The Dreams of Dragons: Riddles of Natural History

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Acta horti Bergiani
Gunnar Harling
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Double fertilization in Compositae (Contributions to the Hull Botanical Laboratory)
W. J. G Land
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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ASIN: B0008AOS78

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Embryological studies in the Compositae, I-III
Gunnar Harling
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ASIN: B0007KBUEI

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Embryology of Arctotideae and Calenduleae (Compositae)
Lennart Ahlstrand
Manufacturer: [University of Göteborg]
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Embryology of Compositae (International bioscience)
T Pullaiah
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On akenes and seedlings of plants of the order Compositae
Willard Winfield Rowlee
Manufacturer: Torrey Botanical Club
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ASIN: B0008AM532

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Perfect for tucking into a flight bag, this one-of-a-kind travel guide not only tells you what to expect at airportsÑit shows you where to find the most fun, the best food, the choicest lodgings, and the steepest pilot discounts in the Southeast and Caribbean! You get pilot-tested information and tips on airport conditions and facilities; local attractions, including admission fees; choices from low cost to high end lodgings, with phone numbers; names of the best restaurants, with specialties and prices, and alternatives for that quick bite; rental cars; and the most thorough coverage of available pilot discounts that you'll find anywhere! In addition to the Caribbean, this guide covers Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Virginia.

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A complete waste of money.......2002-02-16

SC without Myrtle Beach? NC without Ocracoke or Hatteras? VA and MD, but no Washington DC? This book is useless! There are Area Attactions, but no indication how far they are from the airport. There is a Transporation section, but it leaves out important mass transit options. Most of what is in this book is in my A/FD (and it covers EVERY airport). My (free) AOPA Airport Directory does a better job. I'm sending my copy back for a refund.

don't buy this book - title misleading, poor information.......1999-04-09

poor information, for instance only 6 airports in AZ (GCN,PHX(2x!),DVD,IWA,TUS,RYN). baja not covered at all. CO, KA, OK, TX are not really in the southwest, a current A/FD is a better buy,

The title misrepresents the contents as no Baja information.......1999-03-16

Two problems exist with this book. First, the title misrepresents the content as no information exists in the book on Baja. Second, the information on Southwestern airports is sketchy and incomplete. The book is a dud.

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Readers will be touched and inspired by this latest novel from bestselling author Lurlene McDaniel:

Beth's world has been torn apart. She cannot figure out how to go on when a car accident claims the lives of her entire family, and she is the only survivor. Things seem to get even worse when she moves in with her aunt and her spoiled cousin, Terri. But with the love and support of her aunt and some unexpected friends, Beth struggles to overcome the despair that threatens to consume her. Will she be able to move past the painful memories without feeling guilty for being a survivor?

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Best book I ever read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2006-05-16

This book is about a girl named Beth and her parents Paul and Carol and her brother Doug and sister Allison get into a car accident on their way to an annual picnic down by the lake. When some of the people notice that they are late they go down they go and try to see were they are and about 5 miles down the road they see there van in the road and they called the ambulance but when thy arrived they were already dead. Now Beth has to go and live with her aunt and uncle Camille and Jack and her cousin Terri in tampa, Florida. Sher has to leave her house in Tennesse were she lived all her life with her family and all her friends. Will she ever be able to get over her loss?

The Girl Death Left Behind.......2006-03-09

Beth Haxton was a girl who had a brother and a sister. Alison and Doug. Beth also had a mom and a dad. Their family was a happy family. Beth's parents go to a picnic for her dad's work and they wanted to bring Beth, but she had the flu. Alison and Doug went though. On their way to the picnic they got in a car accident. The police came right to Beth's house to see if Beth was there. Beth heard a ring on te doorbell and saw the police there. Beth got the news from the police that her parents and her brother and sister were hurt real bad. Then Beth went to the hospital and nobody would tell her what had happened. Beth had to call her aunt who lived in Tampa to come up and see her and comfort her. After Beth's aunt came, the doctor told Beth and her aunt that Beth's family was D.O.A. dead on arrival. Beth went to her aunt's house to live. Terri her cousin didn't really like her though. Terri asked her to go to a party with her because she pretty much had to. They went to the party and Beth wanted to leave halfway through. Beth starts to go to school in Westwood and she gets a friend, Jared. This boy was the nicest boy in the school. He liked everyone. Beth also helps out this other girl who has a bad home life. Then she brings Sloane the girl with the bad home life to her house and she stays there for the weekend. Beth starts to be the popular one in the school. Terri and Beth start to be friends and they start to hang out together. At the end Terri and her mom bring Beth to her old house and she goes to the cementry to see her sister, her brother, her dad, and her mom's grave and they live happily ever after.

