Endophytic Fungi in Grasses and Woody Plants: Systematics, Ecology and Evolution

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Many scientific terms that are being used are derived from Latin and Greek words. Prof. H.T. Clifford spent eight years doing research after the etymology of all the terms used for naming grasses. The result is an elaborate interactive glossary of more than 13,000 terms and their explanations. A multimedia introduction section explains about general rules of taxonomy and naming these organisms that are so important for agriculture. ETI's computer software assists in quickly finding your way to names and explanations. A must for both experts and students.

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Grass Systematics
Frank W. Gould , and Robert B. Shaw
Manufacturer: Texas a & M Univ Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Taxonomic Classification | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 089096145X

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GRASS SYSTEMATICS & EVOL
SODERSTROM THOMAS R
Manufacturer: Smithsonian
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0874743001

Grasses & Grasslands Systematics & Ecolo

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Grasses & Grasslands Systematics & Ecolo
James Estes
Manufacturer: UNIV OF OK + PRESS
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000TXGRT6

Grasses and grasslands: Systematics and ecology

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Grasses and grasslands: Systematics and ecology
James R. Estes
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Grasses: Systematics and Evolution
J. [Eds.] Everett
Manufacturer: CSIRO Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Grasses: Systematics and Evolution presents leading work from around the world on grasses and includes reviews and current research into their comparative biology, phylogeny and classification. The papers are based on presentations at the Third International Symposium on Grass Systematics and Evolution, (part of Monocots II) held in Sydney, Australia in late 1998, but many have been updated or extended to take into account new information. All papers have been peer-reviewed.

A companion volume Monocots: Systematics and Evolution is available. It is a similar selection of papers from the Second International Conference on the Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons, also part of Monocots II.

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A patch-dynamics approach to savanna dynamics and woody plant encroachment - Insights from an arid savanna [An article from: Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics]
K. Wiegand , D. Saltz , and D. Ward
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000RR8896

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This digital document is a journal article from Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The coexistence of woody and grassy plants in savannas has often been attributed to a rooting-niche separation (two-layer hypothesis). Water was assumed to be the limiting resource for both growth forms and grasses were assumed to extract water from the upper soil layer and trees and bushes from the lower layers. Woody plant encroachment (i.e. an increase in density of woody plants often unpalatable to domestic livestock) is a serious problem in many savannas and is believed to be the result of overgrazing in 'two-layer systems'. Recent research has questioned the universality of both the two-layer hypothesis and the hypothesis that overgrazing is the cause of woody plant encroachment. We present an alternative hypothesis explaining both tree-grass coexistence and woody plant encroachment in arid savannas. We propose that woody plant encroachment is part of a cyclical succession between open savanna and woody dominance and is driven by two factors: rainfall that is highly variable in space and time, and inter-tree competition. In this case, savanna landscapes are composed of many patches (a few hectares in size) in different states of transition between grassy and woody dominance, i.e. we hypothesize that arid savannas are patch-dynamic systems. We summarize patterns of tree distribution observed in an arid savanna in Namibia and show that these patterns are in agreement with the patch-dynamic savanna hypothesis. We discuss the applicability of this hypothesis to fire-dominated savannas, in which rainfall variability is low and fire drives spatial heterogeneity. We conclude that field studies are more likely to contribute to a general understanding of tree-grass coexistence and woody plant encroachment if they consider both primary (rain and nutrients) and secondary (fire and grazing) determinants of patch properties across different savannas.

Catalogo De La Familia Poaceace En La Republica Argentina (Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden)

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Catalogo De La Familia Poaceace En La Republica Argentina (Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden)
F.O. Zuloaga , and et al
Manufacturer: L.O.L.A. (Literature of Latin America)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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GRASS. SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION [GG]
T. et al. (eds.) Soderstrom
Manufacturer: Smithsonian Institution
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000WPKVR0

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INTRODUCTION

Less than a decade ago, Laos was more or less unknown to Western travellers. Other than a brief period during the 1960s, when the diminutive Buddhist kingdom became a player in the Vietnam War, it has remained a backwater in tourist terms - a situation that only intensified after the 1975 revolution and the years of the xenophobic communist government that ensued, when the former French colony was largely forgotten about, at least by the West. However, when the Lao People's Democratic Republic reluctantly reopened its doors to the outside world in the 1990s, after its major source of aid dried up with the collapse of the Soviet Union, a trickle of visitors braved the travel restrictions and exorbitant visa costs to have a look. What they found was a poverty-stricken country stunted by war and politics and still doing things the old-fashioned way. The mighty Mekong and its tributaries were still the principal conduits for trade, and, for much of the population, a pair of legs was the chief means of transport. Only a handful of provinces were wired for electricity, and Vientiane, the capital, was a sleepy town of tree-lined avenues, decaying French villas and a surviving opium den or two. Tourist infrastructure was almost nonexistent, and the very inadequacies that made travel in Laos unique were also causes of exasperation.

