Forest Fires: An Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior, Management, Firefighting, and Prevention (Wiley Nature Editions)

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Introduction to Wildland Fire, Second Edition provides a comprehensive resource for studying the fundamentals of fire behavior, its ecological effects, and its cultural and institutional framework. This new Second Edition expands and updates the coverage of the field and explores the subject of wildfire management in a broad scientific, technical, and social context. Written by recognized authorities on fire management, it presents the fundamental physics and chemistry of fire, fire behavior, wildland fuels, the interaction of fires and weather, the ecological effects of fires, the structure of fire management programs, planning efforts, suppression strategies, prescribed fires, and global fire management. The new edition also includes such current problems as the burning of the Amazon rain forest and the implications of the recent drought-related fires that have plagued urban areas bordering on wilderness land.

Throughout the book the authors keep the subject of fire itself central. They begin by identifying, clarifying, and consolidating the basic concepts and literature of fire as a natural occurrence in the environment. General principles are illustrated with reference to specific events, and the natural incidence of fire is related to its cultural causes and effects.

Introduction to Wildland Fire, Second Edition provides foresters, range scientists, environmentalists, ecologists, and administrators of federal and state agencies with an authoritative and comprehensive resource.

Written by recognized authorities on fire management, Introduction to Wildland Fire, Second Edition offers thorough coverage of the complex subject of wildland fire and its management in a broad scientific, technical, and social context. Topics include:

The chemistry and physics of fire
Fire behavior, including the influences of fuel and weather
The ecological effects of fire
The cultural and institutional framework of fire management
Fire management and suppression
Prescribed fire
Global fire

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Too pricey but good info.......2002-06-27

This is an excellent but far overpriced introduction to the subject. It is largely a compliation of information you can get from the National Interagency Fire Center, with some nice additions of stuff you can get from Pyne's other (sometimes quite good) books, such as Fire In America.

Far too expensive, though, even for college classes. Check it out from your local university library instead, and if you still want it, go for it.

great.......2001-08-27

great book. you will love it. it show you what you need to know about wildland fires.

Introduction to Wildland Fire. Second Edition.

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Introduction to Wildland Fire. Second Edition.
Stephen J. Pyne
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000M4V6V6

The use of the land: perspectives on stewardship

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The use of the land: perspectives on stewardship
Stephen J Pyne
Manufacturer: National Humanities Center
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006S94WQ

Qualitative assessment of five artificial growth media on growth and survival of T̲h̲a̲l̲a̲s̲s̲i̲a̲ t̲e̲s̲t̲u̲d̲i̲n̲u̲m̲ (Hydrocharitacae) seedlings
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Qualitative assessment of five artificial growth media on growth and survival of TÌ²hÌ²aÌ²lÌ²aÌ²sÌ²sÌ²iÌ²aÌ² tÌ²eÌ²sÌ²tÌ²uÌ²dÌ²iÌ²nÌ²uÌ²mÌ² (Hydrocharitacae) seedlings
Michael J Durako
Manufacturer: Florida Dept. of Natural Resources, Bureau of Marine Research
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B00071FQBU

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pathetic.......2004-04-19

General information is bland. Descriptions of routes sketchy at best. The parts dealing with 'ethics' and 'accessibility' are potential entries to a yet unwritten history of content-dodging.
There are standards to how climbing routes are described in sketches and diagrams. This book ignores them. It will be a miracle if you find your way based on this information.
As someone that wants to *actually* climb in VA, I simply had to toss Watson's book and get another one.

Worst guidebook I have seen.......2003-11-12

This guidebook is the product of a small mind. It's about
toproping on crappy boulders. Why would someone waste time
to go to some 20 foot chosspile and climb some nameless
route? This guidebook sometimes lists routes that are
22 feet long - did he go out with a ruler and measure the
height of the route as 22 feet? What if he went one foot
to the right or left - would that make it 21 feet or 23 feet?
I cite this merely as an example. This book is dry, uninspiring,
and has no vision or aesthetic sense. After looking at the
guidebook, it made me think that there was no worthwhile
climbing in Virginia, and Jeff Watson has a very small vision
and extremely low level to mediocre taste in climbing.

