Adoption: The Modern Law

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This multidisciplinary team of authors has produced a clear, clinically relevant guide to all aspects of mental health law implementation. This is an introductory book, appropriate for students and trainees embarking on mental health nursing, psychiatry, clinical psychology or mental health social work, but with sufficient detail to carry readers through to the complex issues that will continue to face them during their years of practice. Providing a highly readable account of the subject, it also serves as a well-referenced handbook. To ensure that this is an authoritative guide throughout, specialist authors have joined the team to contribute chapters on Children and Learning Disabilities, and the whole manuscript has been reviewed by solicitors specializing in mental health law and in criminal law.

PACE: A Practical Guide to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Blackstone's Practical Policing)

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Paul Ozin , Heather Norton , and Perry Spivey
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This book provides practical guidance on what remains the single most important statutory basis for police duties and powers in England and Wales, the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and its Codes of Practice.

Explore the World Nelles Guide, London: England and Wales (Nelles Guides)

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Explore the World Nelles Guide, London: England and Wales (Nelles Guides)
David Arscott , Heather Barraclough , Michael Z. Brooke , Joe Da Casa , Gill Davies , Martin Marix Evans , Angus McGeoch , Andrea Russ , Alexander Sabo , and Philipp Zitzlsperger
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Great.......2001-01-19

Library Journal's review of this guide: "Combining encyclopedic coverage of destinations with loads of practical information and atlas-type maps, the series illuminates the wonders of nature but emphasizes the peculiarity of a place's people and their folklore."

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Michael Busselle's magnificent portrait of rural England is the culmination of a lifetime devoted to landscape photography. Now in a reduced-format edition, featuring 100 color images and essays by poet Ronald Blythe.

Rake's Progress (A House for the Season, Book 4)

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Marion Chesney
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NEW ENGLAND 4 SEASONS
Lee C. Griffin , and Arthur Griffin
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A REMINDER OF EARTH'S BEAUTY
Autumn Delight

Peepers
Eve Bunting
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ASIN: 0152602976

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It's fall again, and time for Jim and Andy to help their dad run Fred's Fall Color Tours. The tourists they shuttle around are "Leaf Peepers"--and, boy, do those Peepers love to ooh and aah about the dumbest things. Leaves, trees, pumpkins. Bo-o-ring.
But this yerar, even as they poke fun at the Peepers, Jim and Andy can't help but notice how the leaves floating in the river look like a brilliantly colored island, and how the spiky tree branches seem to sweep the clouds across the night sky.
Maybe the Peepers aren't so silly after all.

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A REMINDER OF EARTH'S BEAUTY.......2004-07-03

We're reminded of the beauty of a New England autumn by the warm russet dappled illustrations by James Ransome and the interplay between two brothers as they witness the reactions of tourists or, as they call them, "Leaf Peepers."

In the fall it's Jim and Andy's job to help their Dad get their small green bus out of the shed and spend their weekends helping with the loads of tourists who come to see the gorgeous red and yellow leaves. The bus is always full, which is good, but Jim and Andy can surely think of better things to do.

Sometimes they get a little over zealous in imitating what they call "Peeper talk," after all, they can't see anything so amazing about the ponds, trees, and changing leaves. Or, can they?

Once again, the perspicacious Eve Bunting reminds of what is important and beautiful on this amazing planet Earth.

- Gail Cooke

Autumn Delight.......2001-11-05

James Ransome's wonderful illustrations make this Eve Bunting book a delight! A great read-aloud for my fourth grade class, we have become "peepers" at school, and have created an autumn leaf tree display in our classroom. Now, my students join the other peepers in "Ooh's and Aah's".

Robert Bolt, "Man for All Seasons" (York Notes)

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Robert Bolt, "Man for All Seasons" (York Notes)
Tony Bareham
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Newman Traveltalks Season 1911-1912 1.Rural England 2.Ireland 3.Scotland & Wales 4.Moscow & St. Petersburg and 5.Germany

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Newman Traveltalks Season 1911-1912 1.Rural England 2.Ireland 3.Scotland & Wales 4.Moscow & St. Petersburg and 5.Germany
Newman Lecture Co.
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A major contribution to Lincoln studies.......2007-08-05

With Herndon's Informants Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis have made a tremendous contribution to Lincoln scholarship. Much of what we know of Lincoln's pre-presidential years, especially, was compiled through interviews and correspondence by Lincoln's last law partner William H. Herndon. Although many of these items were published decades ago in Emanuel Hertz's anthology The Hidden Lincoln, that collection's limitations have long frustrated Lincoln students. The only alternative was the expensive and awkward-to-use microfilm verison of Herndon's papers available from the Library of Congress.

