as well as the author of one of my favorite feng shui books, The Living Earth Manual of Feng Shui. In his KISS book, Stephen provides an excellent overview of what feng shui is and how it can help you maximize your health, wealth, and relationships. It's well-organized and easy to read. Impliment his practical advice and you'll witness first hand feng shui's power. A thousand kow tows Stephen for elevating this Chinese practice! Nice work.

Harmony and Happiness.......2002-06-11

According to this book, my desk is in the wrong place. Although I have no choice, I've noticed I'm more edgy with the door behind me and when someone enters my office, I feel that if I was sitting with my back towards the wall, I would feel more comfortable and in control of my environment. My only problem is having to look at the computer wires, which would annoy me more.

So, I think there is something to be said for furniture placement, when practical.

Being of the thought process that there is something to be learned from everything, you can try to take what you need from this book to help encourage an environment you will feel comfortable in.

The Chapters Include:

What is Feng Shui? - Wind Water, a connection to natural elements. "Flow"
is also an important element. It is not a religion or magic.
Who Does Feng Shui and Why?
A Look at Feng Shui's History
Gods, Graves, and Feng Shui Masters
Ch'i and Alignments
The Building Blocks of Feng Shui
Chinese Cosmology
The Trigrams and the Lo Shu
Feng Shui Inside Your Home
Living Rooms, Dining Rooms and Bedrooms
Bathrooms, Kitchens and Corridors
Business Feng Shui and Color
The Four Celestial Animals
Feng Shui Outside Your Home
Water Dragon Feng Shui
The Feng Shui Garden
The Eight Mansion Formula
Feng Shui Remedies
Symbolic Feng Shui
The East Life/West Life Formula
Time and the Calendar
Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches
Compass School Feng Shui Tools

Some of the ideas I incorporated into my own home without even knowing they were Feng Shui concepts was the use of mirrors. It does definitely create a feeling of energy in a room that would otherwise feel closed in.

If you are very, very serious about Feng Shui or extremely curious, this book has more than you will ever want to know.

My thoughts.......2002-05-06

I found the book to be a little bit boring. I wanted to know how to change my home to fit into the Feng Shui philosophy and it gave me more of a background of Feng Shui. That is great, I am glad I know all of that now, but I didn't find any practical ways to change my home.

5 FENG SHUI Books - 1) Feng Shui for Dummies / 2) Feng Shui: Arranging Your Home Change Your Life / 3) Feng Shui (Elements of Series) / 4) The Complete Illustrated Guide to Feng Shui / 5) KISS Guide to Feng Shui

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5 FENG SHUI Books - 1) Feng Shui for Dummies / 2) Feng Shui: Arranging Your Home Change Your Life / 3) Feng Shui (Elements of Series) / 4) The Complete Illustrated Guide to Feng Shui / 5) KISS Guide to Feng Shui
Lillian Too , David Daniel Kennedy , Kwok Man Ho , Kirsten Lagatree , and Stephen Skinner
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5 FENG SHUI Books - 1) Feng Shui for Dummies / 2) Feng Shui: Arranging Your Home Change Your Life / 3) Feng Shui (Elemnts of Series) / 4) The Complete Illustrated Guide to Feng Shui / 5) KISS Guide to Feng Shui, in either Hard or Softcover, (See Seller Condition Comments), Shipped in one package to save on shipping costs.

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The basics of fashion drawing include not just capturing the clothing, but depicting garment details and accessories and the different styles of posing for men, women and children. Includes advice on techniques and presentation.

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Wonderful book for any novice designer.......2002-01-27

I really recommend this book to anyone who may want to get into fashion design, but thinks they cannot draw. I really found this book helpful because it breaks down the body starting with the basic skeletal structure all the way to the final, finished body. It also explains how to draw the face, hands, feet, accessories (hats, gloves, shoes, etc.).

like being in a classroom.......2001-02-13

Excellent guide for the expert and novice alike with very clear and well defined text accompaning the drawings. This is a hands on guide with advice all along the way on how to avoid common pitfalls. Too bad this book is out of print and I have to keep using the public library copy, I would buy it in a second and I don't even know the price (price not printed on the book in the British paperback version).

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Neither advocacy nor indictment of deer hunting, Deer Camp documents the rituals and traditions of hunting season in Vermont's fabled Northeast Kingdom, a landscape increasingly threatened by development and changing social values. John Miller's text and photographs capture the culture of hunting and its place in country life. The cabins, the hunters and their families, and hunting artifacts and memorabilia are evocatively chronicled.

