Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus

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Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus
H. Rider Haggard
Manufacturer: Waking Lion Press
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ASIN: 1600961622
Release Date: 2007-02-05

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A gracious account of the Exodus as told by the scribe Ana, this historical fantasy will thrill Bible scholars as well as fans of fantasy and science fiction.

Moon of Israel (Large Print Edition): A Tale of Exodus

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Moon of Israel (Large Print Edition): A Tale of Exodus
Henry Rider Haggard
Manufacturer: BiblioBazaar
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ASIN: 1434626938
Release Date: 2007-06-11

Moon of Israel A Tale of the Exodus (Large Print)

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Moon of Israel A Tale of the Exodus (Large Print)
H. Haggard
Manufacturer: ReadHowYouWant.com
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ASIN: 1425001696
Release Date: 2006-11-01

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An outstanding book, it chronicles the story of the Exodus.

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Life! Blood! Strength! echoed everyone in the great hall, falling to their knees and bending their foreheads to the ground. Even the Prince and the aged Bakenkhonsu prostrated themselves thus as though before the presence of a god. And, indeed, Pharaoh Meneptah, passing through the patch of sunlight at the head of the hall, wearing the double crown upon his head.

Moon of Israel A Tale of the Exodus [EasyRead Comfort Edition]

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Moon of Israel A Tale of the Exodus [EasyRead Comfort Edition]
H. Haggard
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ASIN: 1425035582
Release Date: 2006-11-01

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An outstanding book, it chronicles the story of the Exodus. Haggard introduces the biblical tale through the character of Ana, an unlikely narrator. First published as a book in 1918, it is remarkable for its religious and historical content. Truly hypnotic!

Moon of Israel A Tale of the Exodus [EasyRead Edition]

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Moon of Israel A Tale of the Exodus [EasyRead Edition]
H. Haggard
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ASIN: 1425035159
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Moon of Israel A Tale of the Exodus [EasyRead Large Edition]

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Moon of Israel A Tale of the Exodus [EasyRead Large Edition]
H. Haggard
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ASIN: 1425035914
Release Date: 2006-11-01

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Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus
H. Rider Haggard
Manufacturer: Boomer Books
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ASIN: 1600969615
Release Date: 2007-02-28

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A gracious account of the Exodus as told by the scribe Ana, this historical fantasy will thrill Bible scholars as well as fans of fantasy and science fiction. This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable reading.

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Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus
H. Rider Haggard
Manufacturer: Classic Books Library
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ASIN: 160096656X
Release Date: 2007-02-18

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A gracious account of the Exodus as told by the scribe Ana, this historical fantasy will thrill Bible scholars as well as fans of fantasy and science fiction.

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Moon of Israel: a Tale of the Exodus

Manufacturer: Longmans, Green & Co.
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A tantalizing peek into the author's younger days

Great for de Lint collectors and students
A Handful of Coppers: Collected Early Stories, Heroic Fantasy
Charles De Lint
Manufacturer: Subterranean Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1931081735

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A tantalizing peek into the author's younger days.......2005-06-04

It's reassuring, I think, to be occasionally reminded that even the most gifted of people didn't spring from the womb with all their abilities intact. Even those people deserving high praise today, be they musicians, writers, artists or whatever form of creative mind they've become, had to work from the bottom, earning their skills through trial and error.

So it was with Charles de Lint, certainly one of my favorite writers and a man whose inventive stories have earned him devoted followers around the world. He, too, had to sift through the grist of his imagination and hone his skills as a wordsmith before earning the accolades he deserves today. A glimpse of his journeyman days as a writer is available in a new limited-edition collection from Subterranean Press. A Handful of Coppers collects various heroic tales from de Lint's early years of writing, primarily from the late 1970s and '80s, when his focus was still largely on high fantasy, sword-and-sorcery stuff that quickly fell by the wayside as he developed a more contemporary style.

