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The first retrospective of the life s work of Roberta Spear (1948 2003), A Sweetness Rising includes newly published work as well as poems from her previous volumes. Nationally acclaimed and admired by both readers and peers, she wrote poems that touch people by presenting daily life in unexpected ways. In the words of Philip Levine,You could say at times she saw stories where there were none or where she simply invented them, exotic stories of gypsies and pranksters, travelers and seekers....[Her] vision will continue to sing, moving and touching readers for as long as people care about American poetry. ... Read more

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"...Legaspi, like William Carlos Williams, can find poetry anywhere.And like his mentor Pablo Neruda he seems able to locate the mysterious and the magical in the most common and overlooked objects.It is difficult to overestimate the daring and resourcefulness required to complete successfully this astonishingly original book.I believe this collection of poetry, so rich in the dailyness of the world and what wisdom we can draw from it, is ample evidence that Joseph O. Legaspi has arrived to a place none of his ancestors in life or in poetry have ever journeyed, and we his readers are the richer for it."--Philip Levine ... Read more

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Brilliant!
Joseph Legaspi is a brilliant poet already well known within New York City's poetry networks.With Imago, the mainstream finally has an opportunity to also view his haunting, deliriously beautiful words.Though seemingly impossible, Legaspi's work manages to create belonging from dispossession, without ever succumbing to clichéd or naïve statements about of life.With eyes that are compassionate and unconditionally loving, Legaspi creates beauty while showing the volatile, often painful, interplay of our everyday emotions and experiences.Legaspi finds the magic of life wherever he looks.His poetry is a true gift. ... Read more

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No longer the Motor City of boom-time industry, the city of Detroit has fallen into an incredible state of dilapidation since the decline of the American auto industry after the Second World War. Today, whole sections of the city resemble a war zone, its once-spectacular architectural grandeur reduced to vacant ruins. In DetroitDisassembled, photographer Andrew Moore records a territory in which the ordinary flow of time-or the forward march of theassembly line-appears to have been thrown spectacularly into reverse. For Moore, who throughout his career has been drawn to allthat contradicts or seems to threaten America's postwar self-image(his previous projects include portraits of Cuba and Soviet Russia),Detroit's decline affirms the carnivorousness of our earth, as it seepsinto and overruns the buildings of a city that once epitomizedhumankind's supposed supremacy. In Detroit Disassembled, Moorelocates both dignity and tragedy in the city's decline, among postapocalypticlandscapes of windowless grand hotels, vast barren factoryfloors, collapsing churches, offices carpeted in velvety moss andentire blocks reclaimed by prairie grass. Beyond their jawdropping content, Moore's photographs inevitably raise the uneasy question of the long-term future of a country in which such extreme degradation can exist unchecked. ... Read more

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Motor city madness
To quote from the Product Description above: 'Today, whole sections of the city resemble a war zone, its once-spectacular architectural grandeur reduced to vacant ruins'.Most of us, of course, don't have personal experience of war zones but we can all pull up a mental picture which is probably partially accurate.Andrew Moore's quite extraordinary photos will confirm your mental image but the freaky thing is that Detroit is no war zone.The population didn't leave because of bombs or military intervention; mostly they didn't even leave but continue to survive amongst all this decaying industrial, public and private building detritus.

The thing that grabbed me and Moore's photos reveal it so often is the amount of physical equipment that was just left as buildings were abandoned.Page twenty-three shows a huge open-plan room of the Detroit Schools Book Depository, the whole floor covered with books that are slowly decaying.Page fifty-five has an amazing shot of one side of the Cass Tech High School, minus sixteen large classroom windows to reveal a jumble of desks, chairs, tables, casual seating and books and papers everywhere.Again at Cass, Moore spotted a wall clock with a plastic dial, part of which melted over the hour and minute hands, the only time you'll ever see a real Dali timepiece.

Several exterior shots of houses show them either collapsing or showing signs of heavy amateurish DIY.Page ninety-six has a house totally covered in foliage with just a sliver of the roof to be seen confirming that it is two stories. Some interiors really do look like bomb damage, with falling walls and ceilings.The circular lobby of the downtown United Artists Theater reveals some of the steel structure because chunks of the plaster have fallen off.

Moore's photos reveal disaster Detroit in beautiful even color throughout the book and 300 screen printing on a good matt art plus the large page size delivers a punch to these seventy amazing images.

