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Title: Advances in microwave and mm-wave oscillator and VCO technology challenge system designers' creativity. (voltage controlled oscillator)
Author: Leonard D. Cohen
Publication: Microwave Journal (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1990
Publisher: Horizon House Publications, Inc.
Volume: v33Issue: n11Page: p151(7)

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Such patient futility.
Leonard Cohen is a beautiful poet, and a brilliant writer.His work is touched with such darkness, but there's so much beauty in the sickness he talks of.He seems to have discovered so early in his life a patience andsense of futility beyond his years. ... Read more

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This sheet music was newly engraved from early and authoritative editions.First Line is If it be your will that I speak no more and my voice be still as it was before. ... Read more

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The classic
This book was The classic written in an age where humanity seemed ready for the cheapest, most environmentally-safe, practical and useful proven energy source we have discovered to date: nuclear power.

Now that we are beginning to realize that we should have been building as many reactors as possible for the last few decades and are alarmingly behind, this should be the the bible to build that foundation-written in a style all can profit from from layperson to advanced scientist.

The fact that this book is the best description of advanced concepts in physics to a layperson ever written doesn't hurt. Few can read this book and still hold on to their hysterical phobia about moving on to the next stage in human advancement. ... Read more

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"Like a bird on a wire...
...like some drunk in a midnight choir, in my way, I have tried to be free." It is just one of the many lyrics from the songs of Leonard Cohen that circulate in "infinite do loops" in my brain. There was Janis Joplin in the Chelsea Hotel, offering Leonard a particularly gratifying form of solace, "...while the limousine waited in the street, and there was "Famous Blue Raincoat" pondering if you really ever did go clear, and the one song that hit "the big time" thanks to Judy Collins, "Suzanne," "... and she brings you tea and oranges that come all the way from China...". I was pleased to see him live in a club in Atlanta in the `70's, so when I recently read in the NYT that he was doing a retrospective tour, it was rewarding, and I dug out this old book, deep in the out of print column (and `tis a pity, that), and remembered when he spoke for so many of us.

The book is divided into three sections, with the first being reviews of his written works, for he is an author and poet, and some would say, not a singer (but I would demur on the later, since I think his songs sound best when he does them in his toneless style). The reviews are written by the standard book critics, and there are three on my favorite work, "Beautiful Losers"; a work that seemed to capture the spirit and message of so many of his songs. The later two sections deal with Cohen as a cultural phenomenon, both as a pop artist, and as a writer. Frank Davey's article is an astute comparison of Cohen with the other cultural icon of the times, Bob Dylan. Though the later remains more famous, my sympathies are with the former, for remaining truer to the spirit of the times.

Cohen provides that most overlooked of perspectives for Americans, that is, the Canadian one. In the interview with Michael Harris, he says: "But I do love Canada, just because it isn't America and I have, I suppose, foolish dreams about Canada. I believe it could somehow avoid American mistakes, and it could really be that country that becomes a noble country, not a powerful country." Burr Snider says that "he wears his battered heart on his sleeve and waves his never-healing stigmata scars in our faces to show us what we've done to him." Cohen's songs are full of his sexuality, and Stephen Scobie does a solid piece comparing "Beautiful Losers" to the "Story of O."

As for "transitions," Cohen reminds us about another form of "you leave them laughing when you go..." in his song, "That's No Way to Say Goodbye":

I'm not looking for another
As I wander in my time
Walk me to the corner
Our steps will always rhyme,
You know my love goes with you
As your love stays with me,
It's just the way it changes
Like the shoreline and the sea.

Fortunately he is still with us, although, I'm sure, with a few more aches and pains. Even though he couldn't hit all the notes, he really did. An easy 5-stars for those who can find this book, perhaps on the back shelf at a dear friend's house.
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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: Hallelujah, Famous Blue Raincoat, First We Take Manhattan, Suzanne, Everybody Knows, Bird on the Wire, Joan of Arc, in My Secret Life, Take This Waltz, Ain't No Cure for Love, Avalanche, the Song of Bernadette. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 58. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen and originally released on his studio album Various Positions (1984). Although it achieved little initial success, in recent years cover versions have been performed by a large number and broad range of artists, both in recordings and in concert, and has now surpassed "Suzanne" (written in the 1960s) to become the most-covered Cohen song. "Hallelujah", in its original version, is a song in "12/8 feel", which evokes the styles of both waltz and gospel music. Written in the key of C major, the chord progression follows the lyric "it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, and the major lift": C, F, G, A minor, F. The song is played at a tempo of 56 beats per minute; the vocal range is E4-A5. Cohen's original version contains several biblical references, most notably evoking the stories of Samson and traitorous Delilah from the Book of Judges as well as the adulterous King David and Bathsheba: "she cut your hair" and "you saw her bathing on the roof, her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you". Following his original 1984 studio-album version, Cohen performed the original song on his world tour in 1985, but live performances during his 1988 and 1993 tours almost invariably contained a quite different set of lyrics with only the last verse being common to the two versions. Numerous artists mix lyrics from both versions, and occasionally make direct lyric changes, such as Ruf...http://booksllc.net/?id=2186423 ... Read more

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Makes the case for nuclear power
Although written in 1990, the information in this book is still useful and accurate.As the debate over whether to build more nuclear power plants rages, Dr. Cohen provide clear reasoning as to why we need to revive this clean, safe, and powerful source of base load electric power.He also provides convincing evidence of why the Yucca Mountain site is a safe repository for spent nuclear fuel.

Best book on nuclear power, period.
This got to be one of the best books written about nuclear power ever! I have been in the industry for couple years and I must say that Dr. Cohen has done a superb job in presenting the technical info for ordinary people to grasp. Every issues raised by the environmentalists were fairly analyzed and the facts clearly showed that nuclear power is best option to meet the energy demand of the future. I highly doubt that there is a book out there that can do better job than this one in term of providing an unbiased & fair perspective on the positives and negatives of nuclear power & others energy sources.If you want to learn about nuclear power, get this book, you will not be disappointed even though it was written in the '90 much of the content s are extremely still relevant today.

The Nuclear Energy Option
The "The Nuclear Energy Option" is one of the best books I have read on a technical subject. Cohen is a master at analyzing complex subjects and expressing them in a way that most people can understand.

The book addresses the biases that have led the US to an energy policy that favors high-cost and environmentally dangerous methods to generate power (coal, and yes, alternative energy such as solar cells) and that discourages low-cost, environmentally safe methods such as nuclear.

If you still think that nuclear power is dangerous, then do yourself a favor and read the book. The fear that the public has about nuclear power generation and waste disposal is not supported by the facts. Our TV and print media have done a disservice in the poor and biased reporting that have strongly influenced our public policy as well as our perceptions.

Cohen gives us a common "measuring stick" to compare alternative methods of power generation in terms of cost and safety to the public and the environment.
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