In the past few years, however, Laos has become much more accessible. Visa prices have come down and restrictions on travel have been all but lifted. In the major towns and cities there is good-value accommodation and a surprisingly diverse array of cuisines on offer. Conditions in the countryside, however, remain primitive and challenging, but travellers willing to brave difficult roads and basic, candlelit accommodation will be rewarded with sights of a landscape and peoples not much changed from those that greeted French explorers a century ago.

Laos's life-line is the Mekong River, which runs the length of the landlocked country, at times bisecting it and at others serving as a boundary with Thailand. The rugged Annamite Mountains also run much of the country's length and historically have acted as a buffer against Vietnam, with which Laos shares its eastern border. Much of Laos is forested, and, despite the ongoing use of the slash-and-burn technique of agriculture, there are still considerable tracts of dense forest inhabited by myriad animal species. Tigers and other majestic cats, all but vanished from neighbouring countries, still stalk the hinterlands of Laos, and new species of large mammals are still being discovered, such as the deer-like soala or spindlehorn. There is even an endangered colony of rare freshwater dolphins inhabiting an isolated stretch of the Mekong.

For such a small country - its population is about five and a quarter million - Laos is surprisingly ethnically diverse. Colourfully dressed hilltribes populate the higher elevations, while in the lowland river valleys coconut palms sway over the Buddhist monasteries of the ethnic Lao. Laos also retains some of the French influence it absorbed during colonial days: the familiar smell of freshly baked bread and coffee mingles with exotic local aromas in morning markets. Economic reforms undertaken in the early Nineties gave the green light to Lao entrepreneurs, but recent economic woes - a plummeting currency and subsequent inflation - have hamstrung the fledgling capitalists. The future is unclear, as the revolutionary old-guard remains firmly at the helm but with little idea of which course to steer. For the visitor using US dollars, there are quite good bargains to be had, and while accommodation and modes of transport are often very basic, they give visitors ample opportunity to rub shoulders with the people of Laos: a gentle and fun-loving folk whose patience and resilience continue to help them weather tough times.

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This is where it's at, for Laos guidebooks.......2002-03-09

None of the guides to Laos are perfect. This one was at least helpful and the writing tolerable. That's all you can ask, apparently. It doesn't matter, though. If you make it to Luangphabang and stay for a while I don't think you'll care which guidebook was "best". You'll be too busy enjoying one of the most beautiful, romantic cities I've ever had the joy of setting foot in. If you're French visit the Dao Fe creperie, if you speak English, try to find the owner of the Duang Champa, and whatever you do, wherever you go, learn a little Lao so you can talk to people in their own language, like a proper human being. You can get away with speaking English in Vientiane and Luangphabang, but it's rude; in the villages they aren't going to be very interested in what you have to say if you can't at least speak a little Lao. So your choice of guidebook will quickly become an afterthought once the first few days have passed.

Excellent Book.......2002-01-13

I traveled to Laos in January, 2002 and found that the Rough Guide to Laos enhanced my experience tremendously. The writing is much more thorough and intelligent than Lonely Planet's guidebook for Laos. About 95% of independent travelers depend on the Lonely Planet book, but I think Rough Guide does a much better job. Laos is changing quickly so there are oftentimes many additional restaurants and hotels in a town that were not around when the book was researched, but that is not a major problem. I highly recommend this book.

Excellent guide book and an even better read.......2000-06-08

Unlike another reviewer, I did not have to benefit of travelling to Laos with the authors. But after reading this guide book, I felt as if I knew them, like they were old friends who were jotting down their travel notes to help me on my journey. By halfway through the book, i felt i could read between the lines to tell the good from the better, the bad from the horrible. As someone who generally hates guide books, I can honestly say, this one is all good. I only wish i could someday travel to Laos with Jeff Cranmer and Steven Martin. Such a fascinating read clearly could only come from fascinating people.

great job with a tough subject.......2000-03-27

I never appreciated how difficult it must be to write a travel guide until I spent a week with the authors in southern Laos. Unlike the north, which has several bonafide tourist destinations, the south is still largely untraveled. A 50-mile trip between two provincial capitals took us more than four hours, packed into a "bus" (essentially a covered truck with wooden benches installed in the payload) in the dusty heat of the hot season. And at the end of the road, we found towns with no accommodation save the local government guest house, where the only "history" in evidence was the one stone wall remaining from the US bombing or the craters still lining the avenues.

