306090 04: Global Trajectories

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306090 04: Global Trajectories examines emerging pedagogies in design, technology, and ecology, cultivating and critically addressing the diverse yet intersecting threads of research being pursued by an emerging group of young architects from around the world, including Eye Design, Linda Samuels, Cameron Sinclair, Peter Perisic, and others, as well as commentary from Saskia Sassen, Michael Hardt, Reinhold Martin, David Hays, Nicholas de Monchaux, Stephano Boeri, Keller Easterling, and Neil Leach.

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Excellent!.......2003-06-12

This is an invigorating look at architecture and design theory from those who will be setting the pace for the next wave. While the entire series is informative, this latest issue is particularly global in its outlook and thus in line with current theory.

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Anne Elworth's vibrant watercolor style has already won many fans. This book moves beyond the most basic techniques and helps those still relatively new to the medium of watercolor to build the skills necessary for artistic creativity.

Ten lessons are set out in three sections to take readers on a progressive artistic journey. Starting with The Search for Realism, Anne provides guidance on portraying scenes realistically. Once readers are confident they can move on to the next section, Making Beautiful Images, where they are shown how to create artistic compositions using the unique properties of watercolor. The final section, Finding a Personal Vision, encourages readers to develop a personal style and concentrate on their individual interests.

* New title from the author of best-selling Watercolor Workbook (Over 90,000 copies in print!)
* Helps beginners build the skills necessary for artistic creativity
* Over 55 projects and many exercises with over 150 colorful watercolors

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From 1941-1965 Francis Wolff took thousands of photographs during the rehearsals and recording sessions that made Blue Note Records the world's most famous jazz label. This book presents over 200 of those intimate photographs and the text details the history of the label and the fascinating stories behind some of its most legendary recordings. A valuable reference section includes biographies of the artists and the names and dates of the sessions at which the photos were taken.

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Incredible.......2006-12-07

I can't believe my eyes, this book is full of beautiful pictures, magic moments in the Blue Note studio with the jazz masters, all of them.
Not to talk about the price, what's 20 bucks for a book like this? it's worth so much more. A huge book in every aspect. I've got just one word: INCREDIBLE. Buy it.
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Beautiful.......2000-01-01

Yes, there IS a calendar version of this book but the calendar just scratches the surface of this collection.

I intitially borrowed this book while looking for reference images for a video project. It became obvious to me in a very short time that I would HAVE to purchase this book. Even though I am a professional photographer and filmmaker, there are very few photography books I am willing to spend my money on. There are many I like but few I wish to own. This book, like all of the photo books I've purchased, moved me in a powerful way. These are beautifully executed, intimate black and white portraits. Most of the photographs are spontaneous and shot during recording rehearsals. Several of the images graced the covers and sleeves of the records produced by the jazz record label, Blue Note.

Francis Wolff was not just Blue Note's primary photographer (and quite talented), he was also the label's co-founder. His already skillful eye was that much more in tune (no pun intended) with his subjects and sensitive to the working environment. He was able to capture subtle moments few likely could. Most images are illuminated by a single light source, spotlighting the artists and capturing them in moments of thought, exhilaration, playfulness and intensity.

Seeing greats like Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins, a young Herbie Hancock and Hank Mobley in these intimate moments early in their careers is powerful. The design is outstanding and the printing if these photographs is impressive. This is a must have book for the music lover, photographer, or photography lover. If you don't fit into one of the above catagories, don't sweat it. You will love this book simply because it is beautiful.

Isn't this a CALENDAR?.......1999-12-05

I must admit I am a little confused as to why the other reviews list this as a book.....

For lovers of jazz, jazz musicians and B&W photography.......1997-12-16

Good, insightfull text, great photographs, oustanding print quality: a must have for all lovers of jazz, jazz musicians and photography. The photographer's empathy for his subject(s) just oozes from the pages of this wonderful book. There's a picture there of a dreamy John Coltrane, that just totally catches the sensitivity, the intelligence, the emotionality of a great musician and a great human being! A must buy !

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The first in-depth study of journalists as autobiographers, it suggests new ways to think about self, work, writing, and the culture that binds them together.

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Don't judge a stiletto by its cover

Great Essays!

