English Cathderals Revised Edition

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English Cathderals Revised Edition

Manufacturer: Viking Press
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169 photgraphgic plates 3 in color. foreword by Geoffrey Grigson. Introduction by Martin Hurlmann. Descriptive text by Peter Meyer.

A History of English Architecture. Revised Edition for Penguin Books. !79 Illustrations.

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A History of English Architecture. Revised Edition for Penguin Books. !79 Illustrations.
Peter Kidson
Manufacturer: Penguin 1965. (Pelican Book)
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Title: Leisure time: plus, run your own nation. (MAC).(Buyers Guide)
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Publication: Computer User (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2002
Publisher: MSP Communications
Volume: 20 Issue: 6 Page: 12(1)

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India — a land of amazing complexity — continues to haunt and beckon travelers and book lovers the world over. This elaborate, richly illustrated collection has combined the work of an adventurous photographer with inspired commentary from several eminent Indian scholars and historians to bring forth this astounding country’s natural wonders, colorful people, ancient and modern art, architecture, music, dance and spirit.

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India: Land of Celebration
Rupindar Khullar
Manufacturer: Mandala
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N7C8LE

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From the Tokyo timber terminal, where Japanese conglomerates process rain-forest logs from around the world, to India, China, and Brazil, where global chemical and automobile concerns are rapidly setting up shop, transnationals have made their presence felt in nearly every nation on Earth.
Joshua Karliner brilliantly exposes how transnationals, aided by free trade agreements and World Bank policies, are leading protagonists in the world's most pressing environmental dramas. He takes the reader behind the scenes of the global public-relations companies that launch elaborate campaigns to encourage rampant consumerism as well as to create "green" images for major polluters.
With lively case histories of Chevron, the company that the late Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa identified, with Shell, as the most serious environmental threat to the Niger River Delta, and the Mitsubishi Group, which continues to clear-cut vast swaths through aspen forests to produce 8 million pairs of disposable chopsticks every day, The Corporate Planet offers frightening documentation of the central role transnationals play in environmental destruction.
Arguing that transnational misdeeds can be overcome, Karliner recounts empowering stories of communities confronting the ill effects of corporate colonialism to create their own "grassroots globalization" movements. This important and timely book is a significant contribution to the battle against irresponsible corporate behavior.

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Exhaustive and Brilliant.......2003-07-27

Karliner has a rare eye for absurdity that makes this more than a mere indictment of corporations. His description of how Chevron pacified an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea--by creating a Disneyland recreation of their own culture to impress them--is something so terrifying that no novelist could conceive it. He describes how, years later, the tribe had changed their traditional war paint to mimic the Chevron logo. This isn't just a dry treatise on the perils of globalization. It's a book filled with color, stories, and fascinating details about this bizarre time in the world. From the smell of gasoline seeping up through the richest homes in Playa Del Rey, California, to the history of Standard Oil, to the fight over the forests in the Northwest, to the structure of Japanese corporations--Karliner's book is an overlooked masterpiece that details so many unexpected facets of the global economy.

Excerpts of Various Reviews.......2003-05-29

Here are some excerpts from other reviews of The Corporate Planet

Thoughtful analysis of globalization's ecological and social impacts and of efforts by "corporate environmentalists" to control how problems and solutions are defined....With ecological sustainability, social justice, and democratic participation as his guiding principles, Karliner celebrates "grassroots globalization"--citizens demanding responsible environmental behavior from global corporations--becoming stronger and more articulate around the world.

-- Booklist

A fine effort....The book reads easily, without being breezy, moving from concrete illustrations of how giant global corporations are affecting the lives of ordinary people to more abstract discussion of underlying issues.

--The Ecologist

In The Corporate Planet, [Joshua Karliner] explains how transnational corporations like Dow clean up their image rather than their act.

--The Nation

A Magellan-like journey around the globe, giving readers a guided tour that identifies the protectors and poisoners of planet Earth.

--Monthly Review

A thoughtful examination of the new international balance of power in the global economy.

--San Francisco Bay Guardian

A seminal work about globalization.......2002-11-03

Joshua Karliner's "The Corporate Planet" was published prior to the Seattle WTO protests. The book's expert analysis of the relationship between private corporations and the plundering of the earth's resources successfully contextualized the protests as few other books written at that time were able.

