Looking At Los Angeles

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Loved, hated, revered, scorned, real, imagined: this is Los Angeles. Looking at Los Angeles is a fascinating journey into the center of the city's heart and soul. Pictured within its pages is a Los Angeles of powerful dreams and startling realities. Editors Marla Hamburg Kennedy and Ben Stiller have gathered pictorial representations of Los Angeles from the last three-quarters of a century, resulting in this selection of more than 200 stunning, beautifully reproduced color and duotone depictions of the city from different eras and different points of view. Along with the carefully chosen images by approximately 100 photographers who have time again turned to Los Angeles for inspiration, a preface and foreword by the editors describe their great affection for the city, while David L. Ulin's essay offers a critical and loving look at Los Angeles. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the Los Angeles Conservancy, and the organization provides an essay about the importance of saving this city's rich architectural heritage. Looking at Los Angeles is at once a lesson in history, architecture, style, and culture, and a remarkable visual and written tribute to one of America's greatest cities. Includes photographs by: Robert Adams, John Baldessari, William Claxton, Will Connell, Joe Deal, John Divola, William Eggleston, Sam Fentress, Anthony Friedkin, John Humble, Dennis Keeley, Florian Maier-Aichen, Grant Mudford, Karin A. Mueller, Catherine Opie, Ed Ruscha, Stephen Shore, Julius Schulman, Joel Sternfeld, Timothy Street-Porter, John Swope, Andy Warhol, Julian Wasser, Robert Weingarten, Garry Winogrand, Max Yavno, and others.

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Stretch city.......2006-12-25

How do you photographically sum a city like Los Angeles? The editors of this sumptuous coffee-table book give it a go and I think succeed, just look at the names in the Book Description above. Eighty-eight photographers in all and some I've never heard of but their 225 images do give a feel of this extraordinary endless place. Look through the pages and the only conclusion is that this must be Los Angeles.

The book is loosely divided into themes: freeways and autos, shops, buildings, suburbs, signs, vegetation, swimming pools, beach and the last section LA at night. Julius Shulman with fourteen photos rightly has the most. No other photographer captured the range and style of LA contemporary architecture over the decades. His well-known night photo of Pierre Koenig's Case Study home is included. Another famous photo is Stephen Shore's stunning 'Beverley Blvd and La Brea Avenue'. Other photos just stop you like Michael Light's aerial freeway shot on page forty-three or John Divola's '5800 South block of Hoover Street' which opens up to an image just over twenty-seven inches wide on pages seventy-seven and eight. However, as far as I can see there is nothing to represent NWA-land: Compton or Watts.

The photos (in 175dpi) are impressively large and mostly one to a page and more or less split equally between color and black and white. There is though an annoying fault with the production - so four stars - the captions are all at the back making the reader to constantly keep turning the pages to find out about a photographer and their work. Most pages have plenty of space for a caption. There is an extra wrinkle unfortunately because many pages have no numbers either: 56 to 61, 156 to 161, 172 to 189 and in the night section nothing between 200 and 225. It must have been amateur night at the publishers and it really is inexcusable for an expensive book!

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Getting to Know LA: Los Angeles Time Capsule.......2006-11-05

Nice time captures of LA images.

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Read the book - take the trip
Alaska speaks for itself
Surf Review And Report Rating: Greatest Contemporary Alaska Adventure
One Of The Best Yet About Alaska
Gave me more of a feel for Alaska than any book I've read!

Looking for Alaska
Peter Jenkins
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In 1999, Peter Jenkins and his family left their farm in Tennessee to live in Alaska for a few seasons, eventually renting a house in Seward, Alaska (pop. 2,830) on the Kenai Peninsula. The principal aim of the trip was for Jenkins to write a travelogue, but he also saw it as an opportunity to end a period of personal stagnation. It appears to have worked, for Looking for Alaska is filled with a vibrancy that can only come from one with a fully charged battery. Recognizing that "This giant place is filled with people determined to live as free as possible of others' intervention," he employed the same low-key approach to research that made his bestselling book A Walk Across America (1979) so engaging--he made friends wherever he went and allowed people to share their stories in their own way and in their own time. Part of Jenkins's charm is that he never pretends that he's figured the place out; he readily cops to his outsider status and invites readers to experience his sense of awe and surprise with him. During his 18-month stay in the Last Frontier, Jenkins spent time with wildlife rangers, recreation guides, native whalers, fishermen, and dogsled mushers, all of whom showed Jenkins and his family glimpses of their own private Alaska. (They also shared their bear stories; it seems nearly everyone in the state has had at least one run-in with the giant predator). "No one is ever the same after coming back from Alaska," he writes and after reading his book, it's easy to believe him. --Shawn Carkonen

