Sonic Order Of Happiness

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It's hard to say how Dalek got to where he is today. He really doesn't like to talk about it. So what's left? What are Space Monkeys? Where are they from? Are they born alive, or are they incubated in egg-like vessels? Why do they smirk at us as if they know something we don't? Why do they always march to the left? Is there a mother ship calling? Are their hearts situated on the left side of their bodies like ours? We can only guess.

Even when they are suffering from what would be moments of human weakness—like a hole in the head or a recently amputated limb—they continue to smile and stare, assuring their control of the moment. They stare at us with one large orb of an eye, unintimidated and steadfast in their mission. The eye of the Space Monkey can threaten like a cocked and steadied gun—it can insult you without warning, or invite you into a happy, carefree world. In Sonic Order of Happiness, Dalek's second monograph, we are once again whisked far, far away, to a place where Space Monkeys reign.

Customer Reviews:

Great book for fans of Dalek and urban art.......2007-04-27

This book has amazing pictures of Dalek's artwork. The full page picture spreads make this a book for easy viewing, not for reading. (Which is just fine by me, because I love pictures!) Dalek's signature character, the Space Monkey, graces the compositions with his devious smile making you wonder "what is this guy up to?" There is so much going on in each spread that you don't want to turn the page in case you'll miss something. This book is great for all fans of urban art and collector qee (toys).

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Chicago and Downstate: Illinois as Seen by the Farm Security Administration Photographers, 1936-1943 (Visions of Illinois)

Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0252060784

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Chicago & Downstate: Illinois As Seen By The Farm Security Administration Photographers 1936 -1943
Robert & Larry Viskochil Reid
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPS9OK

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AMAZING!

"What have you done today..."

GREAT BOOK!!

Most helpful guide I've read

Playgirl centerfold or Acting guru?

Act Now!: A Step-By-Step Guide on How to Become a Working Actor
Peter Jazwinski
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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Promoting Your Acting Career: A Step-by-Step Guide to Opening the Right Doors

ASIN: 1400048621
Release Date: 2003-09-23

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So, you want to be an actor . . . but you have no idea how to get started. In the pages of Act Now!, you’ll find a step-by-step process to show you not only how to get started, but also how to become a working actor. It will take time and commitment, but if you follow these steps you will find success. Author and acting teacher Peter Jazwinski explains every aspect of becoming an actor from start to finish. You’ll learn about:

• Improving Your Acting Skills
• How Actors Get Cast
• Finding Auditions on Your Own
• Working with an Agent or Manager—and What the Difference Is
• The Importance of Networking
• And More!

A frank and encouraging game plan for success, Act Now! will empower those who have the drive to stop dreaming and start making a living—as an actor.

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AMAZING!.......2007-01-12

Wow, this is probably the most informative book about acting that I have ever read. Yes, I know commenting on a book before I finish reading it probably isn't the wisest thing.
I am at the acting tests, which I still have to do. But I did make dates with courage and determination! I am excited to ask my neighbor for a pair of socks.
I didn't think I would have what it takes to be an actor, but this book offers encouragement and ways to get you ready to be an actor.

READ IT!!!

"What have you done today...".......2004-02-21

I have dreamed of becoming an actor all my life, but i wasn't sure how to go about starting a career other than school plays. When I got this book I began reading it right away...and I did not put it down until the last page. This book is a goldmine for anyone who wants to get into the acting industry. Peter's advice and his steps are realistic and after reading it I was inspired to really go for it. now I ask myself everyday..."What have you done today to advance your acting career?"

GREAT BOOK!!.......2004-02-11

Well, I guess you're not really supposed to write a review on a book until you've finished it, but this book is great. I got it two days ago and I'm almost finished reading it. I almost can't put it down, and i'm not a huge reading fan. I've read other books and none of them seemed to catch my attention or explain a process as well as pete does in this book. I would recommend it to anyone considering the acting career, not only does it help you decide wether you have the courage to act or not, it also gives you a step by step process to help keep you on track. I believe that this can help any actor, and is essential to the beginner.

