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Written by one of the world's most renowned critical educators, this book evaluates the message of Che Guevara and Paulo Freire for contemporary politics in general and education in particular.
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Setting the Record Straight on Two Solid Humans.......2000-05-29
Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy ofRevolution
Reviewer: Robert E. Bahruth, Ph.D. from Boise StateUniversity, Boise, Idaho
In order to contextualize the significance of the contributions of both Che Guevara and Paulo Freire for American readers, McLaren makes the analogy to Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. respectively. Whereas Che, Malcolm X and Dr. King were all dealt with by assassination, Paulo died of heart failure at the age of 75. One might suspect that Paulo's end may have been more violent - and he certainly suffered persecution during critical periods in his lifetime, including a long exile - had his ideas not been rejected by anti-intellectuals in the American academy. Often his work was dismissed, without careful consideration, by professors who claimed that his ideas only applied to third world contexts. To this Donaldo Macedo often asked the critical question: Have you been to East Los Angeles, Roxbury, Harlem, East St. Louis or Camden, New Jersey, lately? One might wonder how the world today might have been a saner place for humanity had Che, Malcolm and Dr. King truly enjoyed the protection of the first amendment's freedom of speech "guarantee," thereby living longer lives and pushing the causes of common people's human rights. It has been claimed that the reason why Che was not allowed a trial in an international court was because the powerbrokers who financed his murder - there were CIA agents present to orchestrate his assassination, including the way he should be shot to make it appear as though he were wounded in combat - feared the power of his discourse and how it might play in the minds of the oppressed peoples of the world. To set the record straight and to dispel the many myths generated by status quo propagandists, McLaren's scholarship allows readers to look into the life and the machinations of the mind of Che, while simultaneously calling into question how contemporary revolutionaries such as Comandante Marcos in Chiapas, Mexico are both inspired by the lived example of commitment and love that Che provided, as they are equally persecuted for standing up for the rights of subsistence cultures around the world who are not interested in joining in the vulgar game of globalization, consumerism, and the politics of greed. Were Che alive today, with access to the high technology that Comandante Marcos and others so skillfully employ as they advance the cause of their post modern revolution, he might not have had to resort to violence which was then his only option. With the co-opting of corporate media, many are hoodwinked by the spin doctors who claim objectivity. Journalism has sunk to such depths of integrity and moral bankruptcy that they have found it necessary to invent terms such as investigative reporting. What does this imply about all other types of reporting? To counter the propaganda of corporate media, Comandante Marcos has demonstrated the power of the internet as a tool of organization, fund raising, and moral support from around the world, as well as the means to dispel myths while informing the world of the atrocities and lies of the status quo. Che would have had a field day with such luxuries! McLaren's other subject, Paulo Freire, is addressed with great love, honesty and devotion. He shows us the gentle man, dedicated as was Dr. King, to nonviolent humanism and the cause of democratic ideals. Education which is not commodified or politicized to reproduce the status quo, but rather a process of conscientization which invites all humans to participate as agents of history, as readers and writers of the word-world. Paulo provided a vision which expresses the possibilities for a future which is less violent and anti humane than the world we live in today. His was an invitation for teachers to rise above the technicism of skill, drill and kill which banters learners into silence and submission. Along with Chomsky, Giroux, Aronowitz, Macedo, bell hooks, McLaren, Chávez Chávez and others committed to "teaching to transgress," Paulo was an inspiration to us all. I have often said that the degree to which the status quo rejects a vision is in direct proportion to its power to create change. Clearly, Paulo has been marginalized in mainstream academia, but for world class scholars and extraordinary humans who are ontologically clear, Paulo's is a message of hope and possibility. McLaren has made a great contribution by keeping Paulo's vision alive and challenging all of us to awaken to social consciousness. In Peter's own words in a recent interview he states so well what is at stake:
"We cannot -- we must not -- think that equality can occur in our schools or society in general without at once and the same time demanding and participating in political and economic revolution. No sphere of domination must remain unassailed by the project of liberation. We need to remain steadfast, we cannot embark in a flight from being, that is, a flight towards the world of commodities that can only objectify being. We need to remember that we do not own ourselves, we don't belong only to ourselves. We belong to being. Because we belong to being, we need not covet the fruits of capital, for they are also the fruits of exploitation. Exploitation violates being. To find our multicultural soul is always an exercise of praxis, not ownership. It is an act conjugated with love in the interests of social justice. I am not trying to be metaphysical here since I connect objectified being with labor, with the laboring and toiling body, with the alienated worker, with the commodification of labor, with the exploited and the oppressed...
