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The volume Celebrations and Connections in Hispanic Literature is itself a celebration of a tradition of scholarly dialogue in a relaxed, festive atmosphere.The articles included here began as papers presented at the 25th Anniversary Edition of the Biennial Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, held in Baton Rouge Louisiana, February 23-24, 2006.Each of the authors responds in innovative ways to the idea of connecting texts, contexts, and genres, as well as to the disconnect that is often present between what we perceive asHispanicidentity and the experience of those left on the margin. Topics includeCelebrating and Rewriting Difference: (De)colonized Identities, Word and Image in the Spanish Golden Age,andLatin American Literature and Politics,among others. The collection is demonstrative of current trends in Hispanic literary and cultural criticism, which are increasingly less bound by traditional regional and temporal constructs.While each author s research is rooted in a specific socio-historic context, their combined contributions to the present volume provide a far-reaching perspective that expands the notion oftextto go beyond the literary and engage a multitude of disciplines. ...it emphasizes the often illuminating connections among literary and cultural texts which can be drawn when one conceives of Hispanism and its literary and cultural fields as shaped by trends and issues, rather than divided by periods and regions (...) What strikes me most is the newness of each piece. While each is very well informed, none rehearses old historical or theoretical ground more than is absolutely necessary, but rather presents either a new or overlooked text or offers a new approach. Leslie Bary, University of Louisiana, Lafayette An impressive array of well-established and younger scholars has produced a volume whose scope is the entire Hispanic world extending from the Golden Age to the contemporary era. (...) This volume will be of interest to all scholars and critics of Hispanic literature as well as to historians and political scientists.Many of the essays challenge traditional assumptions about the colonization of the Hispanic world as well as the motivations for the revolutions for independence whose influence is still strongly alive in contemporary treatments of fundamental questions of national identity, race, class, and gender.C. Chris Soufas, Jr., Tulane University ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Chronologie le Caméléon, George Lazenby, Andrea Parker, Jon Gries, Michael T. Weiss, Sydney. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : par période / genre / paysListe complète Le Caméléon (The Pretender) est une série télévisée américaine en 86 épisodes de 42 minutes, créée par Steven Long Mitchell et Craig Van Sickle et diffusée du 19 septembre 1996 au 13 mai 2000 sur le réseau NBC. En France, la série a été diffusée à partir du 4 avril 1997 sur M6 dans le cadre de la trilogie du samedi et à partir du 3 mars 1999 sur Série Club ; en Belgique, sur Canal+ Belgique et au Québec, sur Séries+, et en Suisse sur TSR Il existe des êtres doués d'une intelligence supra normale, des génies qui possèdent entre autres la faculté d'assumer n'importe quelle identité. En 1963, les chercheurs d'une entreprise appelée « Le Centre » ont mis en isolement un de ces êtres, un jeune garçon nommé Jarod et exploitèrent son génie pour des recherches secrètes. Mais un jour le « Caméléon » leur échappa... Pour tous les personnages récurrents, les auteurs semblent avoir convenu d'une règle : on connaît soit leur prénom, soit leur nom de famille, mais pas les deux. L'arrêt de la diffusion de la série sur NBC et le rachat des droits par la chaîne TNT ont donné lieu à deux téléfilms destinés à clôturer les quatre saisons du Caméléon et réalisés en 2001 par Frederick King Keller : À ce jour pourtant, ces téléfilms sont insuffisants pour clôturer l'intrigue. Il était prévu deux téléfilms supplémentaires dans ce but, mais la chaîne TNT, nouvelle détentrice des droits, est à son tour en proie à des difficultés financières. Le succès populaire de cette série, tant aux États-Unis qu'en France repose principalement et avant tout sur la double ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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In 1995 Cornelia Parker put actress Tilda Swinton in a vitrine, sleeping on display at London's Serpentine Gallery. (Unlike Damien Hirst's lamb under glass there, the artist had the subject's full cooperation.) Parker's brand of conceptual art takes iconic and historically powerful objects, such as a feather from Freud's pillow or soil removed from under the Leaning Tower of Pisa to prevent its collapse, and transforms it into art that both resonates with that power and becomes something new--and often beautiful. In the case of the Pisa dirt, the suspended clumps, exposed to air for the first time in 800 years, float as if released from gravity. Perpetual Canon features Parker's installation in the historic cupola hall of the Württembergischer Kunstverein art center in Stuttgart, along with a number of her works on paper. In this collection, the artist again and again unearths the subconscious within the familiar and the cliché, causing us to see them anew. Whether drawing out a filament from dental-filling gold or splitting objects with the same guillotine used to decapitate Marie Antoinette, Parker constantly challenges what we know and what we think we know.Edited by Andrea Jahn.Hardcover, 8.75 x 10.25 in./88 pgs / 67 color and 3 b&w. ... Read more

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Great interviews and etc.
Often times in art books I am more drawn to the images than the text.This book has some wonderful essays and a fantastic interview with Cornelia Parker. Probably one of the best books I have seen on her.

