Karl Polanyi on Ethics and Economics

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A great book about a great human being!.......1999-05-12

"All Heart" is not only the title of this book, but also an apt description of Michael Clemons. The book is written by Michael himself and he handles himself in this book with the same grace and dignity with which he plays football and lives his life. Clemons is a player who always speaks well of others and those who know him only from media interviews might expect this to be a sugar-coated book. Not so. Michael speaks honestly about the people and issues he has encountered in football. How can this man be so happy all the time? Read the book and you'll know his secret!

Why is this man always smiling ?.......1998-10-09

All Heart, the new book from Michael Clemons, gives us an insight into one of the finest athletes and human beings on the Canadian sporting scene. Pinball shows us again what a wonderful guy he really is. The antithesis of the modern pro athlete, he combines talent, humanity, humour, and class. All Heart is a journey through the professional and personal growth of an all-time Argonaut. You''ll see why this man is always smiling !!

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A splendidly written, and wonderfully illustrated history.......2001-10-14

To attract movie-goers during the "golden age" of movie theaters throughout the early decades of the 20th century, the movie theater industry in Texas built many of their theaters as palatial buildings complete with smoking rooms, nurseries, and even "love seats" for couples. When money was tight during the years of the Great Depression Texas movie house operators lured audiences with free dishes and accepted canned goods in lieu of money for tickets. Then came the great and novel draw of "air conditioning" to lure theater patrons during the scorching Texas summers. All of this and more is ably showcased in Lone Star Picture Shows, Richard Schroeder's meticulously researched, splendidly written, and wonderfully illustrated history. Highly recommended reading for students of American popular culture, as well as nostalgic movie buffs.

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Using extensive interviews, hundreds of transcripts, focus-group discussions with viewers, and his own experiences as an audience member, Joshua Gamson argues that talk shows give much-needed, high-impact public visibility to sexual nonconformists while also exacerbating all sorts of political tensions among those becoming visible. With wit and passion, Freaks Talk Back illuminates the joys, dilemmas, and practicalities of media visibility.

"This entertaining, accessible, sobering discussion should make every viewer sit up and ponder the effects and possibilities of America's daily talk-fest with newly sharpened eyes."—Publishers Weekly

"Bold, witty. . . . There's a lot of empirical work behind this deceptively easy read, then, and it allows for the most sophisticated and complex analysis of talk shows yet."—Elayne Rapping, Women's Review of Books

"Funny, well-researched, fully theorized. . . . Engaged and humane scholarship. . . . A pretty inspiring example of what talking back to the mass media can be."—Jesse Berrett, Village Voice

"An extraordinarily well-researched volume, one of the most comprehensive studies of popular media to appear in this decade."—James Ledbetter, Newsday

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In the recent past, lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered people had almost no presence on television. With the invention and propagation of tabloid talk shows such as Jerry Springer, Jenny Jones, Oprah, and Geraldo, people outside the sexual mainstream now appear in living rooms across America almost every day of the week. Often these appearances are rambunctious, ugly, and exploitative, with the "action" of the show predicated upon homophobic responses from the audience. Most gay media watchers question the worth of appearing on such programs: at what price, they ask, visibility? This view is startlingly revised in Joshua Gamson's Freaks Talk Back, an analysis of how tabloid TV may be the best--well, certainly the most engaging on a grassroots level--visibility that sex outsiders have ever garnered. Using surveys, news analysis, discussions of race and class differences, and readings from the shows themselves, Gamson argues that the endless yelling, bickering, and outright displays of homophobia--so different from the pre-packaged, insincere tolerance that passes for discourse in much of the media--give rise to discussions about people's genuine feelings and beliefs. Questioning the very precepts of how we think about media coverage, Freaks Talk Back is as provocative and disturbing as tabloid television itself. --Michael Bronski

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Gamson raises the watermark on studies of sexuality & media.......1998-11-15

Joshua Gamson is a signpost pointing hopefully to a bright new era of scholarly work on popular culture. In the past, books from university presses on everything from Barney to Barbie have either been hopelessly theoretical (usually toked out on Focault) or with the polite condescendion of an overworked television critic. With this book, Joshua Gamson has brilliantly changed the levels of the game.

