Taxation, shipping and aircraft : agreement between the United States of America and the Marshall Islands, effected by exchange of notes, signed at Majuro December 5, 1989 (SuDoc S 9.10:11728)

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Taxation, shipping and aircraft : agreement between the United States of America and the Marshall Islands, effected by exchange of notes, signed at Majuro December 5, 1989 (SuDoc S 9.10:11728)
U.S. State Department
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Graham Annable's follow up to his Harvey-nominated Grickle, further Grickle collects beautiful stories in which devilish comedy and eye-watering art enclose a rich, chocolaty center of sad poetry and bruised but intact innocence. Annable has been creating these stories for his own satisfaction concurrent with his commercial animation work, and it shows in their intimate, conversational tone and wholly personal outlook. The skills honed at his day job are just as evident in the deft, fluid way he puts his stylish figures through their paces - it's like listening to the eloquent solo improvisations of a jazz musician who has sharpened his chops playing every night in the band. Even several panels of an Annable character just sitting still at a table practically glitter with life and cartoon joy.

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I know I'm not insane........2004-04-23

I know I'm not insane because I can still laugh at myself when I read further Grickle. Funny and insightful, it makes me realize the utter futility of my life and yet still find the humor in it. Thank you Graham for making me realize that my life is meaningless and yet still give me hope.

'further Grickle' is further fabulous!.......2004-03-13

Reading this book is very much like making love to a beautiful woman. Finger the pages gingerly. Giggle innocently at the whimsy of the moment. Clutch it tightly to your chest as you reach the climax. Then turn over and fall soundly into a deep satisfying sleep. Also it has some hilarious fart jokes in it!
This comic is a must have for anyone who enjoys joy. It's filled with poignant stories designed to titilate the spirit and embiggen the soul. Masterfully crafted using ancient 'drawing' techniques first perfected by the mayans in 600 BC, this collection of stories and strips delightfully touches upon those enchanting foibles of life that both warm and wrench the heart....like some sort of spicey stew. Mmmmm spicey stew.
Well, looks like I've got spicey stew on the mind so before I go to satisfy my craving I'll just leave you with this. Grickle is a delectable slice of savoury goodness smothered in the rich and creamy sauce of life......damn, I'm really hungry.

Even better than Grickle!.......2004-02-15

This stellar sophomore effort of Graham Annable is even better than his groundbreaking Grickle!

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In Shakespeare Well-Versed James Muirden captures the essence of each of the bard’s plays in quick-witted, rhyming verse. These clever synopses--with varied rhyme schemes--bring to life the high points and high jinks of all of Shakespeare’s plays. Here the best-loved scenes and characters—Romeo and Juliet’s impassioned balcony rendezvous, Henry V's speech before the Battle of Agincourt, Hamlet's melancholy soliloquy, the three witches meddling in Macbeth--are given fresh perspective by Muirden's charming, insightful interpretations.

Whether you are a lifelong devotee of Shakespeare or one who hasn't read his work since high school, you will be delighted by Muirden’s verse and by David Eccles’s wickedly clever illustrations that are featured throughout the book. Shakespeare Well-Versed is a smart and entertaining companion to Shakespeare's plays.

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broad appeal

A Classic of Film Study

Loved his earlier book

Theory, history, film.

amazing,theoretical yet readable

The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy
Robert B. Ray
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Binding: Paperback
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How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies:

A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980

ASIN: 0674055381

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Here is a mystery: in 1939, when the Hollywood Studio System, at the peak of its power, produced such films as Gone with the Wind, Ninotchka, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and Wuthering Heights, the movies' number-one box-office attraction was not Gable, Garbo, Wayne, Garland, Stewart, or Olivier. In 1939, 1940, and 1941, the most popular performer in the American cinema was Mickey Rooney, who owed his success primarily to a low-budget MGM series that concentrated on his character, Andy Hardy.

Here is another mystery: at some point in the past decade, film studies, once the most innovative of the humanities disciplines, began to harden into a catechism of predictable questions and answers. By committing itself exclusively to rational critique, film studies left itself overmatched by the enormously popular, seductive, and enigmatic representations that constitute the movies. And by eschewing experimentation with the forms of criticism, film studies ironically cut itself off from the new methods of research and writing prompted by the twentieth century's revolution in communications technologies.

