Ready Notes Volume 2 Chapters 15 to 24 for use with Accounting: The Basis for Business Decisions

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These are printed copies of the PowerPoint slides with ruled lines so that students can take notes.

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Mental Health and Productivity in the Workplace is a comprehensive and practical guide to identifying, understanding, preventing, and resolving individual and organizational mental health problems in the workplace. Originally published as Mental Health in the Workplace (Van Nostrand/Wiley, 1993), this completely revised, updated, and expanded edition represents the most current thinking in the field and contains contributions from an expert panel of organizational and occupational psychiatrists. With fifty percent more chapters, this new edition adds essential material on creating systems and cultures that encourage organizational productivity and employee mental health and on finding cost-effective,quality mental health care. The book focuses on problems that start "at the top" (executive dysfunction) as well as on the effects of organizational structure, office politics, chronic change, downsizing and employment uncertainty, office wide emotional crises, and aspects of organizational development. In addition, this helpful resource includes information about such basic issues as anxiety, stress, burnout, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, and psychosis.

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Good Handbook.......2003-02-06

Mental Health and Productivity in the Workplace: A Handbook for Organizations and Clinicians
by Jeffrey P. Kahn, Alan M. Langlieb (Jossey-Bass) Efficiency and employee well-being are more important than ever to the overall success of organizations. Emotions are key to understanding executive effectiveness, organizational change, and corporate ethics. Stress, burnout, depression, drug abuse, violence, and other mental health problems are costing businesses billions of dollars every year in lost productivity and costs of ineffective treatment.

Mental Health and Productivity in the Workplace is a comprehensive and practical guide to identifying, understanding, preventing, and resolving individual and organizational mental health problems in the workplace. Originally published as Mental Health in the Workplace (Van Nostrand/ Wiley, 1993), this completely revised, updated, and expanded edition represents the most current thinking in the field and contains contributions from an expert panel of organizational and occupational psychiatrists. With 50 percent more chapters, this new edition adds essential material on creating systems and cultures that encourage organizational productivity and employee mental health and on finding cost-effective, quality mental health care. The book focuses on problems that start "at the top" (executive dysfunction), as well as on the effects of organizational structure, office politics, chronic change, downsizing and employment uncertainty, officewide emotional crises, and aspects of organizational development. In addition, this helpful resource includes information about such basic issues as anxiety, stress, burnout, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, and psychosis.

Written for executive management, human resource, benefits, occupational medicine, and mental health professionals, this essential handbook offers an emotionally informed guide to cost-effective implementation of policies for maximum productivity.

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The Development Of Parliament During The Nineteenth Century
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0548105340

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Is our planet's condition terminal? Whether or not you have faith in the mounting scientific evidence pointing toward potentially catastrophic effects of our atmospheric meddling, you must admit that if the prophets are right, we'd better learn to breathe carbon dioxide in a hurry. Physicist John E. Brandenburg and science writer Monica Rix Paxson warn that our big blue marble might become just another cold dead rock in Dead Mars, Dying Earth, a parallel study of our history and our neighbor's, drawing on the information amassed over decades of scientific research and exploration. The writing is florid, even a bit messianic at times, but the writers believe that our time is limited and that we must immediately stop deforestation and dependence on fossil fuel if we want our species to make it more than a few generations. Despite bringing in some unnecessary and controversial "evidence" (did they really need to tout the face on Mars to make their case for global warming?), they still make a compelling case that life did exist on Mars but was extinguished by an out-of-control greenhouse effect. Refreshingly, they suggest that we fight science with science, arguing that fusion power and space exploration are crucial to our continuing survival. This may be the argument that sways the nervous conservatives who fear economic recession or worse if we heed the environmentalists' call to action. If so, Dead Mars, Dying Earth could be the 21st century's Silent Spring. --Rob Lightner

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Mars once had an ocean larger than the Pacific.
Mars once had an atmosphere.
Mars once had life.
They are all gone.
What happened on Mars?
And could it happen here?

Dead Mars, Dying Earth, a stunning, true story of science on the brink, has been released to glowing reviews. This is the story of a NASA researchers remarkable transformation from an environmental skeptic to one of the leading proponents of the dangers of global warming.

Written with the can't-put-it-down narrative drive of good fiction, this scientific saga has been endorsed by everyone from a Nobel Laureate, a founder of Greenpeace, and New Age writer, James Redfield to the publisher of Skeptic Magazine and a wide spectrum of members of the business community.

