Coming Through the Swamp: The Nature Writings of Gene Stratton Porter

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Gene Stratton-Porter , and Sydney Landon Plum
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Explore the beauty of Snowdonia & North Wales with this slim-line pocket-sized walking guide with a range of walks to suit the casual walker and the hiker. The walks are fully annotated with places to visit on the way, each one highlighting a particular feature, including wildlife, history, and the countryside. Refreshment panels highlighting tea rooms and pubs along the way are included, as well as general information on footpath signs, countryside access, walking tips, safety guidelines, and dog friendliness.

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A timely book for DNA researchers, Automated DNA Sequencing and Analysis reviews and assesses the state of the art of automated DNA sequence analysis-from the construction of clone libraries to the developmentof laboratory and community databases. It presents the methodologies and strategies of automated DNA sequence analysis in a way that allows them to be compared and contrasted. By taking a broad view of the process of automated sequence analysis, the present volume bridges the gap between the protocols supplied with instrument and reaction kits and the finalized data presented in the research literature. It will be an invaluable aid to both small laboratories that are interested in taking maximum advantageof automated sequence resources and to groups pursuing large-scale cDNA and genomic sequencing projects.

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A fully systematic treatment of the dynamics of vortex structures and their interactions in a viscous density stratified fluid is provided by this book. The various compact vortex structures such as monopoles, dipoles, quadrupoles, as well as more complex ones are considered theoretically from a physical point of view. Another essential feature of the book is the close combination of theoretical analyses with numerous examples of real flows. The book further provides real physical insight and base for postgraduate students specializing in geophysical and applied fluid dynamics. Among the family of vortex structures considered in the book, the most remarkable are the vortex dipoles. These are fundamental elements of the complex chaotic flows associated with the term 'two-dimensional turbulence'. The appearance of these structures in initially chaotic flows is currently of great interest because of a myriad of geophysical applications. Specific examples include the mushroom-like currents discovered from satellite images of the upper ocean. The book is well illustrated with many original photographs (some in colour) and diagrams.

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Story of the Hour

"The story of an hour" by Kate Chopin

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Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories: At Fault / Bayou Folk / A Night in Acadie / The Awakening / Uncollected Stories (Library of America)
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Release Date: 2002-09-26

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From ruined Louisiana plantations to bustling, cosmopolitan New Orleans, Kate Chopin wrote with unflinching honesty about propriety and its strictures, the illusions of love and the realities of marriage, and the persistence of a past scarred by slavery and war. Her stories of fiercely independent women, culminating in her masterpiece The Awakening (1899), challenged contemporary mores as much by their sensuousness as their politics, and today seem decades ahead of their time. Now, The Library of America collects all of Chopin's novels and stories as never before in one authoritative volume.

The explosive novel At Fault (1890) centers on a love triangle between a strong-willed young widow, a stiff St. Louis businessman, and the man's alcoholic wife. In the story collections Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), Chopin transforms the local color sketch into taut, perfectly calibrated tales of post-Civil War bayou culture. In The Awakening, the now-classic novel that scandalized many of her contemporaries and effectively ended her writing career, Chopin tells the story of a restless, unsatisfied woman who embarks on a quixotic search for fulfillment.

The volume also includes all the stories not collected by Chopin, including those meant for "A Vocation and a Voice," a projected volume that her publisher canceled in 1900, and three stories that were found in 1992 in a long-lost cache of Chopin's papers.

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A Fine Collection.......2007-07-26

This book is a great collection of Kate Chopin's writings. Chopin truly has a way of portraying women in her writings much differently than society in her day believed they should be. If you read her works knowing this, you will come to respect her work the way I have. I believe that in a time when women weren't allowed to speak out on the injustice they faced in society, and the belief that they couldn't be independent sexual creatures, Kate Chopin was making a stand in her writings to express how complex, independent, and sexual they really were. She is an amazing writer and this is an amazing collection.

Story of the Hour.......2007-02-14

Kate Chopin's `Story of the Hour', was an interesting story. Not necessarily in a bad way at all. I mean you except it to go one way but it goes another. This story is about a woman, who discovers that her husband is dead, but she's neither upset nor devastated, she is excited.
Mrs. Mallad is the only character the author really describes, as young woman with a fair calm face. She could be described as very emotional. Why is she so happy that her husband is dead?
The story starts at Mrs. Mallad's house, she is in her room. An excellent theme for this story is `To be excited about something is not always a good thing.'
The strength for this story is most definitely the plot. It keeps your attention and allows you to see a different view. A weakness is the description; really the story only describes one thing, Mrs.Mallad. I think that the story needs to tell us more about her past life and what happened during those couple of years.
Overall this story was OKAY.

