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Table of Contents:Editorial PrefaceList of PlatesBibliography and AbbreviationsChapter I, The Cartography of Mendes (Robert K. Holz)Chapter II, A New Map of Mendes (David Stieglitz)Chapter III, The Geography of Mendes (Robert K. Holz)Chapter IV, Mendes Today: A. Tell el Rub'a, North Kom (Donald P. Hansen and David Stieglitz) B. Tell Timai, South Kom (Edward L. Ochsenschlager)Plates 2-40IndexesMendes II: Addenda and ErrataMendes II: Additional Bibliography and Abbreviations ... Read more

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Lively, pointed, often polemical essays and interviews on the nature of creativity and the function of poetry.
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A fictional history of a New England town celebrates the cycles of growth, change, and renewal, as the town of Blackwater prospers, goes through a decline, and then prospers again, when everyone comes back to visit on ""Old Home Day."" ... Read more

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Reading Sexualities confronts the reigning practices, priorities, and preoccupations of queer theory and sexuality studies. Looking at a range of texts, from novels to travel narratives to internet porn, Donald E. Hall deftly weaves the theoretical with the literary in order to:

• examine the vexed ethical, critical, and political questions arising from sexual consumerism and cross-cultural encounters
• read the changing landscape of sexual identity, finding great cause for optimism and enthusiastic engagement
• urge readers to embrace a far-reaching dialogic practice as a mechanism for furthering radical social change.

Reading Sexualities shows how our sexual desires and bases for identification are being widely challenged and changed. Drawing on hermeneutic theory and the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hall argues that by approaching sexual diversity with openness and humility, we become active participants in the politically urgent process of reading the self through the perspective of the other.

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Great Service
Book received in very good condition and delivery was very prompt. I will use them again.

used book in good condition
I received this used book in fairly good condition. The pages are a bit yellowed and some are dog eared, but none are falling out and the cover is still attached.

I like this author and the theme of the white indian series. I have not checked on the veracity of the details given about native american indian culture nor the if some of the characters are actual historical figures or purely fiction, but it seems honest and is quite interseting; a good mix of drama, action, romance, and history. If you like historical fiction, give it a try.

Ambushed, White Indian Series
Porter's potrayal of Renno,the White Indian has always sparked my imagination. I have enjoyed every book Porter has wrote. Though, Ambushed started slower than the others,it was a great book to read.I thought it wasa shame that it was the last one. ... Read more

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In the autumn of 1968, Donald Crowhurst set out from England in his untested trimaran, a competitor in the first singlehanded nonstop around-the-world sailboat race. Eight months later, the boat was found in mid-Atlantic with no one on board. Crowhurst's logs and diaries revealed that, although he had radioed messages from his supposed round-the-world course, he had in fact never left the Atlantic. This journalistic masterpiece reconstructs what happened: Crowhurst's growing distrust of his boat; his first decision to attempt one of the great hoaxes of our time; the lying radio transmissions; the ``triumphal'' return up the Atlantic as the elapsed-time race leader; and the fantastic ending. The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst is both a suspenseful narrative and a psychological casebook of human zeal and anguish. ... Read more

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Too Technical
I made it half way through this book, hoping it was an exciting or at least intriguing mystery. Unfortunately, the first half of the book was mostly about the building of the boat. Although for sailors this may be interesting and definitely needed to be told as it led up to events, I would have preferred to jump right into the mystery/disappearance and then worked back though events that led to the ending.

It did not keep my interest enough to finish the book, so I gave the copy to my brother who IS a sailor.

Excelent
what a story, this is. I became aware of the story after watching the DVD
documentary. The funny thing is how all those psychologist rush and categorize Crowhurst as insane,
ha, what a laugh as if they understood what they were talking about, i found that amusing.
such close minded little worms, trying to understand the Mind Of God.
They would put god in a bottle and label it if they could. Such short sight the
so called men of science of this world have. Oh well what can they do.
Jesus was a genius, he chose the right time to come to Earth, had he come
a this time, he would have been categorized by these great men of science
as they think of themselves as a nut case.

I still think Donald could have found forgiveness in the eyes of the public
and in the eyes of his sponsor Mr Best. On the other hand I think during his last days and hours
he did connect to life beyond the flesh, like many others, in his own hoaxy way
he became immortal. But I think he could have enjoyed his family still.

I givelots of credit to Knox Johnston, what a quality of a man he is
after winning, he gave the 5000 pounds to Donald's family.

The golden globe was really an excuse for Donald to find who he was in
relation to everyting else, he was not a nut case. He had always played games
he just played a game bigger than he could chew so, he thought there is no way
out for me. He knew very well what he was doing, it was not the decision of
an insane mind at all. The only insane are those so called scientists, who spent
most of their lives hiding from themselves behind big Names and Titles,
only to find their naked selves at the end of their lives crying like
little puppies. In this I give credit to Einstein, he was a true scientist.

Hope you found what you wanted Donald.

Suberb!
A superb read!I couldn't put it down.A tragic and fascinating examination of Donald Crowhurst's downward spiral into madness.It may be helpful to read A Voyage for Madmen first as it documents the complete race and details the other sailors competing as well.This has become one of my favorite books.

