Standard & Poor's Guide to Energy Stocks

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From the world's most respected financial information service, a powerhouse of critical financial information

McGraw-Hill proudly introduces the Standard & Poor's Stock Sector Guides, a new series of guides offering investors comprehensive coverage of all major stocks in today's hottest industry sectors, including:

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Guides also include analyses of each sector as a whole and exclusive advice on how to evaluate stocks for the various industries in each sector.

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Everything you wanted to know ..........2003-08-06

Gower have a long tradition of publishing Handbooks on aspects of management, and the quality is consistently good. Each is structured for easy reference, and each makes use of acknowledged experts in their respective fields. Another characteristic is that each chapter ends with a set of references for those who want to go further into the specific area covered by the chapter. This new edition brings together a team of experts under a world leader in the field, to offer very comprehensive coverage, with each of the 43 chapters excellently referenced for those who want further detail in a particular area.
It is a monumental book (660 pages). With its exhaustive coverage of every aspect of current supply chain management and its probable development, it is indispensable for anyone working in the field, or whose work depends on sound supply chain management by others - which covers most of us. However, its scale makes it rather intimidating for those who simply want to understand the scope of the field without going beyond the main principles. For these readers, the first four or five chapters give a reasonable strategic overview, or they could go to Hugos: Essentials of Supply Chain Management, which is designed to provide an appreciation of key principles rather than depth of detail.

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The works of neurologist Oliver Sacks have a special place in the swarm of mind-brain studies. He has done as much as anyone to make nonspecialists aware of how much diversity gets lumped under the heading of "the human mind."

The stories in An Anthropologist on Mars are medical case reports not unlike the classic tales of Berton Roueché in The Medical Detectives. Sacks's stories are of "differently brained" people, and they have the intrinsic human interest that spurred his book Awakenings to be re-created as a Robin Williams movie.

The title story in Anthropologist is that of autistic Temple Grandin, whose own book Thinking in Pictures gives her version of how she feels--as unlike other humans as a cow or a Martian. The other minds Sacks describes are equally remarkable: a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome, a painter who loses color vision, a blind man given the ambiguous gift of sight, artists with memories that overwhelm "real life," the autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire, and a man with memory damage for whom it is always 1968.

Oliver Sacks is the Carl Sagan or Stephen Jay Gould of his field; his books are true classics of medical writing, of the breadth of human mentality, and of the inner lives of the disabled. --Mary Ellen Curtin

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To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.

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An Anthropologist on Mars.......2007-03-08

If you are interested at all in brain research, you will find this book fascinating.
The author celebrates the human strength to overcome disabilities and the true creative drive that may be buried in each of us. I highly recommend this book for learning and also for inspiration.

Brilliant, But Blind To Childhood And Prenatal Emotional Trauma.......2006-12-17

Although I don't agree with many of Oliver Sacks's conclusions, I found this fascinating book a worthwhile read. It is packed with superior case material - and largely presented in a very readable format (and unlike in some of his other books, he reins in his footnotes!). Some of the chapters, like "Prodigies" or "An Anthropologist On Mars" or "To See Or Not To See," are downright brilliant and provide wonderful and unusual insights into the workings of the human brain - and the universals of human experience. Other chapters (such as "The Colorblind Painter" and "The Landscape Of His Dreams") are weak and drag on, rehashing the same relatively minute points ad nauseum.

Overall, however, Sacks's main weakness is his lack of understanding of emotions, particularly the emotional dynamics between parents and children. He does occasionally wax eloquent about emotional states and spirituality, but this comes across more as an intellectualization of emotions than a truly deep grasp of them. He has little respect for their power to mold neurological development, and sidesteps his own data that point in this direction. To me this is shoddy science, and he failed to convince me of his foregone conclusion that disorders like autism and Tourette's syndrome are neurological in origin.