But despite the hardships and the apparent lack of organized tourism, I would definitely go back again if I had the chance. Something unique about Laos - the scenery, the food, especially the people - gets under your skin.

This is where the authors achieve their greatest success, in their ability to communicate what is special about this amazing, but often overlooked, country. The Rough Guide's signature style, which tends to include social, cultural and historical information throughout (rather than just tucking a few pages into the introductory section) is of particular benefit here. The result is so much more than a bland recitation of towns, distances, modes of transport and places to stay.

This book definitely rekindled my desire to go back to Laos. And when I do, I know what I'll be using as my guide.

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Real period piece.......2004-09-17

Frank Smith from the Mississippi Delta has to be one of the more unusual Mississippi politicians. His liberal philosiphy as a Congressman in the 50's put him slightly to the left of mainstream America, but on another planet from his fellow Mississippians at the time. Such a person makes an excellent subject of a biography. Smith was definitely a major player during memorable times in Mississippi.

I didn't finish the book. At about the half way point I became overwhelmed with the author's unstinting effort to compile in excruciating chronological order everything and everybody who entered into Smith's carrer. The book is excellent as a kind of "book of record" of what was happenning in Mississippi at the time, both the good things and the many bad things. However, it isn't a very enjoyable read.

Excellent job!!.......2004-05-06

This was an excellent job of showing how through all of the racial differences and confrontations there wwa still a person, in MS, with power trying to change things for the better of man kind. A great book for anyone to read. Dr. Mitchell did an wonderful job of showing this man without beings biased due to there friendship. Great work!!

A man with unbelieveable character.......2001-08-25

Frank Smith was truly a man with ideas before his time! He fought and sacrificed to ensure everyone had the same rights that are guaranteed all under our Constitution. This was unheard of in the segregated South in the '50 and '60s. "Mississippi Liberal" is an excellent history of the Mississippi Delta and the environment that shaped the ideas and life of the Congressman from Mississippi--Frank E. Smith. A man who worked hard to make a difference for all races... and he did! A very comprehensive work by Dr. Dennis J. Mitchell--A superb job!

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Anxiety is not an easily-roused condition in the North American Indian. The feast began, despite the absence of our waif; and the waif's mother set to work with undiminished appetite. Meanwhile the waif himself went farther and farther astray--swayed alternately by the spirit of the stoic and the spirit of the little child. But little Poosk was made of sterling stuff, and the two spirits had a hard battle in him for the mastery that wintry afternoon. His chase of the rabbit was brought to an abrupt conclusion by a twig which caught one of his snow-shoes, tripped him up, and sent him headlong into the snow.

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Personal Reminiscences In Book Making: and Some Short Stories

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Personal Reminiscences In Book Making: and Some Short Stories
Robert Michael Ballantyne
Manufacturer: BiblioBazaar
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1434636852
Release Date: 2007-07-09

An author's adventures, or Personal reminiscences in book-making

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An author's adventures, or Personal reminiscences in book-making
R. M Ballantyne
Manufacturer: James Nisbet & Co. Limited
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006DJC7I

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Personal Reminiscences In Book Making
R.M. Ballantyne
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N7IKPW

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Gerbils are inquisitive, inexpensive pets that are particularly popular with young children. This guide will provide everything the new owner needs to care for pet gerbils, as well as insight into (and great photos of) the many varieties of gerbil available.

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It said they sleep at night!.......2005-02-12

I got this book from the library after my mouse died. I wanted a hamster but we got this too to see which one sounded best. I saw that this book says gerbils sleep at night. We decided to get gerbils. I got two named Acorn and Daisy.
But they do not sleep at night! They keep me awake when they are upstairs. I read another book and it said that gerbils like to stay up around midnight! I go to sleep at 11:00 on weekends and the gerbils wake me up.
This book was wrong about gerbils sleeping at night. I did like the pictures, though. I don't know if there is anything else that isn't true because I didn't read the whole book.

