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A stirring, brilliantly crafted collection, Linda Gregerson's third volume of poetry examines mortality in all its beauty and horror. Fluently rendered in Gregerson's distinctive three-line stanzas, these poems explore subjects from autism to genealogy to ecology. Their occasions are diverse -- a barn fire, a wounded deer, a child's determined struggle with a bicycle -- but their instinct is always to wrest from the impure world a vernacular of praise.
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Academic, mannered, boring - the Coen Brothers of poets.......2006-04-14
This is sepia-toned, art-directed, self-important, highly artificial work by someone who loves "literature" - and rightly so - but feels she can produce it herself simply through intelligence and learning. The miseries of reading this book are legion - pompous enjambment, moments of "shock," Frostian copybook grimness, dull exposition, the fancy that a whole world is being produced - when it is all Linda, Linda, Linda. Gregerson has a mildly interesting mind which clearly amuses itself - but not the rest of us. To quote her - and note the oh-so-daring enjambments -
... my
hour with you (one
breath, one more) was theft
of an otherwise perfectly good hour.
The river is a central theme in these moving, lyrical poems.......2002-06-07
Waterborne: Poems is a unique volume of Linda Gregerson's free-verse poetry written in an open, unfettered style and a unique verse structure that draws the reader into a personal vision daily life and the inner power that transcends ordinary experience. The river is a central theme in these moving, thoughtful, lyrical poems. "...to think that tethered in his crib is all/the safety she can give him. Not kerosene nor/coalstove shall destroy him, yet/there must/have been a fire, he did not freeze."
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The intrepid Jacky Faber, having once again eluded British authorities, heads west, hoping that no one will recognize her in the wilds of America. There she tricks the tall-tale hero Mike Fink out of his flatboat, equips it as a floating casino-showboat, and heads south to New Orleans, battling murderous bandits, British soldiers, and other scoundrels along the way. Will Jacky's carelessness and impulsive actions ultimately cause her beloved Jaimy to be left in her wake?
Bold, daring, and downright fun, Jacky Faber proves once again that with resilience and can-do spirit, she can wiggle out of any scrape . . . well, almost.
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A grand edition to an incredible seris.........2007-09-27
I cannot get enough of Jacky Faber and her wild adventures. The main character, Jacky Faber, is a sassy and resourceful sixteen year old. It's hard not to love her and her antics. This 5th book of the seris is a lively and entertaining read for teens, especially girls.
Jacky has great adventures...and you will do!.......2007-09-25
Jacky Faber was to be reunited with her love, Jaimy. That reunion was interrupted by Jacky's arrest. But never fear, the spunky lass manages to free herself from her captors and with the help of friends, she becomes the captain of her very own riverboat.
But her love Jaimy, poor Jaimy, is not really a match for Jacky. His attempts to follow his true love across the frontier and down the river find him fighting obstacles at every turn. I felt so sorry for this young nineteen-year-old boy. I can't imagine him with Jacky. She'd emasculate him in no time.
We follow Jacky through her adventures and hear from Jaimy through a series of letters. It is a clever way to tell the intertwining stories of Jacky and Jaimy. Some wonderful characters make appearances: Native American Indians, slaves, soldiers, card sharks, etc. The questions are: will Jacky continue to escape from those that are determined to do her in? She has the ability to get herself out of any scrape and land on her feet. And will she and Jaimy finally be reunited? And what will Jacky's next adventure be about?
Author Louis A. Meyer has created a wonderful character in Jacky Faber and provides her with exciting adventures. Jacky's bright, beautiful, clever, impulsive, loyal and loads and loads of fun. I loved the river boating adventure and all the scintillating characters and experiences. Jacky's a heroine worth reading and I look forward to her next adventure.
My only criticism of the book is while it's been published for Young Adults, there are topics that really are more suited to adults. After pondering what I'd call this novel, I would lean more toward an adult novel than for young adults. I think it's more appropriate.
Armchair Interviews says: Jacky Faber is a rollicking good time.