"The story of an hour" by Kate Chopin.......2007-02-14

"The story of an hour" by Kate Chopin was a good short story. Not bad, but good. It's about a woman named Mrs. Mallad that learns that her husband is dead. She then thinks she is free until certain events ruin it. Mrs. Mallad is the main character and the only one the author describes. She is young with a fair, calm face. She is also very emotional!
The story starts at Mrs. Mallad's house and in her room. A possible theme is to not get your hopes up. The strength in the story is the plot. It keeps you on your feet. For the weakness, I would have to say description. The story should've said what her past was like with her husband. Good or bad?
Overall "The story of an hour" was good.

Rich and rewarding.......2005-03-30

In the late 1800s, Kate Chopin set the literary world on fire with her now-classic novel "The Awakening." But that wasn't by any means the only writing Chopin did. "Complete Novels and Stories" brings together the assorted writings that Chopin did, before le scandale caused her to swear off writing forever.

Her first novel "At Fault" was apparently something of a roman a clef -- a thirtysomething Creole woman is widowed, and takes over the family estate. She falls in love with a businessman, David -- but he is divorced, and her strong Catholic beliefs don't allow her to marry a divorced man.

"Awakening" was the novel that outraged the Victorian morals and sensibilities of the time, and tragically ended Chopin's writing career. Beautiful wife and mother Edna Pontellier has it all: a wealthy husband, cute kids, beautiful house... and yet she is dissatisfied. So Edna begins dabbling in painting and extramarital flirtations, with tragic results.

"Bayou Folk" and a "Night in Acadie" are collections of short stories, centered in New Orleans and the areas of Louisiana nearby. Breakups, romance, death, marital dissatisfaction, freedom, racism and other still-touchy topics are explored in these stories, although bits of humor do intrude from time to time, such as the very short "Old Aunt Peggy," about an ancient black woman who astonishes everyone by never dying. Added on to these are a number of uncollected stories.

It takes a lot to make a book "scandalous" now, but in the late 1800s -- the height of the Victorian era -- it was painfully easy. There's nothing shocking in Chopin's writing by current standards, leaving her writing as a grave look at human nature. In that sense, Chopin's stories are truly timeless, and not just for women.

Continuing themes do run through Chopin's short stories and novels, such as freedom, social boundaries, and the restrictions put on women at the time. One particularly stunning story is "Desiree's Baby," about a young woman and her child who are cast out because the baby is not 100% white... except that her cruel husband has made a mistake.

But it's not nearly as bleak as it sounds -- Chopin's writing is tempered by her dignified, distant 19th-century writing style, and the beauty of her descriptions. ("There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air.") Those descriptions can gloss over plot events as grim as suicide.

"Complete Stories and Novels" is an excellent collection of Kate Chopin's work, and leaves one with regret that she didn't get to write even more during her brief lifetime.

Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie (Penguin Classics)

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Kate Chopin Short Stories

Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie (Penguin Classics)
Kate Chopin
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Kate Chopin Short Stories.......2002-03-19

I loved this book! It is a collection of short stories, originally published singly in magazines. They provide a snapshot of life in Louisiana in the late 19th century, and truly fulfill this reader's desire to be transported to a different time and place.

In each story, often only a few pages long, the author paints a vivid picture a the characters, their circumstances, and motivations.

The theme of all the stories is change. Although the turns of events described are generally not monumental, they are often the catalyst for a significant change in a character. And sometimes the point is that there is no change.

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Awakened Men in Kate Chopin's Creole Stories.(Nineteenth-century American writer): An article from: ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
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Legendary U.S. Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes is not only a giant in American legal history but is also remarkable for having been a master prose stylist. This collection, edited by Richard Posner, who is himself a federal judge, contains essays, speeches, letters to friends, and legal opinions that give the reader a highly enjoyable look into the thoughts that emanated from a very active mind.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., has been called the greatest jurist and legal scholar in the history of the English-speaking world. In this collection of his speeches, opinions, and letters, Richard Posner reveals the fullness of Holmes' achievements as judge, historian, philosopher, and master of English style. Thematically arranged, the volume covers a rich variety of subjects from aging and death to themes in politics, personalities, and law. Posner's substantial introduction firmly places this wealth of material in its proper biographical and historical context.