Since then of course, many have written about globalization and its effects. But I think Karliner's work continues to stand out from the pack and has in fact gained strength as events continue to unfold. The ascendancy of the pro-oil industry Bush administration and its strident anti-environmentalist agenda seems to confirm his thesis: namely, that corporations and their elected cronies (or unelected cronies, in Bush's case) often proclaim themselves to be environmentally friendly on the one hand while simultaneously rolling back environmental protections on the other.

When push comes to shove, the quest to accumulate profits wins over the environment. Karliner does an excellent job of showing how corporate PR or "greenwash" and corporate sustainable development initiatives provide smokescreens for doing business as usual. But when given the opportunity, Karliner documents how companies such as Chevron lobby hard to roll back protections when given a favorable political situation like the one that existed when Republicans gained control of Congress in the mid-1990s.

The author supports his theory by effectively using case studies to illustrate how these dynamics play out in the real world. Large corporations such as Mitsubishi use their economic power to bend governments and citizens to their will, in the process impoverishing communities and environments as local resources are stripped away for the benefit of distant investors.

Karliner proposes a number of remedies that can help turn the situation around. He reasons that greater democratic input and corporate acocuntability is badly needed if we want people and the environment to be given primacy over the rights of the privileged few to reap the rewards of globalization for themselves. While Karliner may not have detailed a specified course of action -- no single person could be expected to do that -- it seems obvious that he has successfully defined the parameters of the struggle.

Intelligently written and supplemented with numerous footnotes and statistics, I believe it is not too much to say that "The Corporate Planet" is a classic work. I strongly recommended it for those who want to learn more about globalization and the central role corporations are playing in the destruction of the environment.

Kirkus Review of THE CORPORATE PLANET sucks.......1997-12-09

Globalization is, obviously, a complicated, misunderstood, and nuanced process. And while THE CORPORATE PLANET is not the last word on that process, or on the dynamics by which corporations are emerging as key shapers of that process, it is also true that it tells stories far too often ignored by Quisslings, diplomats, and book reviewers. I write this because I stumbled across the Kirkus review printed on THE CORPORATE PLANET's page here, and it pissed me off. Particularly irritating is the use of the word "shrill," an adjective that seems reserved for books which contest the common optimism that tells us that radicalism is impractical and unnecessary, and that we need not attend too much to the really dangerous corners of the Big Picture. More statistics? Karliner already has LOTS of statistics here. And if his book is "unhelpful" when it comes to suggesting political alternatives, this may be in part because such alternatives are still unclear, and thus necessarily difficult to spell out in specific form. The corporation is the dominant political form of the modern age, and a principle engine of ecological destruction. In such circumstances, just what kind of an "alternative" does one appeal to? In fact, there are some good ideas here, and some good stories too, important stories well chosen. The emergence of the true transnational corporation is one of the most important development in recent human history. If you wish to know what all the shouting is about, you could do worse than start here.

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Offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of current research in an important area of social choice theory, Wulf Gaertner's monograph provides an essential reference for economists and political scientists. In the interests of accessibilty and readability, extensive formal proofs to theorems are not included in the text but are carefully referenced, allowing interested readers to pursue them independently. Though written in a formal style, the mathematical level of the book is designed to be appropriate for graduate students with a basic training in mathematics.

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Wulf Gaertner provides a comprehensive account of an important and complex issue within social choice theory: how to establish a social welfare function while restricting the spectrum of individual preferences in a sensible way. Gaertner's starting point is K. J. Arrow's famous 'Impossibility Theorem', which showed that no welfare function could exist if an unrestricted domain of preferences is to be satisfied together with some other appealing conditions. A number of leading economists have tried to provide avenues out of this 'impossibility' by restricting the variety of preferences: here, Gaertner provides a clear and detailed account, using standardised mathematical notation, of well over forty theorems associated with domain conditions. Domain Conditions in Social Choice Theory will be an essential addition to the library of social choice theory for scholars and their advanced graduate students.

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Provides a valuable approach for addressing the full range of management, organizational, and human resource issues that arise when factories implement advanced manufacturing technologies. Draws on recent case studies, surveys, and results of extensive research to examine the effects of automation on job design, organizational structure, and union-management relations.Ê

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Considering Europe as a whole rather than as a mosaic of individual states, François Crouzet presents here an accessible, engaging history of the European economy during the second millennium.

