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- Too many cooks and all that . . .
- The Bare Facts!
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- Multiple Authors Make an Interesting Read
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Naked Came the Manatee
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Dave Barry starts the madness in Naked Came the Manatee, introducing a 102-year-old environmentalist named Coconut Grove and a manatee saddled with one of Barry's favorite monikers, Booger. Carl Hiaasen closes down the party, and in between, 11 of Florida's literati, including Elmore Leonard, John Dufresne, and Edna Buchanan, make twisted offerings to the affair: three severed heads, all bearing a remarkable resemblance to Fidel Castro; four murders; some sex; some espionage; even an appearance by Jimmy Carter and one by Castro himself.
Originally published as a serial novel in the Miami Herald's Tropic magazine, Naked Came the Manatee resembles a literary game of telephone, with each writer contributing a chapter and passing it on to the next, who then makes the most of what he or she is given. The result is a novel with wildly fluctuating styles and more crazy plot curves than a daytime drama, but thanks to these 13 masters of the craft this roller coaster of a book is almost as much fun to read as it obviously was to write.
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In South Florida, everyone wants to get a head. But not just any head. A very famous human head--severed and snugged away in a cryonic container. A head that could spark a revolution and change the course of history.
Everybody wants a piece of the noggin: rotund gangster Big Joey G., a 102-year-old environmentalist, hard-boiled Miami reporter Britt Montero, lawyer Jake Lassiter, and a would-be dictator in exile--with ex-president Jimmy Carter and a lovable manatee named Booger thrown in for good measure.
With bodies piling up it's anybody's guess what will happen from one chapter to the next, as an all-star line-up of Florida's finest writers take turns at taking this outrageously original novel to the limit--and beyond.
Customer Reviews:
Too many cooks and all that . . . .......2007-08-15
If you are a fan of any of these authors, do yourself the favor of sticking with their individual efforts. Hiaasen's chapter (the final one) cracks broadly at the missteps of several previous authors. I enjoyed only 3 chapters (Berry, Hall, & Hiaasen), and I put up with the rest to see how Mr. Hiaasen would tie it up. Even his talents could not salvage this - and here, I strongly agree with other reviewers - MESS.
The Bare Facts!.......2007-05-12
I found Naked Came The Manatee to be an enjoyable read. I liked the different writing styles that wove the storyline together. I borrowed the book from our local library and liked it enough to buy my own copy. It was interersting and entertaining. The reason I gave it four stars was because I thought Dave Barry's first chapter, though good, was a little too chock full of detail. Although I have read Carl Hiaasen's Flush and Hoot among others and have enjoyed reading Dave Barry for years, I was not familiar with some of the other writers. Naked Came The Manatee has whetted my interest in reading books they have penned. All in all, a pleasant way to spend an afternoon reading. ~ Mrs. B.
Don't buy it, don't even get it at the library!.......2006-08-17
First, I'd like to tell the authors that after reading this book, each of you owe me a few hours of my time which disappeared, worthlessly, from my life.
What starts out as a great idea - a gaggle of writers each crafting a chapter of a novel - quickly crashes into a confusing, poorly played game of "telephone."
You know "telephone" - the kids' game where one whispers something to the person next to him or her and the words circle the room, ending in an incomprehensible string of gibberish?
Naked Came the Manatee is a hobo stew of styles, with each writer leading us through silly plot moves and adding their own characters.
While reading each of these authors might be fun, their collective sum only reveals a bookfull of defective parts.
Multiple Authors Make an Interesting Read.......2006-07-19
Back in the primary school days you probably partook in the exercise of everyone in the class writing a paragraph then passing the paper to the person sitting next to them who wrote the next paragraph, passed it to the next person and so on until everyone in the class had contributed to each of the 30 or so stories. Well that is exactly what the publishers of Naked Came the Manatee have done, with thirteen Florida authors, just on a bigger scale.
The quality of each chapter obviously varies with the quality of each author but that adds to the fun. Even though Hiaasen is on the spine also doesn't mean that all the authors are surreal humorous type writers either with some chapters being very crime thriller in style and even one, chapter 11 being poetic philosophy (must admit didn't really enjoy this one.) The story flowed on quite well (except from chapter 10 to 11) from author to author in most parts but you could definitely pick up the difference in style with each transition. The story overall lacked the high quality that many of these authors such as Carl Hiaasen and Dave Barry have achieved in their own novels but it was still a very good and enjoyable read.
