The North Carolina Employment Guide 1998 (North Carolina Employment Guide)
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    Louise Hughes
    Manufacturer: Career Resources
    ProductGroup: Book
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    Illustrated Guide to the NEC- Electronic Version
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      Illustrated Guide to the NEC- Electronic Version
      Charles R. Miller
      Manufacturer: Delmar Learning
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: CD-ROM

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      ASIN: 0766819213

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      If a picture is truly worth a thousand words, the Illustrated Guide to the NEC, Electronic Version provides the most in-depth look at the National Electrical Code that can be found anywhere. Technically accurate, highly-detailed illustrations offer insight into Code requirements, and are further enhanced through clearly written, concise blocks of text which can be understood with ease. Information has been logically gathered and concentrated under the appropriate occupancy: one-family dwellings, multi-family dwellings, illustrated accordingly, making the CD-ROM easy to navigate and content readily available. This CD-ROM features over 2,000 hyperlinks to the NEC, and can be run concurrently with the Electronic NEC to provide more background

      The Role of Unions in the 21St-Century A Report for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti
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        The Role of Unions in the 21St-Century A Report for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti
        Tito (EDT)/ Brugiavini, Agar (EDT)/ Calmfors, Lars (EDT)/ Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti (COR) Boeri
        Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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        True Story: A Comedy Novel
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        • Bill Maher's "True Story" is a great novel
        True Story: A Comedy Novel
        Bill Maher
        Manufacturer: Audio Literature
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        ASIN: 0787109649

        Book Description

        Bill Maher, the hilarious, irreverent star of the hit ABC talk show Politically Incorrect, is one of America's hottest comics. But like many of today's late-night humor kings, Maher began his career navigating New York City's seedy stand-up comedy circuit. He was there back in the Golden Age of comedy, when everybody wanted to be Eddie Murphy, and even the laundromat had its own open-mike night.

        True Story is Maher's debut novel about the wild and crazy life of the stand-up comedian -- a bawdy, rowdy tell-all report from the front line.

        Set in New York, circa 1979, in the late-night, neon-lit comedy clubs when the comedy boom was just heating up, True Story features five would-be comics, their shticks, their chicks, their rampant egos. These guys are desperate for celebrity, desperate for money, and -- what else? -- desperate to get laid. Which means they're also required to become "road comics," shacking up in low-rent condos provided by sleazy club owners as the comedy scene spreads to the heartland in the early '80s. The result is a hilariously funny novel about the peculiar world of stand-up, where the ultimate prizes are fame, fortune, and fornication -- and the ultimate aspiration is, quite simply, to be laughed at.

        Dick, Shit, Fat, Chink, and Buck -- so stage-named for their specialty jokes -- can't begin to fathom the idea of a day job. Hey, they think, it might actually be possible to make a living from comedy! Their crises -- on stage, on the road, and with the ladies -- provide ideal set pieces for Maher's tongue-in-cheek riffs and observations. With perfect-pitch delivery, in classic sardonic style, Maher gives us a bona fide look at these resilient comedians and the scumbag promoters, hostile audiences, and die-hard groupies who make up their warped and twisted world.

        Only Bill Maher could have written True Story. And lucky for us he did. Because True Story is hilarious. It's offensive. At times it's even touching. So sit back as Maher puts you stageside at the very birth of the comedy boom. You'll laugh in all the right places. Hey, it's a True Story.

        Customer Reviews:

        3 out of 5 stars no title.......2005-11-30

        This was quite a book, certainly different than anything I've ever read before. A thinly disguised autobiography by the host of a TV talk show "Politically Incorrect", which was on late at night. Maher presents himself and his fellow comedians as being unbelievably shallow human beings, more consumed with getting into a woman's pants than practically anything else in life. And these are men in their 20s, not teenagers. The language he used you couldn't even put in a movie these days. And that's going some. (Well, with the exception of "The Aristocrats".) However, it was well written (even if the author kept throwing in what I'm sure he thought were very erudite words just to make him appear smart) and I enjoyed it. It was alternately crisp, funny, bitter, and even at times very wise. About stand-up comedy.

        3 out of 5 stars Hard to Digest.......2003-09-19

        This book is a difficult read... It has an interesting premise, but the characters are so disinteresting and the plot so convoluted that turning pages becomes a chore.

