How to Save Thousands of Dollars on Your Mortgage: A Complete Guide to Accelerated-Payment Plans

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For the first time in one volume, the leading proponents and practitioners of action learning define their approach, and describe how action learning and executive and organizational development are practiced in the public, private and 'not-for-profit' sectors around the world. Described in detail are the experiences of General Electric, Merck, Volvo, Japanese and Korean multinationals, as well as the Canadian Civil Service and The World Council of Churches, among others.

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Written in a clear, explanatory style, the new Second Edition of the Concise Science Dictionary contains more than 7,000 entries relating to physics, chemistry, biology, the earth sciences, and astronomy, as well as terms that are commonly encountered in mathematics and computer science. The
new edition has been expanded to reflect recent advances in the environmental sciences, genetics and genetic engineering, molecular biology, immunology, and the techniques and materials new to all the sciences. Providing both straightforward definitions and invaluable background information on a
wide range of scientific words, concepts, and topics, the entries also offer line-drawings whenever the meaning is best conveyed by way of a diagram. Charts and tables of essential scientific information are also integrated throughout. With an extensive cross-referencing system that allows readers
to place each entry in a broader scientific context, the Concise Science Dictionary is invaluable for non-specialists and students, and an essential resource for professionals seeking an accessible guide to all scientific disciplines.

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The best choice for those who read a lot of popular science.......2004-08-17

This is a relatively inexpensive, concise, and handy dictionary of science. It is an updated version of the Concise Science Dictionary originally published by the Oxford University Press in 1984. This, the latest edition, is from 1999. It is aimed at professionals and an educated public who want a quick reference to terms in fields other than their own. Unlike science dictionaries found on the reference shelves of libraries, this book is small enough to fit into a knapsack.

As with all specialized dictionaries the task for editors is to decide what to leave in and what to leave out, and how technical to get. The people at Oxford University Press, one of the preeminent publishers of reference books in the world, have tried to eschew "unnecessary scientific jargon" while "always bearing in mind the needs of the readers" (from the Preface). Nonetheless, many of the entries are highly technical, having been written by experts. Clearly the editors have decided to err on the side of technical precision rather than anything resembling a dumbing down. The entry on "optical activity" for example is a mini essay of about 400 words adorned with a drawing of the D-, L-, and meso-forms of the isomers of tartaric acid along with several cross references to related terms in the dictionary. A two-page boxed entry on "El Nino" however is written in language easily accessible to the average high school graduate, as are many other entries including over 160 mini biographies of important scientists.

I also use The American Heritage Dictionary of Science, another handy (as opposed to comprehensive) reference and would like to make a quick comparison. The Heritage dictionary is a hardcover and contains noticeably more entries (16,000+ to perhaps 10,000 to 12,000 for the Oxford). However the Heritage hasn't been updated since the edition of 1988. Of course a lot has happened in science since then, which is why I purchased the Oxford paperback. The Heritage also uses the entries words or phrases in sentences, usually quoting some scientist whereas the Oxford does not bother. The Heritage also gives the pronunciation of most of the entries (e.g., it's "pree'-on," not "pri'-on" for the mad cow infectious agent) whereas the Oxford does not. The Oxford is more technical overall--it is especially strong in physics--and of course more up to date. The entries also tend to be more thorough. For example, the Oxford has a schematic drawing of a mammalian kidney system whereas the Heritage has only text.

There are seven appendices on SI units, fundamental constants, the solar system, the geographical time scale, plant and animal kingdom classifications, and the periodic table. Curiously, nowhere in the Oxford is the abbreviation SI defined or even noted! The Heritage gives it as the French Systeme International d'Unites (or International System of Units). This is actually an indication of how the Oxford assumes a greater scientific sophistication on the part of its readers than does the Heritage.

Bottom line here is that this book is practically a must for those who read a lot of science in fields other than their own. It is better overall than the Heritage because it is eleven years more up to date; and it is a better choice for most people than the more comprehensive hardcover volumes which are significantly more expensive, heavier and take up more space.