In his chapter on Tourette's, Sacks presents a surgeon who appears to be acting out a huge degree of repressed hostility through his unconsciously motivated peculiarities. Sacks even opens the door a crack into why the surgeon might do it - that he was adopted and painfully isolated as a child, and it's not hard to speculate that he might be totally enraged at his rotten lot in early childhood life, and yet unable to express this appropriate anger through healthy avenues of expression, because that would only earn him MORE rejection. So instead (my gut tells me, though I lack the data to take it further) he acted it out through Tourette's. But Sacks never touches this one with a ten foot pole, or even speculates as to this possibility, and instead just idealizes this man for his bizarre outbursts, his violence, his hostility toward his own children, his terrible boundaries, and his occasional ability to rein in his symptoms and function super-normally. Had the surgeon not been so high functioning, and people not put up with his oddness and general offensiveness, I highly doubt Sacks would be putting him on such a pedestal.

But I really question Sacks's confidence in stating that autism has nothing to do with childhood trauma. My gut tells me that at least some autistic children were emotionally traumatized in early childhood or in the womb, and were reacting on a primal level to their mothers' emotional pathology. Every fetus reacts to maternal emotional pathology - and emotional health - at some level, and I feel the autistic response is just an ultra-extreme one, like the crème de la crème of a schizoid response, so much so that the parts of the fetal brain that develop healthy emotional relating and expression and self-reflection become stunted or dead. My viewpoint might be difficult to prove, but I see it as less difficult to prove than Sacks's neurological etiology, which he defends in the most convenient way of all - by not even considering any opposing points of view.

But in a world hell-bent on minimizing the blame on mothers for their children's problems, it makes sense why Sacks can get away with turning such a blind eye.

the mind is fascinating .......2006-12-09

on the whole i'd say the book was very good. i agree with previous reviewers that some chapters were more interesting than others, but all were well written and really described the situations beyond the hard science. i liked that he didnt delve too far in to explaining why patients behaved the way they did, i.e., didnt go on and on about dysfunctional neurons and brain injuries. it was neat to see that dr sacks stayed in contact with the people he wrote about/studied and to see their progression or regression.

An Awesome Romp Through the Pluriverse........2006-07-27

"Anthropologist on Mars" begins with a quote by geneticist J.B.S. Haldane - a quote that so beautifullly sums up the book's aim as to bear repeating:

"The universe is not only queerer than we imagine, but queerer than we can imagine."

Oliver Sacks's seven paradoxical tales aim at showing us just that. We are offered a mere glimpse of the neurological pluriverse and, in so witnessing, become able to appreciate just how 'queer' human nature can be.

Other reviewers have gone into great detail about the outline of each story, so I will leave that to them. What I wish to point out to prospective readers is Sack's ability, through his tales, to make the ordinary things about our brains that we take for granted, appear unique, fragile, and more special than we might have thought.

For instance, we witness two stories dealing with sight. First, we explore the case of a painter who loses ALL sense of color late in life. We also see its opposite - a blind man given sight late in life.

In the first case, we get a real sense of how integral the sense of color is for life. We watch this man describe how the world becomes infinitely duller and less interesting when all one can see is shades of gray. He is driven almost to suicide! In the next tale, we see how astonishingly hard it is to 'learn to see' and all the things the brain must do to achieve this (which becomes all the harder the older one is).

We also meet some folks who are autistic and, as such, lack the social instincts and abstraction that we who have them take for granted. Imagine, if you can, having to learn social rules (such things as body language, vocal inflection, and sense of humor) like one would learn algebra - not instinctually, but intellectually. And imagine being mystified by ideas like romantic love and the beauty of music. Temple Grandin - in the final of Sacks tales - shows us what this is like.

Through all of this, Sacks takes on the role not only of a neurologist and story teller, but of a philosopher. The philosopher takes the ordinary and puts it under a microscope to show us how breath-taking it really is. Just because most of us - the impaired call us neurotypicals - have brains that smoothly operate thus and so, does not mean that we all do. Some, like Virgil, have to work hard at seeing such basic things as 2D represntations of 3D objects. Others, like Temple Grandin, have to work at understanding the idea of sociality.

All in all, this is a stunning book that will make you think and marvel. Dare I say, if you are like me, you will never look at the human brain with quite the same lens as you did before.

Second the motion Broadening our sense of the 'human'.......2006-01-12

I recommend Dennis Littrell's review of this book on this site.He outlines clearly what the book is about, and gives us the basic story of each of the seven chapters, the seven cases that make up the book. He headlines his review 'extraordinary genius' and I share this feeling about Oliver Sachs.
What I find most remarkable about Sachs' work is his ability to patiently study, and work to help people who seem lost completely. Instead of being as most of us are repelled by these kind of often 'freakish abnormalities ' Sachs in studying the people and recounting their cases , makes their stories 'human'. He extends in a certain way our conception of what the human is, and increases our sense of how remarkable the human mind is.
He is also a most moving author whose human sympathy and compassion inspire.