Robert Ray's book about Andy Hardy proposes that alternative ways of thinking and writing about the movies can be derived from the humanities' equivalent of science's pure research--the avant-garde arts. Drawing on the Surrealist tradition, with its use of games, chance, fragments, anecdotes, and collage, Ray invents for film studies new forms of research that imitate the cognitive habits encouraged by photography, computers, and the cinema itself. In doing so, he reveals that even the Andy Hardy movies, a routine product of the Hollywood Studio System, were, after all, rich and mysterious.

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broad appeal.......2001-01-03

Though this text is certainly an excellent attempt at rethinking the problems in which film studies has become trapped, it is also a useful model for new approaches within the wider disciplines of English and cultural studies. Top notch and very readable!!

A Classic of Film Study.......1999-03-19

Wow! The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy is the best book on film that has ever been published. Ray's use of Andy Hardy is a perfect vehicle for understanding film in general. This book's scholarship is deep without being obscure or boring in any way. Ray's clear writing allows even the most novice reader to understand his most profound ideas. Yet, serious cinema afficadadios still have a great deal to learn from this master. Ladies and Gentlemen, Harvard publishes this book for a reason. The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy is film study at its best.

Loved his earlier book.......1999-02-02

I am a film student from Australia and Ray's book 'A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Film' was one of the best texts I have read on American cinema. I haven't read this, his more recent book yet but want to deperately. I live in Japan and would like to know its availablity.

Theory, history, film........1998-12-15

I HAVE taken Mr. Ray's courses, and this book is an excellent introduction to his methods and viewpoints. Mr. Ray's ideas are the sort that should change film thought for the better.

amazing,theoretical yet readable.......1998-06-12

i attend the institution where ray teaches, while i have not taken any of his classes, i have read this book and i must say it is by far the most enjoyable "theory" book i have ever read. ray uses andy hardy movies as a base for discourse on both the "meaning" and value of film studies, as well as links current theorists (derrida,barthes, etc.) within the avant-garde of surrealism. a great intro to film theory, narrative analysis, or for anyone interested in ways of teaching courses outside of tradtitonal cirriculum. abc....method included arp...........arp...........arp!!!!!!!!

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Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy
Robert B. Ray
Manufacturer: Harvard
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J0S9ZY

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Despite their centuries-old history and traditions, witchcraft and magic are still very much a part of modern Anglo-American culture. In Lucifer Ascending, Bill Ellis looks at modern practices that are universally defined as "occult," from such commonplace habits as carrying a rabbit's foot for good luck or using a Ouija board, to more esoteric traditions, such as the use of spell books. In particular, Ellis shows how the occult has been a common element in youth culture for hundreds of years. Using materials from little known publications and archives, Lucifer Ascending details the true social function of individuals' dabbling with the occult.

In his survey of what Ellis terms "vernacular occultism," the author is poised on a middle ground between a skeptical point of view that defines belief in witchcraft and Satan as irrational and an interpretation of witchcraft as an underground religion opposing Christianity. Lucifer Ascending examines the occult not as an alternative to religion but rather as a means for ordinary people to participate directly in the mythic realm.

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A healthy dose of religious studies.......2006-01-27

Bill Ellis, associate professor of English and American Studies at Penn State Hazleton, published in the year 2000 the book Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media. That was a great read indeed, and so is its companion Lucifer Ascending, where Ellis continues his studies and research of Satanism, the occult, and alternative worldviews and what they mean to the people involved.

But first a few words about the author. It should be stated that Ellis is a Christian, a fact that many Satanists or other non-Christians will claim makes him much too subjective to be able to explore the left-hand path. Yeah, well, one shouldn't forget that he's also a scholar. And a damn good one, too. Ellis, an active member of The Evangelical Lutheran Church, makes it clear from the very start that he believes in God, that he's taught in Sunday School, that his daughter went to a catholic church during her childhood, and so on. But despite all this he's still lightyears away from a stereotype American fundamentalist who despises and loathes everything that happens not to be Christian.

Because, as I said, Ellis is a scholar. And he's written another book that cannot, and should not, be missed.