$500?No Way!!!!
I saw this thinnish book at a small NYC gallery, and hoped to find a copy.
She's a terrific artist, but there isn't enough of her best work to justify
even a $100 pricetag.
The real value looks to be around $27, and since it's out ot print, I'd pay $40 to
have photos of one or two of her exceptional pieces in the book.
I guess with the deflated dollar, Europeans will find $500 a bargain for an
unexceptional book on this outstanding artist. ... Read more

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This thesis explores subgroup analyses within randomized trials,using cardiovascular interventions as a focal point.Reviewing 67 large trials`published between 1980 and 1997,we found that most reported on multiple single-factor subgroups without pre-specification or stastical tests for subgroup-treatment interactions.Instead of single-factor subgroups without pre-specification or stastical tests for subgroup treatment interactions.Instead of single-factor subgroup analyses,decision-makers can infer absolute benefits by appplying the relative effect size from the overall trial to baseline event rates in subgroups.We tested this approach in the SOLVD prevention (4228patients) and treatment(2569 patients)trials.We confirmed a published treatment interaction with ejection fraction(p=0.004),but successfully abolished that interaction when patients were divided into multivariate tertiles of baseline prognostic risk.This lack of significant variation could represent a beta error.We found no published method to perform a post-hoc power test for the most popular interaction test,the Breslow-Day statistic. ... Read more

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A Couple That Prays Together Stays Together is a remarkable resource for newlywed couples that want to overcome obstacles that may arise in a marriage in a spiritual and healthy way, explains how truly wonderful marriage can be when God is placed in your marriage. Author Andrea Conrad-Parker brings Scriptures from the Bible and experience along with short fiction stories to guide couples on the right path to having a healthy spiritual marriage. In an candid and easy to understand concept, Conrad-Parker shares the secrets to having a healthy marriage and the key to keeping your spouse happy. ... Read more

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Jarod is a Pretender - a genius whose exceptional intelligence allows him to assume various identities at will, be it doctor, test pilot or lawyer. Taken from his parents at an early age, Jarod was brought up in the Centre, a think-tank facility where he believed his computer-like mind was being used to benefit mankind. But when he learned the simulations he solved were being sold to the highest-bidder no matter what their intent, Jarod escaped. Now on the run, Jarod embarks on a search for his true identity while also attempting to balance out any wrong his simulations have caused by helping people who are as powerless as he once was. ... Read more

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Jarod is a Pretender - a genius whose exceptional intelligence allows him to assume various identities at will, be it doctor, test pilot or lawyer. Taken from his parents at an early age, Jarod was brought up in the Centre, a think-tank facility where he believed his computer-like mind was being used to benefit mankind. But when he learned the simulations he solved were being sold to the highest-bidder no matter what their intent, Jarod escaped. Now on the run, Jarod embarks on a search for his true identity while also attempting to balance out any wrong his simulations have caused by helping people who are as powerless as he once was. ... Read more

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Empty Nest...Full Heart extremely helpful for college parents
This book is written by a psychologist and reading it will help any parent who is sending a kid off to college understand much better their, and their kid's feelings and behaviors.
This book is ideal for parents who have a high school junior or senior, as it previews what is going on with the kid as he / she makes the transition form high schooler to college student.
The book helps parents sort through their feelings, and gives support and
tips on how to deal with the transition to 'empty nest.' And, especially helpful is the section on the affects upon any kids still at home when an older sibling leaves for college. Anyone with a younger student still at home definitely will want to read this book.

Empty Nest, Full Heart
I found the support I was longing for by reading Empty Nest...Full Heart.I read Andrea Van Steenhouse's book a few years ago after hearing her interviewed on public radio.Now, as my daughter completes her senior year, I am reviewing it again for support again.As a personal/professional coach, I am leading book discussions for parents who are getting ready for the transition of "sending my child to college."If's full of realism, tears, and laughter...not that different from our of journey of parenthood.
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A self-biased and negative perpective
I just completed Empty Nest ... Full Heart.I found some practical advice but was bewildered by story after story from parents whose relationship with their HS senior was less than desirable.It seems a slanted perspective. After reading heradvice to "Stay away from parents whose kids are perfect," it makes sense that despite her intention to inform, she only reflected upon the experiences of parents who didn't quite keep the lines of communication open and rewarding.

