Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective

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The 25th-anniversary edition of the premier text in medical anthropology. The newest edition of the premier teaching text in medical anthropology is thoroughly revised to reflect new developments in the field. Widespread awareness of emerging infectious diseases and global environmental change makes the ecological perspective of the McElroy-Townsend text even more relevant to students than when it was first published. Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective integrates biocultural, environmental, and evolutionary approaches to the study of human health. Research by human biologists and paleopathologists illuminates the history and prehistory of disease, while the work of cultural and applied anthropologists addresses contemporary health issues. Celebrating the book's 25th anniversary, the Fourth Edition includes increased coverage of emerging diseases, evolutionary medicine, the homeless, health disparities, and forensic anthropology. New chapters treat reproduction and careers in applied medical anthropology. New "Profiles" (case studies) on stress and toxic chemicals have been added and other profiles have been updated, further augmenting the classroom-friendly features the book is noted for.

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Dry Reading, But Useful.......2002-02-16

McElroy and Townsend's medical anthropology text is one of the classics in its field. I personally find the going very slow; I don't think that academic texts necessarily need to be presented in so pedantic a format. However, the information contained in the studies is quite useful to the anthropology student's understanding of disease in a cultural and ecological context.

Ann McElroy and Patricia Townsend (eds). Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective.(book)(Book Review) : An article from: The Australian Journal of Anthropology

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Ann McElroy and Patricia Townsend (eds). Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective.(book)(Book Review) : An article from: The Australian Journal of Anthropology
Jocelyn Grace
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital

The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

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The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0198278802

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Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into "view", and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural and physical surroundings. A principal aim of this volume follows from these interconnected ways of considering landscape: the conventional, Western notion of "landscape" may be used as a productive point of departure from which to explore analogous ideas; local ideas can in turn reflexively be used to interrogate the Western construct. The Introduction argues that landscape should be conceptualized as a cultural process: a process located between place and space, foreground actuality and background potentiality, image and representation. In the chapters that follow, nine noted anthropologists and an art historian exemplify this approach, drawing on a diverse set of case studies. These range from an analysis of Indian calendar art to an account of Israeli nature tourism, and from the creation of a metropolitan "gaze" in nineteenth-century Paris to the soundscapes particular to the Papua New Guinean rainforests. The anthropological perspectives developed here are of cross-disciplinary relevance; geographers, art historians, and archaeologists will be no less interested than anthropologists in this re-envisaging of the notion of landscape.

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This consumer guide is filled with more than 1,400 listings of green retailers, service providers, and organizations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The businesses are divided into categories and have a minimum green requirement to be listed. Some of the categories are further recognized with a "green leaf" award, which gauges green businesses on a scale of one to four leaves, four being the greenest. The award is based on a measure of a business's sale or use of green products and services. At the beginning of each category, the evaluation criteria is provided. Among the listings are everything from organic restaurants and grocery stores to dry cleaners, organic pest control services, and sustainable building suppliers, landscapers, and interior designers.

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Claims to cover San Francisco Bay Area...it doesn't.......2007-06-12

2 stars for a great design and good information, however it's incomplete. The listings cover half of the San Francisco Bay Area. It goes as far south as Palo Alto on the peninsula and Hayward on the East Bay. There are no South Bay listings. San Jose is the largest city in the Bay Area and I have yet to find one listing from San Jose. This is unfortunate since a huge population of SF Bay Area citizens are left out who are very eager to support green businesses and reduce their carbon footprint.

I think the intent of this book, the design, the concise information, easy readability, and layout are fabulous. I hope that future editions will include a more complete coverage of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Great for locals, too!
Different kind of guide
great for the true globetrotter

Urban Travel Guide San Francisco
Bradley Charbonneau
Manufacturer: Mo' Media
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9057671263

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urban travel guide SAN FRANCISCO describes today's best addresses for eating and drinking, shopping, going out, lodging, culture and leisure. The guide is structured around the city's main features, including: fashion, architecture, design, going out, music, food, interiors and where to discover new trends. It is the ultimate guide for: getting hold of the hottest designers; where to find their shops; the up-and-coming neighborhoods; and it tells you about the city's new trends and innovative talents in food, music, fashion and art.

