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Philosophy gone wild: Essays in environmental ethics
Holmes Rolston
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The second edition of this popular guide has been updated to include the latest technological advances that simplify and maximize marijuana cultivation.
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Old but okay as long as you have another book too........2003-08-12
Ed Rosenthal had a hand in this one and it looks more like Closet Cultivator than a good grow book. This book is not the best hydroponics book you can find by a long shot. It is also incomplete and there is much better information in some of the other grow books that are out there. I highly recommend The Cannabis Grow Bible by Greg Green for coverage of hydroponics systems and growing mediums. "Marijuana Hydroponics" is a little lite* on both of these areas. It will get you there but I have strong reserves about issuing this book a fully positive review without suggesting that you also get another book with a hydroponics section to help you along. I did like the sections on photosynthesis though.
Don't buy this out of date book!!!.......2002-01-03
I was looking forward to gaining some real insights with this book. However, it is one of the most disapointing books on the subject I have read. The infomation is dated, the size of the book is pitifull. Trying to remain objective, there are a few handy formulas for detailed calculations, the rest of the information here is old news, and all available for free on the net. Ed has, in the past written some of the best and most well known material on this subject. But this book is just not worth buying. Ed Rosenthal where has your integrity gone?
Don't buy this out of date book!!!.......2002-01-03
I was looking forward to gaining some real insights with this book. However, it is one of the most disapointing books on the subject I have read. The infomation is dated, the size of the book is pitifull. Trying to remain objective, there are a few handy formulas for detailed calculations, the rest of the information here is old news, and all available for free on the net. Ed has, in the past written some of the best and most well known material on this subject. But this book is just not worth buying. Ed Rosenthal where has your integrity gone?
Don't buy this book...its rubbish!!.......2002-01-03
I was looking forward to gaining some real insights with this book. However, it is one of the most disapointing books on the subject I have read. The infomation is dated, the size of the book is pitifull. Trying to remain objective, there are a few handy formulas for detailed calculations, the rest of the information here is old news, and all available for free on the net. Ed has, in the past written some of the best and most well known material on this subject. But this book is just not worth buying. Ed Rosenthal where has your integrity gone?
Incomplete Guide to Hydroponics.......2001-02-14
I ordered this book after seeing all these reviews praising the information on growing with hydroponics and was pretty disapointed to see that there were only 8 pages dedicated to that system. Still I guess it was better than the 4 pages dedicated to growing in soil.
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Ed Rosenthal's Marijuana Growing Tips
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The American Retirement Resorts Worldbook: How and Where to Discover Your Ideal Community
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After the Guns Fall Silent: The Enduring Legacy of Landmines
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Amazing clarity and pathos from a self-educated woman.......2000-03-14
I originally had to read this book for a Japanese History class, and found it incredible. In the 1930's it was standard practice to take a written confession from prisoners before execution, but this one stood out and has survived to the present day for its insight and honesty. This is a person who, after unthinkable suffering acheived not only complete self-realization but the ability to communicate it to others. It's also facinating because, despite so much spilt ink about understanding the conservative Japanese psyche, this is one of the only non-fiction works which effectively and honestly tackles communal mentality and social hierarcy without over-complicating the issue. But beyond that, it is an incredible story not unlike a true-to-life Japanese version of Ellison's Invisible Man. It is a crime that this book is not well known.
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Picture Control: The Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America, 1940-1960 (Writing Science)
Nicolas Rasmussen
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Two major questions motivate this study: How do new devices get taken up as experimental systems by scientists? How does the adoption of new instruments affect scientific knowledge? Many ramifications emerge from these two simple questions. Among these are historical questions about how, by whom, and why new instruments are introduced, or about how another, different set of instruments might be adopted given alternative social and cultural circumstances. Philosophical questions include the ways in which scientific understanding of the world depends on scientists’ instruments and techniques. Sociological questions concern such issues as how the organization of work within disciplines and laboratories and other scientific institutions may depend on the equipment employed.
All these questions are addressed in this book, which draws upon a range of archival sources as well as published scientific literature, through a detailed historical treatment of the electron microscope’s introduction and early impact on the life sciences. The author first describes the introduction of the electron microscope during the World War II years, and then traces its influence on the subsequent divergence of several life sciences research traditions, including what came to constitute cell biology. The historical evidence is discussed in the light of recent discussions on the origin and nature of molecular biology, the importance of new instruments in the postwar life sciences, and the nature of research traditions, among other issues.
