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Chihuly over Venice
Dana Self , and William Warmus
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Chihuly Is Wonderful!.......2004-03-21
This book is required for anyone who loves art. Beautifully photographed and bound, this work will bring pleasure to all who see it for many years to come. Chihuly is a genius!
The only thing approaching a dark cloud over Chihuly and this book is the unfortunate presence of William Warmus, who fancies himself a writer. This is my first encounter with Warmus and it was a thoroughly unpleasant one. The 16 pages of useless, if not nonsensical, notebook entries from Warmus are in the beginning. They add nothing and the reader is advised not to waste time with them. Dana Self follows Warmus with a relatively short, but equally worthless, piece in which the nature of beauty is explored. (Has there EVER been any human on this planet who has not had a pretty good idea what is beautiful?) Anyway, though Self describes Chihuly's art as "wildly excessive," Self underlines what we already know - that "in experiencing beauty and pleasure, what we feel motivates our response." Was anything ever more obvious? Do yourself a favor and skip the Warmus and Self sections and go directly to the wonderful photographs, which show both the close-up detail and the distant view of each of the glass sculptures. For those new to Chihuly, there is a complete chronology of his life and work in the back of the book.
I'd never considered glass as art before.........2000-03-28
After seeing the PBS show and owning the video, the book was a must. It is printed on gorgeous paper and provides not only full color photos, but detailed text. The author takes the reader through each installation with sufficient detail, story and technical information. As a coffee-table art book, it sits on the top of my pile now, and has successfully recruited new art glass fans at my house!
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Before Thee I Wed, Innovative Guidance for "Nearlyweds"
William L. Self Carolyn Shealy Self
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Medicaid and Elder Law Issues
W. Aaron Hall , Donna S. Harkness , William King Self Jr. , and Pam Wright
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This manual will examine elder law issues in Tennessee, including Medicaid eligibility and application. The faculty will address laws and practices relating to elder issues and topic coverage, including discussion of the broader policy issues, as well as the detailed information that is essential for practice. Changes to the law having an impact on elders will be emphasized throughout.
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Great Preaching 1990
John Killinger , William L. Self , Jr. John A. Huffman , James A. Harnish , Earl C. Davis , Donald W. McCullough , Raymond Bailey , Donald B. Ward , and Rick Brand
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This digital document is an article from Environmental Health Perspectives, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2007. The length of the article is 8246 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.<BR><BR><strong>Citation Details</strong>
<strong>Title:</strong> Impact of trivalent arsenicals on selenoprotein synthesis.(Research)(Clinical report)
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<strong>Date:</strong> March 1, 2007
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<strong>Volume:</strong> 115 <strong>Issue:</strong> 3 <strong>Page:</strong> 346(8)<BR><BR>Article Type: Clinical report<BR><BR>Distributed by Thomson Gale
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Before I Thee Wed: A Guide to Help Engaged Couples Prepare for Marriage
Carolyn Shealy Self , and William L. Self
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Bridging the generation gap
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- Exciting and Excellent early Burroughs
- The truth is revealed, and it's a scary truth.
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Junky (Penguin Modern Classics)
William S. Burroughs
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Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junk, his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from the American postwar underground. For this definitive 50th-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly re-created the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts. Here for the first time are Burroughs's own unpublished Introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many "lost" passages and auxiliary texts by Allen Ginsberg and others. Harris's comprehensive Introduction reveals the composition history of Junk's text and places its contents against a lively historical background.
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Exciting and Excellent early Burroughs.......2006-12-22
This is one of my favorite works by William S. Burroughs; I have read it twice and probably will again. The hardboiled, Celine-influenced writing style suits the subject matter perfectly. There are some shocking episodes here, and no punches are pulled. Unlike much of WSB's later work, this one has an easy-to-follow narrative, and therefore might be a misleading introduction to Burroughs. If you enjoyed "Naked Lunch" though, take a step back and read this; you'll really enjoy it. This edition gives the complete novel, sans any censorship which marred the early (pre-1976) printings.
