Coincidence of Memory

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In this beautifully illustrated book, the artist combines photographs, paintings, and poems that span his artistic output from 1978 to 2002. Over 50 full-color reproductions are featured.

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Viggo FAN must have.......2007-02-24

Interesting photos. Viggo takes notice of details, in life's ordinary things and brings them to life. Some poems made my head spin to say, "this is one deep guy".

Coincidence of Memory.......2006-03-27

I wasn't aware that Viggo was a poet or photographer, but he is very good at both. This book has some very poignant poems and beautiful photos. I would recommend it to anyone with an interest in poetry, photography or just a fan of Viggo Mortensen.

Beautiful and intriguing.......2005-08-02

This book contains beautiful black and white and colour of Viggo's photographs with some poems and his paintings. Some images are crisp and others haunting and blurred which is very intriguing. Lovely blades of glass and old moss covered tree and flowers and lakes shows beauty of the country of New Zealand. You can see some of the images of the cast of the Lord of the Ring as well. Viggo shows us what he sees everyday through his lenses or with his paintings and his thoughts by his poems. They are very personal and delicate.
I love the photograph of shadowy trees in black and white very much yet every time I open this book, I found more images whispering, talking and singing to me. It is a lovely book to pick up time after time.

Coincidence of Memories.......2005-03-03

This book is definitely NOT a coffetable collectable! I found it lacking in professionalism of photography, tasteless in "poetry" and the paintings garish collages. The photos with red lines obliterating half the picture are amateurish. I showed this to a photographer who looked & was not impressed. The "poetry" has no form, cadence, rhyme or rhythm and is vulgar in nature. Sorry, but this book will not be part of my collectable books.

A True Artist.......2005-01-11

This book spans 25 years of Viggo's art. It includes paintings, photographs, and poems. I wanted to get inside Viggo and see things from his perspective, which he does allow.

I was a little surprised by his poetry. It is not composed of rhyme or alliteration. It is often off-the-wall topics. My favorite is Keepsake about a letter opener. The poems are philosophical and definitely not ordinary. Other favorites are Communion-about a relationship and Edit-how one's work is reduced to a movie with the theater its grave.

He likes to catch subjects in motion in photographs. Often they are blurred or have light coming in them as if someone opened up the door to the darkroom. They are skillful and interesting.

His paintings (which are abstract) are surprisingly good. The blending of colors is beautiful.

Viggo is definitely not just an actor; he is an artist in every sense.

The European Union in Peace Operations: Limits of Policy-Making and Military Implementation

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The European Union in Peace Operations: Limits of Policy-Making and Military Implementation

Manufacturer: Storming Media
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 1423502884

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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A802514. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: The 1992 European Union (EU) Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP, known as the Maastricht Treaty) marked a turning point in the trans- Atlantic relationship. The Balkan conflicts and broader political changes in the l990s compelled the EU to assume more responsibility in peace operations. The EU's 60,000 strong Rapid Reaction Force (RRF) is planned to be operational in 2003. Will the EU be able to conduct Petersberg-type peace operations? This thesis analyzes policy and military shortfalls of the Balkan peacekeeping effort. Questions about the legitimacy of armed humanitarian interventions, about difficulties in common policy formulation and translation to sound military objectives are the core problems of civil-military relations in European peace operations. Case studies focus on the EU's failure to resolve the Bosnian crisis between 1992 and 1995, and on the gaps between NATO policies and military objectives in the operations of Implementation Force in Bosnia and Allied Force in Kosovo. The thesis considers developments in EU-CFSP institutions and the EU-NATO relationship as well as the EU's response to terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The thesis argues that the difficulty in EU-CFSP formulation limits the effective use of RRF in military operations. (3 tables)

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Attempting to address the photography of children in the late 1990s is a difficult and potentially dangerous exercise. I Spy takes up the challenge by means of a unique combination of new color and black and white photographs and newly commissioned writing. It addresses two related issues in the contemporary photography of children: how children photograph themselves and how they are portrayed by modern women photographers.

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I Spy; Representations of Childhood.
Iris: The Women's Photography Project
Manufacturer: I.B. Tauris & Co.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N63PLW

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Crankshaft's creators generated a surprising amount of attention when they introduced two characters into their cartoon strip who suffer from Alzheimer's disease. Safe Return Home is a special collection featuring both of these touching Alzheimer's story lines. With actual letters from fans interspersed throughout, it is an elegantly executed book that uses humor to deal with a serious subject in a dignified and touching way.

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Caring.......2007-05-12

This is a book with deals with the trauma of Alzheimer's. With very gentle humor and delightful artwork, Tom Batiuk gives hope and comfort to all who deal with this dreaded disease, both as victims and as caregivers. I applaud his efforts in bringing this subject "mainline" in a caring , informative manner.