Dead Mars, Dying Earth is a lyrical, full-body immersion. You'll be thrust from the surface of Mars aboard a meteor, race through history, witness cosmic dramas up close and personal, and plunge deeply into the depths of the ocean. And when the dust has settled you'll discover that you are changed somehow endowed with the ability to create future possibility on a new and exotic planet: Earth.

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An Impassioned Warning About Global Warming.......2006-06-06

I was inspired to re-read this fine discourse on global warming after reading Al Gore's book, "An Inconvenient Truth". Brandenburg worked on the NASA Mars projects where he formed the opinion that Mars once supported life and had an atmosphere similar to Earth's and the fate that befell Mars could easily happen to Earth (in fact, IS happening to Earth) unless we substantially curb our use of fossil fuels and minimize our collective heat and carbon producing activities.

Although Brandenburg and Paxson are both scientists, they wrote this book for general audience appeal and included several parallel stories and color plates to demonstrate the deleterious effects of global warming and intentional dismissal or denial (i.e., the fate of the Titanic, etc.) of the burgeoning accumulation of supportive data gathered both here on Earth and Mars. The stories are riveting and fascinating and combine to intentionally alarm the reader into action.

The authors are big supporters of alternative energy sources to replace the oxygen depleting, carbon producing fossil fuels and they suggest fusion reactors are one of the best alternatives to both fossil fuel and the far more dangerous fission reactors for energy production and that governments and industry should substantially increase funding research for fusion reactors. Increase in the perfection and use of fuel cells, wind, photoelectric, etc. are also suggested. More info and resources are available at their website: [...]

Content differs from the title..........2002-11-18

The book is ok in opening the mind to an idea and a relevant one, and raises a fundamental question all right... but that needed 10 crisp pages. Most of the book is desultory and digressive, with a forced storylike approach that seems almost artificial and is definitely distracting. The author also is bold enough to come with his baggage of biases, which is again often re-narrated, to a point where his patriotism, anti communism, anti Russia and Cold war references bring about a nausea; since it seems unrelated to the issue being raised.

The issue really raised is how Earth is dying with Global warming, and is probably going to end up like Mars. But the book veers with so many different digressions and irrelevant narrations... it gets lost.

This is not a book you should read, instead a good Asimov novel is a better bet.

Ouch..........2001-10-28

Ok, the book is good because it does try to open your eyes on environmental problems. The book is not so good because Brandenburg is a little bit alarmist, but I won't really complain about that. The but is quite bad because Brandenburg seems to have some score to settle with someone, and IT SHOWS! A little bit partial, uh? And the book is really bad, because some of the science in there is completely bogus, and it stains all the rest...

Unflinching and provocative.......2001-08-10

"Dead Mars, Dying Earth" is a meticulous and elegantly crafted story of two worlds. The authors take us on a rigorous journey from dry and inhospitable Mars (where the remains of an apparent extraterrestrial civilization beckon) to Earth of the early 21st century, poised on the edge of ecological catastrophe as a result of global warming. Is our planet heading for the same fate that befell Mars, our closest planetary neighbor, and if so, what can we do about it? The questions raised by Brandenburg and Paxson are as horrifying as their proposed remedies are optimistic; Brandenburg, a plasma physicist, urges the development of clean fusion technology to take the place of our suicidal fossil fuel economy.

Urgent and arresting, "Dead Mars, Dying Earth" has already been called the "Silent Spring" of the new millennium. Read either as a behind-the-scenes expose of the forbidden science of planetary SETI or as an erudite work of comparitive planetology, this unflinching look at what our species is doing to our planet deserves a vast audience.

Should be required reading in all High Schools and Colleges!.......2001-04-21

I learned more from this book than in following the news for 30 years. It is amazing how we are not told critical information by our corporate media.

If this book got the media exposure it should get, it would have a greater impact than Rachel Carson's well-known book of the 1960's "Silent Spring" -- which initiated a massive protest over the dangers of pesticides.

This book presents background environmental information like an exciting story.... Authors use marvelous metaphors. One theme of the entire book is the analogy that living on our world is like being on the Titanic.... it is a blockbuster of a book.... it should be required reading of our President and our entire Congress.