The first sequence of stories focuses on a sword-wielding warrior babe of the sort well-known to fantasy buffs. Aynber is of course beautiful -- golden hair, grey-green eyes and a distracting physique -- and she goes into frays wearing clothes designed to promote, not protect, her ample chest. She is usually down on her luck despite her many successful quests -- a peculiarity of a lot of heroes in this genre -- and consorts with wizards of questionable skill and intent. She lives in a fairly generic fantasy world, instantly recognizable to anyone who's dipped into the post-Tolkien genre. And there are other predictable elements, each fairly common to the genre: brigands who don't bathe and get drunk when they shouldn't, spells that backfire with comical (and dangerous) results, a heroine who loses her top in a struggle so her breasts "heave in the moonlight."

But after two fairly standard thud-and-blunder tales, de Lint begins settling into certain choices that would figure heavily in his later work. In "Stormraven," the third of six in the series, he begins weaving music into magic. Better still are the four stories featuring Colum mac Donal, a berserker among Irishmen who flees his homeland in "Night of the Valkings" after an unsuccessful king-breaking and serves in Britain with the bearish Artor. "The Ring of Brodgar" and "The Iron Stone" encompass several key years in the Arthur legend before returning Colum home to reclaim his lost love and take up his former cause.

The stories, although written separately and published between 1978 and 1985 in Space & Time, work extremely well in unison as a short novel. The final chapter, "The Fair in Emain Macha," also appeared (in a slightly different form) as a Tor Double in 1990, coupled with Fritz Leiber's "Ill Met in Lankhmar." De Lint's sagas are exciting, evoking the Celtic age of heroes with great success -- this portion of the book is easily my favorite.

Colum's adventures in Ireland and Britain came to a close far too soon for my tastes, and I found myself wishing for a fifth chapter detailing his final voyage and his life in ... well, I'll let new readers discover for themselves where he goes, but there's a story there that needs telling!

Next, de Lint returns us to the same fantasy world inhabited by Aynber, focusing now on Damon, a half-aelven and half-daemon fighter who cares little who gets in the way of his mystic sword. Let's be honest, a daemon named Damon is hardly a unique literary conceit. In "Wings over Antar," he is at least a misunderstood anti-hero, his villain's face concealing a rough-hewn heart of gold. But in "Dark Gods Laughing," Damon has dropped the pretense of inner goodness and lives up to his name. Without a sympathetic protagonist, the two Damon tales are less interesting -- appropriately, they are also short.

The last two stories in this collection are from the world of Liavek, a fantasy setting created by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly, who edited several volumes about the city and its inhabitants. Never having read the series, I feared the tales would be missing some element of flow or vital context, but thankfully they stand well on their own. Both feature the itinerant minstrel Saffer; "The Rat's Alley Shuffle" is the more whimsical of the two, involving a fixed card game and a wizard's comeuppance, while "The Skin and Knife Game" with Lee Barwood is creepier and far more sinister.

I haven't read much heroic fantasy in recent years, ever since the cover of de Lint's Yarrow caught my eye and drew me into a different sort of fantasy world. I found myself enjoying these early tales far more than I expected; even knowing my love of de Lint's writing, I half-expected the clash of swords and chanting of spells would grow at least a little tiresome by the end. But no, I was surprisingly refreshed by this trip into the literary past (both mine and de Lint's), which ended all too soon.

Great for de Lint collectors and students.......2003-08-31

This is a reader-demand collection of stories, some published as much as 25 years ago and long out of print, and some never before published at all. The stories are all great reading, even if the author is charmingly apologetic about their quality. His imagination shines like the light of multi-colored moons over undiscovered worlds. The new cover art and original illustrations are a pure delight.

Mr. de Lint's work, both old and new, is particularly appealing to me as a student of story-telling in the long tradition. I am definitely a "glutton for punishment", as he describes us, and hope for more.

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In this movie, the special effects seem so real....maybe a little too real?Melanie and Jeff are thrilled to be cast as extras in the newest alien invasion epic being filmed in their hometown. It's so cool! And the special effects are awesome! The movie has everything, including an army of freaky alien invaders with high-tech laser annihilators.But it turns out the movie is just a cover for a real alien invasion. And so are all the other hit alien moves. Melanie and Jeff have to warn someone. But no one will listen!This time when the director yells "It's a wrap!" it could mean the final cut for the human race.