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Twenty-two years ago, a disillusioned 24-year-old went looking for himself and his nation. His memoir of what he found, A Walk Across America, captured the hearts of all Americans, sold over 1.8 million copies, and is still in print today. Now, Peter Jenkins is a bit older, married and a father of six, and his journeys are much different. Perhaps he is looking for adventure, perhaps inspiration, perhaps new communities, perhaps unspoiled land. Certainly, he found all of this and more in Alaska. Looking for Alaska is Jenkinss account of a year-long odyssey in the cities, towns, islands, and villages of Americas last wilderness. Visiting isolated spots that few non-native people have seen, his view of Alaska is a rare and more complete one than ever before. He also took his family with him, and the way they made Alaska their home is as much a part of this story as Jenkinss travels. Getting to know a place as only he can, Jenkins provides an unforgettable portrait of a dangerous and beautiful land and the people that call it home.From a fishing expedition with some of Alaskas Native leaders to an ocean-kayaking trip in the glacier-ridden Gulf of Alaska, Jenkins delivers a memorable diary of discoveryboth of this place that captures all of our imaginations, and of himself, all over again.

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Read the book - take the trip.......2007-08-07

We've been to Alaska twice and are planning our third trip soon. This is an extraordinarily capturing and surprising place. Our trips there avoid the touristy cruise ship or resort hotel thus allowing us to stay in towns much like Jenkins did during his 18 months there. This style allows you to be with and enjoy Alaskan residents.

What Jenkins did was is to involve himself far more deeply than our experiences and that made this book remarkable for us. I liked his writing style as it made for a comfortable read. Yes, there are errors, but they are few. What's memorable is that each of his chapters highlights some adventure or someone's personality. It's been some time since I finished it and yet I still think back on this work and recall much of it. Peter Jenkins left a series of images in my head that are going to be there for a long while. My only regret was that we missed Hobo Jim. An interesting guy (check out his web site). He will be on our agenda next trip.

I'm on the Amazon site as I am ordering some copies for friends. Looking for Alaska is a terrific book and a must read for any of you with a sense of wonder for the wilderness. It is easy to not only tout Jenkins's book but Alaska as well. Destination and book are tops.

Alaska speaks for itself.......2007-07-08

I read this book before a trip to Alaska, and admittedly, ours was only a small boat cruise in the inside passage, so I knew I would experience only a part of Alaska from a tourist's vantage point. I wanted a bigger view of this remarkable state and hoped Jenkins would deliver that in this account of his family's 18-month residence in the state. It did - most of the time. I felt Jenkins took me to places I would never be able to go and gave me a true sense of the state. His was a journey based on the day-to-day interactions, discoveries, struggles and surprises of one who intends to know a place and its people more deeply. Jenkins creates a vision of the landscape and the people, and in its richest moments, this book is almost as good as the real thing.

But - it is too long (editing would have cured this), and poorly written (editing would have cured this as well). More than once, I puzzled over sentences that I wanted to correct. When speaking of the caretaker near a family living in the bush, we read this about the neighbor's disposition: "If the current one, Dave, was a bit grumpy one day, he'd try to tell Mike and Pete how to snow-machine the winter trail, except he'd never done it." Or this for example: " In the early morning, the kids' chores began. Eric wanted Mike and Pete to go across the lake about two miles. I went along to help; we were going to retrieve some doghouses to keep the team in."