Now, however, Wilson and Davis have made this treasure trove of firsthand information available in an affordable and convenient format. Moreover, they have carefully tried to reproduce texts exactly, retaining oddities of spelling and punctuation, a feature entertaining to ordinary readers and valuable to scholars. The book's presentation of documents in chronological order is welcome. Scholars will probably be the main consumers using this product.

This volume is a major contribution to Lincoln studies.

The Real Lincoln!!.......2006-10-27

Forget authors, historians with agendas. Read what the people who actually knew Abraham Lincoln said about him.

Before Lincoln's body was cold, William Herndon, Lincoln's law partner for 17 years and friend for longer, began interviewing Lincoln's friends, family members, enemies, acquaintances, neighbors, etc. His goal was to collect as much information as possible about his friend, so he could write a completely truthful biography. "Warts and all" Herndon said. Unfortunately, Herndon soon realized he could not use some of the information he collected because it was very personal and Lincoln's image would be tarnished. Fortunately, some of this information he could not use you will find in this book. While 98% of this book contains very interesting information about all aspects of Lincoln's life. It is the remaining 2%, the unsavory stuff, that is so fascinating! For instance, I was surprised to read about the number of Lincoln's friends who told stories about Lincoln's involvement with prostitutes (before his marriage). Some friends even speculate about Lincoln maybe having one or two illegitimate children. This book contains information I never learned in school about Lincoln!

A Masterpiece in Scholarship.......2002-02-26

In the preface to his "Life of Lincoln", William Herndon expounded that when writing the history of Lincoln's early life "the whole truth concerning him should be known" and there should be "nothing colored or suppressed." Having set the standard Herndon failed to follow it, for there were something's even Herndon must have felt should not be put into print. Scholars wishing to explore Lincoln's early life beyond the insights offered by Herndon's biography had to turn to examining the letters and notes collected for over a twenty year period by himself and his collaborator Jesse Weik. This often proved to be a daunting task. As the editor's in their introduction noted even though available on Micro roll film specific documents are "very hard to locate" and even if located are "very hard to read." To further complicate matters the index to the Herndon collection prepared by the Library of Congress is "neither accurate nor complete." What Editors Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis have done in their "Herndon's Informants" is to transcribe all of the known Herndon, Weik letters and notes into a readable and properly indexed Documentary Edition. What they have also done is create a masterpiece of scholarship that will be used by students of Lincoln for decades to come. "Herndon's Informants" offers the student the complete Herndon collection, unabridged and un-editorialized. To anyone who has a strong interest in learning more about Lincoln's early life this is just about all that is available and it simply must become a part of your personal library.

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The Disability Experience: A Healing Journey guides the reader from a feeling of disability to a feeling of wellness. The author examines the psychological impact of serious disability. His theme is that individuals are able to cope with the affects of their disability. In doing so, the individual finds gratification and meaning. The healing journey is the path from experiencing failure and disability to an experience adequacy and capability. Dr. Soissons-Segal draws on his personal experiences and those of his clients to demonstrate his premise. The reader is invited to partake of the journey by answering a series of questions after each section.

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Strips and Curves

Beautiful creative fun!

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Strips N' Curves

Excellent instructions

Strips 'n Curves: A New Spin on Strip Piecing
Louisa L. Smith
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Get ready for Louisa Smith's innovative new quiltmaking technique, and see basic strip piecing in a whole new light! The combination of straight lines and gentle curves helps you create zingy, one-of-a-kind quilts that look complicated but are simple to construct. Through three complete quilt projects, Smith shows you, step by step, how to draft your own curved templates, choose colors, lay out blocks that give your quilt drama and contrast, and more. You'll be hooked before you know it!

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Strips and Curves.......2006-11-07

This book is really good. It shows and explains things very well. I was in a group of people doing a class with this book and templates. It went well. Everyone's was different. And no one was having any problems understanding how it all worked. :)

Beautiful creative fun!.......2006-08-10

I have seen several wallhangings made from this book and the other Strips N Curves version and they are stunning. Each quilt is unique and leaves you looking into them for a long time trying to figure out how they did that. I haven't made one yet but am going to.
sincerely, LP

Extraordinary beauty where least expected.......2006-02-23

I live in Singapore. I purchased this book for my friends who had taken the class with me. We are all making second quilts we had so much fun. This book allows the quilter to use fabric pieces to advantage, esp those that might not be the right color or print for the quilt originally purchased for. Every quilt is unique. They are beautiful with monochromatic or complimentary color schemes. My favorites are the brights.