The basic plot of Naked Came the Manatee revolves around a Manatee, called Booger by the locals who is either part of or around the main action. Throw in a 102 year old woman, Fidel Castro, shiny steel boxes, dim-witted criminals, lawyers and politicians as well as the locals of Coconut Grove and you've got a pretty fun storyline.
If you like the multiple author novel and want to read another one that Dave Barry is in grab a copy of The Putt at the End of the World. Barry teams up with Lee K Abbott, Richard Bausch, James Crumley, James W Hall, Tami Hoag, Tim O'Brien, Ridley Pearson and Les Standiford in this surreal golfing adventure that golf related is to the world of novels what Happy Gilmore is to the world of movies.
Rough around the edges .......2006-03-22
Perhaps it was my surroundings at the time I first read this delightful book that makes me like it so much,
(first visit to a naturist resort)
but, after several reads I've developed quite a thing for it.
It alternates for the top spot on my list with Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac and Beryl Markham's West with the Night depending on my mood...
I picked it up off the shelf at Barnes and Noble because I'm a Carl Hiassen fan and enjoyed his other colabrotive effort, A Death in China with Bill Montalbano.
(I have since purchaced many other new and used copies for friends)
I also needed something to read while burning parts of my body that have not seen the sun in decades to an unattractive crispy bright red.
(something naturist resorts don't alert novices to in the brochure...)
the shifts in style from chapter to chapter make it that much more interesting, just when you start to think it's too masculine, a touch of the femenine intervines to round it out.
To sum it up I guess,
if your tastes in literature twist towards nature,
international intrigue,
or the simple pleasures of nudity,
this book is quite the enjoyable romp.
(SPF 30+ is recommended if you read it on the beach, trust me.)
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- Great beginnings that sadly lead nowhere.
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Naked Came the Manatee
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Great beginnings that sadly lead nowhere........2002-05-07
This book is a brave experiment written by 13 of South Florida's best writers, with each author contributing one chapter to a wacky story of kidnapping, murder and political conspiracy in Miami without any idea of how the next writer will continue it.
This formula provides a delicious mix of zany plot twists and unexpected developments for a number of chapters, but evenutally the plot becomes hopelessly muddled as authors vie for control of the story- each introducting their own characters and attempting to redefine other characters and events that have already been established. Characters who were obviously intended to be central figures are abandoned or murdered before their purposes become clear, new ones appear two thirds of the way through the plot and attempt to dominate it, and established facts (most notably the character traits of Booger the Manatee) are altered or outright contradicted. These competing agendas give the final storyline a schizophrenic feel and make a story which opens with great potential an often confusing or frustrating read.
By the final chapter, none of the story's original central characters (save the manatee) are anywhere to be seen, and it is the unfortunate task of the author to try to sloppily tie up what seem like dozens of loose ends.
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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on March 1, 1997. The length of the article is 817 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.
From the supplier: 'Naked Came the Manatee,' a suspense thriller written in installments by 13 noted Florida writers and originally a serial narrative in the Miami Herald's Sunday magazine, stars a bird named Booger. By the end of the story, 24 other characters have taken part in a Coconut Grove riot, 4 murders and Booger's search for a soulmate. Contributors include Carl Hiassen, Elmore Leonard and Dave Barry.
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Title: Getting naked in South Florida. (Naked Came the Manatee is novel written in installents by 13 noted Florida writers)
Author: Suzan Revah
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American Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1997
Publisher: University of Maryland
Volume: v19
Issue: n2
Page: p13(1)
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Naked Came the Manatee
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- Dazzling, Beautiful, Awe-Inspiring, Thought-Provoking . . .
- Lovely sequel to Gnomes
- Great book!
- The Gnome's continuation!