Left Heartless.......2005-11-22

This book is about a fourteen-year-old girl named Beth. Beth was sick one day in the summer, her family was invited to cookout and she didn't go because she was sick. When her family was on their way to the cookout they got in a car accident, and the whole family was injured. The family was sent to the hospital. Beth was at her house when this accrued. The cops came to her house and brought her to the hospital. They called Beth's Aunt Camille and she got a fight to the hospital. She was Beth's only relative. Beth's parents, brother, and sister ended up passing away and Beth had to go live with her aunt and her family. Aunt Camille had a daughter Beth age and her name was Terri. You will have to read this book to find out if Beth likes her new school, makes new friends, or if her and Terri get along.

The things that I liked in this book were that Beth got along great with her family, she had best friends named Teddy and Marcie, and that her aunt and uncle treated Beth with respect and gave her a lot of support. My dislikes to this book were that Terri didn't get along with her parents or anyone, Beth didn't get to see or speak to Marcie before she left, and that people bought Beth's house and they didn't tell her who it was.

Over all I really liked this book. I could never put this book down. I would recommend The Girls Death Left Behind to a girl because it has a lot of sad and emotional parts in it. I also recommend this book to a girl because the main character is a girl. The events have great details, and I hope that those of you who haven't read this book to read it.

the girl death left behind.......2005-06-07

this book is about a girl that lives with her family. and one day she stayed home that day because she was sick when her family left they got in a car crash the police came to her house and told her that her parents got in a car crash and they died. she had to go live with her sonitty cusin and her ant she went and that moth she went to a baebquie her step sister ask her to because if she didnt she couldnt go then she meet a girl at school and she took her to her house and she stayed the night over winter break. she went and saw her friends and at the end she desided to stay with her ant and her cusin.
the end

The Girl Death Left Behind.......2005-06-05

I think that this is a good book for kids to read because it is sad and it shows what some kids go through. This book is about a girl and her family gets into a car crash and she has to go live with her ant ,and her snoty cusen the boy that her cusen likes likes her. She meets a girl in a bath room and she invites her to stay at her house. Later on she gose to her old house and sees her old friends hey missed her alot and they get to see her for the first time in so long. at the end she deasides that she needs to stay with that family because that is all that she has.
the end

8 Titles By Lurlene McDaniel - I'll Be Seeing You - Telling Christina Goodbye - My Secret Boyfriend - The Girl Death Left Behind - How Do I Love Thee - When Happily Ever After Ends - Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep - Until Angels Close My Eyes

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8 Titles By Lurlene McDaniel - I'll Be Seeing You - Telling Christina Goodbye - My Secret Boyfriend - The Girl Death Left Behind - How Do I Love Thee - When Happily Ever After Ends - Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep - Until Angels Close My Eyes
Lurlene McDaniel
Manufacturer: Bantam
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Suicide | Death & Grief | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000LY4MS6

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8 massmarket paperback Titles By Lurlene McDaniel - I'll Be Seeing You - Telling Christina Goodbye - My Secret Boyfriend - The Girl Death Left Behind - How Do I Love Thee - When Happily Ever After Ends - Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep - Until Angels Close My Eyes

6 Titles By Lurlene McDaniel - Time to Let Go - Too Young to Die - Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever - The Girl Death Left Behind - Saving Jessica - Don't Die My Love

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6 Titles By Lurlene McDaniel - Time to Let Go - Too Young to Die - Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever - The Girl Death Left Behind - Saving Jessica - Don't Die My Love
Lurlene McDaniel
Manufacturer: Bantam
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000LY22D8

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6 massmarket paperback Titles By Lurlene McDaniel - Time to Let Go - Too Young to Die - Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever - The Girl Death Left Behind - Saving Jessica - Don't Die My Love

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This book provides updated knowledge on the basic features and mechanisms of cellular aging established since its first manifestation at cellular level 40 years ago. Contributions of genetic and environmental factors, failure of genetic and cellular repair mechanisms, and the epigenetic modifications determine the final lifespan of cells. This book also provides an understanding on how aging mechanisms in mice, a most frequently used model, differ with that of humans who receive better tumor surveillance because of stringent controls on aging mechanisms. It also appraises the use of modern technology for aging studies and its intervention. This book serves as an excellent reading on cellular aging for undergraduate students, researchers and experts of this area.