Guevara's Radical Legacy.......2000-05-12
Peter McLaren has long been recognized as one of the pioneering figures within the tradition of critical pedagagy and his body of work thus far has been hailed, rightfully so, as cutting-edge in his field. Yet what makes McLaren's work both provocative and unique is that it transcends the boundaries of any one discipline--in this case, education, and speaks to much broader concerns within critical social theory as a whole. His latest book to which this review is dedicated, "Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution," is arguably his most powerful contribution not only to social theory but to progressive Left politics as a whole. After reading this inspiring text, I was immediately reminded of E.P. Thompson's famous treatise "The Poverty of Theory" penned more than twenty years ago. In that text, Thompson was, of course, mainly concerned with the influence of Althusserian Marxism and the tendency of intellectuals to become so immersed within the web of "scholastic argument," so immersed within their "pseudo-revolutionary dramas" in the realm of pure Theory (with a capital T), that they tended to ignore the actual material conditions of embodied, historical agents. Thompson condemned such intellectual exercises for being diversionist tactics which lended themselves to the elitist division between theory and practice. Thompson's book was also a clarion call for the "Left" of his time to honestly re-evaluate itself. McLaren's latest effort is another such clarion call and it comes at a time when it is desperately needed. Indeed, it is a passionate plea for committed Left scholars to reassess the most basic constitutive principles which have dominated Left intellectual discourse for the last two decades. The beauty of McLaren's book is that it demands progressives to take stock of regnant social relations. At a time when the "text" has become the marionette theatre of the political, at a time when the critical interrogation of capitalism has become unfashionable among the avant-garde of the "cultural Left," McLaren reminds us of "real" concrete struggles that are taking place all over the world. At a time when the subject has been decentered and textualized within contemporary "left" theory, McLaren reminds us of living, breathing, bleeding historical agents engaged in struggle and he does so by drawing on the remarkable legacy of Che Guevara. Of course, Che the icon has become part and parcel of mainstream popular culture--his signature beret has been placed on the head of Taco Bell's chihuahua to hawk fast food; the site of his remains has become a tourist attraction and yet among the cacophony of commercial messages that have attempted to make a mockery of Che's legacy, Peter McLaren stands firm. His Che is a revolutionary committed to human emancipation, unafraid to confront the powers that be and the enormity of forces that steadfastly guard the status quo. McLaren's Che is not a caricature but rather a vivid portrait of a dedicated human being--Che was not only an extraordinary revolutionary figure, he was also a brave humanist and McLaren fearlessly picks up that torch and demonstrates how Che's legacy can illuminate our thinking about contemporary global conditions. McLaren's book will, without a doubt, stir a great deal of controversy and it may very well be condemned by weak-kneed academics caught up in the scourge of "discourse radicalism"--those who strike radical poses without ever leaving the confines of the academy; those who believe that turning texts on their heads can change the world. Such posturing is to be expected for McLaren has clearly thrown down the gauntlet--this is clearly a challenge to those that fashion themselves as progressives and Leftists to put their proverbial money where their mouths are. This is a book penned by someone who is not only an exceptional scholar but a passionate activist as well; someone who is unafraid to challenge the scholarly inertia that has plagued the intellectual Left for far too long. This is a book that all committed Leftists must read regardless of field or discipline--it is intense, informative, invigorating, and above all--inspiring.
Book Description
How does cinematic fiction render the ordinary world intelligible?
Narrative is one of the ways we organize and understand the world. It is found everywhere: not only in films and books, but also in everyday conversations and in the nonfictional discourses of journalists, historians, educators, psychologists, and others.
