Superior Wilderness: Isle Royale National Park

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Interesting book.......2005-08-19

This book has some good trivia type information and is interesting reading, but not a lot of practical information that you can use on a trip to the island.

The second-best book on Isle Royale.......2004-09-04

Isle Royale is an unusual national park. You have to take a boat trip of at least three hours to get there, and your options leave from out-of-the-way places like Houghton or Copper Harbor, Michigan, and Grand Portage, Minnesota. As a result, the people who go there tend to say a while--four days, on average. The park is 99% wilderness, so most of those people are backpacking, canoeing or kayaking, while the rest stay at the Rock Harbor Lodge and take day trips.

Given this usage, the book that every visitor needs is Jim Dufresne's guide to trails and water routes. Dufresne also includes information about the flora and fauna.

However, "Superior Wilderness" should be your second book. It is organized around chapters dealing with particular habitats and an animal found in that habitat. Shelton talks about squirrels, falcons and snowshoe hares as well as the famous wolvees and moose. Shelton also spends a lot of time on the forests and the varieties of flora in different parts of the island. (If you like trees, supplement this book with Bernd Heinrich's "The Trees in my Forest.")

I found the book interesting before I went to Isle Royale, and I enjoyed reading it again after my return. The writing style put me off a little bit, which is why I gave it 3 stars instead of 4. Shelton reaches for lyricism about nature but doesn't, in my opinion, quite pull it off. If you want lyricism, read Bernd Heinrich's books.

The author's own comments state that he wrote the book for armchair travelers as well as for people visiting the island. If you want to read about Isle Royale without going there, this is the best book available (and I'd give it four stars).

The best general book on Isle Royale.......2000-09-08

Isle Royale is one of the country's most spectacular wilderness areas, and also one of our most remote and least-visited National Parks. It's a delightful place, with an intriguing natural and human history, yet the number of books and publications currently available about Isle Royale is amazingly small. At last, here's a book that does the island justice, essential reading for anyone who is even thinking about a trip to this out-of-the-way paradise.

Shelton does a superb job of describing the island's flora and fauna, devoting plenty of attention to the animals visitors especially hope to see -- the wolf and the moose -- without neglecting the role of humbler species like the gull, the loon, the beaver and the red squirrel. He also gives a good account of the various human activities carried out on the island -- copper mining, fishing, lumbering, resorts and finally running and caring for a National Park. All in all I found "Superior Wilderness" by far the best introduction to the park, better than, for example, Jim DuFresne's "Isle Royale: Foot Trails and Water Routes," though DuFresne's book is very useful in planning hikes and campsites. True Isle Royale aficionados should also pick up Howard Sivertson's "Once Upon an Isle," a series of reminiscences about growing up in the island's fishing community, illustrated by the author's delightful paintings, and "Isle Royale: A Photographic History," which charmingly documents the island's human history.

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Maui No ka 'oi is what the locals say—it's the best, the most, the top of the heap. And there's good reason for the superlatives. With its tropical allure, its art and cultural activities, and miles of perfect-tan beaches, Maui weaves a spell over more than 2 million visitors each year. Fodor's Maui with Molokai and Lanai 2007 uncovers the treasures of these magnificent tropical islands—from the white-sand beaches of Wailea to the dense rain forest along the Road to Hana. With entire chapters dedicated to beaches; water sports and tours; golf, hiking and outdoor activities; shops and spas; plus the dining and lodging coverage you have come to depend on from Fodor's, this is the most complete and up-to-date Maui guide available.

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• Brand new pull-out map of Maui plus inside front and back cover maps
• 8 pages of full-color photos
• Beach maps that describe the facilities at each location
• At-a-glance resort charts help travelers quickly find the best resorts for their vacations
• A complete spectrum of "Where to Stay" options, from condos and B&Bs to full-scale resorts
• In-depth features on key Maui experiences with photo illustrations

This compact, fun-to-read guide offers readers the best and most complete available coverage of Maui, Molokai and Lanai.

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The theme of this book is the invasion of land by animal lines which originated in aquatic environments. It brings together physiological and ecological evidence to show both the likely routes taken out of the sea by the aquatic ancestors of terrestrial animals and the changes in structure and function associated with these routes. The author takes an ecophysiological approach, and by using representative examples, provides a novel background against which both the terrestrial adaptations of individual species and the make up and function of terrestrial ecosystems can be considered. Dr Little is the author of the highly acclaimed book The Colonisation of Land, which discusses the phylogeny and physiology of terrestrial and semi-terrestrial animals. The Terrestrial Invasion takes a fresh approach and provides an excellent introduction to the origins of land animals suitable for ecologists, physiologists and evolutionary biologists.

