Trees of North Texas (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation Series)

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This guide, covering 1,505 species of wildflowers, groups flowers by color and plant characteristics for easy matching of pictures with specimens. With descriptions facing the more than 1,500 illustrations, all the information you need can be seen at a glance.

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The handiest pocket guide to flowers of the SW USA.......2006-10-16

According to ecologist Paul R. Ehrlich, "In this century, no one has done more to promote an interest in living creatures than Roger Tory Peterson, the inventor of the modern field guide." Peterson's "Guide to the Birds" - "the first modern field guide" - was published in 1934. Its pioneering approach relied on the use of visual characters rather than technical descriptions to identify species. This was achieved by grouping similar species together on a plate, using clear, two-dimensional illustrations, and pointers to key field marks as well as succinct text, a combination known as the Peterson Identification System. That revolutionary style was later applied to a host of field guides covering anything from the night sky to moths and geology to mushrooms and including the present volume.

"Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers" is Number 31 in the Peterson Field Guide Series, published in 1984 and still in the original edition. The format will, of course, be very familiar to all who have ever held or used a Peterson Field Guide - and to those it will probably be self-recommending. This volume treats 1,505 species found in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. Over 1,500 illustrations are provided, some in colour, but the majority as clear line-drawings. The succinct text for each species is conveniently set opposite the plate depicting the plant.

Clearly this guide cannot and does not attempt to be a comprehensive guide to the flora of the region. However, I have found it to be an indispensable guide on my travels to Texas and Arizona. Personally, I much prefer the concise, densely packed format of the Peterson Field Guides to the newer photographic guides, of which there is now a plethora. However, beginners often seem to prefer the latter. In that case, a handy alternative for Texas might be Tull & Miller's "Wildflowers, Trees and Shrubs of Texas" which treats 600 species or, for Arizona, Epple and Epple's "Plants of Arizona" which covers 850 species.

Not Very Useful For This Novice.......2006-06-07

This book seems to be a Southwestern and Texas version of Newcomb's Wildflower Guide - though the organization is different as this one is organized based on color (with B&W drawings?). Descriptive information is pretty much the same as well as the drawings - the vast majority of which are in black and white - and the color ones don't have enough detail to help much with identification - at least not for this beginner.

The Pecan Tree (Corrie Herring Hooks Series)

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A nice little book

The Pecan Tree (Corrie Herring Hooks Series)
Jane Manaster
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
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Travel anywhere in the southern United States, and you will find pecan trees. So popular are pecans that Thomas Jefferson once wrote home from Paris for a supply, while many people today consider their holidays incomplete without a pecan pie. This inviting book explores the natural history, cultivation, and uses of the pecan tree for a general readership. Jane Manaster pieces together a fascinating mosaic of the peoples caught up in the pecan story--Native Americans, Spanish explorers, European immigrants and their American descendants, African-Americans, and Mexican-Americans. Manaster also describes the natural history of the pecan tree, including its life cycle, the development of many cultivated species, and predators and diseases of the pecan. She chronicles growers' successes in extending the pecan's original range eastward from the Mississippi basin to Florida and westward to California. And she charts the growth of the commercial pecan industry, especially in Georgia, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Not forgetting the pecan's popularity in candy and baked goods, Manaster includes over twenty traditional and modern recipes for such delights as pralines, candied pecans, pecan pie, and pecan logs. With such a wealth of information in so readable a format, The Pecan Tree will find a wide audience among pecan lovers and growers everywhere.

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A nice little book.......2000-10-27

This book apparently is written for the housewife who likes serving pecan nuts or likes baking pecan pies and wants to have some background information. It is very nicely printed, nicely bound and nicely written, with brief easy-to-digest chapters.

There is a modest number of recipes, and a modest bit of natural history. Most of the book is on the history of the pecan growing industry, with a select few historical b&w photographs, and plenty of historical tidbits. This book will make a lovely gift.

My major criticism is that the pecan tree, as a tree, is almost lost from sight, with only a single color picture of a tree and no picture of leaves or flowers (however, nuts are featured infull color). Also the bit on the botanical name is ... Well, let's say if it was a recipe it would yield an inedible product.

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Trees of North Texas
Robert A. Vines
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
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ASIN: B000MG6VTQ

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The Brand family tree
Carolyn Cooksey Maxey
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The development of modern tree-ring chronologies in the Midwest: Arkansas, North Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri
David W Stahle
Manufacturer: Dept. of Geography, University of Arkansas
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Takes you to a time long ago.