I am quite willing to labor over a complex but beautiful sentence to get at the essence, but his is just plain bad writing. Too many examples like this slow the pace and distract the reader. At 434 pages, strenuous editing could have achieved more with less.

That aside, when Jenkins lets the landscape and the people speak for themselves, the reader gets a sense of the real Alaska. On the whole, I enjoyed it and felt it prepared me for the little bit of Alaska I was about to see. Just allow yourself enough time to wade through the verbal bush.

Surf Review And Report Rating: Greatest Contemporary Alaska Adventure.......2006-11-03

I have thus far reviewed more than 100 books. Of the 112, this is only the third audible book review I have thus far posted. That should tell you this book is special - it joins my review of Stephen King's On Writing and T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom as the best in its class. At surfreviewandreport dot com I will name this book as the 2006 Audio Book Extraordinaire - Bill Anderson.

Initially I found the monotone a bit of an annoyance. I wondered, "Why didn't he inject some emotion?"

Later I figured out why. Peter Jenkins correctly chose to have his words, not his voice, emphasize the the beauty and freedom that once predominated America and now exists only in Alaska.

I found his inclusion of brief statements by those whom he visited and of the honey-rocket to add unimaginable value! A literal stroke of genius!

Hobo Jim - I have been fortunate to listen to some of his music before. He reminds me of a cross between Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen and John Denver, seasoned with a dash of Arlo Guthrie and and of Phil Ochs. Aside from those guys and Sam Hinton, no other musician I have ever heard has made me so proud to be American nor more frustrated at how often each of us falls short of our potential to improve our world. Oh, but I digress. The little bit of Hobo Jim's live voisterous audience yodeling was far too short.

I do have two serious complaints: This book is far too short. I could listen to six months of this adventure. Also, it needs more interviews and sounds of Alaska.

Yes, the included audios of people and nature made this book my absolute all-time favorite audiobook. This book also is in my Top-10 list for books on Alaska and also for Adventures In The Far North, and it probably will be in my Top-10 Adventure Books list.

I found myself swelling with pride to hear that people in Alaska live a lifestyle intent on the old values of people and nature without the trappings of prejudice and demands for conforming to other's expectations that permeated America during the 50s, 60s and 70s, yet that also does not vilify or censor those who are not politically correct.

In other words, it seems Alaska is what America could have been if only we'd possessed the need for a honey-rocket and a rebellious Che-inspired balladeer who yodels and sings songs of heroism about guys named Redington.

Confused? Get download the audiobook and get listening!

One Of The Best Yet About Alaska.......2006-01-27

The most remarkable thing about Peter Jenkins is how he got so many "real" Alaskans, often a highly reclusive lot, to open up to him and tell their life stories. Granted, his residual fame as the author of "Walking Across America" opened a number of doors for him, but very few people could, for example, trustingly follow a bush veterinarian and his family to the shores of frozen Chandalar Lake, fit in with them so well and paint such a vivid, affecting portrait of their lives. Mr. Jenkins is not only a good storyteller, but he also is a quite extraordinary collector of stories, due to this sense of trust that he seems to engender with his subjects.
In a genre rife with either "carpetbagger" authors who don't really get Alaska, or with indigenous writers lacking top-notch skills, Mr. Jenkins finds an effective middle ground. He did actually reside in Alaska for a time, and tried to live as the locals did, so he at the very least scratched the surface of what the place is all about. And, while he made a few silly factual mistakes, and his prose is not the most sparkling I've ever seen (I actually think that his daughter Rebeccah is the more lively and interesting writer), he is nonetheless effective in communicating the stories of those Alaskans whom he genuinely admires. Another five years or so up North, and I think he'd have truly gotten it right.

Gave me more of a feel for Alaska than any book I've read!.......2005-11-17

I am drawn to books about Alaska for some reason---maybe it's the dream of living in real solitude off the land---something I will never really do, but love to think about. This book gave me more of a true feel for Alaska than any I've read.

I've read a lot of Jenkins' other books, and like them, this took a little while to get into. He has a different writing style---he sort of throws you into things without always explaining things fully. But once you are in there, you are really in there! I love how he seems to be interested in everyone---not just his family or people of importance, but the children of other families, his childrens' friends, shopkeepers---it's a nice way to be and interesting to hear so many stories.