Jeff Watson wasted my day.......2001-09-03

After hiking a mile and a half back up and out of White Oak Canyon, we decided to go to Blackrock, which according to the guide was "the only place where you could be clutching for your next fingerhold and hear 'Johnson, party of five, your table is ready'". Apparently it was located on the Appalachian trail directly behind a resort lodge. The guide couldn't possibly screw this up, right? We found the Appalachian trail fine. There was no climbing to be found anywhere near the lodge. The guide didn't tell us which way to turn onto the trail. It gave the impression that it would obviously visible from the trail, but walking a half mile in either direction from the lodge with significant bushwacking in topographically curious areas turned up a single 18' cliff that didn't resemble any of the diagrams in the book.

Don't buy this guide. It will only get you lost, frustrated, and angry at Jeff Watson.

Jeff Watson wasted my day.......2001-09-03

My climbing partner and I decided to go out to the Shenandoah to hike and do some toprope climbing. We figured we'd head out to White Oak Canyon based on some of the climbs that were described there, completely unaware of the ambiguity of this guide. We couldn't find anything. We had a much easier time finding climbing without it just by following the trail and using intuition than by finding it with the guide. Bizarre landmarks like "at the first bridge, with the northwest facing boulder" (there was no boulder at either of the first two bridges), and the lack of a general area map (climbing areas are listed in A, B, C, etc...but there's no actual map to get you to them in most cases) led us to abandon any hope of climbing in the canyon, even though there were some beautiful spots near the first set of falls. Too bad the guide doesn't make use of such an obvious landmark as the 60 foot waterfall. After hiking a mile and a half back up and out of White Oak Canyon, we decided to go to Blackrock, which according to the guide was "the only place where you could be clutching for your next fingerhold and hear 'Johnson, party of five, your table is ready'". Apparently it was located on the Appalachian trail directly behind a resort lodge. The guide couldn't possibly screw this up, right? We found the Appalachian trail fine. There was no climbing to be found anywhere near the lodge. The guide didn't tell us which way to turn onto the trail. It gave the impression that it would be obviously visible from the trail, but walking a half mile in either direction from the lodge with significant bushwacking in topographically curious areas turned up a single 18' cliff that didn't resemble any of the diagrams in the book. Don't buy this guide. It will only get you lost, frustrated, and angry at Jeff Watson.

worst guidebook i've ever seen.......2001-08-01

this guidebook has absolutely no info on trad lines and contains little detailed info besides driving directions to an area. plus the cliff drawings are either incomplete, too sparse or generally unuseful in orienting yourself. there are no topos, little indication of bolt lines or anchors but if you just want an idea of where a few climbing areas are go ahead and buy it.

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A climber's guide to Great Falls Park
Barry Allen Nelson
Manufacturer: Geneva Spur Limited
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B00072XUBM

A climber's guide to Seneca Rocks, West Virginia,

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A climber's guide to Seneca Rocks, West Virginia,
F. R Robinson
Manufacturer: Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, Mountaineering Section
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006C0VH4

Seneca Rocks, West Virginia: A climber's guide

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Seneca Rocks, West Virginia: A climber's guide
Bill Webster
Manufacturer: Webster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006CMD1Q

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6th sense.......2005-06-09

After seeing and loving the movie, I had to check out the book. Very well done. This is one excellent story. Good job Mr. Shamaylon.

Very Satisfying Read.......2004-05-27

Unlike most of you that read this book, I never did see the movie, so when I picked this up I knew virtually nothing about the story. Although it does have its suspenseful moments, I would not classify this as a "horror" story. Not a slasher tale, but a VERY emotionally moving tale about the preciousness of life. I found it extremely well written with some rather unexpected plot twists.

As you probably already know, the story is of a young boy named Cole, who claims, "I see dead people", and his therapist, Malcom who believes at first that he is only treating an emotionally disturbed young boy. As a side part of the story Malcom has a wife he deeply loves and is trying to rescue their marriage that he feels has grown cold due to the fact that he has been consumed with his work and not been there for his wife as he was in the early part of their marriage. Any more details and I would spoil the book, so enough said.

This book was published by Scholastic, which would lead one to believe it is a children's book. I am 40 years old and enjoyed it immensely. It kept me up until 2am to finishing it off and now here I sit with bloodshot tired eyes typing this review the morning after.

