Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century (October Books)

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Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory of the society of the spectacle."

Jonathan Crary is Assistant Professor of Art History at Columbia University. He is a founding editor of Zone and Zone Books.

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A Camera Isn't a Camera.......2005-03-31

HUGE thumbs up. Crary historicizes technological vision and illuminates an underrepresented point: things we're taught to think of as objective, such as cameras and vision, are in fact quite subjective and historical. They're ideas first, which means social/cultural ideas, from design to usage. Gradually these cultural ideas plus economic and technological possibility fuse into 'things'. The social aspects get invisibly embedded into these 'things' through myths of objectivity and modern people's desire to be taken care of by machines. When cultural values become things we are conditioned not to see the subjective part. Why? Our primary way of thinking is still the way of the Enlightenment -- from the 18th century -- which loves measuring and equating and separates 'myth' from 'science'. [Which is which? as Roger Waters asks, Do you think you can tell?] Western high culture privileges thinking and seeing over affect and body, imagining they are separate and valuing one over the other. Really it's just an excuse for laziness and cultural arrogance.

Read this book along with Eric Michaels' _Bad Aboriginal Art_ and Adorno and Horkheimer's _Dialectic of Enlightenment_ to begin to see glimpses of Western cultural values and narratives embedded in today's supposedly 'objective' media such as photography, video, TV, vision, etc. Do the work and eventually technology will be a mirror of your own social/historical context.

Tricky but interesting.......2003-09-02

Crary presents some interesting views on the perception of art. I found that it took a while for his ideas to formulate - the writing tends to be a bit wordy. I would recommend the book with reservations - really only for the serious academic reader. Not a casual bedside book.

Techniques of the Observer: on Vision and Modernity in the 19TH Century

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Techniques of the Observer: on Vision and Modernity in the 19TH Century
Jonathan Crary
Manufacturer: MIT Press
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Working with color: A manual for painters
Irving Kriesberg
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0671607294

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worth a look.......2000-12-07

On Second Glance seems to be an encore presentation of Kanfer's earlier book of midwestern landscapes, Prairiescapes. Like many native midwesterners, I feel connected to the land in ways I can't explain, but Kanfer's photographs can do the talking for us. Kanfer's photographs are not what you may be expecting--it's hard to imagine, but as you may well find yourself drawn into his landscapes, reminiscing about how grandma used to have a porch like that, and what is that on the horizon? You can hear the crackle of fall leaves underfoot, and the sweet smell of spring in gently swaying greenery. You will find scenes to remind you of every hike or picnic in the country you ever intended to have.

This book belongs on every coffee table and gift list for those with any midwestern roots or daydreamers enjoying a simpler, less complicated life. If you love photography, or landscapes in general, you will also appreciate the composition and technical skills evident, and that Kanfer at least appears to be a purist in these works (no touch-ups or manipulations). I have recommended this book to many people, and all of them have loved both giving and receiving it; I hope you will, too.

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On Second Glance : Midwest Photographs by Larry Kanfer (Visions of Illinois Ser.)
Larry Kanfer
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MY9QAE

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On Second Glance: Midwest Photographs by Larry Kanfer.
LARRY KANFER
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On Second Glance: Midwest Photographs
Larry Kanfer
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A must for anyone interested in Jewish musical development

Jewish Music in Its Historical Development
Abraham Zebi Idelsohn
Manufacturer: Greenwood Pub Group
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ASIN: 0313227497

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In this landmark of musical scholarship, the leading 20th-century authority on Jewish music describes and analyzes its elements and characteristics, and chronicles its development from the earliest appearance of Semitic song 2000 years ago to the early 20th century. Liberally illustrating every type of music discussed, the book examines the music as a tonal expression of Judaism, Jewish life and the spiritual aspects of Jewish culture.

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A must for anyone interested in Jewish musical development.......1997-06-13

Mr. Idelsohn takes the reader on a musical trek of discovery. One of the greatest casualties of centuries of oppression against the Jewish people was their musical expression - as a unique art form arose, the community would be destroyed and dispersed leaving behind only an echo which was picked up by survivors. Jewish music today is a hybrid with a strong foundation from Temple times. The author explains the connection and proves the point that even though Jewish music was influenced by non-Jewish music, that same non-Jewish music owes much to the ancient Hebrew modes that preceded it. Stephen Simpson (steves@shani.net) 1997

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Jewish Music: In Its Historical Development
A. Z. Idelsohn
Manufacturer: Schocken Books
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Jewish Music in its Historical Development
A Z Idelsohn
Manufacturer: TUDOR PUBLISHING COMPANY
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ASIN: B000UCNSU2

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An exploration of the reasons for the extraordinary educational success in America of the children of the Boat People

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Canadians often consider the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 to be the defining event in working-class history after the First World War. This book, the collaboration of nine labour historians, shows that the unrest was both more diverse and more widespread across the country than is generally believed.