The best book for a gerbil owner!.......2001-05-24

This book so far I think si one of the best gerbil books I have read so far. The book is filled with detailed color photos and descriptions. The book also contains valuable gerbil care, housing, and other information which can be useful to ownersin times of need. This book is definately a must for every gernil owners out there. :)

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You must have it !.......2000-03-26

Miller's Antiques Price Guide Professional Handbook, its a treassure, i been collectible then since long time, and its the type of book what will teach you about antiques,a litle bit of history,good test,old fashionable living and decor, and if you are short of monney you will start apreciating your grany's decoration and learn what is really good ! By the way i have 2 volumes of Miller's Antiques Price professional Handbook 1994 in perfect conditions if you are intrested.

Miller's International Antiques Price Guide, 1994: American Edition

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Miller's International Antiques Price Guide, 1994: American Edition

Manufacturer: Studio
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Antiques & Collectibles | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0670851884

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The Mary Frances Garden Book: Adventures Among the Garden People
Jane E. Fryer
Manufacturer: Lacis Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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The Mary Frances Cook Book: Adventures Among the Kitchen People (Mary Frances)

Mary Frances Knitting & Crocheting Book

Mary Frances Sewing Book

The Mary Frances housekeeper, or, Adventures among the doll people

ASIN: 1891656015

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The Mary Frances garden book: Or, Adventures among the garden people
Jane Eayre Fryer
Manufacturer: J.C. Winston
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0008D4BHC

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Good How to Book

Good technical advice, but controversial style could be defeating or harmful for some

Great Resource!

Best Book in my Breastfeeding Collection

Informative but VERY repetative

The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning
Martha Sears , and William Sears
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two (Revised and Updated Edition)

The Birth Book: Everything You Need to Know to Have a Safe and Satisfying Birth (Sears Parenting Library)

The Attachment Parenting Book : A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby

The Pregnancy Book: Month-by-Month, Everything You Need to Know From America's Baby Experts

The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding: Seventh Revised Edition (La Leche League International Book)

ASIN: 0316779245

Book Description

From North Americas foremost baby and childcare experts, the newest addition to the bestselling Sears Parenting Librarythe new breastfeeding bible for nursing mothers. In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in breastfeeding. Yet first-time mothers often lack the support and the knowledge they need. Many of the available books fail to address the practical challenges that confront many women (especially women who work outside the home) when they choose to breastfeed. For these women, The Breastfeeding Book is a godsendwith comprehensive, reassuring, authoritative information on: how to get started, increasing your milk supply, breastfeeding in absentia, and making sure that your nursing baby gets the nutrition he/she needs. Taking a realistic, contemporary approach, the Searses bring an age-old practice completely up to date.

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Good How to Book.......2007-10-01

I read many breastfeeding books in preparation for the birth of my daughter. This one was okay. The actual how to's of breastfeeding were great. I could have done without the long chapter on the greatness of breastfeeding and ills of formula. I didn't find it very helpful for planning for my return to work and pumping. The short chapter on weaning was not very informative at all. Like another reader said it went into a lot of toddler nursing info and focused more on letting the baby lead weaning. It really won't help any mother who is trying to wean by her own choice.

Good technical advice, but controversial style could be defeating or harmful for some.......2007-09-24

Following the birth of my first child, I found this book incredibly helpful with technical questions regarding latch-on, the mechanics of milk supply and demand, etc. The book became an important reference for me, esp. during the first several months. Plus, I appreciated the scientific explanations of lactation, thus 4 stars.

The drawback of the book is that it promotes a style of parenting/breastfeeding which, in my opinion, may be simultaneously defeating for moms (physically and emotionally) and definitely not more beneficial for babies than a less "freeform" style. Many (including our pediatrician) argue that maintaining a flexible nursing schedule is actually better for the health of baby and mom than nursing every time baby cries. Mothering a newborn is stressful enough, but the Sears' parenting/breastfeeding style unneccessarily adds to the stress exponentially, in my opinion.

Overall, definitely worth the read.

Great Resource!.......2007-08-16

This has been one of the best resources for me. I'm a new mom and it's been great having a book to refer to if I can't get in touch with my Le Leche League leader. There is some repeat information if you already have The Baby Book as well, but I still think it's worth it to get this one. This would be a great gift for a mom to be. Good luck! It's worth all of the effort!

Best Book in my Breastfeeding Collection.......2007-06-20

I'm a 2nd time breastfeeding mom - currently nursing my 6 month old. In the early months of my pregnancy I found this book to be a great refresher - easy to read & full of great info. and tips. After I had my daughter, I kept coming back to this book as a reference point & I truly believe that this book has greatly helped me to be the confident breastfeeding mom that I am today.