My favorite part of the book was the tale of their trip to visit a vet and his family who lived deep, deep in the wilderness. He himself had doubts about what it would be like to travel there in winter, and why anyone was living there, and what the family would be like. The trip to get there was so compelling I actually woke up in the night needing to read a little more about it! I loved hearing the everyday details of life that far from everyone else---what they ate, what they did for fun, how they heated, etc.

It was great to hear about so many different parts of Alaska. I kept consulting the map over and over to see where Jenkins was now. I hope he keeps writing and explores new places soon!

Looking for History : Dispatches from Latin America

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A savvy journalist looks at Latin America
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Alma Guillermoprieto knows what she's talking about!
An interesting book

Looking for History : Dispatches from Latin America
Alma Guillermoprieto
Manufacturer: Pantheon
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ASIN: 0375420940
Release Date: 2001-04-10

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Since Alma Guillermoprieto became The New Yorker's Latin American correspondent a decade ago, she has emerged as the most informed and admired writer on her part of the world. In these superb pieces of reportage and analysis she anatomizes a region we are intimately linked with yet sadly ignorant of.

She writes in depth about three countries that are in deep difficulty: Cuba, to which she returned after many years—a place in an exhausting holding pattern, waiting for Castro's departure yet anxious about what may replace him. Colombia, in which she has spent several years and which is fatally splintered among the government, the left-wing guerrillas who control large sections of the country, thanks in part to money from the drug trade, and the right-wing paramilitaries. Mexico, where she lives, which is beset by the uprising in Chiapas (where she encounters the legendary masked leader, Marcos) and by the corruption of the government, yet emerging for the first time into some kind of real democracy.

Finally, she gives us the stories of Eva Perón—and so of Argentina; Che Guevara—and so of the aborted Marxist revolution in Latin America; and Mario Vargas Llosa, the great Peruvian novelist who in 1990 lost the battle for the presidency to Alberto Fujimori.

Looking for History is personal reportage that is infused with the author's unique understanding of a world that she is a part of, but that she can also stand apart from and sympathetically observe.

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Eye Opening and Informative.......2005-09-12

I knew that my knowledge of Latin America was wanting, but I had no idea how much I never learned in school nor received from the news media. Guillermoprieto does a solid, dispassionate job of explaining the complicated politics of Latin America and what it means for those countries and their relationships with other nations. The essays on Cuba and Mexico are particularly intriguing.

A savvy journalist looks at Latin America.......2003-09-08

In a collection of seventeen articles focusing on six Latin American countries (Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Maxico,and Cuba), New York Times journalist Ana Guillermoprieto serves up a highly literate and gracefully scripted collage of Latin America today. The limited selection of countries and issues should not detract from the value of this book in understanding the region as a whole, for each of the sets of articles offers some broader insight beyond just the personalities or countries described. The author artfully combines first-hand interviews and reportage from the region with research and masterfully chosen extracts from other important books on this region.

Her concise piece on Eva Peron is illustrative of her incisiveness and left me better informed than other sources on this somewhat mystifying subject ( see, for example, Evita: An Intimate Portrait of Eva Peron, which I have also reviewed on this website.). By ably reviewing the literature and carefully distinguishing between fact, hearsay, and speculation, the author unravels some myseries surrounding this QUOTE bland and to all appearances untalented girl, born illegitimate and on a ranch...possesed of an unreconstructed working-class accent and an unfailing gauche manner..in a country where upper-class snobbery reaches extremes of refinement and viciousness UNQUOTE

I also enjoyed an excellent piece on Peruvian writer turned presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa whose biographcial sketch the author weaves into a broader portrait of Peruvian politics and society in the 1990s.

The pieces on Colombia, Mexico, and Cuba may seem dated at first glance, but in fact provide penetrating insights into the Zapatistas, Colombia's civil strife, and Castro. Among books on Latin America, it is unusual in its ability to avoid pretending to be apolitical, while not falling prey to a facile ideological analysis.