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Brilliant, Unique Prose

Six tales don't constitute author's best work

I did not read this particular edition

Department Head...

Underrated and brilliant

Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Binding: Paperback

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Brilliant, Unique Prose.......2005-03-02

Gogol's _Petersburg Tales_, the title under which these stories were ultimately collected by the author, are a perfect example of the brilliance use by the author of narration, absurdity and the fantastic. Note: the reviewer who thought Gogol's narration was "childish" is really missing the boat on Gogol's style!

Very often, great short stories are a little too dense for the first-time reader to feel sucked in, but with Gogol, I only felt that I couldn't read fast enough. His sense of humor is endearing and hits the mark. His narration is unlike anything else in world literature; I can't describe it - just try it out. And his worldview is fascinating, better than Vonnegut!

Six tales don't constitute author's best work.......2002-07-24

This volume constitutes six stories by Gogol of which two are the most famous; "The Overcoat", a wonderful psychological story which was made into a film in the USSR many years ago, and "The Nose", a satire of Russian middle level officials of the early 19th century. Taken as a book, though, these tales full of dreams, asides, and great prolixity are not a major literary landmark on the world stage. Russian literature, as one of the world's greatest collections of works, offers a lot more in my opinion. Gogol, while perhaps a brilliant star for some national literatures, can only be considered a minor writer in Russia, especially if read in English as translated by David Magarshack, whose style can hardly be called `contemporary'. While it's true that Gogol had a good sense of humor, if a little bizarre, it comes across in this translation as childish. (I must hasten to add that I don't know Russian.)

"The Terrible Vengeance" is a rather tedious fairy tale with an incestuous theme, while "The Portrait" bears some likeness to a certain, later work by Oscar Wilde. Though the idea is interesting, Gogol, as in several other stories, just doesn't know when to let go. The story "Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt" contains lively humor and many colorful characters. I enjoyed it the most of all, but it was only the beginning of a larger work, which unfortunately seems never to have been completed.

Some analysts (see the Introduction by the translator)have read into Gogol's work pre-revolutionary predictions of violent change or a rising up of the lower classes. I think such an idea is far-fetched. Similarly, while it is true that Gogol's tales and stories do contain struggles between good and evil, the same can be said of an enormous number of folk tales, religious works, and literary pieces by writers in every language. It is interesting to read Gogol's work to widen your knowledge of Russian and world literature. That is a source of satisfaction, but perhaps not enough. Several of the stories are good, but they don't measure up to his longer works---"Dead Souls" and "The Government Inspector". I would read them first, before this lesser book.

I did not read this particular edition.......2001-05-17

I was just looking and found that a book of Gogol's stories were #3 on University of Southern California's list. I was proud to see this. I'm one of Gogol's biggest fans and I keep it a secret because his talent is special, serious and fun. The Overcoat, Diary of a Madman, Dead Souls and The Nose...what more can you say. The first time I read Overcoat it was in a book of Greatest Short Novels my father had given me. I still hold on to this collection because of Gogol. To me, the Faulkner and James Joyce works included are mere book ends. Overcoat, along with Conrad's Heart of Darkness, stand alone.

Department Head..........2000-10-04

This story, one of Gogol's most famous is skillfully narrated to reflect the author's frustration with civil service and the plight of the poor, and will evoke an emotional response among listeners. Akakii Akakievich is a lowly government clerk. When winter begins he notices that his old overcoat is beyod repairing. He manages to save money for a new, luxurious coat. His colleagues at the office arrange a party for his acquisition. But his happiness proves to be short-lived. On the way home he is attaced by thieves and robbed of his coat. To recover his lost possession, Akakievich asks help from an Important Person, a director of a department with the rank of general. He treats Akakievich harshly and Akakievich dies of fright within three days. One night when the Important Person is rerutning home, he is attacked by a ghost, late Akakii Akakievich, who steals his overcoat. The stealing of outer garments continue, even though now the ghost is a big man with a moustache and enormous fists. A simpler, if perhaps more prosaic, way of restating the general thrust of the storyline would be to say that 'The Overcoat' is like a good poem. It can be endlessly annotated, interpreted, dissected, but still emerges whole and fresh, like a new morning...

Underrated and brilliant.......2000-06-29

I don't remember how I came across Gogol. But I'm glad I did. The morbid absurdity of these short stories (along with the unfinished "Dead Souls") marks him as a talented writer.