In
Narrative Comprehension and Film, Edward Branigan presents a telling exploration of the basic concepts of narrative theory and its relation to film--and literary--analysis, bringing together theories from linguistics and cognitive science, and applying them to the screen. Individual analysis of classical narratives form the basis of a complex study of every aspect of filmic fiction, exploring, for example, subjectivity in Lady in the Lake, multiplicity in Letter from an Unknown Woman, postmodernism and documentary in Sans Soleil.
Through his exploration of film, Branigan expresses how the study of narrative should be viewed as a distinctive strategy for recognizing, isolating, and articulating the fundamental role which narrative plays in our response to the world as a whole.
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Title: THE UNKNOWN CITY: THE LIVES OF POOR AND WORKING-CLASS YOUNG ADULTS.(Review) (book review)
Author: Torry Dickinson
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The Oral History Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: Oral History Association
Volume: 27
Issue: 1
Page: 174
Article Type: Book Review
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Great introduction for kids.......2002-10-09
GM Seirawan is one of the best chess teachers/authors in the US today. His book is fun introduction to chess tactics and mates that captivates kids pretty easily. I used this book early on with my twin boys (at the time they were 6 years old and unrated) to supplement my own instruction to them. Now that they are 9 years old and rated 1770 and 1683, I find them still browsing back through the book just for fun. This is the first book I recommend to people who have kids beginning in chess but are also serious about it and really want to improve.
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Malice Is Out, Monsters Are Loose, and You're Having a Bad Hair Day — Prima Can Help!
·Detailed maps with all hidden items and treasure chests revealed
·Complete stats for every monster and boss
·Unlock the Potential of Stellar Magic
·Every side quest covered
·Every item, weapon, and armor piece included
·Master the Judgment Ring Battle System
·Find every Ring Fragment and Stellar spell
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Does the Job.......2007-01-19
This is a simple, businesslike guide that does an excellent job of giving you what you need to get every enjoyment out of the game. Prima seems tospecialize in this time of guide - printed nicely, clear maps and diagrams but without the extreme glitz of less useful guides that spend too much effort being souvenirs.
From The New World in an interesting change of pace from the first games in this series. There are a lot of interesting side details, thand Prima makes sure you know about them. These guides get hard to track down after the game has been out for a while, but if you can find one consider getting it as a good companion while you are saving the world.
Official guide is impossible to get.......2006-11-03
The title says it all. I have tried to get this product three times from three sources and each time it ends up back ordered and eventually not available at all. I would love to review it because I have actually read it :(
Shadow Hearts FTNW strategy guide.......2006-07-04
This guide was extremely helpful in its layout, and is very informative. All the shadow heart games are worth buying IMHO, but this game goes farther then the first 2 in sidequests. Honestly, i like buying the guides, because reading them gives me an insight into what went into making the game. This guide wont disappoint.
pretty detailed book.......2006-03-22
Here we go! This strat guide was better than I thought it would be its one of the biggest guides I have ever seen {beside Radiata Stories}. I also would like to say that the walkthough portion of the guide is about as detailed as you can get. It explains just about every item locale on the map like ring fragments, stellars, accessories, and where key npc's are. The item lists, weapons, and equipment are all listed in detail, also gives you in depth ways on dealing with all the boss fights. The best part of the guide is the sidequest parts I don't think I have ever seen a more detailed sidequest index in my gaming life[except for the pifight portion]. There is a few minor flaws in this guide to make it a five, but a strat guide is to help you if you get stuck not to hold your hand and powder your bottom! What I am saying is if you are a gamer {RPG} then you should play the game without the guide first and then use the guide to see what you may have missed. In ending I would like to say I do reccomend this book Prima did a great job, unlike the job bradygames did on SH2!
For every 2 things it does right, it tags a snafu.......2006-03-13
Shadowhearts:From the New world is an rpg, and like most of its brethren, has its fair share of hidden secrets amidst a plethora of side quests. How well does Prima cover these time-consuming activities? Let's explore the various segments and based our judgment under a microscopic breakdown of this guidebook.
At first glance, it seems to be complete in its coverage. Printed on high quality paper in full color, Prima seemingly spares no efforts in playing tutor for the neophyte player. Full walkthroughs with strategies for boss fights are published liberally here. Side quests for individual characters' special abilities, ultimate weapons, armor and a bestiary database are present for the count of positive aspects.