"A first-rate prose stylist, [Holmes] was perhaps the most quotable of all judges, as this ably edited volume shows."—Washington Post Book World

"Brilliantly edited, lucidly organized, and equipped with a compelling introduction by Judge Posner, [this book] is one of the finest single-volume samplers of any author's work I have seen. . . . Posner has fully captured the acrid tang of him in this masterly anthology."—Terry Teachout, National Review

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"The best source for the reader who wants a first serious acquaintance with Holmes."—Thomas C. Grey, New York Review of Books

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A must for those interested in Holmes and Free Minds.......2007-09-01

This selection made by Posner gives us an interesting and different approach to Judge Holmes which allow us to discover not only the Judge but the most intimate thoughts of the writer and philosoper who Holmes was.

A must for those interested in Law and Freedom and the human beings who, as Holmes, had no fears to develop a free spirit and to be free individuals.

This is an Excellent Read!.......2004-06-04

The Essential Holmes, edited by Richard A. Posner (judge on the seventh circuit) collects the thoughts of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. via his numerous letters, court opinions, law journal articles and miscelleneous writings. It is a daunting task as Holmes was quite well-learned and something of a polymath, discoursing on everything from metaphysical philosophy to economics to law.

Posner, though, does a great job in editing the letters and pasting the relevant sections into easily digestible sections loosely related to the chapter's 'theme.' Posner's goal, to be sure, is to focus more on Holmes the philosopher, and i'm sure law students (who may know Holmes the Justice best) will thrill at the chance to really see how his philosophy - sympathetic with American pragmatism - extends into his thoughts on law. About the first half of the book is devoted to Holmes's philosophy on everything from metaphysics to the 'life struggle' and 'social struggle.' The second half segues the more theoretical sections into Holmes's views on statutory and common law, the interpretative 'theory' of both, and Holmes's ever contreversial and confusing views on individual liberty.

As the reader will find (or may already know) Holmes's social, ethical, and metaphysical philosophy is something of an individualistic relativism. Dreams of any final theory are suspect, and the social order is not much more than each person operating in self-interest, clashing with other people (doing the same) in something of a never-ending Darwinian struggle. From this (and the fact that Holmes believed all morality to be local and relative to context), law should not be seen as being gotten from some 'natural law'-like moral order, but should be disconnected from morality; rather, it should be seen as humankind's way of deriving regularity from the clashes of human interest in a neat little fiat. The law, then, is simply what the soveriegn says it is.

This (among other things) has made Holmes out to be something of a bad guy. To be sure, he can come off as crass and 'pre-post-modern.' But Holmes is also refreshingly real (at least to my eyes, as I am a philosophic ptragmatist through and through). It is becasue Holmes saw that there is no universal standard of 'natural law' or other such 'free-floating' fictions that he was such a believer in judicial restraint - holding to the constitution even when he personally disagreed. Many of those cases (Lochner, etc.) are included in this volume.

The only two things I was disappointed did not get more time was Holmes's first amendment views which are notoriously hard to decipher, and the conflict between his simultenous support of a 'living constitution' and his belief in judicial restraint. Both are conflicts that even the best of scholars wade through confusedly (never able to resolve their tensions), and it would have been nice to see a bit more focus on these two areas.

Of course, Posner is not at fault as this is an edited collection which can only provide what Holmes said; maybe he simply never resolved these two views.

To conclude, this is a great and artfully done collection that focuses more on Holmes's philosophy (from metaphysics to ethics) than do most of Holmes's collections. For those that know Posner, he is awfully sympathetic in idea to Holmes and his intro, though, breif is first rate; the selections, also, are fantastically picked. This book is not to be missed by lawyers who want some philosophy, and philosophers that want some law. Holmes was just amazingly skilled at both.

Beautifully edited - Oliver Wendell Holmes.......2004-03-11

U.S. Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes has to be one of the most frequently quoted legal scholars and this book walks a reader through his prolific writings. Judge Richard Posner has written some of the most thought-provoking legal books but this one is his editing a compilation of a variety of Holmes' writings that gives well directed insight into Holmes'amazingly creative mind.
Posner's extraordinary introductory facilitates a reader's understanding of Holmes' pearls of wisdom and for anyone fascinated by legal brilliance this book is a great read.