Most helpful guide I've read.......2004-02-03

I read some of the other reviews and wondered what these guys were thinking if they're skeptical at all. Even though this is the only acting book I've read, I can't imagine that there could be anything more helpful. Talk about to the point. It seems pretty clear after reading this, that I can do this if I just follow these steps. I like that the writer doesn't use any false promises. At the same time though, he really nails it witht the whole step by steep thing. He made me think of things I never realized before like exactly how you get that first role that leads to other roles. This book is gold in my opinion. I'm just starting out and trying to get my feet wet. If you're that way, I think you'll enjoy this too. I read through the my highlights every day.

Playgirl centerfold or Acting guru?.......2004-01-25

Jazwinski seems like an odd choice to be giving out advice on acting. If his methods are so great why has he only one film credit? He also seems to be hiding the fact that his own career started as a Playgirl centerfold. Not the best choice for advancement in a legitimate acting career. The book is well written but just keep some perspective on what he says.

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Contains nearly 250 jigs, reels, rags, and hornpipes from all the major guitar traditions. Special introductory materials on regional styles, picking, and ornamentation. Includes an extensive discography.

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FAKEBOOK scares the pro's................2006-01-14

This excellent (and scarce!) book is good for all playing situations. It is unquestionably the ultimate source for traditional guitar players.

Invaluable for new, practicing, working, and intermediate players. The addition of the discography, indexed by tune title, lets you locate a recorded source for any tune in the whole book. Brilliant!

The author taught for several years at the School of Fretted Instruments in New York City.

Highly recommended!

Brody's "Guitar Picker's Fakebook".......2003-04-14

It is captious to complain about the "arbitrariness" of this or that form of tablature, or indeed of its "difficulty." ALL versions of tablature are arbitrary, and there is no real consensus as to which version is particularly preferable. SO: spend a little time getting familiar with the tablature being used in the present text, and then work your way through a few tunes using its tablature rather than wishing another tab was being used. After doing this, the Brody book becomes a pretty fair offering to the player with at least a little previous experience. It's not great, but taken for what it is, it has some great tunes, in relatively eassy to use arrangements for the early-intermediate player.

Guitar Picker's Fakebook.......2003-02-22

This has a wide selection of old time songs, but uses a scheme of tablature that I am not familiar with. Instead of the guitar strings being represented by six lines, and the notes falling on the lines to indicate the string that is to be fretted, this book uses six spaces separated by five lines, and the notes fall on the spaces. I found it somewhat confusing. It would have been helpful to see a sample page of the tablature to see what it was like before buying it.

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BradyGames' Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando Official Strategy Guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough to lead players through the entire adventure. Expert boss tactics and detailed weapon and gadget listings. Complete coverage of the "maxigames" available throughout the game. Game secrets, scoring strategies and more!

This product is for sale in North America only.

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really fun.......2005-07-07

i no this isnt that helpful but this is jus one of those games that make gaming reach a new level and thats it. and 4 that kid before me u dont have 2 buy all the armors i beat it the first time wit the 2nd armor and bought the rest in the chalange mode. so.......

Pretty and funny, but that's about it. .......2004-10-16

Many people may disagree with me on this, but this game just isn't very fun. THe graphics are wonderful, and when you play the first few missions, you feel as though this is one of the greatest games ever. Then that feeling comes to a screeching halt when you buy your first armor. If it weren't for the friggin' armor in this game, I definately would have given this a five. From one point on, you have to continuously buy armor in order to make it through a certain few levels, because if you don't you're screwed. The last armor is a million bolts. A MILLION BOLTS. To raise that grit I had to beat one level ten times, and seeing as how the level was huge, that got extremely boring. In order to raise money for this without doing what I did, you would have to spend nearly nothing throughout the game, which is hard seeing as how it is necessary to spend up to 10,000 bolts in order to gain one little bit of info from some cheap citizen. I am a big Jak and Daxter fan, and I'm used to big environments where you can choose how to approach the situation. Not so in this game. There is one and only one way to get to a certain point, and the environment just goes in one big circle. However if you were a fan of the first R&C and you can't help but waste more money on crap like this, go ahead. I won't stop you.

