Golgi Atlas Of The Postnatal Mouse Brain

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The Atlas provides a complete overview of all major structures of the mouse brain that can be identified in Golgi preparations. The most important feature is its three-dimensional integrity since all structures and nerve tracts can be followed from one section to the next one with uninterrupted continuity. The Golgi Atlas presents a series of camera lucida drawings of the entire telencephalon and upper brain stem of the young postnatal mouse in 24 transverse, 11 sagittal and 15 horizontal planes. The drawings were prepared from selected brains stained in toto with the Golgi method, that have been serially sectioned in the three orthogonal planes. The text includes an introduction of the material and methods used for the construction of this Atlas and a survey with a complete bibliography on the previous studies made with the Golgi method in Rodents. In this account, a number of issues concerning particular anatomical details are considered in relation to the interpretations obtained by other students. Reference is made to some relevant reviews and key articles.

Golgi Atlas of the Postnatal Mouse Brain

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Golgi Atlas of the Postnatal Mouse Brain
Facundo Valverde
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBUF66

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Who but Rick Steves can tell you the best way to see St. Peter's Basilica, the Sistine Chapel, and the Colosseum? With Rick Steves' Rome 2005, you can experience the best of everything Rome has to offer-economically and hassle-free. Completely revised and updated, Rick Steves' Rome 2005 includes color maps and photos, opinionated coverage of both famous and lesser-known sights; friendly places to eat and sleep; suggested day plans; walking tours and trip itineraries; clear instructions for smooth travel anywhere by car, train, or foot; and Rick's newest "back door" discoveries. America's number one authority on travel to Europe, Rick's time-tested recommendations for safe and enjoyable travel in Rome have been used by millions of Americans in search of their own unique travel experience.

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Great for touristy stuff but short on history and background.......2005-11-02

Just back from a week in Rome and the subject says it all; Rick's Rome 2005 has great tips for avoiding lines, finding great restaurants, the value of the money belt, the value of the metro pass and many other tips for travelers. I can't recommend the book enough for these things. Avoiding the line at the Colosseum is worth the price of the book alone. However, for someone who has traveled to Rome dozens of times, Rick is either clueless or careless about ancient Roman history as is evident in the book and his Roman travel shows; almost every entry has glaring History 101 errors. I suppose for a casual tourist it may not matter what they are looking at but if you care AT ALL about the sites you'll need more than this book. More on that at the end.

Between this book and all of Rick's shows, my wife and I were prepared for the touristy stuff of Rome. Cutting through the tour group exit in the Sistine Chapel was a great hint!! A woman with a baby attempted to pick my pocket on the subway, she was right out of Rick's book. All but a few Euros were safely tucked away in my money belt. She didn't even get the money in my pocket! Thanks Rick!!

However, I can't stress enough though that for history of the city and sites you will see that you must bring another book such as the Oxford Archaeological Guide to Rome if you wish to get ANY historical value out of seeing the sites. Rick has great touristy tips but is not well versed in ancient Roman history and in fact seems to have distaste for it. The book is rife with specific errors and general stereotypes. To him, to quote his shows, Rome was "chariots, gladiators...and persecutions," none of which are particularly important when looking at Roman history, though the games were somewhat important for keeping the masses in the city of Rome itself happy.

Examples of errors in the book:

1. Most egregious specific error: the explanation of SPQR. As most of you probably know, it means Senatus Populusque Romanus: the Senate and People of Rome. Rick says it is Senatus Publicus Q Romanus. Yikes! All one has to do is look up at the inscription on the Arch of Titus in the forum to get this right, or at some of the tee-shirts for sale around Rome.

2. His discussion of the Colosseum/Flavian Amphitheater makes it seem bloodier than it was. Most fights between gladiators did not end in death as gladiators were an investment, one did not kill them off recklessly. Fights that ended in death were anywhere from 5% to 50% of fights, depending on whose estimate one takes. Most historians estimate around 10 percent of fights ended in death.

2. The discussion of the forum is a bare sketch of what you will see when there. He refers to gleaming white marble buildings one would have seen but all the buildings would have been colorfully painted, just like statues were painted. There are dozens of things to learn about in the forum, not just the 15 items he mentions.