        4 out of 5 stars a masterpiece of cynicism........2002-06-03

        As far as literature goes, it's not the best. But this book is _the_ most cynical thing I have ever read. Bill Maher makes Machiavelli look like Timothy Leary by comparison. Bill Maher actually manages to think that the world is a bit worse than it actually is -- and I didn't know that was possible. The most cynical thing in this book is of course then ending, where he drops the cynicism for a second in order to give it the kind of ending the reader is dying to see. Bill Maher elevates cynicism to an artform!

        2 out of 5 stars not a liberatarian.......2001-08-11

        bill is not a liberatarian at all

        4 out of 5 stars Bill Maher's "True Story" is a great novel.......2000-09-01

        I thought that Bill Maher's novel, "True Story" was very perceptive and gave a fascinating look at a group of characters. The world of comedy is fascinating, and he has some insights into human nature in general. I hope he writes more novels.

        I also thought that the focus on multiple characters instead of one central protaganist was very effective, and his style of writing was very entertaining, elegent, and literate. I especially enjoyed the excerpts of comedy acts that he worked into the narrative.
        True Love: A COMEDY OF THE AFFECTIONS (Prairie State Books)
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          Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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          The Films of the Eighties: A Social History
          Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
          • More Fun than One Might Guess
          • Scholarly analysis.
          The Films of the Eighties: A Social History
          William J. Palmer
          Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University
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          Binding: Hardcover

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          ASIN: 0809318377

          Book Description

          In this remarkable sequel to his Films of the Seventies: A Social History, William J. Palmer examines more than three hundred films as texts that represent, revise, parody, comment upon, and generate discussion about major events, issues, and social trends of the eighties.



          Palmer defines the dialectic between film art and social history, taking as his theoretical model the "holograph of history" that originated from the New Historicist theories of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra. Combining the interests and methodologies of social history and film criticism, Palmer contends that film is a socially conscious interpreter and commentator upon the issues of contemporary social history. In the eighties, such issues included the war in Vietnam, the preservation of the American farm, terrorism, nuclear holocaust, changes in Soviet-American relations, neoconservative feminism, and yuppies.



          Among the films Palmer examines are Platoon, The Killing Fields, The River, Out of Africa, Little Drummer Girl, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Silkwood, The Day After, Red Dawn, Moscow on the Hudson, Troop Beverly Hills, and Fatal Attraction. Utilizing the principles of New Historicism, Palmer demonstrates that film can analyze and critique history as well as present it.

          Customer Reviews:

          4 out of 5 stars More Fun than One Might Guess.......2001-06-26

          Dr. Palmer's scribblings on film are NOT so uselessly DRY as the mysterious quoting review implies, though the guy can (& does) stoop to SOME jargonic postmodern deconstruction, plus at least one hilariously terrible actual diagram. I swear! Fortunately, the empty academic professionalism is nicely balanced by passages of plain readable screed, tips on good commercial flops, etc. The professor seems to be some sorta quasi-Dickensian crypto-feminist at heart, best as I can guess from this filmcrit & a very sketchy bio. He is overkind to Oliver Stone, who does not NEED (or even want) kindness, but otherwise fair. Or almost fair. If one elects to concoct a sub-heading called "Ensemble Weepies" for categorizing bathetic chick flicks, what about "Baseball Hokum" for the inverse, or obverse, or obtuse? Doctor?

          5 out of 5 stars Scholarly analysis........1997-11-24

          "...on a primary text level, history may embody an idea that gives a general definition to the vision of the film and points in a general way toward the other levels of textuality of the film - its subtexts and/or metatexts (self-reflexive discourses). If history is a holograph, then so is film because film is also composed of different layers of textuality. The surface texts of most films are constructed out of a limited number of conventional mass modes of discourse (plots), whereas the subtexts of films consist of a variety of sociohistorical discourse contests (themes) such as politics, social consciousness, revisionist history, moral messaging and existentialist themes. "

          (The "score" rating is an unfortunately ineradicable feature of the page. This reviewer does not "score" books.)