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A thorough airing of the physiological problems.......1998-01-23

The title of this book is a little misleading, as if the book dealt with a single "terrestrial invasion," most likely the invasion of the land by vertebrates. In fact, the book focuses on more recent invasions--by snails and crabs and sandfleas--where the data is more plentiful, and only a single chapter addresses the vertebrate story. A thorough examination of the osmoregulatory issues involved in land colonization occupies much of the first half of the book. The author also spends a good deal of time on the microclimates of tide pools, estuaries, beaches, salt marshes, rivers, etc., to get a feel for the problems and opportunities faced by small organisms at the edge of land and water. His thoughts on the vertebrate case are somewhat iconoclastic--he eschews the popularly held notion of drying ponds forcing aquatic creatures up onto land, preferring instead to look closely at the conditions in certain very stagnant, anoxic, flooded swamps in present-day South America. He makes a good case that the adaptations of the creatures inhabiting these swamps (the Chaco in Paraguay, I believe) hold the key to understanding the preadaptations to terrestrial life among vertebrates. In short, the "ecophysiological approach" of the title is sound, illuminating and refreshing.

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What do Schrödinger's wave functions, Escher's intricate tiling patterns and chemistry's latest marvel, buckminsterfullerene, have in common?

This stunning book, written by two world-famous scientists, introduces the reader to one of nature's most fundamental, and ubiquitous, phenomena: Symmetry.

Enormous in scope, this scientific tour-de-force covers topics as diverse as quantum mechanics, stereochemistry, Penrose tilings and Raphael's Madonna. The authors connect these apparently unrelated fields in a completely non-mathematical fashion, which should appeal to the general and specialist reader alike.

Lucidly written and beautifully illustrated, this book provides an eminently readable discussion of the omnipresent concept of symmetry, its application in all branches of science, and its perception in nature, art and elsewhere.

Reflections on Symmetry in Chemistry....and Elsewhere

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Reflections on Symmetry in Chemistry....and Elsewhere
Edgar Heilbronner , and Jack D. Dunitz
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Numerical Mathematics is a unique book that presents rudimentary numerical mathematics in conjunction with computational laboratory assignments. No previous knowledge of calculus or linear algebra is presupposed, and thus the book is tailor-made for undergraduate students, as well as prospective mathematics teachers. The material in the book emphasizes algorithmic aspects of mathematics, which are made viable through numerical assignments, in which the traditional "chalk-and-talk" lecturer turns, in part, into a laboratory instructor. It guides the student to create the algorithm required for any given assignment expressed in whichever programming language is used on the basis of the underlying mathematics. The computational assignments cover iterative processes, area approximations, solution of linear systems, acceleration of series summation, interpolative approximations, and construction of computer-library functions. Throughout the book, strong emphasis is put upon vital concepts such as error bounds, precision control, numerical efficiency, computational complexity, as well as round off errors and numerical stability. The book is not a numerical methods book, containing ready-made computational recipes, but it is the authors' belief that the material presented in this book is part and parcel of the mathematical foundations that should be acquired by a student in the microcomputer era.

Numerical Mathematics - A Laboratory Approach

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Numerical Mathematics - A Laboratory Approach
Shlomo/ Zwas, Gideon Breuer
Manufacturer: Cambridge Univ Pr 1/8/1993
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DAMOETAS Hold! not so ready with your jeers at men! We know who once, and in what shrine with you- The he-goats looked aside- the light nymphs laughed.

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DAMOETAS Hold! not so ready with your jeers at men! We know who once, and in what shrine with you- The he-goats looked aside- the light nymphs laughed.

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Good for students of literature, but too much for others.......2006-03-23

This edition of Vergil's ECLOGUES comes in Cambridge University Press' "Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics" series, and is a typical entry. The Eclogues were Virgil's first literary creation, ten pastoral poems that are often a slavish imitation of the bucolic poetry written by Theocritus, but occasionally show striking originality. The fourth eclogue, a foretelling of a golden age brought in by the birth of a miraculous child, is historically significant as it was appreciated by some in the early Church.

The Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series combines the text with an introduction and extensive commentary. Here these materials are prepared by Robert Coleman, a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The introduction consists of four sections: "The pastoral before Vergil", "The chronology and arrangement of the Eclogues", "Vergil's achievement as a pastoral poet", and "Text, Note on orthography". These are interesting, but as with the introductions of so many works in this series, one feels that the author already expects you to know all about the work in question already. The commentary takes up 227 pages of this 303-page work, and deals many with explicating the historical allusions and poetic devices of the Eclogues. Regrettably, the commentary does not touch much on Virgil's use of archaic Latin diction, for it would be interesting to explore how much earlier these forms had passed from colloquial speech.