Another rousing Jacky Faber adventure..........2007-09-21
In this, the 5th novel in the picaresque/historical fiction series about the adventures/misadventures of the irrepressible Jacky Faber, we see our heroine again narrowly escaping transport back to England to be hanged for piracy. Jacky then begins another rousing adventure tale as she travels west to the Allegheny-Ohio-Mississippi Rivers on her way to New Orleans, meeting characters along the way that sound like they could have come from the pens of Mark twain, James Fenimore Cooper, and George MacDonald Fraser. She meets and shelters a runaway slave named Solomon (just like Twain's Huck Finn and Jim), a free-spirited backwoodsman and a Shawnee, Lightfoot Bumpus & Chee-a-quat, (Cooper's Natty "Leatherstocking" Bumppo & the Mohican Chingachgook), Royal Navy Lieutenant Flashby and Captain Richard Lord Allen (sharing the good and bad traits of Fraser's anti-heroic rogue Harry Flashman). The author, Louis A. Meyer, throws in the "Larger Than Life" Mike Fink of American Folklore and many other interesting (albeit flawed) folks. Jacky seems to have a knack for getting into trouble and thoroughly loves the attention she receives (except for the rough handling, imprisonment, and tar and feathering parts, that is). All in all, this is one heck of an exciting riverboat ride and the most rollicking Jacky Faber escapade yet. I highly recommend this and the other books in the series.
The thrill of history.......2007-09-20
A good book -- and this is very good -- ought to excite you in some way...even if it is a quiet thrill. This book isn't quiet. Jacky Faber is never dull, and she leads a most exciting, adventurous life. No. 5 in the series -- and I've read them all -- is full of twists and turns, plots and perils. If you like history (and I have all my life), then welcome to American history as a story told as wide and deep as the mighty Mississippi itself.
Amazingly Entertaining.......2007-09-08
As always, Mr. Meyer delivers a wonderfully thought out story about our beloved heroine, Miss Jacky Faber. As in all the books, she is surrounded by trouble, and often causes a bit of it herself. This time, she's running from the British authorities, and ends up masquerading as the Lily of the West, a riverboat queen, and the Toast of the Mississippi! Entertaining from beginning to end, this book leaves you wanting more!
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Since the first editions of these books were published there have been many significant advances in the field of surface coatings. These second editions are written at a level suitable for graduates new to the resins and surface coatings industries. They give a basic understanding of the topics covered, whilst reflecting recent advances within the industry.
Within these three books the chemistries of different types of resins for surface coatings are explained. In each case, an overview is given, suitable for the graduate new to industry or for less technically involved management. Coating formulations are given to illustrate the use of different types of resin. As with the chemistry, they are not meant to be exhaustive. These books should provide a valuable guide for formulators and should be considered as an essential aid for the 'bench chemist'.
The aim has been to give a general overview, including the necessary background information required to ensure that coating formulators understand the resins with which they are working and the principles of crosslinking.
Resins within Volume III include;
Polyurethanes
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A panorama of human desire and enterprise, Bruce Murkoff’s first novel is exceptional for its ambition, its grasp of history and, above all, its stunning array of characters.
Waterborne is set in the Great Depression, and culminates at the Boulder Dam: the greatest engineering project of its time, and a beacon of hope capable of altering the course of society. The nation, crippled by poverty and despair, clearly needs a transformation, and the same is true of the people. Filius Poe grew up with everything, then lost nearly all of it. Lew Beck felt deprived of everything, and now means to have his revenge. Lena McCardell, who thought she had exactly what she wanted, discovers almost overnight that only by taking her son and joining the multitude already on the road will she have the chance of a fresh start and a brighter future.
From various directions and distances, these three are inevitably drawn to this vast construction site in the Nevada desert, along with the stories of their families, their friends and their fellow travelers–the novel itself developing the force of a mighty river, then channeling and harnessing its prodigious energy. With generous understanding and absolute authority, Bruce Murkoff captures the conflicting imperatives of these vivid lives as well as the heart and breadth of the country through which they move, and whose destiny they help shape.
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Great story.......2006-04-06
Wonderful story of the building of Hoover Dam and the lives of three major characters. Framed by the hardship of the Great Depression, the plot grabs the reader, and will keep you bound to the last page.
What a terrible book!.......2005-11-02
This book was painfully bad. If you are tempted to buy it, I strongly suggest reading an excerpt from it, or flipping through a few pages at the library or a bookstore. It's pretentious prose, with thin characters and a plot with very little to recommend it. Interested in the Hoover Dam? He gets to it about two hundred pages in. If gratuitous violence is your thing, you might be able to skim this novel for the parts about Lew Beck and enjoy the bits where he stomps on legless beggers, chops off fingers, or stabs people in the guts with broken bottles. I wouldn't have minded the violence so much had the justification for it not been so very weak. Nothing we see of Lew's childhood really illuminates his sadistic nature to my satisfaction. He just doesn't add up, which is frustrating because he's the only potentially interesting thing in novel.
There's the Depression, but there's the Hoover Dam to build.......2005-07-02
This 2004 debut novel is making itself noticed and I can well understand why. It's set in 1932 and revolves around three different individuals who converge in Boulder City, Colorado, where the Hoover Dam is being built. Each one has a story and these stories get well developed during the first half of the book. When they finally meet, I felt I knew them all well.