A good collection of vintage Orlean

Great except for the Midland TX hit piece

Traveler in a Strange Land

My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere
Susan Orlean
Manufacturer: Random House
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ASIN: 0679462937
Release Date: 2004-09-28

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Susan Orlean has been called “a national treasure” by The Washington Post and “a kind of latter-day Tocqueville” by The New York Times Book Review. In addition to having written classic articles for The New Yorker, she was played, with some creative liberties, by Meryl Streep in her Golden Globe Award—winning performance in the film Adaptation.
Now, in My Kind of Place, the real Susan Orlean takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book. In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois–and even into her own apartment, where she imagines a very famous houseguest taking advantage of her hospitality.
With Orlean as guide, lucky readers partake in all manner of armchair activity. They will climb Mt. Fuji and experience a hike most intrepid Japanese have never attempted; play ball with Cuba’s Little Leaguers, promising young athletes born in a country where baseball and politics are inextricably intertwined; trawl Icelandic waters with Keiko, everyone’s favorite whale as he tries to make it on his own; stay awhile in Midland, Texas, hometown of George W. Bush, a place where oil time is the only time that matters; explore the halls of a New York City school so troubled it’s known as “Horror High”; and stalk caged tigers in Jackson, New Jersey, a suburban town with one of the highest concentrations of tigers per square mile anywhere in the world.
Vivid, humorous, unconventional, and incomparably entertaining, Susan Orlean’s writings for The New Yorker have delighted readers for over a decade. My Kind of Place is an inimitable treat by one of America’s premier literary journalists.

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Don't judge a stiletto by its cover.......2006-08-26

Don't let the cover of this book fool you. Susan Orlean does NOT travel to the many crevices of the earth in stiletto heels. At a wedding/skeet-shooting party in Scotland, she "was tripping around in rubber flip-flops." In Hungary, she walked around the Thermal Hotel Aqua in rubber thongs and "dangled from a sort of traction device at the deep end of the thermal pond."

In all honesty, despite the cover's subtitle--Travel Stories. . .--some essays are not necessarily tourism tales. One certainly could not plan an itinerary with this read. But don't let that taint the experience. As Orlean would say, the educational paths she leads us on are journeys in and of themselves. She delves into the world of the offbeat with class, going places I certainly would pass up in this lifetime. The Southern Charm Beauty Pageant, Thomas Kinkade's Signature Gallery mega-art reproduction enterprise, and the Midland, Texas Petroleum Club to name a few. She has done all of it with respect and gratitude. She even finds fascination within the SkyMall, that catalogue tucked away between the knees and the airline barfbag. You've got to appreciate this woman's stamina.

For those among us who are guilty of skipping The New Yorker articles and heading right for the cartoons, these essays will be fresh reads. Though not mentioned on the cover, 85% of the book's writings have appeared in that publication. But for the uninitiated among us, the reader will find a lot packed into this bundle. In fact, Random House could have taken these random essays, created a second book out of the last section and removed an awkward conflict of theme and genre in the process.

And though the book's title is on the weak side and less than memorable, the essays reflect an individual who is hardly forgettable. Her observation skills are entertaining. She includes background history and cultural notes--all appreciated. She carries on a satisfying combination of journalistic curiosity, objectivity and wit. So, don't judge this particular book by its cover. Susan Orlean has so much more to offer inside.

Great Essays!.......2005-02-10

Susan Orlean is an outstanding author and reporter. I love her style of composing well-written, sometimes humorous, always perceptive accounts of offbeat subjects that most reporters would never think of covering. She bravely enters new worlds with a very objective mind and an exceptional pen. I highly recommend this book of short stories, as well as her other books. Don't forget to look in the New Yorker for her articles (like this week Feb. 14 & 21, 2005).

A good collection of vintage Orlean.......2005-02-01

Susan Orlean's third collection of essays includes thirty pieces that were previously published, most of them in The New Yorker, between 1990 and 2003. Orlean explains that the essays she chose for the book are connected in that the sense of place in them is especially important: "When I wrote these pieces, the sense of where I was--of where the stories were unfolding--seemed to saturate every element of the experience, to inform it and shape it, and to be what made the story whole." In some cases the importance of location to an essay will be apparent to the reader, as for example Orlean's piece on the student president of Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Manhattan ("Madame President"). But in other cases the reasons for the author's inclusion of an essay are not apparent. Readers, at any rate, are unlikely to care whether the essays are connected to one another by a meaningful theme. Orlean divides her book into three sections: "Here" includes essays set in the United States; those set abroad--from Cuba to Hungary to Thailand--are included in "There"; and "Elsewhere" is a hodgepodge of mostly short (some as brief as two pages), mostly whimsical essays set in any number of places.