I would recommend this book to any new mom who is considering breastfeeding or has already decided to breastfeed. It will be a great help. :) A great companion book that I would also recommend is the "New Mother's Guide to Breastfeeding" by the American Academy of Pediatrics

Informative but VERY repetative.......2007-06-02

I think this book is readable and user friendly, but much of the content in there is repeated over and over. I get the sense that with an excellent editor, it could have been pared down to at least half the size. That said, I found it to be very helpful-- and one of the best books I looked at on how to breastfeed an infant. Ideally, we'd not need books to learn how to breastfeed, but..... this is a good choice if you have no idea what breastfeeding is all about. It makes an excellent companion to the Sears' "The Baby Book," "The Pregnancy Book," and "The Birth Book." If you're thinking ever remotely of natural childbirth, "The Birth Book" is an absolute MUST.

The Breastfeeding Book : Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning

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The Breastfeeding Book : Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning
William Sears Martha Sears
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUG3J8

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The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning
Martha; Sears, William Sears
Manufacturer: Little Brown and Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUFZ8S

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Details Hale's long and close relationship with the famous comedian.

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Romantic and Sweet.......2007-08-05

This is a very beautiful memoir about Charlie Chaplin. Hale fell in love with Chaplin's tramp character, "Charlie." In her memory, it happened as a young girl when she first saw him at the movies, but one can suggest that it really happened when she co-starred with him in the "Gold Rush" in 1926. They had a close off-and-on romantic relationship for the next 17 years.
Hale wrote this in the 1960's, when she was in her 60's and had not talked to Chaplin for over two decades. Still, the pain and pleasure of her relationship with him seems quite fresh.
Unfortunately, she seems to be seeing the relationship through the prism of her Christian Science ideology. It is hard to say if she really loved "Charlie" the artist, but hated "Mr. Chaplin" the Hollywood businessman, as she insists. This might be a later interpretation that she imposed upon the relationship to suppress the very real contradictions that the relationship must have held for her. We should remember that she was in constant competition with hundreds of beautiful women for his affection and companionship. She desperately wanted to be special for him. The only thing that seems to have made her special was her love for Charlie the tramp character. One can say that Chaplin loved her for her love of Charlie.
She does give a fascinating dream account towards the end of the book in which she marries Chaplin and moves to a small village in Greece with him. Obviously, there, she would not have faced the terrible competition for his affection that she faced in Hollywood.
Heather Kiernan has done a wonderful job of editing this work into a narrative whole from what was apparently very choppy and incomplete manuscripts.

A Loving Tribute.......2005-10-10

This book is everything I expected it to be and more.

Too many books on famous faces are filled with stories of their sexual exploits. Too many of these books lose their credibility due to bad writing, unrealistic situations, and a tell-all attitude which cheapens the information presented. This book is not like that. It is classily put together like an old movie that never showed sex but smartly implied it. Hale does not blatantly throw her longtime love affair with Chaplin in the reader's face; she forces one to read between the lines and to still realize that there were barriers like marriage that she did not cross.

Along with stories about Chaplin, Hale reminisces on her life before and during stardom. She tells of winning a beauty contest that took her to Hollywood and meeting Chaplin on the street one day. She tells about filming The Gold Rush and her passionate love for Chaplin ever after.

More than anything else, though, this book gives its reader total insight into Chaplin as a man. He was tempestuously moody and difficult, yet insanely insightful. This all comes from a woman who knew him well for much of his life. So many books dismiss his personality to dissect his genius as a film maker but only glance at his behavior outside of that. This book looks into what Chaplin was like socially by a woman who was not only close to him, but is representative of the many women in the comic's life.

Miss Hale comes off as an annoying know-it-all bragging about Chaplin having an attraction to her during The Gold Rush in the Unknown Chaplin series. However, reading this book gives a whole new perspective on her. It helps one to understand that she was not bragging about Chaplin's affections; she was simply reveling in a tiny glimpse of hope that he might feel even a fraction of the love she felt for him. This is an honest, emotional account.

Totally misleading title.......2004-09-22

From the title of the book, one would expect intimate (i.e., sexual) tid-bits to be explored in this book. Forget it, Georgia Hale was almost without doubt Chaplin's mistress for several years but this prudish, virginal woman inexplicably chose to present herself as a chaste, untouched maiden, all the while living in Charlie's Summit Drive estate in Hollywood. Georgia Hale was Charlie's co-star in his immortal 1925 film "The Gold Rush;" she was discovered by Chaplin and she owned her entire career to him. She also fell madly in love with him but claims that she held off sleeping with him because of his (miserably unhappy) second marriage to Lita Grey. Her morality supposedly prevented her from taking the plunge with the Little Tramp. Yeah, right.