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Planets and Stars (Concise Collection)
Nicholas Booth
Manufacturer: Chelsea House Publications
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THE PRENTICE-HALL CONCISE BOOK OF ASTRONOMY

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THE PRENTICE-HALL CONCISE BOOK OF ASTRONOMY
Jacqueline & Simon Mitton
Manufacturer: Prentice-Hall of Canada
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIRTSO

The Prentice Hall Concise Book Fo Astronomy

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The Prentice Hall Concise Book Fo Astronomy
Mitton
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIPPP8

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Clyde Butcher's compelling black-and-white photographs chronicle some of America's most beautiful and complex ecosystems. For more than 30 years, he has been preserving the untouched landscape on film, and for 20 of those years he has concentrated on Florida. This collection combines work from the 1980s and 1990s, ranging from the forests of the Pacific Northwest, to the rocky country of Utah and Colorado, to the woodlands of the Chesapeake region and the wetlands of Florida.

Clyde's images are captured with an 8" X 10", 11" X 14", or 12" X 20" view camera. The large-format camera allows him to express in elaborate detail the textures that distinguish the exquisite beauty of the landscape.

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Of immense visual interest to environmental activists.......2004-05-18

Visions For The Next Millennium: Clyde Butcher Wilderness Photography -- Focus On Preservation is a showcase volume of 37 black-and-white photographs in which acclaimed nature photographer Clyde Butcher chronicles some of America's most beautiful, complex, and endangered ecosystems. These superbly crafted photographic images range from the forests of the Pacific Northwest; to the rocky country of Utah and Colorado; to the woodlands of the Chesapeake region; to the wetlands of Florida. Butcher utilized a large-format camera which allowed him to capture in extensive and elaborate detail the textures of these remarkable and memorable landscape portraits. Visions For The Next Millennium deserves an honored place in the collections of all dedicated photography enthusiasts -- and will prove of immense visual interest to environmental activists as well.

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Visions For The Next Millennium Clyde Butcher Wilderness Photography Focus On Preservation
Butcher Clyde
Manufacturer: Big Cypress Gallery
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UDHO42

Visions for the next millennium: Wilderness photography, focus on preservation

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Visions for the next millennium: Wilderness photography, focus on preservation
Clyde Butcher
Manufacturer: Big Cypress Gallery
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006RB038

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Encyclopaedia Of Border Plants
Hanneke Van Dijk
Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0756781361

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Encyclopaedia of Border Plants
Hanneke Van Dijk
Manufacturer: 1998 REBO Production
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MFHSDU

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Cameron's number one priority at South Florida State is joining the absolute best sorority. But pledging is more difficult than she ever imagined. She can't believe that she has to deal with these Southern belles from hell and "sisters" who leave her feeling like an orphan. It's enough to make a sorority pledge want to rush...in the other direction.

Then matters go from bad to worse. Cameron has fallen for gorgeous Tad Amata, who's really into her--but not into her Greek life.

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Awful.......2006-12-12

This book was just awful. I mean I don't try to be overly p.c. but come on, Mulatto. I think Cameron should have been ashamed of herself for trying to pass as white and denying who she really was. And to make matters worse she still wanted to be part of a sorority that was clearly rascist. Does she really think someone who uses the n-word and is prejudice would ever accept her as a 'sister'. I think she was a weak character who didn't have the backbone to stand up for what she was. If you plan on getting this book. Don't! It's awful.

Cameron:the sorority was a great book.......1998-11-19

Cameron:The Sorority was a great book. It was really realistic. I'm glad that there is a book that really tell how College Life is- the good the bad and the evil

good series; good book!.......1998-03-06

Excellent. The most realistic books about college for young adults you'll find on the shelf today. However, it is supposed to be discountined, and that is really too bad. Because this is a great series! Great! Cameron is a good charcter, and it's sad how her own grand parents didn't want to see her because she was mulatto (half white-half black). But a good book none the less. Although, I thought that it was a little extreme with Tad and Cameron wanting to sleep toghter on the first date. But that's college life.

pretty good.......1998-01-12

It could have been a great book if it hadn't been for all the obscene language, and talk. The B-word was used pretty often, and it can be offending. It was a great book in other ways, though. Like a well devloped charcter, though I think that the author spent way too much time focusing on Cameron's parents, and family. Who cares about her mother being a photographer, and her dad a peditrician. Who cares?