Orlean's modus operandi is to observe her subject for a length of time--spending a week or two, say, walking the aisles of an independently owned grocery store in Jackson Heights, New York, interviewing its managers and employees, watching the parade of hair-netted housewives and pierced teenagers and hand truck-pushing delivery men who flow in and out of the store ("All Mixed Up"). And then she writes about the experience in plain prose, and through the accumulation of ostensibly mundane details--sometimes, truth be told, a few too many mundane details--she brings her chosen slice of society alive for readers. Sometimes Orlean is introducing us to unfamiliar terrain, to the resting stations that punctuate a climb up Japan's Mt. Fuji, for example. But Orlean's essays are no less interesting--are indeed often more interesting--when she focuses on the familiar: among my favorite essays in this collection is "We Just Up and Left," the author's description of a trailer park in Portland, Oregon, the sort of place one can drive by for years without noticing.

Other noteworthy pieces in My Kind of Place are "Royalty," detailing the author's investigation into the curious abundance of royally-named papaya stores in Manhattan (Papaya King, Papaya Prince, Papaya Kingdom); "Art for Everybody," a look inside a Thomas Kinkade (the Painter of Light!) Signature Gallery; and "The Congo Sound," an essay about an African music store in Paris, France.

Fans of Orlean's will find more morsels to savor here. Readers who have not read Orlean previously can start here or might, better yet, read the work for which she is best known: her book The Orchid Thief is itself very much about a place--Florida--as well as the orchidophiles who populate it. Just don't expect the book to resemble its fanciful film adaptation, Adaptation, wherein Orlean, played by Meryl Streep, is depicted as a drug-addicted murderess.

Reviewed by Debra Hamel, author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece

Great except for the Midland TX hit piece.......2004-12-15

I had heard an interview with the author of this book while listening to The Connection on NPR. I was immediately interested and curious and purchased the book the same day. Also piquing my curiousity was the chapter about Midland, Texas the town where "W" was from. What an interesting idea, a travel writer going to the hometown of the current president. Unfortunately, I was soon to find out very little except the following:

First of all, the story of Midland TX is sandwiched between coverage of a Taxidermy Convention and a story on Pageants in the style that JonBenet Ramsey would have attended. Or, basically, two freakshows.

Second, one of the only nice things she has to say is that this is where Jessica McClure was fished from a well.

Otherwise...
It is a hard dry place where you feel like you are being baked.
The people only know one joke and they tell it over and over.
They have no idea what antiques are since the town was put up in the twenties.
George W. Bush failed with Arbusto oil and everyone knows that he never earned a dime.
The downtown is deserted.
Everything is bleached and lifeless.
Midland is all about money.
The rich kids don't have to earn their grades.
the school only cares about how rich your parents are.
The rich kids are only into football and cheerleading and trashing cars.
There is a trendy church because the pastor is on TV.
The younger rich members of a local private club behave in a disgusting way.
The oil companies kill thousands of birds.
It is a manic depressive city.
There are very few Hispanics at the upper reaches of the oil industry. And, she met none in the elegant clubs the oil people attend.

I was amazed how in one sentence she can say "Midland is such a small city and the Bushes are so woven into it that most poeple seem to have come in contact with them", and then never is there any story at all about the Bushes that she cares to mention except for the aside about the failed business and that W never made any money.

Some of the people she does talk to in the book surprise me.
She talks to a disguntled teenager who is leaving town, an environmentalist, and an owner of a local cafe which is the local meeting place for "Midland's local hippies, poets, folksingers, and Democrats". Hmm, what do these people have in common? I'm sure none of them have an axe to grind.

I did however really like the non PARTISAN parts of her book. She writes oh so much better and with much greater clarity throughout the rest of the book. The story on the party line was fascinating. Her use of words put you in the place of the story like few authors I have read. The wildly different stories fit so well together because they are so well described. It is like HDTV for your mind.