Freaks Talk Back knows talk shows from the inside, outside and above. Gamson asserts that Oprah, Ricki and Donahue are meeting grounds for ideas on alternative genders, often expressing a progressive, if fleeting, level of acceptance. He underlines the ambivalence he feels as a gay man and a scholar, seeing Freaks talking to millions of homes via the talk show but doing so under the banner of freakishness.

While this might not be forceful leveling of trash TV we'd like, it is a thoughtfully developed and couragous conclusion. A sociologist, Gamson sat in on hundreds of talk shows, interviewing guests,personel, and audience to arrive at his conclusions. He includes himself in the discussion, admitting his weekness for TV trash, and his rollicking Saturday nights out in drag. Rather than indulgant, these anecdotes are refreshing, showing the author's willingness to be both intellecutally sophisticated and accessible, the true dream of quality writing on popular culture. Through humor, diligance, and self-awareness of his project's trip wires, Joshua Gamson shows us why "popular" and "scholarly" need not in front of a studio audience, screaming at each other.

Engaging glimpse into the sordid world of TV talk........1998-06-24

As a gay man, Gamson provides an interesting perspective on LGBT issues and exposes many of the hypocritical and often contradictory themes recurrent to the shows. There are many entertaining episodes recounted, but the book is more of a unique blend of sociological and personal importance. The writing can be a bit dry at times, but it is an intertaining and thought-provoking book for gays and non-gays alike.

FREAKS TALK BACK Tabloid Talk shows and Sexual Nonconformity

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FREAKS TALK BACK Tabloid Talk shows and Sexual Nonconformity
Joshua Gamson
Manufacturer: University of Chicago
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NW5RJ4

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Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity
Joshua Gamson
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OP5YXO

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Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity
Joshua Gamson
Manufacturer: University of Chicago
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IZYZ6C

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With six new chapters, this expanded edition contains every move (standard international algebraic notation) of every game played in world championship competition, including all official such titles since 1886 and all decisive matches by the world's leading players for the 50 years before that date. A diagram of the critical or most interesting moment accompanies every game. All games are dated, with playing locations noted. All source material discrepancies have been researched and resolved. Charts or crosstables showing overall results precede each match or tournament. A lengthy bibliography and a detailed openings index complete the work. The book is published as a set of two volumes. Replacement volumes can be obtained individually under ISBN 0-7864-2665-7 (for Volume 1) and ISBN 0-7864-2666-7 (for Volume 2).

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* Discusses creating a basic site design, working with text, effectively using hyperlinks, and adding images and graphics.
* Explains working with tables, forms, and frames.
* Explores adding multimedia elements like sound and animation.
* Updated to include the newest tools in FrontPage.
* Previous four editions have combined to sell more than 230,000 copies.

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Great help, couldn't have written the website without it........2007-08-23

This is the first of the dummies series of books I have used. I read it from cover to cover and practised before I started on my real website. I then used the book as a reference and found it extremely helpful. The website is now published. Some sections were basic formatting that I already knew so I just skimmed over these sections but on the whole a great help.

great book.......2007-05-08

Easy to read and understand. I already had a basic understanding of FrontPage but this book is a great intro and taught me some new tricks too.

Covers A Lot.......2007-02-15

This book covers a lot of the fuctionality of Frontpage 2003. It is easy to read and includes specific instructions with extra little hints thrown in. When I first used Frontpage I was expecting a product that helped me create html pages. It does that but the book helped me to understand the site management aspect of the product also. A great jumpstart to using the software.

Frontpage 2003 Review.......2006-03-03

When I first purchased the Frontpage Software I should have bought this book at the same time, in fact they should actually be sold together. It is very well written and a very good guide once you are up and running. I would recommend this book to anyone who has a basic understanding of MS Office products.

Terrible for a Help Book.......2006-01-28

This is a terrible book. I am a total novice in FrontPage and web page creation but have lots of experience in computers including programming years ago.