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Great for locals, too!.......2005-12-31

As a native San Franciscan looking to re-appreciate the city I grew up in as an adult, I've purchased a couple of guidebooks for my own locale. This one is now marked left and right with post-its for places I've tried and loved and places I still want to check out. I love it. It hits up so many trendy and happening places and long-time favorites of locals as well. I've only found it to go wrong about 1/100 times, and that's due to personal opinion. I'm not sure about its info on hotels, but I'd probably use it as a supplement to another book if I were a tourist. If you're looking for a genuine SF experience, starting out in some of the restaurants, bars, and destinations recommended by this book is a good idea.

One of the great things I've found about the Urban Travel Guides besides their ability to capture the of-the-moment hip spots is their DISCREETNESS--the fact that you can remove the vinyl cover (which is printed with the title, etc) and carry and flip through a small book that in no way gives away your touristness and does not invite unwanted advice or well-meant but un-needed help from passers-by.

It's helped me find some great places and I'm still enjoying it. People often ask how I found out about the places I share. I just say it comes with being a native : )

Different kind of guide.......2004-07-31

With most guides, I pick the thing up after I've decided what to do: I use it to see if the restaurant I'm considering is any good, or what the hours are, or whatever. Bradley Charbonneau's Urban Travel Guide is something else again. Seems to me, Charbonneau has gone out and found about 200 interesting/fun/weirdly rewarding things to do in San Francisco that you don't usually hear about. Each place he reviews is on its own page, so each page corresponds to a different activity. Last weekend, I was bored, I said to my wife, pick a number, she picked 96, I opened the book, it turned out to be a place called the Linc Gallery, so we went and saw an art show. Never would have thought of it otherwise. Next time I have a vistor from out of town, and I have to leave them on their own, I'm going to give them a copy of this book.

great for the true globetrotter.......2004-07-29

finally, a guide that doesn't weigh your backpack down with another ten pounds of useless text and minute details you really don't want to read. while practical on one side [with the standard categories of shopping/food&drink/nightlife/etc], it reinvents travel guides by breaking out sf in more meaningful ways [body,mind&soul/sophisticate/bohemia,california] specific to The City. perfect for the traveler that likes to look under a city's hood and stroll off the beaten path, the way a local would.

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San Francisco Urban Travel Guide
Bradley Charbonneau
Manufacturer: BOOK SYSTEMS PLUS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K7M92K

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Indians of the Woodland, Before and After the Pilgrims
Beatrice Siegel
Manufacturer: Walker & Co (Lib)
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0802761089

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There has been considerable and lively debate in philosophy of biology over the decade since the first edition of this anthology appeared. Changes and additions in the new edition reflect the ways in which the subject has broadened and deepened on several fronts; more than half of the-chapters are new. In all, twenty-three selections take up fitness, function and teleology, adaptationism, units of selection, essentialism and population thinking, species, systematic philosophies, phylogenetic inference, reduction of Mendelian genetics to molecular biology, ethics and sociobiology, and cultural evolution and evolutionary epistemology.

Elliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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a classic.......2000-03-31

This book is both an excellent introduction and thorough treatment of many of the thorniest philosophical and methodological issues in evolutionary biology. It is a must read for anyone who is serious about grappling with the deeper meaning of the study of evolution (i.e. deeper than the relatively simple concern of evolution versus creation).

Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology (Second Edition)

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Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology (Second Edition)
Elliott (Ed.) Sober
Manufacturer: M I T Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000LZNZT2

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Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology, Second Edition
Elliott Sober
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQBA0E

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This comprehensive reference collects fundamental theories and recent research from a wide range of fields including biology, biochemistry, physics, applied mathematics, and computer, materials, surface, and colloid science-providing key references, tools, and analytical techniques for practical applications in industrial, agricultural, and forensic processes, as well as in the production of natural and synthetic compounds such as foods, minerals, paints, proteins, pharmaceuticals, polymers, and soaps.

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Due to an increasing number of reported catastrophes all over the world, the safety especially of pedestrians today, is a dramatically growing field of interest, both for practitioners as well as scientists from various disciplines. The questions arising mainly address the dynamics of evacuating people and possible optimisations of the process by changing the architecture and /or the procedure. This concerns not only the case of ships, stadiums or buildings, all with restricted geometries, but also the evacuation of complete geographical regions due to natural disasters. Furthermore, also ‘simple’ crowd motion in ‘relaxed’ situations poses new questions with respect to higher comfort and efficiency since the number of involved persons at large events is as high as never before. In addition, as a new research topic in this field, collective animal behaviour is attracting increasing attention. All this was in the scope of the conference held in Vienna, September 28–30, 2005, the third one in a series after Duisburg (2001) and Greenwich (2003).

