Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams
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  • Restoration of a Worthy Magnum Opus
  • An Excellent Primer On Cornell and His Work
Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams
Diane Waldman
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ASIN: 0810992523

Book Description

Out of the fantasies that enriched an often reclusive life, the enigmatic American artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) created a world of enchantment with his famed shadow boxes and collages. Using common objects like glasses, marbles, and mirrors, Cornell's work evokes the strangeness of the familiar and the odd familiarity of the strange.

Respected art historian and friend of the artist Diane Waldman probes the elusive imagery that marks Cornell's work. Interviews with Cornell and his family and access to the artist's papers inform her text. This richly illustrated book, now available in paperback, is one of the few to cover his entire career.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Restoration of a Worthy Magnum Opus.......2006-03-01

Fortunate is the arts library to have the restored and embellished 1977 monograph on the life and work of American artist Joseph Cornell, an artist whose importance not only to the craft of assemblage but to the history of American art continues to grow as the years pass. Author Diane Waldman initially based her monograph on extensive interviews with Cornell and his confreres in preparing the 1967 retrospective of Cornell's art for the Guggenheim Museum. And fine though that now extinct monograph was, it was important to update it with the added information gleaned from the 1978 gift of the bulk of Cornell's archives donated by the heirs of Cornell to the Smithsonian Museum, forming the Joseph Cornell Study Center in Washington, DC.

But enough of background. Waldman the writer and historian presents here one of the more sensitive tributes to Joseph Cornell in print. Included in this rather brief book are over forty color plates of many of Cornell's greatest works. The color reproductions and photography of these basically three-dimensional works is outstanding and allows the viewer to pause with each work, enhance the visual appreciation with the accompanying writing by the author, and then return once again to the biographical data of a man at odds with conformity and with somewhat fractured social graces.

Joseph Cornell was a unique artist and one whose impact on all forms of art (especially the eventual 'installation art' phase) is yearly more appreciated. This fine book is as sound a source of information on his life and works as any of the now many volumes on the shelves. Highly Recommended to both the novice and the expert. Grady Harp, February 06

5 out of 5 stars An Excellent Primer On Cornell and His Work.......2002-11-15

Finally, a beautiful, comprehensive book about Joseph Cornell and his work. Diane Waldman knew Cornell intimately ever since she was an art student (and through doing gallery shows for him), and this affinity shows; this is ultimately a book of love and tribute to a friend.

The biographical material is excellent. Most fascinating segments deal with Cornell's stranger sides, such as when at his brother Robert's funeral, Joseph put a sheet over his head and laughed, creeping everyone out, and explained it was only a side joke that Robert would have understood. Cornell was terribly timid in front of women (particularly the ones he fancied) and had a complete dependence on his mother (he died months after she did). Waldman probes these and other significant personal issues (such as his association with Surrealism, and how the younger artists that have passed through him have influenced his work) and examines how they factored in Cornell's art. The book is generous with illustrations - Waldman supports her points with not only Cornell's work, but with other artists that were influential to him.

However, it is the lonely and telling poetry of Cornell's work that is the heart of this book. The boxes that Waldman chooses to include are presented intelligently, and beautifully. The innocence and nostalgia of each box is lovingly portrayed. The Medici series - Cornell's especially heartbreakingly beautiful and mysteriously passionate work - is presented perfectly by Waldman with thoughtful commentary and context, capturing in full its yearning and ardor. Waldman has given us a book that speaks eloquently about why Cornell is an artists people will remember for generations hereafter.
Joseph Cornell, Master Of Dreams
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    Joseph Cornell, Master Of Dreams
    Diane WALDMAN
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    ASIN: B000RJMLGU
    Joseph Cornell Master of Dreams
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      Joseph Cornell Master of Dreams
      Waldman Diane
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        The kinetoscope;: America's first commercially successful motion picture exhibitor
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          Top Cow Art: The Coffee Table Collection
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            Come along for the ride of a lifetime - 13 years worth of Top Cow art and history, all presented in a magnificent coffee table book format! This tome is lavishly illustrated with the best Top Cow's art from over a decade of publishing, plus never-before-seen photographs and behind-the-scenes stories of the rise of Top Cow!