The book obviously raises questions about urban decay and is Detroit the ultimate throwaway society city and by the nature of what can be seen there it also acts as a magnet for creative folk.Photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre have a forthcoming book: Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre: The Ruins of Detroit, covering the abandonment.Great creative minds think alike because there is a straight on photo of a house (the corner of Brush and Erskine) that is identical to one in Moore's book on page ninety-seven.

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Great Book!
The book came in excellent condition and before the expected delivery date. It is an excellent book that anyone interested in Detroit should have. ... Read more

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The first critical collection to focus on Levine
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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 508 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: Philip Levine: The Mercy.(Brief Article)
Author: David Rogers
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 76Issue: 1Page: 154(2)

Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article

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Red white and blue cover with photo insert of Sousa. Contents include: El Capitan, Fairest of the Fair, Hands Across the Sea, High School Cadets, Invincible Eagle, King Cotton, Liberty Bell, Manhattan Beach, Semper Fidelis, Stars and Stripes Forever, Thunderer, Washington Post. ... Read more

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MULTICULTURAL LAW ENFORCEMENT: STRATEGIES FOR PEACEKEEPING IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY, 5/e explains how the influences of culture, race, and ethnicity impact law enforcement and the communities they serve. Known for its breadth of coverage, this classic text addresses a variety of populations and includes new material on the mentally ill, the homeless, gangs, immigrants, Native Americans, multiracial groups, and cross-cultural communications styles. Using cases, guidelines, and protocols, it focuses on the contact police officers and civilian employees have with the community and stresses the importance of cultural awareness, understanding and respect. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (16)

Book Never Arrived
I never received my book, and no correspondence from the seller till I emailed a week after the last arrive date. Seller respomded quick;y by credit back to account. Seller replied that a whole shippoing order was lost in mail. Would of been nice to have known this early so I could of order elsewhere, but now I am half way into class and have had to use E-Book which I hate.

NEEDED FOR CLASS
I needed this book for a college course and it was much cheaper here than at the local school bookstore. Although right now I have a newer edition than the school is using right now, there is more current info I can use for papers, etc. I plan on keepig this book as a reference

Good book
I bought this book for a class I was taking but I didn't really use the book that much in class. Overall the book is good and was shipped fairly quick.

Excellent
I purchased this book for a college course in Criminal Justice. I purchased it new and the condition was as explained. Fast Delivery and just what I wanted. Thank You.

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Ugh!!!!This book is very repetitive... it seems as if they just used cut and paste(d) different cultural group names in some chapters to others leaving most of the same text.There should have been an introduction chapter saying all groups have this in common and then separate chapters emphasizing only on the differences.Also, I have never read any book with so many quotes and references from sources that wished to remain anonymous.It made it seem more like people complaining than having actual factual situations to back up the comments. ... Read more

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Augustinus (354–430 CE), son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste in North Africa, and his Christian wife Monica, while studying in Africa to become a rhetorician, plunged into a turmoil of philosophical and psychological doubts in search of truth, joining for a time the Manichaean society. He became a teacher of grammar at Tagaste, and lived much under the influence of his mother and his friend Alypius. About 383 he went to Rome and soon after to Milan as a teacher of rhetoric, being now attracted by the philosophy of the Sceptics and of the Neo-Platonists. His studies of Paul's letters with Alypius and the preaching of Bishop Ambrose led in 386 to his rejection of all sensual habits and to his famous conversion from mixed beliefs to Christianity. He returned to Tagaste and there founded a religious community. In 395 or 396 he became Bishop of Hippo, and was henceforth engrossed with duties, writing and controversy. He died at Hippo during the successful siege by the Vandals.

From Augustine's large output the Loeb Classical Library offers that great autobiography the Confessions (in two volumes); On the City of God (seven volumes), which unfolds God's action in the progress of the world's history, and propounds the superiority of Christian beliefs over pagan in adversity; and a selection of Letters which are important for the study of ecclesiastical history and Augustine's relations with other theologians.

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This digital document is an article from Poetry, published by Modern Poetry Association on September 1, 2000. The length of the article is 456 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: 1, 1,2000.(Poem)
Author: Philip Levine
Publication: Poetry (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2000
Publisher: Modern Poetry Association
Volume: 176Issue: 6Page: 313

Article Type: Poem

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This digital document is an article from Poetry, published by Modern Poetry Association on April 1, 1999. The length of the article is 480 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: THE MORTAL WORDS OF ZWEIK.(Poem)
Author: Philip Levine
Publication: Poetry (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1999
Publisher: Modern Poetry Association
Volume: 174Issue: 1Page: 18

Article Type: Poem

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