Applied Statistics in Occupational Safety and Health

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Very Useful Textbook

Applied Statistics in Occupational Safety and Health
Christopher A. Janicak
Manufacturer: Government Institutes
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0865871698

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Applied Statistics in Occupational Safety and Health, second edition, provides occupational safety and health professionals with an introductory guide to basic statistics and data analysis. This book is written in an easy-to-understand format with step-by-step procedures to analyze data using a variety of statistical techniques. In this second edition new and updated examples are provided as well as additional statistical tests. Topics in this book include statistical procedures for analyzing means, descriptive statistical methods, correlations, regression, and non-parametric statistical tests. At the end of each chapter, the author has provided sample problems and solutions.

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Very Useful Textbook.......2003-01-25

I would have never made it through my fall statistics course without the use of this book. The book is very easy to read and follow. The examples are very useful and helped me study for my quizes and exams. Well worth of every penny - especially if you are a poor college student. This is one book that will stay on my bookshelf and not back to the college bookstore for buyback.

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very topical for obvious reasons
Look at amazon.de for a cheaper offer
Up to date, comprehensive, and unique

Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics

Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 3540426906

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Is the behaviour of a crowd in an emergency situation predictable? Are the different patterns occurring in pedestrian flow based on common rules? How does panic change human reactions? These and other questions have been the scope of the international conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics. This book contains elaborate manuscripts written by scientists as well as practitioners from various disciplines: architecture, civil, naval and fire safety engineering, physics, computer science and mathematics. There has been considerable progress over the last decade and the central topic of human motion and behaviour has come more and more into the centre of interest, mainly due to increasing computer power and the development of new simulation models. This is the first conference dealing with modelling and simulation of pedestrian and crowd movement as well as the dynamical aspects of evacuation processes.

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very topical for obvious reasons.......2006-10-01

In light of recent natural disasters (New Orleans for example) and the terrorist events of 2001, this book has a certain relevance. It models how people might evacuate a given area. Which might be a building, ship, plane or train. The research papers systematically study how to design such an area for optimal evacuation. Most [all?] seem to have been originally in German.

Several papers perform mathematical modelling. Where pedestrians might be cellular automata, acting under an impulse or potential function, coupled with some randomness. The latter is essential for any realistic situation. Dynamic networks are also used to model the flow.

Ideas like directional sound are studied. Possibly lifesavers, when used as audible beacons. But much remains to be done, to optimise their design.

Look at amazon.de for a cheaper offer.......2004-03-24

Just a short hint:
Have a look at amazon.de for a cheaper offer. Since I'm from Germany, I can't sell books on amazon.com.
PED 2001, Springer, unused, 75 Euro + shipping, i.e. around 100 to 110 USD altogether.

Up to date, comprehensive, and unique.......2002-10-29

This book contains articles of the most important researchers and practitioners on the fields of pedestrian movement and evacuation simulation.
Everyone, who deals with these topics or safety issues in general
(not security, though) the volume provides an overview over the newest results and the state of the art. This will also be useful for the practitioner who is mainly interested in applying the results.
At the same time the reader can get thorough information about "pedestrian dynamics" and "evacuation simulation".
Furthermore, a whole part of the book is concerned with the evacuation of passenger ships.
This book is unique concerning the topics it deals with (a strong focus on simulation).
It can be strongly recommended to everyone who is engaged in this area (not only scientists).

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a great potrayal of Chicago's South Side

When a Lot Amounts to Very Little....

Character Development at its Finest

Studs Lonigan Trilogy

agonizing misery without pity

Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy Comprising Young Lonigan, the Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgement Day
James T. Farrell
Manufacturer: Bt Bound
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Binding: Library Binding

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U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America)

ASIN: 0613175395

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Collected here in one volume is James T. Farrell's renowned trilogy of the youth, early manhood, and death of Studs Lonigan: Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day. In this relentlessly naturalistic portrait, Studs starts out his life full of vigor and ambition, qualities that are crushed by the Chicago youth's limited social and economic environment. Studs's swaggering and vicious comrades, his narrow family, and his educational and religious background lead him to a life of futile dissipation.

Ann Douglas provides an illuminating introductory essay to Farrell's masterpiece, one of the greatest novels of American literature.

With an introduction by Ann Douglas.