This book is a reflection of journalism at its best and is written by someone who is not simply peering into Latin America with an outsider's eye, but has a deep sense of the myths, conflicts, and legacies that gives soul to this part of the world. This book should not be a disappointment to anyone with more than a passing interest in Latin America. You may also consider complementing this book with a more pictorial account of this region (see, for example, America Latina by Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir, which I have also reviewed on this website).

brilliant!.......2003-07-25

Need to know what is happening in Latin America today and don't want some dreary old history lesson force-fed down your throat? Then buy this book for the totally beguiling and endlessly fascinating writing of Alma, Alma, Alma who hits another high note as she sambas her way through Latin culture and cuts through the rhetoric.

Alma Guillermoprieto knows what she's talking about!.......2002-08-24

"Looking for History" is an enjoyable, vivid collection of articles on Latin America. The piece on Eva Peron is especially fascinating and surreal. Here Guillermoprieto is at her best, writing a very balanced portrait of a near-mythic character. We learn that Eva and Juan Peron were both unlikely superstars and yet somehow, once united, became a political and media tag-team powerhouse. We also learn that the story of Eva's corpse is perhaps more interesting, and certainly more bizarre, than her real life. Stuffed by a taxidermist, her body traveled across the Atlantic several times -- at one point collecting dust in an attic -- before being laid to rest in Buenos Aires decades after her death. Guillermoprieto does not report new facts here. Anyone who has read a good biography on Evita will already know the lurid details surrounding the corpse. But Guillermoprieto handles this material so well that it reads better than a Borges story. Indeed, she seems to know that any good telling of Latin America, whether factual or fictional, must include some dimension of absurdity.

Some of the strongest articles in "Looking for History" are on Colombia's civil war. She details how the FARC, the country's largest guerilla group, went from a ragtag team of 200 Marxist fighters to a revolutionary army that now has some 17,000 troops. She also goes into the background of Colombia's rightwing death squads, particularly the AUC, and shows how these paramilitary units actually feed off of the rebels. She mentions, for example, that one-third of the AUC's members are actually fighters plucked from the guerilla groups. Many of these converts are former hostages of the AUC, who have even been viciously tortured and beaten by the paramilitaries. Once released, the guerillas often return to the death squads and freely join the enemy side. It is a strange story, and Guillermoprieto interviews these converts -- many of them women -- to understand what made them fight in the first place, and then what made them into turncoats. These personal stories, so confused, so profoundly chaotic, seem to represent the turmoil of the entire Colombian nation. Here loyalties are tangled, identities fractured, and the lines between civilian and soldier hopelessly blurred. Guillermoprieto communicates this all so well, showing that no one is truly innocent or, for that matter, completely villainous.

Finally, the pieces on Mexico are exceptional, especially the one on Subcomandante Marcos. Her portrait of the Zapatista leader is complex but fair, not presenting him as a sacred hero, nor as some warmongering radical. She fits him somewhere in between, flawed for sure, but also noble. He is a man motivated by ego and fame, enjoying the hero worship that now surrounds him. But he also spearheaded a just cause -- the rights of the Indian peasant -- and used a savvy media campaign to champion this group and overthrow a corrupt regime. This approach to revolution, using words over AK-47s, distinguishes Marcos, making him a truly unique rebel leader. And Guillermoprieto is quick to point this out. But she is also willing to point out his failures -- some of which have cost many innocent lives. On top of this, she includes a number of rare but interesting historical facts on Mexico and its southern states in particular. She mentions that President Lazaro Cardenas, back in the late 1930s, was the very first Mexican leader to ever visit Chiapas, and that the region was so remote in those days that it took him six weeks to reach his destination. There were no railways and very few navigable roads -- the president had to use burros and horses to complete his trip.

All the articles are peppered with these kinds of facts, making the book a fun and informative read. Moreover, and perhaps more important, Guillermoprieto doesn't pull any punches. She describes Latin America as it is. Intriguing, yes. Lively, most definitely. But also pitiful, horrific, violent, evil, petty and perhaps, in some ways, hopeless. "Looking for History" is not politically correct; it is just correct.

