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In Against Amnesia, Nancy J. Peterson addresses the ongoing postmodernist debate over the possibility and relevance of documentary and official histories. Drawing on Adrienne Rich's claim that women's literature and multicultural literature vigorously resist the amnesia and nostalgia that characterize mainstream North American culture, Peterson examines the struggles toward collective memory in a wealth of contemporary women's writing.

Peterson's in-depth analyses of selected works by Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Irena Klepfisz, Joy Kogawa, and other contemporary women writers illustrate the ways in which these authors recover and represent the historical memories attached to their racial/ethnic backgrounds. Their works probe traumatic moments in the marginalized histories of minority peoples, including Native American genocide and dispossession; African American slavery, migration, and displacement; the Holocaust; and the internment of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

Peterson contends that these writers employ literary strategies that call attention to the gaps and silences of official histories. At the same time, these literary strategies allow the authors to narrate resonant counterhistories. Rejecting the playfully imaginative treatment of history found in typical postmodern novels, these contemporary women writers seek to reconstruct historical narratives in their texts and thereby reinvigorate historical memory in contemporary American culture.

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The Shamans of the Changpa-nomads of the Ladakhi highlands of Changthang belong to the Tibetan culture. Modernity has reached even their remote world and challenges their life basis in a dramatic way. Their traditional healers, the shamans, recognize the New Book ... Read more

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A surrealist classic
A Spy in Amnesia is the truest, cleanest, highest and wildest manifesto on what it means to be alive since the passing of Henry Miller. Here is a runaway stagecoach full of explosive opium. Here is a metaphysical freedom rider's call to arms, a garotte made from a garter belt, a long slide off the deck of a ship during a violent storm at sea that lands you in the heart of the harem. There's not a single word of falsehood in this book. But burned into every page-as though written in blood with a dying man's last breath-is a map to Elsewhere. Set sail.

Spy into Amnesia
"A Spy in Amnesia" is an intriguing journey into the passion of a man and the restraints of a society.Through the use of letters to an imaginary ex-lover, Semilian examines society as we know it and as it ought to be.Both entertaining and provocative, philosophical and literary, the reader whirls from beginning to end, from reality to fantasy, confronted with their own view of life and how it should be expressed.

Semilian's use and play of language is as fascinating as the book's content.

Definitely a book for the mature reader and seeker. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: Hoeber; Publication date: 1915; Subjects: Anesthesia in obstetrics; History / General; Medical / Anesthesiology; Medical / Gynecology ... Read more

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In recent years media attention has been belatedly directed towards reviving World War II issues involving Japan. This study deals first with the manner in which such issues so long fell into abeyance under Cold War conditions, while tracing the vast and varied writing on the war which meanwhile appeared within Japan. Evolving Japanese views on the war are largely focused on debate over the revision of the post-war constitution, especially its renunciation of "war potential". This work also contains an overview of the decades-long litigation within Japan on the screening of textbooks, especially on the war. ... Read more

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Reading a series of prose texts by 20th century white women writers ranging from 'The Making of Americans' to 'Civil Wars' this study interrogates a correlation between authors' subject positions as white and their textual investments in American history. It displaces the diffuse acceptance of whiteness as a given property by foregrounding it as a shared, and unquestioned feature of the white reader's and the text's consciousness. To trace the literary legacies of white amnesia about the Middle Passage is an urgent response to white women writers' participation in US-American historical mythology. At a point of convergence of Black Studies, American Studies and Gender Studies this investigation results in a profound denaturalization of what American history and American cultural memory may signify. ... Read more

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In March 2001, the National Institutes of Health issued the following warning: "The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading."Furthermore, because of the rapid increase in Internet-based information, many hours can be wasted searching, selecting, and printing.This book was created for medical professionals, students, and members of the general public who want to conduct medical research using the most advanced tools available and spending the least amount of time doing so. ... Read more

