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Between Earth and Sky: Poets of the Cowboy West
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ASIN: 0393037363 |
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Some good, some not so good........2002-01-24
I enjoyed some of the poems and the pictures, but too many of the poems lost my interest. I find the anthology "Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering" from Hal Cannon much better.
My complaint is that many of the poems are free verse and filled with obscure allusions, much like main stream poetry. I read cowboy poetry for its content and form, and both were lacking in many of these poems. I recommend you try somewhere else if you're looking for good cowboy poetry.
Recent recipient of Wrangler Award from Cowboy Hall of Fame.......1996-05-17
A collection of fine land-based poetry, and beautiful, haunting photographs -- perfect for any collection of western verse
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Wonders of the World - Bristlecone Pines (Wonders of the World)
Kelli Brucher , and
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ASIN: 0737730617 |
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In scorching sun and icy snow bristlecone pines grow to be the oldest living trees in the world. This book explores how these amazing pines grow, when their ancient age was discovered and why it is so important to protect these living links to the past.
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An engaging, well-illustrated natural and cultural history of the oldest living organism—the bristlecone pine. Illustrations by Valerie Cohen.
Since Edmund Schulman discovered in 1958 that individual bristlecones live nearly 5,000 years, the trees have been investigated primarily for the elaborate record their rings contain.
The trees have been "read" closely, with major consequences for natural and human history. Historians have read local and global environmental change. Archaeologists have rewritten the history of civilization. Writers have transformed them into figures pertinent to the human dilemmas of time and eternity. A Garden of Bristlecones investigates professional and popular conceptions as a set of narratives drawn from the outside and from the inside of the trees. It reveals the premises of the investigators, the nature of their inquiry, and the extent of their knowledge, while also revealing the Great Basin bristlecone itself.
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Bristlecone pines: Esthetic organism from and to the organic theatre
Bob Burleson
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Fantastic resource for planning the Honeymoon of your dreams.......1999-09-27
Katharine does a fantastic job of picking the most romantic resorts in the world. My wife and I use this as our primary trip guide for all our travels. If Katharine doesn't cover it, then you probably don't want to stay there!
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Clash of Cultures: Prehistory-1638 (Drama of American History)
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Sexual Selection in Primates: New and Comparative Perspectives
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Successful reproduction is not always a cooperative affair, but rather a competition between males, with females having the final "say." Throughout there is conflict regarding when, with whom and how often mating should occur. This volume provides the first comprehensive summary of the various forms of sexual communication and behavior and the consequences of the interaction between the sexes.
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Interpretation of Mass Spectra of Organic Compounds
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Theory and Applications of Higher-Dimensional Hadamard Matrices (Combinatorics and Computer Science)
Yang Yi Xian
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This is the first book on higher dimensional Hadamard matrices and their applications in telecommunications and information security. It is divided into three parts according to the dimensions of the Hadamard matrices treated. The first part stresses the classical 2-dimensional Walsh and Hadamard matrices. Fast algorithms, updated constructions, existence results, and their generalised forms are presented. The second part deals with the lower-dimensional cases, e.g. 3-, 4-, and 6-dimensional Walsh and Hadamard matrices and transforms. One of the aims of this part is to simplify moving smoothly from 2-dimensional cases to the general higher-dimensional cases. This part concentrates on the 3-dimensional Hadamard and Walsh matrices. Constructions based upon direct multiplication, and upon recursive methods, and perfect binary arrays are also introduced. Another important topic is the existence and construction of 3-dimensional Hadamard matrices of orders 4
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k + 2 respectively, and a group of transforms based on 2-, 3-, 4-, and 6-dimensional Walsh-Hadamard matrices and their corresponding fast algorithms.
The third part is the key part, which investigates the
N-dimensional Hadamard matrices of order 2, which have been proved equivalent to the well-known H-Boolean functions and the perfect binary arrays of order 2. This equivalence motivates a group of perfect results about the enumeration of higher-dimensional Hadamard matrices of order 2. Applications of these matrices to feed forward networking, stream cipher, Bent functions, and error correction codes are presented in turn. After introducing the definitions of the regular, proper, improper, and generalised higher-dimensional Hadamard matrices, many theorems about the existence and constructions are presented. Perfect binary arrays, generalised perfect arrays, and the orthogonal designs are also used to construct new higher-dimensional Hadamard matrices. The many open problems in the study of the theory of higher-dimensional Hadamard matrices, which are also listed in the book, will encourage further research.
Audience: This volume will appeal to researchers and graduate students whose work involves signal processing, coding, information security, and applied discrete mathematics.
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Six Records of a Floating Life (Fu Shen Liu Ji) Review.......2007-04-10
If one reads the introduction, this book is not meant to be read as a sequential narrative, instead it is a collection of memoirs and hence the word "records" in the title. However, through this collection of records and memoirs one can piece together an intimate portrait of Shen Fu and it tells a captivating story of his love, his passions, his struggles, and through description, his life and times.