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Great series........2002-12-09

I bought this book for my 10 year old daughter. She loved it so much that she asked me to get her the rest of the series.
So I did...

Great series........2002-12-09

I bought this book for my 10 year old daughter. She loved it so much that she asked me to get her the rest of the series.
So I did...

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Great for the whole family

the best family cookbook

Excellent! Better than Family Fun!

Yummy yummy for my tummy

Excellent Family Cookbook

Disney's Family Cookbook: Irresistible Recipes for You and Your Kids
Deanna Cook , and Experts At Familyfun Magazine
Manufacturer: Disney Editions
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

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ASIN: 0786861126

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Great for the whole family.......2007-08-28

This is not only a favorite Children's cookbook in my house but I love using it too. Great photos, great recipes and great instructions. We have used this book many times. During the summer months my kids will pick out a recipe to cook and this is one of there favorite books to go to. I involve them not only in selecting the recipe but shopping for the list of ingredients and cooking it.
The chocolate dipped pretzels with sprinkles are supper easy to do and make great gifts during the holidays. I have a special needs child and this was a recipe she could do and feel good about.

the best family cookbook.......2007-07-29

it was "borrowed" from my mother 8 years ago when my daughter was born and i was living on my own for the first time. i cooked many meals from this book and my husband and daughter loved every recipe.

Excellent! Better than Family Fun!.......2007-01-06

This is by far, better than Family Fun cookbook in many ways
Pros: the book is spirial
Pictures of the recipe
Varaitions of reicpes
Cons: Some of the recipies are a little out there
Some of the recipies arent exactly healthy. Need to be modified

Recipies that I have tried: sneak it to them broccoli soup, excellent and easy to make and the minestroni soup. People wanted the recipe. I do think this cookbook should be a staple in any family library.

Yummy yummy for my tummy.......2006-01-24

I love this cookbook, the recipes are great! Thanks Deanna & FamilyFun Magazine!

Excellent Family Cookbook.......2005-09-28

IF your kids won't eat broccoli under any circumstances, they won't like it in a recipe in this cookbook, either. Don't raise your kids to be picky eaters. Teach them to be willing to try something new, even if they didn't like it before.

This wholesome cookbook gives creative flair to things like grilled cheese or pizza. My son loves this cookbook and loves to find something new for lunch or dinner. So far, we haven't found one we haven't liked yet. We like the fact that everything is made from scratch and not with fast food mixes and unhealthy products.

Note: My son loves asparagus and broccoli.. and I know many other children that like veggies as well.

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A "must-have" for anyone charged with holistic therapeutic treatment of a stressed or sick dog

Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual
Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt
Manufacturer: Dogwise Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1929242085

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Use massage to help your dog relax, to condition the canine athlete, to assist in recovery from injuries or to ease chronic pain. Learn the techniques of a recognized expert in the field so that you can bring the well-known benefits of massage to your own dog or become a canine massage specialist. New edition has over 100 illustrations and 100 photos, detailed examinations of muscular stress points, diagnoses and treatments. You will learn the basics of canine anatomy and kinesiology; massage movements, pressures, techniques and systems; routines designed to address specific health problems; stretching and hydrotherapy techniques; tips on how to run a canine massage business, and more. Excellent source of information on dog anatomy as well.

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A "must-have" for anyone charged with holistic therapeutic treatment of a stressed or sick dog.......2006-01-10

Now in an updated second edition, Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual is for dog trainers, breeders, handlers, and ordinary pet owners alike. Author and licensed massage therapist Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, who treated athletes and world dignitaries before he applied his animal empathy talents toward canine massage, offers clear information illustrated with practical black-and-white "how-to" diagrams. Chapters cover dog kinesiology, principles and concepts of massage, common stress areas, stretching, hydrotherapy, common problems such as inflammation and scar tissue, and much more. Canine Massage is a serious, in-depth guide written by an expert, for professionals, although it is comprehensible to lay people. A "must-have" for anyone charged with holistic therapeutic treatment of a stressed or sick dog.

