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Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-ray Microanalysis

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The bibel for EM and X-ray Analysis
Scanning Electron Microscopy Book
Excellent introduction to SEM and EPMA
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Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-ray Microanalysis
Joseph Goldstein , Dale E. Newbury , David C. Joy , Charles E. Lyman , Patrick Echlin , Eric Lifshin , L.C. Sawyer , and J.R. Michael
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ASIN: 0306472929

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Providing a comprehensive introduction to the capabilities and use of scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and x-ray spectrometers, this highly acclaimed text emphasizes practical aspects of imaging and analysis for a broad audience of students and practitioners whose backgrounds span a wide range of science and technology. Topics discussed include user-controlled functions of scanning electron microscopes and x-ray spectrometers, the characteristics of electron beam - specimen interactions, image formation and interpretation, the use of x-rays for qualitative and quantitative analysis and the methodology for structural analysis using electron back-scatter diffraction. SEM sample preparation methods for hard materials, polymers, and biological specimens are covered in separate chapters. In addition, techniques for the elimination of charging in non-conducting specimens are detailed. A database of useful parameters for SEM and X-ray micro-analysis calculations and enhancements to the text chapters are available on an accompanying CD.

This third edition has been extensively revised, including new sections on:

<UL> <LI>Variable-pressure SEM,</LI> <LI>Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD),</LI> <LI>Recent developments in x-ray detectors, </LI></UL>

and expanded coverage of:

<UL> <LI>Low-voltage SEM,</LI> <LI>X-ray mapping,</LI> <LI>Specimen preparation.</LI></UL>

The text has been used in educating over 3,000 students at the Lehigh Microscopy School SEM short course as well as thousands of undergraduate and graduate students at universities worldwide.

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The bibel for EM and X-ray Analysis.......2007-03-14

This book is a great book for learning the Basics about Electron Microscopy and X-ray Analysis. You get a good overview!

Scanning Electron Microscopy Book.......2007-01-10

The book came in excellent condition as stated. It also arrived in a timely manner.

Excellent introduction to SEM and EPMA.......2006-12-06

This text does an excellent job of getting the reader acquainted with the interrelated subjects of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and electron probe microanalysis (EPMA). I think the SEM material was somewhat better presented, especially the chapter on electron optics. The EPMA material was certainly adequate, though I think a bit more detail on matrix corrections could have been transferred from the CD into the text. That said, I generally like the new format used in the third edition of putting the essentials in the text and leaving the rest on CD. It makes the text much more satisfing to read than the second edition, which used annoying lines in the margin to indicate essential material. The figures in the text are quite good and add to the authors' discussion nicely. Sometimes a large number of authors makes a book a little fragmented, but I think that these authors have done a good job of integrating their styles. I recommend starting here if you have an interest in the subject.

PS: Keep in mind that the authors describe generally how SEM and EPMA work. The exact specifications of your SEM/EPMA system may require you to reapply some of the ideas they teach. For example, the model TTL detector they describe may differ from your SEM's proprietary TTL detector in important ways. The point is to be aware of this and use the principles in the text to understand the significance of the differences.

Awsome book for Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Analysis.......2006-03-11

This book covers almost all aspects of the subject and the CD attached covers the recent development in the field.
This is the book one should have for the subject.

Dark Metropolis: Irving Norman's Social Surrealism

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An amazing artist
WOW! Shockingly beautiful art book

Dark Metropolis: Irving Norman's Social Surrealism
Michael Duncan , Charles C. Eldredge , and Patricia Junker
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An amazing artist.......2007-02-12

Dark Metropolis is an interesting collection of works of art by Irving Norman. The book contains several articles by different authors describing Normans and their impressions of his work as well as the symbolism behind the work. There s also a short biography of his life

More then one hundred of Normans paintings and drawings are displayed in the book along with an explanation of the work and what it represents as well as points of interest within the painting.

Most of the work is politically, socially, human condition or economically motivated in terms of the haves versus the have-nots scenario and the selections of artwork in the book really depict that. What you can tell in the book is the amazing detail of his work. Having seen it in person the scale of some of his work is several feet tall and wide and so filled with detail that you could spend hours looking at his paintings and still not see it all. The paintings and drawings are in chronological order by year. There is a catalog that lists all of his public work. Norman's work is social surrealism in it truest form.