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Secrets of the Gnomes
Wil Huygen , and
Rien Poortvliet
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Dazzling, Beautiful, Awe-Inspiring, Thought-Provoking . . ........2003-08-13
I was fortunate enough to get a mint-condition copy of this out-of-print book, a sequal to the New York Times #1 bestseller masterpiece GNOMES. While that book was more of an encyclopedia format, this is an actual storybook (though still complete with pages and pages of informarion on Gnomes' lives), and a damned good one at that. In fact, this is on my Top Three list of favorite books of all time. The illustrations are what would probably attract most people, as they easily rival the best of Alan Lee and Brian Froud. But take time to actually (and throughly) read it; you will be stunned at it's ability to make you think a great deal. One of the few books I have ever read to truly deserve the word "magical".
Lovely sequel to Gnomes.......2001-09-06
If you own the first book of Gnomes by these talented authors and illustrators, then you really do need to find a copy of this one. It has the same magic and attention to detail, but gives you a greater insight into the lives of these little busy creatures, with just the right amount of whimsy.
There is more focus on different tales from various parts of the world, and certainly more of the fabulous drawings. Again this book is worth the purchase for the illustrations alone.
Great book!.......2001-05-01
This is a wonderful book that I read when I managed to locate a copy in my public Library. I'd give a nut to actually acquire my own copy. If I don't find one soon you can be damn sure that I'll pinch the library's copy
The Gnome's continuation!.......2000-05-09
This a great continuation, with better illustrations than the first book, Gnomes, the autors became gnomes, and went to the world of these small criatures. If you have the first book, you must have this one!
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As the world becomes more economically and culturally integrated, there are vast opportunities for growth especially as less prosperous countries seize the opportunities of capitalism and the market economy. Hear the success stories and pitfalls, the strategies and secrets, of the worlds great international investors.
The Secrets of the Great Investors series is a collection of presentations that explain, in understandable language, the strategies, tactics, and principles that have produced great wealth, and how you can improve your financial future. History's greatest investors used powerful investing philosophies to produce superior results, and you can learn from their successes and mistakes.
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- an eclectic mix of early SF short stories; very entertaining
- The stories the spawned the "classics".
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They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures
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an eclectic mix of early SF short stories; very entertaining.......2004-11-07
'They Came from Outer Space...' is a delightful collection of early science fiction stories that were adapted into films, mostly cheesy 1950s 'B' films. While many of the stories are not terribly well-written I found them all to be imaginative, often with surprise endings. As a bonus the book comes with a preface before each story comparing it with its film counterpart, comments about the author and the production of the film. I also enjoyed the pictures of these films scattered through the book.
Bottom line: a recommended read for everyone.
The stories the spawned the "classics"........2000-05-13
Sometime between going from a magazine writer to a schlock B-movie maker himself, writer/director Jim Wynorski put together this collection of short stories that served as the basis for numerous classic and cult classic movies. For any B-movie buff this book is required reading just to see how close (or far) the adaptations kept to the source stories. Especially noteworthy is John Campbell's Who Goes There, it will give you an added appreciation to John Carpenter 1982 film version of the tale. Great stuff. Find it, buy it, read it.
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- COOKING WITH THE SUN
- Very Basic, but Thorough
- A great book with many workable designs and complete plans
- Simple solar ovens and "hot plates' made easy!
- Excellent rewrite of an older book
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Cooking With the Sun: How to Build and Use Solar Cookers
Beth Halacy , and
Dan Halacy
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Solar cooking is easy, free, and clean, and you can build a solar oven and a solar hot plate with a few dollars' worth of materials and hand tools.
Cooking With the Sun gives simple directions for both, along with a host of recipes -- pizza, chicken, pecan pie -- that will convince you that low-tech is the way to go. Endorsed by the American Solar Energy Society and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
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Cooking with the sun shows how to harness the sun's energy in preparing food. It presents detailed plans, liberally illiustrated with line drawings and photos, for building solar ovens that can cook a 12 pound turkey in three hours, and a solar reflector "hot plate" that perks coffee and cooks steak, bacon and eggs, hot cakes and other stove-top meals. The oven will reach temperatures of 375 degrees F, and the "hot plate" 650 degrees F.