Shouts Down Trees
Patricia Winegar
Manufacturer: Trolley House Studio
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ASIN: 1892305003

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A warrior's journey told through prose, poetry, drawings and photographs.

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Takes you to a time long ago........1999-01-17

Join the author as she visits the Old One and explore the ways of his tribe. Meet Shouts Down Trees and walk with him as he journeys to manhood in a time when only Native American Indians roamed the land. A wonderful way to introduce your children to poetry transporting them to another time.

Tree fruit varieties in north Texas (Bulletin / Texas Agricultural Experiment Station)

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Tree fruit varieties in north Texas (Bulletin / Texas Agricultural Experiment Station)
L. E Brooks
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ASIN: B00087U7XA

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John Krich’s Music in Every Room depicts the disappointments and corruptions of modern travel. “This quirky, querulous and oddly appealing travelogue” (The Boston Globe) charts Krich’s journey across Asia with his irascible, courageous girlfriend, Iris, an ex-cheerleader turned mystic from Liberty, Texas. These two abandon Berkeley for uneasy locales where the first and third worlds rarely butt heads, thus abandoning air conditioning and all the other assumptions and comforts of home. They acquire blisters in the Himalayas and dengue fever in Bali, smoke opium with a suspected CIA agent and fend off the supplications of lost hippies and Gandhian holy men alike. They discover that the Pomp and Joy Lodge in Taramarang harbors bedbugs, and the famed shadow puppets of Indonesia take second billing to reruns of “I Dream of Jeannie.” What they don’t find is nirvana, satori, or freedom from the crassness of the West

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I was there.......2005-07-29

This book came out just after I had come home from an extended trip to Southeast Asia, doing cheap backpack travel with a boyfriend I wasn't too sure about. I needed this book. It made me laugh about things I didn't know were funny. This is therapy, plus entertainment, plus travel guide. My hope is that a person considering travel will read this, and go anyway.

"Music in Every Room" was on the brochure for a place we stayed in Yogyakarta, Java, where there was a horrible transistor radio up on a flagpole in the middle of the courtyard, and no matter which room you were in, you could not get away from the noise it made.

The tone of gritty realism with just a touch of bitterness, counterpointed by the girlfriend's relentless good cheer, is just funny. It so well mirrored the two of us.

Excellent writing skills.......2005-06-16

The author's use of pop culture references and turns of phrase made getting through (most of) this book a pleasure. I'm highly recommending it with one caveat (hence the missing ratings star).

I listened to it as an unabridged audio book. It starts off slowly, but moves along well once he and Iris hit Thailand. There are two sections near the beginning (one in Hong Kong and one in Bangkok) told in third-person narratives. These have absolutely nothing to do with (advancing) the plot of the story at all; I found myself wishing I were reading the print version so I could skip them.

My favorite line came near the end: "We were trick-or-treaters dressed up as ourselves."

The perfect travel book.......2005-06-09

I agree with Steve. I must have recommended this book to 50 friends over the years. I have been to several of these places and the book is more fun. The writing is wry and humorous with a vein of sadness. It ranks right up there with Pico Iyer's "The Lady and the Monk" another great travel book about a year in Kyoto.

A Very Different Travel Adventure.......2001-06-06

I read this book years ago and was so impressed with it that I gave copies to several friends. This is a travel book with a very personal twist. The author and his girl friend take off around the world with different goals and with a shakey relationship. The author is not at all confident that they will make it, and several times it seems he may be right. But, they do make it back, together, although that is short-lived.

I'm not at all sure why I liked this book so much. It reflects my own view of travel in a lot of ways. Much of what you get in a long trip to foreign lands is relative to what you expect. The title, for example, is an ironic reflection on this often seen advertisment for rooms. In this case it is a portable radio left on full volume all night in the court yard of a very cheap hotel.

I am now planning my own trip around the world with a shakey relationship and I want to re-read this book. It is funny and sad, philosophical and helpful. Highly recommended!

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Around the World in a Bad Mood: Music in Every Room
John Krich
Manufacturer: Faber and Faber Ltd
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Binding: Hardcover

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Music In Every Room - Around The World In A Bad Mood
John Krich
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-hill Book Company
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ASIN: B000IW9VCS

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Music In Every Room, Around the World in a Bad Mood
John KRICH
Manufacturer: McGraw Hill
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Music in Every Room: Around the World in a Bad Mood
John Krich
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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ASIN: B000OG0N8E

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Demon Doppelgangers

Ancient powers give evil rise

and open up demon eyes.