          TV or Not TV: Television, Justice, and the Courts (Twentieth Century Fund Book)
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            TV or Not TV: Television, Justice, and the Courts (Twentieth Century Fund Book)
            Ronald Goldfarb
            Manufacturer: NYU Press
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Hardcover

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            ASIN: 0814731120
            Release Date: 1998-03-01

            Book Description

            Goldfarb argues persuasively for cameras in the courtroom, O.J. notwithstanding. He is aware of the problems but believes strongly that the more open a courtroom, the more open and free our society. The challenge, which he describes so well, is to balance the new demanding technology against our traditional dedication to democracy.
            -- Marvin Kalb, Director, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard University.

            A tour de force, a one-stop repositiory of the history, facts, and the law of the matter. I plan to plagiarize from it shamelessly. This is an important subject, and Goldfarb's book provides the first comprehensive, in-depth study of the issue.
            -- Fred Graham, Chief Anchor and Managing Editor, Court TV

            Going beyond the ovious controversies of recent years, Goldfarb surveys the role of television in courtrooms with cool but crisp detachement. He brings historical context, legal analysis, and rich experience to bear on the issue, concluding that courts are public institutions that do not belong exclusively to the judges and lawyers who run them. His persuasive argument for greater openness is bound to influence future debate on the topic.
            -- Sanford J. Ungar, Dean, School of Communication, American University

            In the last quarter century, televised court proceedings have gone from an outlandish idea to a seemingly inevitable reality. Yet, debate continues to rage over the dangers and benefits to the justice system of cameras in the courtroom. Critics contend television transforms the temple of justice into crass theatre. Supporters maintain that silent cameras portray "the real thing," that without them judicial reality is inevitably filtered through the mind and pens of a finite pool of reporters.

            Television in a courtroom is clearly a two-edged sword, both invasive and informative. Bringing a trial to the widest possible audience creates pressures and temptations for all participants. While it reduces speculations and fears about what transpired, television sometimes forces the general public, which possesses information the jury may not have, into a conflicting assessment of specific cases and the justice system in general.

            TV or Not TV argues convincingly that society gains much more than it loses when trials are open to public scrutiny and discussion.

            Creature Collection Revised (Scarred Lands D20)
            Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
            • Like the original, only much more usable.
            Creature Collection Revised (Scarred Lands D20)
            Joseph Carriker
            Manufacturer: White Wolf Publishing
            ProductGroup: Book
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            5 out of 5 stars Like the original, only much more usable........2007-03-24

            Plenty; both good and bad, has been written about the original Creature Collection. Most of the bad comments centered on the large number of statistical errors and some pretty sub-par artwork. The artwork never bothered me, but the stats for many of the monsters had to be seriously edited to make them usable in a game. Muffed stats torpedoed many a monster. It was obvious that the book was rushed to market in an effort to beat the first 3.0 Monster Manual to the shelves.

            Despite its shortcomings; however, the Creature Collection was full of creative beasts that I have found much use for. The Creature Collection Revised keeps all of the original's monsters, but fixes the statistical errors and even has some improved artwork. As part of the revision, this book is now compatible with the 3.5 version of the D&D rules as well. If you're considering buying the original Creature Collection, skip it and get this. If you already own the original, this book is well worth the price of updating.

            D20: Creature Collection Revised; (Scarred Lands)
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              White Wolf Publishing
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              ASIN: B000MHMXU6

              The Photoshop 7 Wow! Book
              Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
              • The name says it all - Wow!
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              The Photoshop 7 Wow! Book
              Jack Davis
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              ASIN: 0321123972

              Book Description

              Jack is back with the update to his best-selling, award-winning Photoshop Wow! Book! Readers have hailed previous versions of Jack Davis's landmark book as the "most useful Photoshop book ever" because of its practical, real-life solutions and its value-packed CD-ROM. The The Photoshop 7 Wow! Book simply ups the ante with even more time-saving techniques—completely updated for Adobe Photoshop 7.

              In the The Photoshop 7 Wow! Book, the focus is on the visuals: Using beautiful, full-color pictures of professionally designed Photoshop projects, this volume clearly lays out the steps required to re-create these spectacular results in your own projects. To work visually, you need to think visually, and this book allows you to do just that. As with all of the titles in this popular series, the emphasis here is on results—how to produce the best work in the fewest steps possible. And sometimes that means using techniques even Adobe hasn't thought of, such as the Wow! Media Painting and Layer Style techniques introduced here.

