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This casebook provides detailed information on federal courts law. The casebook provides the tools for fast, easy, on-point research.Part of the University Casebook Series®, it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject. Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany the cases. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Hodder & Stoughton in 1890 in 265 pages; Subjects: Bible; History / General; Religion / Biblical Studies / General; Religion / Biblical Commentary / Old Testament; Religion / Biblical Commentary / New Testament; Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General; Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament; Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament; Religion / Biblical Studies / Old Testament; Religion / Biblical Studies / New Testament; ... Read more

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Irish monks and missionaries played a crucial role in the conversion of the pagan Anglo-Saxons and in the formation of Christian culture in England, but the nature and extent of Irish influence on Old English poetry has remained largely undefined. Charles Wright identifies the characteristic features of Irish Christian literature which influenced Anglo-Saxon vernacular authors. Professor Wright traces the Irish background of the distinctive contents of Vercelli Homily IX and its remarkable exemplum, 'The Devil's Account of the Next World', and traces the dissemination of related stylistic and thematic material elsewhere in Old English literature, including other anonymous homilies such as Beowulf and the Solomon and Saturn texts. As a full-length study of Irish influence on Old English religious literature, the book will appeal to scholars in Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon studies, and Old and Middle Irish literature. ... Read more

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Here is the first book to examine the environmental landscape designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, probably the world's best known and most influential architect.WRIGHTSCAPES analyzes 85 of his works, and pays particular attention to site planning, landscape design, community scale, and regional planning.

The authors include many original diagrams, rare archival material, and some 200 photographs, many never published before.WRIGHTSCAPES also chronicles how and way Wright's famous ecological sensabilities were established and how his design aspirations went far beyond accepted definitions of architecture.

WRIGHTSCAPES is ideal for required or supplemental reading within many curriculums of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning or urban design. ... Read more

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Essential, yet disappointing
This is an immense, original, dense, and unique attempt to evaluate what is "outside" of Wright's artful buildings. The authors' 50-year fascination with F.Ll. Wright's vaunted organic architecture and respect for nature results in the first book study of Wright's landscaping-only to discover Wright did hardly any landscaping, and what he did was often illusionary rather than natural (vide: spectacular and dramatic manipulation of artificial urns, planters, terraces, and axial markers)! The Aguars looked in the archives and, aside from impressionistic renderings or geometric exercises, they found hardly a developed site or garden plan from Wright's hand or after his early Prairie years! Consequently, the great bulk of this book is the authors' reconstruction or critical evaluation of the little that is explicit. Most of their attention is perforce upon what exists on the grounds of Wright houses today, 50 or 75 years on. The late Charles Aguar, a landscape architect, interviewed owners (37 original) and subjects 85 sites to intensive site analysis to try to reconstruct what was in Wright's mind and to evaluate the pros and cons of each landscape design. (Of course there's very little about the houses themselves, or their interiors.) Some of the most fascinating designs are Wright's ventures into mass suburban planning, where Aguar can trace the evolution of his thought and practice through a series of (mostly unrealized) housing schemes. Where available he includes original planting information from the archives, but supplies none of his own for the present day. He does address admonitions for maintenance or restoration to current owners of Wright places.

Aguar suggests that Wright was a far better architect than landscaper, that he was strongly influenced at specific points in his career by anti-realistic Japanese landscape design, that he became an "organic" (integrated) designer only with the development of his Taliesin estate, and that he was at his best designing and siting buildings on flat land where his geometries were least constrained by the siting analysis, soil studies, and grading plans he never made.

Text and illustrations complement each other well, but some corners have unfortunately been cut when the co-author had to reduce the text to one volume. Charles Aguar's lifelong devotion to studying Wright is poorly served by the tiny photos and maps, many his own. Despite taking thousands of color slides during their visits to 189 Wright sites, and publishing on heavy glossy paper, the authors include not a single color picture (the dust cover excepted). Gardeners will be immensely disappointed in this book, designers somewhat less so. There are no color schemes and hardly a decent planting scheme (at miniscule scale), but you can compile from the 13 appendices a short list of "Wrightian" species(while recognizing that most of them actually derive from the work of Griffith or Jensen, early collaborators of Wright in Chicago).