A fine study of madness and a great see story to boot
This is a classic study of a psychologically broken man drawn into fraud by his emotional needs. It's also a sea story and a detective story in one. Highly recommended for anyone who appreciates yachting, human weakness, and mysterious happenings.

This needs to be a movie!
This is a fascinating true story. Stories about a lone man fighting against the odds...man against man, man against nature...or, in this case, against his own failures, can make one think about one's own weak grasp on reality. This story ranks right up there with "The Old Man and the Sea." I seriously think the story of Donald Crowhurst should be made into a movie. ... Read more

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Elegant short story collection
Sometimes at the end of a short story, I go `huh?' and turn the page, thinking surely there must be more. Not so with Willow Temple. Most of these stories, examining the myriad repercussions of brief moments in time, leave readers with a satisfying sense of completion. Many of them focus on a sense of longing for the simple times of the past years, and the prose, while spare and focused, is at the same time lyrical and evocative.
A good find. Fans of literary fiction should love it. Those who aren't, won't!

Tender yet unflinchingly real stories of Americana
Donald Hall is a fine, intelligent craftsman of a writer.He knows how to distill volumes into a few pages, how to inform his reader about the spectrum of life from which he plucks his characters with a minimalism that in other hands would create a cold if not frigid climate. Hall is to short stories what Charles Ives and John Adamsand Aaron Copeland are to music, Richard Russo and E.L. Doctorow and E. Annie Proulx are to novels:he has found the six senses in American life and weaves them into tapestries like few others.There is a bit of Robert Frost, of Walt Whitman, of Wallace Stevens and of William Carlos Wiliams here, and their presence is honored and hallowed.

Donald Hall is concerned with the cycle of life, not only the reverent form, but also the rocks and boulders that our lives encounter.He is able to speak in the voices of children and adults as narrators, wades through the toxicity of alcoholic parents, the foibles of those that have and those that have not, deals with the cold reality of dying and its aftermath on the living, and yet is able through his incredible gifts with words to make elegies and songs, instead of eulogies and bleatings.These stories are brief in pages, nearly all of them have the terse no-nonsense New England psycheand stoicism, and yet each story brings a desire to sit and cogitate, assuring ourselves we will not forget the folks we've just met.Read and weep, read and chuckle, but by all means .... read. ... Read more

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Funny Victorian Adult Alphabet Book
The Gentleman's Alphabet Book is a very funny adult look at alphabet books.It is salacious and wicked in the sense of some of Audrey Beardsley.It is NOT FOR CHILDREN.It is very funny to read the lyrics and look at the magnificent art work ... Read more

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Is bisexuality coming out in America? Bisexual characters are surfacing on popular television shows and in film.Newsweek proclaims that a new sexual identity is emerging. But amidst this burgeoning acknowledgment of bisexuality, is there an understanding of what it means to be bisexual in a monosexual culture?

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bisexual ppl can do some...theory!
Okay, I admit it:I'm a gay man that often talks...about bisexuals.But strong bisexual activists and bisexual anthologies have made me mend my ways (or at least constantly keep trying).Plenty of anthologies have proven that bisexuals can write compelling biography and cultural criticism.But here is a unique book wherebisexuals show they can go toe to toe with high-level (...) theory.This anthology was very diverse in terms of gender and race.It covers areas such as Freud's Dora, E. Lynn Harris novels, and Jane Bowles.I would really recommend this book for many a bisexual theoryhead.This book will make monosexual theorists do more to appreciate their bisexual peers. ... Read more

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In this warm story of old ways and new, youth and aged, the distinguished poet and critic Donald Hall draws a brilliant picture of life on a small New England farm, half a century ago. Barry Moser's luminous pictures evoke the spirit of the time with startling clarity. Full-color illustrations. ... Read more

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A soft & happy view from a child..
Much like my own childhood memories of that age.Quiet & secure times as far as this city boy was concerned, I liked this book. ... Read more

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In this application-oriented book, William A. Wallace and Donald L. Hall help students learn 'how to do' consultation by breaking down the theories and processes of psychological consultation into specific skills and applications.The focus of the book is more on the practical than other books for the course; for example, the book offers useful strategies for dealing with resistance, the most consistent problem in consultation.And, flexible and alternate views of consultation are provided, rather than absolute instructions or descriptions. In addition, ethical and legal dilemmas are discussed as they relate to the practice of consultation, and a "look ahead" identifies current trends and future professional issues that will likely influence the consultation field. ... Read more

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry, this serious, ambitious, and graceful book-length poem is the masterwork of one of America's foremost contemporary poets.Amazon.com Review
The One Day is a long poem that weaves the voice of a male anda female together with classic texts in an examination of middle age and itsaccompanying crisis. The poem, which won a National Book Critics Circle Awardin 1988, has three parts--"Shrubs Burnt Away," "Four ClassicTexts" and "To Build a House"--and uses a 10-line stanza withvariable line length in an experimental form. The words often strike deepinto the heart of mid-life anxiety; he calls the bed "a preparation ofdeath." But The One Day isn't all despair, it is also about alife worth living: "Work, love, build a house, and die. But build ahouse." ... Read more

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Stunning
Hall takes a single thread, aging, and observes it from all angles, male, female, depression, esctasy, violence, anger and happiness.Man is compared with history, nature and Greek tragedy.But don't get put off bythe grande themes, this is a very readeable and enjoyable book for anyonewho likes to read. ... Read more