Usually I am the one everyone asks questions of with computers.
I was unable find the Button she talked about on the 3rd page. I searched everywhere for it and asked Microsoft and HELP and still haven't found it. She assumes you know where things are but we DON'T. very frustrating experience.

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Front Page 2003 for Dummies
Asha Dornfest
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N7EUXS

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An explosive exposé of how British military intelligence really works-from the inside. This book presents the stories of two undercover agents: Brian Nelson, who worked for the Force Research Unit (FRU), aiding loyalist terrorists and murderers in their bloody work; and the man known as Stakeknife, deputy head of the IRA's infamous "Nutting Squad," the internal security force that tortured and killed suspected informers.

This book is copublished with O'Brien Press, Dublin and is for sale only in the United States, it's territories and dependencies, Canada, and the Philippines.

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A credible author should have written this book.......2006-09-21

This book could have been great, sadly it was written by a self agrandizing propogandist, who is obviously trying to cover up the massive failings of the British Army against the IRA.

The book details one of the few members of the IRA (Freddie Scappatici) who British intelligence actually managed to turn into an informant against the IRA, (According to military analysts, some 70% of IRA informers were exposed and executed by the IRA's Internal Securities Units).

Scappatici (code name: Stakeknife) was the second in command of an IRA Internal Securities Unit, but made a habit of playing both sides of the field. According to the book, he passed information about IRA operations to British Intelligence, but also killed IRA informers, British Soldiers and Loyalist paramilitaries at the same time.

The British and Irish Governments have disputed much of what is in the book, even though it tends to be "Pro British", one should consider that when thinking of buying it. The writer of the book goes by the name Martin Ingram (a false identity). He is supposedly a former British Army intelligence agent, but this claim has been disputed by the British Army and MI5. The book deatils "Stakeknifes" contrabutions to helping Britian finally get a handle on the IRA in the early 1990's, but also admits that the IRA's infamous "cell structure", allowed it to continue highly successful operations, including the extensive bombing of British economic sites from 1990-1997. In the end the book admits that the British Army and Loyalist Paramilitaries were unable to defeat or substantially degrade the IRA's military capability, thus leading to the Irish peace accords of the late 90's, and the GFA agreement in 1999.

The book isn't horrible, but it could have been much better in the hands of a credible author.

Stakeknife.......2006-07-26

Martin Ingram is the pseudonym of a former member of the Force Research Unit of British Intelligence. His coauthor is a journalist. Ingram, who was the insider, provides most of the information about British activities.

Ingram spent quite a few years in Northern Ireland. He took part in the events he decries. He appears to have decided that what he and his fellows did was wrong regardless of its success for moral reasons. He seems to think they should be punished but because he is a whistleblower, he should be let off the hook instead of facing charges for violating the agreements he made to keep the secrets he knew.

Ingram and others like him were ultimately successful because they were willing to do things the IRA never thought they would. By taking advantage of the preconceptions of their enemies, the FRU and other intelligence groups were able to infiltrate the IRA and destabilize it from the inside. This book tells that story. It would be worth five stars if it weren't for both authors attempts to play on morality.

A good book about the intelligence war between the IRA and Britian........2006-03-02

This is an interesting book, that shows the cunning and skill of both British Intelligence and the IRA. The first part of the book examines how in the late 1980's, British Intelligence (MI5) was frustrated by thier inability to defeat or even weaken the IRA. British Intelligence decided to work with the Army to recruit Loyalist terrorists as a "secret army" against the IRA. As the book shows this idea backfired with horrendous consequences. the plan fell apart when The amateurish UDA and UVF members recruited by MI5, proceeded to kill only a few IRA/Sinn Fein members while killing dozens of innocent civillians. The book looks at how the IRA responded with a vicious assassination campaign of thier own against the UDA and UVF, which led to the deaths of dozens of Loyalists and many civillians who were caught in the crossfire.