Gogol seems to be able to milk character from mundane situations, but at the same token craft words that have as much to do with Garcia Marquez' magic realism than traditional Russian literature. It is this aspect that at first caught me off guard, but in the end made me fall in love with Gogol's prose.

My two favourites are these:

"The Overcoat", the story of a poor, downtrodden man who saves and saves to buy a fancy new overcoat, but has the whole plan blow up in his face. It is tragedy, but often humourous; sad, but joyous.

"The Nose", which is one of my all time favourite short stories. Gogol manages to turn the story of one man's search for his lost nose (where does he find it? In a cathedral, of course!) into a scathing indictment of Russian caste system. It is wonderfully written and wonderfully absurd, and in the end you just go along with the context Gogol has created, because you trust that this is a writer who knows what he is doing.

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Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Manufacturer: W W Norton & Co Inc
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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THE OVERCOAT AND OTHER TALES OF GOOD AND EVIL

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The Overcoat, and Other Tales of Good and Evil
Nicolai V. Gogol
Manufacturer: William Morrow and Co. NY,
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000QPKLC6

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In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself.

When Mötley Crüe was at the height of its fame, there wasn't any drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do. He spent days -- sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers -- in a coke and heroin-fueled daze. The highs were high, and Nikki's journal entries reveal some euphoria and joy. But the lows were lower, often ending with Nikki in his closet, surrounded by drug paraphernalia and wrapped in paranoid delusions.

Here, Nikki shares those diary entries -- some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre -- and reflects on that time. Joining him are Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Slash, Rick Nielsen, Bob Rock, and a host of ex-managers, ex-lovers, and more.

Brutally honest, utterly riveting, and shockingly moving, The Heroin Diaries follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom -- and his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again.

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Boring.......2007-10-15

I thought the book was boring. Perhaps a good scare tactic for those who have never experienced some form of narcotic addiction and is considering the rock star life style. I was hoping this book would shed some light on how to recover from an addiction of his kind. It simply a self-loathing pity party. And in the sick twisted mind of a future addict a how to manual. I was hoping the diary entries would be followed by recovery and coping but I felt he was almost gloating about how messed up his life was. Like it's something to be admired, cuz he was such a bada**. I felt no humility is this book. It was quoted some where by Nikki that this was to hopefully prevent others from taking his path. Perhaps he should've expressed other ways to deal with issues. I don't need to know how to party, I know that, and I'm good at it. What I was hoping for was another perspective on how to stay sober.

Wow............2007-10-15

This was a great book...I couldn't put it down.... I read it in 2 days.. and I work so I didnt have much time... But thats how good it was....

You won't be able to put it down!.......2007-10-15

I have been a Crue fan since Too Fast For Love. At the time, I was a very naive teen and as I've seen after reading this book, very sheltered as well. This has been one of the most intense and gripping books I've read in years. The realism is so descriptive, it's almost surreal. To think that anyone could live through such torment and Hell is quite remarkable - but to come out on top as Nikki did is truly amazing!
I read at night before bed and I woke up with a disturbing sense about me several times...while I don't remember my dreams exactly, it was clearly left over sentiment from that evening's diary entries. The only downside was that it was just a year in the life - I could have read on and on...
I highly recommend this book to anyone!

An amazing and intense story.......2007-10-15

This is by far one of the most interesting books I've ever read. It is so unbelievable to me that someone could live the life that Nikki lived, and come out the other side the way he has! The only caution I have is that its not reading for the faint of heart. There is an abundance of foul language and graphic content. However, its not unnecessary in this case. Its part of the brutal honesty of this book, and his honesty in writing this astounds me. Highly recommend!

Drugs are not cool.......2007-10-15

I was a Crue fan in the 80s - like everyone in the 80s. Even better, I was a Nikki Sixx fan. I was young and fairly naive, and while I knew that sex and drugs ruled rock n' roll, the extent of the abuse and horror of it all never occured to me. I've never had an addiction, it's not in my personality (thank God), but I've known a few that have. This book is incredible and a tremendous contribution. It has helped me understand what is/was possibly going on in the minds of those I know who are/have been addicted to drugs, who feel they just can't get through an hour without them. I'm amazed that the diary entries are so coherent for someone so strung out at the time. I also can't figure out how any of the Crue managed to function at all in the storm of all these drugs. This is a dark book, the illustrations are excellent and they along with the entries themselves never let you relax. I still love Motley Crue, always will. They defined my rock n' roll era. Now that I've read the book, I understand the band's lyrics much better. And having commentary from Nikki Sixx today as well as the other band members and their crew really gives this book a lot of depth. And while some of it is undeniably funny (the earthquake, the furniture in the elevator) it's also eye opening and sorrowful that one of our most talented rockers went through this. I've never thought drugs were cool and Nikki has just reaffirmed that. (now don't get the idea that was a goody-goody; I had my wild side). This book is extrodinary.