This book was so different from most of the books I usually read. The storyies are so different from one another that I can see myself picking this book up again and again to read them...well...almost all of them.

I guess I was just surprised that a writer of this caliber would allow her objectivity to be colored by her point of view. I come from a town about the size of Midland that is also in the middle of nowhere (A cornfield) and I find it very easy to believe that there are many skeletons in my own city's collective closet. But I also know that there is no where on earth I would rather raise my son that right here because of the people who live and work and pray around me and with me. In a city this size, big faults are easy to see and the big fish that make them are easy to point out because there are fewer people and less crime to obscure them.

Traveler in a Strange Land.......2004-10-31

Susan Orlean's new book is one more argument in favor of the theory that all writing is travel writing. Most of the pieces in My Kind of Place have appeared in The New Yorker Magazine and others. They cover a wide range of offbeat topics.

Since these articles are all over the map, so to speak, you may end up picking and choosing. Some are very short and personal, others are longer and more journalistic. Some of my favorites were the piece on baby beauty pageants, in which Orlean brings out the rather creepy aspect of such contests very subtly; the taxidermy convention, also a surreal occasion; and a stay in Midland, Texas, a dusty oil town whose claim to fame is being the hometown of George W. Bush.

Orlean's travels outside the States were also good, just not quite as interesting as when she explores the weirdness that exists in our own back yard.

My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere

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My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere
Susan Orlean
Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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ASIN: 0812974875
Release Date: 2005-10-11

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My Kind of Place: Travel Stories From A Woman Who's Been Everywhere
Susan Orlean
Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
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ASIN: 0786272899

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A New York Times Bestselling Author

Susan Orlean takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in a uniquely witty and sophisticated travel book. In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois.

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My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere (Unabridged Selections)
Susan Orlean
Manufacturer: audible.com
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Binding: Audio Download
ASIN: B0006IU6Q4

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My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere
Susan Orlean
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MHNDW8

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the most important gift a new mother could receive.......2003-05-03

Every new mother should receive a copy of this book before they leave the hospital with strict instructions not to open it for seven days. Wait one week and experience all the strange things your unique body will begin to do after birth, and just when you think you are loosing your mind, open this book. Read it and learn that you are NORMAL and what your body and mind are doing are normal reactions to the physically and mentally traumatic experience of preganancy and birth.

This book also explains what is NOT normal, and when you need to call your doctor - equally valuable information to have.

This book was a godsend to me - I had a dozen post c-section complications that nobody ever warned me about, but the author knew all about them. She helped me understand what was happening, how to cope with it, and why it was happening. I now give a copy of this to my first-time mom friends, and every one I have shared this book with has found huge benefit in reading it. It's a crime it has been allowed to go out of print.

bumpy, lumpy and somewhat grumpy........2001-11-04

Nothing alarming, nothing condescending... just a matter-of-fact description and explanation of the changing woman's body. Reading this book in the months following Lucy's birth helped ease my worries about the bizzare things going on with my body. Having read enough about pregnancy and birth that there really were no suprises, my own body following the birth seemed quite an alien being.

Next Nine Months: A Guide to Your Body After Giving Birth

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Next Nine Months: A Guide to Your Body After Giving Birth
Paula M. Siegel (au); Shelley Kolton (fr)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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ASIN: B000OJANPY

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Poor History, Though a Good Subject

this is *not* revisionist history

Too much to condense into one book

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feminist revision of history

Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present
Linda Grant De Pauw
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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ASIN: 0806132884

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In this groundbreaking work, covering thousands of years of history and spanning the globe, Linda Grant De Pauw explores the varied roles women have played in war. De Pauw depicts women as victims and as warriors; as nurses, spies, sex workers, and wives and mothers of soldiers; as warrior queens leading armies into battle, and as baggage carriers marching in the rear. Her historical survey provides context for current public policy debates over women in the military.