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How did the United States become the world's largest consumer of energy? David Nye shows that this is less a question about the development of technology than it is a question about the development of culture. In Consuming Power, Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities. He looks at how these activities changed as new energy systems were constructed, from colonial times to recent years. He also shows how, as Americans incorporated new machines and processes into their lives, they became ensnared in power systems that were not easily changed: they made choices about the conduct of their lives, and those choices accumulated to produce a consuming culture.

Nye examines a sequence of large systems that acquired and then lost technological momentum over the course of American history, including water power, steam power, electricity, the internal-combustion engine, atomic power, and computerization. He shows how each system became part of a larger set of social constructions through its links to the home, the factory, and the city.

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Turn On the Lights.......2003-09-27

This is a fabulous piece of social history -- deeply researched, insightful, and utterly lucid. It is among the best university-press books I can remember reading.

everyone in the energy field should read this.......1999-12-16

I thought this book was fascinating. I have been doing research on energy for a long time and this is one of the best books I have read. Nye examines the role that energy use has played in American society -- an important relationship that energy analysts have generally ignored. The book is very readable and well-researched, and always interesting.

Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies.(Review) (book review): An article from: Journal of International Affairs

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Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies.(Review) (book review): An article from: Journal of International Affairs
David Ekbladh
Manufacturer: Columbia University School of International Public Affairs
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Title: Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies.(Review) (book review)
Author: David Ekbladh
Publication: Journal of International Affairs (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1999
Publisher: Columbia University School of International Public Affairs
Volume: 53 Issue: 1 Page: 366

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Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies
Michael Brian Schiffer David E. Nye
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OR1K26

CONSUMING POWER: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN ENERGIES (HB)

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CONSUMING POWER: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN ENERGIES (HB)
Nye. D
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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ASIN: B000OQHS3C

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Disputed between India and Pakistan, Kashmir contains a large majority of Muslims subject to the laws of a predominantly Hindu and increasingly "Hinduized" India. How did religion and politics become so enmeshed in defining the protest of Kashmir's Muslims against Hindu rule? This book reaches beyond standard accounts that look to the 1947 partition of India for an explanation. Examining the 100-year period before that landmark event, during which Kashmir was ruled by Hindu Dogra kings under the aegis of the British, Mridu Rai highlights the collusion that shaped a decisively Hindu sovereignty over a subject Muslim populace. Focusing on authority, sovereignty, legitimacy, and community rights, she explains how Kashmir's modern Muslim identity emerged.

Rai shows how the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was formed as the East India Company marched into India beginning in the late eighteenth century. After the 1857 rebellion, outright annexation was abandoned as the British Crown took over and princes were incorporated into the imperial framework as junior partners. But, Rai argues, scholarship on other regions of India has led to misconceptions about colonialism, not least that a "hollowing of the crown" occurred throughout as Brahman came to dominate over King. In Kashmir the Dogra kings maintained firm control. They rode roughshod over the interests of the vast majority of their Kashmiri Muslim subjects, planting the seeds of a political movement that remains in thrall to a religiosity thrust upon it for the past 150 years.

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The Challenging Natures of Kashmir.......2007-05-25

"Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects" covers the macro historical, social, religious, and political highlights in Kashmir from about 1840 to 1950. It is a fascinating view into a world far distant but fearfully close as two modern nuclear armed adversaries seek domination over the mystical lands of Kashmir. This is a book of essential preliminary understandings to the current situation in the region and of the volumes I have encountered is the best. I hope the author contemplates another book dealing with the post 1947 era. For those seeking recent political happenings, I suggest "Kashmir" by Sumantra Bose.