3. Brutus was NOT Julius Caesar's adopted son, which Rick says twice.

4. Senators were not elected, as he claims, though some positions they might hold were elected.

5. His description of religion in ancient Rome as stale and empty is out of an outdated 19th century textbook. It was neither stale nor empty spiritually and fell to monotheism only at the point of a sword, not the word. He refers several times to the jubilant heady times when Christianity was legalized and some of the older churches one will see could be openly built. They may have been jubilant, heady times to the Christians but to the Romans, 95+% of whom remained traditional or "pagan" in their religion, those were confusing, troubling, even terrifying times as their ancestral ways were attacked, individuals were persecuted and often killed for following them and their temples destroyed or converted to other uses. Their world was falling apart, being destroyed, and for little purpose that they could see.

In this vein, Rick's distaste for the Romans' history and their ancestral religion shows when he refers to a statue of Minerva as "It's big, it's gaudy, it's a weird goddess from a pagan cult." Elsewhere referring to a Mithraeum below San Clemente that "there is nowhere better to experience this weird cult." Such editorial comments and others cannot help get readers interested in this subjects. One might as well alternatively say, "it's massive, it's tacky, St. Peter's Basilica is a poor substitute for the ancient buildings its stones were stolen from." Such a statement would be no better in a guidebook but his comment is the equivalent.

Speaking of religion, Rick uses the old term Counter-Reformation throughout his book, whereas it is generally called the Catholic Reformation today.

6. While the Pantheon is called the "pantheon" or temple to all the Gods as Rick says, no one really knows what the building was used for, whether a temple, part of a public bath, or some other ceremonial use.

7. Constant reference in the book to emperors worshipped as Gods on earth. In Rome, the emperors were not worshipped during their lifetime, this occurred only in the provinces, mostly in the East. The Romans traditionally found such practices distasteful; they saw the emperor often and knew he was just a man and died as easily as any other man. Some emperors were deified after death though but that is a far cry from being worshipped while alive.

7. In S. Giovanni Laterano (St. John Lateran) the statue in the atrium is not Constantine as Rick says but Constantius II, his son. Also, the bronze columns inside did not come from the temple of Jupiter but from public law basilicas. No one knows specifically from what buildings. Rick can't be entirely blamed, the labels in the church say it is Constantine but if he did a few minutes research he would see it isn't true. This is where a book like the Oxford Archeological Guide comes in handy.

8. The stadium or stadio on the Palatine was not a stadium or "rec room" as such but a garden for the emperors shaped like a stadium.

So, in closing, bring this book to Rome and never forget it in your hotel room, it is invaluable for navigating the tourist traps but also bring another book for historical info.

Excellent guidebook.......2005-09-14

This guidebook is excellent, exactly what is expected from a Steve Ricks guidebook.

THE Guide to Take .......2005-09-09

I planned a three week trip to Europe and could not have done it without Rick Steve's guide books. I completely, without any reservation, reccommend this book to anyone going to Rome. It helped me prioritize my time and orient myself to Rome. Along with Rome, I also bought Venice, London, and Paris. All were equally fantastic. The guide books were great in terms of which sights are a must and which are not, what restaurants were good, where to stay, local transportation, and little hints here and there. The two cities for which I did not have Rick's guide books weren't as successful.

Great Resosurce!.......2005-08-04

Rick Steves' books, as his shows, are great resources to consider when traveling abroad. This guide was no exception.

Good...until you get hungry.......2005-05-18

I'm generally a fan of the Rick Steves guidebooks, and I have been ever since his Paris 2004 book helped me survive my very first trip to France. So naturally, when I booked my trip to Rome, the current Rick Steves guide was a must-buy.

And it contains the usual Rick Steves pluses: he explains how to ride public transportation, how to deal with traffic, and some other basic things that you don't consider until you are actually in a foreign country and faced with using an ATM machine in Italian, etc. He also includes several good, long walks that cover the major sights you want to see in Rome, as well as guided tours of museums and monuments.

But the Rome book, in particular, was especially weak when it came to recommending restaurants. In the Via Firenze neighborhood, which he trumpets as being the area where he usually stays, his recommended restaurants include McDonalds and an Irish pub. More often than not, the recommended restaurants have bizarre operating hours that make it inconvenient for travellers. Worst of all, when you do go to a recommended restaurant, you are seated among a dozen other Rick Steves-toting Americans.