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COOKING WITH THE SUN.......2006-08-26
THIS IS A VERY GREAT BOOK FOR ANY ONE GETTING IN TO SOLAR COOKING. YOU WON'T BE SORRY. DANIEL T. SHANNON
Very Basic, but Thorough.......2001-06-20
This is a well written, friendly book that teaches solar cooking without being preachy. The directions to make the cookers are reasonable...The recipies are also good and well organized for the different kinds of cookers. As energy prices skyrocket, these kinds of cookers can really help save you money, keep the environment a little cleaner, and keep your house cooler. (You can bake with these things - and you don't have to bake yourself along with the cake or run the a/c to cool off again!) And though the sun doesn't shine all the time, it's free, and even in California, you'll be able to keep cookin' right through the rolling blackouts while not heating up the kitchen!
A great book with many workable designs and complete plans.......1998-12-19
This book does an outstanding job of outlining exactly how to construct and use solar cookers. The designs use available materials and no special equipment is needed. Most solar cookers in this book can be built in a few hours, and the reflector size can be modified to provide adequate heat under even cold, cloudy conditions. A first choice if you are interested in practical uses of solar energy.
Simple solar ovens and "hot plates' made easy!.......1998-11-18
Cooking with the Sun is the only book that gives a brief history of solar cooking and explains how to construct with clrear text, line drawings, and photos an oven that is as efficient as the expensive commercial solar ovens. You can build it for under $25 in materials and it will reach 350 to 375 degrees F. The "hot plate" just like the burner on your stove top is also easy to build and will reach temperatures of 650 degrees F within minutes. You can fry, steam, grill, poach with instant heat The book offers all you need to know to use solar cookers and over 90 recipes with resources. The sales of this book has tripled since the awareness of the Y2K problem. People are looking for easy ways to cook should they loose their power source.
THE SOLAR STOVETOP COOKER: PATTERN, ISNTRUCTIONS RECIPES ($12.00) is now available. This amazing product allows you to build the fascinating "hot plate" with ease. It gives you all the critical angles so there is no figuring to do. All you have to do is cut out the angles and trace them onto cardboard and assemble the cooker. It can be built in a weekend. It comes with an easy step-by-step instruction booklet with recipes, how-to information, and other solar cooking resources.
Excellent rewrite of an older book.......1998-08-24
The original "Fun With The Sun" (1961) by Dan Halacy has been revised and updated. The section on building a box cooker has been completely rewritten and results in a more elegant and easily built cooker. The chapter on building a reflector cooker produces a more compact and easier to handle unit but the construction involves a bit more work. The second half of the book is devoted to some excellent recipes. I have tested several and found them to be very good. This is an excellent book for teaching anyone to use our most plentiful energy source.
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"True horsemanship training is about people first."
—Charles Wilhelm
Charles Wilhelm's Ultimate Foundation Training has transformed thousands of horses into more responsive, mannerly companions. In this book, Wilhelm trains you to use his tried and true principles in training your horse. Go inside the horse's mind to see how he thinks and learns, so you can communicate in a language your horse understands. Discover why and how foundation training works. Wilhelm's uniquely successful methods will help you build a relationship that's more rewarding for both you and your horse—one that lasts a lifetime.
- Discover why working with your horse should be fun—and why you should stop if it isn't
- Learn to identify your horse's emotional level and personality type
- Find out the ten secrets your horse wishes he could tell you
- Understand why consistency is essential in establishing desired behavior
- Communicate with your horse using the right combination of pressure and release, patience, persistence, and conscientious follow-through
- Recognize why it's never, ever the horse's fault
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From a legendary horseman¿the definitive guide to training horse and rider
Charles Wilhelm earned acclaim for his remarkable horse-training talent. What made him a bona fide celebrity was his equally uncanny gift for coaching people¿novice and expert, trainer and weekend rider alike. Presenting readers with the practical advice he offers thousands each year in demonstrations and clinics nationwide, he reveals basic principles suitable for all equestrian sports, and provides over 15 step-by-step exercises, with nearly 200 photos and illustrations that show how to put them into practice¿and get results.