A common theme that appears throughout the book is Harry Potter. Many fundamental Christian groups in America fully believe that J.K. Rowling's stories about the spectacled wizard are indeed propaganda in order to promote "traditional" (whatever that means) satanic and occult teachings, and this debate, which is still pretty heated from place to place, has received a lot of attention in American media. Ellis dissociates himself from this craziness and flatly admits that the adventures of Harry Potter are both well-written and makes a great read. The notion that children who read them will become Satanists or something equally horrible is something Ellis denies. With a passion.

However, the debate itself is definitely worth studying, and each chapter in Lucifer Ascending deals with something from this debate, or the books themselves, that can be analyzed and questioned using different religious and sociological perspectives. Ellis makes clear that young people's fascination with the forbidden, mystical, paranormal and (at least according to some) anti-Christian is nothing new, and he refutes the somewhat paranoid ideas about how Ouija boards are a serious threat to the Christian faith, a claim made by several different organizations with an anti-occult agenda.

Beware, though. Lucifer Ascending is not an easy book to read, and if you're unfamiliar with scholarly books this one will turn out to be quite a challenge. The witch-hunts during the 17th and 18th centuries are thoroughly described, and Ellis isn't afraid to criticize what "his" faith has done to numerous innocent people through the centuries. Furthermore, he's not, and in this he's differing from many other American Christians, convinced that some sort of satanic conspiracy is responsible for the abduction of infants and drinking of virgins' blood.

"(...) we should not be so naïve as to assume that `there were no witches' or `there are no satanists'. Occult practices have existed for many centuries, and they provide a ground for the more sensational claims that emerge from time to time. But crusades have always exaggerated the number and seriousness of crimes committed by witches and Satanists, as well as the numbers said to be involved."

No one is perfect. We all have our flaws, and Ellis believes his task to be to ANALYZE, not CRITICIZE. There's a great difference between the two attitudes, but not everybody are willing to accept that.

Both Anton LaVey and Michael Aquino receive acknowledgement in the beginning of the book, and the chapter about LaVey's Church of Satan is both balanced and interesting. He's even found a typo in The Satanic Bible (Avon's paperback edition) where the black mass is described. On page 109 it says "...he is careful not to choose one that is not in vogue to parody." However, and which LaVey himself confirmed to Ellis, "not" is a typo. The correct word should be "now".

And believe it or not, this book's also got a dose of humor and self-irony. For instance, the chapter about Ouija boards, with the great name "The @#$%&! Ouija Board", has a section named - and this is sure to make many Christians mad with anger - something as controversial as "Suck the Greasy Cock of the Dark Lord!".

That last one almost made me fall of my chair from uncontrollable bursts of laughter. And how often does that happen when you read a non-fiction book about religion?

Lucifer Ascending is an interesting study of occult traditions throughout the centuries and the only thing I can do is to fully recommend it. Bill Ellis is living proof that narrow-minded self-appointed Satanists who claim to "hate all Christians" (and by all means their Christian counterparts) really should do some serious research before they start arguing about something as complex as religious beliefs.

A Good Dose of Reality.......2004-05-08

This book is an excellent read, especially for mainstream, conservative Christians who become a bit paranoid, or overly concerned about "demonic" influences. This book gives a balanced perspective in understanding the underlying social and religious influences that brought about the practice of folk magic. Subjects discussed are the origins of chain-letters, the "lucky" rabbit's foot, Ouija Boards, Root Doctors, Mirror-Gazing, scary graveyard legends, and many other related folklore topics. While reading this book, most people will recall the use of some sort of folk magic or practice within their own family history or from their own personal experiences. It is very interesting to read how and why these practices came about.Of particular interest is the chapter that addresses Evangelical Christianity and the roots of its beginning...a real eye-opener for Christians who want to "cast the first stone" at anything that even remotely has the "appearance of evil".This is a great read, and I highly recommend it.