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Dead Mars, Dying Earth
John E. Brandenburg & Monica Rix Paxson
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Organic crystals and molecules;: Theory of X-ray structure analysis with applications to organic chemistry (The George Fisher Baker non-resident lectureship in chemistry at Cornell University)
J. Monteath Robertson
Manufacturer: Cornell university press
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Crystallography | Chemistry | Science | Subjects | Books
General & Reference | Chemistry | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
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Organic Crystals and Molecules: Theory of X-Ray Structure Analysis with Applications to Organic Chemistry
J. Monteath Robertson
Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
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The book is the most in-depth account of the fossil skull anatomy and evolutionary significance of the 3.6-3.0 million year old early human species Australopithecus afarensis. Knowledge of this species is pivotal to understanding early human evolution, because 1) the sample of fossil remains of A. afarensis is among the most extensive for any early human species, and the majority of remains are of taxonomically inormative skulls and teeth; 2) the wealth of material makes A. afarensis an indispensable point of reference for the interpretation of other fossil discoveries; 3) the species occupies a time period that is the focus of current research to determine when, where, and why the human lineage first diversified into separate contemporaneous lines of descent. Upon publication of this book, this species will be among the most thoroughly documented extinct ancestors of humankind. The main focus of the book - its organizing principle - is the first complete skull of A. afarensis (specimen number A.L. 444-2) at the Hadar site, Ethiopia, the home of the remarkably complete 3.18 million year old skeleton known as "Lucy," found at Hadar by third author D. Johanson in 1974. Lucy and other fossils from Hadar, together with those from the site of Laetoli in Tanzania, were controversially attributed to the then brand new species A. afarensis by Johanson, T. White and Y. Coppens in 1978. However, a complete skull, which would have quickly resolved much of the early debate over the species, proved elusive until second author Y. Rak's discovery of the 444 skull in 1992. The book details the comparative anatomy of the new skull (and the cast of its brain, analyzed by R. Holloway and M. Huan) , as well as of other skull and dental finds recovered during the latest, ongoing field work at Hadar, and analyzes the evolutionary significance of A. afarensis in the context of other critically important discoveries of earliest humans made in recent years. In essence, it summarizes the state of knowledge about one of the central subjects of current paleoanthropological investigation.

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SKULL OF AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS HES
KIMBEL/RAK/JOHANSON
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Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Prodigal Son, Book One
Anderson, Dean, Kevin J. Koontz
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Frankenstein book 3?

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2 Titles in Frankenstein Series - Book One Prodigal Son - Book Two City of Night
Dean Koontz
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2 massmarket paperback Titles in Frankenstein Series - Book One Prodigal Son - Book Two City of Night

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Frankenstein book 3?.......2007-07-19

When or Is there gonna be a 3rd Frankenstein book released?
I've been watching for it for over a year now, Hopefully soon!
Thanks for your reply in advance.
Jkpennock

frankenstein.......2007-06-30

dean koontz goes and does it again what excellent writing and thrilling throughout the book. looking forward to book three of this series. thank you

Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Prodigal Son Book One

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Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Prodigal Son Book One
Dean R.; Anderson, Kevin J. Koontz
Manufacturer: Bantam Books
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Very influential in the 1800's but obscure in the 1900s.......1999-10-18

This biography of the colorful 19th century activist, statesman and politician who worked most of his life to make slavery illegal in the USA seems mostly to stay with facts and avoid speculation - as tempting as speculation can be when all of the facts are not known. The book was well-researched over a long period. In part, it emplasizes CM Clay's influence on Abraham Lincoln regarding his political stances on emancipation. I found it a very interesting and easy read - its only about 150 pages. Great for those who want substance not fluff but aren't looking for ponderous details.

Cassius Marcellus Clay - Firebrand of Freedom

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Cassius Marcellus Clay - Firebrand of Freedom
H. Edward RICHARDSON
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Cassius Marcellus Clay: Firebrand of Freedom
H. Edward Richardson
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CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY: FIREBRAND OF FREEDOM. Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf Series

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CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY: FIREBRAND OF FREEDOM. Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf Series
H. Edward. Richardson
Manufacturer: Univ. Press of Kentucky,
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000S12HHU

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WHAT REALLY KILLED ROSEBUD? is an exploration into the life and death of Rosebud Abigail Denovo, a nineteen year old People's Park activist who was shot and killed by an Oakland police officer on August 25, 1992. The initials of her pseudonym spelled R.A.D. for radical. WHAT REALLY KILLED ROSEBUD? is also an offshoot of the author's long involvement with documenting the events and life stories of the people who gather in and around People's Park in Berkeley, home of the Free Speech Movement in America.