First there is Filius, an engineer who has just suffered a tragic loss. He's extremely intelligent and this intelligence was cultivated in an upscale childhood in which his love of engineering and architecture was nurtured. The chapters about him contain the details of the dam building as well as wonderful metaphors about the land. Then there is Lena and her young son from Kentucky. They've also just suffered a tragic loss and are headed to Boulder City because it's the only city in the country where everyone has a job. And then there is Lew Beck. He's a short man who with a streak of cruelty and violence. At times he can be sympathetic but he also goes further than necessary when seeking revenge for any kind of slight.
This is also the story of a place and a time. It is the middle of the depression and the City of Las Vegas is just beginning to develop into the wild and woolly gambling capital of the world. There's a Wild West feeling to the whole atmosphere as well as the reality of building a dam to harness the Colorado River. The story is well paced and I was immediately drawn into it, especially because the characters were so well developed. I especially loved the parts about the dam construction because even though I didn't understand every technical detail, I was in awe of the difficulties encountered and the difficult working conditions for the men who built it. Now, I wish that when I visited Las Vegas, I would have included a visit to this man-made wonder.
The book did have its weaknesses though. Sometimes there was a bit of over-writing and the characters a bit stereotyped. But yet, I kept reading, I thought about the book all the time, and couldn't wait till I had a few precious moment to pick it up again and live in the world created by this writer.
Had to put it down.......2005-05-11
Murkoff is an ok writer, but everything is too precious. He's got some dark characters and a little rough subject matter, but this book tries too hard. Too many perfect descriptions and metaphors. I feel like he's trying to impress instead of creating something from the heart. I got about halfway through and I had put it down before I puked. Too bad I didn't get to the dam part, but oh well, must look after my health.
A description of depression times.......2005-04-20
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The evolvement of the characters was convincingly developed. The descriptions of the environment from the capitol building in Madison, the lakeside harbors in Chicago, sailing on Lake Michigan, and the Colorado River and the construction of Boulder (Hoover) dam were vivid and accurate.
The only little error I noted was the reference to riding around in a "jeep" in the 1920's on page 158. I think jeeps came out of WW2.
I picked the book up on a mission to just try something new and different and was highly pleased with my choice.
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Water, Race, and Disease (NBER Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development)
Werner Troesken
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Why, at the peak of the Jim Crow era early in the twentieth century, did life expectancy for African Americans rise dramatically? And why, when public officials were denying African Americans access to many other public services, did public water and sewer service for African Americans improve and expand? Using the qualitative and quantitative tools of demography, economics, geography, history, law, and medicine, Werner Troesken shows that the answers to these questions are closely connected. Arguing that in this case, racism led public officials not to deny services but to improve them -- the only way to "protect" white neighborhoods against waste from black neighborhoods was to install water and sewer systems in both -- Troesken shows that when cities and towns had working water and sewer systems, typhoid and other waterborne diseases were virtually eradicated. This contributed to the great improvements in life expectancy (both in absolute terms and relative to whites) among urban blacks between 1900 and 1940. Citing recent demographic and medical research findings that early exposure to typhoid increases the probability of heart problems later in life, Troesken argues that building water and sewer systems not only reduced waterborne disease rates, it also improved overall health and reduced mortality from other diseases.
Troesken draws on many independent sources of evidence, including data from the Negro Mortality Project, econometric analysis of waterborne disease rates in blacks and whites, analysis of case law on discrimination in the provision of municipal services, and maps showing the location of black and white households. He argues that all evidence points to one conclusion: that there was much less discrimination in the provision of public water and sewer systems than would seem likely in the era of Jim Crow.
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- Bravo, Dr. Morris!
- You Will Never Look at Water in the Same Way Again!
- Historical look at cholera and modern survey of water treatment
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The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
Robert D. Morris
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With the keen eyes of a scientist and the sensibilities of a seasoned writer, Dr. Robert Morris chronicles the fascinating and at times frightening story of our drinking water. His gripping narrative vividly recounts the epidemics that have shaken cities and nations, the scientists who reached into the invisible and emerged with controversial truths that would save millions of lives, and the economic and political forces that opposed these researchers in a ferocious war of ideas.
In the gritty world of nineteenth-century England, amid the ravages of cholera, Morris introduces John Snow, the physician who proved that the deadly disease could be hidden in a drop of water. Decades later in the deserts of Africa, the story follows Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch as they raced to find the cause of cholera and a means to prevent its spread. In the twentieth century, burgeoning cities would subdue cholera and typhoid by bending rivers to their will, building massive filtration plants, and bubbling poisonous gas through their drinking water. However, with the arrival of the new millennium, the demon of waterborne disease is threatening to reemerge, and a growing body of research has linked the chlorine relied on for water treatment with cancer and stillbirths.