If you can see his work in person then the book is the next best thing and does a good job in representing his work and his ideas.

The book is very well designed in visual and literary concept and the layout of the book is nice.

WOW! Shockingly beautiful art book.......2006-11-09

If you've never heard of Irving Norman you may be in for a surprise. People didn't really paint like this at all in the middle of the 20th Century or much before that. Some Renaissance Masters had similar elaborations of the depth of perspective or of horrors of this world and the next. Some comic book illustrators in the 1960s had a similar deeply morbid whimsy. Who but Irving Norman could get up day after day, year after year for decades to detail such trenchant observations of city life under the thumb of the military industrial complex? I was lucky to see some of these paintings at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco in 1996. They drew me back to spend hours looking at all their details-not a world you'd ever want WALDO to get lost in!- and I made all my friends come,too. One, a prominent psychologist widened his eyes, shook his head and said,"They have PILLS for this now!" I didn't ask for his diagnosis of the artist's perceived disorders. I don't care why these paintings exist- whether psychological imbalance , OCD, paranoia or divine inspiration. IRVING NORMAN reaches well past what anything even most figurative artists would dream to attempt, flies worlds past the most wicked political satirist (eat your heart out, Steadman!)to make technically proficient canvases on a GRAND scale that glow like medieval stained glass and sparkle with wit and fury.
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The reproductions are from new photographs. The book is big enough to see some detail. The production is excellent, a real tribute to an unknown American Master!
ps This book is published as a centenary show of Irving Norman goes up in Sacramento at Crocker Art Center. The show runs through Jan 7, 2007 then moves to Pasadena Art Museum through April 15, 2007. See it if you can.

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Capturing the Magic of California Light
Super Artist
Great book, Great Price
America's Overlooked Photo Realist--Review Revised

Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective
Janet Bishop , Michael Auping , Jonathan Weinberg , and Charles Ray
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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ASIN: 0520245431

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Tracing Robert Bechtle's career from his earliest paintings of the 1960s to the present day, this is the definitive book on one of the founders and foremost practitioners of American Photorealism. Created in close collaboration with the artist, Robert Bechtle will accompany the distinguished painter's first retrospective exhibition. Lavish plates feature reproductions of approximately ninety of Bechtle's most significant artworks, from large-scale oil paintings to intimate watercolors and drawings. These magnificent illustrations portray the range of the San Francisco-based painter's iconic imagery of California--the rows of palm trees, stucco houses, and the ubiquitous automobiles that spurred suburban expansion--as well as his lesser-known but equally compelling family scenes and stark interiors. Bechtle's preference for wide, empty spaces; his flat, sun-bleached palette; and his detached mode of recording random details impart a singular sense of alienation to his subjects. His deadpan paintings capture the essence of the postwar American experience, in which California often serves as the testing ground for the realization of national dreams.

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Capturing the Magic of California Light.......2005-12-13

Robert Bechtle has been a creative force in California art since the 1960s, yet his name remains practically unknown outside the Bay Area artists group. This very fine monograph by Janet Bishop, designed as a catalogue to accompany the traveling exhibition of this works, should help to mend that sin of omission. The style of writing is warm and informative and, in many ways, in keeping with Bechtle's vision of the world he paints!

One quick perusal of the many reproductions of his major works in this book quickly leaves the impression that Bechtle understands and successfully captures the quality of light that is peculiar to California. His street scenes of angled cars and bungalows are flooded with light and shadow. Though his art movement classification is Photorealism, Bechtle goes beyond mere photo copying techniques. His work is more about our lifestyle and our living compartments normally looked upon as mere blocks of space in which we function. Bechtle enhances everything he paints with a sunny 'romanticism' if you will. His art is more about a love affair with the atmosphere's effect on the mundane places we inhabit than it is with simple reproduction of images and landscapes.

For the art lover of realism and for those who respect the prodigious gifts of representational artists, this book is a must for the library. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, December 05

Super Artist.......2005-09-30

This is a great book about a great artist. I saw the pictures in original and they are very good reproduced in this book. Who loves photorealism should have it.