Loose tips and hints promoting efficacy in game play are available. A good example of this is saving money to use on more advanced stellar charts in lieu of blowing it all out on basic models. It even has contents on optional dungeons purgatory and dollhouse.
Taking a closer inspection though, we quickly realize the extended manual is fundamentally flawed on a micro scale: a lack of finer details. While the main walkthroughs maps are labeled and pinpoints locations of ring fragments, stellar crests, lottery tickets and members, it fails to exhibit flexibility in presenting knowledge. In other words, were you cruising halfway through ficitious 1929 America and decide this projected beacon of papyrus eye candy is your answer to fully explore the genius work of Nautilus, you might experience the human emotion known collectively as `disappointment'. Backtracking to hunt down individual pieces of your missing collection is bromidic with this cynosure. To illustrate this, say you procured 5/14 ring fragments and need the remaining 9/14, be prepared to initiate a practice in tedium, as you will find yourself flipping through all the maps 1 by 1.
The item lists section forces me to dismiss it as filler. What's the point in listing out every item in game -if the locations are not cross-referenced to the awesome maps-?
It also falls short of notifying when optional scenarios are FIRST available, and instead lumps an entire side quests section after Garland residence. The final negative I can find fault with lies in is its incomplete attempt to help the player overcome the Lovecraft pit fights - providing tactics on ONLY the last fight, and missing information of foes in every bout, as well as methods to overcome the various handicaps, and zero info pertaining to rewards from each victory scored at Arkham University, Lovecraft's room This ties in to the snapshots chapter. The point of including an album database is redundant, if the guidebook includes the above mentioned pit-fights bestiary. Shadowhearts: Covenant veterans conclude their collection in Soloman's Trials, and this Lovecraft event was exactly designed for photojournalistic Johnny Garlands, yet somehow Adam Pavlacka prefers dungeon crawling to taking advantage of Lovecraft's research.
The last word on this guide is it is such a mixed bag, since the main walkthrough is arguably excellent and boasts professional standards. A sad case then, regurgitation of prior praise cannot be qualified for organization of information and catering to the perfectionist, which leads to the conclusion patience is encouraged to be exercised for online Nautilus fans to put out a coherent and comprehensive faq.
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- almanac with colored pictured of momentous events of history
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The Illustrated Almanac of Historical Facts: From the Dawn of the Christian Era to the New World Order
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almanac with colored pictured of momentous events of history.......2001-12-31
The volume is organized by year, beginning with the rise of Christianity, and is arranged chronologically. Includes the Waning of the Ancient World, the Early Middle Ages, the High Middle Ages, the Early Modern Era, and the Modern World to 1990. More than 480 entries. A dictionary of people and places, with special charts and sidebars. Includes full-color picture essays on such topics as the Islamic world, the Renaissance, the rise of totalitarianism, and the scientific revolution.
Book Description
Why did modern states and economies develop first in the peripheral and late-coming culture of Europe? This historical puzzle looms behind every study of industrialization and economic development. In his analytical and comparative work Eric Jones sees the economic condition forming where natural environments and political systems meet: Europe's economic rise is explained as a favored interaction between them, contrasting with the frustrating pattern of their interplay in the Ottoman empire, India and China. A new preface and afterword have been added for the third edition. Previous Edition Hb (1987): 0-521-33449-7 Previous Edition Pb (1987): 0-521-33670-8
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Explaining the past illuminates the present.......2003-10-27
The European Miracle is a book I have been meaning to read for years. Having finally done so, I found it a pleasure to read, a work which explains much of the past in ways which illuminate the present.
If you are looking for abstract theorising, this is not the book. If you are looking for a book of excellent scholarship, judicious judgement and clear prose which considers the breadth of causal factors, this is definitely your book.
Jared Diamond in his splendid Guns, Germs, Steel asked the questions 'why civilisation?' and 'why Eurasia?'. This asks a later question, 'why Europe?'
I did find the way Jones notes the striking institutional similarities between Japan and Europe but then moves on a bit disappointing. But the great thing about this book is you can fill in the blanks for yourself.
Jones' key analytical point -- that marginal differences, if they persist over centuries, can have huge long term consequences -- is very powerful and conveyed powerfully.