Find the answer, quell the curse --

or things will surely get much worse...

Paige has a new job -- and it's perfect for her. She's working at a museum, conducting tours through a traveling Grecian display. It's temporary, but it's better than nothing, and it means she gets to see Chase, a really hot guy who started working at the museum at about the same time she did. One day, though, a big stone ovoid meant to represent a dragon's egg turns up, and it gives her the creeps. When Paige asks Phoebe and Piper to come check it out, they agree there's definitely something evil about that weird old egg.

Later, after a long day of tours, Paige and Chase relax near the artifact. Without warning, Chase, who knows only a few Greek words, begins speaking in the language. His monologue opens the egg, releasing a demon that promptly assumes Chase's form. When Paige tries to kill it, it splits in half, forming two identical Chases. With the real Chase unable to explain what happened and demons on the loose, the Charmed Ones will have to count on the Power of Three to figure out what's doubling these demons...and why.

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101 Ways to Die.......2006-04-09

This Charmed book can be alternatively called, 101 Ways to Die. He writes very succintly, putting each and every event into nice, summarized fashion for the reader to read. Unlike Hurricane Hex, this book focuses on the demons, and a multiplying one at that.

The doppelganger in question duplicates himself each time he dies, and the method used to kill him becomes ineffective.

Throughout reading this book, I am suddenly enlightened by the many ways a person can undertake to kill himself. Drowning, jumping off a building, getting shot by a crossbow, getting hit by a shotgun, crashing his own van, ramming himself into a wall, blowing himself into bits, and also even being shot by a bazooka. This Charmed book approaches a new concept of a demon - a regenerative one. Kudos to Greg.

Also, I am most impressed with his creative flair. The spells used throughout the book are aplenty, and each one is written perfectly and wonderfully, with a balanced sense of alliteration, tone and rhyme. I am excellently thrilled with Greg's spells which left me satisfied each time I read one aloud.

Greg's storyline is flawed at times, with some parts of the storyline and detail falling short, but the characters like Darryl and Chase develop with excellence. I am also slightly disappointed with the lacklustre ending, but overall, the book was exciting and wonderfully entertaining.

I would buy more of Greg's books in the future (this being one of them), but I would like to advise him not to watch Final Destination while he is writing it.

STACEY STAR.......2006-03-19

I HAVE NOT READ ALL THE CHARMED BOOKS BUT I AM TRYING TO. I AM NOT ALLOWED TO BY THEM AS IT WILL COST LOADS I HAVE STARTED WATCHING THEM FROM SEASON 7. I REALLY WANT TO WATCH SEAONS 12345678 BECAUSE IT MAKES ME LOOK AT MY LIFE IN A WHOLE NEW WAY. MY FAVOURITE SISTER IS PAIGE

Demons Galore!!.......2006-02-04

This Charmed book was truely unique. When i first read it i was really amazed at how well the author wrote the book. She followed each sister's life very closely so we weren't lost at all. In fact, the end was the absolute best!!! Piper was in the face of death when she realized the demon's weakest point and it was so cool how easily she killed him!! I could not believe the suspense i felt while reading this book! If you love Charmed, read THIS book!!

Hydra Returns.......2006-01-29

Hallelujah. It is about time one of the Charmed ones shows a little common sense. Paige runs into a tourist twice in a short time and suspects he will therefore become part of their lives and duties. She is right. Paige and the tourist both get jobs at the museum giving tours of a new Ancient Greece exhibit. But one item holds a deadly secret.

No sooner is the radar up that something is strange in the exhibit, than a demon is released and it possesses the tourist. But this is no ordinary demon. It likes to die. Every time it dies it doubles and gains an immunity to that form of destruction. While the Charmed ones are hunting the demon, Darryl and the rest of the force are swamped with violent crimes that all seen to involve the same guy even when several occur at once. Can they stop the demon before it destroys the world?

This one was pretty good but I felt Paige realized the immunity factor almost instinctively with almost no data. But other than that things seemed to work pretty well. The characters and their powers were handled better than in some and with good consistency. This one was about as wild as one of the novels can be allowed to be without it contradicting the show.