Georgia writes poorly, wanders all over the place in her style and tells the reader very little about Charlie besides the fact he was moody, brilliant, beautiful, sexy, maddening and immature. Oh yes, let's toss in genius to the mix, but we already knew all of that. Hale was in a unique position of revealing much about Charlie during a pivotal period in his life; she was undeniably close to him and he trusted her and treated her better than he treated many of his other paramours. But she muddies the water with an insipid and irritating style and the absolute crusher is the final chapter. It's an idiotic dream sequence which goes on forever and is both banal and bizarre.

The most interesting story in the entire book is when she briefly reunites with Charlie at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1972. Oona leaves the room and Chaplin asks her, "Have you ever married?" Even after 40 years, Georgia is still hopelessly besotted with Charlie and breathlessly intones, "After you, Charlie, no man could compare." Naturally Chaplin adores this line and showers her with kisses. One senses this was Georgia Hale's greatest moment since Charlie threw her over in the early 30's.

In short, a poorly written book, a tome of missed opportunities. Oh, what could have been!

Intimate Close-ups: Charlie Chaplin.......2000-04-11

I'm a huge fan of Charlie Chaplin's and I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Georgia Hale was a "hidden" love of his and this book gave me a lot of new info on him. If you like Charlie Chaplin and want to learn about another part of his life, this is the book to read.

Georgia Gets Her Man- For A Time.......2000-02-01

I am a big Chaplin fan, so I try and read whatever I can get my hands on. Georgia Hale was Charlie's leading lady for The Gold Rush, and unbeknownst to me, one of his major loves off-screen. Their relationship was on-and-off again for several years, but he kept coming back to her. I enjoyed reading about Georgia's childhood and her search to meet the man (she claims) who completely saved her life. Her accounts with him are surprising, endearing, memorable. I only wish she would spend more time talking about herself as an individual, instead of Charlie's companion. This accounts for gaps in time and information since it is apparent that she feels the times not spent with Charlie are not worth mentioning. She also ends the book on a rather uneventful and abrupt note which is dissatisfying. You learn more about Georgia's post-Chaplin life (but not much) in the introduction by the author. However, it is a touching recollection of her times with this amazing man, hence my 3 stars.

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I really enjoyed this one.

The Intimate Charlie Chaplin
May Reeves , Constance Brown Kuriyama , and Claire Goll
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0786407352

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Many of those who knew the intimate Charlie Chaplin documented his life and their perceptions of him in their writings. One of the most fascinating and revealing of these accounts has, until now, been available only in French. May Reeves' portrait of Chaplin (as told to Claire Goll) covers their year-long relationship during his 19311932 vacation in Europe. The enigmatic actress and dancer Reeves, in chronicling her relationship with Chaplin, both elaborates on and offers contrasts to the popular impressions of her brilliant travelling companion. Constance Brown Kuriyama has translated Reeves' original Charlie Chaplin Intime into English, and also includes an introduction, and a translation of reminiscences by Chaplin's press agent, Carlyle T. Robinson, which until now have also been difficult to obtain.

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I really enjoyed this one........2005-05-12

To me, this book is the most accurate and balanced portrayal of Chaplin of those writings by his lovers (Lita Grey and Georgia Hale's books leave much to be desired and are written SO MANY years after the fact). In the beginning, this work is most in line with the Chaplin we know and love onscreen...I enjoyed the tale of him miming as he tells May the story of a boat trip, the morning of which he took too many laxatives ("I don't believe I ever smiled so tragicomically..." he says). From her descriptions, you can almost see him telling such goofy stories. All in all, I felt this was a balanced portrayal of Chaplin's complexities and contradicitons. Recommended.

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THE INTIMATE CHARLIE CHAPLIN.

Manufacturer: McFarland
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My Father, Charlie Chaplin : An Intimate Portrait

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My Father, Charlie Chaplin : An Intimate Portrait
Charles, Jr. Chaplin
Manufacturer: Random House
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My Life With Chaplin an intimate Memoir
Wife of Charlie Chaplin, SIGNED By Author, DJ design Wladislaw Finne, illustrated 24 pgs of photos many never before published Lita Grey Chaplin
Manufacturer: Bernard Geis Associates
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My Life With Charlie (An Intimate Memoir)

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My Life With Charlie (An Intimate Memoir)
Lita Grey Chaplin (with Morton Cooper)
Manufacturer: Bernard Geis Associates
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Intimate is Right!