Genius!.......1998-07-08

Posner, who is arguably today's most influential legal thinker, has put together an invaluable collection of Justice Holmes' most memorable writings. The combo of Posner selecting Holmes is powerful: the selections invariably present the brilliant Holmes on timeless legal topics. So much brain power is frightening, and we are lucky to be able to get it all in one fairly short book. All the more remarkable is how Holmes' ideas have not aged a bit; the similarities between Holmes and Posner are obvious.

This book is a must for academically-inclined lawyers, judges and professors.

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Essential Holmes, The: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell; Posner, Richard A. Holmes
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THE ESSENTIAL HOLMES: SELECTIONS FROM THE LETTERS, SPEECHES, JUDICIAL OPINIONS, AND OTHER WRITINGS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. Edited by Richard A. Posner
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Why have some developing countries industrialized and become more prosperous rapidly while others have not? Focusing on South Korea, Brazil, India, and Nigeria, this study compares the characteristics of fairly functioning states and explains why states in some parts of the developing world are more effective. It emphasizes the role of colonialism in leaving behind more or less effective states, and the relationship of these states with business and labor in helping explain comparative success in promoting economic progress.

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Provocative, but no new topic.......2006-12-08

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In his book State-Directed Development, Atul Kohli, Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, asks the long-discussed and controversial question why some countries have succeeded in creating wealth and raising the standards of living of their citizens while other countries have failed despite extensive efforts.

To approach the question, Kohli presents four country cases in a comparative study - Korea, India, Brazil and Nigeria - providing extensive information on each country's colonial history, its class structures as well as the political and economic decisions that took place since their independence.

Kohli divides the wide array of developing countries into three ideal-type categories of states: cohesive-capitalist states, fragmented-multiclass states, and neopatrimonial states. He points out that none of the four samples in the study ever reflected any of those ideal-type categories (though some have come close to one or another), and, in addition, that states tended at different times with varying governments and regimes to different categories.

Cohesive-capitalist states represent, according to Kohli, nations with a strong, centralized government and are organized along a professional and meritocratic bureaucracy. The state in this example is insulated from any elite or popular interests, utilizes nationalism to mobilize support and to overcome fragmentation within the population, cooperates closely with businesses and investors, and intervenes heavily in the economy to enforce a rapid industrialization process. The nations that came closest to this description in Kohli's sample of case studies are Korea under Park Chung Hee and Brazil during the Vargas regime. On the other extreme of the scale, Kohli identifies neopatrimonial states, which are depicted as structurally weak states, taken hostage by a small cliqué of corrupt leaders whose only interest is personal aggrandizement. In a neepatrimonial state, corruption and rent-seeking is endemic, and leaders have no commitment to any public greater good. The nation that comes closest to this description among Kohli's sample is Nigeria for most of its post-colonial history. Finally, Kohli describes the fragmented-multiclass state, a state in which the population is fragmented along ethnic, tribal, class, religious or regional lines, but which is nonetheless ruled by a democratic regime. To maintain the ability for political action, the leaders of the latter state frequently furnish conflicting promises to different interest groups, while falling short on delivering them accordingly. Kohli sees the latter category relected in post-independence India.

While neopatrimonial states are likely to fail in creating growth and development for understandable reasons in an environment of endemic corruption and rent-seeking, Kohli argues that "[c]ohesive-capitalist states have proved to be the most effective agents of rapid industrialization in the global periphery" (p381). This is due to their ability to define and to enforce narrow economic goals, as well as to align all domestic resources and rally all classes - workers as well as capital-endowed elites - along a common economic agenda. The economic performance of fragmented-multiclass states, Kohli argues, end up somewhere between cohesive-capitalist and neopatrimonial states, with middling economic results due to recurrent swings in their political focus to accommodate changing pressures of conflicting interest groups.