All ages will enjoy this one.

Thanks for reading,

TRW

COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2002-11-14

I Love this book so much.I started to see dead people in the end.
I like when he's hiding in his red draped tent.This book is way beter that the movie,because the movie had some flaws.
C.O.O.L.!

A great book for you to read!.......2002-10-13

It is a scary and touching story about Dr. Malcolm Crowe and Cole Sear. Dr. Crowe is a distinguished child psychologist. Cole is a frightened, confused 8 years old boy, which always see dead people in everywhere. A short time later, Dr Crowe believes what Cole said and tells him to listen to those dead people as they may be needs some help.

As Cole always saw dead people that are really scared, it makes you feel afraid also.You will be consumed by the in-depth descriptions of these lost spirits and how Cole and Dr. Malcolm Crowe deal with them. You will join the way of Cole to find out why these spirits come to him and how he will get rid of them. He touched my heart that he was a small child and facing so many scared dead people and how mature he was. The ending of the story is really surprise. If you don¡¦t read the book, you really can¡¦t guess about the ending. I Love this book also I am sure this is a good book for you to read!

Lit Log #6.......2001-09-27

Do you ever feel the hairs on the back of your neck stand up? Does the room ever suddenly get cold for no reason? If it does, that's them, the ghosts that a boy named Cole sees with his sixth sense. You will be consumed by the in-depth descriptions of these lost spirits and how Cole and Dr. Malcom Crowe deal with them. This book will be one of the best that you will ever get the chance to read. You will join Cole in his quest to find out why these spirits come to him and how he will get rid of them. Accompanied by Malcolm on this odd journey of mystery Cole will meet many different people. Have fun reading it.......I see dead people........

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Microsatellites are short stretches of repeated DNA, found in most genomes, that show exceptional variability in humans and most other species. This variability has made microsatellites the genetic marker of choice for most applications, including genetic mapping and studies of the evolutionary connections between species and populations. This book brings together an international group of scientists currently working in microsatellites. Their contributions provide a detailed description of microsatellite biology, focusing on their mutation properties, generation, decay, and possible functional roles. They introduce the theoretical models that underpin the most popular methods for analysing the information that microsatellites can yield, including methods for estimating coalescent times, population divergences, and migration. Finally, the book describes the various ways in which the potential of microsatellites is being harnessed in a range of applications including medical genetics, forensics, genetic mapping, the analysis of human evolution, and conservation genetics.

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Guide to Human Genome Computing
M. J. Bishop
Manufacturer: Academic Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Guide to Human Genome Computing is invaluable to scientists who wish to make use of the powerful computing tools now available to assist them in the field of human genome analysis. This book clearly explains access and use of sequence databases, and presents the various computer packages used to analyze DNA sequences, measure linkage analysis, compare and align DNA sequences from different genes or organisms, and infer structural and functional information about proteins from sequence data.
This Second Edition contains completely updated material. Rather than a revision of the previous volume, the Second Edition is essentially a new book, based on the subjects which will be of interest over the coming years. This new book is international, both in scope and authorship.

Computing resources for the following are clearly explained:
* Internet resources - databases etc.
* Genetic analysis
* Sib-pair studies
* Comparative mapping
* Radiation hybrids
* Sequence ready clone maps
* Human genome sequencing
* ESTs
* Gene prediction
* Gene expression

Molecular Applications in Biological Anthropology (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology)

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Molecular Applications in Biological Anthropology (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology)

Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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The recent revolution in molecular genetics, which has already made such a significant impact in the biomedical sciences, is now becoming established in biological anthropology. New techniques have enabled anthropologists to study biological variation at the molecular level, and a wealth of exciting information on human and non-human primate populations is now becoming available for the first time. This volume presents a selection of pioneering research studies in which molecular techniques have been used to address key questions, for example about the human genetic system, the geographical movements of human populations in the past, and primate evolution. Providing not only a timely overview of current research, this book also presents an insight into the potential significance of molecular biology in the decades to come, that will be of interest to all biological anthropologists as well as molecular biologists, human geneticists, palaeontologists and evolutionary biologists.