Modern Manifestations of Ancient Traditions.......2004-01-27

The worldwide popularity of the Harry Potter books has been seen as a boon not just for publishers, but for children who are getting excited about reading and are looking forward to reading the next one. But a large segment of American society does not see this as good news. The books are seen by some Christian fundamentalists as spiritually dangerous to children, since they introduce concepts of the occult in attractive ways. Certainly not all Christians feel this way, recognizing the books as belonging to the type of fantasies written by Christians like C. S. Lewis and others. If fundamentalists feel that the Harry Potter books are the works of the devil, however, they are in good historical company. In _Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture_ (University Press of Kentucky), Bill Ellis has continued an academic query which he described in his previous _Raising the Devil_. While his current book is not an analysis of Harry Potter books and the movement against them, J. K. Rowling's works are shown to be just a contemporary part of folklore beliefs that have gone back for centuries.

Witchcraft was (and is) practiced in opposition to an increasingly rationalistic theology. The practices allow marginalized groups to use traditions to give themselves a sense of degree of control over their lives, but can also be employed by those who have no particular conflict with society. Ellis examines such hardware of the occult as the "grimoire" or magic book, chain letters (!), and even the rabbit's foot. He shows how young people are especially prone to old-time occult activity. Since medieval times, people have made special trips to, say, Neolithic monuments. Folklorists call this "legend-tripping," and teenagers have kept up the tradition. The trip, often to a forbidden house or a graveyard, is made in a cultivated atmosphere of fear; stories of previous trippers who suffered the penalty for violating the taboo get passed along and keep the tripping alive rather than restraining it. Ellis shows that teens calling upon spirits by means of the Ouija board is quite similar to calling spirits out during exorcisms, an illustration of how belief in the occult actually compliments and supports orthodox belief. Frightened fundamentalists may be taking the Ouija threat too seriously; one student user says, "You really don't get any answers that mean anything. We just get drunk and have a good time."

Ellis, himself an active Lutheran, makes clear that he is not advocating for the folklore practices described here, or even apologizing for them. He admits that while many of the practices might be harmless, spooky fun for teens, there may be bad consequences as well. He gives such concrete examples as vandalism resulting from a graveyard visit, rather than the possibility that Satan might take over the souls doing the trip. His is an academic work, but even so, with its unusual themes, it is an entertaining one. He is especially amused by the famous spoof article in the satirical paper _The Onion_, telling about how satanic groups were being overwhelmed by Harry Potter readers trying to join up. The article was ridiculous, but was sent as a chain letter by many Christian youth counselors as a bona fide warning about the danger Harry poses. Their more Internet-savvy students were embarrassed that their elders could not tell reality from a joke. _The Onion_ just gave the elders an opportunity to overreact, but Ellis's book shows that the pattern of overreaction, giving definition to both orthodoxy and the occult, has been going on for centuries.

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Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture.(Book review): An article from: Church History
Glenn W. Shuck
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Because they are often large and complex, GUI programming tool kits can be hard to use. wxPython is a combination of the Python programming language and the wxWidgets toolkit, which allows programmers to create programs with a robust, highly functional graphical user interface, simply and easily. wxPython combines the power of an exceptionally complete user interface toolkit with an exceptionally flexible programming language. The result is a toolkit that is unique in the ease with which complex applications can be built and maintained.

wxPython in Action is a complete guide to the wxPython toolkit, containing a tutorial for getting started, a guide to best practices, and a reference to wxPython's extensive widget set. After an easy introduction to wxPython concepts and programming practices, the book takes an in-depth tour of when and how to use the bountiful collection of widgets offered by wxPython. All features are illustrated with useful code examples and reference tables are included for handy lookup of an object's properties, methods, and events. The book enables developers to learn wxPython quickly and remains a valuable resource for futurework.

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Just barely adequate and not worth the money.......2007-05-12

I've probably been spoiled by the excellently written tutorial for Java's Swing. wxPython in Action just barely covers the necessities. It has slightly more content than what's available online, but the structure of it makes it highly unsuitable as a reference.

The book boasts numerous tables that list most commonly used methods or classes for each topic, but the list is not exhaustive. Coupled with the rapidly changing API, the lists are nearly useless. There are also no screenshots with the various widgets all shown for comparison purposes or just to figure out which one you want.

Sections are constructed around questions, such as "How can I use file picker?", or "What color names are predefined?" Which is fine usually, except sometimes, the authors merely cover a very specific question instead of properly introducing a new widget and its functionality.