I particularly appreciated the striking delineation of how different the state as it evolved in Europe, and the European experience of the state, was from that of Asia. Once you see that, much subsequent history makes a great deal of sense.
His discussion of the European state system is illuminating, and encompasses (but is not specifically concerned with) local differences. One can see much more powerfully some of the effects of globalisation Friedman pointed to in the Lexus and the Olive Tree.
There is a great deal more in this book. Read it, to understand the past that makes the present much more explicable.
Only if you HAVE to read it...........2001-10-19
This book was extremely informative for anyone that might enjoy the economic history of Europe. For those that are reading it because you HAVE to; expect for the reading to go slow and to have to re-read certain areas. Jones could have said the same things with words half as long with half as many pages! In all fairness to the author, I read this only because it was mandatory for a college economics class; not because it is a topic I typically enjoy.
Interesting but not great.......2000-11-23
A sort of precursor to the brilliant book Guns Germs and Steel by Diamond. This book is by an Australian academic E.L.Jones. It seeks to explain why Europe a backward area of the world in the 1300's came to be the strongest by the 19th Century.
The weakness of the book is that it tends to generalize and talk about Europe as a whole. The author makes the interesting point that Asian and Islamic Civilizations although militarily powerful were not economically advanced. The wealth of individual peasants was low and the concentration of wealth in the autocratic rulers of such places was made possible because of a wide base of oppressed peasants. Europe although starting out from a poorer base had in general terms more affluent peasants and its countries were better able to take advantage of economic growth when the technologies came along.
In trying to explain why this was so the author looks at a wide range of factors. It would take a long time to list them but there is a lengthy examination of a wide range of factors including the absence of parasites because of the colder climate in Europe and the greater political freedom.
The problem is that Europe was not really a uniform entity. Different bits of Europe advanced and became wealthy for different reasons. England and the Netherlands developed extensive trade empires that made both countries very wealthy before the technological developments of the industrial revolution. Russia although backward was a country that expanded and from the time of Peter the Great increased its dominion by conquering a land based empire.
Contemporaries had no doubt for the success of these countries. They believed that the acquisition of territorial empires provided a basis of wealth for the home country. For this reason countries as diverse as Germany, Japan and the United States started to acquire empires by the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The reason for the success of the various European countries varied. Russia built up an autocratic state aimed at being able to field a large army. This was done by Peter the Great who changed the entire social system of land ownership to create obligations for military service. In England the acquisition of a maritime empire led to a strong fleet and a strong merchant class.
It is thus hard to put down the success of Europe to any common causes. Each European Country was dynamic and each developed different systems the more successful of which generated wealth and power. The less successful such as Poland were absorbed by the more successful.
Whilst the book is not perfect it is an interesting read. However Guns Germs and Steel is the best book on the topic.
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ears of the Cheetah is a collection of genetic detective stories that uncover the secret histories of exotic species such as the giant panda, the humpback whale, and the imperiled cheetah-the world's fastest animal who nonetheless cannot escape its own genetic weaknesses. And with each animal tale, the author draws a human parallel-how feline immunodefi-ciency virus (FIV) has uncovered clues to a potential cure for HIV, how mapping the genome of the domestic cat solved a murder, how a mutation in brown mice might stave off leukemia, and other important animal research that has paved the way toward the future of gene therapy.
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Tears of the Cheetah.......2006-02-22
I liked this book because I am a lover of animals and I like to read further into them. I especially love cheetahs and in the genetic world, cheetahs are a prime example of a species that genetics can be traced and studied because they were almost wiped out.
I like this book a lot.......2004-11-06
It's nicely written, contains interesting genetic facts about the animal kingdom I never would've known.(cheetahs were so badly inbred plus the genetic distance of african lions to asian lions).
Fascinating!.......2004-01-12
I enjoyed the book very much.I would recommend it highly for anyone who has an interest in understanding basic genetics or for someone who is just interested in learning something new. Dr. O'Brien is a wonderful story teller and writes in a language that is easily understandable. He slowly introduces the concepts in an interesting progressive manner which enables the reader to understand the more advanced concepts toward the end of the book. I thought the book was truly fascinating.