Raising a student who is communicative is the result of having an awareness and steadfast discipline of putting the student's needs at the same level as the parents' for the 18 years he/she lives at home. A "perfect kid" is a kid whose needs are met.

Van Steenhouse didn't think her audience wanted to read about freshmen who returned home for Thanksgiving to have rewarding dialogue with family, or who were grateful to return to the fold of nurturance. And while there may be plenty of examples of freshmen who return home for Thanksgiving feeling more unsettled than at-home, it is not a balanced account.

I invite her to open her heart to parents who have succeeded in having rewarding relationships with their HS seniors and college freshmen. Such parents should be applauded not alienated.

Great Gift Idea
I am a recent graduate and bought this book for some family friends who have children going off to college. They loved it!
keep this book in mind as a great gift idea.

Great Gift!
I am a recent graduate and bought this book for some family friends who have children going off to college.They loved it!
keep this book in mind as a great gift idea. ... Read more

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A blazingly original new novel from the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, featuringa sharp, tough, sexy new P.I., Sunny Randall.

"Robert B. Parker has always been a master of razor-sharp and witty dialogue, hard-driving suspense and memorable characterization," says the Houston Chronicle. With both the classic Spenser series and the more recent Jesse Stone novels, Parker's spare prose and tight storytelling have earned him critical praise and popular success in equal measure. In Family Honor, he creates an entirely new character--young, smart, and, for the first time, female.

Her name is Sunny Randall, a Boston P.I. and former cop, a college graduate, an aspiring painter, a divorcee, and the owner of a miniature bullterrier named Rosie. Hired by a wealthy family to locate their teenage daughter, Sunny is tested by the parents' preconceived notion of what a detective should be. With the help of underworld contacts she tracks down the runaway Millicent, who has turned to prostitution, rescues her from her pimp, and finds herself, at thirty-four, the unlikely custodian of a difficult teenager when the girl refuses to return to her family.

But Millicent's problems are rooted in much larger crimes than running away, and Sunny, now playing the role of bodyguard, is caught in a shooting war with some very serious mobsters. She turns for help to her ex-husband, Richie, himself the son of a mob family, and to her dearest friend, Spike, a flamboyant and dangerous gay man. Heading this unlikely alliance, Sunny must solve at least one murder, resolve a criminal conspiracy that reaches to the top of state government, and bring Millicent back into functional young womanhood.Amazon.com Review
Let's get this settled right away: Sunny Randall is nothinglike Spenser. True, she's a private eye in Boston with goodconnections to the cops, and she also knows a lot of bad guys. Andyes, she happens to have a trusty sidekick named Spike, and a closefriend who could easily be related to Susan Silverman, (Spenser'slong-term companion). Oh, did I mention the cute dog? Aside from that,though, there's absolutely no similarity between this new series fromRobertB. Parker and his long-running Spenser books. Just because thecase Sunny is working on--finding a missing 15-year-old girl who hasrun away from her very rich parents--sounds similar to the Spenserfavorite ThinAir doesn't mean Parker is repeating himself here. Think of itas more like a homage, the kind of thing the author took on when heagreed to finish Raymond Chandler's Poodle Springs. Only inthis case it's a homage to himself--but what the hell.

Writtenspecifically with Parker's good friend actress Helen Hunt in mind,Family Honor is all in good fun. At one point, a no-nonsensenun looks down at Sunny's bull terrier, who is lying on her backbegging for a tummy rub. "What's wrong with this dog?" Sistersaid. "It is a dog, isn't it?"

Parker is so good that with onehand tied behind his back he can create characters that are morememorable than most writers can even when pounding away with bothfists. In just a few short pages, he tells us all about Sunny's careeras a painter--and about the complicated relationship between her coolpoliceman father and her irritating pseudo-feminist mother. Parkereven makes a direct dig at Spenser (who, before turning to privateinvestigating, had a short and fairly unsuccessful career in theboxing world). When the runaway girl questions Sunny's ability toprotect her from dangerous criminals--"you're a girl like me, forcrissake, what are you going to do?"--Sunny replies, "It would be niceif I weighed two hundred pounds and used to be a boxer. But I'm not,so we find other ways." Exactly. --Dick Adler ... Read more

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Spenser in drag?
Really, this is Parker's male persona stuffed into a petite female form. It was like reading Spenser as a weird female impersonator. This may have been my own limitation as a reader, after enjoying so many "Spenser" novels -- but it was frankly unsettling and unsavory. Yuck.