The authors clarify what happened in working-class Canada at the end of the war and situate 'the workers' revolt' within the larger structure of Canadian social, economic, and political history. They argue that, despite a national pattern, the upsurge of protest took different courses and faced different obstacles in each region of the country. Their essays shed light on the extent of the revolt nationally while retaining a sensitivity to regional distinctiveness.

Drawing on the approaches of social history, this study moves beyond the history of the strike and union organization that characterizes conventional labour history, and re-examines what was once called the 'western revolt.' The Workers' Revolt in Canada combines fresh archival research with a great body of secondary literature on the subject to produce a compelling new synthesis, which will be of great use to teachers and of interest to economists, sociologists, and historians.

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Workers' revolt in Canada, 1917-1925.: An article from: Labour/Le Travail

Manufacturer: Canadian Committee on Labour History
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ASIN: B00098IZ6Y
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Labour/Le Travail, published by Canadian Committee on Labour History on March 22, 1999. The length of the article is 1418 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Workers' revolt in Canada, 1917-1925.
Publication: Labour/Le Travail (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1999
Publisher: Canadian Committee on Labour History
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This is a true story of how a woman met the man of her dreams, her "Knight in Shining Armor", or so she thought. Soon after the wedding, things started changing, slowly. Before she knew what was happening, the abuse got very severe and she had no self-esteem left. She eventually found the courage and strength to leave her "Knight in Shining Rust".

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What an esteem booster! Now I know how he wore me down..........2002-12-11

This book made me feel so much better about what is going on in my life. I could relate to the experiences written about and felt like it was my own life. Abusers know how to use tactics to make women scared and self doubt their decisions. I feel so much stronger now and know how to begin to dig my way out of this destructive relationship. I highly recommend it to anyone that is being abused in any form. Jackie didn't hold anything back in her book.

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The German 88 mm was by far the most famous and versatile artillery weapon of World War II. It was first used as an anti-aircraft weapon by the Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War and saw further service in the German invasions of Poland and France, where it was first used in its anti-tank role. This role was particularly successful and the 88 became feared by tank crews from North Africa to Russia. Apart from these two main roles the 88 mm was used as the main weapon on late-war German tanks, as a self-propelled gun, and even as an aerial weapon. This book covers all these variants, explaining their design, development and operational use.

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Have these authors even SEEN one up close?.......2006-08-20

I'm assembling an article on how to correctly identify various models of the 8.8cm Flak guns so I've been accumulating various books. I usually don't get too worked up about inaccuracies in these and one can understand that some of the older books don't enjoy more recent research. Mis-captioning of period photos is not uncommon. However, while looking through the Osprey New Vanguard book on this subject published in 2002, the mistakes in this thing were just too egregious to bear!

The most glaring are the color plates where either the artist or the author lists various fittings of a Flak 18. Some gaffes: a) The book says that the fuse setter seat is the ground attack gunner's seat, b) the panoramic sight atop the flak gun, used for emplacing the gun, is listed as a azimuth and elevation device for moving targets, c) the ramming rod is listed as a "firing lever" but the worst is when the end of the shell rammer is listed as the eyepiece for the telescopic sight!

I wonder if the authors ever even have SEEN one of these in actuality. To say that the panoramic sight which sits 8 or 9 feet in the air, is used as a azimuth and elevation sighting device for moving targets is just outrageous. The seating misidentification makes me believe that the author and/or artist have not the first idea how the weapon was fired.

The very first color plate is mis-identified too! I mean, the author and artist chose the subject! Then they caption it wrongly??

VERY disappointing effort by the authors and Osprey! A waste of my money. Hmmm... now what was my eBay password again?

By the way: I tried to edit my Two star rating to one or zero but was unable to do so. It's THAT bad.

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Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other.
Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer's disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer's urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world's poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering.

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Health and survival as human rights.......2007-05-30

Paul Farmer, perhaps the most famous 'Third World doctor' living today, has written an eloquent and moving plea for a reconsideration of modern approaches toward healthcare in the developing nations in this book, "Pathologies of Power". Based on his personal experiences of care in Haiti, but also his professional visits to Russia, Africa, Central America, Mexico, Cuba and many other places besides, Paul Farmer demonstrates that the problematics of healthcare and those of poverty and inequality are insolubly linked in these nations. Whoever says "heal the sick" must also say "end poverty", for the one is not possible without the other; and whoever says "prevent disease" must also say "destroy socio-economic inequality", for the one is not possible without the other. That is the message of this book.