              Customer Reviews:

              5 out of 5 stars The name says it all - Wow!.......2007-06-08

              I thought I knew Photoshop - until I bought this book. I bought this book just for the extras; syles, textures, etc. But, ended up learning a lot - such as, how to create & use a texture map for realistic 3D effects; how to use a gradient for a neon sign effect, and tons more. I still, to this day, refer back to this book for reference. If you are wanting to learn more about Photoshop, these are the series of books that you need.

              5 out of 5 stars great to do business with.......2006-11-08

              received in condition as described in a timely manner. would purchase from again!

              5 out of 5 stars This wow book really wows.......2006-09-01

              Lots of tips and tricks on how to perfect your photoshop project. This book suits various levels of users: from begninners who just want to touch up their digital photos to users who want to have professional results on their media projects. Lots of how to's and detailed steps to achieve your final goals.

              5 out of 5 stars Get Wow CS2 published!!.......2005-05-13

              Jack Davis: If you are reading this, please release your next book, CS2!!! My version of Wow 7 is worn out! THis is the book I carry everywhere. If I get stuck or forget a technique, I just open to that page and relearn it in under a minute. Photographs, artwork, webdesign artwork, typography, it's all there with plenty of illustrations. Just one to four pages on each issue, no need to read on and on. It's absolutely the best, (and I have almost every book on Photoshop published) book about Photoshop, regardless of version. But an update is greatly needed!!!

              5 out of 5 stars WOW! What else CAN you say?!.......2004-08-16

              Jack Davis keeps surprising us with great effects and techniques for Photoshop, in this great step-by-step, easy to learn book. This was required in an advanced Photoshop class and it's one book I'm going to KEEP! Awesome!
              Adobe Photoshop 7 One-Click Wow!
              Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
              • Adobe Photoshop 7 One-Click Wow
              • Very Good, but I wish there were more......
              • Fantastic Book for Photoshop
              • You're gonna love this book and the effects it allows.
              • Jack and Linnea Have Done All the Work For You
              Adobe Photoshop 7 One-Click Wow!
              Jack Davis , and Linnea Dayton
              Manufacturer: Peachpit Press
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              ASIN: 0321125312

              Book Description

              Adobe Photoshop 7 One-Click Wow! is a unique CD-ROM/book package from Adobe Press that features hundreds of instant, one-click makeovers you can apply to your creations, making it an indispensable extension to Photoshop 7. You can think of this inspiring collection of Layer Styles and other "one-click" solutions on the CD-ROM as the equivalent of getting hundreds of beautiful and practical filter effects. However, these makeovers are much more powerful than filter effects because you can apply them instantly to graphics, type, and photos, yet still change the graphics or the type after they've been applied. And these Layer Styles don't permanently alter the images to which they're applied like filter effects do.

              Veteran authors Jack Davis and Linnea Dayton have added many new Layer Styles to the Photoshop 7 One-Click Wow! CD-ROM, in addition to those featured in their best-selling Photoshop 6 Wow! Book. Also included on the CD-ROM are dynamic brushes and tool presets for Photoshop 7, as well as gradients and patterns you can use for Fill layers and textures. The book part of the package explains everything you need to know to work with Photoshop's powerful Layer Styles function in just 96 short pages, including a 5-page step-by-step tutorial, as well as a catalog of outstanding full-cover examples of how the Wow! Layer Styles and other effects look when they're applied. Whether you're a photographer, graphic designer, or illustrator, Adobe Photoshop 7 One-Click Wow! will help you transform your photos, type, or graphics instantly!.

              The Revolt of Silken Thomas: A Challenge to Henry VIII (Topics in Modern Irish History,)
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                Laurence McCorristine , and Lawrence McCorristine
                Manufacturer: Wolfhound Press (IE)
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                Novel with Cocaine (Modern Voices)
                Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
                • True Decadence
                • Uneven, and only Mildly Interesting
                • Existentialism without the pompousness of Camus & Sartre
                • Why mess with an Overcoat?