The sixty black-and-white photographs record with unsentimental honesty the multigenerational ritual of deer camp, showing the camps themselves (ranging from converted school buses with stovepipes sticking out the roofs to comfortable second homes in the woods), the pickups and jalopies, hand-drawn maps and hand-carved furniture, polished snowshoes, inlaid rifles, smoking camp stoves, and snowy woodpiles.

Miller's text details - among much else - the methodology of the hunt, woods lore and recipes, and the basics of camp life and ritual. Especially moving are the oral histories he includes along with the narrative which reveal the complicated richness of the hunter's world: its hardness, its camaraderie, its passion, and its underlying respect and reverence for the woods and the deer.

Copublished with the Vermont Folklife Center

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Lots of familiar Vermont Northeast Kingdom faces!.......2007-03-11

The Jacobs boys on the front cover with Artie featured inside too! Lots of other familiar faces inside of people I have grown up, went to school and worked with. Vermont Northeast Kingdom readers will recognize many of the people in the photos. A great book to read and enjoy. It's a keeper and Vermonter dot com heartily approved!

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Kup: A Man, an Era, a City
Irv Kupcinet
Manufacturer: Bonus Books
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Kup : A Man, an Era, a City
Paul; Kupcinet, Irv Neimark
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Kup--A Man, an Era, a City
Irv with Neimark, Paul Kupcinet
Manufacturer: Chicago Bonus Books (1988).
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In The Boy on the Back of the Turtle, Quarrington attempts to discover his own little niche in the cosmos. Cruising the volcanic Galapagos Islands on a 90-foot liner in the company of his daughter, age 7, and his father, age 73, he tries to find his place as a Son, as a Father, as a Mortal frolicking beneath the heavens. Given that the Galapagos is the historic site of God’s greatest setback, he points out, it is a fitting place to play out the battle within him. Quarrington employs his trademark combination of wry wit and poignant observation as he takes readers on a wide-ranging investigation of everything from blue-footed boobies, careerism, taxonomy, and the nature of creation to pirates, frigate birds, Herman Melville, and the precarious ecology of the islands and the planet. The exploration of questions big and small make this an enlightening voyage for the reader as well.

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Islands for insight.......2003-10-17

What prompts sixty thousand people per year to visit an isolated group of barren, arid, volcanic islands? They tramp dusty trails, peer into bushes and caves, suffer equatorial sun and strange animals almost without a murmur of complaint. A few, like Paul Quarrington are seeking some answers. Sometimes it's The Answer that's sought. These pilgrims are trailing the man who conceived the best idea anyone, any time, ever had. They retrace the footsteps of Charles Robert Darwin, who visited the Galapagos Islands, then returned home to think about what he'd seen. What Darwin saw and thought led to the first understanding of how life, the universe and everything, actually works.

Quarrington visited the Islands with his daughter Carson, seven years old, and his father, "ten times that age". Quarrington, in an illustrious account, sought what Darwin found - a Great Insight. In keeping with that quest, his narrative is highly personalized and introspective. That is, after all, what "insight" is - looking inward. He recounts his boyhood adoption of divine Special Creation of the universe. Over the years, however, he came to understand how unsatisfying divine creation is in explaining life. As with those thousands of others, he came to see a pilgrimage to the islands as a likely source of enlightenment.

He admits the symbolism of visiting the Galapagos with three generations. The account explains his travails as both a son and a parent. Where does "natural selection" fit in his dealings with his father and his daughter? He examines his own life, what he knows of his father's and how confesses to how adroitly Carson manipulates him. Through it all, Quarrington gives snippets of Darwin's life and thinking, that of natural selection's critics and how many questions have been pondered and answered. In order to accomplish this, he relies on a bevy of writers listed in a five-page bibliography. That's an enterprising effort for a writer listed as a "humourist". Yet, the humour, rich with ironies, is in full flower in this lucid account. Between the science, the charming [and sometimes not so charming] wit, he has provided a singularly readable account of one man's wrestling with the attempt to find something divine, where divinity has no place. It's a book reflecting what many have experienced, although likely with less success.