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This book was compiled to help put serious buyers in contact with non-collecting sellers all over the country. Most of us have accumulated things that are not particularly valuable to us but could very well be of interest to one of the buyers in this book. Not only does this convenient little book list the prices that collectors are willing to pay on thousands of items, but it also lists hundreds of interested buyers along with the type of material each is actively buying.

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Updated guide to who is buying what........1999-05-03

This is the 1999, 7th edition of the useful guide for anything collectible you want to sell. The comprehensive item listings cover nearly 400 categories of collectibles and 250 buyers with their name, address, phone, fax, e-mail and web site in many cases. Each buyer-listing provides information regarding the items they buy and an indication of the price ranges paid. Collectibles range from action figures to lighters to wind-up toys. In addition, there are about 20 pages of buyers of misc. items. The volume is easy to use and completely indexed. Well worth the price for anyone having collectibles to sell.

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If you're planning any kind of home improvement, from having a room painted to adding a three-room wing to your house, you need How to Be Your Own Contractor, the complete guide to hiring and overseeing the work of more than fifty different contracting specialists. It covers:

finding the right contractor for the job
comparing estimates
negotiating a contract
checking a contractor's licenses and insurance
obtaining building permits
working on-site with the contractors

The Hamiltons discuss:

design professionals
mechanical systems contractors, like plumbers and electricians
interior specialist contractors, such as carpenters, paperhangers, and tile layers
exterior specialists, such as roofers, deck builders, and excavators
yard contractors, like swimming pool builders
maintenance contractors, such as exterminators

Do Your Own Home Plumbing (Home Improvement by Pictures)

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Do Your Own Home Plumbing (Home Improvement by Pictures)
Harold King
Manufacturer: Foulsham
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Do Your Own Plumbing
Kate Armpriester
Manufacturer: Sterling Pub Co Inc
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How to Start and Manage a Plumbing Service Business: A Practical Way to Start Your Own Business

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How to Start and Manage a Plumbing Service Business: A Practical Way to Start Your Own Business
Jerre G. Lewis , and Leslie D. Renn
Manufacturer: Lewis & Renn Associates Inc.
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The Critical Limit Attitude and Historicity.......2003-03-13

This is a bad review. And this is a good book.
It is so to the extent that one accepts
this contingent 'good' and 'bad' as a criteria at all. The reader will find this book
satisfying certain criteria, that is a historical analysis of a particular figure in Turkish political life.

Yet however, the reader, if is critical, and if does not accept
the unnoticed value judgements within a text and the power relation between the author-text-reader, even if not mentioned, will celebrate the realization to say that this is a classical text that has a modernist attitude, marginalizing 'differences', searching for the center that holds, a 'cartesian' anxiety to bring history to the present by claims to hold the universal sovereign truth, hence the undergoing power relation within the text.

Out of the 'matrix' will this review sound, to the reader who is not familiar with Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault. I recommend this book as a case study for those who are familiar with such philosophers and hope other readers to go in the opposite direction.

I was a student of Metin Heper during my initial graduate studies
and I will suggest a 'richer' argument of my review of another person, who I am currently a student of.

See Richard Ashley, "Living on BorderLines: Man, Poststructuralism and War"
in
James Der Derian, Michael Shapiro eds.
"International/Intertextual Relations".

Ismet Inönü: The Making of a Turkish Statesman........2001-08-06

Atatürk (1880-1938) is one of the most renowned individuals of his time, and rightly so, for he founded the modern state of Turkey and created one of the very few ideologies not just to endure the century but to have considerable successes to its credit. Turks celebrate his accomplishments to his day, with his face of the money and on portraits throughout the country. His legacy is especially powerful in the military officer corps; according to one account, "It would not be an exaggeration to say that cadet-officers hardly spend an hour without mentioning his name." Even in English, many volumes of biography celebrate his life.