Stressing the common economic institutions shared over time by the different regions of Europe and the networks of relations that have linked them, Crouzet examines pan- European changes and integration rather than merely the particular experiences of individual countries. A History of the European Economy, 1000-2000 goes beyond addressing the historical ramifications of trade in the European economy to encompass problems such as the diffusion of technology, the migration of capital and labor, diasporas and minorities, and national diversity. By stressing the historical origins of the drive toward European integration and its progress all the way to the birth of the euro, Crouzet delivers an original and comprehensive overview of European economic history.

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For 1750 and later, sound; not so sound in medieval era.......2003-06-13

Prof. Crouzet certainly does work in broad strokes, and is at his best in the more recent period in which he is expert. The lack of precise references is a fault, though he has a better feel for the need for something where recent scholarship has changed an old interpretation on later periods. Such references he does sometimes supply.

On p. 262, n. 13, he claims, however, that Sicily was the scene of a massacre of Muslims near the end of the 13th century. The Sicilian Vespers uprising against the French in 1282, which he never expressly mentions, entailed the massacre of French occupiers by Sicilians (not necessarily Muslims). I would certainly be interested in a reference supporting any massacre of Muslim population in Sicily in the medieval period.

Can one truly speak (p. 22) of the "reconquest of Sicily and Spain," in, as it were, a single smooth motion? I have serious doubts. Sicily had been solidly in Norman hands at least since the mid-12th century. One simply cannot look at medieval polities in terms of 20th century all-or-nothing sovereignties.

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Therapeutic Interventions with Ethnic Elders provides cultural specific information to health and social work professionals who are preparing to or are already working with ethnic elders. You will explore distinctive qualities that are found in ten different ethnic groups to help you better serve these populations. The historical events that have shaped how these elders react to mainstream providers are also included to show you that they have legitimate reasons for some of their fears and may need to be approached and treated differently. Ideas on how to effectively approach these ethnic elders are included in this important text.

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When good deeds become policy

American soldiers have provided medical aid to civilians in many wars, and no less in the Vietnam War, where there were more than forty million contacts between U.S. medical personnel and Vietnamese civilians.

Robert J. Wilensky, using data derived from extensive archival research as well as his personal experience in Vietnam, shows how medical aid to Vietnamese civilians, at first based simply on good will, became policy. The original Medical Civic Action Program (MEDCAP), by which unit medical teams treated civilians in their area, soon expanded to other acronymically designated programs: the Military Provincial Hospital (later Health) Assistance Program (MILPHAP), the Civilian War Casualty Program (CWCP), and the Provincial Health Assistance Program (PHAP).

Although MEDCAP treated many, American doctors were uniformly unhappy about the superficial care they were able to give. Labs, x-ray machines, and surgery were not available at the unit level; follow-up was sketchy or nonexistent. Other programs became so politicized that they were almost ineffective. Coordination with the government of South Vietnam was poor, creating areas that were underserved.

Most important, there is no evidence that the good will built by U.S. doctors transferred to South Vietnamese forces. American programs may have emphasized the inability of the Republic of Vietnam to provide basic health care to its own people and may have demonstrated to Vietnamese civilians that foreign soldiers cared more for them than their own troops did. If that is the case, the programs actually did more harm than good in the attempt to win hearts and minds.

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MEDCAPS.......2007-04-17

For anyone who has been on a MEDCAP a must read. A very good historical review of the experience and processes. For those who have never been on an international medical mission, I strongly recommend this book as it illustrates the power of medicine in the peace process.

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Dr Tulloch attempts to reconstruct the many influences that contributed to Bryce's books, then proceeds to the formal analysis of the constitution and his discussion of the party system which exposed corruption and made The American Commonwealth (1888) a bible of progressivism.

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Gorgeous Store of Loon Lore!.......2004-01-03

If you quickly thumb through this attractive book using your left thumb, you are visually overwhelmed by twenty-six brilliantly illustrated paintings of loons in various activities such as diving, flying, nesting, and raising their chicks. On the other hand, if you use your right thumb, you are rewarded with clear and concise one-page descriptions of loon lore, as well as eye-catching "Loonphabet" illustrations for the opening letters at the top of each page.