The truth is revealed, and it's a scary truth........2006-09-30
Burroughs continues to impress me. I only recently got into his work through The Cat Inside, then with Queer, and now with Junky. I'm a bit ashamed to say that while I loved the first two I just mentioned, Junky didn't grow on me as fast. I actually had to force myself to read it several times, and didn't find myself eager to see how things ended like I did with Queer. Don't get me wrong though, as I'm in no way saying this is a bad book. That's obvious by the rating I'm giving it. I don't know what it was, but the book didn't click with me until about 2/3 in. Maybe it's my lack of experience with drugs, maybe it's knowing what happened to the now former friends of mine who chose that lifestyle, but there's something "dark" for lack of better term about this book. Burroughs' experiences with drugs, or junk as he calls it, is quite a depressing tale to read, covering his very first experience with it, to his last days on junk, knowing it won't get him anywhere. Though the facts and events are true, some things are changed around, mostly to protect identities and such. Burroughs doesn't tell you to do drugs here, but he also doesn't tell you not to. If anything, his detailed experiences with many types of drugs should serve as an educated warning to those interested and those who want to know the truth and not mere myths.
It's hard to give a plot summary for Junky, as it's just Burroughs' life as a drug addict chronicled from his first use to his overcoming of it. When we first are introduced to him here, he's an average young man, and tries junk out of interest, figuring it won't hurt. He continues to use it, if only to pass time and be social with a friend who's been using it, and soon becomes addicted. Don't let that fool you though, as Burroughs explains many times that using junk for the first time does NOT get you addicted right then and there. He explains that you need to take doses every day for at least 2 months before you develop a habit. First it's morphine, but as new drugs are exposed to him, the more interest he gains. Burroughs also begins to get in the junk pushing business, and shows how dangerous that can be as well. Getting customers who expect freebies on credit just because they've paid for one cap, customers who track him down somehow without ever asking him personally where he lived, and others who could possibly have him killed if they found out he was dealing in their areas. Covering his time in New York to other states to the finale in Mexico, this is a very interesting read, though also a depressing one as well. While we all know that Burroughs lives on, since this was his first of many books, you can't help but feel that he's going to die sometime in Junky. And in fact, he almost does several times. Had it not been for side junk to even out the dose, or some helpful people nearby, we could probably forget about this book, or any of his other masterpieces being made.
The first thing I noticed while reading Junky was how similar the time back then was to the present. The laws against drugs then are almost identical to those now, and it's clear that we've made very little progress in getting a hold of the junkie underground (for lack of better term). There still aren't many cures for getting habits taken care of either. Burroughs explains how each drug affects him in the most detailed manner possible. The immediate feelings he gets from taking a shot, the feelings several minutes after, the kick wearing off, and others. For the most part, the feelings of taking junk doesn't sound half bad. Upped sense of touch sounds very freaky, especially when he mentions that he quit taking baths because the feeling of water all around the body was so unpleasant. That explains a lot about some of my friends from back in the day and their hygiene. What's worse though, is how he describes The Cure, as he calls it, when one tries to break themselves of a habit. You get sick for over a week, and almost feel like you're dying. Burroughs explains that, as he sees it, your cells change immediately with your first habit, and everything changes from there. Your body needs junk, and going cold turkey completely screws you over more than you can possibly imagine. In fact, he can't even get off of junk for more than a few months, because his body is that dependent. After he gets arrested at one point, a psychologist asks him several questions about why he's on it, and his first answer mentions that he needs it to live, to wake up every morning. Sadly, we also learn that the life of a junkie is mostly spent waiting. Waiting for the next package of it to come in, waiting for the kick to wear off so you can use more, and repeating the process. I can't imagine being dependent on anything, especially one that consumes so much money over time. It's a wonder he got off of it after being a user for so long.
If there's anything negative I have to say about Junky, it's that the way it's written threw me off a bit. For half of the book, Burroughs is traveling around with always-changing buddies in order to make more profit pushing junk. Suddenly, halfway through the book when he's arrested, the police ask him about his home, and Burroughs replies that only his wife lives there aside from him. Up until that point, there was no mention of his wife at all. Whenever he and his friends would go home, it was always just them, no mention of another woman ever. I actually scanned through the first half of the book after the mention of his wife, wondering what I missed. Also, I found the introduction to be a bit much, weighing in at over 30 pages. I actually skipped through half of it, too eager to get into the real book. While it is nice to get a detailed look at Junky's history and how it was edited since its initial publishing, 30 pages is a bit much, and almost seemed like a cry for attention from the author of it. Do we really need 30 pages telling us that this is THE definitive Junky publishing, the original version as Burroughs intended? Fortunately, the added bits at the end, including a tossed out chapter, previous introductions (all of which are under 4 pages! Wow!) and a letter from Burroughs himself to the first publisher where he mocks their minor changes to text that ended up not making any sense at all was a great thing to read.
