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Appropriate for a one- or two-semester course in introductory business statistics, Business Statistics: Elements and Applications prepares business students for a world where quality assurance is key. This text will help students become statistically literate consumers and employees through learning core statistics topics accompanied by applied business cases. MINITAB and MYSTAT are used for statistical analysis. ... Read more

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This four volume collection presents the first four years of SPARROW, the literary broadsheet published monthly through the years by Black Sparrow Press, beginning in October 1972 through September 1976. The individual issues average 16 pages each, each issue the work of an individual authjor, and are bound in order in volumes which were issued in 1973, 1974, 1975 and 1976. ... Read more

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Part of the big picture, or lost in space?
A fading mentality that hardly has time for all of its thoughts, but impressed enough by modern knowledge of early epics to make bibliographies on the state of knowledge for various people, certainly for Charles Doria (pp. 50-51) and Ed Dorn (pp. 3-14), to establish:

". . . that logography and the muthologotic are in fact, prose to poetry and poetry to prose, one earth-bound matter:
" or that it is taken literally in the discovery in the ground near Latakia or Ugaritic tablets, thus a poetry of some lines being therefore again new, or that Hittite and Sumerian text and poetry can now be placed beside the actual language and composition of the Rig-Veda, itself retained orally from a date prior to 1750 BC through some Englishman for the first time getting it into written and therefore readable as well as previously hearable for 4000 years, beside Celtic . . ." (p. 50).

This small book collected some things that Charles Olson (1910-1970) wrote.The copy that I have is from Four Seasons Foundation with copyrights for years from 1961 to 1974 "by Charles Boer, Literary Executor of the Estate of Charles Olson."The page numbers in this book are in brackets at the bottom of the page, with no numbers for pages before the main text.There is no index, but notes on pages 81-109 attempt to explain a few highly scholarly materials.There is not much poetry in this book, but judging from the examples, Charles Olson was a poet of a school which tended to be spaced quite like vast architectural monuments:

"Lightness

shall descend

from

above: a ship

is a church

upside-

down" (p. 63).

That was along the left margin.Near the right side of the page, starting on the line which had "shall descend," is an explanation or citation:

"shall not be soaring
vault VAULT SHORED-UP BY
BASTIONS ["Flying-
volens:BUTTRESSES]
Kirch Santa Clara Assisi" (p. 63).

There are many abbreviations and no list to explain what any of them might mean.There is no index for looking up the names I already know like Homer, or might easily guess, like "any of em as our kind of `You-liss-seas'?"(p. 11) or "(say, Peek-gas-so, Prrrroost, JJJJoys," (p. 6) in the attempt to gain comprehensive knowledge on a frightening scale, but "don't let that scare you:I'm only trying to say how far bill WCW missed by not going behind Sam one Houston!"(p. 12).

The first question about a book like this is how reading it makes any sense.I'm looking for the source of a single concept, proprioception, which might be capable of assuming that modern philosophy has reached a point in which the significance of any philosopher is primarily a matter of determining how well the philosopher perceived proprioceptive intellectual movements.This reading of Charles Olson is supported by the assumptions and working premises at the beginning of "A Bibliography on America For Ed Dorn" on page 3 through the "exercise of inversion" (p. 4) because " `TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE,' IS THE ONLY MORAL ACT WHICH CAN POSSIBLY CORRECT THE WEST, AS EITHER GREEK OR U. S."(p. 5).Alfred North Whitehead is called "just the greatest, if you read only his philosophy.If you read him on anything else, especially culture andor beauty, you realize that old saw, a man can't do everything!"(p, 7).There is a chart on page 10 which puts "viz, E. Dorn" at the center of the page and "MILLENNIA 12,000 BC to 1955 AD" along a dashed line representing history in one of the top corners.I tend to agree with the following advice:

"Best thing to do is to dig one thing or place or man until you yourself know more abt that than is possible to any other man."(p. 11).Modern society might be considered an entertaining economic struggle among people who have competing ideas about particular peoples and movements, with much woe for any people who expect conquering rulers to establish a particular morality among those enemies that can't be dispersed by aiming missiles at some leader in a wheelchair.Much of the writing which follows that might be considered sketchy.The grand concept that makes proprioception attractive as an avenue for further philosophy gets lost in a thread of words that can convey no more than what we have already learned about particular people, unless we have a tendency to be more ephemeral in the presence of words on a page.At the end of the "Introductory Note to the Bibliography, written December 9th, 1963" we find:

"You asked me for a curriculum.I am proposing a re-arising of the Olympic Game:the public is the body (Tantalus founded those Games by unhitching the linch-pin of the chariot of the father of the girl he wanted, then ruler of the place where the Olympic Games did start.Tantalus was a Hittite.You at least Charles Doria are a Hittite.The private is a body.Language is only public as written."(p. 51). ... Read more