Charles Wilhelm (Castro Valley, CA) is one of the top six general horse trainers in the country¿a man who is as good at training people as he is at training horses. He¿s a featured trainer at all major horse expositions, including Equine Affaire, Ride with the Stars, WesternStates Horse Expo, Ride the West, the Horse World Expos, Equine Experience, Eqwest, Equitana, and UC Davis¿s annual Horse Day symposium. Charles also holds clinics and demonstrations at his own facility in Castro Valley and throughout California. He writes monthly columns for four major equestrian publications¿Ride!, Riding, Northwest Rider, and the U.S. Horse Market¿and appeared in a CBS Evening Magazine special segment on his training program and its impact on novice and beginning horse owners. Wilhelm is renowned for his success in working with "problem" horses. His foundation training approach for horse and rider is successful in resolving issues that may range from lead changes, gaiting, or collection, through more severe problems such as bucking and bolting. But whether training a top show horse or the family trail horse, time spent with Charles Wilhelm consistently results in a dramatically improved animal. Allison Houston (San Francisco, CA) rode quarter horses for many years as a youth, and then resumed horse ownership in her mid-thirties after a 20-year hiatus. Inspired by experiencing Wilhelm's training success firsthand for over three years, she's teamed up with him to share his Foundation Training program with a wider audience.
Customer Reviews:
Useful, but not "Ultimate." .......2007-05-07
I was looking for a step-by-step method for training a young horse, and this isn't it. Mr. Wilhelm describes his round pen or leadline methods for starting and stopping the horse's feet, and then suddenly we are in the saddle teaching the horse to give to the bit, with no explanation of how we got up there!
My dream horse might automatically understand about carrying a saddle and having a rider on board without being systematically taught about those things, but I sure don't want to count on it.
There's a lot of useful information in this book, I'm not going to toss it out, but I'll need to look elsewhere for a system of foundation training.
Great Gift.......2006-03-16
I got this book as a gift for my mom, and she loves it. It really fits the "going back to horses" frame of mind, as Charles Wilhelm stated in the introduction. She has had horses her whole life, but hasn't been very involved the past 10-15 years, and Charles Wilhelm seems to understand that, and is helping her to work her way back in comfortably. Great easy read that teaches you a lot!
Excellent book - would highly recommend!.......2005-08-31
Thank you so much for writing such a great book! I found it to be very easy to read and easy to follow when applying your techniques from the book to my everyday handling of my horses. Mr. Wilhelm really knows how to convey his training methods through his words and make it easy to understand. Thank you so much Mr. Wilhelm for your book. I hope to someday make it to one of the horse expositions you go to!
If you buy one horse training book, this should be it!.......2005-08-04
Over the years, I have bought several different horse training books. But none of these books was as easy to read and undertand as Charles Wilhelm's book. More importantly, the techniques described in "Building Your Dream Horse" are easy to implement! I can definitely see the results in my horse and myself.
There are no "games" or gadgets, just straight-forward descriptions of his philosophy and the exercises. In addition, the stories and examples he provides make this "how-to" book a very entertaining read. Unlike the other horse training books I have, this one won't be gathering dust on the bookshelf.
Disappointing.......2005-08-02
I was really looking forward to reading this book. I love Charles Wilhelm, I love his shows and he has taught me a lot just by watching him. I love his manner, his way of putting things across... and the fact that his step-by-step exercises work.
However, as he would admit, he is not a writer. This book is written by the co-author, and it shows. There's nothing in the book that's 'wrong', it's just that it lacks passion - it's kind of uninspired. I get the feeling that they set out to write 'yet another horse training book' and included all the necessary sections, and all in all it reads like that.
It's also fairly thin on content. For example, if you watch CW ride, his horses have really good flexibility and shoulder control. This is what I'm working towards with my 3 yr old. I find the section in the book .... and there's at most a paragraph ... ! Just not enough to really work from. Not enough specific exercises to even get you started.
I'm not really sure who the book is aimed at. Not for a beginning trainer like me. For starting to train your horse, you're much better off with Clinton Anderson's Downunder Horsemanship. The training methods are pretty much the same, but CA's gives you a whole lot more value for money - much clearer instruction, much more specific exercises, far better illustrated (you can really see what you're trying to achieve and how from the CA photo's).
I'm sorry I didn't like the book more. I'm still a big fan of the man and the method.
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Pacific Pottery: Sunshine Tableware from the 1920s, '30s, and '40s...and more!