But what of his No. 2, Ismet Inönü (1884-1973)? Inönü served Atatürk as the chief of staff who helped win his most decisive battles (against the Greeks), as diplomat in his most important treaty (Lausanne, 1923), as prime minister during his entire presidency (1924-38), and then as his successor as president (1938-50), later to return again to power as prime minister (1961-65). In a first-class biography, Heper (a professor at Bilkent University in Istanbul) performs the important service of recalling this key figure's life from the wrongful obscurity into which it has fallen. Heper finds there is much to admire in his biographee, calling him a pragmatist, an optimist, and a "statesman par excellence." He particularly praises the intelligent and realistic way Inönü guided the country from Atatürk's benevolent despotism to a multi-party democracy whose first election he lost and thereupon gracefully went into the opposition; indeed, Inönü went so far as to call his defeat his "greatest victory"). Heper quotes one assessment that Turkey has undergone three revolutions this century, a national one led by Atatürk, a democratic one led by Inönü, and an economic one led by Turgut Özal; he then adds that Inönü's role was larger than this implies, having had a direct hand in the first and having helped to pave the way for the third. He deserves this excellent biography.

Middle East Quarterly, December 1999

Awfully Disappointing.......2001-02-02

Unfortunately, this turned out to be a wasted opportunity to describe and analyze the actions of a critical leader of Turkey. Ismet's genius was in temporing Ataturk during the transformation of Turkey, but also guiding Turkey through WWII and the creation of multiparty politics. Too bad none of those actions were even described in this work. Apparently this author proceeds from the premise that words are more important that actions. In an age of euphomism, the critical reader will see that all sorts of actions can be sheilded or "spun" with just the right speech. Whether that occurred with Ismet is not regarded. Too bad. We will have to wait for someone else to take up the challenge.

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A collection of the rare '50s pinups that led to the artist's final gig, as Playboy's first star cartoonist.

In the rarefied realm of classic cartoon pin-up art, nobody did it better than Jack Cole. With his quirky line drawings and sensual watercolors, Cole, under Hugh Hefner's guiding hand, catapulted to stardom in the 1950s as Playboy's marquee cartoonist, a position he held until his untimely death at the age of 43.

Jack Cole, most recently the subject of a book profile by Art Spiegelman and Chip Kidd (Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched To Their Limits) has been justly celebrated as the creator of Plastic Man and an innovative comic book artist of the 1940s. Cole had sold a handful of cartoons to magazines such as Boy's Life, Colliers and Judge in the '30s and '40s, but after finishing his 14-year run on Plastic Man, he found himself back at square one in an idiom that didn't come naturally to him: the gag cartoon. According to Cole, his savior was the Humorama line of down-market digest magazines. This girls and gags magazine circuit proved to be the perfect training ground to regain his footing and develop his craft at single panel cartoons. While Cole may have been honing his skills as a gag writer, his ability to render the female form was already without peer. Though he signed his cartoons "Jake," Cole's exquisite line drawings and masterful use of ink-wash—a skill he carried over Playboy—betrayed his pseudonym. In comparison to his contemporaries, however, Cole was probably Humorama's least prolific artist. Though his images were frequently used for covers, Cole's cartoons were few and far between, with scarcely a single drawing appearing every five issues.

Along with a foreword by editor Alex Chun, this volume collects the best of these hidden gems, including several shot from Cole's stunning original art. Most of these drawings have not seen print in more than 50 years; taken together, they provide a rare glimpse into the singular artistry of Jack Cole.

Customer Reviews:

Cole Fan.......2007-08-26

I personally loved this book. I am a huge Jack Cole fan and enjoyed all of the gags in the book.

If you are a fan if gag cartoons, don't pass this up.