Strips N' Curves.......2005-09-30

Beautifully illustrated, well done instructions to make some very striking quilts. Had taken a class based on this book - I was very impressed with the outcome and not difficult at all.

Excellent instructions.......2005-09-12

Very pleased with Stripes N Curves. Instructions are very good, lots of in color examples and step by step instruction. Can't wait to start one of the quilts. Excellent way of using up pieces from my large stash.

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The complete book of African violets
Helen Van Pelt Wilson
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Helen Van Pelt Wilson
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Helen Van Pelt Wilson
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The Complete Book of African Violets: All About America's Favorite House Plants and How to Make Them Bloom
Helen Van Pelt Wilson
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Helen Van Pelt Wilson
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Helen Van Pelt Wilson
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Helen Van Pelt Wilson
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Helen Van Pelt Wilson
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THE COMPLETE BOOK OF AFRICAN VIOLETS
Helen Van Pelt Wilson
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Helen Van Pelt. Wilson
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Look beyond the physical

great book for all women

Muy sabio

Couldn't they afford an editor? 905 pages?????

Northrup, Move Over!

Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing
Christiane Md Northrup
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Quite possibly every female over the age of 12 will find this huge book enlightening, pain saving, and perhaps even lifesaving. Think of it as a much more empowering and holistic Our Bodies, Ourselves. Northrup is a gynecologist who acknowledges the power of natural therapies and herbs, but also maintains that allopathic treatments, including surgery, are sometimes best. In Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, she covers the treatment of many physical concerns--among them PMS, menstrual cramps, breast cancer, fibroids, endometriosis, infertility, depression, childbirth, abortion, cystitis, and menopause--explaining how many of these physical problems have roots in emotional upsets. For example, a woman who is unhappy with her marriage may be infertile because deep down, she knows that her husband is not the right man to have children with; a teenager who has cramps may be having problems accepting society's expectations of her as a woman.

Some readers may be put off at first by Northrup's obviously unconventional ways of thinking. Her medical approach is decidedly feminist, blaming our "addictive" and patriarchal society for many of the health problems plaguing women. She clearly illustrates her ideas, however, by drawing upon two decades of experience from her medical practice and citing dozens of her patients' remarkable personal stories. Northrup also delineates the best way to go about tuning in to one's body and mind in order to start the healing process, a self-induced therapy of sorts. She also includes in the book a copy of the eye-opening health inventory she gives her clients. It includes unusual questions such as "Are you bored with your life?" and "Do you have enough friends or neighbors?"

This book will be of special benefit to women who are pregnant or entering menopause. Northrup is an unequivocal believer in natural births and her dialogue on the birthing process will remove the fears of even the most petrified mother-to-be. She criticizes episiotomies (she should know; she's given birth without one) and supports midwifery. She also warns against the harmfulness of cesarean births and includes illustrations of acupressure points that help turn around a breech baby.

For women in perimenopause or menopause, Northrup will help turn this life phase into one of peace and personal growth instead of one of suffering. She was one of the first doctors to use natural progesterone to treat menopausal symptoms, and this revised edition includes a clear primer on the latest in hormone replacement therapy and how to determine if it's right for you. Northrup also expounds upon the benefits of acupuncture and herbalism--as well as emotional self-analysis--for alleviating hot flashes and mood swings. --Erica Jorgensen

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A groundbreaking book on women's physical and emotional well-being, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom has become a classic, with more than 270,000 copies in print in the four years since its initial publication. Now it has been completely revised, offering the most up-to-date information available on women's health issues.

Christiane Northrup's vision of mind-body wellness has received an extraordinary response from women all over the world. Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom powerfully demonstrates that when women change the basic conditions of their lives that lead to health problems, they heal faster, more completely, and with far fewer medical interventions.

