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Hoffman that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men: Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her sisters fiancé. Frieda Lewis, a doctors daughter and a runaway, becomes the muse of an ill-fated rock star. And beautiful Bryn Evans is set to marry an Englishman while secretly obsessed with her ex-husband. At the heart of the novel is Lucy Green, who blames herself for a tragic accident she witnessed at the age of twelve, and who spends four decades searching for the Third Angelthe angel on earth who will renew her faith. ... Read more

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Monkey Puzzle is a quarterly literary journal published by Monkey Puzzle Press in Boulder, Colorado. Monkey Puzzle publishes imaginative, thought provoking prose, poetry, hybrids, translations, artwork and photography that exhibits intelligence and creativity, with a bit of socio-political awareness and humor. ... Read more

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A New Trend in Publishing
It's so wonderful to see writers taking back the means of production from the big publishing houses, where "bottom line" fixations mean that most new writers never stand a chance. As we see potential bankruptcy happening at Random House, now more than ever it's time for writers to not rely on Big Publishing to tell us what is or is not worth reading. Kudos to Nate and the contributors of Monkey Puzzle for taking the crucial steps forward, out of the world of sanitized publishing and supporting the new voices that keep art moving forward.

Yeah, yeah, great issue!
This literary magazine keeps getting better and better & issue #5 is worth checking out.

Monkey Vision
Nate Jordon, creator and editor of Monkey Puzzle, has put together an amazing collection for Monkey Puzzle #5.This is cutting edge, phenomenal writing and worth every penny (not to mention the fact that it is likely to be a collectors item someday).I not only encourage you to purchase this, but to also buy it as a gift for anyone you know who loves good literature.

Cheers and thanks Monkey Puzzle!

Puzzle Solved
What happened to all the great Boulder Poets?Where is the fire and angst that the poetic community was so known for and that shook the foundations and called for actual active intellectual insurgent change.Coming out of Boulder, CO Monkey Puzzle gives light to this resurgence of poetic inspiration and ingenuity.The work in this volume inspires sonically, visually, socially, and ideolgically.It is a leap forward and I for one would recommend its poems and prose to any who love the art of the word.

A Literary Puzzle at its Finest
Not only is Monkey Puzzle a fine literary journal, it is beautifully crafted with poetry and prose that reaches beyond the typical. Makes a great Christmas present too. Must reads are: Don't Change a Hair for Me by Lisa Birman, Some Boys by Shane Joaquin Jimenez, Meta-Meta Poetry by Amy Catanzano & Jack Collom, Lobotomy Buttons by Nicholas Michael Ravnikar, and A Wrenching Blue by Yasamin Ghiasi. Congratulations to the editor on a wonderful journal.

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Monkey Puzzle is a biannual literary arts journal published by Monkey Puzzle Press. Monkey Puzzle publishes imaginative, thought provoking prose, poetry, hybrids, translations, artwork and photography from around the world. The contributions in this issue exhibit intelligence and creativity, with a bit of socio-political-cultural awareness and humor. ... Read more

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Naked Apes.......Please Keep Chattering
The layout alone is enough reason to have a copy of this sitting in your foyer.It's intriguing and great looking.From the cover featuring Taylor kissing Dr Zira to the photos to the puzzles on the page..hey ..you don't even have to read to enjoy this stuff.Check out Gods and Car Accident by Michael Filimowicz (great name for a photographer) on page 10, just for starters. Then make your way to Flesh to Flesh by Alex Nodopaka on page 19.You'll never be the same. This is one great looking magazine, never mind the puzzles.Then, notice the art on the page.Letter, Redacted by Adrienne Dolt, The Whole to the Parts by Paige Doughty, No Coda by Naomi Lore ..this stuff is all different and this stuff is all good. If you don't have one of these on your Antique Table or your paper box night stand, you're missing out big time.

Puzzling indeed...
This issue features great poetry and prose stitched through with the running Monkey Puzzle themes of nature and world awareness, as well as a hefty/healthy dose of love (in many unexpected forms--from cousins to Walgreens) to keep the reader warm on a cold winter night.I may be a bit biased, but I think this is the best issue yet of what is fast becoming one of the most popular and influential literary journals around.Pick one up, and stuff it into anyone's stocking who will stand still long enough for you to grab hold! ... Read more

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If the twentieth century was the American Century, who will the next one belong to... and what will become of the nation's capital? Will Washington D.C. be drowned in the rising tides and its glory days forgotten, or will its residents rise to the challenge and remake the world in its image? In these stories you'll find as many questions as answers, but if assembled authors agree on anything, it's that we are destined to live in interesting times and more than that... ones that we will have a hand in creating. Ask not what the future can do for you... with stories by Cory Doctorow, James Alan Gardner, Joe Haldeman, Sean McMullen, Kim Stanley Robinson, Allen M. Steele, and many more. ... Read more

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Good collection of short stories by some very good writers
The common theme of this collection of short stories is the future of washington. Some of these stories are very good and some very good writers like Kim Stanley Robinson, L. Neil Smith, and Joe Haldeman contributed to this effort.
There is a lot of variety and a lot of imagination in these stories. Something for just about everyone.