An interesting book.......2001-08-23

I've always been interested in learning more about Latin America. I found this book to be very readable. It gives vivid pictures of Latin American figures and reports an in depth review and analysis of problems surrounding Latin America. The short stories covers Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru and figures such as Evita Peron, Fidel Castro, Che, among others. The author is very knowledgable and draws on her personal experiences to add on her snapshots. Overall, "Looking for History" is quite a worthwhile read for those who wants to get their toes in the water of Latin America history.

Bodie: "The Mines Are Looking Well...": The History of the Bodie Mining District, Mono County, California

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Outstanding well researched book
The definitive book on Bodie!

Bodie: "The Mines Are Looking Well...": The History of the Bodie Mining District, Mono County, California
Michael H. Piatt
Manufacturer: North Bay Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0972520007

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Based on three decades of research, this book tells the story of mining in the former boomtown of Bodie, California. Woven throughout are accounts of gambled fortunes, engineering marvels, and vigilante uprisings. Tracing Bodie's history from the discovery of gold in 1877 to the departure of its last residents in the 1940s, the book includes maps and scores of never-before-published photos.

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Outstanding well researched book.......2007-06-16

Although heavily focused on the history of the Bodie mines rather than the history of the town and its occupants, this is an outstanding work on the most celebrated old west Gold Mine bonanza in the west. The author traces how the highs and lows of the mining camp drove investors in NYC and SF to invest in Bodie's mecurical history. The work is well researched, easy to read and shows the author's meticulous effort to craft an accurate history of the mines of fabled Bodie CA. Superb effort!

The definitive book on Bodie!.......2004-01-05

Bodie: "The Mines Are Looking Well . . ." is the first comprehensive, serious history of the famous old California ghost town. The author, Michael Piatt, spending two years of his life directly involved with Bodie as a California State Park Aide, leads the reader through a century of gold mining history beginning in 1859. The book, like no other, provides comprehensive details on the mining activity that took place in Bodie! Lavish photo captions, fascinating sidebars, and extensive endnotes are as interesting as the text. The book also contains many photos never before seen in print. Anyone interested in learning about Bodie and its principle industry should begin with this book. An amazing historical compilation of what took place in one of California's Old West ghost towns.

Looking West: Cultural Globalization and Russian Youth Culture (Post-Communist Cultural Studies)

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Looking West: Cultural Globalization and Russian Youth Culture (Post-Communist Cultural Studies)

Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press
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ASIN: 027102187X

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Russian youth culture has been a subject of great interest to researchers since 1991, but most studies to date have failed to consider the global context. Looking West? engages theories of cultural globalization to chart how post-Soviet Russia's opening up to the West has been reflected in the cultural practices of its young people.

Visitors to Russia's cities often interpret the presence of designer clothes shops, Internet cafés, and a vibrant club scene as evidence of the "Westernization" of Russian youth. As Looking West? shows, however, the younger generation has adopted a "pick and mix" strategy with regard to Western cultural commodities that reflects a receptiveness to the global alongside a precious guarding of the local. The authors show us how young people perceive Russia to be positioned in current global flows of cultural exchange, what their sense of Russia's place in the new global order is, and how they manage to "live with the West" on a daily basis.

Looking West? represents an important landmark in Russian-Western collaborative research. Hilary Pilkington and Elena Omel'chenko have been at the heart of an eight-year collaboration between the University of Birmingham (U.K.) and Ul'ianovsk State University (Russia). This book was written by Pilkington and Omel'chenko with the team of researchers on the project--Moya Flynn, Ul'iana Bliudina, and Elena Starkova.

