This book is a valuable resource on secessionist movements, particularly in the developing world. You can find information on everything from the Karens in Burma to the Bougainville conflict in the Solomon Islands, areas that are sadly understudied. It also includes some chapters on advanced democracies, though other volumes are perhaps superior here. Like most edited volumes, it is very short on theory: there is little attempt to develop a comprehensive explanation for secessionism around the world. The introduction's treatment of existing theories of secessionism is hit-and-miss. Still, a fascinating book if you find the topic as interesting as I do.

This book somewhat gives a different view of what Emerson was like away from being the literature giant that he is...if that sounds interesting to you then you should get this book.

This is a collection of the autobiographical stories that made Dazai's reputation in Japan during the 1930s and 40s. Dazai, like many Tanizaki characters, shows that a good analysis is only a good analysis, not a means to change. He did not lack for insight into his pathologies, and he wrote with considerable wit about his self-defeating and self-destructive patterns (especially parasitism, lack of any ability to associate with others casually, alcoholism, and, for a time, addiction to pain-killer medication). Dazai sounds like a wittier version of the European Romantic artist suffering on the road to suicide, not made for the crass world, but feeling less superior to it than European romantics.

Like many bright provincials, he went to the metropolis, Tokyo. "To this charmless, featureless plain, people from all over Japan roll up in droves to push and shove and sweat, to fight for an inch of ground, to live lives of alternating joy and sorrow, to regard one another with jealous, hostile eyes, females crying out to males, males merely strutting about in a frenzy."

As boorish as was the figure of himself that he wrote, and as debunking of many verities, there is still something delicate in his perceptions as in both his resistance to the cult of Mount Fuji and how he is affected by it and by other natural phenomena. "One hundred views of Mount Fuji" and "Eight scenes of Tokyo" are self-lacerating, but not wholly self-absorbed. That is, there are other characters. There is even, in "Early light," reportage of being on the ground during the incendiary bombings at the end of World War II (lacking in rancor, preoccupied with surviving and taking care of the children). There's nothing about the American Occupation.

Chavez provides a clear unbiased look at the harsh and often dangerous life of undocumented immigrants mainly in Southern California. Chavez engages the reader through accurate portrayals of people who remain on the fringes of American society for fear of deportation. Their stories are moving; their tenacity amazing. North American readers will be reminded of just how protected and sheltered they are by the virture of living in America. A must read for anyone trying to understand the complexities of illegal immigration or in the postion to make policy on the topic.

This is a wonderful, readable book about the people who lived through the Japanese occupation of the Philippine Islands during WWII. The story is told through the experiences of 4 different characters. Their experiences are captivating and informative, A great way to learn the history of the war in the Pacific. Read about the prison camps filled with American and British citizens. Learn about the guerilla efforts that helped win the war. I highly recommend this book ist has something for everyone!

I read this book many years ago. Good info about Frued . Read it and bought it because you cant go wrong with Ralph Steadman.Outstanding drawings asif I had to tell you that.

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This novel, when published in the 1920s, was a popular and critical success. It is considered of that literary school motivated by the First World War (Sassoon,Graves, Henry Williamson, etc.), though it contains no battle scenes.The title refers to a farm which gained its name through the Spanish occupation of the low countries during the counter-reformation. Its owner, Jerome Vanderlynden, and his daughter, Madeleine, inhabit the extreme north-east of France which is (was) as much Flemish as French and very close to the Western front. Madeleine, the central personage,might be a composite portrait of her that region's female: responsible, thrifty, direct, passionate, kind and maternal, yet with a certain hardness and even amorality. She wants to rejoin her lover, Georges, son of a local baron, and does so, but not before a tryst with the English Lieutenant Skene. She and Skene cohabit briefly during his leave.She later asks for and is sent money by him when, having found Georges, she begins to run short of funds. Georges, serving in the French army,dies, the war ends and, herself now proprieter of the Spanish Farm, she rejects Skene toward the close of the book. Their relationship, she knows,was created by war and terminated by peace. Hers is a well-drawn, credible portrait, the language in which she and others are described straightforward yet skilled. The Spanish Farm was the first of a trilogy, all of which are perhaps unfairly out of print or difficult to find.

Annotation "This book tell the story of x-rays, their scientific explanation, their applications in medicine, industry, research, and art" (book jacket). Included is a section on William Rontgen, the German professor who refused to patent his discovery of x-rays. The author traces the improvements in x-ray technology up to the multi-million dollar machines of today, taking time to explain each technical apparatus. This work includes many helpful diagrams and pictures, as well as a glossary.

Littleton, Taber, Jonesboro, Padukah. Those of us who teach and work with teens, must stop thinking like teens, "That will never happen to us." Ralph Klicker of the Thanos Institute (Buffalo, NY) has done every educator and every adminstrator a superb service by compiling this book. I use the word "compiling" intentionally. This is a functional book that formulates a step-by-step approach to death and grief in a teen setting. With precise summary statements and proven methodologies, Klicker weaves together analysis and action. By being familiar with the information in this small book, schools can be prepared for what might happen. They can also reflect on how events involving death have previously been handled, and either be affirmed in their wise moves, or realize their mistakes and build a better approach. Topics of value include setting up a Crisis Response Team, suicide, traumatic/violent death, writing letters of condolencesand understanding the unique way teens grieve. Along the way there is helpful demythologizing of the grief experience (i.e., use the words "death," "died" rather than euphemisms). There is a wealth of information in this book. When it comes to helping teens cope with death, please do not assume we know it all! Even though it reads as a "how to" book, Klicker's ideas can be easily adapted to your unique setting. Why wait to experience it? This book should be availale in every school, camp, youth center and church. It should be must reading for the orientation of each staff member.