I still believe that Rick Steves handles the practicalities of travel better than any other travel guide series, but to truly enjoy Rome, make sure you also buy a good restaurant guide so that you can enjoy the many culinary delights that Rome has to offer (i.e. not Big Macs and Guiness!).

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The advice in this book is useful for many types of grant applications, business plans, journal articles, and research reports.

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Over 280 graceful motifs selected from rare sources. Sensuous Art Nouveau motifs, Victorian floral and foliate designs, geometrics, scrollwork, ribbonlike swirls, pictorial borders and more. Inexpensive and royalty-free, these convenient devices are ideal for enclosing and enhancing small advertisements, labels, catalog copy and more.

Ready-to-Use Old-Fashioned Frames and Borders (Dover Clip Art)

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Ready-to-Use Old-Fashioned Frames and Borders (Dover Clip Art)
Carol Belanger Grafton
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486254623

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96 decorative frames, borders. Ornate squares, rectangles, ovals in varied sizes—embellished with elegant floral, foliate motifs.

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A comprehensive guide covering the legal responsibilities of owning a horse from the boarding agreement to accidents. A must read for everyone that owns or works with horses.

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Very eye opening!.......2006-01-02

This book really opened our eyes about equine liability. We are at the beginning of a long road to building an equestrian facility and this book really helped us get on the right path as far as liability goes. I would recommend this book to ANY horse owner, whether you have a business or just a backyard horse.

An absolute "must-read" for all horse owners.......2003-04-19

Compiled and written by attorney and "backyard horseman" James Clark-Dawe, Equine Liability: What Every Horse Owner Needs To Know deftly addresses legal issues that every horse owner should have a solid grounding in, ranging from the necessity of fencing to avoid problems with loose horses, to a scrutiny of equine liability acts adopted by some states, to practical safety advice for horse riders, to warnings of what horse owners are strictly liable for. Equine Liability is an absolute "must-read" for all horse owners in today's litigious society.

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Name That Clock!.......2000-10-07

Great pictures. Pricing out-dated, but gives you a feel for the relative prices and which clocks are truly "rare." Brief histories of the great American clockmakers. A must for any serious clock collector, especially a beginer.

clocks galore!.......2000-06-07

With an extensive listing of every well known American clock maker, as well as a plethora of information about even the most arcane of manufacturers, this invaluable book repays its readers many times over! Comparative market pricing coupled with historical and little known facts make this a must-have for anyone with even a smidgen of curiosity about clocks. Well organized and easy to read, comprehensive and simple to get around, this book offers thousands of examples of clock and clock makers, and will satisfy the bent for precision and efficiency of even the most avid clock enthusiast.

clocks galore!.......2000-06-07

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American Clocks and Clockmakers
C. W. Dreppard
Manufacturer: Charles T Branford
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0823130010

American clockmakers & watchmakers (American clocks)

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American clockmakers & watchmakers (American clocks)
Sonya L Spittler
Manufacturer: Arlington Book Co., Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 0930163729

American Clocks & Clockmakers Enl Edition

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American Clocks & Clockmakers Enl Edition
Carl W Drepperd
Manufacturer: BRANFORD, CHARLES T CO
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000QA7NL8

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American clocks and clockmakers
Carl William Drepperd
Manufacturer: DoubleDay
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007DZEQA

American Clocks and Clockmakers Enlarged Edition

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American Clocks and Clockmakers Enlarged Edition
Carl W. Drepperd
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ASIN: B000MZTMN4

Pennsylvania Clocks and Clockmakers - An Epic of Early American Science, Industr

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Pennsylvania Clocks and Clockmakers - An Epic of Early American Science, Industr
George H. Eckhardt
Manufacturer: Bonanza Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LEFVQ8

Pennsylvania Clocks and Clockmakers - An Epic of Early American Science, Industry and Craftsmanship

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Pennsylvania Clocks and Clockmakers - An Epic of Early American Science, Industry and Craftsmanship
George H. Eckhardt
Manufacturer: Bonanza Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000AW4AK4

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This present volume, the first to be devoted solely to the Pennsylvania Clock, represents a century of research: 25 years on the part of the author, who is the recognized authority in this field, and seventy-five on the part of the old clockmaker, B. T. Schmauk, who inspired it.

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Pennsylvania clocks and clockmakers; an epic of early American science, industry, and craftsmanship
George H. Eckhardt
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Gardening Through the Year

I learned to garden with Jim Crockett

Too Much Bug Spray

STEP BY STEP GARDENING PERFECTION

EASILY THE BEST GARDENING BOOK EVER!