If you are interested in the literary themes, this is a good edition to have. Those who would rather read the book out of linguistic interest (like this student of comparative Indo-European linguistics) might rather go with the Oxford Classical Text edition.

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Food memoirs often delve into the meaning of life. This hardly surprises--memories are as essential to daily life as the food that sustains us. Miriam's Kitchen blends recipes and food reminiscences with family narratives and observations about the author's personal evolution as a Jew. Ehrlich weaves the stories from four generations of family life, punctuated with powerful and often tragic memories. While her mother-in-law, Miriam, is teaching her to make chicken livers with noodles, Ehrlich unexpectedly learns how Miriam, her mother, and husband survived a Nazi labor camp in Poland during the Holocaust. Using vivid and bare yet discreet words, she graphically tells what they suffered and the nightmares that still haunt them.

Ehrlich's own story covers her transformation from a child whose family lit Sabbath candles but went boating on Yom Kippur, to an adult who chooses an Orthodox life marked by ambivalence about the rigors of being kosher and pride in what she is passing on to her children. Recipes for Honey Cake, Noodle Pudding, and many others are buried treasures hidden among Ehrlich's intense words. Sadly omitted is a recipe for potato kugel. Her grandmother uses this tempting pudding to good-naturedly test, taunt, and ultimately as the means for accepting her daughter Selina's non-Jewish fiancé into the family. Happily for us, 24 other tempting kosher recipes make up for this one missed dish. Miriam's Kitchen is a gripping and gratifying memoir of food, life, tragedy, and family survival. --Dana Jacobi

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Like many Jewish Americans, Elizabeth Ehrlich was ambivalent about her background. She identified with Jewish cultural attitudes, but not with the institutions; she had fond memories of her Jewish grandmothers, but she found their religious practices irrelevant to her life. It wasn't until she entered the kitchen--and world--of her mother-in-law, Miriam, a Holocaust survivor, that Ehrlich began to understand the importance of preserving the traditions of the past. As Ehrlich looks on, Miriam methodically and lovingly prepares countless kosher meals while relating the often painful stories of her life in Poland and her immigration to America. These stories trigger a kind of religious awakening in Ehrlich, who--as she moves tentatively toward reclaiming the heritage she rejected as a young woman--gains a new appreciation of life's possibilities, choices, and limitations.

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Thoughtful, interesting memoir.......2007-03-10

Miriam's kitchen is a thoughtful, interesting, warm and homey memoir. If you are interested in material culture -- particularly food -- of various groups, you'll find it interesting. It's also a story about balancing identities -- Jewish, American, feminist, traditionalist, etc.

MIRIAMS KITCHEN;A MEMOIR.......2007-01-15

Well done, most interesting, all the various recipes, combined with memories from a time long ago. Have enjoyed it immensely.

This book is a treasure!!.......2006-09-20

This is one of my all time favorite books.

I first came across this book when I was living in Holland, and one day, while browsing the second hand book market in Amsterdam, I came across an editor's copy, how it ended up there I don't know, but I bought the book. I never realized how homesick I was until I read this book. . . it brought back such beautiful memories. The stories reminded me so much of my grandmother, now gone 25 years.

Each chapter is organized by month, reflecting the Jewish holidays that take place in each month, the endless preparation, the planning, and most importantly, the cooking associated with each holiday.

I was also brought up as an Orthodox Jew, and I so dearly remember my grandmother and mother cleaning and cooking for weeks, getting ready, especially for Passover. Walking to shul and then coming home to a delicious meal - I can close my eyes today and almost bring back those tastes.

This book is a loving tribute to Ms. Ehrlich's mother-in-law, but it is a story of life as well, how to survive when survival is unthinkable, how food connects us so strongly with our past, and how making those special holiday meals helps to forge a strong spiritual future for our children.

I did not realize how important it would have been for me to ask for my grandmother's recipes before she died and this is something I will always regret. I was able to find a lot of my grandmother's cooking in the recipes included in this book as well, and I make those recipes often, especially the egg salad, which is exactly how my grandmother made it. When I make it now in my kitchen, exactly as Ms. Ehrlich describes, I can almost feel my grandmother's presence - it makes me want to weep because it is such a small way of feeling close to her again.

If you don't know a lot about the Jewish religion, this book is an easy and interesting way to become acquainted with our customs surrounding holidays, family, life and death. If you have been brought up in the faith, then this book will touch your heart, because it will remind you of your childhood, your grandparents, and perhaps your life now.