For an "environmental" appreciation of Wright's buildings themselves, you might like Grant Hildenbrand's The Wright Space, with its exciting visualizations of shelter, prospect, and procession within his buildings. ... Read more

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A gay African-American fiction anthology features works by award-winning authors and promising newcomers including A. Cinque+a6 Hick, Bil Wright, Larry Duplechan, and Jaime Manrique, and pays tribute to a range of cultural events. ... Read more

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an okay anthology about a great topic
This is an anthology about black gay men.Unfortunately, the tales inside are not as fierce or defiant as the title would suggest.In many of the pieces, issues of race and sexuality take the back seat to "l'art pour l'art", typical literature.The pieces near the back are better than the introductory ones.The piece by James Earl Hardy (who almost never writes short stories) is great.Jaime Manrique has a piece here and I've never seen him write about black issues (he writes almost exclusively of latino ones).I am glad I have a copy of this book, but I liked "Brother to Brother" and other books on the topic much better. ... Read more

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This new book is designed for the newly developing curriculum emerging in the field of Physical Education Exercise Science. Today, there is a renewed interest and dedication to the scientific study of human movement. This is reflected in the trend for physical education programs to change their names to departments of Kinesiology, Exercise and Sport Sciences, Human Movement, etc. This book captures this shift in the field of physical education by covering each of the sub-disciplines related to the study of human movement at an introductory level. For professionals in the field of physical education.

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French regionalism has often been associated with the political right. Julian Wright's fresh analysis of regionalist political thought overturns that assumption. Jean Charles-Brun, a teacher and journalist whose eclectic connections have often puzzled historians, takes center stage. Through this intellectual biography, Wright unpacks regionalism's broad appeal and helps to explain the important role it plays in modern French politics. ... Read more

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As a young man in Pownal, Vermont, Mooar looked toward theWest.The period following the Civil War was a time when men wererestless and often sought adventure in the Old West.Mooar firsttried his hand as a street car conductor in Chicago, but soon turnedtoward the West. During the period of 1870-1880 millions of buffalowere slaughtered.When Mooar first came to Kansas, he hunted tosupply meat for the railroad.The hunters would kill a bison, cut offthe hind quarters, and leave the rest on the prairie to rot.Mooarcame upon the idea of saving the hides of the buffalo and sellingthem.These were valued by customers in the East and in Europe.Thisventure brought other hunters to do the same thing. Millions wereeventually slaughtered for pleasure and profit, and the Indians weredriven from their hunting grounds for a lack of food. John Mooarjoined his brother, Wright, along with William (Pete) Snyder, and theyventured into the Panhandle of Texas. Mooar and his team of huntersleft Adobe Walls shortly before the Indians – led by Quanah Parkerand others- attacked on June 27, 1874. Returning to Kansas, Mooarhunted, but the buffalo were hard to find.

Mooar led a group ofhunters into Scurry County, Texas, just east of the present city ofLubbock, in October, 1876. The county had been named in honor of theCivil War hero General William R. Scurry on August 21, 1876.Mooar iscredited as being the first white man to settle in that area.Huntingalone near the Caprock on October 7th, Mooar returned to camp atsunset but stopped on a hillside to look over the beautifulcountry. He saw a small herd of buffalo, and one glistened in theevening sun.He rode closer and saw that it was an albino or whitebuffalo.He got off his horse, got another hunter to assist him, andhe slipped down the creek bank.After shooting the animal, he skinnedit, and the buffalo hide still hangs in the home of his granddaughternear Snyder, Texas.

By 1880, the buffalo were gone, and many of thehunters settled down as ranchers and farmers.Mooar’s excitingadventure is chronicled in Anderson’s book with numerous never beforepublished photos and stories of Mooar’s adventure.Mooar got to theknow Indians and became friends with Quanah Parker, Chief Whirlwind,and others.Mooar was offered $5,000 by President Teddy Roosevelt forthe valuable hide of the white buffalo.Mooar’s guns, the hide, andstories and photos of his adventure make this book valuable for thosewho love the Old West. ... Read more