Molecular Applications in Biological Anthropology. (book reviews): An article from: Human Biology

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Molecular Applications in Biological Anthropology. (book reviews): An article from: Human Biology
Mark Stoneking
Manufacturer: Wayne State University Press
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Human Biology, published by Wayne State University Press on June 1, 1994. The length of the article is 1236 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Molecular Applications in Biological Anthropology. (book reviews)
Author: Mark Stoneking
Publication: Human Biology (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1994
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Volume: v66 Issue: n3 Page: p536(3)

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In this classic work David Bohm, writing clearly and without technical jargon, develops a theory of quantum physics which treats the totality of existence as an unbroken whole.

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The Speakable and Unspeakable.......2007-07-31

David Bohm tried to speak what many would call "unspeakable". In that respect, his philosophy had a clear correlation with Taoism and it's various offshoots.

Please do not read this book if you are not well versed in Physics and Quantum "mechanics". This is not for intellectual dilettantes.

Bohm.......2007-05-13

Bohm's works are very helpful for me to stay out of what I call "reality 1" and connect to my potential.

One of the most significant physics books for magicians.......2006-12-01

This anthology of essays includes David Bohm's theories of how the natural world of human awareness unfolds from a basic source that encompasses the totality of reality and possibility. The vocabulary developed by Bohm can be useful to any magician in understanding magical phenomena and transcendent experiences. For the first time, modern science is united with ancient magick in a single, coherent theory or reality.

Science That Doesn't Avoid Ultimate Questions.......2006-06-04

First off, David Bohm's interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and the Stochastic Ensemble interpretation are very different (unlike some reviews might have you believe). Bohm's interpretation is, by necessity, nonlocal, where as the other is explicitly local. Saying they are the same theory is like saying that changing the channel of a television by getting up and pressing a button is the same as sitting in a chair and using a remote. One person can change the channel from across the room and the other has to get up and walk over to the television. For further differences between the two I suggest The Physics of Consciousness by Evan Harris Walker.

Second, there's nothing "childish" about beliefs that have survived 50,000 years of human history. Just because someone doesn't agree with a certain set of beliefs doesn't make it right to ridicule those beliefs without sufficient reasons why those beliefs can't be true. Pseudoskeptics who dismiss the evidence for paranormal phenomena a priori are committing a heinous crime against the scientific method. The truth is there are loads of evidence for certain paranormal phenomena and the pseudoskeptics simply ignore it or misinterpret it; they are willing to sacrifice part or all of the scientific method just to protect their own beliefs. In effect they are being just as irrational as the people they are criticizing. Double and triple blind studies are conducted at majour universities around the world, with the results being reproduced thousands of times, showing definitively that things like remote viewing, telepathy, psychokinesis, and survival of consciousness after physical death are very real. No pseudoskeptic, materialist, or debunker has refuted the evidence (though they may have refuted misinterpretations of the evidence), and furthermore, none has ever given even one single datum for the validity of philosophical materialism.

David Bohm believed in an ultimate reality beyond the reaches of our current science. His theory stated that the material universe was a projection of a subtler, immaterial implicate order. Anyone who reads this book should see that. Bohm was not a materialist and used real science to explain why materialism doesn't work. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in holomovement and other theories that challenge the scientific status quo, which has failed to answer the ultimate questions. I also recommend Talbot's Holographic Universe as a sort of sequel to this book (a 600 page combined volume would be too large for the average reader and the message would be lost).

From Atomistic, Relativity and Quantum to Implicate Order.......2005-02-15

A deep and enlightening book that ventures beyond the mechanistic paradigm of classical physics. I am not a physicist and as a layman, I found this book overall understandable, except the mathematical equations Bohm employs in areas of relativity, quantum computations and other physic equations of algebraic and geometric means. It really is a brilliant piece of work and not easy book to explain, but I can say as a novice, this is a superior work.

Bohm starts out with our Western fragmented view of reality, failing to see wholeness, thinking through our lenses of space, time, matter, mechanics, causality, contingency and so forth, as Kant pointed out how we categorize our perceptions. The notion we view in fragment is our illusion which cause confusion. It is our measuring net over reality that fragments it. While the Newtonian works for much it is also the fragmentation of our cultures, cities, religions political systems, etc. Our mechanics look for absolutes and any theory of absolute truths results in fragmentation, thus the differences between the atomic theory, the theory of relativity and the quantum theory into a form of reality that is moving, resulting in what he calls a undivided wholeness in flowing movement.