Doubling Demons=Double the Fun.......2005-12-31

The Charmed Ones are second to none when it comes to vanquishing the deadliest demons, but they find themselves utterly at a loss for answers when an ancient demon is accidentally released. Every time this demon is vanquished it comes back to life--and doubles itself. As if that weren't bad enough, this demon can't be killed the same way twice. The sisters learn that the doubling demons plan to form an army which will destroy our civilization, and their only option may be to sacrifice the man with whom Paige has fallen in love.
Normally, Charmed books have a lot of build up to a single vanquish. Demon Doppelgangers, however, contains several exciting episodes, as the sisters face off against the doubles to protect scores of innocents. This book also contains a large number of spells, and every one of them is well-written. The sisters are skillfully portrayed, and both Leo and Darryl, characters sadly absent now from the series, have strong supporting roles.
Demon Doppelgangers is sure to be doubly delightful to any Charmed fan.

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This comprehensive book covers the core principles of learning and memory in a clear, reader-friendly style, covering animal learning and human memory in a balanced fashion. The relationship between the field of neuropsychology and learning and memory has been stressed throughout the book, with special attention given to brain imaging research. The coverage of memory problems has been expanded to include sections addressing imagination inflation and recovered memory. Additional discussion of spatial memory in Chapter 11 features a discussion of the computer-based virtual mazes that are used for testing human spatial learning. Chapter 12, "Psychopathology and Memory," now includes a piece on post-traumatic stress disorder and related effects on memory. Designed for those interested in the combination of learning with memory and the psychology of learning.

Studies of Mind and Brain: Neural Principles of Learning, Perception, Development, Cognition and Motor Control (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of)

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Studies of Mind and Brain: Neural Principles of Learning, Perception, Development, Cognition and Motor Control (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of)
S.T. Grossberg
Manufacturer: Springer
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Essentials of Psychology W/Making the Grade CD-ROM

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Decent but no CD

Essentials of Psychology W/Making the Grade CD-ROM
Benjamin B Lahey
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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ASIN: 0072487623

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Lahey has built a superior reputation of student success through a sound pedagogical system. A highly respected researcher, Lahey applies learning theory to his text and the result is a system that leads to student learning. Want proof? Open any chapter and you'll see each begins with an advanced organizer that tells the student what the chapter is about and gives him or her a "cognitive structure" on which to hang new information. Each main section is followed by a review to reinforce the cognitive structure, a self quiz to check the learning of facts and critical thinking questions to encourage deep processing. Each of the subsequent sections are tied together in a similar fashion and the chapter is summarized in a hierarchical outline at the chapter conclusion. In short, he tells them what he is going to tell them, then he tells them, then he tells them what he told them. This edition marks the introduction of visual reviews, increased technology utilization, and a new section on study skills. All of this adds up to a text that presents psychology in a way that instructors can trust and that students can learn. This Essentials edition was created for instructors who prefer a more concise text with a soft cover and is based on Lahey's successful Psychology: An Introduction, 7th edition. The content differences between the two books are as follows: the chapters on Research Methods, Gender and Sexuality, and Psychology Applied to Business have been deleted from this edition.

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Decent but no CD.......2005-09-26

THis user did a decent job of communicating with me. They also got the book to me in a decent speed. I did not expect it next day, but made it withing the time frame I expected. The pages do have alot of writing on the pages and alot of highlighting. This is handy, but my teacher does not focus on the same points as the previous user. I am not unsatified.
This book was listed with a CD and that is why I chose it. It did not come with one. I was rather upset about that becasue I could have gotten one without the CD and saved money. I just feel they were trying to boost the price. THat is not an honest thing to do.

Learning and Memory: Major Ideas, Principles, Issues and Applications

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Learning and Memory: Major Ideas, Principles, Issues and Applications
Robert W. Howard
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ASIN: 027594641X

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This book surveys the entire field of learning and memory. It describes the major approaches to its study and looks at basic assumptions and philosophical underpinnings. Howard integrates work from quite different perspectives into a single framework, and describes peripheral areas not usually mentioned in mainstream books, such as prenatal learning, constraints on knowledge, nonconnectionist machine learning, intelligence and learning, and skills learning. He gives the reader a broad knowledge of what the field is all about, what its parts are and how they interrelate, its major principles and key applications. The primary contribution of this work is the integration of current thinking about learning with the literature and research on memory.

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Memory: Phenomena and Principles
Norman E. Spear , and David C. Riccio
Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon
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Principles of Learning and Memory

Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Basel
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Principles of Learning and Memory focuses on the most topical and central phenomena, which are discussed from an interdisciplinary point of view in five sections: formation, organization, consolidation, control, and adaptive specialization of memories. The editors present state-of-the-art reviews that cover the experimental analysis of behavior, as well as the biological basis of learning and memory, and that overcome traditional borders separating disciplines. The chapters present and evaluate core findings of human learning and memory that are obtained in different fields of research and on different levels of analysis (e.g. cellular, neural network, behavioral level). The volume provides an integrated pattern of results wherever this is possible. The reader acquires a broad and integrated perspective of human learning and memory based on current approaches. This textbook is of interest to researchers and advanced students in biology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science.