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Alemania 2003, ?Japon 1997? Mientras el euro sigue escalando posiciones frente al dolar, la mayor economia europea se encuentra tecnicamente en recesion ... (Reportaje).: An article from: Epoca
Marta Alvarez-Montalvo
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008DOJOW
Release Date: 2005-09-01

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Title: Alemania 2003, ?Japon 1997? Mientras el euro sigue escalando posiciones frente al dolar, la mayor economia europea se encuentra tecnicamente en recesion y bajo la amenaza de la temida deflacion. (Reportaje).
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Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 30, 2003
Publisher: Thomson Gale
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El dólar sonríe a las empresas: el giro experimentado por la cotización de la divisa estadounidense frente al euro supone un revulsivo para las compañías ... en Latinoamérica.: An article from: Epoca
Emilio J. González
Manufacturer: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
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ASIN: B000823IO0
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on March 5, 2004. The length of the article is 1183 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El dólar sonríe a las empresas: el giro experimentado por la cotización de la divisa estadounidense frente al euro supone un revulsivo para las compañías con intereses en Latinoamérica.
Author: Emilio J. González
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 5, 2004
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El Euro y el Dolar
Fernando Lucero Schmidt , and Fernando Lucreo Schmidt
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En batalla, euro y dólar: historia de vaivenes.: An article from: Siempre!

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En batalla, euro y dólar: historia de vaivenes.: An article from: Siempre!
Millán B. Julio A.
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ASIN: B000BNT6D8
Release Date: 2005-10-04

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Date: January 9, 2005
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Volume: 51 Issue: 2691 Page: 46(1)

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Euro y Dolar
Fred Bergsten , and Jose Juan Ruiz
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Razón oculta: batalla del dólar y el euro. (Cartas desde Europa).(intereses económicos en Guerra contra Irak ): An article from: Siempre!

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Razón oculta: batalla del dólar y el euro. (Cartas desde Europa).(intereses económicos en Guerra contra Irak ): An article from: Siempre!
Camilo José Cela Conde
Manufacturer: Edicional Siempre
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ASIN: B0008DBRA6
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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Author: Camilo José Cela Conde
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Date: March 30, 2003
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The ability to walk on two legs over long distances distinguishes Homo sapiens from other primates, and indeed from every other species on earth. That ability has also yielded some of the best creative work of our species: the lyrical ballads of the English romantic poets, composed on long walks over hill and dale; the speculations of the peripatetic philosophers; the meditations of footloose Chinese and Japanese poets; the exhortations of Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman.

Rebecca Solnit, a thoughtful writer and spirited walker, takes her readers on a leisurely journey through the prehistory, history, and natural history of bipedal motion. Walking, she observes, affords its practitioners an immediate reward--the ability to observe the world at a relaxed gait, one that allows us to take in sights, sounds, and smells that we might otherwise pass by. It provides a vehicle for much-needed solitude and private thought. For the health-minded, walking affords a low-impact and usually pleasant way of shedding a few pounds and stretching a few muscles. It is an essential part of the human adventure--and one that has, until now, been too little documented.

Written in a time when landscapes and cities alike are designed to accommodate automobiles and not pedestrians, Solnit's extraordinary book is an enticement to lace up shoes and set out on an aimless, meditative stroll of one's own. --Gregory McNamee

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Drawing together many histories-of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores-Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction-from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja-finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.

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A personal and erudite survey of three centuries of walking.......2007-03-17

Solnit's "history of walking" is a surprising excursion in a vast and unsystematised subject area. Indeed, like eating and playing, walking is one of these emblematic human activities that are invested with wildly different cultural meanings. I picked up the book because I am an avid walker and mountaineer and, as I learned, an adherent to the British walking tour ethos. For me there is something fundamentally cleansing, wholesome and right about spending time in the great outdoors. However, this smug romanticism, this adhering to an "established religion for the middle class" is sternly criticised by the author of this book.

For Solnit walking is a quintessentially political activity. And the politics play out at different levels. First, walking is a bulwark against the erosion of the mind by the incessant contemporary rethoric of efficiency and functionality. The walker exposes herself to the accidental, the unexpected, the random and unscreened, and by doing so rebels against the speed and alienation endemic in our postindustrial world. Second, walking is also a reclamation of a physical and public space that is increasingly suburbanised and privatised. Solnit discusses how the early 20th century city was an arena for aesthetic experimentation and political agitation. Walkers and flaneurs, starting with De Quincey in London and Baudelaire in Paris, experimented with an urban underground culture suffused with eroticism and desire. Protest marchers all over the world and throughout the ages have relied on the democratic functions of the street to make their voices heard. Today, the scope for these kinds of trespasses are increasingly rare due to encroaching private property rights and a soulless, panoptic urban architecture. Hence, thus Solnit, we need to revitalise a counterculture to walk in resistance to the post-industrial and post-modern loss of space, time and embodiment. Last and perhaps not least, walking is and will remain the domain of the amateur. It is one of these few areas of human activity where a hierarchy based on expertise makes very little sense. Everyone, barring physical disabilities, is in principle able to be an expert walker.