There are numerous other examples of where the book falls short. Sizers, similar to Swing's LayoutManagers, get a very brief treatment, focusing mostly on the, in my opinion, rather useless GridSizer. Compare this with the Swing Tutorial's in-depth treatment of each individual LayoutManager.

Want to know how to handle mouse events like the scroll wheel? Tough luck, because there's absolutely nothing in the book about it. Instead, the book gives you the basics of event handling and probably expects you to look up the details of scroll wheel handling in the API docs online (which do not have example code).

Overall, this book may be fine for getting you started on a basic application, say, a GUI front-end to a database. Anything more advanced and you had better be ready to get down and dirty with the online API docs.

great application, uninspiring book.......2007-04-29

wxPython is a great application, that helps python programmer create professional GUI's. Especially compared to other toolkits, like Tkinter.
Unfortunately, the book is not written well, despite the fact that the wxPython author Robin Dunn collaborated in writing it. It has a feel of a better manual, with no gems sprinkled in to make you want to read more and try some code. It is repetitious in listing the properties of inherited objects over and over, but lacking the meat when you need the one functionality.
On the other hand I like stylistics - good selection of font, proportion of white space to text and images, and my favorite - the code annotation with arrows and numbers, to explain the functionality chunk by chunk.
Overall the book is bland, but due to lack of other book on the subject, this is a case of one eyed king - you will still be doing lot of 'googling'.

This book is very useful.......2007-01-16

This book is very useful for wx.Python programmers, all examples work. Excellent book! Help me to build my application and save my time.

Must have for anyone using or interested in wxPython.......2007-01-13

I've been using Python for several years, and prior to buying this book had messed around a little with wxGlade. I heard an interview with the authors on the Python411 podcast and became intrigued by the idea that it's possible to handcode a GUI app in wxPython (particularly by the suggestion one of the authors made that it's best to understand how to code manually before moving to a GUI builder like wxGlade). Imagine a GUI toolkit that can be handcoded in practice!

Well, I've been reading the book and have found that it's improved immeasurably my understanding of the details of the toolkit, and has also provided more general background and patterns for following MVC with wxPython.

Great job, Noel and Robin. You've produced a book that's clear enough for those just getting started with wxPython but also manage to include examples and discussion of more advanced topics and approaches. You took time away from coding to write the book, but the result is a product that's valuable to current users of wxPython and will likely expand the userbase (hey, this isn't harder than Tkinter!).

Excellet book.......2007-01-12

If you are interested in doing wxPython programming this is a great resource and reference. Excellent book! (In fact probably the only one so far at Jan 2007).

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Wxpython in Action
Noel Rappin
Manufacturer: Manning Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N795H4

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Innovative forms of visual representation in the long eighteenth century were made possible through the medium of print. In turn, they enabled the dissemination of knowledge about the ancient world and its relationship to the ever-refining set of cultural values applied to and associated with the past.Tracing Architecture discusses the study of the ancient world - including Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British antiquities - through the medium of print as a Europe-wide phenomenon, where the visual language of the printed image transcended national boundaries. This book allows the reader to explore the relationship between the international currency of 'antiquity ' and indigenous traditions of aesthetic philosophy and architectural design. The importance of this and the changing relationship between text and image is also considered, thereby raising questions about the relationship between the mass-produced image and the original, in an era before Walter Benjamin 's age of mechanical reproduction.Tracing Architecture is a fascinating study of the relationship between architecture, antiquity and aesthetics in a European context. It will be of interest to those studying and working in the fields of art history, architecture, classics and ancient history.

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As recently as 1924, a lone Algonquin Indian lived quietly in Pelham Bay Park, a wild and isolated corner of New York City. Joe Two Trees was the last of his people, and this is the gripping story of his bitter struggle, remarkable courage, and constant quest for dignity and peace.

By the 1840s, most of the members of Joe’s Turtle Clan had either been killed or sold into slavery, and by the age of thirteen he was alone in the world. He made his way into Manhattan, but was forced to flee after killing a robber in self defense; from there, he found backbreaking work in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Finally, around the time of the Civil War, Joe realized there was no place for him in the White world, and he returned to his birthplace to live out his life alone—suspended between a lost culture and an alien one. Many years later, as an old man, he entrusted his legacy to the young Boy Scout who became his only friend, and here that young boy’s son passes it on to us.