Jeffrey B. Snyder
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Over 500 color photographs, and an historical text present a beautiful overview of the ceramic table, kitchen, and artwares produced by Californias Pacific Clay Products Company from the 1920s through the 1940s. The companys famous Hostessware serving pieces, known for their eye-catching solid colored glazes and streamlined forms, are promiently featured. Also provided are the history of this pottery firm, a review of the manufacturers marks, a bibliography, and an index. Values accompany the photo captions.
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- Not simple
- Really? It's not so simple..
- are the other reviewers on crack?
- Too Easy
- Super Simple Origami
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Super Simple Origami
Irmgard Kneissler
Manufacturer: Sterling
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Who says simple can’t be awesome? Try these super simple origami techniques. Using just five basic forms, you can make amazing figures and objects, from a duck, a cat, and a penguin to a rose and a tulip to a windmill and masks. More than 150 diagrams and color photographs show how. “The diagrams that accompany the text are excellent and quite easy to follow.”—Somerset Studio.
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Not simple.......2007-04-19
I'm six years old and I'm in first grade. I found this Super Simple Origami book in the first grade section of the library at my school. The title said super simple origami. It was not simple at all! It was too hard. Never buy or borrow this book.
From the mom: I helped my son type this review. He was so excited to try out folding, and got so frustrated. We tried several of the designs. I will also be speaking to the librarian about a more appropriate section for the book. Unfortunately, the school only goes up to fourth grade.
Really? It's not so simple.........2005-04-12
I have this book, I like the models, and they are presented well,even showing how to use them, and I am a folder! BUT... the instructions are not simple. A folder who has folded a moderate amount can figure out the instructions and complete the models without too much stress. But a beginner adult or child will have trouble!
An adult who has never folded trying to fold with a child might have trouble and it is certainly not the book for children to pickup to use first time. You'll be frustrated and not fold!
So get some experience, be prepared to think it through, you'll need patience, but the models are good.
are the other reviewers on crack?.......2004-02-04
OK- I am very new to Origami,and need detailed instructions in ENGLISH. I did not find this book to be super simple as the title promised. The book uses the complicated origami language throughout. If you do not understand the international origami code, then you will find this book to be super difficult.
Too Easy.......2001-09-30
Well That's The Name Super Simple, This Is For Children Who Aren't Good Enough For The Tough Stuff. If Your Friend Says to You That You Stink At Origami. Well, If they Say That Than That Probably Means They're Way Better Than You. But After You Read This Book , You Will Be One Step Closer To Making The Tiger Your Friend Can Make But You Can't!
Super Simple Origami.......2001-06-20
Simple origami is not necessarily boring origami. While the models in this book are simple enough for children to learn many adults will find plenty of models to add to their repertoire. The illustrations are large, the photographs of the finished model are very detailed and the instructions are easy to follow. This book will provide many hours of fun for teachers and students, parents and children and the origami enthusiast.
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Wedding Origami/Includes Paper (My Favorite Origami)
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The Jewel Translucent Sutra: Altan Khan and the Mongols in the Sixteenth Century (Brill's Inner Asian Library)
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The first full-fledged critical edition and historical study of the Erdeni Tunumal Sudur, the Mongolian history of Altan Khan and his descendants, offering a full-range English-written historical and literary evaluation of this unique and fairly reliable, but long neglected discovery in Mongolian studies.
With transcription, word index and English translation, as well as extensive commentary on the historical events of Altan Khan's reign, especially the 1550 attack on Beijing, the 1571 peace accord with the Ming, and the 1578 meeting with the Dalai Lama and the subsequent Buddhist conversion. In particular, the author shows how Altan Khan's reformulation of the boundaries of Dayan Khan's Mongol nation and state catalyzed the political fragmentation of the Mongols with dire consequences in relation to the rising Manchu state.
Vital for a better understanding of Mongol history during the late Ming.
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Mongolian Buddhist Prespectives on History.......2004-09-09
The Jewel Translucent Sutra: Altan Khan and the Mongols in the Sixteenth Century by Johan Elverskog (Brill's Inner Asian Library, 8: Brill Academic) The first full-fledged critical edition and historical study of the Erdeni Tunumal Sudur, the Mongolian history of Altan Khan and his descendants, offering a full-range English-written historical and literary evaluation of this unique and fairly reliable, but long neglected discovery in Mongolian studies.