An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales

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An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Oliver Sacks
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Oliver Sacks
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An Anthropologist On Mars - Seven Paradoxical Tales
Oliver Sacks
Manufacturer: Vintage Books / Random House
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ASIN: B000K0BZFY

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This unique book, the first published on the subject, provides an introduction to the theory of macrotransport processes, a comprehensive effective-medium theory of transport phenomena in heterogeneous systems. The text begins with a relatively simple approach to the basic theory before turning to a more formal theoretical treatment which is extended in scope in each successive chapter.
Many detailed examples, as well as questions appearing at the end of each chapter, are included to demonstrate the practical implementation of the theory.

Macrotransport Processes is aimed at an audience already familiar with conventional theories of transport phenomena. This audience especially includes graduate students in chemical, mechanical, and civil engineering departments, as well as applied mathematicians, biomechanicists, and soil physics, particularly those with interests in problems of flow and dispersion in porous media.

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MACROTRANSPORT PROCESSES
Brenner
Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5BF6K

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In 2002, more than three-quarters of a million ambitious high school students took at least one AP exam in hopes of getting a head start on their college career. Peterson's s AP Success: Physics B/C provides complete test preparation for one of the more popular AP exams taken by students during their junior and senior years in high school. This book covers all major test topics--from atoms and compounds to behavior and ecology--that students will encounter on this exam (either the Physics B or Physics C). Detailed reviews of subject principles allow students to fully understand the skills that will help them score well on the test. Peterson's AP Success: Physics includes the features that are the hallmark of Peterson's AP Success series: comprehensive subject review, flexible study planning, user-friendly design geared for the high school student, and answers with comprehensive explanations for all test items.

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Simply Good.......2002-08-07

This AP prep book is the best ever. I had only two days to study for the physics C exams. I used this book's practice tests, and the questions on the AP exams were very similar to the ones on practice exam. I ended up with a 5 on physics C mechanics, and a 4 on physics C E&M. If I had more time, I would actually go over rest of the book and probably end up with a 5 in E&M. Physics w/ calculus is not an easy subject. Don't expect this book to do the learning for you. But if you work hard and smart, this book will give a you 5.

Use any other study guide.......2002-07-16

I used this book to prepare for the AP Physics exam, and believe me, it didn't help. This gives you the answers to the practice tests, but gives you no indication of where these answers come from, or how to solve the problems. They'll derive equations and not tell you what they're derived from, I had to check with my teacher often to figure out what the book was explaining. I spent months studying for the exam, and this book gave me no advantage over the regular textbook, it only confused me, and made me ask more questions, keeping me off-track for studying the test material. Find yourself ANY other test prep, I doubt there would be two books this bad on the market. If REA has a Physics study guide I'd suggest that--its AP US History study guide was the best test prep I've had yet for any AP Exam.

AP Success: Physics B/C, 3rd ed (Ap Success : Physics B/C, 3rd ed)

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AP Success: Physics B/C, 3rd ed (Ap Success : Physics B/C, 3rd ed)
Peterson's
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Peterson's Ap Success Physics B/C 2001: Boost Your Score on the Ap Exams in Phsics B/C (Ap Success : Physics B/C, 2001)

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Not the best...
Great book

Peterson's Ap Success Physics B/C 2001: Boost Your Score on the Ap Exams in Phsics B/C (Ap Success : Physics B/C, 2001)
Peterson's Guides
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Cracking the AP Physics B and C Exams, 2006-2007 Edition (College Test Prep)

ASIN: 0768904595

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Find something better.......2002-05-23

While this book helped to review the topics for the AP Physics examination, the explanations were non-existant. The practice tests were very similar to the real questions on the test, however, in the answer key, the explanations made no sense, not telling you which equations to use, or why. I would recommend the Princeton Review Physics study guide over this one any day. There are a lot better review guides available than this one, I could have done better on the exam having only used the textbook.