My life with Chaplin;: An intimate memoir,
Lita Grey Chaplin
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Intimate is Right!.......2005-10-27

Lita Grey Chaplin, the second wife of Charlie and the one to be completely ignored in Chaplin's autobiography, reveals her life with Chaplin in thorough detail. She is an excellent storyteller, or at least the ghostwriter is, whichever created the fluidity of the stories. For this, the book is very easy to read. It thankfully does not end with the divorce; Lita tells of her vaudeville singing career and her battles with alcoholism.

Although most of the book is about Chaplin and life with the temperamental man, Grey is respectful of him. She does paint him out to be less than lovable by illustrating their life together, but she is not malicious or out to blemish his career. This is a highly revealing book and does not skimp on the details of the pair's sex life, much of which is disturbing to read about. Still, Grey is fair in her writings and often comments that despite everything, she loved Chaplin.

Because Chaplin left out information about Lita in his own book out of respect for the two children they had together, this book is essential reading for Chaplin fans.

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The only extant play by the great Irish novelist James Joyce (1882-1941), EXILES is of interest for its autobiographical content. The main character, Richard Rowan, the moody, tormented writer who is at odds with both his wife and the parochial Irish society around him, is clearly a portrait of Joyce himself. The character of Rowan's wife, Bertha, is certainly influenced by Joyce's lover and later wife, Nora Barnacle. And, as in real life, the play depicts the couple with a young son, and Rowan, like Joyce, has returned to Ireland because of his mother's illness and subsequent death.

In the largely interior drama focused on the characters' relationships, the undertones of guilt and the longing for freedom mirror themes of the great Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Long an admirer of Ibsen, Joyce emulated the Scandinavian master in making the central issue of his drama the conflict between individual freedom and a demanding, judgmental society.

Though one of his lesser-known works, EXILES, written after PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN and while Joyce was working on ULYSSES, provides fascinating insights into the development of the creative gifts of a literary genius.

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Joyce's only play, full of real-life parallels.......2007-08-12

Worth a few hours perusal, as it's doubtful you'll see it on stage. Often relegated to the back of the Joycean shelf for its protagonist who resembles a nearly identical profile to his maker, nonetheless the play has its appeal as a portrait of the artist post-Stephen Dedalus. Written ten years after Bloomsday and the flight into exile by him and Nora, Joyce presents an update on his earlier portrayal of the young Irishman determined to turn his back on his mother, his homeland, and his faith.

The more you know about Joyce and Nora, when he returned to Ireland in 1909 to be consumed with jealousy by rumors that she had been unfaithful to him with Joyce's old friend Vincent Cosgrave, and then in 1911-12 when Joyce confronted Roberto Prezioso in Trieste, accusing him of trying to seduce Nora, the more you may find this three-act play, written in 1912, intriguing. Certainly it's in the style of Ibsen, and generally as a minor work has been regarded of interest more for its insights into the mentally tortured artist, Richard (or "Dick") Rowan, but the play moves along efficiently, if a bit melodramatically and wordily.

The action takes place over two days, and compresses as you'd expect much about the roles of artists, exiles, and lovers as the new century's own franker treatment of infidelity and its aftermath generate, beneath the dramaturgical machinations that do creak about, surprisingly moving moments of truth. Doubt and betrayal, the challenge of defying the bonds of sexual monogamy, aesthetic truth vs. job security, the benefits and the costs of an "open relationship"-- all contribute contemporary themes that for this era had begun to enter Irish theatre as they already had influenced (back to Ibsen) many contemporary Continental and British plays. One wonders about the hometown reaction if Yeats had not rejected it (it wasn't an Irish folk drama) for the Abbey in August 1917!

Reading the play, observers today, informed as we are by the life of the writer and his own tensions in love and vocation, can see how Joyce in the guise of Richard controls other characters, like it or not. Joyce's own guilty conscience in his alter ego of Richard dominates. Robert, Bertha, and especially Beatrice all revolve around the approval of Richard. Bertha & Robert make an appealing pair, in my opinion; their earthiness makes them more down-to-earth for our tastes, while Richard, unless acted well, may not escape priggishness beneath the attitude of a liberated modern freethinker. He, despite his hesitancy, rules this domestic roost. (Not much is even thinly disguised when it comes to this figure and his unmarried companion-- they have returned to Dublin after nine years in Rome.) Even if Richard is more of a stand-in for his creator, the "authorial fallacy" aside, the drama does enrich your understanding of Joyce in his own separation from not only Ireland but conventional moral standards and familial support.