In trying to unravel the mystery of this young woman's death one comes face to face with the big question - what about violence and non-violence? Was this sweet faced kid a new Joan of Arc? What is anarchy anyhow?

The book raises more unanswered questions. What about the accounts of Rosebud's last days? The house was empty when she was shot. Did the police have it in for her already? How to remember a slender long haired young martyr and try to understand what sent her into a Berkeley UC chancellor's mansion with a social mission and a machete.

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Review from Hills Newspapers, Berkeley Voice, Montclarion.......2001-06-09

....Berkeley writer Burch presents an in-depth look at one of the more bizarre events concerning political activists in Berkeley. In 1992 Rosebud Abigail Denovo broke into the home of the chancellor of UC-Berkeley armed with a machete and was fatally shot by police. The public largely accepted this incident as the inevitable result of the political upheaval at PeopleÕs Park. However, Claire Burch, who has a long involvement with the Berkeley homeless and radical activists, determined to probe deeper into DenovoÕs life and death. ÒWhat Really Killed Rosebud?Ó is a compilation of materials: photographs of Denovo, newspaper accounts of the break-in episode, a complete autopsy report and numerous interviews with DenovoÕs friends and acquaintances. Largely through the interviews, a different picture of Denovo emerges. Certainly she was a driven, rebellious young woman, but also one who was concerned with the needs of those surviving on the streets. Burch leaves no doubt about where her sympathies lie. Describing the young woman as a ÒmartyrÓ with a Òsocial mission,Ó she questions whether DenovoÕs death could have been prevented. While it is clear that Burch finds society at fault, her book delves deeply into the recent troubled past of Berkeley and also itÕs homeless and dispossessed inhabitants.

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East Bay Express Publisher's Row.......2001-05-01

When radical teen Rosebud Denovo entered the UC Berkeley chancellor's mansion in 1992 and was promptly shot dead by an Oakland cop, Claire Burch was out of town. But almost immediately upon arriving home, the Berkeley filmmaker was back in People's Park, where the activist's friends were demonstrating, mourning, and calling Rosebud a martyr. Burch had never heard of the dead girl, but "l got so caught up" in the story, she says, that she spent several years filming... interviews to create the video What Really Killed Rosebud? and a new book by the same name (Regent Press...). The official story of Rosebud's last hours "is so full of holes'" Burch says indignantly. The petite teen, weighing just over a hundred pounds, was neither tear-gassed to drive her out of the mansion so that she could be summarily arrested nor begged to surrender by authorities or loved ones, as is done in movies about terrorists. "The hunch," Burch reflects, "is that the officer who killed her was deliberately sent to the scene" because he was especially skittish, having been the victim of a recent shooting himself. "I think it was all thought out," says the author, whose interviews include one with an ambulance attendant who was summoned to the mansion after Rosebud was shot...

Oakland Tribune Review.......2001-04-24

. WHAT REALLY KILLED ROSEBUD Claire Burch , Regent Press,Oakland,Ca. THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE , Feb 16, 2001

`Early the morning of August 25,1992, an intruder tripped a silent alarm on a basement window at the campus residence of University of California Chancellor Chang- Lin Tien. While Tien and his wife DiHwa remained in their bedroom, UC police, with help from Berkeley police officers, and a dog team from the Oakland police, painstakingly searched the large two story residence. In a second floor bathroom outside the Tien bedroom, Oakland officer Craig Chew discovered twenty year old Rosebud Abigail Denovo and said she lunged at him with a machete. Chew fired, hitting her four times. The shots were fatal and the controversy began. Born Laura Marie Miller in Lexington Kentucky, she ran away from home after time in a mental hospital,placed there by her desperate parents because of her conflicts with authority. She landed at PeopleÕs Park in Berkeley in l990. During the next eighteen months, as Rosebud Denovo, she became a regular at demonstrations surrounding the Park. Her death turned her into a PeopleÕs Park martyr, celebrated in song, poetry and story. Burch has spent many years documenting the people and events surrounding PeopleÕs Park. Her book, from a small Oakland publisher, Regent Press, begins with photos of Rosebud as a pretty blond child. It contains reproductions of newspaper accounts of the incident and difficult to read copies of her handwritten letters. The book carries the Rosebud legend onward.

