American Designed Landscapes: A Photographic Interpretation

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More than 100 b/w images reveal a powerfil chronology of design on the land in the United States.

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Sublime Captured.......2000-03-10

Superb photography. The inclusion of reference drawings provides an interesting juxtaposition - the "objective" (plan) view versus the experiential.

Excellent book!!! Mr. Ward's photography is superb!!.......1999-09-25

This is an excellent book. Mr. Ward's photography captures the essence of these marvelous American Landscapes. The carefully drawn illustrations are quite helpful to understanding the landscapes that he has so skillfully captured on film.

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from people who knew Johnny Mercer.......2006-07-09

From the dustjacket flaps of the U.S. hardcover edition:

"Moon River," "Blues In The Night," "Laura," "That Old Black Magic" and "Satin Doll" are only a handful from the enormous catalogue of hit songs written by Johnny Mercer. His wit and talent with words made him the peer of Cole Porter, Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin and Oscar Hammerstein II, giants in the pantheon of songwriters. Many have compared him with his idol, W.S. Gilbert.
Our Huckleberry Friend is a collection of Mercer's lyrics and memorabilia. It covers Mercer's life from his Savannah, Georgia, childhood through his Hollywood days and the remarkable productive period of the thirties, forties and fifties.
We see the birth of the lively Capitol Records label, and Mercer's association with Nat "King" Cole, Peggy Lee, Betty Hutton, and many others. Mercer went on to win four Academy Awards and to experience the shattering disappointment of several Broadway shows that failed.
It is all here, the successes and the failures, written by Mercer's widow and his close friend Bob Bach. The handsome volume is illustrated with more than a hundred photographs, many from Mrs. Mercer's private albums.

Bob Bach's name became nationally known among television audiences as the producer of the long-running and very successful panel show "What's My Line." He produced other game shows and musical specials featuring such greats as Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton and Mel Torme. Before entering the video field he wrote for Down Beat, Metronome and Billboard magazines.

Ginger Mercer, who was a dancer on the Broadway stage before marrying Johnny Mercer in 1931, is currently [1982] carrying on the traditions of her late husband. She is a member of the council of The American Guild of Authors and Composers and recently formed the Johnny Mercer Foundation for Children.

The Big J As Coffee-table Accessory.......1998-12-03

One day some sage will write a comprehensive biography of Johnny Mercer. Until then we'll have to settle for this tripe. Part coffee-table book, part biography, part social history, part songbook for the karaoke-impaired.... This book pursues all these goals, but really succeeds in none. The lack of focus is disorienting, and all the elements are thereby diluted. Still, it's a nice book to have about the house...along with Fowler and the Communist Manifesto....not entirely uninformative, but simply not truly satisfying. And let's face it, it's the best we'll get for a long time.

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Huckleberry Hound and His Friends.

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The Grangerford-Shepherdson feud (No. 33 in the series of keepsakes issued by the Friends of the Bancroft Library for its members)

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The Grangerford-Shepherdson feud (No. 33 in the series of keepsakes issued by the Friends of the Bancroft Library for its members)
Mark Twain
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Huckleberry Friends
Cheryl Seslar
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Huckleberry Hound and His Friends
Pat Cherr
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Huckleberry Hound and His Friends

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Huckleberry Hound and His Friends (A Little Golden Book, 406)

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Huckleberry Hound and His Friends (A Little Golden Book, 406)

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Huckleberry Hound and His Friends (A Little Golden Book, 406)
Cherr Pat; Nunez Ben De; Totten Bob
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Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African-American Voices

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Silly, Cloying Title. Thorough Scholarship.
Who was Huck Finn?
Devastating, inciteful, balanced
Ignore the Kirkus Review above...
I am a Caucasian female and I am ashamed of my ancestors

Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African-American Voices
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
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Ernest Hemingway asserted, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." Lionel Trilling said the novel was "not less than definitive in American literature." Published in 1884, Huck Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American
curricula. But where did Huckleberry Finn come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelley Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American voices, language, and rhetorical traditions play a major role in the creation of his art.
In Was Huck Black?, Fishkin combines close readings of published and unpublished writing by Twain with intensive biographical and historical research and insights gleaned from linguistics, literary theory, and folklore to shed new light on the role African-American voices played in the genesis
of Huckleberry Finn. Given that book's importance in American culture, her analysis illuminates, as well, how African-American voices have shaped our sense of what is distinctively "American" about American literature.
Fishkin shows that Mark Twain was surrounded, throughout his life, by richly talented African-American speakers whose rhetorical gifts Twain admired candidly and profusely. A black child named Jimmy whom Twain called "the most artless, sociable and exhaustless talker I ever came across" helped
Twain understand the potential of a vernacular narrator in the years before he began writing Huckleberry Finn, and served as a model for the voice with which Twain would transform American literature. A slave named Jerry whom Twain referred to as an "impudent and satirical and delightful young
black man" taught Twain about "signifying"--satire in an African-American vein--when Twain was a teenager (later Twain would recall that he thought him "the greatest man in the United States" at the time). Other African-American voices left their mark on Twain's imagination as well--but their role
in the creation of his art has never been recognized. Was Huck Black? adds a new dimension to current debates over multiculturalism and the canon.
American literary historians have told a largely segregated story: white writers come from white literary ancestors, black writers from black ones. The truth is more complicated and more interesting. While African-American culture shaped Huckleberry Finn, that novel, in turn, helped shape
African-American writing in the twentieth century. As Ralph Ellison commented in an interview with Fishkin, Twain "made it possible for many of us to find our own voices."
Was Huck Black? dramatizes the crucial role of black voices in Twain's art, and takes the first steps beyond traditional cultural boundaries to unveil an American literary heritage that is infinitely richer and more complex than we had thought.

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Silly, Cloying Title. Thorough Scholarship........2005-09-12

That Twain had intimate psychic connections to African-Americans is not particularly relevatory; biographers long before Fishkin had psychologized over the question of Twain's relationship to African-Americans. Fishkin's book is clearly inspired by these biographers and their speculations; she is not the originator of the notion of Twain's profoundly intimate and anxious connection to black people. That being said, her thesis that 'Little Jimmy' and Jerry are noteworthy influences on Huck Finn's voice are Fishkin's own.

The title risks ridiculousness for some snappy provocation: Huck Finn is clearly not 'black' but the son of a stereotypical poor Irish alchoholic.

Fishkin's textual sleuthing is interesting, usually convincing and, most of all, thorough. It also seems to finally skirt the question of whether or not Mark Twain was a racist by focusing on Huck as a kind of composite figure, one whose language is profoundly informed by black people (Little Jimmy and Jerry); of whose voices, Twain, by his own accounts, was a professed admirer.

But here's the problem: the degree to which the things Twain reports seeing (or hearing) in 'Little Jimmy' and Jerry are actually Jimmy and Jerry themselves-- and not Twain's own projections and warped perceptions or just plain fabrications (remember that Twain was a professional liar), or how much all this exonerates Twain from charges of racism, if it even intends to, isn't entirely clear.

Again: Mark Twain is the author of Jimmy and Jerry, characters who Fishkin argues have real voices in their own right. Twain claimed that to get Jim 'right' in HF he would speak what he thought Jim should say out loud. Was Twain imitating what he heard or was he perfecting something else? (A weirder but more profound question is one that addresses the notion of how much Twain affected others' speech to him, which Twain took for reality.) At any rate, the accuracy of Twain's reporting (if it is reporting and not just fiction, even if Twain talks about 'Little Jimmy' in a letter to a colleague as if Jimmy were indeed a real person) makes or breaks Fishkin's particular theory, as she seems to know.