The second part of the book deals with a top level IRA "Internal Intelligence" man named Freddie Scapaticci, who was recruited by the British Army in the 1980's. The book explains how this was done, and how other people within the IRA were recruited. The book also shows the other side of the intelligence war, focusing on the IRA's ability to root out and kill many top level informers, while missing a few like Scappaticci. The author also points out that the cell structure of the IRA, allowed for even high level spies like Scappatici to do only moderate harm to the overall organization. It is a good book about the tactics and skill used by both Britian and the IRA during the tragic conflict in Northern Ireland.

Stakeknife : Britain's Secret Agents In Ireland

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Stakeknife : Britain's Secret Agents In Ireland
Martin/ HARKIN, GREG Ingram
Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OS3F3C

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By investigating the major changes of world history during the past five hundred years, this book provides the necessary global perspective to understand the geopolitical and geoeconomic changes facing us today. We have reached a crucial transitional stage in world history in which the world will no longer be shaped by the single image of western modernism, but increasingly by the image of all cultures and civilizations. The need to take a world view--which this book provides--has become acute.

A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 to the Present: A Guide to World Affairs, Fourth Edition

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A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 to the Present: A Guide to World Affairs, Fourth Edition
William Woodruff
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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ASIN: B000OUXW06

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A little book about S.......2007-08-30

This book is not a review of the literature on memory as some disappointed reviewers misinterpret, but a little book about a guy with an at least gigantic memory. This gigantic memory is the product a memorizing techniques, but, very important, also of synesthesia. It is an account of what this person experiences and how his extraordinary condition influences his life.

If this is all you will read on the topic of memory, then you must know you will not know much about memory after you're done, but you will be familiar only with a fascinating case. If you read more about memory, then you will find the case even very fascinating.

The book has also an interesting approach, because it asks the question how does this condition affect the daily life of the person and his way of feeling, being, living etc. The book first appeared in 1968.

In the end I must say this is not a book for those who are obsessed by statistics and psychometrics, but those who are interested to know more about the mind of a mnemonist from a little book about a vast memory.

Fascinating case study and book.......2006-08-10

Thirty years ago I remember this case being discussed in my physiological psychology class, a field in which I eventually went on to grad school, and I still remember the case of "S" to this day. Luria's little book became an instant classic in the neurological and memory literature and has probably never been surpassed as a case study of a uniquely retentive and creative memory talent. Recently, I came across a review of the book on the Literature, Arts, and Medicine database, and I thought it was such a nice little summary of the book that I wanted to include it here, since it's not that long, along with a few of my comments.

I have to mention one thing that the review didn't mention is the time the subject, known simply as S, who never seemed to forget anything, even years later, actually did seem to forget an item during Luria's many years of studying him. But how that happened tells us a lot about how his memory worked, which was very visual.

S used an interesting association system to memorize things. He used to walk the same way to school when he was a boy, which took him down various streets, back alleys, and buildings in town, and he would simply place the items he had been asked to remember along his path. To recall all the items in order, he would simply imagine himself walking along his familiar route, and he would see the objects he had been asked to remember as he went. The item he couldn't recall he had placed in a dark recess of a back alley he used for a shortcut and apparently it got lost in the darkness, which was why he couldn't see it. :-)

Here is the review from the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database:

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One day in the 1920's, a newspaper reporter walked into the laboratory of Russian psychologist A. R. Luria and asked him to test his memory, which he recently had been told was unusual. It was not unusual. It was uniquely and astoundingly retentive. Luria gave him very long strings of numbers, words, nonsense syllables and could not detect any limit to his ability to recall them, generally without mistake, even years later. (Luria studied S., as he identifies him, for thirty years.)

Luria discovers that the man had some interesting characteristics to his memory. He experienced synesthesia, i.e., the blending of sensations: a voice was a "crumbly, yellow voice." (p.24) S.'s memory was highly eidetic, i.e., visual, a characteristic not unique to him but which he used as a technique to memorize lists and details. (He had become a performing mnemonist.) It was also auditory. He had trouble remembering a word if its sound did not fit its meaning. The remainder of the section on his memory involves fascinating aspects of his having to learn how to forget and his methods of problem solving.