In The Blue Death, Morris dispels notions of fail-safe water systems. Along the way he reveals some shocking truths: the millions of miles of leaking water mains, constantly evolving microorganisms, and the looming threat of bioterrorism, which may lead to catastrophe. Across time and around the world, this riveting account offers alarming information about the natural and man-made hazards present in the very water we drink.
Customer Reviews:
Great Read! .......2007-10-07
Blue Death reads like a mystery novel. I couldn't put it down and read it over the weekend. Beneath seemingly innocuous transparency, Dr Morris describes a labyrinth of potential danger inherent in our water sources. This book is a cogent and facscinating story of the complexity of securing the safety a vital element of human life and the habit of humans to ignore nature's inherent resistance to defeat. Anyone who has ever thought it might be a good a idea to put a filter on their tap should read this.
Bravo, Dr. Morris!.......2007-09-09
This book is absolutely a MUST read for all water utility employees, water board members, as well as local community, state and federal government officials. Dr. Morris captures the reader from the very beginning with his descriptive writing style and historic detail. His forthright approach to provide the truth is remarkably candid. There is no sugar-coating when Morris points his pen directly at the EPA for failing to immediately make public specific studies from the 1970's indicating a link between the use of chlorine and cancer. The negative role that politics and big business play in overall health issues and water quality is quite apparent, not only in America but worldwide. Every community in America (and especially Hawaii) should be concerned about their water source(s), water quality and utility management - concerned enough to demand well-educated water directors and alternatives to chemical treatment be researched, implemented and continually tested. Be proactive - buy a copy for your water director, Mayor and Governor today.
You Will Never Look at Water in the Same Way Again!.......2007-09-05
In my life I have drunk water from a lot of sources. At one point when I was a teenager we discovered water bugs flowing out of a tap in Arizona! We were drinking nearly untreated river water! From then on my mother added chlorine to our drinking water and her treatment was worse than any city supply! I have drunk water from a spring in the mountains (delicious I must say) and (using a filter) from Mexican city taps. So far I am still here, but the message of the "The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water we Drink" by Robert D. Morris, is that I have been very lucky.
Water is an absolute necessity and the modern water treatment plant is our defense, however tenuous, against epidemic diarrheal disorders, including the granddaddy of them all- cholera. Still diarrheal diseases are one of the major killers worldwide, ranking with malaria and AIDS. It is especially hard on children. We in the developed world have become so used to having a "safe" water supply that we don't even think about it. But safe water is one of the many unexciting aspects of necessary infrastructure (like bridges and levees) that are closer to the breaking point than any of us want to contemplate. Morris (who is a medical researcher and teacher) has done us all a great favor by pointing out the precarious position that we are all in.
He starts with the history of the famous removal of the Broad Street pump handle in London in the mid 1850s. This removal apparently stopped an epidemic of cholera cold. He points out that even this step was controversial, with "sanitarians" not convinced of the connection between water and disease. Microorganisms had yet to be directly connected to disease in humans and many thought the problem lay in the miasmas the emanated from the swamps, sewers and cesspools in and around the city. The sanitarians solution was to wash all the waste into the river, thus creating more epidemics of diarrheal diseases, including cholera.
We have come a long way since the days of the Broad Street pump, but only in the developed world. In most of the planet, drinking water is not safe and in some places, such as the war-torn Congo, drinking any but bottled water may be a death sentence. Even bottled water, as Morris points out, is not safe as there are no standards and some is simply high priced tap water. Beside, the plastic is dumped back into our landfills and its safe production takes more water than a bottle holds!
Morris has a number of recommendations that should be followed, if we are to secure our drinking water. He also points out that we ignore the Third World's water problems at our own peril, as diseases seldom stop at borders. This is a must read book for anybody who drinks the stuff - i.e. all of us!
Historical look at cholera and modern survey of water treatment.......2007-08-29
The first part of the book is a good narrative about the quest to identify the source of cholera. The second part is less cohesive but has many interesting bits about modern water supply and treatment.
Wash Post review got my attention.......2007-08-22
Reviewed by Barron H. Lerner in the Washington Post on Wednesday, August 22, 2007; along with another book: POISONED NATION: Pollution, Greed, and the Rise of Deadly Epidemics, by Loretta Schwartz-Nobel.