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Set against the social divide of contemporary London, this novel follows a group of degenerates and misfits (washed-up pop stars reduced to painting and decorating, spoilt delinquents, poules-de-luxe, property speculators, mature arts students) as they sink into a life of extortion and criminality. ... Read more

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Andy Hayes rox!
This book is fabulous, from start to finish, a real page turner.And i only write that about books where I really can turn the page. Also worth reading for the hero of the book is called Andy Hayes, a bassist, and well what do you know? So am I! Huggins is a genius.Probably a c---u--_-n---t...but still a genius. ... Read more

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A spine-tingling tale of suspense from the author of Curse; What would you do if you couldn't remember who you were, where you lived or what you might have done? Rush hour, Grand Central Station. Aaron Clifford stops dead in his tracks - but he doesn't know he's Aaron Clifford. He doesn't know who he is at all. No matter how hard he tries, he has no memory of why he's there, where he came from, or where he's going. The clues come slowly: from his surroundings, from his wallet, from the taste of dry martini still on his lips. Eventually, Aaron Clifford will piece together the keys of his life. With that relief will come cold-blooded fear - as he learns more than he ever knew before. Things he shouldn't know. Things he doesn't want to know. Things that could get him killed... ... Read more

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The Stepford Wives - Updated, But Not a New Premise
What a disappointment!I was intrigued, initially, until I got about 25 pages into this book and discovered it was "The Stepford Wives" with a twist.Since there was nothing much original, although well written enough, I rated this two stars.Had it been poorly written, it would have rated zero for lack of originality and, essentially, copying Ira Levin's premise with the twist that the men are the puppets and the women the masters. I did finish the book, but wouldn't waste the money purchasing it for anything more than25 cents at a flea market.

A long wait for a pointless resolution
The book was interesting to start, but it became pretty obvious that it was just edging along to resolution that when it finally came was obvious and disappointing.It also left a huge number of aspects raised in the story with no resolution at all, pointless or otherwise.

One of Neiderman's best!
This book is haunting and chilling. Andrew Neiderman is one of horror's most captivating voices! I have been a fan for many, many years and have read all of his books and they just keep getting better. I highly recommend this book

better forget this
i never read through this, but i still feel competent to review this, and i'll tell you why. a man suddenly forgets his whole life. stuff begins to come back to him. the writing style isn't that bad. but...it's too slow and in an annoying way. the wife just continues to tell him details for over at least 100 pages. no you don't like that. your family died in a car accident. neiderman, you could just write "she told him about his life, but the details remained unfamiliar to him". no. the author has to go on and on about this. every little detail. in addition, the family moves. and now the man has to learn about this new place. so AN goes on and on about that. new persons, about the community, etc. i'm giving it a 1 because any writer should really be able to avoid going on and on about every petty detail.

A book you'll want to forget...
I found the book's premise (and introductory chapters) to be somewhat intriguing. However, the plot became more implausible with each chapter until it lost its integrity altogether. What could have been an interesting novel turned out to be a far-fetched tale that left me shaking my head in confusion and disappointment. ... Read more

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-Unique, stimulating guide to experiential learning -Explains how short enterprise tenure has provided industry with one of its single biggest damaging influences on productivity and competitiveness -Spells out how companies can manage their Organizational Memory more professionallyCorporate Amnesia establishes organizational memory (OM), the company-specific knowledge accrued from experience, as an essential and powerful management tool. ... Read more

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Not what you might expect
The title was changed to make the book more appealing - was originally going to be 'Knowledge Management' or similar.

The book is really an attempt to justify corporations spending money on knowledge management. However it does not have much useful or practical information on managing knowledge.

He describes the problem pretty well but there is not enough on solutions.

Overdue Insights -- a call for Management Action!
This book is a wake-up call to management to re-assess the value of staff, and to ensure that this value is fully captured.It contains practical advice on how to capture and learn from past experience.Wall Street should be valueing companies on the basis of the companies ability to learn from its past. ... Read more

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