Not the best..........2001-04-18

So, also when it is not the Ap-test now and I did not work through the whole book, I worked myself through most of it and now have to say that this surely is not the best buy. There are no tips on how to take the test (they are helpful also when not necessary), there are nop divisions between what is Physics B and what is Physics C, what is very bad and confusing. But the worst is that it is written very dry and does not help to explain the material very well. An shocking example for me is: "Some potential differences must be positive and some negative" this is given with Kirchhoff's rules and that is all. There is NO further explanation of what some is, so confusing you, and in the best case just not helping you, because you need to find out what "Some" actually is. these bad explanation mistakes are made throughout the whole book. I would buy this book only when taking physics C (because you need to know everything in this book) and when you know the stuff pretty well and just try to refresh the memory. Also when I did not have any other books, I think that taking your chances with a different choice might be in your best interest.

Great book.......2001-01-16

Helped me review eveything for final exam. Better than the school text book.

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RAUNCHY, GRITTY TOMBOY GOES "ON THE ROAD"

"I Was Alive and Going To Stay Alive"

Good First Novel

Search for mother in the heartland

Captivating Look into a World I've Never Seen Before

Crashing America
Katia Noyes
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When her best friend dies, Girl, the 17-year-old street-punk narrator of Crashing America, leaves San Francisco for the heartland in search of a place where she can breathe again. Torn between her innate restlessness, an overwhelming longing for a sense of home, and a desperate fear of impending death, Girl seeks to link herself to almost anyone she crosses paths with: a bored housewife in Salt Lake City casting a net for illicit thrills, a born-again Christian punk rocker and his girlfriend, a teenage waitress in a small town with a horizon so endless Girl is terrified to leave her hotel room. On a farm in Nebraska with her old friend Randa, Randa's boyfriend Bill, and Bill's extended family, Girl finds something that seems awfully close to what she is seeking. But as the harvest progresses, what at first looked like salvation becomes something darker, and Girl hits the road in a stolen car headed for Memphis and one last chance for survival. Katia Noyes' brave debut is a story about seeking the still point in an ever-turning world. With hell-bent accuracy, Noyes spins a tale about the forgotten people at the heart of America as revealing as an impromptu detour off an interstate highway.

Katia Noyes left home at the age of 15. She has worked as a roofer, math tutor, factory worker, and go-go dancer. An arts reporter and former columnist for SF Weekly in San Francisco, her fiction has been published in Home Stretch, Sex Spoken Here, and Paramour. She has twice been a finalist for the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund grant. Noyes currently develops content for educational publishers and remains involved with organizations that serve runaway youths.

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RAUNCHY, GRITTY TOMBOY GOES "ON THE ROAD" .......2007-02-15

By MARK V. ROSE, author of BANGKOK, OH BOY! San Francisco, CA
Often funny but sometimes painful adventures of an adolescent lesbian who leaves disappointment in San Francisco (where her partner has just died of a drug overdose) to hit the road for America's heartland. In a raunchy seach for freedom, fulfillment and personal identity, the gritty tomboy heroine (called "Girl") hitchhikes, steals bikes and cars, money and change, works the fields, people and the police and bunks down with attractive and less attractive, oddball partners. Katia Noyes's CRASHING AMERICA is an honest and open tale of a very brazen, but sensitive, rootless young woman who tries to find and even plant some roots in America's farm belt, showing quite another side of the "farm girl" tradition. And, Noyes demonstrates a refreshing other geographical direction--the usual one is towards the western mecca of San Francisco where the disenfranchised try to find "roots"-- Noyes takes us away from it and into the small towns and fields of Utah, Iowa, the prairie and the cornfields of the midwest towards Randa, an older woman she had met earlier in the west and thought she was in love with. She has much more to learn.
I first heard Katia Noyes, a California author, read passages of the book at the San Francisco Public Library and enjoyed her unrelentless humor and directness. It's all there in the book along with a fascinating array of other authentic midwestern characters. And, it's not just for "tom boys." Highly recommended. An extra bonus is the way Noyes uses a unique and individuaized language to express "Girl's" monologue and dialogue. She creates new language rules and it is delightful!