Crockett's Victory Garden
James Underwood Crockett
Manufacturer: Little Brown and Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0316161217

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Gardening Through the Year.......2006-01-16

This guide covers month by month the basic tasks for your flower and vegetable garden. You get advice on composting, growing vegetables in containers, natualizing bulbs, transplanting, and perennial borders. The book includes questions and answers from the author's PBS television show.
Amply illustrated with color photos and drawings, the book is useful for beginners and more advanced gardeners.

I learned to garden with Jim Crockett.......2005-05-20

I have a warm spot in my heart for this book, and will keep it forever. I learned to garden on PBS with this sweet, gentle man, and I will forever be thankful that he taught me the magic of making things grow.
Yes, it's dated, and I don't use as much insecticide and such as he did, but the basics are all here, and he was such a wonderful teacher.

Too Much Bug Spray.......2004-07-06

Victory Garden is a beautiful book but was written before we became more conscientious about pesticides. I would buy a newer version (New Victory Garden).

STEP BY STEP GARDENING PERFECTION.......2004-02-14

CROCKETT'S VICTORY GARDEN is the only gardening book you'll ever need. End of statement. PERIOD!

Month by month, James Underwood Crockett provides a precise overview of your gardening activities for the entire year. Monthly chapters provide details for all your gardening activities that month. Detailed sections within each month's chapter give details for what you need to do.

This book covers everything and includes an indespensable gardening tool: a planting calendar that allows you to customize your gardening schedule depending on where you live.

Get the book and your off green thumbing!

THE HORSEMAN

EASILY THE BEST GARDENING BOOK EVER!.......2004-02-05

CROCKETT'S VICTORY GARDEN is the first and last gardening book you need buy. It is really that simple. Whether you are a novice or an experienced green-thumb this book is the only gardening guide you need in your library.

Divided into chapters by month, James Underwood Crockett provides a comprehensive overview of gardening activities the year round. Each chapter head offers a quick overview of each item in the garden needing attention that month. Subheads give complete details as to how to proceed.

Additionally, Crockett offers helpful hints regarding everything from composting to cultivating and from terrariums to trellises. He even provides a comprehensive planting calendar that allows the reader to customize his schedule depending on where he lives in the country.

If you ever get a chance to watch the old PBS program of which the book was a companion I highly recommend it. So, happy gardening for this year and for the future.

Douglas McAllister

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Crokett's Victory Garden
james Underwood Crockett
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000LZDA7E

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James Underwood Crockett
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Binding: Paperback
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Crockett's Victory Garden
James Underwood Crockett
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Crockett's Victory Garden
James Underwood Crockett
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Crocketts Victory Garden Companion To
James Unde Crockett
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PX71L8

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Crocketts Victory Garden

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James Underwood Crockett
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James Underwood Crockett; Photographer Lee Lockwood
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James Underwood Crocket
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Any homeowner is faced with a set of decisions when it comes to home repairs and renovations. There are those renovations one does purely to satisfy personal taste and desires--and these can be value-enhancing for the home--and then there are those renovations and enhancements that are almost guaranteed to increase the sale value of a property. Dan Lieberman zeros in on the latter. With people moving and selling their homes as frequently as they do these days, making improvements to enhance the potential resale value of your home is smart and prudent. This new, revised edition covers financing renovations, dealing with contractors and subcontractors, estimating remodeling costs, avoiding common and costly mistakes, creating warmth and comfort in the home, enhancing buyer demand for your home, and significant improvements you can accomplish yourself throughout your home at minimum cost for maximum return at sale time. --Mark A. Hetts

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"The best book on this topic."

—Robert J. Bruss, syndicated real estate columnist

"For the countless thousands who may be pondering whether to renovate their own home, this book is an excellent place to start."

—San Francisco Chronicle

Would you like to double or even quadruple the market value of your home? Then renovating could be the wisest investment decision you make. Whether you own or rent, smart renovating can substantially improve your property's value—profit you can collect at the time of sale.

