Her careful readings of this newly discovered 1927 diary introduce us to the young Beauvoir taking up the project of becoming a philosopher and show us the roots of Beauvoir's distinct philosophical positions.

The Canberra Press Gallery consists of those journalists (print, radio, television) assigned by their media organisations to cover the political scene of the Australian Federal Parliament.

This book, by an experienced journalist and author, looks at the workings of the press gallery, how the gallery decides which stories to pursue, which to ignore, and the working relationships which develop between the journalists themselves and the people (politicians and their staff) on whom the journalists report.

Gallery operations, deadlines and beliefs shape the news that is published for public consumption.

Although specific to Australia, I imagine that similar situations exist in other countries, particularly the U.S. and the UK.

I love Scott's work. Many people accuse me of still being to much of a "beat"- and if that is a name they want to stick on me- I'll wear it proudly. Scott's work is highly implicative of the entire beat movement and I find that very enlivening. He runs a movie reel stream of consciousness for us to peer, and experience the

Interior workings of one man's Mind, a man of OUR time. Many people (mostly those that don't access the internet) feel that poetry is dead. A past life form. Poets like Scott breathe vitality into the new, the next, the "our" generation of poets- which is alive and flourishing due to the networking we writers and poets are doing via the internet. Scott is an important part of the structure we're creating on the web. A SAMPLE POEM

Halloween, 1998

Shaved head, mascara, black eyeliner & black lipstick, wearing my Shadow Project t-shirt, the one with Rozz holding a large knife above a naked girl behind swirling veiled curtains i cut myself the blood runs deep and ruby covering my arm it congeals in lumps while some drips off people walk widely around me as i go into a bookstore and buy Soldier of Fortune then on to Tower to get two new My Dying Bride CDs and then on for Japanese i might go see London After Midnight at Coven 13 tonight i might sit at home and write lousy poems i might play with my cat and then go trick people to death it's a freeze frame happenstance reality of sickness and i pop 3 Xanax and fight back the urge to go out and murder the bitch sitting in the bank's parking lot beside me

1999 Scott C. Holstad Leslie Blanchard

Editor A Writer's Choice Literary Journal ISSN: 1521-2319

The book I read is called Simon and the Witch. There are six chapters. They are called, Chapter one, The Backwards Spell. Chapter two, The lost magic wand. Chapter three, The Witch at the seaside. Chapter four, Witch has measles, Chapter five, Halloween, Chapter six, The Witch's visitor. I like chapter Three the best. The book is about a boy called Simon, and the Witch. I read it in one day. I like that book because it was great. I liked it because it was exciting.

The story is about a boy called Simon whose friend is a witch. I enjoy this story very much.The best part is when the witch makes the whole beach full of sand pies. It was cool when the witch had a trolley race in the hospital. Anyway the witch is silly. Simon enjoys being with the witch. In one chapter the witch loses her wand and finds it again. The witch teaches Simon a spell to turn the gardener into a frog. Simon felt horrible when he knew there is no back wards spell but the witch tricked him.

This is a ridiculous book that makes a deliberate appeal to the paranoid and easily manipulated. It suggests that anyone who advocates social change that interferes with the pleasure, convenience, and self indulgence of humans is a dangerous and dark force out to gain power and control over humanity.

I find it pretty sad and ironic that the argument against animal rights would resort to that tired old Nazi comparison. As one who has many family members who did not survive the Nazi regime, I also find it insulting in the extreme. The "Nazi" or "Fascist" comparison is pure manipulation and has been done to death. Does anyone remember the dreaded "feminazis" and "gay rights nazis". It seems to be the trendiest of arguments among those who wish to remain in denial of the simple fact that their position as the superior sex, race, religion, species, class, or philosophy is not guaranteed. There must be more intelligent and convincing ways to justify the exploitation of animals than this conspiratorial diatribe.

As someone who lost numerous relatives in the Holocaust as well a brother to SIDS several years before the 7/4/89 raid discussed in this book, I find the decidedly anti-human nature of animal rights groups such as PETA rather disturbing. I found the claim that this book contains "malevolent misinformation" amusing. While the book (as well as any examination of animal rights groups' activities) reveals many examples of the ways by which such groups seek to twist facts in order to sway the public against animal research, the most telling example given was PETA's panel of sixteen "experts" who denounced Orem's work immediately after the raid. By taking quotes from a variety of physicians with absolutely no background in sleep research, PETA played on the public's respect for the MD degree held by their "experts". It is telling that all of the physicians that routinely denounce animal research (C. Ray Greek, Kenneth Stollard, Murry Cohen, Neal Barnard, etc.) are all die-hard animal rights activists. There is no non-animal rights related opposition to biomedical research using animals. While this book will not change the minds of those people who have already been taken in by anti-research propaganda, it will continue to give universities and corporations that conduct animal research insight into the nature of animal rights groups' "direct action" and propaganda operations. Highly recommended.

The comparison to Nazi Germany is frightening when you start researching deeper into the animal rights movement. The real agenda is not rights for animals, but control of humans. Most are pro-abortion and for ethanization and vivasection on human beings, while supporting rights for animals, whon they view as superior creatures. They think nothing of fire-bombing businesses, stealing pets, releasing livestock and captive bred animals illegally into places they are not native to and subjecting human children to suffering by destroying medical research.

Among other related sciences, I teach human osteology at the college and graduate levels. There is no use for this text in the classroom. It is a sad book stop on a shelf full of other more useful books. If you are looking for a 500 page book of awkwardly strung together minutiae of little relevance to the forensic world, this it the book for you. If you're not, I recommend checking out other sources.

For the first time all the leading practitioners of the United Kingdom, currently working within the fields of archaeology and anthropology, are brought together to produce a comprehensive overview of human osteology, and its applications in the interpretation of human skeletal remains.

Whether your interest in Human Osteology is academic or forensic, this single volume contains a wealth of information and further references.

The historical development of the subject is succinctly expounded, followed by more specialist chapters on: juvenile skeletal development; palaeodemography; the effects of disease on the skeleton; variation in the human skeleton; the efects of trauma and assault on the skeleton; and the microscopic, biochemical and analytical approaches currently undertaken.

All of which can assist both the archaeologist in the reconstruction and interpretation of the past; and the forensic scientist in the identification of unknown human remains,and in assisting the authorities in criminal investigations, including war crimes.

This volume is written from the experience of osteological research, analysis, and practice within the north-west European context, and offers an alternative, whilst complementary, source of information to that of the North American experience. It is long overdue and most welcome.

The Editors have ensured that not only a full discussion of the current state of research is available to the reader, but also the challenges and options for the future development of human osteology.

For the undergraduate and post graduate student this volume will provide an excellent basic text in its own right, and will no doubt quickly become a standard reference within universities and colleges.