Oakland Tribune Review.......2001-04-24

. WHAT REALLY KILLED ROSEBUD Claire Burch , Regent Press,Oakland,Ca. THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE , Feb 16, 2001

John's Review.......2001-04-24

April 7, 2001 9:22 p.m. Updated April 11, 2001

I read the book "What Really Killed Rosebud?". I skipped over the autopsy part. I really didn't want to read the details. It was a heavy book, I was kind of depressed after I read it, but I'm glad I did. (I learned some things I didn't know before, and I didn't think there was that much more to know about this thing.) I met Rosebud back around 1990 or 89. It was a year or two before she was killed. She was a quiet girl, quieter than most actually, but we didn't know each other too well. She was usually smiling, and that's mainly what I remember her like. It seems to me me that she always worea black coat, I think it was a leather coat. I never thought she would do something like break into the Chancellor's mansion. If she had mentioned that idea to me, I would have told her she was crazy, or asking to get killed, because that's the way they operate. I lived on the street for several years,starting back in 1980, in Berkeley. After a while, if you live on the street,eventually the cops will stop you and ask you for ID. They check out everyone who hangs outhere for any amount of time, and they put the information into some kind of file.I'm talking about a "red file", in other words a separate file that includes mostly street people. So when I read that they could have (treated her better? not likely), and that they are supposed to have procedures to deal with situations like that... well I was just shocked when I heard that she got killed .I was driving cab at the time. The night before she got shot, I rememberseeing her on Telegraph. I was driving my cab up Telegraph Avenue, and I remember looking to my left at Cody's bookstore. She was sitting there, kind of gazing up at the sky. That was the last time I saw her alive. Now, I've read that she was an "Anarchist/Communist" in some paper somewhere... and I thought that doesn't makesense to me, because anarchists and communist don't (always) get on so well with each other. (For example, the Spanish Civil War) Their ideas are opposed to each other. So I wondered about that article. I remember some of the articles in the papers after it happened, and they were trying to say she was crazy... I thought that was bullshit. But I couldn't figure out what she was thinking to go in a building like that, especially alone. Maybe she was a little out of it, I thought. I've been in a few demonstrations, and one thing you learn is to stick together, it's safer. Don't get caught by yourself by the police. It was just tragic to me. And the police and authorities were completely wrong to send in that cop with the dog. (If you just got shot at a few weeks before, you'd be ready to shoot first) They could have just sealed the building and waited for her to come out. That's why some people call it an execution. I remember one night, I was sitting with a few other guys in a circle outside of one of the "Tombs",(that's an old nickname for the Unit 1 through 4 buildings) and we were passing around a 40 ounce of beer.We were sitting there smoking cigarettes and not bothering anybody, pretty mellow sceneI remember... and all of a sudden, there's about three maybe four cops snuck up on us. One of them pulled out his pistol, and had it pointed at the guy sitting next to me, he was yelling "Freeze!" He was wacked (I remember. He was shaking) that cop. He was so scared... (and he had the gun!) We were lucky that none of us got shot that night. His partner standing next to him said something to him like "It's ok, man. Put it away." Meaning his drawn pistol. That was only one instance of what I experienced out here that taught me what some cops are like. On pages 40 and 41, is a copy of an articleentitled "Intruder at UC Home Was Shot in the Back" (SF Chronicle October 8, 1992). At theend of the article it says UC police Lieutenant Bill Foley said those rules did not apply because police did not know Denovo had any mental problems. (!) (in parentheses from the word UC) I think that is complete bullshit. As I said before, the police have their database and when they arrest you, they send your name through the NCIC computer, which is a national FBI database. Now, if she had been stopped all those times like it says in the book, then you know they are going to check out her past. And ifshe had been in some institution... well I think they knew what her background was and I wonder about that. The main thing here is, they didn't have to shoot her. I'm shaking my head as I type this because it is so tragic. I think maybe they drove her to it. I knowwhat it's like to be woke up by the police here, I must have been rousted a hundred times. Over the course of several years, I and people I know on the street have been hassledand rousted innumerable times by the Berkeleyand UC Berkeley police. (On April 17 there is going to be a demonstration, at city hall I think, over police harassment of street people. I can understand wanting to strike back. To retaliate, to get even. How they have treated people in the park and on the street over the years. It is still a crime to live on the street. The police still hassle people, but now they have a cloak they use. It's called "mental health". (A poster made by a homeless woman came out about this subject a couple days ago. Part of it as follows... Ò The city is ignoring police brutality andproperty damage by the police force , is doing nothing to help the economy , ignores the problems of Berkeley High and all other issues, and its way of dealing with harmless homeless, is to send out social workers who take us in on 5150's for nothing.Ó They have been trying for years to get rid of what they consider to be "undesirables", people like me. Make it into a plastic Disneyworld on Telegraph. I remember when they said stuff like, We just want to make the park safe for everybody, bla bla. The cops would tear apartpeople's tents and throw their stuff into trash trucks... I saw a lot. And their bullshit is still the same. Herd everybody into a shelter, get them off the street sowe won't have to look at them. You know that type of thing really can getyou down. Well, maybe Rosebud saidÓ that's it.Ó Some said she had a suicide note .I never saw it. But I know they didn't have to shoot her. I skipped over the autopsy part, Maybe I'll read that part later, but it's a very heavy book. It says a lot about our "society" that is sobrutal. A society that runs people into the ground if they aint got the money, That tries to make you feel like shit. The part about her telling her parents she was thinking of enrolling in UC Berkeley was really kind of strange.