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Interesting biography, better than Winford Hunt book
Interesting biography of J. Wright Mooar, one of the early leaders in the Buffalo Hunt business. If you've read many buffalo hunting books most of the material has been covered elsewhere but this one does have the added touch of several good period & other photographs. Judging by some of these the writer must've gotten some material from Mooar's granddaughter as she is featured in some.
"Getting a Stand" by Miles Gilbert and "Buffalo Days, the chronicle of an Old Hunter" by James Winford Hunt are quoted here. I'd say Gilbert's book is the best of the three, Mr. Anderson's would be second. If you can't stand the price look for a paperback of it at Dixie Gunworks. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1915. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Dino Campana's small and intensely magical body of poetry from the early years of the twentieth century--prose and free verse that combine the visual and the visionary with astonishing vigor and haunting grace--is little known to English-speaking readers. Now, thanks to the efforts of Pulitzer-winning poet Charles Wright, we have the best of Campana, superbly translated, and enhanced by Jonathan Galassi's Introduction and Eugenio Montale's thoughtful essay identifying the heart of Campana's achievement. This vivid contemporary presentation will demonstrate why Italian readers have cherished Campana's poems since the first appearance of Orphic Songs in 1914. ... Read more

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A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career. ... Read more

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Twelve essays explore the history of Seattle and King County, Washington, with a special focus on social, cultural, and ethnic history. Adding a new perspective to knowledge of the Pacific Northwest, writers including University of Washington historians, independent scholars, and community activitists have dug in archives, interviewed community members, and researched far and wide to uncover new stories and offer new understandings of our collective past. ... Read more

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Almost thirty years ago, Charles Wright (who teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry) began a poetic project of astonishing scope--a series of three trilogies. The first trilogy was collected in Country Music, the second in The World of the Ten Thousand Things, and the third began with Chickamauga and continued with Black Zodiac. Appalachia is the last book in the final trilogy of this pathbreaking and majestic series.

If Country Music traced "Wright's journey from the soil to the stars" and The World of the Ten Thousand Things "lovingly detailed" our world and made "a visionary map of the world beyond" (James Longenbach, The Nation), this final book in Wright's great work reveals a master's confrontation with his own mortality and his stunning ability to discover transcendence in the most beautifully ordinary of landscapes.
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"Nothing's more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. / The jobis to make it otherwise," Charles Wright announces near the beginning ofAppalachia, his 13th volume of poems. This is no small task,especially for one with such ingrained pessimism about the powers oflanguage--"our common enemy," he calls it, maintaining that "wordless iswhat the soul wants." Yet in the end Wright just keeps on keeping on, usinglanguage to make it all real: the cardinals and privet hedges of hissuburban back yard; clouds skimming the tops of the Blue Ridge Mountains;all the ceaseless motion, the "never again" of the physical world. Hequotes Italian painters and Chinese poets and bluegrass traditional songs;he draws inspiration from the lyric sensibility of Dylan as well as Stevensand Pound. But Wright's voice is, as always, wholly his own: by turnsmelancholy, musical, fragmented, incantatory, deceptively casual.

In the wake of his critically acclaimed, multiple-award-winning collection,Black Zodiac, Wright is officially an Important American Poet, andpart of the reason is his eagerness to grapple with the truly big issues:life, death, time, landscape, identity. Above all, Wright wants to knowwhat's behind the scrim of the phenomenal world. "Give me the names forthings, just give me their real names, / Not what we call them, but what /They call themselves when no one's listening--" he cries, in "The WritingLife." But landscape refuses to answer, and Wright's God is the kind ofdeity who "knees our necks to the ground." This is a grand, troubled,death-haunted book, the work of a poet straining to hear into the nextworld. --Mary Park ... Read more

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"our little sentences"
This is a beautiful volume of poetry. "When you're lost in Juarez in the Rain and it's Easter time too", for example is a lovely vision of a moment of great tenderness and insight. I love the line "Good Friday's a hard rain that won't fall."
What an amazing use of words. I will never think of Good Friday again without those words coming to mind. So the "little sentences" Wright refers to in this poem take us into lovely depths if only we spend the time with them they deserve. I suggest the other writers who criticize Wright try to expand their vision of poetry by reading a great deal more of all kinds of poetry. You may be surprised at the magic a skilled poet can weave in any style.

Don't attack what you don't understand
Several reviewers here are simply attacking something they do not understand: rather than doing this, thy should work harder on their readings. Wright is an outstanding poet, and this book represents some of his finest work. Go back; take time; think. abandon your pejudices. What can you lose?