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a great potrayal of Chicago's South Side.......2005-03-12

(i'm 13 and Irish)Studs Lonigan is a great book which potrays Chicago back in the days when all the tough neighbourhoods were White and te blacks were beginning 2 invade. Studs is born into an Irish-Catholic working class family with a mother and father who want the best for him. his father wants him 2 grow up 2 be better than he did and wants him 2 work hard, his mom wants him 2 be in Priesthood. Studs doesn't want either of those things. he is young and foolish ii guess and wants 2 do his own thing which is normal. but it haunts him later during the depresstion. It begnins in 1916 when he is 14 and ends in 1931 when he is 29. another great thing about this book is that it has a lot of historical things in it like one BIG thing was the 1919 race riots that Studs and his friends took part in. their friend Clackey Merton had been killed in the black belt and Studs and his friends went on a rampage and making the blacks remember the month and year of July, 1919. In fact the race riots of 1919 was largely Irishmen against blacks.
Studs has 2 sides 2 him the one that is horny and wild and does what every1 wants him 2 do and one that is kind of poetic and knows whats right and wants 2 do it. so Studs all around is an alright guy. yep Studs led a hard life of the riots and being forced from his neighbourhood by blacks and jewboy bankers. he also went through the depresstion and he gets his fiance pregnent and has barely any money and....1902-1931

When a Lot Amounts to Very Little...........2004-06-10

I spent about a month and a half slogging my way through James T. Farrell's magnum opus, and the most pressing question I was left with after finishing was this: What in the world did Farrell find interesting enough about this protagonist to warrant an entire trilogy devoted to him?

Studs Lonigan is born into a fairly well-to-do Irish Catholic family in Chicago and spends the majority of his formative years trying to convince himself that he's the toughest kid on the block and will amount to something big before his time on Earth is through. He has a cockeyed impression of what it is that makes a man a man and so, scene after scene, we see him beating up people, sleeping around, contracting venereal diseases, getting so shnookered that he has to be dumped off at home by friends and generally making an ass of himself. In between scenes like these, we are exposed to the strict Catholic rhetoric pounded into the heads of the neighborhood youth and understand that Studs' behavior leaves him with extreme feelings of guilt, though that guilt doesn't cause him to act differently.

By the trilogy's end, Studs has decided that maybe he should straighten out and take life more seriously, but of course by then his self-destructiveness has taken its toll and Studs' turn around comes as too little too late.

Can someone tell me why the hell I should care about any of the above? Studs is a jerk; he's rarely anything else. He spends most of his time feeling sorry for himself and whining about all the bad breaks that befall him, when obviously he has dug his own hole and must suffer the consequences. I suppose that's Farrell's point; I think he was trying to make a comment about down-trodden groups having to help themselves before anyone else will help them. But an entire novel built around someone who has no self-control and then spends countless scenes whining about why he feels so lousy, or is broke, or doesn't have a girlfriend, is doomed to be tedious.

Farrell's writing style doesn't help matters. His prose is SO repetitive. This is especially apparent in his dialogue, where characters in conversation will literally say the same thing over and over, turning what should be a half-page exchange into three and four pages of tediousness.

Only occassionally does this book become interesting. Some of the details surrounding the Depression and especially the Irish attitudes toward Communism are particularly engaging. Otherwise, there wasn't much that kept my interest.

I have a feeling Farrell was frustrated with the isolated, extremely religious community the Irish relegated themselves to in the first third of the 20th century and blames that isolation for their lack of progress. They put all of their faith in God and refuse to do anything to help themselves. They complain about how the country takes advantage of the working man, but they refuse to attempt an understanding of Communist doctrine because they've been told by priests that Communists want anarchy and are anti-God and country. They even keep distant from university educations because the priests are afraid people will begin to get ideas of their own and realize that their religious beliefs are built on nothing but sand. I guess Studs is meant to be a sort of illustration of this environment in general, but Farrell really misses the opportunity to drive his points home.

Character Development at its Finest.......2004-04-11

If you are looking for a plot driven story, then this may not satisfy. However, if you do not approach the story with the same kind of expectations you might bring to a work of popular fiction, Farrell maintains a high level of interest. I believe Studs Lonigan is one of the most developed characters in twentieth century American fiction. I am especially impressed that this depiction comes across so strongly without the aid of contrived catastrophes that land on the character from out of the blue. Although Studs is affected by his environment, it is still possible to trace the turns his life takes to sources within his own personality. These sources determine him as often as they are determined by him. I found him to be neither beneath nor above me. I can't say the book is exciting so much as extremely moving. Either way, I was turning the pages late into the night.Definately a book I will remember all my life.