Cole's Art is Simply Remarkable.......2006-08-19

Fans of Jack Cole's Plastic Man should do themselves a favor and seek this book out. These one-panel gags foreshadow the work Cole would do for Playboy in the 1950's. The line art, is of course, extraordinary but his experiments with ink wash really leap off the page. Cole's gals are breathtaking. As Art Speigelman noted, "Cole's goddesses were estrogen souffles who mesmerized the ineffectual saps who lusted after them." I admit that I too was mesmerized flipping through the pages of this book. The gags are sometimes weak but Cole himself admitted that after having drawn comic books for so long he had to re-learn the art of the one-panel gag. Fortunately, this period drawing gags for the Humorama line helped him develop the talent needed to become Playboy's pre-eminent cartoonist in the early days. Alex Chun did a good job in condensing Cole's life down to a few pages. Which means more room for Cole's art!

A few things to note. The book says Quality Comics later became DC Comics, however, when Quality folded they were actually purchased by DC and absorbed into their line-up. The editorial review above states that Playboy was Cole's last professional gig before his untimely death but in actuality he created the syndicated newspaper strip Betsy and Me in the final year of his life. It was being published in nearly 50 papers at the time of his death.

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Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this bold hook sounds a liberating call. There is,Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once, a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something new and, until now, unremarked. Challenging the practices and assumptions of cultural studies, The Black Atlantic also complicates and enriches our understanding of modernism.

Debates about postmodernism have cast an unfashionable pall over questions of historical periodization. Gilroy bucks this trend by arguing that the development of black culture in the Americas arid Europe is a historical experience which can be called modern for a number of clear and specific reasons. For Hegel, the dialectic of master and slave was integral to modernity, and Gilroy considers the implications of this idea for a transatlantic culture. In search of a poetics reflecting the politics and history of this culture, he takes us on a transatlantic tour of the music that, for centuries, has transmitted racial messages and feeling around the world, from the Jubilee Singers in the nineteenth century to Jimi Hendrix to rap. He also explores this internationalism as it is manifested in black writing from the "double consciousness" of W. E. B. Du Bois to the "double vision" of Richard Wright to the compelling voice of Toni Morrison.

In a final tour de force, Gilroy exposes the shared contours of black and Jewish concepts of diaspora in order both to establish a theoretical basis for healing rifts between blacks and Jews in contemporary culture and to further define the central theme of his book: that blacks have shaped a nationalism, if not a nation, within the shared culture of the black Atlantic.

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Delivery took longer than expected.......2007-05-14

The book was in very good condition, but it took longer than expected to receive it.

In Conversation About the Origin and Intellect of "Black" Expression.......2006-10-16

Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness begins with a clear problematic. Prevailing historical authority subscribes to racial, ethnic, or national essentialism in analyzing "blackness." This reduces the cultural and political history of "black" people to a physics of isolated particles. Instead of unrelated national histories, Gilroy seeks a postnational account of the black Diaspora. Gilroy's effort involves searching for common modes of reason across hybrid black Atlantic cultures. He believes that the academic endeavor of African studies, when framed by the nation state as a mode of inquiry (e.g. "African-American studies") can not engage the African Diaspora as a liquid phenomenon that is in constant dialogue with itself. For Gilroy, this Diaspora does not "fit" in the compartments of national boundaries. These boundaries impair present-day political resistance because they deny an alternative to European cultural hegemony in articulating the black relationship to modernity. Moreover, these boundaries obscure the hybrid legacy of prevailing "western" civilization.

Importantly, Gilroy diverges from a number of other thinkers (in fields as diverse as Communications, Anthropology, and History) as to the origins of "black" artistic expression. Scholars like Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, and Lawrence Levine would contend that black culture maintains an essential orality in the midst of modernity. Each has a way to avoid the tendency of this contention to exoticize blackness. (McLuhan concludes that modernity is oral and that technology is an extension of sensation in his "Gutenberg Galaxy" and "Understanding Media." Ong systematizes the cognitive aptitudes of oral and literate worldviews in his aptly titled "Orality and Literacy." Levine concludes that black expressive forms have been gradually inscribed by modernity in the century following the Civil War in his seminal "Black Culture and Black Consciousness.") These thinkers embody the idea of "latent orality" which framed the prevailing academic status of black cultural expression in the 1960s and 1970s.