In the end, Quarrington does achieve an insight. Perhaps even an Insight. While it's doubtlessly his own, unique in a way that may keep only its conceiver satisfied. Still, he accomplishes it after strenuous effort. He achieves it very early one morning in his kitchen, sipping a single malt and expressing contentment at what he has wrought. That's not a bad environment for gaining Insight. If he attains well-being from what he's wrought, who are we to dismiss it? He's made the effort, laid out his own path, and, like those pilgrims following Darwin's trail, perhaps we can follow Quarrington's example. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]

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It's fun and it's good for your baby! Discover and enjoy the benefits of introducing your child to water from the earliest age. The physical benefits of this water safety program include a stronger respiratory system and improved muscle development, strength, and stamina. Introducing babies to the water at a young age helps to stimulate their awareness, making them more confident and relaxed in everyday life. At the same time, learning water skills together will help you and your baby to develop your own special bond. Water Baby shows you how to introduce your baby to water, safely and confidently. This water safety program takes you through all the steps, from wetting baby's head in the bath and the first underwater swim to vital life-saving skills. As a parent, you will be secure in the knowledge that you are helping your baby to learn the water safety skills that he or she will need for life.

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Great Pictures!.......2001-08-31

I loved the book. Pictures are great and have really good tips. My 25 months old baby is already swimming by himself!. I bought a second copy for a friend.

Book is more suited for infants - not toddlers.......2000-07-18

I loved the book to look at, but it was clear from the start that my son - who is nearly two - was already too old. I'm going to use it as a guide, somewhat, but wish I would have had it when he was still an infant. At 22 months he is relatively adept in the water anyway and at the same time old enough to have some typical water apprehension.

The exercises are also not real appropriate for a toddler because they are just too wiggly. When he weighed less than 20 pounds it would have been much more feasible to do the steps but now at a strong 30 pounds and a mind of his own this isn't the best book for us.

However, I intend to get this book for new moms. What a great shower gift!

Great!.......2000-03-17

Took a risk and bought this book before there were any reviews here. The book is great; very high quality. I was worried that it was only 48 pages... but they are 48 very well executed pages with amazing photographs and clear descriptions of the 9 month long water baby program.

I am a Canadian living in Chile, and bringing a baby to the pool shocked the very conservative Chileans. But when they saw the pictures in the book, and my 2 month old son swimming underwater, suddenly all the babies in our condo were in the pool.

A Parent-Child exploration of water.......2000-02-05

Stunning illustrations lead you and your little one on a step by step journey through an ifnant's first environment, water. Watch your clumsy helpless little bundle showoff his natural athletic ability, gain confidence, get exercise and stimulation and, most importantly re-learn responses to water which will keep him safe for life. Splash, squirm and kick your way into an even stronger bond with your baby through the course of each exercise in this delightful and informative book. (for babies from birth!)

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Soldat review.......2007-07-13

A very interesting account of the Second World War, coming from a lesser publicized perspective - that of a German career officer (albeit a very young one). Mr. Knappe did a masterful job of setting the scene of the years leading into the war and allowing us a rare glimpse into the German psyche. A moving account also of his years in the Soviet prisons - not that disimilar to the Nazi camps.

illuminating insight.......2007-03-09

Readable, powerful book capturing the universality of the human experience in war and peace.

Another good book on the life of a German Soldier.......2007-02-08

Personally I liked this book. Why? Mr. Knappe does a great job of writing about his life as a field artillery and staff officer in the Deutsche Heer, the German Army of WWII.

Mr. Knappe starts off the book while writing about the fall of Berlin in 1945. The fighting is savage and Major Knappe has a first hand view of the Soviet seige of that city. Also, what is interesting about this chapter is it's a cross roads of Major Knappe's life, the transition from a respected Army Officer to a prisoner in the Soviet Gulag system.

I very much enjoyed reading about the start of Major Knappe's life in pre-WWII Germany. Basically, it would have been easier to live in Germany of that period than living in the USA during the hard scrabble days of the 1930s. One smart thing the German military did was send the potential draftees to a work camp for a six month period. While most other writer's accounts say the work and life was terrible Mr. Knappe writes that he enjoyed the camp and made the best of it.

Mr. Knappe excells when he joins the military. He would have been in the top 5% of ability in any army. Also, he writes of how military officers made a little extra money, the German Army gave time off for officers to train horses and then would buy that horse back. Mr. Knappe makes the happy observation that life in the pre WWII German army was pretty good for an officer.

Knappe take us through his many adventures. Germany occupies Austria and the Czech republic, he's nearly killed in a cycle accident. Knappe is with the German army in the invasion of Poland. Knappe really isn't part of the main thrust in the invasion of France. However, his unit is part of the diversion attacks in the south that tie up the bulk of the allied armies.