            American Film Institute Desk Reference: The Complete Guide to Everything You Need to Know about the Movies
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            The only source of movie history any fan will want to read. Presented by the American Film Institute, the nation's preeminent organization dedicated to advancing and preserving the art of the moving image, the American Film Institute Desk Reference is the most comprehensive reference book on filmmaking ever published. Providing detailed information on the world of film, its history and its personalities, this single volume is loaded with enough facts and trivia to satisfy any movie buff. Highlighting filmmakers and costume designers, financiers and actors, this complete guide is packed with more than 500 photographs and illustrations, a year by year chronology of film, and many special annotated lists, including the AFI's celebrated list of the 100 Best Films of the Past 100 Years.

            Customer Reviews:

            5 out of 5 stars Relatively comprehensive look at the American Film Institute.......2006-02-01

            There are plenty of good books available on what films are out there and other books of the art of making films. We can find vertical market books on specific subjects that are film related. However this book is exactly hat the title implies. There is more depth to this book than just an overview or an introduction book. Although this book could be a good coffee table book it also makes a good desk reference book.

            With 608 pages, most containing partial if not totally glossy color snaps from the famous and obscure movies of our time. The different subject or chapters have color coded tabs on the edge of the page allowing for quickly finding the information sought.

            Although designed as a reference I found it more fun to read page by page picking up gems here and there that would never have been found by just reference searches.

            5 out of 5 stars Best film book ever.......2005-10-21

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            3 out of 5 stars A Good Guide for Those New to Film.......2005-08-20

            I guess I should have realized from the title that this wouldn't be a comprehensive and in-depth guide. It is a good overview of film history and important movies for those just coming to know classic cinema. Otherwise, it is a bit basic and leaves a lot to be desired. The photos are great, the paper glossy, it's just that the message is a bit on the thin side.

            4 out of 5 stars This Book Is Absolutely Perfect..........2005-08-03

            ...especially if you are a film student and/or studying for a movie trivia game show. I love that it has loads of pictures and tables/lists. Plus, it has any and everything you need to know about the movies. I definitely recommend this book for anyone who would like to know more about film. I promise, you won't be disappointed! :-)

            5 out of 5 stars Comprehensive Guide to Movie Mania.......2003-09-17

            "In Hollywood, anything can happen. Anything at all." ~Raymond Chandler

            If you are looking for a one-volume source containing the information about movies and the people who produce them, this is an excellent reference manual. If information makes you high, this book will make you feel slightly heady. There is information on everything from film history to the biographies of major players. I enjoyed the hundreds of photos, quotes and factoids.

            This desk reference is divided into five main sections:

            1. Movie History - Take a journey from 1830-2002, decade by decade.

            2. Movie Basics - An outline of who, what, when and where. This includes information on studios, creative people, how to break into the movies, buzzwords and coveted salaries.

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            4. People in Film - Profiles of historical and contemporary film-industry producers and players.

            5. Films - Dream lists for the movie lover in you! See if you agree with the AFI's 100 Funniest movie list or read about the top 50 all-time box office hits. The movies are listed, then listed again with additional information. You can also read about the movies again in various parts of the book and page numbers are given for easy reference. Like "Some Like it Hot" is listed in AFI's Top 100 American Movies and while it is listed under AFI's 100 Funniest American Movies, they save space by referring you to pg. 383 for the detailed information.

            This section also has a collection of "movie quotations" like: "I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair." ~Bette Davis (Madge), Cabin in the Cotton (1932)

            If you enjoy watching Foreign Films, this chapter has information about films around the globe. There are lists of films from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Greece, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Senegal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

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            Living with the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead
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            Living with the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead
            Rock Scully
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            This memoir chronicles the Dead's seminal years: 1965-1985.

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            5 out of 5 stars Fascinating book.......2007-08-16

            This story is by turns wonderful (especially early on), depressing (especially toward the end), and hilarious (pretty much throughout), but always fascinating. Years of distance from the events allows Scully be as critical of himself as anyone else, and this gives the book an authentic quality. I only know the Dead's best-known songs, and I knew almost nothing about the band or Garcia before reading this book, yet it was a page-turner for me. Other musicians and cultural figures of the era make interesting appearances too.

            5 out of 5 stars Read this one first..........2006-02-12

            If you are wanting to read the "back story" behind the music and are just now starting your homework, let me suggest you start here. Why? Why here, when this is obviously a flawed, overly subjective work seen through a prism of chemical distortions, bringing us what are probably broken and incorrectly reassembled memories? Because this is a book you will finish. You will read this from cover to cover and most likely love it, and because this book is (more than any other out there) about the FUN of the Grateful Dead. That part gets left out - a lot.