Beyond the political, there is also a phenomenological dimension to walking which is quite deftly described by Solnit as an "alignment between mind, body and the world". Whoever has spent a couple of days on the trail knows that once the rhythm has been established, one becomes much more alert to minute variations in sensory input (smell, colour, temperatur). Meanwhile, the mind starts to wander much more freely. Solnit writes: "This creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it."

Solnit's smart and cogent survey of 3 centuries of walking is appropriately brought into relief by her supple and subtle prose which is a real pleasure to read. Her writing is warmly personal - with a tone that modulates unexpectedly between stridency and vulnerability - as well as erudite. There is none of the pedantic selfconsciousness that spoils the discourse of many academic writers and popularisers alike. After "Wanderlust" I went on to read Solnit's "Field guide to getting lost" which, although not in the same league, confirms her qualities as an engaging personal voice.

Read this Book, and Go for a Walk.......2006-06-04

Solnit has her flaws. She tends to make a mistake common among critics, that of confounding a powerful metaphor with literal truth. She sometimes over reaches. And I suspect that her research may get some details wrong.

That said, she is intellectually gifted, a good writer, has her heart in the right place, and is always interesting to read.

Read this book, and escape for a while the future that is rushing towards us with an earbud for a phone or Ipod always plugged in. There's great pleasure to be had in a contemplative walk---and in this book.

An excursion into fascinating territory.......2006-01-01

In "Wanderlust" Rebecca Solnit weaves together myriad facets of the human experience to chronicle the role of walking. As can be expected, this is a complex topic, covering not only the details of geographic locale but the sociological and historical context of the subject as well. In this book, Solnit uses walking as both central theme and backdrop, using the topic as a stepping stone to meander onto her ruminations on diverse topics. Her discursions are thought provoking, enlightening and diverse. It is almost as if the author invites you to join her on a walk, sharing with you her insights on human condition. If not for the place, time and gender to which she is born, Solnit comes across as a "Peripatetic" - a wandering philosopher. At the end of the book, one has the feeling of coming home from an excursion wiser and more thoughtful.

Thoughtful and lyrical.......2005-10-28

In Wanderlust, author Rebecca Solnit looks at walking and its role in various historical and cultural contexts. The book isn't meant to be comprehensive, or study walking in all cultures and in all periods of time; as the author herself points out, the book is shaped as a kind of walk itself, a ramble through various topics that have interested her personally.

Wanderlust covers a good variety of areas - pilgrimages, Wordsworth, streetwalkers, labyrinths, disappearing pedestrian space, to name a few - and how the book succeeds is in getting you to think in new ways about the fundamental act of walking and to examine its varying function and significance in (mainly Western) society over the centuries. Solnit even meditates on how walking is linked to thought and memory and how we regard our lives as a spatial narrative, a journey with various milestones.

I thought the book was very interesting and well-written; the language was precise, and especially wonderful were moments where Solnit reflected on her own walks. The prose is both lyrical and absorbing, rich with anecdotes, character sketches, and evocations of place.

A Misnomer.......2003-10-18

"Wanderlust" is a German word meaning "joy of walking". Nowhere in the book could the joy of walking be found. Solnit creates a thin trail that connects walking with philosophy, politics, revolution, sexism, prostitution, and literature. Her disjointed rambles sidestep the topic with dull, uninteresting anecdotes that dissuaded this reader from turning the pages.

But there are pleasant intervals. The most interesting parts of the book are when Solnit writes of her walking experiences. Her first person narratives draw the reader into a lively cadence when she describes her inner-city walks in San Francisco, her pilgrimage to Chimayo and her people-watching jaunt along the Las Vegas Strip.

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