Best game ever!!!.......2004-08-14

this game is asom! its twice as long as rachet and clank 1 and you are supposed to play this game twice!

the game rules.......2004-07-15

get this game it rules when you are playing dont buy any guns
save up for the ryno2 on planet barlow its only avalebl in the gagditron place

Great guide really is!.......2004-02-08

This guide contains maps and where to get all platnum bolts and nanotech boost which is REALLY helpful! It tells you info on weapons and when you should use them and how to get through stuff and answers to electrolizer and infiltrator puzzles to thats also really helpful. It also tells you how to get all the skill points and tips on getting them. A really great guide but a bit confuseing at times un-fourinetly

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USE THIS FIRST PARAGRAPH ONLY FOR GENERAL CATALOGS... This book addresses the subject of children and television -- how they view it, what they think of specific programs, and how these likes and dislikes affect learning of the content presented. Broad in coverage, it looks at evaluation, comprehension, and impact in the drama, information and entertainment domains. In all cases, demographic and background experiences and knowledge are assessed for their contribution to learning, attitude/opinion change, and stability as a function of exposure to particular program content. Empirical investigations of police dramas, science programs, and quiz shows are conducted utilizing experimental methods and involving approximately 1,000 children in a series of studies.

Related to existing research literature, this work confirms the view of the child/adolescent as an active viewer who is critical, constructive, and capable of learning from the television medium -- even when the program is clearly broadcast as entertainment rather than as education or information. This volume is unique in that it addresses questions of the relation between children and diverse television content in terms of its impact on social and informational schemas.

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After World War II Russian tank development continued to strive for dominance on numerous fronts. This book accounts for all of the Russian and USSR armored vehicles developed just prior to the end of the Second World War to the present. Each model's specifications and data, as well as developmental history, are given in comprehensive text and numerous photos of striking detail. This book is a superb reference for historians and modellers., over 500 b/w photographs, and line drawings, 8 1/2" x 11"

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Very good book of soviet armor.......2005-05-17

This book is about soviet armor development after ww2 and.Book is organized very clearly in chapters, each concentrating to a different types of vehicles. Especially good in this book is that most of the pictures in the book are unseen. Author has clearly an inside view for Soviet equipment and text is reliable, and i understood that he has been working with armored vehicles in the East Germany Army in 70's and 80's.. Pictures are mostly from Warsaw Pact exercises or from Nva East Germany drills and their quality is quite a good.
Text parts are well-written and evolution of tanks is clearly represented. Especially good in this book is that it covers engineering vehicles, reconnaince vehicles and other more rare armored vehicles very well, with some rare pictures.
Schematics part is very nice, it concists of old Nva armor class teaching picture boards, which there are many pages.
Some schematic pictures might be a little unclear or not so great quality but however they are very interesting and fascinating.
Printing is fine and pages are of good paper material.
Even if the text part is not as big as in other great reference book: Zaloga etc- "Soviet armour artillery design practices", pictures here are much better and more informative.

This book is very much recommended for anyone interested in Soviet Armor, and without doubt it's very good also for more-ackowledged armor fans too. Book pictures are great for modellers also. Very recommendable.

Post WW2 Russian armour.......2000-05-15

An all incompassing look at the progress of Russian tanks and other armoured vehicles. It also looks at unarmoured but specialised vehicles such as missile launchers, engineer's vehicles, tracked cargo carriers and tractors. It has a section of schematics and cutaway drawings to give a look inside some very interesting vehicles. The only letdown is the complete lack of colour, except for the (unusually) rather uninspiring painting by David Pentland on the dust cover. Do NOT let this put you off this book. I am sure that anyone with the vaguest interest in the subject will feel that this is a book that they cannot do without. Indulge yourself. Highly recommended.

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In the radically changed and highly charged political atmosphere that has overtaken the United States -- and to varying degrees the rest of the world -- since September 11, 2001, the notion that cultures can harmoniously and productively coexist has come to seem like little more than a quaint fiction. In this time of heightened animosity and aggression, have humanistic values and democratic principles become irrelevant? Are they merely utopian fantasies? Or are they now more urgent and necessary than ever before?

Ever since the ascendancy of critical theory and multicultural studies in the 1960s and 1970s, traditional humanistic education has been under assault. Often condemned as the intolerant voice of the masculine establishment and regularly associated with Eurocentrism and even imperialism, the once-sacred literary canon is now more likely to be ridiculed than revered. While this seismic shift -- brought on by advances in technological communication, intellectual specialization, and cultural sensitivity -- has eroded the former primacy of the humanities, Edward Said argues that a more democratic form of humanism -- one that aims to incorporate, emancipate, and enlighten -- is still possible. A lifelong humanist, Said believed that self-knowledge is the highest form of human achievement and the true goal of humanistic education. But he also believed that self-knowledge is unattainable without an equal degree of self-criticism, or the awareness that comes from studying and experiencing other peoples, traditions, and ideas.