It's rarely performed. Earlier versions, "A Brilliant Career" & "Dream Stuff," no longer exist. Joyce told Ezra Pound that he doubted it could work in the theatre. But the set-up, however schematic, between Richard, Bertha, his companion (and mother of their child, Archie), her wooer Robert Hand, and in turn his first cousin and thwarted amour, Beatrice-- who neatly longs for Richard-- does have its moments of tenderness, insight, and even a line proclaiming the need for Ireland to turn towards not only Europe but to coffee for inspiration!

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Insights into Joyce's life through his only dramatic work

Exiles (Dover Thrift Editions)
James Joyce
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This 3-act play was first published in 1918; and like much of Joyce's other works, it is an imaginative reconstruction of his own life. In it, Richard Rowan, an Irish writer who has spent much time abroad, feels estranged from Irish society when he returns to Dublin.

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Insights into Joyce's life through his only dramatic work.......2007-08-12

Worth a few hours perusal, as it's doubtful you'll see it on stage. Often relegated to the back of the Joycean shelf for its protagonist who resembles a nearly identical profile to his maker, nonetheless the play has its appeal as a portrait of the artist post-Stephen Dedalus. Written ten years after Bloomsday and the flight into exile by him and Nora, Joyce presents an update on his earlier portrayal of the young Irishman determined to turn his back on his mother, his homeland, and his faith.

The more you know about Joyce and Nora, when he returned to Ireland in 1909 to be consumed with jealousy by rumors that she had been unfaithful to him with Joyce's old friend Vincent Cosgrave, and then in 1911-12 when Joyce confronted Roberto Prezioso in Trieste, accusing him of trying to seduce Nora, the more you may find this three-act play, written in 1914, intriguing. Certainly it's in the style of Ibsen, and generally as a minor work has been regarded of interest more for its insights into the mentally tortured artist, Richard (or "Dick") Rowan, but the play moves along efficiently, if a bit melodramatically and wordily.

The action takes place over two days, and compresses as you'd expect much about the roles of artists, exiles, and lovers as the new century's own franker treatment of infidelity and its aftermath generate, beneath the dramaturgical machinations that do creak about, surprisingly moving moments of truth. Doubt and betrayal, the challenge of defying the bonds of sexual monogamy, aesthetic truth vs. job security, the benefits and the costs of an "open relationship"-- all contribute contemporary themes that for this era had begun to enter Irish theatre as they already had influenced (back to Ibsen) many contemporary Continental and British plays. One wonders about the hometown reaction if Yeats had not rejected it (it wasn't an Irish folk drama) for the Abbey in August 1917!

Reading the play, observers today, informed as we are by the life of the writer and his own tensions in love and vocation, can see how Joyce in the guise of Richard controls other characters, like it or not. Joyce's own guilty conscience in his alter ego of Richard dominates. Robert, Bertha, and especially Beatrice all revolve around the approval of Richard. Bertha & Robert make an appealing pair, in my opinion; their earthiness makes them more down-to-earth for our tastes, while Richard, unless acted well, may not escape priggishness beneath the attitude of a liberated modern freethinker. He, despite his hesitancy, rules this domestic roost. (Not much is even thinly disguised when it comes to this figure and his unmarried companion-- they have returned to Dublin after nine years in Rome.) Even if Richard is more of a stand-in for his creator, the "authorial fallacy" aside, the drama does enrich your understanding of Joyce in his own separation from not only Ireland but conventional moral standards and familial support.

It's rarely performed. Earlier versions, "A Brilliant Career" & "Dream Stuff," no longer exist. Joyce told Ezra Pound that he doubted it could work in the theatre. But the set-up, however schematic, between Richard, Bertha, his companion (and mother of their child, Archie), her wooer Robert Hand, and in turn his first cousin and thwarted amour, Beatrice-- who neatly longs for Richard-- does have its moments of tenderness, insight, and even a line proclaiming the need for Ireland to turn towards not only Europe but to coffee for inspiration!

Portraits of the Artist in Exile: Recollections of James Joyce by Europeans

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Portraits of the Artist in Exile: Recollections of James Joyce by Europeans

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The Exile of James Joyce
Helene Cixous
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A Essential James Joyce - Dubliners; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Exiles; Chamber Music; Pomes Penyeach

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A Essential James Joyce - Dubliners; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Exiles; Chamber Music; Pomes Penyeach
James Joyce , and Harry Levin
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Exile of James Joyce
Joyce Cixous , and Sally Purcell
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EXILES
JAMES JOYCE
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Exiles
James Joyce
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