Great book, Great Price.......2005-09-09

I drove from Jackson, Mississippi to the Modern Museum of Ft. Worth see the Retrospective of Robert Bechtle's work. I am an artist myself and was astounded at the collection in this exhibit. The book does a superb job of presenting photos of the paintings in the collection. Additionally, the museum store at The Modern had none of these books in stock so it was fortunate that I ordered it when I did.

America's Overlooked Photo Realist--Review Revised.......2005-05-18

This book by Janet Bishop was published in conjunction with the first major retrospective of Robert Bechtle, a San Francisco Bay Area photo realist in his 70s. Until recently, Bechtle, who paints street scenes and rows of tract houses, was known only to Bay Area collectors and critics. Now, because of this exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art which then travels to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Bechtle is receiving deserving national exposure. Bechtle, like the rest of the photo realists, such as Richard Estes, Chuck Close and Ralph Goings, believes that by painting exactly what a photograph reveals, he is painting the truest and most accurate form of realism, because he is removing the artist and the artist's emotions and feelings from his paintings. But what this book so aptly suggests is that even photographers, who use the camera to capture a scene, infuse the subject with their identity: the photographer chooses the subject, crops the photograph in a certain manner, decides whether the photograph will be in color or black and white, and how the subject will be juxtaposed with other images. This is exactly what Bechtle does in his paintings. One can't help but think that his choice of lower middle class suburban streets and houses is a comment on the banality of existence and American consumerism. Bishop does a first-rate job in this book, selecting paintings from Bechtle's entire career, which spans four decades. Moreover, Bishop includes excellent commentaries from critics with different and interesting perspectives. A fine effort.

For those of you who missed the Bechtle retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art or the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, you should be aware that The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has announced that it will be the final venue for the retrospective from March 4 to June 4, 2006.

Michael Ray Charles, 1989-1997: An American Artist's Work

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Exceptional. Compelling. Heartbreaking. Angry. And great.

Michael Ray Charles, 1989-1997: An American Artist's Work
Don Bacigalupi , and Marilyn Kern-Foxworth
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Michael Ray Charles is a painter whose carefully crafted and faux-aged canvases and works on paper draw attention to race relations historically and in contemporary society. Borrowing pop culture images of characters such as Sambo, Buckwheat, and Aunt Jemima, Charles uses them ironically to comment on racial issues. His concerns range from how tobacco and liquor companies target marketing to minorities to the depiction of African Americans in the entertainment and sports industries to concepts of all-American (i.e., white) beauty.

This book is the catalog of the first major solo exhibition of Charles' work, staged by Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston. It contains a broad range of color images of paintings and works on paper. In addition to the catalog entries, the book contains an interview between exhibit curator Don Bacigalupi, catalog essayist Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, and artist Michael Ray Charles, in which the artist discusses and interprets his work. An essay by writer and cultural historian Marilyn Kern-Foxworth situates Charles' work within contemporary African American culture.

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Exceptional. Compelling. Heartbreaking. Angry. And great........2006-08-11

I first came across Michael Ray Charles on a documentary about contemporary art (Art:21) and then again in a documentary series called Art City. Of all the artists -- many far better known than Charles -- he was, for me, the most notable. He was a young (30ish) black man, a family man living in a suburb, creating (inventing) these provocative and undeniably powerful and thought-provoking images that at once spoke to the history and horrors of racism in America, and reclaimed the power and moral sense. I purchased this "book" because I collect art books and because I so liked his art and his personality as it was conveyed in the documentaries. I never imagined when I ordered it, that I would be quite this pleased. The "book" is really two books, one a standard-sized catalogue featuring an illuminating interview and analysis of his work. Additionally, there is an oversized heavy-weight periodical (the actual catalogue featuring images) reminiscent of the old Interview magazine. Almost every page is essentially a small poster of one of Charles' works, and there are several cut-outs (dye-cuts), not to mention the inclusion of a Lincoln-head penny pasted on the back, which is a staple from his paintings. The "book" is a work of art unto itself, managing to be at once modern/contemporary and primitive (it actually comes in an oversized white jiffy bag, with an image on the front and sewn shut) and, in my estimation, is highly collectible -- not to mention just a ridiculous amount of fun. There is something to discover on every page (maybe every inch of every page). This might be the best art book I have ever purchased. If I could give this book 10 stars, I would. Michael Ray Charles is an important American artist. Very compelling.