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Poor History, Though a Good Subject.......2001-08-31

In her introduction to this book Linda Grant De Pauw repeats one of the most famous quotes of military history. Observing the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava Lord Raglan reportedly said, "It is magnificent, but it is not war." A similar statement might apply to this book. It is magnificent, but it is not history. This, however, does not appear too terribly important to the author. Ironically, that could be the saving grace of this book.
Battle Cries and Lullabies hopes to bring to light in a single source the role of women in warfare since before recorded history. To do so requires a lens with a soft focus in order to cover the width and breadth of time. Unfortunately that means that the coverage of any one period is somewhat cursory. It also led De Pauw to accept some conventionally held myths as history and in other places use "evidence" that is more speculation than solid interpretation of recorded history. Despite the fact that the book rests upon some extremely flaky sources in some places, overall the book is important and well constructed. How are these two statements reconciled? Partially by this reviewer's admission that in several areas Ms. De Pauw has no choice but to rely upon these sources in order to meet her stated objective. There are too many gaps in the conventional historical record to adequately record the history of women in war without extensive interpretive guessing. Filling those gaps, or at least pointing out where they exist is one of the most important functions of this book.
Battle Cries and Lullabies is not intended as the definitive statement of the role of women in all war through all of time. De Pauw is up front about this, saying as much in the beginning of the book. Rather, as she points out in her introduction, this is a starting point. By collecting into one book everything that she can of the history and pre-history of women in war De Pauw creates a single source for future historians of the role of women in war to begin their quests. This is an admirable goal, and for all the factual and interpretive faults of the book it does accomplish this task moderately well. This book identified a need and filled that need. In this it is a success.
Unfortunately, this same strong point is one that ultimately causes the most problems. Despite the author's assertion that the book carries no political or hidden agenda, in some places the logic and tone of the author leaks through. As schoolchildren we are taught to avoid non-sequitor logic, ("this does not follow that") but apparently in the halls of academia this rule is sometimes subordinate to a higher goal. For example, in her examination of the role of women in the Roman era Ms. De Pauw states, "Some Roman women, obviously, were capable of bearing arms. Did any of them fight in the ranks? The question is valid; the silence of the sources proves nothing." She then continues on a somewhat speculative analysis of the role of women in that period. She is obviously correct in stating that just because nothing is said about women that does not prove that women were not there. It does not, however, serve as proof of the reverse, that they were there and that there was a vast culturally inspired cover-up as she later seems to imply.
Ms. De Pauw is the list moderator for the academically based on-line discussion group Minerva, a group dedicated to finding and exploring the role of women in warfare. As such she acts as a de facto clearing house for much of the material brought forth from academia on the topic. It is from this role that the book Battle Cries and Lullabies grew and took shape. Unfortunately, some of that shape remains ill-defined and rests upon some extremely shaky foundations. This may be a function of the nature of the topic, or it may be evidence of a well intentioned attempt to be all-inclusive. In either case, the fact that this book cites sources such as spiritualist Richard Heckler's In Search of the Warrior Spirit and journalists like Peter "I-contributed-nothing-to-the-CNN-Tailwind -Story" Arnett leaves the observant reader wondering how many of these other "sources" are suspect in their stories or analysis.
While I cannot recommend purchasing this book to any but those intensely interested in starting their own research into the role of women in war, I do suggest that you might read and develop an understanding of the underlying material that this book brings forth. De Pauw has done a great service in presenting a starting point, in raising more questions than she adequately answers, and in giving voice to millions of women that did not have one before. She has brought much of the military history of women halfway out of the realm of myth and legend and cast light on some previously concealed areas of history. While there are better books on the role and history of women in the military history of the 20th Century, only Battle Cries and Lullabies gives an overview across time.

this is *not* revisionist history.......2000-12-30

I'd like to agree with the reviewer who noted that men's military menoirs are considered legitimate, while women's are considered to be antecdotal. Frankly, I'm still trying to completely understand why so many people consider the idea that a woman could be a successful soldier, so threatening. This book is not revisionist history- had the author attempted to claim that these wars had never occurred, or that all soldiers were women, than yes, it would be revisionist. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in military issues, feminism, women's issues, or history in general.