Bohm describes a language he calls the Rheomode. Basically it is the opposite of our views where language describes a noun in action. The Rheomode. describes the verb center of action. Rather than the order of "I" am typing, it would be, there is typing being done. Beyond all of the sequential order expressed in terms of our divisional language their is the movement of attention. Evidently, by our ability to perceive and understand is limited by the freedom with which the ordering of attention can change, so as to fit the order that is to be observed. There is allot more to this, apparently this changes our atomistic view, changes our world views of self and truth, by taking away the importance from our world views, removing the fragmentary breaks we project.

Bohm describes reality and knowledge considered as a process. There is something above memory and the mechanical process to reason in what Bohm calls intelligence. One might suggest that in intelligent perception, the brain and nervous system respond directly to an order in the universal and unknown flux that cannot be reduced to anything that could be denied in theories of knowable structure. There's an intense outlay between thought and non=thought, knowledge considered as a process, a free movement of the mind needed for clarity of perception, which contributes to a pervasive distortion and confusion of every experience.

Bohm believes there are hidden variables in the quantum theory, despite its indeterminism of the Heisenberg principle and Von Neumanns arguments and the paradox of Einstein, Rosen and Podolsky. In this he attempts to resolve, it gets a little heavy here for the layman in treatment of the quantum fluctuations.

It is here where the quantum theory is seen as an indication of a new order. While the theory of relativity recognizes continuity and strict causality and locality, a singular overall pattern of curvular continuous connection, the quantum recognizes an order measured in non locality in autonomous groups but not continuously connected, an undivided wholeness with separate groupings, the observer and observed become one, while separate, a holomovement where each part contains the whole in some way, a relative autonomy, different closed circuits of particles of autonomous groups.

The enfolding and unfolding universe and consciousness completely removes the Cartesian grid. It is the idea of a projected hologram from a non locality that enfolds into itself. From a void that contains all, a movement which unfolds in explicate order which enfolds in implicate order back unto itself. The electrons enter a different kind of state, in which they are no longer relatively independent. Rather, each electron acts as a projection share a non-local, non-causal correlation, which is such that they go round obstacles co-operatively without being scattered or diffused, without resistance, all so into a multidimensional reality There are infinite relatively independent sub-totalities which are abstracted, explicated as autonomous.

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WHOLENESS AND THE IMPLICATE ORDER
DAVID BOHM
Manufacturer: ARK
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000S9QEEY

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Wholeness and the Implicate Order
Dr. David Bohm
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LZEGUY

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Wholeness and the Implicate Order
David [Jacob] (1917-1992) Bohm
Manufacturer: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1982]. Later printing. [First published 1980]. [xvi]+224pp. Blue cloth. Very good in dust jacket with rectangular section excised from the top of the front DJ panel. (OP in cloth). eng.
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ASIN: B000SVM7QG

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Wholeness and the Implicate Order
David Bohm
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LZDZRO

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"When people reread her vork it will become evident that nobody in her time had as clear a consciousness of the twofold condition of being a woman and a Mexican. " --José Emilio Pacheco Thinker, writer, diplomat, feminist Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974. This sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play, The Eternal Feminine. Translated with fidelity to language and cultural nuance, many of these works appear here in English for the first time, allowing English-speaking readers to see the depth and range of Castellanos' work. In her introductory essay, "Reading Rosario Castellanos: Contexts, Voices, and Signs," Maureen Ahern presents the first comprehensive study of Castellanos' work as a sign or signifying system. This approach through contemporary semiotic theory unites literary criticism and translation as an integral semiotic process. Ahern reveals how Castellanos integrated women's images, bodies, voices, and texts to feminize her discourse and create a plurality of new signs/messages about women in Mexico. Describing this process in The Eternal Feminine, Castellanos observes, ". . . it's not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn't even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves."

A Rosario Castellanos Reader: An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, and Drama

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A Rosario Castellanos Reader: An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, and Drama
Rosario; Ahern, Maureen Castellanos
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OS6GXI

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