Like all academic books worth reading, it is worth reading. Fishkin is clearly a valuable personality; the book is not dry; the style is not typical 'academic writing' unintentionally free of any ghost of a valuable human being behind the keyboard, one ticking off similarities that fit into said academician's methodological framework. Her work is creative and deep and makes pleasant reading-- enough to almost make me forgive her for the title.

Fishkin is a premier Twain scholar, in charge of the Mark Twain papers at the University of Texas.

Anyone with a serious interest in Huck should read this book, indeed keeping in mind what Twain saw in others was usually himself, and that that was his-- and perhaps America's-- tragedy

Who was Huck Finn?.......2002-12-08

There is probably no book in American literature more loved and hated than "Huckleberry Finn". Twain's masterpiece has been reviled as a racist rant; parents have tried to get it banned from school libraries, and people have claimed that not only is the book racist, so is its author. But Twain was hardly a racist; Jim is presented as one of the few characters in the book who has real dignity, humanity and common goodness; and Huck learns to see Jim as a friend and a fellowman. But how does Huck reach this epiphany and who did Twain base his character on? In a solidly researched and fascinating book, Shelly Fishkin posits that Huck was based on two young African-Americans Twain knew personally, one a ten year old boy named Jimmy and the other a young slave in Missouri named Jerry.

Jimmy was described in Twain's newspaper article "Sociable Jimmy", which was published in The New York Times in November of 1874. Jimmy's family was employed in a village inn where Twain was staying, and Twain was clearly fascinated by "the most artless, sociable and exhaustless talker I ever came across... I listened as one who receives a revelation." Twain invited Jimmy to sit and chat, and Jimmy planked himself down in an easy chair and proceeded to regale Twain with stories about his family in the inn; in particular, their aversion to having cats around. "When dey ketches a cat bummin' aroun' heah... dey snake him into de cistern -- dey's been cats drownded in dat water dat's in yo' pitcher. I seed a cat in dare yistiddy -- all swelled up like a pudd'n." (Imagine the look on Twains face as Jimmy fed him this tidbit.) As Fishkin shows, Jimmy and Huck share some key characteristics. They both launch into long family narratives to hold their listener's attention. They both have a visceral loathing of violence and cruelty, and they speak with a remarkable similarity. The are both "unpretentious, uninhibited, easily impressed and unusually loquacious." When we close our eyes and listen to Jimmy, we can easily hear Huck in Jimmy's voice.

Jerry was young black man in the 1850's who Twain idolized when he was himself a teenager, much to the dismay and disgust of Twain's mother. Actually, Mom could be a stand-in for Tom Sawyer's Aunt Polly, who didn't want Tom associating with Huck because he was unwashed, uncouth, and the envy of every boy in the neighborhood of good family who admired him and wished they dared to be like him. Here we see Huck as Jerry. Jerry was a master at "signifying", or indirectly satirizing whatever he held in contempt. There is a lot of Jerry in the characters of both Huck and Jim, who compensate for their lack of formal education with a large store of mother-wit and down to earth common sense.

We don't know if Twain directly based Huck on Jimmy and/or Jerry, and it may be impossible to determine for certain. But there are enough similarities in all three characters to make the point that Twain thoroughly liked and respected both Jimmy and Jerry, and turned some of the best qualities of each of them into one of the most endearing and enduring people in all of American fiction.

Devastating, inciteful, balanced.......2000-02-21

This book and her book "Lighting Out For The Territory", have made me reconsider a lot more than Mark Twain's Huck Finn. No teacher of literature or American History should get a degree without reading these books.

Ignore the Kirkus Review above..........1999-09-14

The high-toned wording of the Kirkus Review might just turn you off of the this book before having given it a chance... and that would be a great loss. I've read the review three times now and I still can't tell if it is praising the book or condemning it. Ms. Fisher-Fishkin's prose is very readable and this book can be enjoyed by plain ol' Twain fans and academia alike.