                Novel with Cocaine (Modern Voices)
                M. Ageyev
                Manufacturer: Hesperus Press
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                ASIN: 1843914328

                Book Description

                A bizarre and deeply disturbing account of a young man’s descent into addiction, this story brilliantly mirrors the tumultuous events of early 20th-century Russian history. Struggling with the confusion and insecurities that adolescence brings, Vadim seeks an outlet for his frustration. Following unfulfilling attempts at classroom rebellion, filial disobedience, and teenage sex, he is drawn further and further into the world of illicit drugs. As his desire to experiment with narcotics grows stronger, so too do his feelings of worthlessness and isolation; and his ultimate physical surrender to cocaine mirrors his nation's psychological capitulation to a world where morals no longer apply. This extraordinary work, astonishingly prescient for its time, is written by the pseudonymous M. Ageyev.

                Customer Reviews:

                5 out of 5 stars True Decadence.......2004-06-10

                This strange little tale of a young man's descent into cocaine addiction is less interesting for it's portrayal of the youthful anti-hero's chemical use as his astounding philosophical insights. Vadim does not actually use cocaine until the end of the novel ('the beginning of the end', as it were) and the novel is mostly composed of his Dostoevskian self loathing and inability to relate to his peers on any level. It is almost an exercise in depressive solipsism; while Vadim's peers play a large role in the novel his inner world is so tortured and miles apart from them that the author might as well have portrayed him as a complete misanthrope. In the opening we get a feel for where his moral compass is swinging; he gives a venereal disease to a young woman in full cognizance of what he is doing. He agonizes over it, but this does not prevent him from actually doing it. The most catching scenes in the novel are when his classmates, thrown into a kind of cocaine induced revolt against the orthodoxy of the school they attend, verbally attack priests and teachers. Burkewitz, a character we encounter later in the book, gives a particularly interesting speech to the headmaster priest of the school in the middle of a sermon. There are thoroughly disturbing scenes; Vadim strikes his mother, steals from her, all the while recognizing her basic goodness and frail attempts to relate to him. Vadim wants to consider himself exceptional, a unique student and son, and at the same time loathes himself. Many of his self evaluations strike a schizoid note. His entrance into the world of cocaine use is preceded by his rejection of a girl with whom he was too fearful to consummate his relationship. Like everyone else, she has a false image of him and rejects him entirely when he fails to live up to it. We are only given blurry pictures of the lengths to which he goes to obtain cocaine after a few seamy scenes in which his 'friends' instruct him in the mechanics of use. "My son is a thief", his mother wails. Vadim's disturbing coke dreams are not of the usual variety; far from being visions of grandiosity, they are unconscious and violent recognitions of his own guilt and wretchedness. I wouldn't hesitate to say that this is one of the most bizarre novels I have ever encountered. It oscillates between philosophy, self loathing and insanity, and does not strike an even balance. I would recommend it to anyone, not for knowledge of a cocaine addict's world (this is not a realistic depiction) but as a jolting primer for any study or enjoyment of the literature of decadence.

                3 out of 5 stars Uneven, and only Mildly Interesting.......2002-05-24

                This book had been so built up by other people who had read it that I expected more. The writing is uneven and the first two thirds of the book seem to have almost no relation to the last third.
                The first two thirds of the book gave a few interesting details of life in Russia just before the Revolution, but other than that I foundit very uninteresting. It is not until alomst the end of the book that the element of cocaine is even introduced and when it is the book quickly winds to its unsurprising end.

                5 out of 5 stars Existentialism without the pompousness of Camus & Sartre.......2000-08-10

                Having already been a fan of Dostoevsky & Tolstoy, it was Charles Bukowski who pointed me back to the Russians as being the only producers of literature that's worth reading. "A Novel with Cocaine" is a fine example of a novel that has something worthwhile on its pages.

                Might we say that it's existentialist in it thinking? The individual caught in a universe that really doesn't give a damn about the individual... and the individual's struggle to find something to do, and a place to fit.

                Camus and Sartre are puny little runts compared to Ageyev! Ageyev gives us the moment-to-moment REAL stuff that actually matters. One character goes up in front of his high school math classs to work out a problem... he sneezes and boogers are hanging out of his face while the class laughs. How does he deal with this?

                Ageyev keeps his work as something regular folks can identify with. Not all of his situations deal with boogers (or things just as gross), but they're all common enough to keep a reader's interest without drawing the reader into pompous brain-teasers that few of us can access.