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International Political Risk Management: Looking to the Future (International Political Risk Management) (International Political Risk Management)

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Country and Political Risk

ASIN: 0821361546

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International Political Risk Management: Looking to the Future is the third in a series of volumes based on the MIGA-Georgetown University Symposium in International Political Risk Management. Like its predecessors, this volume offers expert assessments of needs, trends, and challenges in the international political risk insurance industry. These assessments come from a dozen senior practitioners from the investor, financial, insurance, broker, and analytical communities. The volume leads off by examining the lessons that can be learned from recent investment losses, insurance claims, and arbitrations. It then turns to consider what the future may hold for coverage of project finance projects in emerging markets as well as recent public-private collaboration trends in the issuance of political risk insurance. It concludes by reconsidering both old and new political risk insurance products and innovations that seek to expand the tools that international investors can utilize to mitigate political risk abroad. A current in-depth analysis from the front lines of international political risk management, this book will be a valuable guide to those who are considering private sector investments and privatizations in the developing world, whether as equity sponsors, lenders, or insurers. It should also be of interest to independent analysts and scholars working in the field of political risk management.

Looking at Cuba: Essays on Culture and Civil Society (Contemporary Cuba)

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Rafael Hernandez
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Vladimir Putin and the New World Order: Looking East, Looking West?

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Vladimir Putin and the New World Order: Looking East, Looking West?
J. L. Black
Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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ASIN: 0742529665

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J. L. Black's latest work is a rich and carefully crafted attempt to expose the textures of Russia's perceptions of itself and its place in the world. Based almost entirely on Russian sources, Vladimir Putin and the New World Order argues that to understand Russian foreign policymaking, international situations must be viewed through the prism of Russian analysts and officials.

Wallace Stevens Reads the Idea of Order at Key West/Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly and Other Poems/Cassette

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Excellent Recording! ...pretty much.

Wallace Stevens Reads the Idea of Order at Key West/Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly and Other Poems/Cassette
Wallace Stevens
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ASIN: 1559948329

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Wallace Stevens achieved international recognition as a master craftsman and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awards. Trained as a lawyer and employed as an insurance executive, Stevens' reputation has flourished since his death, and he is now considered one of America's most significant poets. His poems, marked by an unmistakable individuality, are exquisitely formed, full of lush figures and daring images. The listener will enjoy how Stevens wittily confuses all the arts in a luxuriance he called 'the essential gaudiness of poetry.'

Poems Included:

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The Theory of Poetry (A Prose Note); The Idea of Order at Key West; Credences of Summer; The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain; Vacancy in the Park

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Large Red Man Reading; This Solitude of Cataracts; In the Element of Antagonisms; Peulla Parvula; To An Old Philosopher in Rome; Two Illustrations That the World is What You Make of It 1: The Constant Disquisition of the Wind, II: The World is Larger in Summer; Prologues to What is Possible, II; Looking across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly; Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour and The Life of a Poet (A Prose Note)

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Excellent Recording! ...pretty much........2000-04-25

This recording is a truly enjoyable one. There is nothing comparable to hearing a poet read his or her own words, and among recorded poets, Wallace Stevens has one of those commanding, grave, sonorous voices that really suits the dramatic and cerebral nature of his poems. The recording opens with "The Theory of Poetry" and closes with "The Life of a Poet," two prose notes that provide a nice counterpoint to the poems. The poem selections, however, leave a little to be desired. This listener, at least, would have like to have heard "The Snow Man," "Sunday Morning," "Esthetique du Mal," or "The Course of a Particular." The poems that are included, however, are an excellent selection for those already aquainted with Stevens: "The Idea of Order at Key West," "Credences of Summer," "The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain," "Vacancy in the Park," "To an Old Philosopher in Rome," "Prologues to What is Possible, II," and nine others. The recording quality is high, having been digitally remastered. Overall, a real treat for the ears, but don't expect to hear some of the more well-known poems mentioned above.

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Looking West (Contemporary Ethnography)
John D. Dorst
Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

Through a series of Western texts--folkloric, photographic, literary, and historical--Dorst outlines another pattern of looking west, one characterized by optical distortion, faulty vision, and the ambiguous intersection of spectatorship, display, and covert observation. He applies the insights gained from this analysis of discursive patterns to various cultural displays located in the contemporary West.

In a series of ethnographic case studies--two folk art displays, a Western heritage theme park, and Devils Tower National Monument--he shows how this other discourse plays out at actual sites and institutions. In doing so, Dorst offers an account of visual practices that, though dressed in the images and narratives of the American West, are in fact characteristic of our modern consumer culture in general.

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