In 1963 the existence of a singular seventeenth century manuscript, the Jewel Translucent Sutra, became known through Natsagdorj's History of the Khalkhas.l One would have imagined that the revelation of such an early Mongolian historical work would have created an explosion of interest. This should especially have been true with a work that describes the pivotal figure of Altan Khan, who signed the 1571 peace accord with the Ming dynasty and, most importantly, "reconverted" the Mongols to Buddhism. However, unlike the Secret History which had achieved an iconic status of near biblical proportions and had been appropriated within the gamut of intellectual agendas (Marxist, nationalist, philological, linguistic, literary, etc.), the Jewel Translucent Sutra languished in an archive for another sixteen years. The exact reasons for this are unclear, although the impact of Cold War politics and the unfathomable dislocations ensuing from Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution cannot be underestimated. Yet now, a generation later and in a much different world, the text and its attendant scholarly investigation has returned.
On account of the ascendancy of literary-critical approaches to historical studies, how this work will now be read and interpreted, as opposed to when it first appeared nearly forty years ago, will undoubtedly have changed. And while such a process is seemingly inevitable, oddly enough it also seems appropriate in the case of this work. The reason is that this text meshes with the focus of most late twentieth century scholarship which questions dominant historical narratives, be it feminism, subaltern studies, post-colonialism, etc. All of these approaches entail lifting the blinders of ideological master narratives to reveal the past of those historiographically marginalized. This is not to suggest that Altan Khan has been ignored. Indeed, on account of the extraordinary 1571 Sino-Mongol detente, he has been the focus of extensive scholarship on Ming history and the politics that culminated in the peace process. Similarly, a discussion of Altan Khan's historic 1578 meeting with the Third Dalai Lama that presaged the conversion of the Mongols to Gelugpa Buddhism is a standard topic in all works touching on Tibetan or Mongolian Buddhist history. Yet, the Mongolian voice has been silent in all these works, since until now only Chinese and Tibetan sources have been available and utilized in reconstructing these events. The Jewel Translucent Sutra allows the heretofore marginalized natives to speak.
In order to enable access to this source for the widest possible audience with an interest in this particular chapter of the past; however, it is necessary to provide a translation, since knowing or learning Mongolian is not a universal trait. And although currently it is the intellectual and institutional vogue to denigrate such work, to my mind, this is an unfortunate turn in intellectual culture as a whole. It must be recognized that translation is essential, not only in and of itself, but also on account of the fact that any form of critical interpretation is flawed without a proper understanding of the textual sources. A most striking example of such a case has recently been revealed in Davidson's work on classical Greece, which notes that Foucault's misunderstanding of the Greek terms katapugon and kinaidos resulted in his well-known interpretation of a phallocentric culture, as well as the attendant penetration-power schema that shaped his work on ethical systems and power relations. Foucault's views, based on his faulty Greek, still play a powerful role in all the disciplines of the academy. Thus, clearly, the need for accurate readings and translations is of paramount importance. It is with this goal in mind, and as grist for the discourse mill, that the following translation has been prepared.
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Brought together for the first time, these writings by visual artist and writer Yve Lomax are united by a common thread: they place writing itself--the written image--into the repertoire of visual art. The book both proposes and demonstrates this development. It also has a twofold purpose and function: it can be read and enjoyed as performance, often resembling poetry, thick with ideas, images and metaphors. It is also an original contribution to theoretical writing on the visual, particularly relating to the image and difference, celebrating and referring to the work of Michel Serres, Gilles Deleuze, Luce Irigaray and others in pursuit of its own strategy of introducing the written image into the theoretical text.