Nikki, it took a lot of guts to publish this book. I read it in a matter of days and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. I'm glad you made it through. So many people don't. Hopefully this book will help stop that.

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This ain't no pocket diary
Raul Robert Maldonado
Manufacturer: Publishing Consulting Services
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Chief Engineer James Hamilton Tomb (1839-1929) devoted almost 12 years of his early life to wartime naval service—first in the Confederate States' Navy during the American Civil War and then in the Marinha do Brasil during the War of the Triple Alliances. A steam engineer by profession and a torpedo expert by circumstance, Tomb was in the forefront of naval weapons technology of the period. Tomb quickly amassed not only the knowledge required of a steam engineer, but also the courage and capacity to assume important positions of command. Within days of his commissioning, he was on his way to his first assignment—first class engineer on the CSS Jackson at New Orleans, Louisiana, a point of great strategic importance. Here, amid a tightening blockade and a growing fear of Federal attack from the Gulf, Tomb's memoirs begin…

Tomb's first-person narration is interspersed with explanatory comments from the author; the author also fills in Tomb's life at the memoir's beginning and end. Three appendices include documents by Tomb: "Submarines and Torpedo Boats, C.S.N.," written in 1914 for the Confederate Veteran Magazine, a private manuscript Tomb wrote for his family describing in detail his experiences with the torpedo boat David and submarine H.L. Hunley, and "Reminiscences of Torpedo Service in Charleston Harbor," published in 1877 in the Southern Historical Society Papers. A bibliography and a wealth of rare photographs complete the work.

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Engineer in Gray: Memoirs of Chief Engineer James H. Tombs, CSN.......2006-02-25

I was very pleased with this book and I have read other books by Mr. Campbell and found them very helpful. Specifically, I took away from thios book the exact construction of the "David" class torpedo books. I fill this book helped to fill a void dealing with the construction this type of vessels.

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This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.

Frederick Douglass's Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his narrative is an unparalleled account of the dehumanizing effects of slavery and Douglass's own triumph over it. Like Douglass, Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery, and in 1861 she published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, now recognized as the most comprehensive antebellum slave narrative written by a woman. Jacobs's account broke the silence on the exploitation of African American female slaves, and it remains crucial reading. These narratives illuminate and inform each other. This edition includes an incisive Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah and extensive annotations.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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shatter the romance!.......2002-11-24

simply astounding! totally shatters those awful and ever-infectious civil war era romantic notions. be gone, "gone with the wind!" many thanks be to the spirits of mr. douglass and ms. jacobs for surviving their tremendous struggles to give us truth! recommend these books to others (especially the crowd that chooses to separate the "human stock" question from intellectual discussions of the civil war era).

A potent pairing of two essential autobiographies.......2001-10-24

"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" (first published in 1845) and Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (1861) are probably the two most powerful examples of the slave narrative. This literary form represents the first-person accounts of individuals who have lived as slaves. The Modern Library has paired these two essential American texts in a single edition, with an introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah and commentaries by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller.

Together, "Narrative" and "Incidents" offer a male and female perspective on the institution that has left lasting scars on America. These texts are well written, and rich in social and political insights. Both authors graphically illustrate, for example, how the Judeo-Christan Bible and the Christian church were used as tools to support the racist system of slavery. Douglass provides a powerful window into the importance of literacy as a tool by which he escaped a slave mentality. And Jacobs incisively deconstructs the twisted strands of race, gender, power, and sexuality that tied together slaveowning culture.

"Narrative" and "Incidents" are compelling pieces of literature. Moreover, the authors' themes can be seen as foundational for many later works of United States literature: Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Toni Morrison's "Beloved," Octavia Butler's "Kindred," and many other texts. Even a popular film like "The Matrix" echoes the slave narratives in some aspects.

Douglass and Jacobs are prime examples of writers who superbly combined literary craftsmanship with an intense political commitment. Their achievements make them crucial figures in the field of African-American studies. This combined edition of their outstanding books should be celebrated by teachers, students, reading groups, church study groups, and individual readers.

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NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE & INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL
FREDERICK/ JACOBS, HARRIET DOUGLASS
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Uncomfortable truths

Realize how close you are...

A heart-wrenching and powerful book everyone should read

Read this book before its too late.