A major figure who broke this paradigm in the 1980s was Henry Louis Gates Jr. Gates articulates a sophisticated and literate intellectual tradition through the way in which black vernacular signifies upon itself. The result is a critical conversation on political subjectivity within black expression. This resists the reduction of black cultural texts to latent orality or the reduction of black intellect to assimilation of Western knowledge aesthetics. Gates shows that black expression has a sophisticated textual criticism that predated and survived European hegemony. But for Gilroy, this does not go far enough.

Gilroy sees "textuality" itself as a problematic instrument in analyzing black music. He ties the moral basis of black music to a critique of modernity in what he calls a "politics of transfiguration." In contrast to Gates's critique of black vernacular, Gilroy sees in black music an invocation to literacy (critical discourse that is abstract from present circumstance) that is morally constituted of a critique of the shortfallings of modernity. In other words, whereas Gates sought a distinctly African means of achieving critical thought as rooted in European knowledge aesthetics (a mind-body split--Gates's signification is a sophisticated life of the mind above the body), Gilroy sees the counterculture of modernity as negating this split between "ethics and aesthetics, culture and politics (page 39)." Whereas Gates shows that literacy and reason are not solely European genealogies, Gilroy shows that black vernacular is not necessary for black reason. For Gilroy, black expression ("counterculture") is a moral signification upon modernity. This counterculture does not reify textuality because it objects to knowledge as something abstract to the human lifeworld, a hallmark of European thought. Gilroy's counterculture is thus a "post-literate" mode of reason, an engagement with the intellectual future rather than the intellectual present (Gates) or the intellectual past (McLuhan/Ong/Levine).

a textual odyssey of rethinking black political culture........2001-09-03

In "The Black Atlantic" Paul Gilroy constructs an excellent text based on the black diasporic experience. His views of black culture as being a dynamic networked construct based on the idea of the diaspora derived from Jewish culture, is an illuminating concept that contains great substance. Gilroy's underlying transnational humanism (that can be read in his latest pseudo-utopian work "Against Race") and vital rethinking about the perils of cultural nationalism and the urgent benefits of a unique hybrid culture is a thoroughly needed breath in the stasis of linear monocultural thinking. The book functions in an excellent manner in addressing the complex dynamics of slavery, colonization, and their inherent residual effects on black political culture. In addition the method in which Gilroy weaves Adorno, Hendrix, hip-hop culture, Du Bois, Wright, Hegel and a host of others in a clear and eloquent manner is cause for reading in itself. In a nutshell, this is a valuable sociological and philosophical work that creates a rupture in linear, absolutist views of history, sexuality, identity and other various elements in relation to black particularity. In this book Gilroy composes the dynamics of intercultural exchange (whether artistic, political, social, moral etc.) as well as attributing to socialized historical memory through its brilliant text.

Disavowal of Double Consciousness.......2000-09-09

The Black Atlantic is an attempt to call to attention the contribution of the slaves to the progression of modernity. Submitting himself to the operation of Western modernity, Gilroy recognizes that there exists a double consciousness in the black flesh, that is, the black sees his own image through the 'other.' However, as to me, we should find the third term--denegation to revolute against the metaphysic difference and cultural strength instead. Denegation in its very essence is not to break down the established but rather to hold a critical eye on the contigent cultural transformation and has the self recognize the alterity.

An insightful look at black transglobal culture.......1999-01-15

Paul Gilroy brings a fresh eye and mind to the challenging task of examining black cultural and political manifestations as they affect the transglobal community. Gilroy, unlike some cultural theorists, sees the interconnectedness between those discourses around race, class, gender, and sexuality and its impact on the black and world communities. It is his articulation of how these entities are intertwined that makes for a fresh and insightful examination of contemporary black diasporic experience.

The Black Atlantic : Modernity and Double-Consciousness

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The Black Atlantic : Modernity and Double-Consciousness
Paul Gilroy
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PRZ59E

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