Studs Lonigan Trilogy.......2003-04-27

Studs Lonigan was written in realistic style, simillar to that of Theodore Dreiseer. Yet where Dreisser wrote stylishly, Farrells's prose seems simplistic and crude and his dialogue filled with cliches. The Suds Lonigan story would fit in well with Dos Passo's USA trilogy.

From a social prespective is where Studs Lonigan gets its fame. Its indictment of working class Irish immigrants and the Catholic church must have been, at the time, very controversial. One can draw parralels of the life of Studs Lonigan and his ultimate fate to black youths in today's inner cities.

The first book starts with the graduation of Studs from middle school. During the summer after his graduation the two most important acheivements in Studs'life occur- (1) he defeats a local tough in a fist fight and (2) he kisses the girl he idolizes. For the rest of his life Studs, tries to replicate those two events.

In Book 2 Studs effectively seals his fate by boozing and carousing, to the detriment of both his psyche and his health. By the end of Book 2, Studs' future prospects have all but been eliminated and his reputation in his own mind as a tough guy is ruined when he is beaten up at a party by the very youth that Studs had beaten up as a youngster. His attempts at finding a good woman are crude and ineffective.

By Book 3 Studs is demoralized and physically ill. His tough guy image is further depleted when his younger brother beats Studs up. Also in Book 3, the Depression has all but ruined Stud's chance to reach any kind of financial security. Even though Studs finds a nice girl who he plans to wed, he is too far gone in both spirit and body to recover.

agonizing misery without pity.......2002-10-24

Of course there is self-pity, but too much of this amounts to contempt. Studs Lonigan is a stark, murderous story of things going wrong and continuing to go wrong until life seems too hard and one is pushed to the limits of giving up. What made this book even more powerful for me was that I didn't much care for it after about 70 pages. The characters seemed cardboard, the dialogue is a frazzled series of cliches of punks trying to imitate tough guys in books and in movies and their own personalities don't seem to fit. And it goes on like this, for 800 more pages. But the change comes when you see these lapses for what they are: genuine lapses in the character's imaginations; an inability to be anything real, to have true thoughts or actual ideas other than trying to imitate people who never were (or, if they were, have become so mythologized as to be unrecognizable).

Studs is a shy, brooding boy with a head full of dreams and no conception of responsibility. He wanders around waiting for something to happen to him yet being unable to initiate anything. He passes through his life hoping things will improve. They don't, nothing improves, life continues to get harder and harder and things grow worse and worse. There are the prejudices, easy excuses for what went wrong that crop up when one refuses to blame themselves for their failures, but even in this Studs remains true, if not to himself, than to the expectations we have for him from the very start of the book.

A stark view of realism Studs Lonigan, I believe, outshines some of the more celebrated examples of this style such as An American Tragedy or Babbitt simply because nothing extraordinary ever happens to Studs. He is a boring person, a complete failure who for the scant thirty years of his life never moves out of his parents' home, never pursues a career and never ceases to see himself as someone other than who he actually is. He is a dreamer, sure; a romantic dreamer with the best of intentions and not a single idea in his head. Constantly people are blathering their contrary opinions to Studs and he finds himself agreeing with everyone, waiting for someone to explain how things truly are. And he continues to wait, continues to yearn all the while growing older and coming to realize that nothing he hopes for will ever come true.

The prose is lingo-heavy, filled with scattered phrases from the era in which it was written which adds greater verasimillitude to the situations. The emotional intensity of the story builds progressively and I found myself growing increasingly moved by the multiplying disappointments and the ruin of everyone involved. What comes as the sharpest stroke of the novel is that Studs, for all his failings, comes across as fundementally the most decent person in the world of the book. He doesn't truly love or hate anything, only focuses his interest on people long enough to see how they fit in to his view of reality, but this is not so much from selfishness but from a need to be told how to live. He joins in with hating blacks or Jews or Communists or anyone causing apparent trouble to any of his friends but also can turn around and sympathize with the plight of the underprivilaged and the down-on-their-luck. He is a contradiction, fundamentally, as it is as a result of this, as a result of his timid acceptance of everything that happens, that keeps him in the same place he was when he was an ignorant child dreaming of being the toughest kid on the block.

A wonderful book that will leave me depressed for quite some time, no doubt.

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Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy Comprising Young Lonigan, the Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgement Day
James T. / Douglas, Ann (INT) Farrell
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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ASIN: B000OJQ6NC

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