The main part of the book deals with the campaign in the former Soviet Union. The best way to describe this is go hungry and be lice ridden. The typical reader's skin will start to crawl when he describes how the lice attacked a soldier. Also, after he is wounded, Knappe describes how the lice would attack the open sore of the wounds and their misery would not stop until they had reached the aid station.

Knappe is found to be a first class officer and he is shuttled from command to command. He attends many military schools and this has the habit of keeping him out of fighting at the times when whole German Army groups are destroyed by the Soviets. That's how Knappe misses the 6th Army's destruction at Stalingrad, the massive fighting at Kursk, and the destruction of Army Group Center in 1944.

When Knappe is taken captive by the Soviets the book turns dreary. The Soviet Union in 1945 to 1950 was a dreary place to be a captive. Knappe avoids the slave camps of the Soviets, a death sentence. However, he must endure years of abuse and near starvation in a Soviet Gulag. The Soviets treated their own people poorly and Major Knappe marvels at how his impressions of communism is quite correct.

The reason I knocked this book down a star is Major Knappe and the command staff see the writing on the wall in the post January 1945 era. So, during the months of about February to March 1945 the only thing Major Knappe really does are play cards, have as much as a good time as possible with his wife, and attend professional military classes.

Still, this is a good book. I recommend it.

The Greatest Memoir Around.......2006-12-31

This book is my personal favorite memoir by anyone. It starts out with Siegfried's graduation from high school, and goes on until after the war. It is wonderfully told and very, very interesting. Siegfried Knappe was in the Wehrmacht during WWII and fought in most of the major theatres of the war. I've read this book multiple times, and find it wonderful every time I read it. I would definately recommend this book to anyone interested in a German point of view of World War II. A great read!

Outstanding account of life in the Wehrmacht........2006-08-18

I have read a number of similar accounts from the German perspective in World War II, and the more I read, the more I realize that the event was far more complex than simplistic and biggoted "pop-culture" portrayals would have us believe. Let us not forget that the French objective for the Versaille Treaty was to destroy and eternally humiliate the German people.
The author is one of many former Wehrmacht members now residing in the United States. He survived the war from beginning to end, seeing action on every major front of the war: Poland, France, Italy, Russia, the final defence of Germany, and even Berlin in the last days.
Mr. Knappe was an officer and a gentleman, as were many German soldiers. Membership in the National Socialist Party was quite rare in the Wehrmacht, and in truth, many German veterans were just as shocked as everyone else in regard to the atrocities commited by such Nazi formations as the Algemeine S.S. and their Einsatzgruppen. There is no excuse for the rampant genocide commited by the Nazis, but the truth is their arch-enemy, the Soviet Union commited much worse offenses, prior to, during, and after the war. In fact, the author describes at length his prolonged incarceration in Soviet concentration camps. Approximately 80-90% of all P.O.W.s held by the Soviet Union did not survive! Mr. Knappe did, and now we have his very interesting account of the war years.
In this account, Mr. Knappe describes his rise through the ranks from a new enlisted recruit to a commissioned officer on the general-staff. Even in the highly mechanized German military, horses were still highly utilised for transport. Mr. Knappe was an artillery-man, and his unit was horse-drawn through much of the war.

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The newspaper press was an essential aspect of the political culture of the French Revolution. Revolutionary News highlights the most significant features of this press in clear and vivid language. It breaks new ground in examining not only the famous journalists but the obscure publishers and the anonymous readers of the Revolutionary newspapers. Popkin examines the way press reporting affected Revolutionary crises and the way in which radical journalists like Marat and the Pere Duchene used their papers to promote democracy.

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Very good!.......2001-11-29

It is one of the best book about the history of the press I ever read. And very good book about the French Revolution. I read this non-Marxist, modern and elegantly written text with greatest pleasure. The portraits of Marat and Heber are innovative and objective at once. It's a pity, that Mr. Popkin doesn't analyze the works of Desmoulins as well.