Junky is a very good book, but not a perfect start for those just getting into his work. But, for those who have an interest in drugs, the lifestyle back then and how similar it is to now, or anything else of the sort, I don't see any other books. Then again, I don't really look for them to begin with. Junky has done its job to warn me of just how bad things can get when addicted. Take in these words of wisdom, and remember them before making any big decisions. Reading about how Burroughs slapped his wife twice across the face when she threw a cap to the floor, spilling the contents, isn't something you want to remember yourself doing, I'm sure.
Transcends Beat Nonsense.......2006-08-29
I am no fan of the Beat Movement. As a subculture, the Beats contributed more than their fair share of sewage to the literary rivers of Western Civilization, and bear a good deal of responsibility for the ongoing decadence and decline of our culture. However, this autobiographical examination of the underbelly of American society is a one-of-a-kind expose, written by a man who himself was unabashedly addicted to morphine and other opiates, and who spares the reader from soul-searching in order simply to tell what it is like to be hooked.
I bought this book for a student in my high school English class and started reading it as soon as I got it home. The next day in class, the student was absent, so I kept reading, knowing I was hooked. How ironic. I kept the book and bought the student another copy. Couldn't put it down.
The tone is detached and the descriptions of the sights, sounds, and smells of Burroughs' dark haunts wrap themselves around you in such a way that you live what he experienced. There is no plea here for understanding or sympathy. Instead, you view the characters and events as if they are rats doing what rats do in a lab experiment. You come away from this book thinking, So that's how it is to be a junky.
It's quite incredible, really. I came to the book with absolutely minimal interest and started reading out of curiousity, expecting to put the book aside after the first ten pages or so. How wrong can a guy be? Burroughs did society a service with this text by demystifying the junky's world and demythologizing the hype about junkys that the mainstream media and medical elites had foisted upon most of us non-junkys. The dialogue is engrossing, the lengths to which Burroughs goes to score his junk truly amazing.
The narrative flows effortlessly, and some of the descriptions, such as that of the Rio Grande Valley, border on the lyrical. Yet, the strongest point is the tone of utter detachment: "I went into the bathroom to take a shot. I was a long time hitting a vein. The needle clogged twice. Blood ran down my arm. The junk spread through my body, an injection of death."
Even if you despise the Beat message as I do, you will not regret having opened your mind to the controlled insanity of being a junky. Highly recommended.
Great book -- and true.......2006-08-17
This book lays out the junky lifestyle plain and true. Burroughs tells it like it is. There's no glamorization. If anyone thinks being a heroin addict is cool after reading this, he or she isn't paying attention.
From a journalistic point of view, this book is a triumph. It expresses the reality of being an addict without moralizing. Burroughs doesn't encourage the reader to use heroin anymore than he advocates against it. He simply tells the tale of what it was like for him to be an addict.
Everyone's experience is different, and this book was written about 60 years ago, but you certainly get a glimpse into the kind of life a junky leads, even today. The details may change, but there's not much about being a junky that Burroughs hasn't already expressed.
And to the person who wrote: "No high, no experience, no act of social rebellion, nothing heroin can give or represent can be worth what the junky lifestyle takes out of a person and makes the user become," it's obvious that you've never experienced the high of heroin. The best expression about the high of junk is in "Trainspotting," when Renton explains that if you take every orgasm you've ever had, multiply it by a thousand, you're still not even close to the high of heroin. You've never known true bliss until you've been on the nod.
On the other hand, you have a point. I wouldn't wish junk addiction on anybody. It steals your soul.
Not as good as the Hype.......2006-05-26
"Junky" is more of a curiosity than the 'classic' it is often billed as.
It details William Burroughs drink drug and sex addictions;the highs and lows,and is responsible for every urban myth ever uttered about drug culture!
The fact that Burroughs did everything detailed makes him,at best,a self indulgent hedonist,at worst,a complete imbecile.And his arguments against the admittedly OTT and reactionary laws rushed in against drug use being that they were like the anti-semitic German laws during the nazis shows how shallow Burroughs thinking and intellect really are.
Burroughs doesn't come close to Nelson Algren in 'beat' culture writing,and I can only presume people are awed by his Ivy League upbringing to award him such status.
Again;interesting as a curiosity,but don't fall for the 'classic'label.It's just a marketing ploy!
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