The remainder of the book is equally interesting since it relates the epiphenomena of S.'s prodigious memory: how he mentally saw everything in his past memory; how he was virtually paralyzed when it came to understanding poetry since metaphorical thinking was almost impossible for him, a mnemonist who lived in a world of unique particulars! As Luria wrote, "S. found that when he tried to read poetry the obstacles to his understanding were overwhelming: each expression gave rise to an image; this, in turn, would conflict with another image that had been evoked." (p. 120)

S. could control his vital signs by his memory and, last but not least, this human experiment of nature had such a vivid imagination that, probably more than the most creative of us, he engaged in "magical thinking": "To me there's no great difference between the things I imagine and what exists in reality. Often, if I imagine something is going to happen, it does. Take the time I began arguing with a friend that the cashier in the store was sure to give me too much change. I imagined it to myself in detail, and she actually did give me too much--change of 20 rubles instead of 10. Of course I realize it's just chance, coincidence, but deep down I also think it's because I saw it that way." (p. 146) Commentary

An international giant in clinical neuropsychology and an inspiration for Oliver Sacks's narratives, Luria helped pioneer the study of the individual patient as interesting bridge between normal and abnormal psychological processes rather than studying animals in a maze, or groups of humans in an experimental setting. His "N of 1" close readings remain fascinating reading today, including The Man with a Shattered World (see this database).

S.'s incredible memory and all its attendant advantages and detriments recall Borges's short story, "Funes the Memorious (Funes el Memorioso)".

Very Interesting.......2005-11-19

This is a very interesting book. I was very interested in the synesthesia aspect, where one smells a sound and tastes a color, and so on. I thought maybe I could develop a little insight into improving my own mental abilites regarding memory and memory devices. It is quite fascinating to read about his experiences, especially how the vivid, multisensory images he experienced confused the actual content of what he was experiencing. I would actually have enjoyed much more firsthand accounts of his unusual experiences. I got it for 4 bucks at a used book store, i wouldn't pay more for it, the list price looks too expensive.

Fascinating and Dull at the Same Time.......2004-09-23

If you're looking for a good overall introduction to synesthesia, this isn't it. (For this, see Richard Cytowic's book entitled, Synesthesia.) On the other hand, if you're looking for a first-hand account of a famous psychologist's interaction with a synesthete, then you're in good shape with Luria's book. In the first half of The Mind of a Mnemonist, Luria describes how he first learned about "S", a young Russian news reporter with an amazing memory. He then describes in a fair amount of detail, often using S's own descriptions, how S experienced the world. He also gives a rather detailed account (again, often reproducing S's own testimony) of both how S went about memorizing and recalling so many items of data, and where the boundaries of S's memorizing abilities were (e.g., S had a hard time recounting the gist of a story he'd heard read aloud). Because of this, the first half of the book can at times be dull and repetitive.

In the second half of the book, Luria focuses on the effects that synesthesia had on S's personality and overall quality of life. Here's where it gets a bit more interesting, and a bit sad at the same time. S could remember in detail events dating from the first year of his life *and* how he felt at the time (could you imagine being able to remember in detail every mistake your parents made or how it made you feel, from infancy onward?!?). Moreover, the combining of senses made it difficult for him to do two things at once (e.g. he couldn't eat ice cream and read at the same time because the flavor of the ice cream would drown out the sense of the words). Still, even these chapters (i.e., chapter four, "his world" and chapter five, "his mind") get a bit tedious. The final chapters treat S's control of his behavior and his personality. S had a rather amazing ability to raise or lower his body temperature in a particular limb (e.g. his left or right arm), raise his heartbeat, decrease the pain he felt when under the dentist's drill, and the like. However, living with synesthesia caused him to be quite a dreamer, often unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality.

My guess is that psychology and psychiatry students with an interest in synesthesia will derive the most benefit from Luria's book. The rest of us are left with a rather mixed bag. Still, at just under 120 pages, The Mind of a Mnemonist doesn't require an enormous amount of time to read.

(On a bit of a side note, those who are curious about the real name of "S" can find it in the book...I don't know if they intended it to be there or not, but in one instance "S" divulges his identity.)