Revolutionary news--revolutionary approach and insights.......1998-12-20

In 1837, historian Thomas Carlyle, in regards to journalism during the French Revolution, wrote: One Sansculottic bough that cannot fail to flourish is Journalism. The voice of the people being the voice of God, shall not such divine voice make itself heard? Is not every Able Editor a Ruler of the World . . .? They made the walls of Paris didactic, suasive [sic], with an ever-fresh periodical literature. . .To-day swallowing Yesterday, and then being in its turn swallowed of Tomorrow. . . . [periodical literature] circulate on street and highway, universally; with results! A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up; increases and multiplies; irrepressible and incalculable. In this energetic summation of the Revolutionary periodical press, Carlyle touches upon many of the issues which present-day historians of the period, in a wave of publications coinciding with the Bicentennial celebration, have addressed. The reasons for the upsurge in print studies of this age are many: new structural and discursive theories, an emphasis on politics and culture, the use of literary genre for historical insight, and the shift away from the classical Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution. Nineteenth-century historians relied heavily upon newspapers as source materials in their chronological narrative of events. Recent studies of the revolutionary-era press, however, surpass the use of newsprint as a methodological tool, and instead, make the tool the object of investigation. For Jeremy Popkin, author of Revolutionary News, newspapers serve not "as simple reflections of politics, [but] rather as one of the forces shaping the course of the Revolution."(10) Popkin thus assigns a central role to the press, and validates newspapers and journals as indispensable to scholars rather than of interest only to those who Carlyle described as "bibliomaniac pearl divers." Popkin's work stands amongst an interpretation of the revolution which stresses the importance of discourse. In focusing on the medium (the press) for transmitting the new political culture to the people, Popkin arrives at the same interpretation as Lynn Hunt, albeit by a different path. Popkin describes the journalists, editors, and readers, the operations and technology of the press, and the differences and similarities of the Old Regime and Revolutionary-era presses. The author demonstrates that only a medium as pervasive and persuasive, could capture the frenetic spirit of events and make them intelligible for its readers. Popkin claims that newspapers functioned as the heart of representative democratic politics not only by relaying the speeches in the Assembly, but in making them public.(2) The press served as a vital link or virtual representative for the people, ensuring the openness of proceedings and in the process sanctifying the sovereignty of the government. The press presumed to represent public opinion for citizens lacking an operable public sphere.(4) Thus the press, as a commercial enterprise at the nexus of government and the citizenry, "molded the dispersed and fragmentary events . . . into intelligible form, labeled them, and validated their results by presenting them as public manifestations of the public's will."(5) However, Popkin also reveals that "politics and calculations of marketability were rarely separated in the revolutionary press."(8) Though the Revolutionaries called for freedom of the press, a lack of a definitive program meant that "the new press for the new era dawning in France . . .would be shaped by the initiatives of journalists, publishers and politicians," rather than the citizen readers.(27) This reality stands in sharp contrast to the "utopian vision of a press . . .as a modern version of the agora of Athens"-the classical public space of political communion.(28) Popkin takes the reader into the press shops, where men worked late into the night to supply an expanding readership albeit in an increasingly competitive market. On the whole the industry was characterized by "cut-throat competition" as noted by Popkin, which parallels the political struggles in the Assembly upon which the papers reported.(71) However, the lack of technological improvements restricted the number of copies, and prevented the press from attaining the level of mass-medium which could reach the sum of adult readers.(85) The focus of the author's insights into the industry, the journalists, and the readers, converge to support the thesis of an emerging political culture. The papers did not merely reflect political ideology, they were affirmations of political choices. Newspapers facilitated the goals of the Revolution-collectivity and simultaneity. The author writes that "newspapers organized their readers into a cohesive collectivity, capable of reacting to the same events at the same time."(94-95) The speeches of the day were not for the most part relayed without commentary. Instead writers cast speakers in the familiar roles of heroes and villains according to the corresponding political script.(114) This act amplified the rhetoric and helped to define the parties. Popkin valorizes the journalists, publishers, and editors, as "pioneers" in constructing a "democratic political culture" by involving the lower classes in debates and providing both a language and a forum for the debates.(146) While the author's work is suggestive of new areas of inquiry,to his credit, Popkin always reigns in his passion for the subject and does not assign a role of strict determinism to the press-an admirable position and nod towards objectivity quite uncharacteristic of the field of French Revolution history. Perhaps his greatest ability comes in interpreting and relating the polemics of the press without adopting its intoxicating language of advocacy. The only discernible (and quite trivial flaw) is the use of publisher terms such as "octavo" and "quarto" whose meaning may escape the general reader. As an enterprise, both commercial and political, at the convergence of the government and the public wills, the press represents "a collective creation of a society searching for new ways to govern itself."(39) As Popkin demonstrates, in the course of this political search for identity (in an age with a manic tendency for the new, the novel, the deconstruction of the past in favor of a utopian future), politics was revolutionized, but news was revolutionized as well. San Jose State University

REVOLUTIONARY NEWS: The Press in France 1789-1799

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REVOLUTIONARY NEWS: The Press in France 1789-1799

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Emerging Syntheses in Science: Proceedings of the Founding Workshops of the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings)

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