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Very interesting to the side of RC's memoir (4-4.5 stars)
Ray Charles,a new understanding
Ray: The Music Not the Man
The newly expanded paperback version of a classic biography
Medium but interesting

Ray Charles: Man and Music
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In 1954, Atlantic Records honchos Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler visited an Atlanta club where one of their artists was gigging. Ray Charles and his band blew into a new song when the men entered. It was "I Got a Woman," the tune that marked the blind Albany, Georgia-born singer-pianist's evolution from an able imitator of Nat "King" Cole and Charles Brown into an artist who would transform American music. In Ray Charles: Man and Music, veteran music journalist Michael Lydon imbues the familiar story with fresh detail upon fresh detail. Charles's early years spent scuffling on the chitlin circuit, his embrace of everything from pop chestnuts and country hits to hip jazz as an audaciously eclectic record maker, and the many hours given over to womanizing and a heroin addiction at the height of his stardom are given a cinematic immediacy here. More than most artists, Charles followed his instincts to huge artistic rewards and the love of many listeners who recognized their own voices in his sound. Lydon captures as much of the offstage man as is likely to ever make it to the page--the man who himself once insisted, "My life was what it was. Whatever it became, I made it so." --Rickey Wright

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There are only a few legendary singers who have developed mass audiences while pursuing their own artistic visions: Sinatra is one; Ella Fitzgerald another. Ray Charles undoubtedly belongs in this pantheon of major musical stars.
Ray Charles: Man and Music begins with Charles's impoverished childhood in Greenville, Florida, where tragedy struck early when the young Charles went blind at age 6 and was orphaned at age 14. Driven by his enormous talent and determination, Charles landed work playing some of the toughest juke joints in the state, fought heroin addiction, and finally landed a recording contract with Atlantic Records. Unlike other R&B singers, Charles took control of his career from its earliest days, moving on from his gospel-soul stylings of the mid-'50s to break through musical barriers, recording two country albums in the late '50s (at a time when the black presence in country music was barely felt), pure jazz, and then the powerful pop hits of the '60s. Famed music journalist Michael Lydon - a founding editor of Rolling Stone - is uniquely qualified to document Charles's career, having interviewed Charles and followed the star's performances since the 1960s.
Originally published in 1995, and universally hailed as the definitive biography, this new edition brings Charles's life up to date, covering the last 7 years of his life. It coincides with the release of a made-for-TV movie starring Jamie Fox as Charles, currently in production by Taylor Hackford. Charles has also issued a new CD recently and remains active as a touring artist throughout the world.

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Very interesting to the side of RC's memoir (4-4.5 stars).......2005-12-14

Can't say enuff 'bout this. There's only 25 to 28 chapters in this book. Blessed I got it on Alibris. This shows the real side of Ray Charles (Robinson) where he's going thru since after the success of his first penned book w/ writer David Ritz (I can't stand the hatred and dissappointment behind this man, ya'll should give him credit instead of not loving him or have a distaste), just finished reading "Brother Ray" and plus the movie "Ray" among certain albums, documentaries and other taped concerts around, this Man deserves it, no matter if u love him or not, he's still bad. Nobody can't take that away from him perhaps touch him. Blessed that his music, voice and legacy will never be forgotten just b/c I was shocked about the news about his death. RIP to a well-known giant in Music who alot of Creativity, Sense, Class, Respect, Love, Pride & Dignity. Long Lives the Genius of Soul, Father of Soul, Right Reverend, High Priest, Righteous Ray (or Reverend Righteous Ray), Reverend Ray, Brother Ray, etc.

Ray Charles Robinson aka Uncle Ray, thank u for all your courage, your time and your hard work between your music, your life, your legacy, your everything. Thank you for a tremendous legacy that'll live on for years to come (1930-2004).

P.S. Mike Lydon deserves alot of credit in this 1 too.