Clarification
The story "The Day of the RFIDs," alluded to in the Daniel Miller review as a highlight of the FUTURE WASHINGTON collection, was actually written by Edward M. Lerner.

Not as good as I expected it to be
I was kind of disappointed with this book, honestly--the stories are very hit-or-miss.The best one is by Kim Stanley Robinson, but it's an excerpt from a novel, not written for this collection--probably better to just read the novel.Another highlight is by Cory Doctorow, exploring the use of RFID tags and the Dept. of Homeland Security, although I felt like going up to him and whispering "Your ideology is showing".As for the others, some of them are amusing (particularly one near the end in which Democrats and Republicans have devolved into warring tribes--it reads like it was co-written by David Broder and Hunter S. Thompson), but only a few make a serious attempt at exploring an interesting future.More common are relatively shallow attempts at parody, such as one story in which Indiana real estate agents plant a nuclear bomb in DC and exploit the chaos to move the capital to Fort Wayne.Overall, the book doesn't have enough worthwhile material to make it worth buying.Check it out of a library for a few of the stories, but don't waste your time or your cash.

Is there a future for Washington DC ?
Future Washington contains 16 stories from a variety of authors most usually not found in anthologies.The stories posit many different futures for the DC but most are dark and distopian in one way or another.

"Primate in the Forest" by Kim Stanley Robinson, "Hothouse" by Thomas Harlan, "Civil Disobedience" by Joe Haldeman, all have the area suffering from one degree of global warming or another as background.

"Ignition" by Jack McDevitt gives us an idea of what can happen with fundamental religion take over. Paranoia takes over a computer geek in Edward M. Lerner's "The Day of the RFIDs" but is he really that paranoid?

Jane Lindskold in "Tgers in the Capitol" has the original designer of the capitol area who is not all that happy with what was done with his designs. "Hallowe'en Party" by Nancy Jane Moore is basically directions and instructions for a future party in the DC area (the directions are only slightly off from those you'd get if you lived in this security conscious area now).

"Agenda" by Travis Taylor, "A Well-Dressed Fear" by B.A. Chepaities, "The Lone and Level Sands" by L. Neil Smith, "Hail to the Chief" by Allen M. Steele, and "The Empire of the Willing" by Sean McMullen, all deal with politics and intrigue on one level or another.

"Mr. Zmith Goes to Washington" by Steven Sawicki has my favorite aliens (from sfrevu.com's Damned Aliens Column) drop in for a Senate Hearing. "Indiana Wants Me" by Brenda W. Clough gives a look at what could happen to the DC area if Congress moved elsewhere. "Human Readable" by Cory Doctorow deals with the concept of who has access to IT and will it be economic status blind."Shopping at the Mall" by James Alan Gardner give us a view of what would happen if Americans just disappeared one day.

All in all, there are stories to make you laugh out loud, shake your head in frustration, dispair, and agreement.Those that make you think maybe you should pay just a bit more attention to what are leaders are doing FOR/TO us in DC.Every story is strong with character, place, and plot.It's a good buy. ... Read more

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This issue of CODE Magazine focuses on .NET Servers, Windows DNA, and Visual FoxPro 7

Table of Contents:
*) The Web at your service
*) COM+ Queued Components
*) A Preview of Visual FoxPro 7.0
*) Scaling Web Applications with Windows 2000 Advanced Server's Network Load Balancing
*) Server-Side XML and XSL Merging
*) Implementing B2B Scenarios with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000
*) Customers vs. Code: Keeping Your Cool with the Essential Component
*) Thinking About Services
*) Query XML from SQL Server 2000
*) Dynamic Queries in Distributed Internet Applications

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In this fascinating, richly illustrated history of the steamboat, Travis Bowman delineates the epic collaboration between the handsome but not entirely successful artist and inventor, Robert Fulton, and the Hudson River Valley aristocrat, Robert R. Livingston. On a sultry summer day in 1807, Fulton and Livingston shocked the world when they sailed their fire-breathing contraption, their devil in a sawmill up the Hudson, stopping at Livingston's villa, Clermont, on their way to Albany. Their invention would revolutionize travel, and set the stage for the Industrial Revolution.

Bowman, a historian who is the former curator at the Clermont Historic Site in Germantown, N.Y., writes far more than dual biographies: he lays out the history of the steam engine, the tales of competitors on the Hudson River run -- sailing captains who would stageaccidents to stop the steamboats -- and who waged a vital legal battle to stop the Fulton-Livingston steamboat monopoly, setting precedent that stands to this day.

Bobs Folly is a must-read for anyone interested in maritime history, in inventors and in American art and science in the period between the Age of Enlightenment and the Age of Romanticism. ... Read more

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Mapping Crime: Principles & Practice
Don't buy this book...get it FREE from the U.S. Department of Justice via [...]. Also get its companion free (Mapping Crime: Understanding Hot Spots). Materials published by the U.S. Dept of Justice are copyright free and can therefore be used without permission, which this private publisher has done, so get it free from the U.S. government. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on April 1, 1994. The length of the article is 682 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Policing a Socialist Society: The German Democratic Republic. (book reviews)
Author: Robert Gellately
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1994
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: v29Issue: n1Page: p235(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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