Theodore Kazimiroff, the son of Joe Two Trees’s young confidant, writes historical, environmental, and natural history articles for several magazines. He lives in Bayville, New York.

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One Indian's story.......2007-09-10

I first read this book many years ago and bring it out every so often to refresh Two Trees' persona in my mind. This book is full of the author's love for his subject and he passes this on to the reader with great art. The story is in some ways so terribly sad that it is almost unbearable, but Two Trees and his love for nature and his dog can really only ultimately express joy and wonder. I just love this book and hope everyone who reads it follows Two Trees' wish to pass this extraordinary story along.

A beautiful story..........2003-05-22

Joe Two Trees is the last of his tribe. New York in the early twentieth century is not for him. Or is it? As a native New Yorker with a passion for the past, I loved this beautiful story. Whenever I return home, I can no longer visit the Bronx (especially Pelham Bay) without thinking of Joe and his relationship with Theodore Kazimoroff's father. The writing is lovely, and the story evokes all sorts of feelings at so many levels. It was my Aunt, a former teacher, who told me that I should read this book. It has become one of those novels that I recommend to others regularly.

Sublime.......2003-05-14

Some people talk about spirit like it is taught in "Indian 101", but you can experience something very soulful and ancient in the words and earth here.

A sad and touching tale.......2002-11-22

The Last Algonquin is a sad but heartwarming story about a man and his attempts to come to grips with his place in the world. The fact that this man, Joe Two Trees, is the last of his tribe of the Algonquin's makes his journey that much harder and more interesting. If you are looking for an official history of the American Indians, this isn't the book for you. However, if you are looking for a deep and touching story of one American Indian, and what we as a nation have lost by ignoring the heritage of American Indians, then you will enjoy this book. Mr. Kazimiroff has done an excellent job of preserving the story given to him by his father and keeping the memory of Joe Two Trees and the Algonquin Indians alive.

An Insightful & Fascinating "Hand-Me Down" Story.......2002-04-21

This is a must read, especially for those of us raised in the Pelham Bay section of Bronx. The tale of The Last Algonquin is inspiring and heartwarming. And, I hope that Mr. Kazimiroff realizes that he has given The Bronx, the Algonquin Indians and his father the immortality they truly deserve.
Remember as long as someone tells( hears or reads) this tale, the story of Joe Two Trees will continue to live on among the rocks and trees of Pelham Bay Park.

Algonquin Elegy : Tom Thomson's Last Spring

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Algonquin Elegy : Tom Thomson's Last Spring
Neil J. Lehto
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The mystery of CanadaÂ's artist Tom ThomsonÂ's drowning in Algonquin ParkÂ's Canoe Lake in 1917 have never before been so thoroughly investigated, documented and reported to the public. Here is what Tom Thomson experts have to say about the book:

Â“Neil J. LehtoÂ's Algonquin Elegy: Tom ThomsonÂ's Last Spring, is both a labor of love and a labor of gargantuan effort to come to some understanding, nine decades on, of exactly what happened that summer of 1917. Perhaps no one has ever worked as hard to know the unknowable and, in doing so, he has contributed invaluably to the greatest story in all of Canadian art. NeilÂ's passion for Tom Thomson shines through as passionately on each page as ThomsonÂ's passion for Algonquin Park shines though on each painting he left behind that last Spring.Â”
Â—Roy MacGregor, Columnist for the Globe & Mail, writer of a novel based on the mystery of painter Tom ThomsonÂ's final days, Canoe Lake

Â“Neil LehtoÂ's ambitious novel refers to OntarioÂ's huge provincial park, Algonquin Park and to the death under mysterious circumstances, of one of CanadaÂ's greatest artists, Tom Thomson (1877Â-1917). Lehto intertwines his story with fact so that it has the tone of a memoir but he exuberantly adorns his account, painting in gaps with invented scenarios and developing bare-bones motifs into well-designed adventures. The result has rich color and offers a welcome respite from the dryness of art history.Â”
Â—Joan Murray, Executive Director and CEO, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario.