This is a stunning book all ages will enjoy. Author Donna Love and illustrator Joyce Turley have created an intimate "come-on-in" atmosphere surrounding the intriguing world of loons. Donna uses direct down-to-earth prose that give you a basic understanding of their fascinating world. For instance, you learn that a loon has four calls: the tremulo, the wail, the hoot, and the yodel. Each is briefly and clearly described. You learn of the "looney", Canada's unique one dollar coin with the a loon imprinted on it. You also learn of loons' sensitivity to human activity. They have already disappeared from Colorado and Oregon.

Illustrator Turley has picked up on the key features of the text and illustrates them on the facing pages. She goes beyond mere photographic detail and adds compelling artistic touches that visually authenticate the scenes. The accuracy of the inset pictures of loon's eyes and feathers hint of her precise engineering background. Overall the effect of her paintings is exhilarating and inspiring. They make you want to know more about loons and you are literally drawn to read the words on the opposite page.

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A gorgeously illustrated children's book about a loon chick's adventures.

An Igloo on the Lake: A Woodland Fantasy for Those Who Love Secrets of the Forests

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A book for chilren and adults alike

An Igloo on the Lake: A Woodland Fantasy for Those Who Love Secrets of the Forests
Marian Moore Lewis
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1553696891
Release Date: 2006-07-06

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This is a story for everyone who loves trees, flowers, and little creatures that live in forests. It is also for those who exercise the "willing suspension of disbelief" and can imagine that fairies really exist in the woods; and lastly, it is for all who have faith in the ultimate goodness in each of us.

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A book for chilren and adults alike.......2005-10-23

I just read and "Igloo on the Lake" and it is absolutely beautiful! Almost like a meditation, it takes you on a journey through the forest, where you meet all kinds of creatures. You are gently reminded to look at the small details of life and to realize what is important.

Assemblages / Love and Mourning / Dialogues

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Assemblages / Love and Mourning / Dialogues
J. van Loon
Manufacturer: Space and Culture
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Binding: Paperback

General | Essays | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0968743250

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This triple issue of 'Space and Culture' covers a vast range of concepts. Issue 7, 'Assemblages' highlights overlapping regions, extra-ordinary practices and the simultaneity of potentialities with event(s). The articles in issue 8, 'Love and Mourning,' engage questions of loss, trauma and their contingent theoretical and ethical implications. Issue 9, 'Dialogues' explores the fragments and intersections mobilized by and through globalization, ultimately challenging modernist polemics of binarization and identity.

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For love and honor
Antonia Van-Loon
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 0312297955

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Coincidence
The Crimes of America
One Young Man's Perilous Climb To Improbable Fortune In Depression-Era America
Challenging Read, for sure...
It Made Me Think I'd Lost MY Mind!

Loon Lake
E.L. Doctorow
Manufacturer: Vintage
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0679736255
Release Date: 1992-06-30

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It is the Great Depression of the 1930s, and a passionate young man from Paterson, New Jersey, leaves home to find his fortune. What he finds, on a cold and lonely night in the Adirondack Mountains, is a vision of life so different from his own that it changes his destiny, leading him from the side of a railroad track to a magical place called Loon Lake.

From the Paperback edition.

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Coincidence.......2006-07-19

Joe was a Paterson mill kid. In NYC he learned the smallness of the adult world. In Ludlow, Colorado, Warren Penfield's mother wanted him to win a scholarship and his father, Jack, wanted him to go to work. Warren is a poet. His patrons are the Bennetts. Warren had wanted to kill Bennett because he thought one of Bennett's companies had hurt his family, caused deaths, but in the end Warren is offered a position as a poet in residence at Loon Lake. Loon Lake, a setting in the Adirondacks, had been formed by a glacier. There are elaborate camps in the area, mahagony speed boats, logging roads. Poets and painters arrive with the Mayflies.

F. W. Bennett marries an aviatrix. Penfield tries to teach Clara Lukacs how to play tennis. Joe of Paterson is shown around while the Bennetts are absent. There is a relaxation of rules. Joe sees the room where Bennett keeps costumes, outfits for his guests. Warren Penfield had been in the Signal Corps in World War I. Joe does not want to think about Bennett and Clara. Bennett lectures Joe on the burial practices of the ancient Indians.