Robert B. Parker
My daughter recommended this book since she knows I like to read mysteries, especially with women slueths. I loved the characters and the fast pace. The title, "Family Honor" was right on. So far I read #'s 1,2, & 3 in the Sunny Randall Series and liked them all. Robert B. Parker is now one of my favorite authors.

Excellent
I haven't read the book as yet - but it is wonderful being able to order used books from Amazon and know that I am going to get something in good condition.I have never been dissatisfied.

Parker's new charge...
Being a huge Spenser fan I am of course a Robert B. Parker fan.Sunny Randall makes her debut in this yarn of sex, deceit and extortion.Not his best but getting his feet wet with this new female perspective, he makes more than a solid effort. (he gets the ball rolling in following tales)I'm grateful to Mr. Parker and his pen (figuratively???) If you are a fan...don't miss it.If you're not...WHY not???!!!!

"You Wouldn't Understand," she said - Rachel Wallace.This novel is Spenser's Reply.
FAMILY HONOR lived up to its title as the pilot for this delightful series which felt at first like Spenser was toning himself into a female roar heard round the literary arena, while extending his slant on gangster Vs cop family backgrounds (in which neither is all bad or all good) in this Juliet and Romeo romance.

I hadn't thought I'd be able to get into a female private eye series by Parker, especially after having become addicted to his 34 Spenser novels.But FAMILY HONOR was a perfect appetizer with appealing percolation.I don't doubt that Parker can carry both his new series (see my review of NIGHT PASSAGE, Jesse Stone # 1).

It didn't take more than a few chapters for Sunny to split off from the long-wrought, well-writ Spenser mystique and into her own, as a full character... maybe with Spenser speaking into her ear as an angel from an alternate reality, for a while.I enjoyed the slips connecting to Spenser, i.e., how Sunny might deal with a particular hairy situation if she were a 200 pound, male boxer.In humorous yet realistic contrast to Spenser and Hawk types, Parker dramatized what a small female can do to compensate for not being a testy, taut, towering gorilla-with-gonads, in a plot which will had me smiling.I'm excited about this series; I enjoyed the upbeat feeling of this first offering in it.I relished hearing Randall use Spenser's trademark words in dialogue, like "some more" and "eek."

Reading the first few chapters of FAMILY HONOR I kept seeing Spenser in high heels, noting how uncomfortable they were, and wondering where/how to effectively house a big enough gun on a 115 lb, 5'4" body... as he seemed to be having great fun adapting to this recent female incarnation, shaking out the form and personality.Of course, that image alone got me grinning.By the time the intense ending called up, I was liking Sunny Randall every bit as much as Kinsey Millhone (Sue Grafton's P. I.).

For this unique pilot, Parker designed a stylish, italicized prologue in third person observation of Sunny and Rosie, accomplishing an artistic, literary feel, giving a light-touch, sensitive contrast to chapter one opening into a first person narrative style with Sunny telling her own story in the classic private eye genre mode.

The included cultural icons of cooking, dress, habits, and thinking were precisely on target with the copyright date of 1999, when the Great Chefs TV episodes were running hot and heavy, with their long-handled saute pans being shook (contents were no longer stirred on TV) above gas-lit burners on commercial grade stoves, featuring Spike, Sunny's gay, tough-guy chef friend.

The plot here gave hints of EARLY AUTUMN (# 7 Spenser) and CEREMONY (# 9 Spenser) as Sunny took in a young teen, Millicent Patton, runaway, hooking daughter of her clients.Enlightening entertainment was easily obtained through Sunny's ways of dealing with and drawing out this young human lost in the sump and shrug of a lack of love.

A few quirky questions came to mind as I began reading this novel:

What might Rachel Wallace (# 6 SPENSER, Looking for Rachel Wallace) say about Spenser's (Parker's) ability to understand being female, if she were to read FAMILY HONOR.And what would she think about macho if she had read all 34 Spenser novels.Can novels help us understand that which we would have to stretch outside our bodies and into another form to get?I'd say they can, especially if penned by Parker.

Rachel Wallace may have to give the gauntlet on this one.Spenser understands.

Yet... can testosterone ever fully comprehend powerlessness...

Maybe any person who has ever been depressed, grieved loss of a loved one, or desperately wanted something he couldn't have, for whatever reason, has the capacity to comprehend the initial feeling of hopelessness which sometimes comes at those times of leached strength and slow coming answers.We each have a spirit, though, which seems to believe that morning comes daily.Parker has made a good case that sunny weather can dog the footsteps of storms.

Linda Shelnutt ... Read more