With all the recent talk about childhood obesity and juvenile diabetes, it is hard to remember that the modern public health movement began with the Great Sanitary Awakening of the mid-19th century. Reformers in England and elsewhere convincingly argued that the environment served as a major source of disease and needed to be cleaned up. Now two new books remind us that toxins and other waste products are producing new and frightening threats to public health. Like Al Gore's arguments about oil dependence and the ozone layer, these concerns are surely inconvenient. But are they also true?
The hero of Robert D. Morris's "The Blue Death" is John Snow, the British epidemiologist who proved in the 1850s that epidemic cholera was spread by waste products in drinking water. Snow reached his conclusions, which initially were mocked, decades before the discovery of the cholera bacillus. His work eventually led to the modern system of purifying tap water, which involves both filtering and treatment with chlorine.
But success has bred complacency, according to Morris. His book is full of examples of recent health problems traceable to inadequate supervision of our water supply. For instance, the majority of pipes that supply major urban centers -- including Washington -- are close to 100 years old and full of leaks that allow contamination. Morris puts into this broader context the now-familiar story of what happened in the District in 2004, when officials added phosphoric acid to the city's water system in an attempt to reduce lead levels and instead created a new headache by loosening a layer of slime and microorganisms, known as the biofilm, and flooding the system with bacteria. He also describes how a 1993 outbreak of diarrhea in Milwaukee was caused by cryptosporidium, an organism experts insisted could not be present.
Morris is no impartial observer. An epidemiologist who specializes in drinking water, he is the author of a controversial paper suggesting that chlorine might increase the rates of several cancers. Indeed, some of his narrative describes his David-like efforts to challenge the Goliaths of water, ranging from the Environmental Protection Agency to the drinking-water industry, which he suggests are cutting corners on water purification to save money.
Still, it is hard not to be sympathetic to Morris's claims, which rely in part on the same crack epidemiological detective work used by Snow 150 years ago. Indeed, I switched from tap to bottled water while reading his book (although Morris also warns that bottled water "is less closely regulated than tap water and is not required to meet stricter standards for purity").
Loretta Schwartz-Nobel is a journalist, not a scientist, but if anything her outrage is even greater than Morris's. In "Poisoned Nation," she describes a series of diseases, ranging from asthma to cancer, that she believes are on the rise due to pollution. Her book has a much more conspiratorial tone. She is largely uninterested in presenting both sides of the issues in question, even when defenders of the status quo are respected scientists and government agencies.
For example, she tells the now familiar story of how childhood vaccines containing the mercury additive thimerosal supposedly led to an enormous rise in cases of autism. Similarly, she charges that companies in the forefront of breast cancer awareness campaigns produce the very environmental toxins that cause the disease.
To be sure, Schwartz-Nobel is right when she points out how profits and politics led industry to conceal the potential dangers of mercury in tuna and other foods. Similarly, the breast cancer movement only recently has turned from a focus on mammography and chemotherapy to investigating the connection between toxic waste and cancer rates. And she tells compelling stories about individuals with autism and breast cancer whose diseases seem to have emerged just after a toxic exposure. One such person was Chris, a bright 2-year-old who, after a reaction to a vaccine, "could no longer concentrate on his books or anything else for more than a few seconds." Eventually, he was diagnosed as having severe learning disabilities.
But what does one do with this information when organizations such as the esteemed Institute of Medicine, one of the four U.S. National Academies, have found no association between thimerosal and autism? Or when the Long Island Breast Cancer Study did not find evidence that toxins were responsible for high rates of the disease? It is hard to accept, as Schwartz-Nobel apparently does, that the scientists involved in these studies make decisions based mostly on industrial connections and political pressure.
A big part of the problem, both books acknowledge, is the difficulty of achieving definitive scientific proof when trying to determine causes of disease outbreaks. Such studies, which rely on retrospective data and participants' recollections, are notoriously difficult to carry out.
So it is disappointing that neither book mentions the so-called precautionary principle, a moral and political argument often invoked by activists when there is no scientific consensus about potential harms. In this case, the principle would argue that society should err on the side of cleaning up possibly toxic environmental waste.
Rather than characterizing industry as villains, it is time for critics such as Morris and Schwartz-Nobel to enlist activists, government and business in constructive partnerships. But this effort will require engaging the public, which can then put pressure on politicians. In making this point, Schwartz-Nobel quotes longtime breast cancer activist Barbara Brenner: "We figured that if people really knew what was happening with the Cancer Industry, they would be furious."
Unfortunately, such anger has not yet materialized over breast cancer or other diseases with possible environmental causes. If, despite their limitations, these books alert the public to such environmental connections, they are doing a great service.
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