            Other reviewers are not wrong - the last half of this book is largely about Scully and Garcia's drug addiction. But it isn't, as is made clear, like everyone else was a health food nut. (Well, Bobby was, but that's beside the point.) And there is also a ton of history going on during this time, too. (For one thing, we learn some of the reasons that Bob Dylan was so devoted to Jerry and said such gracious things about him later.) But what made it all work, the glue that held it together, was the fact that this music was just so much more fun than anything else going on. This book is about that fun, and this book is fun to read. There aren't many books that have made me laugh harder.

            Where you go after this is your own business: if you want to read a superb biography and perhaps the most important book of the whole genre, read the Garcia biography. "Dark Star" is heartbreaking but very insightful, and much of it makes "Living With The Dead" seem tame by comparison, as it is all first person interviews of persons involved. The McNally book is probably the completest, but is often as dry as toast and completely disengaged from the joy this band dispensed. So start here for fun, and to get a taste for what the life was like, and put a little color in the cheeks of all those black and white photographs.

            And as to why this book doesn't get much into the music, it's because no book could get in to the music and talk about anthing else. Scully was not a Dead head - he would probably rather have seen a Stones concert any night. He worked for the band, he didn't follow them for love of the music. If you want to get inside the actual music, that's a whole separate library you need to read. We aren't talking about the songs, we're talking about the band, and this is as good a place as any to meet them, and better than most.

            4 out of 5 stars Honest and Compelling Work.......2005-09-21

            This book's rather tired "Gonzo" style and endless discussion of drug abuse are what is best and worst about it. How is it that one so long associated with the Grateful Dead and, particularly, with Jerry Garcia has failed to arrive at any more mature perspective on it than this book reveals. Scully seems still to be tickled pink by the fact that this or that group of squares got dosed back in whenever it was. Deep in his heart he seems to mourn the fact that he'll never bed an underage groupie again. And, yet this seems what is most gripping about this book for one such as myself for whom there simply no question of interest - the experience of endless hours of listening to the Grateful Dead and catching shows has simply molded what I am. The apolitical posture. The notion that there was something radical or even revolutionary about tripping and drug use per se. The celebration of blind destructiveness. So much of the truth of not only Garcia and the band but of the scene they created is given expression here in a way that gives it a very definite objectivity, that allows one better to reflect. We are now at least a decade and a half from a time when anyone could imagine himself to still be living in the "long sixties." That time is quite definitively past. Scully's book in many ways seems not to have written recently, but to emerge from the early 80s sometime. Or perhaps Scully kept good journals and did little more than edit them together. At any rate, the book has a certain immediacy that one finds it difficult to imagine Scully could produce from memory.
            I agree with much of what others have said regarding the vindictiveness (and inaccuracy) of Scully's comments on Weir. The idea that Bobby wasn't brilliant in his own right as a guitarist and ideal complement to Garcia is laughable for anyone familiar with the music from the period of Scully's so-called Bobby problem.
            And the best part of the book as a work of memoir is definitely the early chapters on the Haight scene.

            3 out of 5 stars Okay.......2005-03-01

            I found the book to be fairly accurate, BUT most of it is Rock Scully's personal opinion and experience. He seems to forget that you aren't reading the book to learn about him, but to gain more insight into the band. Overall it wasn't too bad. I have read it a couple of times and enjoyed it. Rock Scully was a close personal freind for many years and he does capture the pre-band era of the Grateful Dead.

            4 out of 5 stars RESPONSE TO THE REVIEW ENTITLED CASH COW.......2004-10-11

            The author of the review, "A reader," claims to have worked for the Dead, but inaccurately spell's Garcia's first name several times "Gerry" and Mickey's last name "Heart." As such, I have real doubts this guy indeed did work for the band and hence, his comments on the book seem a bit suspect.
            Living With The Dead Twenty Years on the Bus With Garcia and The Grateful Dead
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              Living with the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead
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                Bodies of Meaning: Studies on Language, Labor, and Liberation (S U N Y Series in Radical Social and Political Theory)
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                • More Warm Bodies Needed
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                David McNally
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                Bodies of Meaning presents a vigorous challenge to postmodernist theories of language and politics which detach language from human bodies and their material practices. Beginning with the 'historical bodies' theorized by Marx, Darwin, and Freud, McNally develops an alternative account of language which draws on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin and recent contributions to materialist feminism. In bringing the body back into language, this book makes a major contribution to current debates in social and political theory.