Up to here, Kohli's concept of state categories does not exceedingly differ from Peter Evans's theory of developmental states which classifies states according to their ability to act as agents of societal transformation and growth. Kohli's neopatrimonial state equals Evans's predatory state, the fragmented-multiclass state is similar to Evans's intermediate state, and the cohesive-capitalist state seems to be comparable to Evans's developmental state. (Evans, "Embedded Autonomy," 1995) Kohli, however, distinguishes his understanding between the concept of the cohesive-capitalist state and Evans's development state as follows: "[P]olitical capacities are rooted not in the levels of information exchanged between state and business [as in Evans's developmental state] but in the amount of power the states command to extract resources, to define priority areas of expenditure, and to instill a sense of discipline and purpose in society." (385) The `discipline' Kohli refers to materializes in the "control of labor, downward penetration of state authority so as to silence opposition and control behavior, and nationalist mobilization so as to put a peacetime economy on a war-time footing." (p389) In describing Brazil's experience, Kohli becomes more explicit in outlining what it takes to be a cohesive-capitalist state: "systematic labor repression which generally kept wage gains well behind productivity gains as workers were mobilized to work hard in the name of the nation."(p392)

With the repressive nature of Kohli's cohesive-capitalist state in mind, the book's principal thesis of a cohesive-capitalist state as a "necessary but not a sufficient condition for rapid industrialization in the developing world" (374) becomes provocative. Do developing countries in fact need authoritarian regimes for late late industrialization? Very troubling, at first sight, some prominent examples of recent history - Brazil, Chile, China, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan among them - seem to offer some evidence for it. Indeed, the question whether rapid industrialization necessitates an authoritarian regime has aroused academics for several decades, and considerable academic work has been done.

Anti-authoritarians have pointed to several arguments. First, undoubtedly, development comprises much more than industrialization. While Kohli's book is titled State-Directed Development, his understanding of development is clearly restricted to the term's narrowest sense, which is industrialization. This is further reflected in the various illustrations of the country studies: while rich historical information is provided to each country, there is little information on the simultaneous repression and gross human rights abuses that took place under Korea's dictator Park Chung Hee, the Japanese colonial occupation of Korea, or the Vargas regime in Brazil. Equally, Kohli conveniently ignores in over 400 dense pages any discussion of the notion of development as anything beyond pure industrialization. (see e.g. Amartya Sen's capability approach in: Sen, "Development as Freedom," 1999)

Second, it is frequently argued that authoritarian regimes offer a better protection of property rights, thereby providing a greater incentive for local and foreign enterprises to invest. Barro ("A cross-country study of growth, saving, and government," NBER Working Paper No. 2855, 1989, p22) rejects this notion, arguing that he could only find three former dictatorships in the entire world (Chile, Singapore, and South Korea) that had not engaged in any expropriation.

Third, Pranab Bardhan, developmental economist at UC Berkely, challenges the assumption that the state is the sole potent actor that can bring about development, and refers to a decentralized, community-based approach to development (Bardhan, "Symposium on the State and Economic Development", Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1990, Vol. 4, No. 3 pp3-9).

Finally, but most important, advocates of authoritarian regimes have not been able to pinpoint to any motivational causality why a dictatorial regime - once it was in power - would need to show any concern for the greater public good and long-term growth. Instead, in a realist framework, it was more likely that it joined with elite interests to minimize the risk of another coup d'état - the exact opposite of hoped-for state autonomy and insulation.

Bardhan summarizes that "it is not so much authoritarianism per se which makes a difference, but the extent of insulation (or `relative autonomy') that the decision-makers can organize against the ravages of short-run pork-barrel politics. Authoritarianism is neither necessary nor sufficient for this insulation." (ibid.: 5)

To conclude, Kohli's State-Directed Development sheds new light on a question that has long divided social science into different camps. The detailed historic knowledge presented in Kohli's book will certainly make an impact in development economics as well as cultural and colonial studies, and lead to further studies on the elusive origin of growth.

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The book consists of some massive 425 pages. Reading is tiring, since margins are kept very small on all sides of the page. Changing margines, using common font size and the distances between lines would probably result in a total of some 650 pages.

The book's overall structure is simple: an introductory chapter, 4 chapters (each presenting one case study) and a massive conclusion chapter (60 pages). Within the chapters, structure is kept minimal which makes it at times hard to follow. Historical facts are at times repeated over and over again. The conclusion chapter repeats the essence of every case country once again, which made it necessary to interject another 12-page section named "concluding reflections" within the conclusion chapter itself.

For busy readers, I would recommend to read the introductory and jump to the concluding chapter. Both combined are some dense 85 pages (which would be in common book printing standards still around 120 pages). If you would like to look into each country case, watch out for the paragraphs starting with "To sum up, ..."

December 2006

State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery.(Book Review) : An article from: Pacific Affairs

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State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery.(Book Review) : An article from: Pacific Affairs
Hyung Gu Lynn
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