Now, in the most comprehensive work of its kind, Dan Lieberman, a highly successful professional home renovator and instructor, shows you how to remodel your home for maximum impact at minimum cost. Whether you hire a general contractor or handle the renovation yourself, you'll find invaluable help from Leiberman's "insider secrets," such as:

• Where to find financing for your renovation
• How to deal with subcontractors
• What methods can help you accurately estimate remodeling costs
• How you can avoid costly mistakes
• How to create feelings of warmth and spaciousness in your home
• How to create buyer demand for your home
• What you can do to improve each part of your house
• And much, much more!

If you are considering improving your real estate, owning this book may be the wisest and most profitable first step to take.

Customer Reviews:

Are Home Improvements Worth the Effort?.......2006-02-21

This is a good book to acquaint the reader with some of the important factors to consider when deciding whether or not to renovate one's property. There's no doubt that renovations do payoff in the long run and, in many cases, renovations are essential if you want to sell your house. From talking to real estate professionals, I have learned that one of the most critical selling points is whether or not the rooms in a house have been updated and look modern. If your rooms are outdated, you may be forced to accept a lower offer from prospective buyers. When I bought my current property, the basement was finished, but the walls were covered with dark paneling and the walls of the basement stairway were painted brick red! It was quite ugly, and I knew I would want to make improvements, so I lowered the amount of my bid to compensate for the cost I would have to incur to refinish the basement. This is the type of material covered in this book. It is all about making your home look as up to date as possible in order to maximize its value.

There's a section of pictures, in color, in the middle of the book illustrating what rooms looked like before and after renovations were made. These pictures do a good job showing just how much difference a little work can make.

This is a good, practical book, but it's also a bit mundane and boring. It's really a reference book, and not something that most individuals would want to pick up and read, from cover to cover. You won't find inspiration here, or anything earth- shattering or unique. It's just a reference guide for those who are thinking about making some renovations to their home.

If you need to sell your house soon, and you've got some work to do before placing your home on the market, then this book could provide you with the answers and advice that you need. It's not the best book I've ever read on this subject, but it's a good place to start.

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Great read on type.......2007-01-02

This is one of those books that every designer should have read and probably own. It contains a lot of useful information including history, theory, application, a lot of examples, and a fair share of philosophical food for thought.

I would recommend it as a great addition to any design library, and for students as a follow up to a basic book on type.

Wonderful Book on Type .......2005-06-09

Hands down, without a doubt, this is the BEST book on typography that I have ever read.

From the history of type to page layout, this book is a thorough reference in a little more than 200 pages.

Pictures accommodate every page, yet there is a TON of substance to read if you're interested.

I would recommend this book to anybody interested in graphic design and page layout (this applies to web design as well).

Great book!

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Black Girl from Tannery Flats, the first book written by Thelma V. Reed,

is an especially important memoir because Thelma V. Reed tells what

ordinary black people had to go through in the early part of the

twentieth century. Their triumphs and tragedies.

Henry Louis Gates, Chair of the Department of African and African

American Studies at Harvard University, comments: "Thelma V. Reed has

lived through a lot, and we are fortunate that she has chosen to share

her stories of pre-Civil Rights Southern girlhood, wartime and post-war

work and family life in the North, and her inspiring emotional and

spiritual journey in this vivid and gripping memoir…. Black Girl from

Tannery Flats will stay with you, whether you are a scholar of

twentieth century African American history or a student of life itself."

Cecil Brown, author of Stagolee Shot Billy (Harvard University Press,

2003) comments: "Thelma V. Reed employs a narrative style that has all

but disappeared from African-American literature. This is how it

sounded before the arrival of television, when the young people

gathered around the Southern fires and listened to their elders tell

their histories."

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"Fascinating...." Henry Louis Gates, Jr........2003-12-15

"Thelma V. Reed has lived through a lot, and we are fortunate that she has chosen to share her stories of pre-Civil Rights Southern girlhood, wartime and post-war work and family life in the North, and her inspiring emotional and spiritual journey in this vivid and gripping memoir. Mrs. Reed is part of a long line of African American storytellers, and you are not reading so much as listening to stories gleaned from sometimes painful but always rich experience. "Black Girl from Tannery Flats" will stay with you, whether you are a scholar of twentieth-century African American history or a student of life itself."

Cecil Brown, author of "Stagolee Shot Billy" (Harvard University Press) says: "In "Black Girl From Tannery Flats," Thelma V. Reed employs a narrative that has all but disappeared from African-american literature. This is how it sounded before the arrival of television, when the young people gathered around the Southern fires and listened to their elders tell their histories."

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