Now Dr. Northrup brings us vital new information about the best techniques of Western medicine and the best alternative therapies, showing how to incorporate both into a complementary whole. She guides readers through the entire range of women's health problems, and offers strikingly new, positive perspectives on normal processes, such as menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause. This edition includes:

An all-new nutrition chapter emphasizing individual dietary needs and body chemistry

New information on improving fertility after age 35—and how to cut the risk of C-section by 50 percent

A completely updated program for menopause, including how to decide whether natural hormone replacement is right for you

Holistic ways to prepare and heal faster if surgery is necessary

Plus dozens of new natural treatments and a wealth of hard-to-find health care resources

Filled with dramatic case histories from the famed Women to Women health care center, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom is contemporary medicine at its best, combining new technologies with natural remedies and the miraculous healing powers within the body itself.

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Look beyond the physical.......2007-10-10

This is a fascinating book, that makes so much sense. the power of our thoughts and emotions on the body has been known for a long time by the masters of yoga. This book, takes it even further and looks at the female reproductive system and its functioning from a holistic perspective and that is exciting

great book for all women.......2007-09-27

my sister gave me a copy as a gift and I then bought a copy for each of my daughters. Every woman should read this book--actually every man who lives with a woman or girl should read this book.

Muy sabio.......2007-09-12

Christiane Northrup es una mujer muy especial y lo demuestra en este libro. La manera como presenta y explica absolutamente todo es muy claro. Para aquellos que deseen una interpretación y/o explicación de todo lo referente a la mujer más allá de 'lo standard'

Ella es ginecólogo pero ha aprendido a desarrollar su parte espiritual y lo combina y lo aplica en este libro.

Este libro es adecuado para mujeres de cualquier edad.

Lo recomiendo ampliamente!

Couldn't they afford an editor? 905 pages?????.......2007-09-05

I'm sorry if this has been mentioned in other reviews. I don't have time to read them all.

But this book is too big to hold and read! It's just unwieldy. And it's very cheap stock, almost like newsprint. Even upon the first light reading, the inner binding gave way. Disappointing!

I'll keep it on the shelf, for reference, but I won't read it through.

I have enjoyed Northrup's books in the past -- and her newsletters as well -- but I feel like she's overstepping her bounds. I'm all for the study of chakras, metaphysics, etc.--sticking to straight allopathic medicine will kill you, IMHO -- and she used to give the whole smorgasbord. But now, when she doesn't have all the medical facts, she throws in a psychological/patriarchal explanation. As I mentioned in a comment to Adelie's review, the result is blaming the the victim and not offering real tools for healing. Dangerous.

Northrup, Move Over!.......2007-08-20

Because there are REAL women's literary health guides out there. I personally suggest Our Bodies, Ourselves from the Boston Women's Health Collective. Instead of shoving unfounded, bias, and conservative information down your throat like Northrup does, it clearly explains issues pertaining to any woman of any age or background. I have extreme remorse for any woman turning to this book for tolerance and understanding concerning our bodies, minds or choices (especially the choice to have an abortion). I feel like work does nothing but spread harmful, untrue information instead of the facts. Northrup's "wisdom" is best kept inside her head.

Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom - Creating Physical And Emotional Health And Healing, Completely Revised and Updated

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Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom - Creating Physical And Emotional Health And Healing, Completely Revised and Updated
Christiane, M.D. Northrup
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Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing
Christiane Northrup
Manufacturer: Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Book Review: Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing.(Safety Issues Concerning the Use of Glycoprotein IIb-IIIa ... reviews) : An article from: Special Delivery

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Book Review: Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing.(Safety Issues Concerning the Use of Glycoprotein IIb-IIIa ... reviews) : An article from: Special Delivery
Ananda Lowe
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This digital document is an article from Special Delivery, published by Association of Labor Assistants & Childbirth Educators on March 22, 1999. The length of the article is 562 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Date: March 22, 1999
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Women's bodies, women's wisdom : creating physical and emotional health and healing
Christiane Northrup
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In this first study of the man behind the myth, Oliver Trager explains Buckley's life and career and the enormous following he developed in the entertainment community as well as the reasons behind the obscurity into which the man and his work disappeared after his death in 1960.

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Somebody should have like, hipped an editor, Lord and Lady........2002-07-23

Like so many bios today, there's a good book in here somewhere. But as wrought, Dig Infinity is an absurdly long, poorly edited work. Oliver gets all kinds of facts wrong and is egregious when it comes to people's names (Preston STURGIS? CINDY Miller for Donald O'Connor's sidekick instead of SIDNEY Miller? And that's just two). What a shame that such a great subject and such obviously hard work have actually done the impossible...made Lord Buckley boring. The best way to read this book is to skip much of Trager's endless and repetitive analysis of his Lordship's work and just peruse the oral histories.