"I Was Alive and Going To Stay Alive".......2006-08-23

Wish there was a book like CRASHING AMERICA when I was a boy. It's the kind of book they should issue to teens as soon as they get into middle school. Twice I had read it, but it wasn't until a recent trip crisscrossing America, "trying to find a way inside," in the footsteps of Noyes' implacable heroine "Girl," not until I was tangled up with road maps did I really understand it. For sometimes you have to be really young, or else really in tune with your feelings, to "get" a perfect work of art.

As everyone else will tell you, CRASHING AMERICA is a powerful indictment of a society in which class injustice trumps every other factor in life, a system in which our children and our pets are our victims, brought into this world to amuse us and to provide a workforce, but otherwise to be ignored, molested and put down at will. At 17, Girl already seems to have a political understanding that defies common sense--surely no 17 year old ever had the writing ability that our narrator shows here--but such is the persuasiveness of Noyes' invention that I never bothered my head thinking about this until the long strange trip waS over and, like Girl, I was walking up Market Street towards the Castro on a sad Sunday afternoon from the bus depot on Seventh Street, looking at the workerbees who weren't there, for they had vacated the space to the bums and the wounded. Reading CRASHING AMERICA, I was reminded of similar scenes in Evelyn Lau's RUNAWAY and some parts of Tom Spanbauer's second and third novels, but here the brew is different, more focussed, more tragic, purer. Even the name "Girl," so reminiscent of a heroine from Erskine Caldwell's florid middle period, I got used to, as though it weren't so horribly symbolic.

After the tragic death of a girlfriend, Girl finds herself with literally nowhere to go. Her dad, "Mister White Socks," seems to despise her, and her mother committed suicide, her ghost clinging to the long reaches of Girl's memories. She heads midwest to get back to the farmland where the Clutter family got killed. That's the thing about Girl, you just want to shake her for every decision she makes is a bad one! And yet you sympathize with her at every turn and you know why she makes all these wrong turns. Oh! There's one part of the book that you will just throw the book down on the floor so horrifying is the lifechoice Girl decides to make. And yet then you will crawl back to the book just to find out what happens next. Katia Noyes, with whom I once took a writing workshop, has reader identification wired into every word she writes. And she can describe things so vividly it's like someone's waving them under your nose. A store detective wears a "surgically cut bob of red hair and a smug color of coral lipstick."

One caveat, and one spoiler--this book has a sequence in which a common housecat dies a tragic and painful death. It is not for the squeamish! The pages of my copy of CRASHING AMERICA are stained with tears all over that chapter. I've never read anything like it.

Good First Novel.......2006-05-04

Crashing America is about a street kid named Girl from San Francisco in search of her identity and family. Her mother committed suicide years before and her father seems to think of her as an embarrassing inconvenience.

Katia has done a great job of capturing Girl's character. Through her roadtrip, I kept thinking, "Yes, I've seen this person before," and then groaned as Girl pinged between bad decisions and the fate she drove herself towards.

This is an excellent first novel. I hope to see more of Katia's work in the future.

Search for mother in the heartland.......2006-04-03

The heroine, one tough girl named "Girl," looks hard for love in this reversal of the Amercian pilgrimage story, going from the west back into the heartland. The prose is tough at first, as Girl is one tough young adult, very real. But the relentlessness of the prose in it's pacing, language, and clipped style, portrays perfectly the angular, alienated, alienating world of disenfrancished, love- and money-improverished youth. I really get under Girl's skin, feel what it's like to feel that lost.

What I love most about this heartbreaking story is that she keeps looking for love no matter what, everywhere, willing to take any offered thread, but then hopelessly tossing out what's offered in confusion and pain. This feels so like real life, rather than the romances of found love, that it makes my heart crack. I cry in the end, at the hopelessness of Girl's situation, at how long she has searched, and how long she will probably go on searching.

For me, this story is about the search for the love we never got from Mother, and the search for love and truth in the heartland. Just as our own alienated families have disappointed and betrayed us, so has the country. The American Dream is dead. The fields have gone fallow.

In the end, for me, this was not a hopeful story, but painfully true to life.

Captivating Look into a World I've Never Seen Before.......2006-03-19

Everything about this debut novel is fresh, from the voice to the characters to the story. Couched in the expoits of a lesbian teenager taking to the road--don't let this scare you away, fellow straight readers!--is a remarkable exporation of what it means to love, and to want to be loved, delivered from the point of view of the devastatingly wise 17-year-old "Girl," with whom anyone with a heart can identify. ("All I wanted was a memory of somebody. When you had a mother you'd never really seen, it made you stuck on that. It made me recognize the way that life and history and families are filled with empty spaces. I saw them and felt them all the time.")