She probably would have done real well. UCB still doesn't have a police review board, as far as I know. I was riled at society at times while reading the book because it made it so clear that somebody was lying about something. At the end of the book is an updated history of Peoples Park.

Signed, John Delmos April 11, 2001

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With searing self-appraisal and a keen sense of the world around him, acclaimed writer and gay activist Martin Duberman examines a wide range of issues in his personal and professional life and in the politics of the time from 1971 to 1981-from the early years of gay liberation to the first public reports of AIDS.

Duberman moves from the internecine battles in the academic world and within the budding gay rights movement to his own heart attack, sexual and romantic adventures, and search for fulfillment through new therapies and the world of theater. Peppered with gossip, wit, and tart observations of the New York theater and literary worlds, Midlife Queer stands as both a fascinating memoir and a record of an era.

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when all is said and done...........1999-04-03

I'm afraid that Martin Duberman has a few problems with himself, in spite of being 'good looking'and busy with a therapist. Mr. Duberman has demonstrated that he is both a challenge to heterosexist white male ideology and yet a servant to it. There has been a curious lack of radicalism in his writing for the Nation, and I suspect he has simply become another academic worshipper at the Western Civ. fount of double-talk. While some of us continue to challenge these offensive paradigms, Duberman is more interested in retailing startlingly dull stories about academics who are not on the cutting edge of radicalism. As a feminist and lesbian activist, I expect more courage (and more interest!) in a book by Duberman, who has written well in the past. Not this time; perhaps he will finally move aside, and allow those of us who challenge the white male agenda of hatred on all fronts to come to the fore. I certainly hope so.

Tedious, very disappointing........1998-12-31

I have tremendous respect for Martin Duberman as a writer and as a gay rights activist. CURES is a seminal account of one gay man's attempt during the 50s and 60s to use therapy to "cure" himself of his homosexuality. It's a telling account of the times, offering younger readers like myself the opportunity to see just how intolerant and oppressive our society was of homosexuality. It's insightful memoir at its best. Instead, this book is self-involved and tedious, a whiney account of various squabbles between academics during the 70s on how best to achieve gay liberation and acceptance. It fails to offer insightful commentary on larger issues, and is therefore meaningless for most readers. Martin Duberman has done gay history and all of us a great service by writing such brilliant works as CURES and STONEWALL. I only wish he would return to chronicling the larger history of gay people so eloquently.

Honest, Amusing and Interesting.......1998-06-03

I completely disagree with the Kirkus review. This is an extremely honest, enjoyable and absorbing memoir. It's for anyone interested in the author himself; psychological development; the search for self-realization; or gay rights. Some of the chapters are both moving and funny--not a small accomplishment. The final chapter, about the author's heart attack and recovery, is particularly excellent. Forget the nasty reviews and read a memoir by someone searching for himself and fighting tirelessly for what he believes in.

Midlife Queer - Autobiography Of A Decade, 1971-1981

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Midlife Queer - Autobiography Of A Decade, 1971-1981
Martin Duberman
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MIDLIFE QUEER: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DECADE, 1971-1981

Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press Madison, Wisconsin
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