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Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology)
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Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge is the first full-scale biography of the trailblazing anthropologist of African and African American cultures. Born into a world of racial hierarchy, Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963) employed physical anthropology and ethnography to undermine racist and hierarchical ways of thinking about humanity and to underscore the value of cultural diversity. His research in West Africa, the West Indies, and South America documented the far-reaching influence of African cultures in the Americas. He founded the first major interdisciplinary American program in African studies in 1948 at Northwestern University, and his controversial classic The Myth of the Negro Past delineated African cultural influences on American blacks and showcased the vibrancy of African American culture. He also helped forge the concept of cultural relativism, particularly in his book Man and His Works. While Herskovits promoted African and African American studies, he criticized some activist black scholars, most notably Carter G. Woodson and W. E. B. Du Bois, whom he considered propagandists because of their social reform orientation. After World War II, Herskovits became an outspoken public figure, advocating African independence and attacking American policymakers who treated Africa as an object of Cold War strategy. Drawing extensively on Herskovits's private papers and published works, Jerry Gershenhorn's biography recognizes Herskovits's many contributions and discusses the complex consequences of his conclusions, methodologies, and relations with African American scholars. Jerry Gershenhorn is an assistant professor of history at North Carolina Central University.
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Follow The Money! .......2005-05-11
Every anthropologists knows who Mellvile J. Herskovits is- -right? When one lists Franz Boas' most influential students, he is the one sandwiched somewhere between Kroeber, Lowie, Benedict and Mead. Herskovits founded the anthropology department at Northwestern, helped to organize the African Studies Association (ASA), and conducted ethnographic research in Suriname to document African survivals in the New World. Oh, yeah, didn't he have a wife that helped him conduct fieldwork among the Maroons? For the majority of anthropologists, this is the biographic outline that comes to mind. Historian Jerry Gershenhorn's brilliant new book simply explodes this flat and uninformed sketch by offering a detailed and textured portrait of a complex and energetic scholar who almost single handedly developed an uniquely American anthropology of Africans, on both sides of the Atlantic.
Over the course of his career, he emerged as a particularly powerful figure in both anthropology and area studies, and while he was always shrewd, he never hesitated to publicly challenge or undermine such powerful figures as Gunnar Myrdal, E. Franklin Frazier, W. E. B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Gershenhorn frames his powerful and lucid intellectual biography by identifying specific tensions and particular contradictions that arise from
Herskovits's "embrace of cultural relativism, his attack on racial an cultural hierarchy, and his conceptualization of Negro studies" (p. 9).
Meticulously researched, Gershenhorn develops a captivating narrative divided up into seven long but well executed chapters that document the major twists and turns within Herskovits's career. Focusing on the racial politics of knowledge, Gershenhorn provides more than a description of Herskovits's past, he gives the reader the tools, for example, to reconcile Johnnetta B. Cole's belief that "Herskovits had a special place in his heart for African American students," and St. Clair Drake's statement that he "never attempted to recruit and train Afro-Americans" (p.198). Above all, Gershenhorn provides answers and much needed context to better understand why the legacy of Herskovits remains so ambivalent within African American studies, ambiguous within anthropology, yet so well defined in African Studies.
From the beginning of his career to the end, Herskovits's research agenda was set and shaped by the funding he could secure. Gershenhorn is at his best when he describes the tug of war between the research Herksovits wanted to pursue and the research he was forced to produce for the National Research Council, the Social Science Research Council, and the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations- -the major sources of his funds. For example, in 1923, Herskovits' first major research project was an assessment of "physical and psychological variability within a racially mixed population" of Negroes in Harlem. It was funded by the NRC, despite the fact he "never even took an anthropometry class at Columbia" (p. 29).
Gershenhorn's most valuable contribution to the study of the history of anthropology involves his careful and creative description of the complicated debate over black culture, and the role of so-called "African survivals." After Melville and Frances completed two trips to Surinam, he wrote a "major interpretive essay in which he argued that African cultural influence extended throughout the Americas" (p.77). This was the first in a series of books and articles that pitted the well-meaning cultural relativist against established sociologists like E. Franklin Frazier who "throughout his career . . . rejected the influence of African culture on American blacks" (p.101).
It also pitted him against funding agencies that consistently supported research which focused on U.S. race relations, not black people's culture. By following Herskovits's career, and the money that churned in its wake, one comes away with a stunning realization that both the foundations as well as AAA leadership made it clear that there was little interest in developing Negro anthropology in the Americas, while there was a compelling interest to develop anthropological research in Africa, especially in the context of the Cold War and the rise of area studies.
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Title: Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge.(Book Review)
Author: Vernon J., Jr. Williams
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Date: June 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 90
Issue: 3
Page: 328(3)
Article Type: Book Review
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