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                3 out of 5 stars More Warm Bodies Needed.......2006-02-08

                I'm rather surprised and disappointed to see this book has no previous reviews, because it's an important, challenging work that should not be ignored. McNally points out that currently fashionable theories of language, text, and culture--especially the "postmodern" theories--are highly idealist in the bad old sense; they privilege words and ideas to the virtual exclusion of bodies, labor, and even the physical world. Intellectuals, always people of the word, move again in a realm as abstract and ethereal as that of the German idealist Kantians of the 19th century. This has always been a right-wing ideology ("progressive" postmodernists take note). McNally traces much of postmodernism to Nietzsche, and lays out Nietzsche's right-wing ideology (along with notes--not enough for me--about the Nazi heritage of Heidegger, de Man, and others).
                So far, so good. This has been a desperately needed critique for years. The problems come when McNally tries to deal with theories of language and linguistics. He doesn't understand Saussure; he think Saussure was talking about words and meanings, and faults Saussure for using abstract economics (as metaphor) rather than real political economy and labor. No, Saussure (a thorough Kantian, as McNally says, but not a fool) was talking about the more basic structures of language: phonemes, grammar, system. These indeed have nothing to do with labor or modes of production--Greek is still identifiably Greek, in spite of the change from Neolithic farming to Athenian brilliance to modern (post?)capitalism. Another problem is McNally's use of Freud--a great pioneer, but long superseded, and not really usable as a source for up-to-date psychological insight.
                More serious, to me, is what I would consider a slide by McNally into idealism. McNally is a Marxian, so he uses not only Marx' materialist ideas but also Marx' more idealist concepts, like "commodity fetishism" (which is not only a vague, touchy-feely concept, but also a rather racist phrase, "fetishism" being the old prejudicial term for African traditional religions).
                This being said, I wish this book were widely read. I fear the errors noted here (and other problems with linguistics) have kept it from being fully appreciated. The message is critically important and sorely needed. We have to get back to theories of meaning that are grounded in physical reality, notably working and enduring humans--bodies and all.

                Saucy Boy: The Life Story of Benny Hill (Charnwood Large Print Library Series)
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                  Leonard Hill
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                    Leonard Hill
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                      The Prostate Health Workbook: A Practical Guide for the Prostate Cancer Patient
                      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                      • Indispensable information!
                      The Prostate Health Workbook: A Practical Guide for the Prostate Cancer Patient
                      Newton Malerman
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                      Cancer specialists worldwide know that proactive, assertive patients cope better with the discomforts of cancer treatments and live longer. Many men, however, postpone or avoid medical care or deny their worries and fears when diagnosed with prostate cancer. The Prostate Health Workbook, based on the author’s research, his experience as a cancer patient, and his discussions with other men, helps men take an active role in their treatment and recovery. Twenty-five worksheets enable readers to thoroughly understand their illness, exercise all available treatment options, and cope with emotional and sexual difficulties.

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                      5 out of 5 stars Indispensable information!.......2002-06-02

                      A book about the prostate is worth zilch unless it minces no words. The author of this one is totally honest. That is what makes this one indispensable if you, like me and other millions, have prostate concerns. My problem is not (yet) serious or urgent but I find the book highly revealing and very helpful. And I now know if that is the case at this time, then if and when my Gleason Scale number goes up (see the book!) and I face surgery, the book will be a necessity to keep at my side. It sure does not read like a novel but it is Information with a capital I. The three key words in describing what Newt Malerman has written, are candid, informative, and helpful.

                      Irish Army Orders Of Battle 1923-2004
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                        Adrian J. English
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                        Irish Army Orders of Battle 1923-2004
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                          The Uses Of Haiti
                          Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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                          Paul Farmer
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                          The Uses of Haiti tells the truth about uncomfortable matters-uncomfortable, that is, for the structures of power and the doctrinal framework that protects them from scrutiny. It tells the truth about what has been happening in Haiti, and the US role in its bitter fate.-Noam Chomsky, from the introduction

                          In this third edition of the classic The Uses of Haiti, Paul Farmer looks at what has happened to the health of the poor in Haiti since the coup.

                          Winner of a McArthur Genius Award, Paul Farmer is a physician and anthropologist who has worked for 25 years in Haiti, where he serves as medical director of a hospital serving the rural poor. He is the subject of the Tracy Kidder biography, Mountains Beyond Mountains.