Joe seeks Penfield's help to arrange Clara's escape. Clara and Joe are given money by Warren and they trade in the car they left in at a lot in Dayton, Ohio. In Indiana work and housing are found at a Bennett-owned enterprise. Joe notes the irony of this fact. There are interlocking strands to the story as it is discovered a neighbor is murdered and that all along he has been employed by the security company reporting to the management. It seems he was killed by his own agency. After the aviatrix and Penfield become missing persons in a round the world flight, Clara disappears and Joe and the widow undertake a car trip to the South and to the West.

In the end Joe Korzeniowski returns to Loon Lake. He reads the Penfield papers. His name is changed to Bennett. He works for the CIA until 1974.

The Crimes of America.......2006-05-16

Joe of Paterson, 'Loon Lake''s protagonist and narrator, is an apparently unschooled adolescent who thinks and writes with the verve and skill of an older, far more educated, professional writer. Reflecting upon this fact, a first reaction might be to condemn Doctorow for foisting upon us an unbelievable character, but another would be to brand Joe of Paterson a liar and then to ask why is he lying. One answer has Joe representing Doctorow's take on a spirit pervading America, for Joe's lies are lies he shares with other of the novel's characters, most notably the tycoon F.W.Bennett, and Joe, Bennett, and America itself are seen as lying in order to disguise a fundamental nature that is criminal.
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Joe's method coarsely equates lying with the act of writing; this in itself is a glib notion, but Doctorow suggests the more insightful idea that America writes a poetry about itself, be this in actual verse or in its poetic vision of the capitalist dream, and the purpose of this is to dress its crimes as golden fables. Joe, after all, is a criminal. From the opening two pages he steals, he forces a girl to disrobe at knifepoint, and he justifies his actions with the exuberant exclamation, "I only wanted to be famous!". F.W.Bennett is another criminal - he associates with organised crime, with women he uses money as his knife, and his means of presiding over his industrial empire are revealed as overtly murderous. The poet, Warren Penfield, is a would-be assassin and would-be adulterer. The carnival operator, Sim Hearn, is a blank-hearted murderer. The workings of capitalism are portrayed as intimately related to crime, the implicit foundational crime being that of using people as means rather than as ends in themselves. What is secured through these means is wealth and power, but it is ultimately, and literally, sterile.
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In "Loon Lake", sex does not work. It fails to provide intimacy and it, largely, fails to produce children; Bennett's only 'issue' is hydrocephalic and hidden in an institution in Sweden. It is, at best, a commodity. The American dream, as embodied in F.W.Bennett's wealth, leads to isolation. The latter is another theme in the book - the trajectory of the characters suggests that they seek isolation in order to at once be themselves, in an optimistic sense, and to escape the evil of other people, yet they find that there is no escape from human evils since they too are human with their own quotient of evil.
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Lucinda Bennett, F.W.'s wife, is presented as a prize WASP. Handsome, rather than beautiful, and proud and independent, she is an ideal to which F.W. aspires, as do his proteges, Penfield and Joe. She is an aviatrix seemingly unconnected to the mundane goings on down on the ground. As a character she is empty, which hints that she might well be a symbol, probably a symbol of freedom. Her fate, then, is poignant, as freedom is lost, and with it the fat and cowardly poet (and poetry) of self-indulgence and self-deception.
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Paradoxically, given the scope of its themes, the cast of this book feels small. There is no real sense of family associated with any of the characters, and they are asked to invent themselves anew. Few social connections offer stable support, since what family exists is quickly left behind, by Joe, by Clara, by Penfield, even by Sandy James, and friends too are fickle, if not outright deceivers, such as Lyle. The book thus is pervaded by a burden of loneliness. This loneliness is extended to the utter absence of God - neither does any character appeal to any personal spirituality - in "Loon Lake" the materialism of the world has a finality.
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Doctorow has depicted Godless capitalism as purchasing the services of art, and as making a son of the ambition that arises from poverty, and as harnassing the criminal instincts to the service of economic production, all to a lonely empty end. The structure of the novel and the language employed make for a difficult read - presumably this is purposeful: Doctorow implicitly asks the reader to recognise the story as artifice, as a lie in a sense, part of its inauthenticity stemming from the fact that it is remembered, if not dreamed, this aspect being made clear by disruption in chronological flow, tense, and viewpoint. The content, and possible message, is bleak. There is an anger underlying the book, but it is a very sad anger. There are several truly horrifying scenes, where the violence is rendered palpably and sickeningly; in particular, the fate of the Fanny the Fat Lady darkens the novel - Doctorow's talent as a wordsmith is unquestionable, but his judgement in including such matter can be questioned; in itself repugnant, the scene begs to be taken as embodying a larger truth, regarding the exploitation of sex and disadvantage for profit - all this borders on being too crude. A similar level of crudity affects other symbolic material, such as Joe's failure to reach the cliched promise of California, or the savage 'Dogs of Capitalism', or the very name of one of the gangsters, Tommy Crapo. There is a danger that the novel itself comes to be an extension of Warren Penfield's bad poetry. Of course, even this might well be intentional; through its crudity, through its artifice, the novel is powerful in hooking itself into one's memory; and Doctorow could be sacrificing himself as an example of the best poet America can produce, that being a bad one.