Read this book before its too late.

Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People
Dale Peterson , and Jane Goodall
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For the last 35 years British biologist Jane Goodall has been living among African chimpanzees, recording their behavior and explaining it in a number of fine books. With literature professor Dale Peterson, Goodall here looks at the place of chimpanzees in the popular imagination, from Shakespeare's play The Tempest (whence the book's title) to David Letterman's monkey-cam, while Goodall recaps her work among chimps and decries their probably unhappy future. As she tells us in chilling detail, the chimpanzees' rain forest habitat is on the decline due to consumption of fuel wood as well as industrial logging, and chimps are thus threatened with extinction. The authors even wonder whether, given the relentless destruction of the chimpanzees' home, the poor creatures might not be better off in zoos. Peterson's and Goodall's point-counterpoint makes for fascinating, if somber, reading.

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Uncomfortable truths.......2005-06-27

This brilliant, understated book exposes a terrible injustice in the United States, corporate medicine's aggressive attempts to undermine the Endangered Species Act and CITES for their personal gain. Like so many embattled exploiters, they have responded to criticism and revelations with mud-slinging campaigns and lies, such as NIMH's estimate that they needed 200-300 chimpanezees a year to continue research vital to human health. At the same time, NIMH had access to more than 100 chimps, and was only able to find uses for 25 of them.

Goodall has taken the productive path: honesty without invective or confrontation. This has allowed her to accomplish small but significant changes, but they are far too small and far too trivial. It would be nice if Dr. Robert Gallo would agree to be locked into a 5x5x7 cage, with a grate at the bottom so he would not find himself smeared with all his feces, but nothing to protect him from the blowflies his stench would draw. Welcome to medical research.

Human beings have a history of declaring those it would exploit to be "lesser creations": Jews, Negros, Indians, Gypsies, the harmless primates we have nearly exterminated. When the "lesser creations" are human, they can speak out to protest, and they are heard. Someone else must speak for the chimpanzees mutilated in research labs, the orangutans brutalized to entertain Las Vegas drunks, the gorillas slaughtered so their children can be confined in zoos.

The next time you see *The Tempest,* imagine Caliban turning on Prospero, with his complacent human superiority, and speaking the extraordinary and powerful words of Shylock: "Hath not a beast eyes? Pricked do we not bleed?" Animals are bleeding to make your mascara safe. Read this book, look long at the orphaned chimp huddled in one of the photos, and then look in the mirror.

Realize how close you are..........1999-10-01

You read this book and discover your true nature and how you fit in this world. Never have I felt that close to nature...

A heart-wrenching and powerful book everyone should read.......1999-09-10

Certainly the most influencial book I've ever read - it led to my pursuing a degree, becoming a vegan, and an animal rights activist. And a better person. The tales of misery endured by these brethren of our are a very difficult read for those who have the capacity to care selflessly about all life, but gives the reader a very genuine sencse of what they suffer at the hands of humans who would do anything to make money and enhance their careers. Visions of Caliban is a very sobering experience, and it's very difficult at points to read beyond a couple of pages, because the reality of what these horribly unfortunate beings is truly sadenning. If everyone read this book, chimpanzee research would come to a very sudden conclusion. Read this Book!

Read this book before its too late........1998-07-09

No more discussion about the abuses of chimpanzees in abstract terms. Peterson goes out to find what specifically happens to specific chimpanzees and tracks their lives usually to their grim end. Dr. Goodall, the world's foremost expert on free chimapanzees contrasts Peterson with her insightful understanding which over thirty years of intimate knowledge of these great apes has given her. Sharing more than 98% of our genes with the chimpanzee and all of the cognitive and emotional similarities that go along with that, we need to rethink how we treat our closest living relative.

Read this book before its too late........1998-07-09

No more discussion about the abuses of chimpanzees in abstract terms. Peterson goes out to find out what specifically happens to specific chimpanzees and tracks their lives usually to their grim end. Dr. Goodall, the world's foremost expert on free chimapanzees contrasts Peterson with her insightful understanding which over thirty years of intimate knowledge of these great apes has given her. Sharing more than 98% of our genes with the chimpanzee and all of the cognitive and emotional similarities that go along with that, we need to rethink how we treat our closest living relative.

Visions of Caliban : On Chimpanzees and People

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Visions of Caliban : On Chimpanzees and People
Dale E. Peterson
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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VISIONS OF CALIBAN. ON CHIMPANZEES AND PEOPLE.
D. & J. Goodall Peterson
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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