Building on the pragmatist tradition, the author also advances an original philosophical argument on the relation of experimental technology to scientific change, arguing that matters of scientific fact (and also matters of the social organization of science) are only settled through agreement on standardized “methods of inquiry.”
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Good history of EM.......2001-05-02
This book combines the history and philosophy of science. If you are interested in electron microscopy it is a must. The book shows how science can have its own "political climate."
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Magnetism Diagrams for Transition Metal Ions
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Handbook of Differential Equations: Evolutionary Equations, Volume 2 (Handbook of Differential Equations)
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The aim of this Handbook is to acquaint the reader with the current status of the theory of evolutionary partial differential equations, and with some of its applications. Evolutionary partial differential equations made their first appearance in the 18th century, in the endeavor to understand the motion of fluids and other continuous media. The active research effort over the span of two centuries, combined with the wide variety of physical phenomena that had to be explained, has resulted in an enormous body of literature. Any attempt to produce a comprehensive survey would be futile. The aim here is to collect review articles, written by leading experts, which will highlight the present and expected future directions of development of the field. The emphasis will be on nonlinear equations, which pose the most challenging problems today.
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Few cities on earth exert New York's pull on the literary imagination. There may be nothing like Paris in springtime, or a foggy day in London Town, but for sheer page volume, neither of these can rival the city that never sleeps. In celebration of Greater New York's centenary, the Library of America has assembled almost 200 years' worth of literary Gothamiana--no small task, given the scope from which they had to choose. The result is a hefty, pleasingly eclectic anthology that works as both historical document and literary revelation. Editor Phillip Lopate has wisely chosen to include both the familiar (Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener," Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry") and the unknown (the diaries of English actress Fanny Kemble). Edith Wharton, Oscar Hijuelos, Henry Miller, Willa Cather, Tom Wolfe, Hart Crane: these are only a few of the writers who offer up their takes on the city, in terms that vary from nostalgic to cynical, romantic to tart. "I want this new novel to be delicate and cutting--nothing will cut New York but a diamond," observes Dawn Powell; "I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse," writes a homesick Thoreau. F. Scott Fitzgerald mourns the giddy New York of 1919, his "lost city," while E.B. White lauds the metropolis for its dual bequests, "the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy." Vibrant, opinionated, more than a little bit overwhelming, the anthology is a fitting tribute to a city whose most enduring characteristic is the speed at which it can change. In the words of E.B. White, "A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines."
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New York is simply too big -- too lush, too rich with history, too integral to the texture of human life during the past two centuries -- for any one writer to tell its story. A proper literary portrait of the storied city demands nothing less than a multiplicity of voices.
For this ambitious purpose, Phillip Lopate has selected a stunningly expansive and deeply illuminating collection of the best writing about the world's greatest city. As seen through the eyes of more than one hundred writers -- from Washington Irving, the first New York author to establish an international reputation, to Stephen Crane, Henry James, Dawn Powell, and Langston Hughes -- the Big Apple shines in dazzling and unprecedented ways. Writing New York is every bit as vital and surprising as the city it celebrates.
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The Big Town in Literature .......2007-10-03
An immense collection the Big Town, arguably still the most exciting city in the world.
It begins with Washington Irving contemplating the meaning of Manhattan and includes works of tens of the first- rate writers who have been influenced by the Big Town. It includes diaries, journals, letters, stories, poems, essays. Over one - hundred writers give their take on the City which Bellow once said includes every single human type and kind. It touches too upon the vast worlds of inner feeling , the effects the City has on the soul. So there is the lonely independent cry of 'Bartleby' 'I prefer not to' not far from the celebratory sound of Whitman's 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry'. It has the Broadway of Damon Runyan and the Lower East Side of Abraham Cahan.
Worlds within worlds , a true treasure for all those who know and love the big town.
A Literary Tribute to the Big Apple.......2005-07-06
The tale of New York City is one of the most interesting in world history. Starting as a humble colony by different European hands, it has emerged as the financial capital of the world in the past 100 years, symbolizing the dominance of the sole superpower in the world. Perhaps the ultimate melting pot, the city is home to among the most diverse populations in the planet.
"Writing New York: A Literary Anthology" captures the zeitgeist of this most modern of metropolises. A literary compendium of famous and not-so-famous, local and foreign authors give a representative view of the city in it's varied distinctions. The energy, loneliness, alienation, joy, triumph, success, failure, and unique culture of Gotham are adequately portrayed in this vast portrait.