One Young Man's Perilous Climb To Improbable Fortune In Depression-Era America.......2005-09-30

E.L. Doctorow's novels have taken us from the post-Civil War 1870's (The Waterworks) to the merry-go-round of early 1900's (Ragtime) and in Loon Lake, the stark world of America in the Great Depression of the 1930's, gets this author's masterful touch. This novel shows yet again how it is possible for a great writer to weave a novel out of the tiniest of circumstances. In this case, a young man from New Jersey has set off during the worst of the depression to walk the railroad tracks and seek a better life. He hears a train coming, so he steps off and is passed by a number of luxurious private railroad cars, one of which contains a beautiful, naked woman standing in front of a mirror, holding up a dress to her body. The young man elects to follow this train and winds up at Loon Lake, the vast private estate of one of the wealthiest men in the east. The young man spends some time on this estate amid the gathering of peculiar characters there-the magnet's aviatrix wife, an obese writer and would-be political assassin--and finally decides to head west. He steals a car from the billionaire who owns Loon Lake, and agrees to give a ride to a gangster's girlfriend, the woman he'd seen that night, who is trying to evade her violent criminal lover. The pair head to Indiana and settle in a factory town literally owned, brick by brick, by the industrialist whose east coast estate they'd fled. There the main character gets a job and becomes embroiled in a union versus management conflict that sets his life off in an incredible direction. The fall and rise story of the ambitious, brave-hearted young man told of in Loon Lake is little short of a metaphor for the American dream.

Challenging Read, for sure..........2005-09-28

I love World's Fair and Ragtime and have read them several times each. This book is different in that there are what I would call stream-of-consciousness sections that just run in with no punctuation kind of like I'm writing here to give you an idea of it, and also there are some sections of poetry interspersed throughout (I'm not a big poetry reader, myself.)

If you can get past all that, it's a good story that follows an failed poet and a young drifter and how their lives intersect. As someone else said in their review, I'd give this 5 stars, except for the literary anomalies, which knock it down to 4. Can't blame the author for trying something different...

It Made Me Think I'd Lost MY Mind!.......2003-07-13

This was one of the most maddening books I ever had the misfortune to waste my money on.

Yes, it was challenging. In fact, challenging is an understatement. Loon Lake was the first book I ever gave up on before getting even halfway through. I had absolutely no idea what was going on and, after a while, I simply did not care anymore.

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Who doesn't love loons? The eerie "laugh" heard, the magnificent display, the lumbering takeoff for flight and the fluffy chicks riding piggyback on their parents are images ingrained in popular culture. Combining their years as naturalists and educators, Crowley and Link introduce you to the real bird behind the images.

A scientifically accurate yet comfortably readable text--including legends and stories about loons--accompanied by spectacular photography, shows the loon's relationship to its family, its environment, other animals, and humans. A list of loon organizations, extensive bibliography, and index make this a valuable resource tool.

Also recommended: Loons: Song of the Wild, Eagles: Masters of the Sky.

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Love Song - "A Loon I Thought it Was..." (CHIPPEWA POETRY, SONGS)
ANONYMOUS (translated by Frances Densmore)
Manufacturer: AREPRINT SERVICE
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H4MW32

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