Proposing a return to philology and a more expansive literary canon as strategies for revitalizing the humanities, Said contends that words are not merely passive figures but vital agents in historical and political change. Intellectuals must reclaim an active role in public life, but at the same time, insularity and parochialism, as well as the academic trend toward needless jargon and obscurantism, must be combated. The "humanities crisis," according to Said, is based on the misperception that there is an inexorable conflict between established traditions and our increasingly complex and diversified world. Yet this position fails to recognize that the canonized thinkers of today were the revolutionaries of yesterday and that the nature of human progress is to question, upset, and reform. By considering the emerging social responsibilities of writers and intellectuals in an ever more interdependent world and exploring the enduring influence of Eric Auerbach's critical masterpiece, Mimesis, Said not only makes a persuasive case for humanistic education but provides his own captivating and deeply personal perspective on our shared intellectual heritage.

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Said's last offering to the World.......2007-05-19

Of course this is one of Edward Said's last offerings to the world. Coming out of Columbia University Press where he taught for five decades, it offers a cogent sampling of Said's thoughts towards intellectuals and humanistic practice in America today.

One overarching theme of the book is simply that the humanities in no way represent a set doctrine of must reads, but rather consists of an organic canon perpetually open to new works, influences and analysis. Some of the spokesmen and advocates for a staid brand of humanism receive a healthy dose of criticism from Said; William Bennett and Allan Bloom specifically. A Closing of the American Mind is indeed exactly what happens when Bloom's thoughts are allowed to wash over the reader. Sam Huntington takes his share of well deserved criticism as well, which obviously relates to his orientalist musings about a clash of civilizations.

More than once Said writes specifically of the challenges, privileges and opportunities currently afforded to intellectuals committed to humanism who happen to reside in the United States. The fact that America is alone as the globe's sole superpower has a constant ubiquitous presence for intellectuals and those who espouse humanistic principles. At one point Said admonishes American humanism in general for being too wedded to a Eurocentric outlook. He points out that it is a bias that cannot remain unquestioned. American humanists are frankly too important because they are citizens, writers, artists and intellects living in the world's only remaining superpower.

Said devotes a chapter to an observation of cultural influences. Pointing out how writers, musicians and painters do not necessarily create or work on a tabula rasa because "the world today is heavily inscribed with information and discourse that crowds around one's individual consciousness." Primarily during the Cold War the CIA subsidized countless humanistic and academic conferences and journals. Humanism and Democratic Criticism goes on to explain that the CIA, while not totally dominating cultural life, has nonetheless had a strong influence.

Towards the end of the book a lengthy chapter deals with a thorough analysis and critique of Erich Auerbach's influential work Mimesis. Of which Said claims is the finest literary humanistic work of the last half of the 1900s. Passages are gone over with an emphasis on sociopolitical context taking into account a host of various factors. The analysis of Goethe and his influences on German fascism is astounding.

Humanism and Democratic Criticism should probably be read on a few different levels: 1.) For a sampling of the late Edward Said's ruminations on a topic he more than anyone else had the authority and expertise to dissect and expound on at length. 2.) As a general academic treatment of an area of inquiry arguably more important now than at any time in the recent past. 3.) Simply as the last book from one of the world's top intellectuals in history.

He is deeply missed.

Beautiful and nuanced.......2005-07-03

Despite its size, this brief collection of lectures comprises a nuanced and compelling argument of how to rescue the humanities from their growing marginalization and irrelevance. Calling for a return to philology and criticizing the jargon-laden obscuratinism and relativism of much of contemporary humanistic practice, Said nevertheless maintains the benefit of close readings of texts and a multiculturalism that consists of expanding the canon rather than tossing it out all together -- in contrast to the willful ignorance of other cultures advocated by the likes of Harold Bloom and Bernard Lewis.

Said also updates and expands on his views of the intellectual in public life which he touched upon in the series of lectures "Representations of the Intellectual." I found these parts quite interesting. However, if you don't hold the same views as the Old Left, you will need to substitute your own discontents for some of his particulars.