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                          4 out of 5 stars Haiti used for sex tourism.......2007-06-06

                          Readers of this book may also be interested in a fictional account of sex tourism in Haiti. It's entitled Naked in Haiti: A sexy morality tale about tourists, prostitutes & politicians.

                          5 out of 5 stars Paul Farmer's Haiti.......2007-05-18

                          Another one of Dr. Paul Farmer's great insights and works regarding what really goes on in our world's history and in life today. He gives great detail and record of events that we as humans should not ignore, comma!

                          5 out of 5 stars the greatest book on Haiti's recent history.......2007-02-04

                          Dr Paul Farmer wrote a passionate and well researched book.
                          His work in Haiti is remarkable and his courage talking against the coup
                          makes him for ever a friend of Haiti.

                          5 out of 5 stars Wake up America!.......2007-01-15

                          The content, in the beginning, was difficult for a non political/history reader....but before long I was locked in and was amazed...appalled...at the role of our government in keeping the Haitian people in 'slavery' while claiming to support democracy. Life is a political game to which I have closed my eyes for too long! I am ashamed of the underhanded political dealings my government has been part of in keeping the poor people of Haiti prisoners of the elite and military powers of their own country....Paul Farmer has no ax to grind....he should be applauded and held in high esteme for his courage and wisdom ....and for the first hand exteriences of Haiti that he shares with the little people of the world...us. We give too much trust and power to our gov/politicians who work the system to their own advantage. Learn something citizens of America.....we are being led like sheep....we are part of the problem of the economic abuses being leveled against a small, destitute , struggling country that is fighting for their right to govern themselves as they see fit, with no real support from the rest of the world...least of all the U.S.

                          2 out of 5 stars Disappointing.......2005-02-09

                          A disappointing biased review of the history and politics of Haiti. The conspiring bogeymen consist of the USA, France, Canada, the UN, the World bank, the IMF, JFK, the OAS, Bill Clinton, George Bush, most journalists and especially that right wing mouthpiece - the NY Times. This narrative can be likened to the blind mans description of the elephant. A disjointed and bizarre introduction by Noam Chomsky is included.
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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 A082793. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: U,S military forces are transitioning to network centric operations, as described in Joint Vision 2010 and Joint Vision 2020. Warfighting elements will function as individual nodes in a global information grid with an end-to- end infrastructure that provides information on demand to warfighters, policy makers, and support personnel. This transition will place additional demands on wireless communications and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems. However, current and planned space-based communications solutions are costly and have significant shortfalls. Likewise, ISR systems will have difficulty fulfilling near real-time requirements and sensor-to-shooter roles.
                            The Use of Herbal Remedies in Two Haitian Communities and Implications for Health-Care Providers Worldwide (Studies in Health and Human Services, V. 40)
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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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                                Release Date: 2005-08-30

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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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                                Peasants, experts, and land use in Haiti: lessons from indigenous and project technology.: An article from: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
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                                  T. Anderson White , and Jon L. Jickling
                                  Manufacturer: Soil & Water Conservation Society
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                                  Release Date: 2005-07-28

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                                  From the supplier: New land use technology, combined with indigenous farming techniques, as applied in agroforestry programs proved effective in the development of rural Haiti. This can be gleaned from an examination of the agroforestry sectors in Maissade and Maniche, where the practice of complementing project agroforestry and indigenous agroforestry was found to have benefited local peasants in land and labor investments.

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                                  Title: Peasants, experts, and land use in Haiti: lessons from indigenous and project technology.
                                  Author: T. Anderson White
                                  Publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Refereed)
                                  Date: January 1, 1995
                                  Publisher: Soil & Water Conservation Society
                                  Volume: v50 Issue: n1 Page: p7(8)

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                                    Publication: Worldwide Energy (Newsletter)
                                    Date: June 1, 2003
                                    Publisher: Worldwide Videotex
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                                      ASIN: B00093I1K4
                                      Release Date: 2005-07-28

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                                      Title: The Uses of Haiti. (Multinationals and Human Rights ) (book reviews)
                                      Publication: Multinational Monitor (Refereed)
                                      Date: January 1, 1995
                                      Publisher: Essential Information, Inc.
                                      Volume: v16 Issue: n1-2 Page: p36(1)

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                                      Common property and collective action: Cooperative watershed management in Haiti (Working paper)
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                                          First assessment and refinement of the PLUS M&E system: Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 16-March 9, 1994 (SECID/Auburn PLUS report)
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