                Conversely, Camus and Sartre take us into a high-minded realm which is interesting, but when will I ever have to think about whether or not to kill a wheelchair-bound guy because he doesn't have the nerve to do it himself? How many of our lives are impacted by such decisions?

                Ageyev is much more interesting. He's a great writer. He's got a great sense of humor and he's FIRMLY rooted in common existence.

                Though the book is titled "A Novel with Cocaine," sure there's a great deal about the main characters travels through the underworld of drugs and drug people and the activities between them. But, I think that this is more of a way for the writer to access his more interesting ideas--as opposed to writing a book that's really about cocaine.

                5 out of 5 stars Why mess with an Overcoat?

                .......1996-08-08

                Losing his "nasal virginity" in an adventure into the wonders and horrors of cocaine addiction, the central character finds his answer to insecurity and social ineptitude in a potent white powder as his peer in The Overcoat seeks the same comfort in a dark, tattered garment.

                If the pseudonym doesn't give it away, this anonymous author provides another dim glance into nineteenth century St. Petersberg that seems a brushstroke within the same portrait alongside those by Gogol and Dostoevsky. Imagine the Underground Man not tormenting his maid, but out in the streets snorting cocaine, searching for a female companion.

                Novel with Cocaine is not essential reading, but it is another worthwhile glimpse at the literary products of desperate and dark nineteenth century St. Petersberg. Glorification of drug use is a problem in the late twentieth century. Novel with Cocaine will force you to think again with grave reluctance that neither McInerney nor Ellis have been able to posit in the minds of their readers.
                Storming the Heavens: Voices of October (Soviet studies)
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                  They Found Their Voice: Stories from Soviet Nationalities with No Written Language Before the 1917 October Revolution
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                    They Found Their Voice: Stories from Soviet Nationalities with No Written Language Before the 1917 October Revolution
                    Compiled By Evgenia Imbovitz
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                    Voices of Revolution, 1917
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                    Voices of Revolution, 1917
                    Mark D. Steinberg
                    Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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                    This book gives voice to the experiences, thoughts, and feelings of ordinary Russian people-workers, peasants, soldiers-as expressed in their own words during the vast upheavals of 1917. The documents in the volume are selected from the State Archive of the Russian Federation in Moscow and other Russian collections and most have never been published before. They include letters from individuals to newspapers, institutions, or leaders; collective resolutions and appeals; and even poetry written by self-taught, lower-class authors.

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                    5 out of 5 stars Documentary history of the Russian Revolution.......2007-04-01

                    This collection titled "Voices of Revolution" is a selection from the many letters, resolutions, requests, appeals, complaints and invective sent to various state organs and important politicians from the period of the Russian Revolution by 'regular people'. Farmers, soldiers, deserters, workers, and so on all came together in that period to elect their own representatives and form their own councils, and these councilmembers in turn responded to the many confused events of those days with letters and resolutions supporting or opposing specific policies or politicians. Equally, individual farmers, laborers etc. wrote letters, requests, insults or even poetry to popular newspapers as well as party leaders in the hope of getting their voices heard.

                    In between all these documents, translated into English but also available online in their Russian originals, the editor Mark Steinberg provides a short but effective history of the period to give context to the many voices of the revolution. He does this fairly and accurately, and the many-sidedness of popular opinion in those days belies any one-sided view of the revolution. Of course it is never entirely clear how representative these individual and collective letters and appeals are, but judging by the various election results and the repetition of the same complaints and issues in the letters, the two match quite well. That makes this book an invaluable insight into the views of the common man in Russia, 1917.

                    5 out of 5 stars Important.......2002-05-03

                    A remarkable collection of documents and interpretations giving one an understanding of the revolution from below. By the way, I notice that the original Russian texts of the documents are available at http://www.yale.edu/annals/Steinberg/golosa.htm
                    Voices of Revolution, 1917.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian
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                      Dmitry Shlapentokh
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                      VOICES OF REVOLUTION 1917
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                        VOICES OF REVOLUTION 1917
                        Mark D. Steinberg
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                          Measurement Techniques in Space Plasmas: Particles (Geophysical Monograph)
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                              The Preservation and Valuation of Biological Resources
                              Gordon H., Gardner M. Brown, and others, eds. Orians
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