Even though it is not a cookbook, all of the recipes are authentic, easy to make, and delicious. I have made all of them, many times over.

I loved this book so much that when I returned to America I brought it with me. Because I was afraid that my editor's paper fronted copy would wear out, since I had used it so much, I bought two additional copies. The first copy I keep with my cookbooks and refer to it often - the second I gave to my mother, who treasures this book as much as I do.

This is a wonderful, affirming story of life. It is a must read.

A heartwarming, bittersweet tale of Jewish tradition, food, and rediscovering what's truly important in life.......2005-12-05

"Miriam's Kitchen" is Elizabeth Ehrlich's inspirational, poignant memoir of life lessons learned in the kitchen of her Polish mother-in-law Miriam, of Miriam's sorrows and hardships translated into endless baking for Elizabeth's family. Like all things Jewish, the bitter with the sweet: there are recipes and mouthwatering descriptions of desserts: cakes, including chocolate sour cream and chocolate-chip pineapple cake, honey cake, Mandelbrot, cookies, and danishkes, holiday dishes (gefilte fish, kneydlekh, kompot chai, latkes), and scrumptious sides (sweet-and-sour cabbage, kugel, summer squash) from Miriam and from the author's grandmothers as well.

Not merely an authentic document of vanishing, labor-intensive, but ultimately rewarding Polish-Jewish immigrant cuisine (which it excels at), "Miriam's Kitchen" also traces the lives of the author's grandmothers and the role that Judaism played (or failed to play) in her upbringing. The main thrust of the novel is the heartfelt search for Jewish roots, beginning by a gradual kosherization of her kitchen (one must have at least two sets of dishes, utensils, and sponges), and extending to the mikvah (ritual bath) and Torah study.

The book is divided into a year, with each chapter covering a month. At the beginning of each chapter is a short diary segment chronicling the author's self-doubts, past treyf transgressions, and regret that she did not spend more time with Miriam sooner. Each chapter is filled with luscious smells from the past: Jewish comfort food as Miriam's mother's mother taught her, prepared without modern conveniences, many recipes existing only in the mind of the chef, having never been written down. Throughout Miriam's lessons, we are given glimpses of Miriam's hardships encountered in surviving the Holocaust, of the pioneering spirit of a young Israel, and the death of her daughter and long wait for grandchildren from Elizabeth, of longing fiercely for someone to love and to pass her knowledge down to.

This beautifully written novel was an inspiration: delicious recipes, to be sure, that recalled cooking next to my babcia as she would make babka, pierogi, golabki, and nalesniki in a small, cozy apartment kitchen, and the loss of culture with the death of the older immigrant generation (I never did get written copies of my grandmother's recipes that she cooked from her memories of her girlhood in Poland, something which I dearly regret). The most moving part of the book for me was the author's spiritual reawakening and the reconciling of Jewish tradition at odds with the lure of the modern world: refusing her children hamburgers and milkshakes, un-kosher fried chicken, and pizza with pepperoni in favor of cooking at home, of reclaimed family time on traditional Shabbats, of rediscovering the power and magic of ritual, and ultimately, a greater sense of purpose in her life.

A Treasure!.......2004-04-07

This author has written a treasure of a book, tying family stories, her own life, and the recipes together into one scrumptious feast. Literature meets cookbook and the result is fabulous. Many thanks to Mrs. Ehrlich for taking us with her on her journey. And bless Miriam for remembering.

One odd sidenote. My grandfather's family was from Bohemia and supposedly were Catholics. How strange to see what I thought were Bohemian words for pot roast and dumplings turn up here as Yiddish. Were the languages so fluid or similar or was a part of my family Jewish in the mid-1800s? Life can be a mystery.

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Miriam's Kitchen: A Memoir
Elizabeth Ehrlich
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Final Dive, By Rick Cline

Final Dive: The Gallant and Tragic Career of the Wwii Submarine Uss Snook
Rick Cline
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Final Dive, By Rick Cline.......2001-07-19

I just finished "Final Dive" By Rick Cline. This is a well written great story of the life and times of the Submariners on the USS Snook. I found it difficult to put down. Orginal letters from sailors on the Snook gave it a personal flavor and a since of what the men went through while at sea. Their thoughts and hopes and dreams of life after the war and during their tours, one going so far to to say that the real heros were the Marines and soldiers that fought in the jungles and in Europe, never once thinking that he too was one of the heros of this war to end all wars. The story of the Snook is a tragic tail of the life of underwater warriors and it gives the readers an insight to life aboard a US submarine and the hell that is war.

Bill Chamberlain Vietnam Vet 68/69 First Infentry Div.