A small book from my kind of scholar.......2004-12-04

This book lists from six to 22 references at the end of each chapter and includes an index on pages 145-154. Those who find the source of their ideals in humanism might expect to find Edward W. Said providing strong support for the political application of such ideals, as the final selection in this book, "The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals" (pp. 119-144) was previously published in `The Nation' (2001). Lectures that were begun in January 2000 at Columbia University were expanded in October and November 2003 with delivery at Cambridge University, then revised for publication to address "a world of heightened animosities" (p. xvi) due to the unfortunate events of September 11, 2001.

I found Nietzsche more often in the text than in the (two) listings in the index, but the two listings in the index for "Vietnam War, 12-13, 34" merely suggest how much motivation can be wrung from "This Cold War cultural tension" in spite of the desire of those who wish to teach refinement above all else as "an unpolitical, unworldly, and oblivious (sometimes even manipulative) attitude to the present, all the while adamantly extolling the virtues of the past" in the choice of subjects for study. The situation breaks the hearts of those who get all fired up to do one thing, only to discover "that there are no jobs for them or that they have to teach many hours of remedial courses in several institutions as adjuncts or part-timers without health benefits, tenure, or prospects for advancement." (p. 14). This is so sad, it brings to mind how many people of the next generation found some mild recognition of their own intellectually tortured times by turning to comedy. In truth, when the loyalty of Americans is questioned, entertainers who can show some comic supernatural powers in a way that is far over the top of whatever level the late Edward W. Said (may he rest in peace) is on in his consideration of changes that occurred in the years he taught, prior to his death on September 24, 2003, are far more likely to be appreciated by the generation currently starting out in life, if the comic nature of everything that American society attempts is fully understood, than this overly serious summary of professional thinking. Columbia University even found its way into remarks that Ted Rall used to introduce himself to the Yale Political Union in New Haven, Connecticut, on December 4, 2003, just a year ago:

"Thank you for inviting me here tonight. As someone who has been both expelled by and graduated with honors from Columbia University, a place you rarely think about, I know that you'll accept the sympathies that I'd like to offer on behalf of a beloved Yalie George W. Bush. . . . Sadly, this middle-aged white man . . . finds himself, in the immortal closing voiceover from Kubrick's `Full Metal Jacket,' in . . ." (GENERALISSIMO EL BUSHO, p. 181).

The profane flavor of the knowledge that Ted Rall flaunts in his opening remarks is primarily a warning to those who might follow the political footsteps of their own times if comedy fails to deter such an outcome by showing that no one is being fooled unless such foolishness is freely chosen by those who fall for an immortal closing line. Said attempts to provide the same warning on an intellectual level by pointing out that "Immanuel Wallerstein has, over the last couple of years, been writing a sustained intellectual critique of Eurocentrism that serves my purposes here very well," (Said, p. 52). The lecture on philology begins with a comparison of the hermeneutics of language in Arab-Islamic culture with interpretation in Europe since Vico's NEW SCIENCE (1744) that brought about the insights of Nietzsche, Emerson, and Richard Poirier. After a number of attempts to describe close reading, we find the advice, "Only connect, says E. M. Forster, a marvelous injunction to the chain of statements and meanings that proliferate out of close reading." (p. 66). The goal of entering a text allows the reader "a component of personal commitment and extraordinary effort, called `ijtihad' in Arabic." (p. 68). "It is not surprising that since the fourteenth century there has been a robust struggle going on about whether ijtihad is permissible, to what degree, and within what limits." (p. 69). The danger of going too far "is what Swift parodies mercilessly in A TALE OF A TUB." (p. 69).

The intellectual tradition of exiles has much in common with a topic of a book of essays by Isaac Deutscher on "how great Jewish thinkers--Spinoza, chief among them, as well as Freud, Heine, and Deutscher himself--were in, and at the same time renounced, their tradition, preserving the original tie by submitting it to the corrosive questioning that took them well beyond it," (pp. 76-77). A humanist asserting anti-superpower values in America is prone to its own form of toughness, "maintaining rather than resolving the tension between the aesthetic and the national," (p. 78).

Chapter 4, Introduction to Erich Auerbach's MIMESIS, provides an example of an exile who wrote a major book in the German language while in Istanbul during World War II, but who then came to America to be a professor at Yale until his death in 1957. Auerbach also relied on Vico, who provided "a cycle that goes from primitive to advanced and degenerate epochs, then back to primitive, Vico says," (p. 91). There are some sweet instincts, and some not so sweet, and America today, as a place for thinking, confounds anyone who is seriously going to contend that this is being figured out. All that follows from the simple observation that America was attacked threatens to prevent any thought that would like to jump back to before that happened to try to arrange things a bit differently. It is even economically preposterous to try to think that this epoch is not totally degenerate.