I am a Caucasian female and I am ashamed of my ancestors.......1997-12-07

I just finished The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and find the relationship between Huck and Jim to be a blessing for them both. To think that a black man was treated as though he had no feelings I suppose we all knew happened, but to actually read it in a novel such as this is so sad that I couldn't even begin to express how I feel. I was never raised to see color, only to love all of God's creatures for who they are not what they are. I have not really ever been a literary buff, but I do intend to read more of Mark Twain's books. I don't believe that Samuel Clemens was prejudice, I do believe that he was writing what he was "raised" and was able to see the tragedy in it all. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to express myself. I have been truly moved by this book.

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Tim Hayward makes a compelling case for the incorporation of environmental questions into the heart of mainstream political theory--rather than seeing these issues as an optional add-on or the preserve of specialized green political theorists; he also argues that the core arguments of more radical, ecologistic thinking--the search for intrinsic value and moral foundations in ecology and the rejection of anthropocentrism--are more likely to provide a compelling basis for doing so. However, the natural relations that humans beings enter into with their environment including non-humans, the natural limits of human development and the natural capacities of human beings have significant implications and constraints for what the account political theory provides for: the treatment of non-humans, rights and notion of the good and the good life. This book explores the ways in which those constraints impact upon political theory in those areas.

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Political Theory and Ecological Values
Tim Hayward
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This collection of new essays, written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field, examines the most central issues of property theory from a variety of perspectives. The essays discuss whether property may be dissipated or used imprudently with impunity, and analyze how a person's property should be distributed after death. They survey the current economic landscape of intellectual property and show that Locke's celebrated justification for private property falters when it comes to copyrights and patents. They also demonstrate how important it is that institutions of property be carefully justified.

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Just as "spin" has taken over politics in America, so too has it come to define the long bull market on Wall Street. The booming trade in stocks has produced an insatiable demand for financial intelligence. On television and the Internet, commentators and analysts are not merely reporting the news, they are making news in ways that provide huge windfalls for some investors and crushing losses for others. And they often traffic in rumor, speculation, and misinformation that hit the market at warp speed.

New York Times bestselling author Howard Kurtz turns his skeptical eye on the business-media revolution that has transformed the American economy. He uncovers the backstage pressures at television shows like CNBC's Squawk Box and CNN's Moneyline and at Internet start-ups like TheStreet.com and JagNotes, real-time operations in the very arena where fortunes are made and lost with stunning swiftness.

No one has ever reported from inside the Wall Street media machine or laid bare the bitter feuds, cozy friendships, and whispered leaks that move the markets. In a time of head-spinning volatility, The Fortune Tellers is essential audio listening for all of us who gamble our savings in today's overheated stock market.

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From the bestselling author of "Spin Cycle" comes a one-of-a-kind book that takes the reader inside the Wall Street media machine and lays bare the behind-the-scenes hype and human foibles that move markets and make or break fortunes.

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An interesting look inside the crazy world of Wall Street and the media.......2006-10-02

This book is an interesting narrative that looks at the end of the internet bubble and details the events leading up to the tech crash of 2000. It is told mostly through the eyes of various media figures-from CNBC anchors to their rivals at CNNfn to Jim Cramer. For someone who isn't familiar with that time in the market this book offers a great deal of insight-for people who either experienced it firsthand or already know something about it there is probably very little new here.

This book makes for an interesting read. Despite already being familiar with the events covered in this book I was entertained, especially while reading about such colorful figures as Jim Cramer and Mark Haines. The book isn't particularly well-written-the changes in tense (which I'm not sure are always done correctly) are often annoying-but is nevertheless engaging and flows well. This is not a book I would recommend for anything other than a casual read, though as such it is probably worth a look.

fast paced, no-analysis, pure narration.......2004-09-09

In a remarkably well-narrated book, Kurtz, highlights the inordinate amount of power TV business program anchors and their guests have on stock volatility. Though the book focuses on the "bubble" era, the mechanisms of stock price manipulation, intended or coincidental, are equally applicable today as it did in the Internet craze.