Animal Genes and Lessons for Humans.......2003-12-06
It has been but a few decades since the structure of the DNA molecule was discovered, a structure of astonishing simplicity. The complexity comes with the infinite arrangements of the four simple letters of the molecule, and the array of proteins that the arrangements code for. We are just at the beginning of understanding and using the coding, and Stephen O'Brien, head of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the National Cancer Institutes, is one of the decoders. In _Tears of the Cheetah: And Other Tales from the Genomic Frontier_, he has told fourteen stories of deciphering DNA for the purpose of determining animal history. There are remarkable discoveries outlined here, in which O'Brien directly took part or supervised those who did (he is gracious in his acknowledgement of these colleagues), and some of the molecular science is complex and will challenge readers who are not familiar with the field. The stories themselves, however, are compelling, and will be a good introduction to just what sort of mysteries are being unlocked by our knowledge of DNA and genomes (the sum total of an animal's genes), and how the solution of the mysteries holds potential not just for intellectual satisfaction but for the benefit of humanity.
The story that gives the book its title is about genetic studies of wild cheetahs, and it reflects a theme of a population bottleneck which is frequent in these pages. Because 12,000 years ago, the number of cheetahs were drastically cut (probably by an epidemic), only a handful remained to breed. When O'Brien came to investigate why cheetahs were breeding so badly in zoos and preserves, there was a shock: there was almost no variation in cheetah DNA. They were as inbred as lab mice. Some mice in China a thousand years ago, however, had been squeak by a viral plague because they had part of the virus incorporated into their own DNA; this may mean that all sorts of DNA strands of viral preventatives are awaiting our discovery, and use. There is a chapter here on Florida's endangered panthers, which like cheetahs are dangerously inbred, and the politics of conservation of species and subspecies. O'Brien explains how feline immunodeficiency virus (something like our HIV) infects many cat species but kills few of them because beneficial genetic changes are evolving. There is a fine chapter on the century of controversy about how to classify panda bears. There were good arguments from the physical characteristics of pandas that put them in the bear family, but there were others that indicated they were related more to raccoons. The argument was at a dead end; some of the means of classifying animals are based on simple human judgement and are therefore to a degree subjective. With examination of the DNA, however, O'Brien's team could show that the panda's ancestors split away from the family of bears about twenty million years ago. Pandas are bears, and the controversy is, thanks to molecular genetics, over. Looking at DNA has been the way to show that meat from endangered whales was being sold illegally in Japanese markets, forever changing the sham arguments that the Japanese used that their whaling was only for scientific research. O'Brien's team was involved in solving a murder by DNA fingerprinting, but not DNA of the murderer; O'Brien is an expert on feline DNA, and they had to make a link between the murderer and the only applicable physical evidence, cat fur on a jacket spattered by the victim's blood. The cat belonged to the murderer's family. Another chapter shows that amazingly, the human gene lines that squeaked through the bubonic plague in the Middle Ages may be the ones that are best fighting off AIDS. As both a memoir along the lines of "My Most Unforgettable Genomic Researches" and an introduction to what is going to be an increasingly important method of understanding our world's biology, _Tears of the Cheetah_ is a real success. The really tantalizing prospect, however, the main message of the book, is that humans and animals may have a genetic store of disease-fighting capacity that is only beginning to be understood, and has tremendous potential for improving health worldwide.
Stories combining wildlife, genetics and emerging diseases.......2003-09-18
The bits of the book I have read so far have been interesting and fun to read. I think the reader from Seattle with the poor spelling skills who believes that wildlife conservation is a "special interest" should quit griping in his anonymous envy of O'Brien, who has produced hundreds of scientific papers furthering our understanding of human diseases, in many cases by studying related diseases in wildlife. Many of the stories are highly interesting. Read the book.
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This digital document is an article from Conservation Matters, published by Conservation Law Foundation on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2406 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: Ah, sweet wilderness: a distinguished nature writer considers the proposal to create a network of Core Ecological Reserves across northern New England--and CLF's role in that ambitious undertaking.(Conservation Law Foundation of New England)
Author: Alan Pistorius
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Conservation Matters (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: Conservation Law Foundation
Volume: 9
Issue: 1
Page: 16(7)
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