Ray Charles,a new understanding.......2005-10-21

I have never been a Ray Charles fan,and when the movie Ray came
out,I was sadden,that I had missed a great talent.I brought the
DVD version of the movie,and then started reading everything there was about the man. After reading this book,which I enjoyed
I found that I did not like the man. I think that the writer of
the book,told about Ray,being cheap,being a womanizer and the
way he treated people in general.I think that the movie version of his life,glossed and sugar coated his life,his career and his
marriage.I came away feeling very sorry for his wife and his children,as it appears they were truly the victims of Ray Charles
I,for one will not spend any more money on the Ray Charles legend.

Ray: The Music Not the Man.......2005-01-11

I wouldn't say that this is a bad book. It has its good points, but it was missing some of the things that I was more interested in. Like the thoughts of Ray, and the things that went on behind the scenes, through out different occurences in his life. Like when the woman on the side would get pregnant, what type of issues were bought into the Robinson household. The book didn't go into detail with anything. Basically, it just made a statement, "Ray girlfriend has a baby." That's it. That is the debt that was given, in most of the stories. Even during Ray's drug use years, it really didn't give to much insite. I think that the movie gave more detail than this book did, and usually it is the opposite. I think that this book could have eliminated about of 100 of it pages. I found myself, flipping pages trying to get through dead information, like its countless mention of billboard reviews, giving more detail in music charts, than the actual life of "RC." Let me restate that the book does haved it's good points, but it didn't fulfill my need for information.

The newly expanded paperback version of a classic biography.......2004-04-04

Now in a newly updated edition from Routledge, Ray Charles: Man And Music by Michael Lydon ("Rolling Stone" founding editor and an influential music journalist) presents and documents the live and contributions to contemporary American music by Rhythm & Blues singer and musician Ray Charles. Afflicted with blindness at an early age, suffering the loss of his family at fourteen, Ray Charles went on to become one of the best known and best liked American music performers. This outstanding biography doesn't flinch from Charles struggle with heroin addiction or his problematic career at Atlantic Records. Originally published in 1995, this new edition now includes chapters on the last seven years of his life making Ray Charles: Man And Music very strongly recommended reading for anyone who has enjoyed his music and admired his ultimate triumph over adversity.

Medium but interesting.......2002-07-09

I am a big fan of Ray Charles Robinson. This felt like a character assination. It is no secret that he was not exactly the best husband. I am sure Charles was a tightwad, and ran a very tight ship. But, the book goes on and on and on about this in every chapter, ad nauseum.

The good parts about the book are the the exaustive research and the insight about the single minded drive Ray had to be the best at everythig he does. I agree with the above review that there was very little insight from Ray about what makes him tick. It seems obvious that Ray did not spend much time with the author. Perhaps read this and 'Brother Ray' to get his side of the Story.

The Playboy Book of Crime and Suspense
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The Playboy Book of Crime and Suspense
Anonymous. (editor) (Ian Fleming; Walter Tevis; Charles Beaumont; Fredric Brown; Steve Allen; Gerald Kersh; Michael Shaara; Gilbert Wright; Richard Matheson; Stanley Cooperman; Ray Russell; Ken W. Purdy; Henry Slesar; Charles Mergendahl; Berkely Mather)
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Will Work For Peace: New Political Poems
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A wonderful book.

Will Work for Peace is a triumph of poetic Davids.

Good work!

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Will Work For Peace: New Political Poems
Sherman Alexie , Marge Piercy , Carolyn Kizer , Martin Espada , Diane di Prima , W. D. Snodgrass , Bob Holman , Peter Viereck , Leslea Newman , Lyn Lifshin , Cid Corman , David Ray , Susan Griffin , Dean Blehert , Donald Hall , Bill Zavatsky , Ellen Bass , Colette Inez , Maxine Chernoff , Marilyn Chin , Nicole Blackman , Maude Meehan , Elaine Equi , Daniela Gioseffi , Taylor Mali , Regie Cabico , Janet Hamill , Edwin Torres , Sarah Jones , Roger Bonair-Agard , Alix Olson , Amy Ouzoonian , Cristin Aptowicz , Charles Fishman , Francis Driscoll , Lamont Steptoe , Thaddeaus Rutkowski , Michael Cadnum , Charles Potts , and Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Manufacturer: Zeropanik Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Multi-cultural, cross-generational anthology of new political poetry of 144 living poets from every continent on Earth.