A large part of the work consists of reflections by Farmer on his experiences in Haiti and elsewhere and on the way in which the current worldwide economic structures engender a genuine and systematic violence against the rights of the poor. Strongly inspired by liberation theology (though not necessarily religious), Farmer eloquently and effectively contrasts the heavy importance attached to individual political and legal rights with the way in which the violations of rights done by structural inequalities and injustices is wholly ignored in the same circles that would complain about the former. Rights issues are the domain of jurists, development issues the domain of (liberal) economists; but the way in which the poor and weak are constantly crushed by the systematic repression that is poverty and inequality, at least as real and at least as much a violation as any torture, that seems to be the domain of nobody at all. As Paul Farmer clearly shows, even in the lately so blossoming domain of medical and bioethics the issue of socio-economic structures is completely swept under the carpet. As he says, this really is the "elephant in the room".

The same also goes for the oft-invoked importance of efficiency. Callous and counterproductive Western, often American, inspired healthcare policies in the developing nations (among which we must now sadly share Russia as well) generally fail at providing effective treatment against simple preventable disease such as TBC, because those medications that would actually help are considered "not cost-effective". This is in fact just a polite way of saying "we don't care about these people", but then phrased in a manner that will lead to less of an uproar in the newspapers. Farmer however is not fooled so easily, and sees this for what it is - a structural repression of the developing nations by the developed ones, in the name of "efficiency", i.e. efficiency in achieving the aims of the Western states.

This book is a very powerful work, and a strong indictment of the prevailing attitude towards healthcare and development issues and the little attention paid to their interrelation. It also demonstrates convincingly how the current worldwide economic system is bad for everybody's health. And what could be a more important thing than that?

Pathologies of Power.......2007-05-12

Read this book. Paul Farmer is one of the few who can enlighten us to a more profound understanding of the mechanisms that underlie disease in so many of its forms. He sees farther than most of us and comes to his conclusions with a gigantic intellect and hard hard hands-on work with the poor and ill for over 2 decades in Haiti and elsewhere. He is our Albert Schweitzer. His concept of "structural violence", that set of social and economic intrastructure deficits that set aside "rich" from "poor" and lays open the environment for not only the contagious diseases like TB and HIV, but also allows for the malnourishment and the reduced choices in nutrition, allows for the maintenance of the dearth of available health care resources, sanitation and educational systems, the conflation of which prevents protection against the illnesses of poverty, puts the reader into the realm of being forced to see a hidden and dirty truth. His prose is mutedly angry. His emotions are unmistakably righteous. His undressing of some of the "liberal" NGO mentality is eye opening. He is the real deal. Read his elegant words and get a glimpse at reality. We are sadly blinded to it by some of the "pathologies" of the powers that be. I have been a physician for almost 30 years. I've given this book to my sons who are young physicians. The thoroughness of his presentation of the causes of the societal ills that allow for the illnesses, and the bibiography that supports his theses are encylopedic in scope. Again, he is the real deal.

passion for the poor.......2007-01-18

Paul Farmer is a Harvard MD and PhD (anthropology), clinician, tuberculosis specialist, author of numerous books and scholarly articles, recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, and Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School--when he is not living in a hut in his beloved Haiti where he founded Partners in Health, or traveling a quarter million miles a year to lecture, visit prisons, or meet with George Soros or the Gates Foundation. Most important of all, Farmer is an unapologetic, outspoken, and radical advocate for the poorest of the poor. Adequate health care, he insists, is a basic human right for every human being, and our world is failing miserably in this regard. His fascinating life story is told by Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder in the book Mountains Beyond Mountains (2003).

According to a World Bank study from 1993, today in Sub-Saharan Africa "the median age at death is less than five years," (p. xi; no typographical error). Such deplorable disparities between rich and poor, Farmer writes, are not random occurrences, they are not accidental, inescapable or necessary. Rather, they result from pathologies of power, human agency, and structural violence. Quoting the liberation theologian Jon Sobrino, "The poor of the world are not the causal products of human history. No, poverty results from the actions of other human beings" (p. 143). Which is to say that the brutal asymmetry that consigns over half the world to wretchedness is not irremediable. Resignation, in fact, is the most inexcusable choice we could make. However daunting and complex, we can ameliorate these unacceptable conditions if we make other choices: "This book is a physician-anthropologist's effort to reveal the ways in which the most basic right--the right to survive--is trampled in an age of great affluence, and it argues that the matter should be considered the most pressing one of our times" (p. 6).

Farmer spends considerable time charting anecdotal evidence from his two decades of clinical practice serving the poorest of the poor. These detailed case studies from Haiti, Chiapas, Peru, Russia and Cuba are not mere examples but instead emblematic of the problem. Further, following liberation theologians who have deeply influenced him, Farmer strongly advocates listening carefully to the voices of the poor themselves, in their own words, and not only to health "experts" in Geneva, New York and Paris. "I believe," writes Farmer, that 'the poor and impoverished of the world, in virtue of their very reality, constitute the most radical question of the truth of this world, as well as the most correct response to this question'" (p. 202).