Despite the well narrated story lines including many of the better known financial journalists, the book does not build on the few themes introduced in the first chapter itself. After a couple of chapters, the author's take on CNBC anchors' behavior on market movement is predictable. However, the story regarding the development of CNBC, Dobb/CNNfn, Fox, bloomberg, is entertaining, though wouldnt pass as a comprehensive history guide. The focus on Kramer for most part of the book is a bit annoying as well, though the use of thestreet.com's story reveals some interesting aspects of mergers/buy-outs, etc.

In short, a fairly good read, not a great level of details, but clearly highlights (over and over) the impact of journalists on stock prices (as if you needed this book to tell you), intertwined with good story lines on TV persona and journalists.

excelent summary of the financial history of the early '00.......2004-07-29

I read this book years ago when it was a best seller. I bought it on the strength of the reviews of the people written about in this book like Kramer, the CNBC Squakbox people, numerous high profile analysts. They had a positive review of how the book came out, and so I bought and read it. I don't read the Wall Street Journal all the time so the content of this book was educating for me. Howard Kurtz has a show in CNN, he is a media critic, so his take on the financial media and players in it has a degree of credibility. However this book is dated now, there have been many developments since this book hit the bookstores. The time I read this I thought it was wonderful that a summary of the recent financial past was available in a very well written book.

Interesting but not needed for the home collection.......2002-11-24

This book offered some interesting insight into how analyst news and forecasts effect the stock market. The main message I came away with is "don't believe the hype". If you are looking to bolster your confidence in your own ability to make stock picks in the face of contridictory market analysts then take the time to listen to this book. If you're not interested in an autobiogrophy of famous Wall Street gurus then skip it. You can get the same information and much more valuable insight from reading some of the Peter Lynch books.

Too much James Cramer, not enough Wall Street.......2002-06-18

This is mostly a minibio of James Cramer with a lot of attention paid on the side to CNBC and Maria Bartiromo specifically. If you're very interested in Cramer, you can just go get his actual memoir. As for me, I am interested in Wall Street and the system of disseminating and evaluating information and opinion about stocks -- the conflicts of interest, the conventions, the legal rules, the strengths and weaknesses. I don't know how you can analyze those issues without spending time on the role and motivations of key research analysts, the position of the SEC and the communication conventions between companies and journalists, hedge fund and other money managers and the SEC. Any book claiming to treat these issues and focusing on 1998-2000 would have to deal extensively by the phenomenon represented by Mary Meeker and Harry Blodgett, which this book does not. The book focuses disproportionately and without explanation on a few TV personalities without treating the overall issue. Too bad for me.

It would have been fine if the title had been accurate -- something about James Cramer. Or even "Crazy Days at CNBC."

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Checks and Share Drafts: Teller and Member Service Handbook

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Checks and Share Drafts: Teller and Member Service Handbook
Mary Ann Pels
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Credit Union Teller Handbook
Catherine M. Izor
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The Professional Teller
Course Technology
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An affordable, easily scannable one-day training guide designed for use in instructor-led training courses.

Credit Union Accounts: Teller and Member Service Handbook

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Credit Union Accounts: Teller and Member Service Handbook
Elaine Vila , and Sharyn Alden
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The Fortune Tellers: Inside Wall Street's Game of Money, Media, and Manipulation

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Howard Kurtz
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A "business book with a heart," The Halo Effect illustrates how inspiration in careers and in lives can be renewed by service to others.Volunteer work can help you learn new skills, meet new people, and develop a whole new perspective on your goals.A complete resource that outlines everything you need to know about volunteer work, The Halo Effect includes an appendix that lists and describes the best volunteer organizations that need your help today.

The Halo Effect : How Volunteering Can Lead to a More Fulfilling Life & a Better Career

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The Halo Effect : How Volunteering Can Lead to a More Fulfilling Life & a Better Career
John; with Stone, Gene Reynolds
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