A most immaculately hip biography.......2002-06-24

Oliver Trager did such a fine and thorough job on _The American Book of the Dead_ that I had high hopes for his biography of the great Lord Buckley. It's even better than I expected.

Trager's approach is suited to his subject. Rather than write a straightforward biography -- which would be difficult in any case because there are so many unanswered and unanswerable questions -- Trager has opted to tell His Lordship's life story through a sort of montage of mostly oral history. For this purpose he has interviewed, apparently, just about every living person on this sweet swingin' sphere who knew the Hip Messiah or was directly influenced by him in some way, and supplemented the interviews with excerpts from articles and other sources.

This approach makes the book read a bit like an extended episode of "Biography," flipping back and forth between the interviewees' reminiscences and the author's comments. It's not at all hard to follow; Trager even uses a different typeface for his own comments so we can tell what's narrative and what's not, and each interviewee/writer is clearly named at the beginning of each excerpt. (Each is introduced the first time one of his or her comments appears. If you forget who somebody is, you can flip to the back of the book and look up his first appearance; there's a list.)

It's about time somebody did a biography of The Lord of Flip Manor, and Trager's approach is highly appropriate to his subject. For example, by telling the story through the voices of others, he's able to present all the conflicting theories about Buckley's mysterious death without having to decide which one is most likely to be true. And more generally, since so much of Buckley's persona was realized through his interactions with other people anyway, it's fitting to present his life through the responses he created in the people around him. (You'll be amazed at the people he's influenced. Some of them are pretty obvious -- Robin Williams, Captain Beefheart, and so forth. But James Taylor? I've been listening to him for thirty years and I'd never have guessed -- and yet there's a song on _New Moon Shine_ that quotes directly from "God's Own Drunk.")

If you're a Buckley fan, you'll enjoy Trager's book. If not . . . well, I don't really know how to explain to you who and what Lord Richard Buckley was. Was he an entertainer? A saint? A scoundrel? A bodhisattva? A con man? A raconteur? A shaman? A swindler? An evangelist? A shameless moocher? An artist? An agent of God? A prankster? A drunk?

Well, yeah.

Above all, His Lordship was a sweet cat who blew a solid ace lick, and the way to meet him -- really the only way -- is to hear him. The book includes a CD with lots of good stuff on it, including several of His Lordship's raps and snippets from an interview with Studs Terkel. If you want to buy (or already own) the CD _His Royal Hipness_ (which is a re-release of _The Best of Lord Buckley_ and, if I'm not mistaken, the only Buckley CD currently available), don't worry about redundancy: the only overlap is in the two selections "The Nazz" and "People," and even these are different recordings.

Also worthy of mention: a very thorough discography and bibliography, and a selection of hard-to-find photographs.

I'm surprised by other readers' comments about poor copyediting/proofreading. Sure, I spotted a handful of typos, misspellings, and such, but I didn't think it was an unusually high number. Most of them, unsurprisingly, are in the transcriptions of the oral interviews -- references to e.g. "Tom Leherer [sic]" and "Betty [sic] Davis" and that sort of thing. (Also, readers who know what "erstwhile" means will be amused at one or two points, notably the introductory remarks on former Grateful Dead keyboardist Tom Constanten.)

And I don't think the format looks "pasted together" at all; on the contrary, I think Trager has done a marvelous job combing through many, many hours of interviews and putting the bits into coherent order.

On the other hand, I have to admit that there are a few things that could have been better handled. For example, there are many references to Buckley's "hat trick" during the first portion of the book, but we don't find out what the "hat trick" actually _was_ until something like page 182. At least a topical index would have been helpful here (though frankly it's not a job I'd have cared to tackle).

It would also have been nice if, in summarizing Lord Buckley's influence on the world of literature, Trager had thought to mention Spider Robinson, who works a Buckley reference into just about every science fiction novel he writes and who has probably done more than anyone else to keep Buckley's influence alive among SF fandom.

But it's always possible to pick on little omissions with a work like this. Trager has made a massively successful effort on a monumental task -- a task that, for him, is clearly something between a labor of love and a vision quest. God swing him.