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Principles of Learning and Memory
R. G. Crowder
Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum
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Principles of Learning and Memory
B.Richard Bugelski
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Study Guide to Accompany Principles of Psychology Today

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Study Guide to Accompany Principles of Psychology Today
Richard R. Bootzin,Robert B. Zajonc Gordon H. Bower
Manufacturer: Random House,New York
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Principles of Psychology Today presents comprehensive coverage of major topics by integrating the findings of both classical research and new developments in the field of psychology.

Learning & Memory Major Ideas Principles

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Learning & Memory Major Ideas Principles
Robert W Howard
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Sparked by demands inherent to the mathematical study of pollution, intensive industry, global warming, and the biosphere, Adjoint Equations and Perturbation Algorithms in Nonlinear Problems is the first book ever to systematically present the theory of adjoint equations for nonlinear problems, as well as their application to perturbation algorithms. This new approach facilitates analysis of observational data, the application of adjoint equations to retrospective study of processes governed by imitation models, and the study of computer models themselves. Specifically, the book discusses: o Principles for constructing adjoint operators in nonlinear problems o Properties of adjoint operators and solvability conditions for adjoint equations o Perturbation algorithms using the adjoint equations theory for nonlinear problems in transport theory, quasilinear motion, substance transfer, and nonlinear data assimilation o Known results on adjoint equations and perturbation algorithms in nonlinear problems This groundbreaking text contains some results that have no analogs in the scientific literature, opening unbounded possibilities in construction and application of adjoint equations to nonlinear problems of mathematical physics.

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Novelist, essayist, and cultural critic Albert Murray--a classmate of Ralph Ellison at Tuskegee University--has spent his whole life affirming the positive aspects of Afro-American culture while rejecting the sociologically flawed assumptions of white America. These essays from the '60s and '70s attack what he called the "social science fiction" propagated by Marxist theorists, black activists, sociologists, and politicians. The book's goal, he wrote, was "to expose the incompetence and consequent impracticality of people who are regarded as intellectuals but are guided by racial bias rather than reason based on scholarly insight." For Murray, black culture derives from the American South; is blues-based in its oral, literary, and musical traditions; and is heroic in its eternal attempts to affirm the principles set down in the Constitution. With the skill of a jazz pianist, Murray lays down some cool intellectual chords that drown out the bleak dissonances of black life articulated in mainstream culture to create a black, brown, and beige--and brilliantly American--composition of his own. --Eugene Holley Jr.

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Excellent, 30yrs later it's still relevant.......2001-01-18

I totally enjoyed the spirit of this book. I might disagree with a few points and admit that Murry at times overstates to make a point. But he is allowed to signify! I disagree with the person from pittsburgh. I think Murry can be a skilled polemicist/intellectual himself, but think he'd rather not. But the book was speaking to polemicist and intellectuals in their terms. That's the whole point. They gotten so caught up in their rhetoric that they've forgotten how to see or speak about the human experience in any other terms. It is positive, the book continues to add a freshness and bounce to the stale social science dialogue about race, culture and particularly Blacks. As he says 'we (blacks) can't afford to be reduced to oppression and repression'. Murry would probably rather chop it up at a jazz bar or barber shop. That's why he gets to signify.

Still good to the last drop.......2000-06-28

Although it's now 30 years old, Albert Murray's debut has hardly aged a day, and his potshotting at the shallow pieties of sociology remains all too relevant. The reader from Pittsburgh seems concerned that Murray isn't positive enough. But I think his central thesis--that we are all omni-Americans, sharing a hybrid, black-and-white culture--is one of the most hopeful things to come down the pike since Whitman hung up his versifying shoes. Add to that the fact that Murray is funny (not an easy thing to be when you're taking Daniel Patrick Moynihan down a peg) and you've got an essential volume on your hands. Three cheers for Da Capo for keeping this in print!

Makes some points, but disappointing.......1998-10-26

Murray condemns both polemic and intellectuals yet he only manages to look at things from an intellectualist viewpoint when he discusses things in-depth and he seems very skilled as a polemicist himself. Very critical of anyone except those with a similar background, including many shots at social scientists, northerners and whites as well as Murray's fellow writers even. Hardly a positive work, despite the subtitle "Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy" which makes you think it will be more than it is.

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