Interesting but uneven
Anyone who mentions Cees Nooteboom, E. M. Cioraan, Wang Wei, and Gerard Manley Hopkins is sure to get my attention for I love them all.Therefore, I am biased for Charles Wright's "Appalachia".

Charles Wrighthas many wonderful images: "Remembered landscapes are left in me / Theway a bee leaves its sting".There are also lines of religious depth:" . . . to get to God, pull both your feet back - / One foot from outof this life, one foot from the other".

Unfortunately, at the end ofthe book, what I recalled are wonderful lines not wonderful poems.Wellworth reading, even rereading and certainly better than much ofcontemporary poetry.

Not even worth it
In Charles Wright's book Appalachia there are many poems which do not have any apparent point.When speaking about the pointlessness of the book, the poem "OpusPosthumous" comes to mind.This poem does not have any meaning; it is not even a desirable poem to hear. Charles Wright wrotehis poems either only for himself or a select few that might understand hisoff the wall creations.At first I thought that the poems were some kindof joke, but the punch lines never came.Charles Wright apparently wroteAppalachia not with the purpose of actually trying to write acceptablepoetry, but was only trying to get some words onto paper so that it couldbe published. Appalachia is by far the worst book that I have read inyears.I have seen better poetry written by teenagers. It is a waste ofpaper, time, and money.I only hope that contemporary poetry does notfollow in the footsteps of Charles Wright, because poetry of this kindbelongs in the trash.

Lack of Structure in Contemporary Poetry
"The Red Leaves of Night" is a poetry book written by David St. John.As contemporary poets write these days, St. John fills his poems with great feeling and passion of love and sexual desires.Sex and lust fill his poems and add great drama and emotion to them.However, he lacks anystructure to his poems.There are many poems that fail to have anypunctuation and are read as one giant run on sentence.My personalfeelings on poetry is that it is more difficult and better to forceyourself to conform your feelings into a certain structure which has adefinite rhyme scheme and meter.The point of meter and a rhyme scheme isto make each word essential to the life of the poem.All the words thenwill count and will hold their weight in the building of the poem.Withcontemporary poetry these days, they just tend to ramble on and on aboutwhatever they are feeling at the time.They lack the real power of forcingeach word to really count and stand out.Most of the contemporary poems Ihave read could be retyped as a paragraph and no one would ever know thedifference.With a real poem, you could never do this. ... Read more

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All reprinted in Scar Tissue
If you're a completist, I guess you'll want a copy of this chapbook.All the poems showed up in a later volume, SCAR TISSUE.

Great writer.

A very good effort
Charles Wright, the Bard of Appalachia, has put forth an excellent effort in this chapbook (a previous reviewer referred to this as a "booklet" which is incorrect).A man who can often be found safely within the confines of "nature poetry," Wright infuses into his poetry a keen eye for detail as well as a skepticism of change and our role in shaping our surroundings.

By the way, even if you don't like his poetry, take the chance to hear him read if he is doing so near you.His strong Tennessee/North Carolina accent is still strong despite his years in Iowa, California, and New York.

Wrong End Indeed

Wrights new collection, (a booklet of thirty-nine pages) is appropriately titled. The implication is that a pot of gold is missing at the end of the journey, so what is there?More of the same. Specifically, the same observation of nature, the same artful morphing of landscape into syllables and other language references - the same Christian allusions artfully placed.
Wright's genius, and subsequent gift to us, has been his ability to articulate the paradox of spiritual absence (in life and in the clichés of spirituality) and spiritual presence (in the natural world, in memory, in language) - and to do so with elegance. After "A Short History of the Shadow" demonstrated the utmost refinement of Wright's art, and "Buffalo Yoga" showed that he could also work in abstract expressionism, he has unfortunately followed the rainbow the wrong end. These poems read like very good Wright imitation, and offer nothing new beyond what was already mined in "Shadow."
There is still incredible skill and beauty in these lines, but the meaning is unchanged, and the booklet has no immediacy, and none of the gravitational pull associated with everything from "Grave of the Right Hand" forward. Its title is possibly the most artful phrase in this work, and a perfect description of the rest of the contents.
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