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The mystery of Canada's artist Tom Thomson's drowning in Algonquin Park's Canoe Lake in 1917 have never before been so thoroughly investigated, documented and reported to the public. Here is what Tom Thomson experts have to say about the book:

'Neil J. Lehto's Algonquin Elegy: Tom Thomson's Last Spring, is both a labor of love and a labor of gargantuan effort to come to some understanding, nine decades on, of exactly what happened that summer of 1917. Perhaps no one has ever worked as hard to know the unknowable and, in doing so, he has contributed invaluably to the greatest story in all of Canadian art. Neil's passion for Tom Thomson shines through as passionately on each page as Thomson's passion for Algonquin Park shines though on each painting he left behind that last Spring."
-Roy MacGregor, Columnist for the Globe & Mail, writer of a novel based on the mystery of painter Tom Thomson's final days, Canoe Lake

'Neil Lehto's ambitious novel refers to Ontario's huge provincial park, Algonquin Park and to the death under mysterious circumstances, of one of Canada's greatest artists, Tom Thomson (1877-1917). Lehto intertwines his story with fact so that it has the tone of a memoir but he exuberantly adorns his account, painting in gaps with invented scenarios and developing bare-bones motifs into well-designed adventures. The result has rich color and offers a welcome respite from the dryness of art history."
-Joan Murray, Executive Director and CEO, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario.

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Sad but riveting, quiet but wonderful magic

Last Algonquin
Theodore L. Kazimiroff
Manufacturer: Dell Publishing Company
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Sad but riveting, quiet but wonderful magic.......2005-07-12

This is a second-hand tale, which is as it should be, as Joe Two Trees did not want his life-story lost, and he did not want the Algonquin tradition of story-telling lost, either. For those of you who liked "Tatham Mound" by Piers Anthony, you'll like this one. If you like this one, "Tatham Mound" becomes suggested reading.

Theodore Kazimiroff tells us the story that his father told him, which was the story that Joe Two Trees told him. The first few chapters tell of how Theodore's father, as a boy, explored the rural areas around New York in 1924, and stumbled across a true treasure. He was looking for Native American artifacts, and found instead a friend and a living repository of Native American history: Joe Two Trees. These early, preliminary chapters are fine, but I would have been disappointed if the entire book followed this course. It didn't.

After the story of the boy meeting the Indian, the book moves on to give us Theodore's recounting of his father's recounting of the recounting of Joe Two Tree's life. From that point on, the reader will find his/her eyes glued to the book. Two Trees was born in 1840 to a small clan of Algonquins in the area of the Hudson River near New York City. By the time he was fifteen, every Indian he knew was dead or vanished. He believed that he was the last Native American left, period. He set off into the White Man's world to avoid the terrible loneliness of his solitude, and gradually becomes Joe Two Trees.

His trek through the ugliness and beauty of the new world being created by the White Man is a quiet adventure that takes the reader along and leaves one feeling that the adventure was actually shared. There is kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, success and triumph, and a gradual process of Joe Two Trees realizing that he was destined to be "The Last Algonquin" and did not belong in the White Man's world. He goes from being "Two Trees" to "Joe Two Trees" and back to "Two Trees", known as Joe by the boy who was the author's father.

What might be most surprising is the quality of writing in this book, which is nearly flawless from a writer who did not write anything else, at least that I could find. Perhaps the purity of his writing was driven by the quality of this remarkable tale. Please keep the tradition alive by reading it, and by passing it on.

This book was previously printed by Laurel, and later reprinted by Walker and Company.

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Last Algonquin
Theodore L. Kazimiroff
Manufacturer: Laurel
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0440346665
Release Date: 1983-10-01

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The Last Algonquin
Theodore Kazimiroff
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Deep waterways: Subject of a talk at the Algonquin club last evening. Hon. Thomas H. Canfield speaks of the vast amount of business on the Great Lakes and of the value to Burlington of a ship canal

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Deep waterways: Subject of a talk at the Algonquin club last evening. Hon. Thomas H. Canfield speaks of the vast amount of business on the Great Lakes and of the value to Burlington of a ship canal
Thomas Hawley Canfield
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The Last Algonquin
Theodore L. Kazimiroff
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Rocket Science: Rocket Science in the Second Millennium: Apogee Books Space Series 45 (Apogee Books Space Series)
Alfred Zaehringer , and Steve Whitfield
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Disasterously Inaccurate.......2006-03-14

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