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Quality road trip depiction

Crashing America
Adam Cole
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Ever wish you could just go? Give up everything and hit the road? That's what Troy Paddock did. Following in the footsteps of Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, this Colorado college kid grabbed one willing best friend, Vinny del Sparrow, and shot off in every direction of the U.S. Their only purpose was to party like rock stars. A desert rave, New York clubs, Mardi Gras in New Orleans were all part of the duo's wild ride. But such an adventure-filled romp does not go without a tiny bit of misadventure and mishap. Extreme weather, car troubles, and cash shortages make the search for the party interestingly challenging. Told through Paddock's eyes, the reader is let into the thoughts and insights of someone whirling through life without a single care for reality and an intense lust for excitement. At points the endless partying catches up with our spontaneous hero but only briefly before he is able to wrestle away from its grasp.

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Piece of garbage .......2005-05-31

I understood why my grandmother had several strokes and heart attacks after reading this book. There wasn't even a point to this book other than it made no sense whatsoever. I tore out alot of these pages only because I ran out of toilet paper. My dog even used it for the same purpose. I think its the author's lack of friends or sex life that gave him the inspiration for this crappy fairy tale.

Waste of Paper.......2004-08-10

This book has no redeeming qualities at all. Even looking at it as some sort of "youth discovery" book does nothing.

The characters in this book lack any depth, and it feels like your walking throw a shallow puddle when looking for any plot.

I honestly can't think of anything kind to say about this book at all other than at least I'm finished with it.

If you're a misogynist, this is the book for you........2004-07-27

It is difficult to get through the rampant sexism throughout this book. The character is extremely judgmental and disrespectful toward women, seeing them only as opportunities to score. Additionally, this book has no plot beyond a series of parties and drinking.

Quality road trip depiction.......2004-06-07

This book kept to the author's original inspirations of jack keroauc and hunter thompson and took road tripping to the next level. The multi faceted levels of desires are strewn throughout the book in terms of what one wants to do, and what one actually does. This book actually take you for a ride while delving in to the creativity of a couple of fellows from Boulder, Colorado. They go on a crazy 50,000 mile journey across all parts of America and check out some of the best America has to offer young energy filled youths. This book I would recommend to all adults for pure aethestics and finding out what younger generations are doing today. Also for all younger people to read to get inspired like I did to just get in the car and go and find out for myself what the country is all about.

Crashing the Gates: The De-Wasping of America's Power Elite

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Crashing the Gates: The De-Wasping of America's Power Elite
Robert C. Christopher
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Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of an American Indian (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

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Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of an American Indian (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
Paul Radin
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Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

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Paul Radin, one of America's first and most reputable professional anthropologists, lived among the Winnebago Indians for years, and for years he tried without success to interview the notorious younger son of the Blow Snake family, the Crashing Thunder of this book. At last Crashing Thunder agreed to tell Radin his life story, one that Radin calls "a true rake's progress."

Speaking through Radin, Crashing Thunder told of his childhood, stories of Winnebago gods, his appetite for women and beer, and his extraordinary friends and relatives, including his brother-in-law, Thunder Cloud, then in his third incarnation. Crashing Thunder also told of his redemption through his new religion, peyote.

To enhance understanding of the autobiography and its place in anthropology and literature, a new foreword, appendix, and index have been prepared by eminent Native American scholar, Arnold Krupat.

Paul Radin (1883-1959) was an American anthropologist who was considered an authority on the culture of primitive societies, especially the tribal societies of native North Americans. Among his many works are the books The Winnebago Tribe, The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American Indians, and The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology. Arnold Krupat is Professor of English, Sarah Lawrence College.

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Crashing America
Adam Cole
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Crashing the Gates - The De-WASPing of America's Power Elite
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CRASHING THE GATES: THE DE-WASPING OF AMERICA'S POWER ELITE.
Robert C. Christopher
Manufacturer: NY, Simon, 1989. 304 pp. Fine copy of first edition in dust jacket.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UE066O

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