Great Subject--Poor Presentation.......2002-06-08

Lord Buckley certainly deserves to be the subject of at least one major study, and for that reason alone, we should be grateful "Dig Infinty" exists and we should thank its author for the public service he renders. But as the other reviewers here have indicated, the book itself is rather slapdash: it's poorly edited and highly repetitive. A shorter, more concentrated, and zippier text would have done much more work on Buckley's behalf. To this I must add that one of the bigger weaknesses of the book is the author's own miscalculation of Buckley in general. For the author, Buckley seems to provide some sort of acid test, a way of telling the cool from the uncool. And because of this overarching "hippie" ethos, Buckley becomes for the author a kind of "in" currency, a fetish if you will, something that can be traded and used as a sort of tool. Buckley, of course, was the antithesis of this "acid test" or "usefulness," and because of the author's own wish to use Buckley to portray his own insider's perspective, we have to wonder just how well the book portrays Buckley. In short, Buckley worked for inclusion, but the book falters in its purposeful stance on exclusion.

His Lordship deserves such fealty.......2002-05-26

A fascinating if disjointed study of the art [mostly] and life [not as much as one would wish, but it's tough to catch up with the detritus of vaudeville and walkathons] of one of the most original and most influential comedian/orators ever to grace a stage, a view that people ranging from George Harrison to David Bowie to Frank Zappa to Steve Allen to James Taylor to Lenny Bruce all shared. Anyone who hears Lord Buckley -- and there's a half-hour audio CD included with the book so you can sample his hipsemantic style -- has to become curious about the man himself. This book finally helps to explain, and paints a fan's-eye picture of a gone cat who sweetly and profoundly decided to regard everyone he met as a potential member of his own Royal Court. I start with five stars for the subject and dock it one for the overly repetitive and pasted-together oral-history format, which skips around too much for comfort, and for the publisher's lousy copyediting and proofreading job.

Lord Buckley Lives ! ! !.......2002-05-14

I have to give this book 5 stars on the subject alone. Its about time that someone sat down and took the time and effort to let Lord Buckley's story be told once again. - - I do have a problem with the narrative style of the book, but its probably moreso a matter of taste... Rather than telling the story, the author basically reprints one interview after another... and kinda pastes his sources together so Lord Buckley's story is told in the interviewee's own words... Many of these interviews come straight from the pages of magazines and radio interviews with people who knew him and they're strung together to create a sense of a coherent dialogue. The end result... some fascinating stories (I almost fell off the bed in laughter a few times... Lord Buckley's sick off stage pranks and antics often rivaled his actual act) but lot of repetition and choppy reading. I also felt that the author merely glanced over his childhood and evolution into the entertainment world, though in all fairness much of the information has probabably been lost to posterity. - - Overall, its a fascinating subject, the CD alone is worth the cost of the book... and the book really will pull you into Lord Buckley's sick world. - - Interviewees seem to include a cast of thousands... from Royal Court members to hiers of the legacy from the Rock and Roll and Comedy World... Move over Lenny Bruce, His Lordship is back ! ! !

CD includes some interviews by Studs Turkel, The Nazz, Murder, Ode to a Policeman... about 34 minutes... Well worth it ! - -

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Dig infinity! The Life and Art of Lord Buckley
Oliver Trager
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A biography of Mary Aikenhead (Sister Mary Augustine), foundress of the Sisters of Charity, detailing this great woman's life detailing her time in Sandymount, Gardiner Street, St. Vincent's Hospital, Donnybrook, Australia, Ireland, and so very much more. On September 1, 1815 the first members of the new Order took their vows, Sister Mary Augustine being appointed Superior-General.

Initially, the Irish Sisters visited and assisted poor people in orphanages, hospitals, gaols and in their homes. Later, they opened a house of refuge for young girls and started giving religious instruction in schools.

Growing numbers in the Congregation and generous donations enabled Mother Mary Aikenhead to open and conduct Catholic schools and hospitals for poor people in Ireland. Later The Sisters of Charity were the first Religious Institute of women to arrive in Australia. Illustrations include rare glimpses at Mrs. John O'Brien, Archbishop Murray, Father Peter Kenney, and The Stanhope Street Convent, just no name a few.

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THE LIFE AND WORK OF MARY AIKENHEAD: Foundress of the Congregation of Irish Sisters of Charity 1787-1858.
A Member of the Congregation.
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The Life and Work of Mary Aikenhead: Foundress of the Congregation of Irish Sisters of Charity 1787-1858
and Sullivan, John (prefaceby) Member of the Congregation
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