Charting the course of the city's 200 years, the early efforts of Washington Irving and James Kirke Paulding give the reader some observations of the city in it's infancy. Antebellum accounts by foreign visitors like Charles Dickens, Frances Trollope, and Fanny Kemble reveal the competitive and jaundiced eye representatives of the old world cast on the new with it's "great experiment". One of the marvels of this anthology is the glimpses of 19th-Century New York life, vividly shown in works like the excerpt from Nathaniel Parker Willis' "Open-Air Musings in the City"; the pressure of commercial-capitalist society in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener"; and everyday life in George G. Foster's "The Eating-Houses". The personal diaries of Philip Hone and George Templeton Strong are fascinating accounts of the city from the eyes of prominent individuals who had the vantage point of observing their times within the upper echelons of New York society.
Of course, New York would not be completely represented without the diverse cultures and ethnic distinctions it is known for. The narrative of Wong Chin Foo on his personal travail in starting a Chinese newspaper in Victorian America is a humorous and painful account of the country's well-known dark past. The African-American experience is competently depicted in James Weldon Johnson's transparent prose and Langston Hughes' reminiscence of the Harlem Renaissance. Abraham Cahan describes the Jewish experience, while Bernardo Vega and Oscar Hijuelos chronicle the Latin side of the story with trademark verve and vivacity. And many more.
Not only is prose touched on, but other literary genres are adequately represented. Poetical giants as diverse as Walt Whitman, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Hart Crane call on their muse to evoke their paean's to the city. Essays depicting the city's various impressions on individuals like Stephen Graham and Vivian Gornick are rendered in memorable style.
Like most anthologies, the book has it's weaknesses. Worthily inclusive writings on New York by E.B. White, Federico Garcia Lorca, Albert Camus, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, and Andy Warhol, etc., are not included. The quality of the writing dips towards the end, where the writers of that period seem to be more content with the common than the inspired, though the writing picks up at the close with such memorable works like Elizabeth Hardwick's dream-like "Sleepless Nights".
One of the purposes of an anthology is to introduce readers to works or artists whom one has never heard. In the erudite editing of native New Yorker Philip Lopate, I am fortunate to have come across classic texts like Willa Cather's lovely "Coming, Aphrodite!"; Weldon Kees' haunting "Robinson" poems; John McNulty's delightful tales of common day to day life; and Lewis Mumford's unforgettable depiction of an epiphany at the Brooklyn Bridge in "Sketches from Life". Reading this comprehensive and handsome tome is a documentary, a literary experience on the life of a living metropolis.
Amazing Tribute to the Phenomena of NYC.......2002-08-06
This collection was the centerpiece of a course I recently took on Literary NY. Every piece of writing in this collection is memorable, evoking the timelessness of the place, from Washington Irving to Joan Didion, with a wide spectrum between. There are wonderful observational and personal essays, socio-political satires, poetry and short fiction all highlighting the on-going phenomena of this most fascinating of cities. The writers, some well-known and some lost in their time, all record from the heart. What struck me most while reading these wonderful pieces, is how some things truly never change, and how so many of the 'progressive' changes irrevocably destroyed the natural rhythms and space. There is something of interest here for everyone. I strongly recommend this collection.
Delightful and Intriguing Read.......2000-07-13
I'm a transplant from San Francisco but have always been a New Yorker at heart.
Every morning, while drinking my coffee, I read a few of these essays, poems and stories. I love this island and city and I love reading about it.
Truly a delight for any New Yorker or New York lover.
Another one for the kansas guy.......1999-11-19
someone "acttually" worte this... proofread your own stuff before you submit it, if you're complaining about "grammer"
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This inspiring book brings together letters, poems, and artwork by children from New York City and across the country in response to the September 11th tragedy.
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A Day in the Life: Tales from the Lower East : An Anthology of Writings from the Lower East Side, 1940-1990
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Mental Psychosis: A Compilation of Literary Writings
Alonso Rodriguez
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My art form is raw, powerful, and extremely dark. Each literary piece will take you on a unique journey; a journey of unexplored inner emotions. I will divulge visions and situations as viewed and interpreted through my eyes and surroundings.
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New Yorker Profiles
Gail Shivel
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An invaluable reference work, "New Yorker Profiles 1925-1992" is a comprehensive bibliography of the biographical pieces that ran in the magazine under its first three editors. Citations are organized alphabetically by the surname of the subject, and a cross-referenced index of authors provides background on the writers of the articles. The book replaces older indexes, and will prove to be a useful guide to the literary and journalistic phenomenon that is the "New Yorker".
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Words to go: An anthology of creative writing from the Cultural Council Foundation Artists Project
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