The records follow Shen Fu on his numerous attempts to find contentment in life. Readers are welcomed to peer into significant segments of the author's life. As an educated man Shen Fu tried to gain a position through civil examinations, tried his hand at being a painter, was framed by his friends and ended up in debt, got into disagreements with his family and was disowned by his father. In the end, "Floating Life" can be applied literally when describing Shen Fu's giving up worldly matters, such as a securing a job after the loss of his wife and child, to wander China.
Not only do the records narrow in and give a detailed account of Shen Fu's affairs, his autobiography also gives a reader a rare glimpse into a China that is no longer existent. Through Shen Fu's accounts the reader can experience the long lost customs of ancient China, for example, in "The Delights of Roaming Afar" Shen Fu visited Southern China with a friend and being lonely men with time for leisure and room in the pockets for expenditure, they visited numerous brothel boats sitting "like aimless floating leaves"(p.121) on the river.
Ultimately, Six Records of a Floating Life is a touching love story. A resonating theme thought out the records is Yun, Shen Fu's beloved wife. Yun immensely impacts Shen Fu's life starting from the first record, "The Joys of the Wedding Chamber" where she and Shen Fu are arranged to be married to the last record, "The Delights of Roaming Afar" where Shen Fu is constantly reminded of Yun even long after her death through traveling to places he wished he had brought her to visit. Shen Fu's account of Yun does not cease only as a dutiful wife and daughter-in-law according to Confucian ideology, but portrays her as a bright adventurous woman, which was against conventions, and more importantly he presents her as his soul mate.
Lastly, Shen Fu's tone is full of indignant passion making him an amusing storyteller as well as a hopeless romantic (as mentioned by many reviewers). Moreover, the translators (Leonard Pratt and Chiang Su-hui) translate Shen Fu's work without losing his ease and personality, making the book a delightful read. Keeping in mind that not many authors in feudal China reveal an honest account of their times and even less-so the intimate accounts of their domestic life, this autobiography is wonderfully rare.
The wonder of nothing special.......2005-11-08
There are so many contradictions within this quirky memoir that it could only possibly be true.
This is a memoir of life right around the start of the 19th century. It recounts the adult life of Shen Fu, a man who appears to have been ordinary in the extreme. Although educated, he did not pass the literary tests of the civil service. At best, his career could have been a secretary under one of the successful examinees, but his times weren't always the best. His positions never lasted, and his business attempts failed. Often, he sold his possessions and his wife's down to the clothes on their backs (or less). He fell out with his family, in a time when filial duty was enforced by law, and became outcast in almost every sense.
But his life never wholly failed, either. Perhaps it was the glow of nostalgia, but his twenty-three years of marriage were always a joy to him, even when his wife's health failed, and even when she may have been the source of some of his problems. They had their times of poverty, but never to the point of starvation. He was honorable enough to quit a corrupt position when it offended his honor too deeply. He was devoted enough to heal the familial rifts. His joys and Yun's were simple - travel, each other, the beauty of the full moon, and maybe a little too much wine shared with happy company. Shen Fu and his devoted Yun never demanded much from their lives, and usually got enough to enjoy.
The text wanders. The first three chapters chart the ups and downs of the marriage to his beloved wife. She died early, from some frightening disease. Still, she and he accepted it stoically, or mostly did. The fourth chapter collects a few decades of moments together, the sights and sounds of travel. With his wife and after her, Shun Fu visited temples, sacred caves, and pleasure districts, reported in some drifting collage of personal history. Despite the "six" promised in the title, we have only four. It's probably better that way, according to the appendices.
I really think I would have liked Shun Fu. He was honest enough, loving enough, and devoted enough to his children. Even when his own situation deteriorated badly, he fostered his son as best he could and sheltered his daughter with people who could marry her well. He never wholly succeeded or failed, but muddled through the chances that appeared to him. He was no grand hero, nor villain, nor idle dreamer, nor driven workaholic. He was just a guy, living some guy's life pretty well. Maybe he dressed up his memories just a bit, but don't we all?
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A passionate and romantic story.......2002-08-07
"Six Records" (also known as "Six Chapters of a Floating Life"), c. 1805, is an extraordinarily frank autobiography that is totally unprecedented and unparalleled in the history of Chinese literature. It describes the life of the author Shen Fu and his beloved wife, Ch'en Yun (1763-1803), in extremely revealing detail. The intimacy and joy shared by the couple are as unusual by normal standards of Chinese married life as is the author's daringness in revealing them to others. Their close, playful relationship stands in defiant opposition to the staid decorum of married life expected by Confucian ideology.
A thoroughly enjoyable and inspiring read. Ch'en Yun is a woman ahead of her time who admirably balances her love of learning and passion for life with her duties and obligations as a traditional Chinese wife.
excellent book!!.......2001-11-03
a very, very good book to get to know the everyday life of late imperial Chinese!
A charming and touching autobiography of a poor scholar.......1997-12-07
This is a most charming and touching story of a poor Chinese scholar-painter struggling to make a decent living under poverty and mounting debts. In his autobiography, Shen Fu shares with us his experiences, his love for a talented wife and other simple things in life, his family and friends, and travels throughout Manchu China. Despite mounting poverty, he has great passion for living and these records of his experiences and impressions are as relevant to us as it were to him 200 years ago. A highly recommended book and a definite "must-read" over the weekend.
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Six Records of a Floating Life
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