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A wonderful book........2000-03-11

I go to a somewhat conservative boarding school and lent this book to one of my writing teachers, who previously had said that there is no way that a political poem can be heartfelt. This book proves that notion wrong. Normally when people think about politics, they only think about who is running for office, but there is so much more than that in this book. This book should be available in every library in both the poetry and political section. This is an inspiring book that speaks not only to the mind, but to the heart.

Will Work for Peace is a triumph of poetic Davids........1999-10-30

As one of the poets featured in Will Work for Peace, one might expect me to be a bit biased, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Most poets work in a virtual vacuum, only tenuously connected to each other by the occasional workshop or shared membership in a 'poetry society'. When Brett Axel first approached me for a submission to an anthology he was considering, the names Marge Piercy, Lyn Lifshin, Moshe Bennaroch and so many others were abstractions to me as a fledgling poet. I knew these tremendous writers were 'out there' somewhere, beating down doors with their words and keeping a struggling artform alive. But to think that someday I would ever share a credit with these dynamic modern poets would be a pipe dream at best. It is through the sincere efforts of Brett Axel that many newer voices like mine have an extraordinary opportunity to appear with Pulitzer Prize winners and other poetic heavyweights. By way of an honest review, however, I will say this- not everything in this book will be to your particular liking. I myself came across some works that did not move me in the way the author may have intended. Some imagery can be raw and visceral, using shock value in place of craft at times. But to ignore those voices would be an even more shocking turn of events, so praise be to the editor for not sacrificing his vision to a senseless conformity. As Pete Seeger so aptly put it in his quote, trying to read all these poems at one time would be like trying 'to swallow Manhattan whole'. I say to you- buy this book, read this book, but understand that it's what you do after reading this book that will ultimately define who you could be. Poetry is alive and well, and lives in the blunt pages of Will Work for Peace.

Good work!.......1999-10-28

This book has been a long time coming. Brett Axel has really contributed to the poetry world in a way that is noticed, rather than swept into a corner. Many of the poems are good, some are great. Not all the poets are famous, but most of them contributed good work. I liked Amy Ouzoonian's and Brett's poems, as well as "Pinaud's Tonic" by Michael Pollick. I recommend reading that one. The only criticism I would have of the book is of the extreme scatalogical nature of some of the poems, which do not seem to fit with the theme of the anthology, and would, perhaps, be better in collections by that particular poet, rather than in such an anthology. But, overall, it is a great work.

Thumbs Up.......1999-09-20

Just amazing start to finish! I like the disregard for fame used in putting the book together. That great poems got in even if they were writtenby nobodys. Look at Roger Bonair-Agard's poem on page 74. Shortly after Will Work For Peace came out he won Slam Nationals, becoming Slam Champion of 1999, which will be getting him lots of offers. But Zeropanik Press didn't need to be told he was good by an award. They could tell by his writing! Good for them and good for all of us because Will Work For Peace is a literary milestone. It's a new standard for all future anthology editors to try to live up to. Thumbs up to Brett Axel and Thumbs up to Zeropanik Press for their guts and integrty.

Good reading.......1999-09-19

I liked this book. It has some of the best poetry I've ever seen in it. I especially liked the poems by Marge Piercy, Antler, Diane di Prima, and Susan Griffin, but all of it was good. I think there was only one or two that I didn't like at all and they were short. I'd give it 5 stars but the type was kind of small and I'd rather it be easier to read. My eyes aren't what they were when I was 30.

Justice League International Quarterly No. 15

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Justice League International Quarterly No. 15
michael jan friedman(A Hole in the World);Stephen seagle & mark tenney(Galway Girls);David Devries (The Devil You Know);charles moore(In a Different Light)
Manufacturer: DC Comics
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Myths about evolution.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor) : An article from: Skeptical Inquirer

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Richard Dawkins , J. Matthew Hoch , Don Keith , Lee Traynor , Robert Clear , Ray Sutera , Michael Hawley , David Ziglin , Donald Rooum , Charles Sullivan , and Cameron McPherson
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This digital document is an article from Skeptical Inquirer, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2870 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. Citation Details
Title: Myths about evolution.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
Author: Richard Dawkins
Publication: Skeptical Inquirer (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 29 Issue: 5 Page: 63(3) Article Type: Letter to the Editor Distributed by Thomson Gale

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