Some will dismiss rhetoric like that as from a wild-eyed idealist, or an angry extremist, but Farmer would respond that what is extreme and harsh are the conditions of way too many human beings in the world, which ought to evoke anger, and not his passionate advocacy for them (p. 254). Rather than merely "manage" these horrible social inequalities, Farmer challenges each one of us to make a difference by what he calls "pragmatic solidarity" with the poor.

Farmer lucid and compelling as ever.......2007-01-04

For anyone who is inspired by the remarkable work Paul Farmer has engaged in over the years, this book offers a sound explanation of his guiding doctrine on human rights and healthcare for the poor.

Toward a "real" medical ethics.......2006-11-11

It's a big world, but we Americans seem to reside in a small one, at least those of us fortunate enough to be insured and able to afford the health care we need. Many fellow US citizens cannot afford to be sick or ill at all, yet their needs may be tended only once they are so ill that emergency room care is required, but maybe not even then. Then there are the desperately poor of other nations and whole regions of the world that have virtually no care at all. This book is about those folks and medicine as it is currently practiced and dispensed here and abroad. Author Doctor Paul Farmer shows that modern medical practice violates the very ethos that spawned the impulse to heal in the first place.

This book has a lot of structural problems that, while off-putting, are easily ignored by the enormous contribution Farmer makes to our understanding of a set of topics that most of us have not thought about at all. This is an important and inspired book, one that is clear and easy to read, although marred by redundancy that a good editor might have helped eliminate. The thesis topic is that the desperately poor deserve more attention, not less as they now are accorded, because they are more vulnerable by definition. Farmer successfully questions the allocation of our resources toward corporate profits rather than treating the poor of the world.

Farmer's case studies based on his experience of working in Boston, Hattie, and the Russian Republic amply illustrate that our health care priorities are backward and unjust at best, pernicious and self defeating at worst. Every medical ethics course in the US ought to require this along with, or in place of, their existing textbooks that grind over the hoary issues of abortion and euthanasia, and a lot of other topics that are luxuries of a rich society that all but ignores those in greatest need.

Beyond the law.(Scientists' Bookshelf)(Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor)(Book Review): An article from: American Scientist

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Beyond the law.(Scientists' Bookshelf)(Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor)(Book Review): An article from: American Scientist

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The Good Doctor.(Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World)(Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, ... Review) : An article from: Commonweal

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The Good Doctor.(Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World)(Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, ... Review) : An article from: Commonweal
M. Therese Lysaught
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Title: The Good Doctor.(Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World)(Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor)(The Uses of Haiti: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor)(Book Review)
Author: M. Therese Lysaught
Publication: Commonweal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 11, 2005
Publisher: Commonweal Foundation
Volume: 132 Issue: 3 Page: 28(2)

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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor.(Book Review): An article from: Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal

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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor.(Book Review): An article from: Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal
Eisha Jain
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This digital document is an article from Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1066 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor.(Book Review)
Author: Eisha Jain
Publication: Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2005
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Volume: 8 Page: 240(3)

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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor.: An article from: Ethics & International Affairs

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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor.: An article from: Ethics & International Affairs
Sarah Zaidi
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Title: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor.
Author: Sarah Zaidi
Publication: Ethics & International Affairs (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2004
Publisher: Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
Volume: 18 Issue: 1 Page: 114(3)

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A good compilation of articles for the galaxy-phile.......2002-01-29

Galaxies and the Universe is a collection of some of the best articles from Deep Sky magazine, which is no longer in publication. This magazine was popular among amateur astronomers in the 1980s and catered chiefly to those with large telescopes at their disposal. Hence, many of the galaxies discussed in these articles are too faint to make it into even the NGC!

Nevertheless, most of the galaxies described in this book can be seen in dark skies with telescopes in the 8"-12" aperture range. The articles cover a diverse array of subject matter: interacting galaxies, galaxy clusters, two articles devoted to M31, overlooked galaxies very near to popular showpiece objects like M51 and M13, and more.

This book is designed for planning an observing session, not really for cloudy night pleasure reading. The object descriptions are similar to those in the superb Night Sky Observer's Guide: a bit dry and clinical but get the job done. Most of the article introductions are well-written and may be enjoyed casually, but the meat of the book should be used to prepare an observing plan.

The photographs and sketches are generally excellent. There's a nice section in the middle with about fifteen pages of color photos. Star charts are few and far between so you will definitely need a deep star atlas with you, either paper or computerized. And I emphasize deep; Sky Atlas 2000.0 just won't do for these faint fuzzies! The vast majority of the objects here are below the magnitude cutoff for SA2000 and besides, the scale of SA2000 isn't sufficient to easily star hop to these galaxies.

This book is out of print but you can get it through Amazon's used book services like I did. It's easily worth the asking price if you're a deep sky buff. I only have an 8" scope so I'll reserve the use of this book for the future when I have more aperture!

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