Just one story.......2003-08-07

One of the positive side-effects of Oliver Sacks is that he has called attention in America to the works of the great Soviet psychiatrist Aleksandr R. Luria, many of which have been translated from Russian into English.

"The Mind of a Mnemonist" is a slim book that tells the story of a man identified only as "S," whom Luria knew and worked with for decades, a man who literally could not forget. Like other such bottomless memories, "S" was a side-show curiosity whose ability was a burden as much as a gift. Luria details the difficulties "S" had in grappling with daily life, where thinking clearly depends so much upon forgetting the useless.

I have no idea whether Borges had ever seen this book when he wrote "Funes the Memorious," which is a wonderful fictional account of just such a mind.

The book also takes a fascinating detour into the condition that somehow gave "S" his powers, synesthesia. People with synesthesia can "hear" colors and "see" sounds. Smells have textures. Shapes have sounds. This seems to be a natural condition in infancy, but most people lose it, except for remnants of this when people talk about "warm" colors or "cold" sounds.

The composer Alexander Scriabin was among those who retained a complex synesthetic sensitivity into adulthood. S. was another. "What a crumbly, yellow voice you have," he told one psychologist. For him, numbers had personality: "5 is absolutely complete and takes the form of a cone or a tower -- something substantial. ... 8 somehow has a naive quality, it's milky blue like lime ...." And Luria gives this account of an experiment: "Presented with a tone pitched at 2,000 cycles per second and having an amplitude of 113 decibels, S. said: 'It looks something like fireworks tinged with a pink-red hue. The strip of color feels rough and unpleasant, and it has an ugly taste -- rather like that of a briny pickle ... You could hurt your hand on this.' "

Experiments were repeated over several days at the Academy of Medical Sciences in Moscow, with dozens of tones, and the results were invariably the same. This synesthesia of sound is the essence of poetry, too. Dante divided words into "pexa et hirsuta," combed and unkempt (or "buttered and shaggy" in Ezra Pound's translation). S. used exactly the same words -- "prickly," or "smooth" -- for sounds, voices, words.

If you don't need one author to do all your thinking for you, if you can take what you read in one place and apply it to what you know from others, this book will expand your awareness of the human experience in an unforgettable way.

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The Mind of a Mnemonist - a little book about a vast memory
AR Luria
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Binding: Paperback
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Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book About a Vast Memory
A.R. Luria
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The Mind of a Mnemonist A Little Book About a Vast Memory
Luria A.R.
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The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory
A. R. Luria
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The Mind of the Mnemonist : A Little Book About a Vast Memory
A. R. Luria
Manufacturer: Basic Books, Inc.
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ASIN: B000OM88MG

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Tropical forests are vanishing at an alarming rate. This book, based on extensive international field research, highlights one solution for preserving this precious resource: empowering local people who depend on the forest for survival. Synthesizing a vast amount of information that has never been brought together in one place, Roger D. Stone and Claudia D'Andrea provide a clearly written and energizing tour of global efforts to empower community-based forest stewards. Along the way, they show the fundamental importance of tropical forest ecosystems and deepen our sense of urgency to save them for the benefit of billions of rural people in tropical and subtropical regions as well as for countless species of plants and animals.
In their travels to research this book, the authors saw many remarkable examples of how proficient even the poorest local people can be in stabilizing and recovering formerly destitute forests. With engagingly written case studies from Thailand's Golden Triangle to Mindanao in the Philippines, from Indonesia, India, and Africa to Brazil, Mexico, and Central America, they introduce us to the communities and the individuals, the governments, the loggers, the agencies, and the local groups who vie for forest resources. Contrasting community-based efforts and traditional forest management with government and donor efforts, they discuss the many reasons why international institutions and national governments have been unable and unwilling to stem the accelerating loss of tropical forestland.
This book argues we are paying a terrible price--politically, economically, and environmentally--for allowing tropical forests to be stripped. Community-based forestry is no panacea, but this book clearly shows its effectiveness as a management technique.

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