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Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings In American Politics (6th Edition)
William F. Grover , and Joseph G. Peschek
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This distinctive reader–the only collection of critical readings on American government available–takes students far beyond the mainstream debate between liberalism and conservatism to fundamentally challenge the status quo. Voices of Dissent provides a systematic series of critical perspectives on American politics that goes beyond the debate between mainstream liberalism and conservatism. This text nurtures students' abilities to critically assess the “givens” of political and economic life in the United States. A recurrent theme in the selections is political economy and the tension between capitalism and democracy.

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Voices of Dissent - Critical readings in American Politics

Manufacturer: Pearson Custom Publishing
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ASIN: 0536969256

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Paperback,384 pages including credits,edited by John Glassford containing excerpts taken from Voices of Dissent: Critial Readings in American Politics by William F. Grover and Joseph G. Peschek,published by Pearson Custom Publishing,Pearson Longman,2005 CR Pearson,1st printing,cover art,Arms,Stephen Gaul,

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Voices of Dissent : Critical Readings in American Politics
William F. (editor); Peschek, Joseph G. (editor) Grover
Manufacturer: Harpercollins College Div
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Voices of Dissent: Critical Reading in American Politics (with Study Card)

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Voices of Dissent: Critical Reading in American Politics (with Study Card)

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Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings in American Politics (3rd Edition)

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Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings in American Politics (3rd Edition)
Joseph G. Peschek~William F. Grover
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley
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ASIN: B000OUB4TC

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Rozelle's book, a meditation on environmental change, combines cultural studies, science, literature, and film to demonstrate how we react to the awe and terror of crises such as global warming and ozone layer depletion. Chapters include writings on Edgar Allan Poe, the Unabomber, horror movies, William Carlos Williams, "Twin Peaks," Octavia E. Butler, and video games. By showing the sublime dimensions of awareness in art, Rozelle maintains that environmental advocacy is possible for us all.

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Highly recommended reading for its progressive, interpretive perspective of environmentally relevant commentary.......2006-05-05

Ecosublime: Environmental Awe And Terror From New World To Oddworld by Lee Rozelle (Assistant Professor of English at the University of Montevallo) offers an expansive and impressive variety of literature and cultural artifacts, drawing from nineteenth-century, modern, postmodern, and millennial texts in their portrayal of the ecological progression and digression of America. Thoughtful and thought-provoking, Ecosublime explores the endlessly intricate detailing of the conceptual ideals of modernists and presented philosophies ranging from Edgar Allen Poe, to William Carlos Williamson, Charles W. Chesnutt and a great many others. Ecosublime is very highly recommended reading (especially for non-specialist general readers) for its progressive, interpretive perspective of environmentally relevant commentary.

A brave reading of eco-texts.......2006-02-20

Let's start with the author, one of America's premier eco-literary critics, Dr. Lee Rozelle. He is a professor at the University of Montevallo, a small state-funded liberal arts school in central Alabama. His essays have been published widely. One chapter of the book, for example, was presented at the Sorbonne in France. Unfortunately, many Americans will need to be reminded that France is in Europe. Rozelle is a young scholar, a recent Ph.D. graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. I might add that this book solidifies Rozelle as one of the luminaries in USM's century-long history.

The book. Its seven chapters highlight the ecocritical aspects of influential works of American literature. Some of the chapters include cutting-edge readings of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Chestnutt, T.S. Eliot, Wendell Berry (God bless him!), Don DeLillo, and Edward Abbey, among others.

One needs to read this book in the context of today's deadly human illness called terrorism, both terrorism against nature and persons. This is a seminal work related to the terrorist spirit in literature. How and why it has developed. The reader must not miss this. The book is about how we got here to the year 2006, from the rational to the absurd, and how the environment is at the crux of the experiment in human understanding of the outside world.

Ecosublime is intended for a learned audience. I challenge you to tackle it. The book is far deeper than it is wide, and it is not a comprehensive look at "green writing." It is a brave reading of key texts.

For other significant works in the field, see Ecocriticism (Greg Garrard), The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology (Cheryll Glotfelty et al), The Green Studies Reader (Laurence Coupe), and The Isle Reader: Ecocriticism, 1993-2003 (Branch and Slovic).

Reviewed by Dayne Sherman,
Author of Welcome to the Fallen Paradise: A Novel

Eye opening!.......2006-02-11

After reading this book, I now look at global catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina in a whole new light. This book uses novels like "White Noise," TV shows like "Twin Peaks," and even video games to help foster awareness of our ongoing and impending ecological crises.

Sometimes scholarly but definitely accessible.

Brian Becker
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