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Frank Trippett was an Associate Editor for NEWSWEEK magazine, a Senior Editor at LOOK magazine, and a Senior Writer and essayist for TIME magazine. He authored the nonfiction books The States, United They Fell and The First Horsemen, as well as the novel Child Ellen. Hymning & Hawing About America, the first comprehensive collection of his essays, is a brilliant look at the American scene during the Twentieth Century.

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Engaging, challenging, occasionally iconoclastic.......2001-08-09

Hymning & Hawing About America is an engaging, challenging, occasionally iconoclastic, and highly recommended collection of forty-two essays by Frank Trippett on American culture, politics and history. The pieces range from the psychology of gambling to an analysis of flag-burning. Trippett writes with an easy wit and an engaging wisdom that readers will find as informed as it is informative, as thoughtful as it is thought provoking.

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A truly groundbreaking volume, this fully revised and updated edition of Data Broadcasting presents an exhaustive overview of the specific data broadcasting and bordering technologies concerned. Answering a wealth of questions, it describes this new technology in detail, examining how it differs from established technologies, and for what means it can be used. It also analyses data broadcasting from the perspectives of both the medium and business.

· Features the latest developments in electronic media
· Discusses the major media opportunities of data broadcasting
· Shows how data broadcasting can overcome many notorious problems resulting from dense traffic on the Internet
· Considers the technical implications of data broadcasting over different network infrastructures
· Examines the process of developing and launching multimedia channels in a data broadcasting environment.

Essential, up to date coverage for executives and developers in the telecommunications, software, hardware and media industries of the main commercial, editorial and technical opportunities of data broadcasting.

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Too shallow from a research point of view.......2002-05-05

This book contains mostly of introductory content. It provides too much background knowledge but never goes into the core of any technical problems, so the book is definitely too shallow for any serious researcher. Moreover, as it lacks implementation details and case studies, I don't think developers will find it useful, either. Maybe it serves best the executives who want to know what data broadcasting is and for what data broadcasting can be used.

Too shallow from a research point of view.......2002-05-05

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The continuing war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the political sniping engendered by the Supreme Court nominations, Terry Schiavo — contemporary American society is characterized by divisive anger, profound loss, and danger. Wendell Berry, one of the country's foremost cultural critics, addresses the menace, responding with hope and intelligence in a series of essays that tackle the major questions of the day. Whose freedom are we considering when we speak of the “free market” or “free enterprise?” What is really involved in our National Security? What is the price of ownership without affection? Berry answers in prose that shuns abstraction for clarity, coherence, and passion, giving us essays that may be the finest of his long career.

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An enthusiastically recommended, thought-provoking cross-examination of modern society........2006-11-05

The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays is an anthology of writings by cultural critic Wendell Berry - one of Smithsonian magazine's 35 People Who Made a Difference - about topics ranging from what freedom is really being discussed when one speaks of "free market" or "free enterprise", to the costs of so-called rugged individualism in a democratic commonwealth, to sharp-laced observations on the Kerry campaign, and much more. Written in plain terms, The Way of Ignorance takes a cold, hard look at the doubletalk and doublethink that saturates modern American airwaves, stripping them down to bare conundrums, all with a heavy dose of the author's practical evaluation. An enthusiastically recommended, thought-provoking cross-examination of modern society.

A fine addition to Berry's ouevre.......2006-09-15

This collection of essays centers on the concept of accepting humankind's inevitable ignorance, as an antidote to deadly hubris. As Berry says, "Creatures who have armed themselves with the power of limitless destruction" must not pridefully embrace their limited knowledge. Instead, the "way of ignorance ... is to be careful, to know the limits and efficacy of our knowledge. It is to be humble, and to work on an appropriate scale."

Scale is a recurring theme here as Berry returns to the roots of his thinking in the realm of family farming. His essays touch on environmental destruction, factory farming, the weaknesses of the 'save the blank' movement. But also on The Gospels, the future of the Democratic party, and the value of husbandry in a materialistic world.

I always enjoy Berry's thoughts as I find him one of the clear, non-polarized voices out there. He speaks not just as a conservationist but as a working farmer, not just as a liberal but as a Christian. He points out the faults of the liberal movement as readily as he criticizes the corporate culture. I prefer his book-length work as i feel here he can only briefly touch on subjects. The collection also includes essays that feel a bit redundant or not of as much interest. Still his work here is also humble and to scale, and so the 180 pages can be quickly read and the best of the harvest pulled out for closer attention.

A Plea for Humility.......2006-05-28

The Way of Ignorance is a plea for humility. Wendell Berry asks the simple question, "Can great power or great wealth be kind to small places?" and knows that the earnest believer-in-what-could-be will have to live with heartbreak. "By living as we do, in our ignorance and our pride, we are diminishing our world and the possibility of life." The purity of Berry's vision enables him to speak with a voice that is radical and simple. He restores us to our forgotten common sense. He opens our eyes to the beauty of small places and calls us to tend to their uncompromising complexities. He bids us hold tight to the irreplaceable.