An elegant last work.......2004-06-27

These series of lectures represent Said at his most eloquent and heartfelt. Brief and therefore not as rigorously argued as his longer works, he makes his case for what studies of the humanities can be, in fact need to be in the 21st century. While making only cursory swipes at his usual opponents (Bernard Lewis, Harold Bloom)his book is more celebratory and admiring of the writers he has emulated and been influenced by: Eric Auerbach most prominently. An elegiac summa from a writer who will be missed.

Democratic Humanism and American Literature

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Democratic Humanism and American Literature
Harold Kaplan
Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers
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Humanism and Democratic Criticism
Said Edward W.
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UETIL8

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Humanism and Democratic Criticism
Edward W. Said
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPV99C

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Illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes

Edited by Francis H. Allen

Introduction by John Hay

"If a human being were to write perfectly he or she would write like Thoreau. . . . This [is a] handsome volume, enhanced with the bird paintings of Fuertes."
-The Washington Post

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A nice supplement to _Walden_ or to any bird field guide.......2001-06-16

The editor combed through Thoreau's journals, found the naturalist's written observations of birds, and compiled them into this compact volume. The words can be insightful and melodious. Canada geese "migrate, not flitting from hedge to hedge, but from latitude to latitude, from State to State, steering boldly out into the ocean of air." Perhaps the most interesting passages are those of additional historic importance: his dated sightings of the passenger pigeons (or as Thoreau calls them, "wild pigeons") that were plentiful in New England in the mid-1800s but are now extinct. "I frequently see pigeons dashing about in small flocks, or three or four at a time, over the woods here," he wrote on May 7, 1859. Details are not for the squeamish, however. Henry lived in a time when hunting was not limited to game animals, and dead bodies were often brought to him for identification or examination. And he wrote about what he saw. Nevertheless, if you like Thoreau, or if you're a birder with a life list, you'll appreciate this book.

Good, affordable edition of a classic on winged wildness ........1999-04-03

"There are little strains of poetry in our animals," Thoreau observed. "What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own." It is fitting that this volume, out of print since 1910, be brought back to life. Nineteen reduced-scale illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes resonate off Thoreau's own descriptions and affections.

The book is divided into twenty-three categories of birds, and within each section the diary entries are arranged chronologically. The index is useful and, like Thoreau himself, a blend of the downright and the unaccountable; for example, among all those birds one can find "Blueberry trees," "Frog, dreaming," and "Suckers, dead." Thoreau's purposes and results, as John Hay points out in the introduction by quoting Thoreau himself, remind us that "there is a world in which owls live."

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Walden and Other Writings
Henry David Thoreau
Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0543951014
Release Date: 2000-05-30

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Part philosophical treatise, part autobiography, and part revelation, Walden is theproduct of Thoreau\'s solitary stay at Walden Pond, in which he attempted "to live deep and suck out all of the marrow of life." Through rich, vivid description and philoso

Burroughs' Birds and bees ; Warner's A hunting of the deer and other essays ; Thoreau's The succession of forest trees and Wild apples (The Riverside literature series)

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Burroughs' Birds and bees ; Warner's A hunting of the deer and other essays ; Thoreau's The succession of forest trees and Wild apples (The Riverside literature series)
John Burroughs
Manufacturer: The Riverside press
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0008CK21M

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My study windows
James Russell Lowell
Manufacturer: Houghton, Mifflin and Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B000855QYM

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Notes on New England birds,
Henry David Thoreau
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Co
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B00086OE3K

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Thoreau On Birds
David Henry. Cruickshank, Helen Thoreau
Manufacturer: McGraw Hill
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0000CMG2N

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Thoreau On Birds
HELEN (ed.) CRUICKSHANK
Manufacturer: McGraw Hill
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K09AYC

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Birds and Animals - 2nd Series
Thoreau MacDonald
Manufacturer: Privately Printed
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000Q8UO1Q

Review, Thoreau on birds (Wilson Bulletin)

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Review, Thoreau on birds (Wilson Bulletin)
Herbert Krause
Manufacturer: State University
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007F32TY

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