Too much to condense into one book.......2000-12-06

Here's a women's history which you'll never find as a text of any Feminist Studies course. The Feminist Movement would just as soon forget their "sisters" who have succeeded in the bloodiest business of men, warfare. None the less, there have been millions who have, and this book ambitiously attempts to mention most of them. In my opinion, it falls short simply because the topic is too massive to condense into one volume. The exploits of Soviet airwomen in combat -- who are curiously omitted from this work -- are in themselves enough to comprise several books. Likewise African amazons among the Dahomey and Ashanti; and Moslem warrioresses from the time of the Prophet to the current civil war in Eritrea. Besides combatants, "Battle Cries and Lullabyes" also attempts to cover female camp-followers and nurses throughout the entire history of warfare. In its effort to retain "readability", the book intersperses legend and anecdote with the drier history. It is a fascinating book which will certainly appeal to military women and to those who appreciate the distaff side of women's history. But ultimately its all too fleeting glances into each of its subjects leave the reader dissatisfied and enticed to know more.

Reviewing the Reviews.......2000-08-05

Reading the reviews of this book is trip through the fascinating reactions of some men to the idea that they may not have done all of history all by themselves. Squealing like stuck pigs comes to mind.

Interesting, isn't it, how a general's memoirs are hard evidence, a male private's letters home are supporting evidence, but a woman soldier's diary is mere anecdote?

feminist revision of history.......2000-03-20

It is fair to say that history provides examples of women in combat, and some have done very well. Often they have disguised themselves as men, e.g., as pirates or civil war infantry. They were not uncommonly virago. Too many people, our authoress among them, want to rewrite history for the sake of their secular ideologies, not the least of which are feminists. Anecdotes become principles, examples become precedents if not laws. Such writers have strong allies in Hollywood which finds women among the gladiators of ancient Rome or the warror princess among the ancient Greeks. Although Deborah was a Judge of Israel, she was not a combatant. Whatever comfort comfort Ms DePau finds in Joan of Arc or the mother of Ali Pasha, the fact remains that men make better soldiers. They are bigger, stronger, bolder, faster. They deploy more quickley and, unlike women, are far less of a distraction. Also, it is unwise to put the civilizing agent, the women, in uncivilizing situation. In this case, Plato is right: "A woman can do anything a man can do, but a man does it better."

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Resource Guide for People & Nations: World History, 1987
Mazour
Manufacturer: Holt Rinehart and Winston
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The United Nations estimate that by 2004, in excess of 75% of the world's population will live within the coastal zone. These regions are therefore of critical importance to a majority of the world's citizens. The coastal zone provides important economic, transport, residential and recreational functions, all of which depend upon its physical characteristics, appealing landscape, cultural heritage, natural resources and rich marine and terrestrial biodiversity. This resource is thus the foundation for the well being and economic viability of present and future generations of coastal zone residents The pressure on coastal environments is also being exacerbated by rapid changes in global climate. The value of the coastal zone to humanity, and the enormous pressure on it, provide strong incentives for a greater scientific understanding which can ensure effective coastal engineering practice and efficient and sustainable management.

Coastal Engineering: Processes, Theory and Design Practice is theonly book providing a thorough introduction to all aspects of coastal processes, morphology and design of coastal defences. The use of detailed and state-of-the art modelling techniques are an important theme of this book, and there are numerous case studies showing actual examples where mathematical modelling has been applied through engineering judgement.

With thorough coverage of the theory, and practical demonstration of the applications, Coastal Engineering: Processes, Theory and Design Practice is a must have for all students and engineers working in coastal management and engineering.

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A Broad Overview of Coastal Engineering.......2006-11-18

This book begins with a short history of coastal engineering. There is an introduction to beach morphology, followed by an entire chapter on wave theory. The authors also focus on sea levels and their implications for coastal engineering, and then move on to coastal transport processes. Risk is assessed in terms of recurrence interval. A chapter is devoted to field methods.

Among the shore protection structures examined are breakwaters, groynes, and seawalls. A moderate amount of attention is devoted to beach nourishment. A design example is also included in which armoured rocks are used for the coastal defense.

This book seems to have a balance of such things as coastal engineering concepts, case histories, mathematical equations, photographs and diagrams, etc. There is a list of symbols used throughout the book, as well as appendices that explain statistical concepts and terminology, maximum likelihood estimation, and harmonic analysis results.

Excellent book.......2005-06-17

I used this book in my civil engineering undergraduate course in coastal engineering and found it to be very useful and relevant to what was being taught. The layout makes each chapter very easy to understand and example problems are very helpful. The authors did a great job in putting this unique text on coastal engineering together.

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