Berry's plea for humility extends to all, from overly confident scientists and self-assured political leaders to the "many Christians who are exceedingly confident in their understanding of themselves in their faith." "When Jesus speaks of having life more abundantly . . . He is talking about a finite world that is infinitely holy, a world of time that is filled with life that is eternal. His offer of more abundant life, then, is not an invitation to declare ourselves as certified `Christians,' but rather to become conscious, consenting, and responsible participants in the one great life . . . To [this offer] we have chosen to respond with the economics of extinction." "Violence, in short, is the norm of our economic life and our national security. The line that connects the bombing of a civilian population to the mountain `removal' by strip-mining to the gullied and poisoned field to the clear-cut watershed to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight."

In a time of arrogance and high-risk miscalculation, technological, economic and military overreaching, Berry is there to call us back - back to our senses. "If we find the consequences of our arrogant ignorance to be humbling, and we are humbled, then we have at hand the first fact of hope: We can change ourselves." I recommend The Way of Ignorance.

Open your mind to Berry's ideas.......2006-01-24

Wow! I am blown away again by Wendell Berry's thoughts and way of seeing the world. His ideas should be shouted from the rooftops. First of all, his writing conveys the strength of friendship. He respects and honors his friend, Wes Jackson, throughout the book and especially in the essay "The Way of Ignorance". I ordered the tape of this talk which he gave at Wes Jackson's Land Institute at the Prairie Festival in 2004.

There is so much of value in this book, but the other essay I would highly recommend is "Renewing Husbandry".

The best way to review Berry's work is to quote him.

"The most forceful context of every habitat now is the industrial economy that is doing damage to all habitats. We can't preserve neighborliness or charity or peaceability or an ecological consciousness, or anything else worth preserving, at the same time that we maintain an earth-destroying economy. Nothing ultimately flourishes in our present economy but selfish aims, and these are often mutually contradictory. We have to have a sort of pity for the CEO of a polluting corporation who desires wealth, healthy children, and a vacation in the restorative purity of nature. And surely we have to extend the same pity to those whio are sure that "it takes a village to raise a child" but who forget that it takes a local culture and a local economy to raise a village."

And.
"Harmony between our human economy and the natural world-local adaption-is a perfection we will never finally achieve but must continously try for. There is never a finality to it because it involves living creatures who change. The soil has living creatures in it. It has live roots in it, perennial roots if it is lucky. If it is the soil of the right kind of farm, it has a farm family growing out of it."

A Timely and Important Contribution to the Present Zeitgeist.......2005-11-03

This book is disturbingly honest. The honesty oozes from the pages of these analytic and interpretative literary compositions. It's a bracing honesty that I am not always prepared for -- but have come to expect from this septuagenarian agrarian. In my favorite of these essays - "The Burden of the Gospels", Mr. Berry muses:

But what, for example, are we to make of Luke 14:26: "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." This contradicts not only the fifth commandment but Jesus' own instruction to "Love thy neighbor as thyself." It contradicts his obedience to his mother at the marriage in Cana of Galilee. It contradicts the concern he shows for the relatives of his friends and followers..."

And then with stunning clarity offers the following:
" We may say with some reason that such apparent difficulties might be resolved if we knew more, a further difficulty being that we don't know more. The Gospels, like all other written works, impose on their readers the burden of their incompleteness. However partial we may be to the doctrine of the true account or "realism," we must concede at last that reality is inconceivably great and any representation of it necessarily incomplete."

Wendell Berry has subtitled this essay "An unconfident reader"... I suggest that this sums up the whole of this collection of essays. Berry is unconfident as he reads the American landscape of theologizing, politics, commerce, conservation, and thought. Unconfident -- but as always, uncompromisingly honest in his reading. +Aaron K.

Earthman.(The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays)(Book Review): An article from: American Scholar

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Earthman.(The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays)(Book Review): An article from: American Scholar
Sarah L. Courteau
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000E4FL42
Release Date: 2006-06-27

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This digital document is an article from American Scholar, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 633 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: Earthman.(The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays)(Book Review)
Author: Sarah L. Courteau
Publication: American Scholar (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 75 Issue: 1 Page: 137(2)

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Follow That Bird! around the world with a Passionate Bird Watcher
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Follow That Bird! around the world with a Passionate Bird Watcher
Bill Oddie
Manufacturer: Robson Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NOAPD0

Follow That Bird!: Around the World With a Passionate Bird-Watcher
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Follow That Bird!: Around the World With a Passionate Bird-Watcher
Bill Oddie
Manufacturer: Robson Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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