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Ryu vs. Sagat! Cammy vs. Vega! Ken vs. Zangief! Finally available in one volume, Street Fighter Volume 4: Bonus Stage collects all the hard to find Street Fighter backup stories by comics' biggest names! Joe Madureira, Salvador Larroca, Kaare Andrews, Adam Warren, Hyeung-Tae Kim and over a dozen other creators show you visions of Street Fighter like you've never seen before. ... Read more

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I read the original Street fighter series (3 comic books) Udon published and was very pleases. This book however is amateur at best. Considering Udon usually draws very good the drawing in this book are awful. They even shoveled in some artists that didn't draw the original comic. The result is that the art varies in style every 2 or 3 pages and looks bad. The story is just a couple of things taken from the actual games (like the SF2 fight between Ryu and Sagat) so you won't be surprised. Sorry but I can't recommend this book.

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It was an okay book I wish it would have continued the story but hey. Its a good buy.

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GREAT FOR STREET FIGHTER FANS!
This is a great graphic novel for all who love graphic novels and for Street Fighter fans especially.This one really sums up the last 3 novels in short detail, but has some new revealing information regarding the characters backgrounds.Cant wait for the next volume!

I recommend the whole Street Fighter series as I rate the whole series 11 stars out of 10. ... Read more

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This new resource in the series provides vital perspectives across entire new disease and service areas not previously covered in other volumes. The books of the first and second series are well established as the key sources of data on needs assessment. Together, they describe the central role and aim of health care needs assessment in the National Health Service. The epidemiological approach to needs assessment is explained thoroughly, and is then applied to the effectiveness and availability of services. This definitive guide is ideal for all those involved in commissioning health care. It is invaluable for public health professionals, epidemiology and public health academics, and students of public health and epidemiology. Key reviews of the First Series: "An excellent balanced account...the definitive resource" - "Journal of the Association for Quality in Healthcare". "Excellent...it should be delved into deeply" - "Pharmaceutical Times". "This excellent work moves us closer to implementing a market in health care" - "British Medical Journal". ... Read more

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In my presentations on the impact of Year 2000 in healthcare I am often asked to recommend resources.There are only two recommendations I will give and one of them is "Y2K Risk Management" by Steve Goldberg,Steven Davis and Andrew Pegalis.I equate this book to "just in timeinformation."It is precise and right on the money in terms of thefinal preparations for January 1, 2000.I use it, our Risk Manager uses itand it is appropriate reading for all involved in Y2K preparedness.If Ihad only one choice, with the time remaining, this book would be it.

A comprehensive guide to Y2k risk mitigation.
The authors pull concepts and recommendations from three Y2k disciplines:program management, business management, and technology management.This is possibly the first time all three disciplines have been presented in amanner such that a company president can understand the real businessthreat due to lack of Y2k readiness. ... Read more

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With more than 400 tribal casinos in 30 states generating more than $23 billion in annual revenue, Indian gaming is a rapidly growing industry that is here to stay. Subject to a complex federal regulatory scheme and myriad state and tribal regulations, Indian gaming also is a growing area of legal practice. A course in Indian gaming law has legal and political currency and thus can easily connect with students. But more than simply learning about current events, students should come away from a course on Indian gaming law with a critical understanding of perhaps the most important legal and policy issue facing tribes today, and with a deeper sense of how tribes -- the third sovereign -- interact with state and federal governments in the American political system. Indian Gaming Law: Cases and Materials is a casebook that allows instructors and students to achieve these important pedagogical goals.

Indian Gaming Law: Cases and Materials provides a clear, comprehensive, and accessible platform designed specifically for Indian gaming law and similar courses. Written by a law professor and a professor of political science and public administration who are the co-directors of the Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law and Policy and leading scholars in the field of tribal gaming, this casebook uniquely is informed by the reality that Indian gaming law and policy has evolved through political compromise as much as through litigation and law reform. The casebook therefore includes materials relevant to the key legal contexts of tribal gaming as well as the type and relative influence of extralegal variables that shape Indian gaming law.

In this casebook, the authors fuse the necessary background on federal Indian law and the status of American Indian tribes in the American political system with legal approaches to regulating gambling, and provide a useful overarching theoretical approach grounded in tribal sovereignty. The casebook covers necessary background on federal Indian law and the legal doctrine of tribal sovereignty, as well as on the roots of Indian gaming in traditional tribal practices and the imperatives of reservation economic development; provides overviews of pre-statutory law and the genesis of the federal statutory framework governing Indian gaming in light of key court decisions; discusses how the federal classification scheme for tribal gaming creates the parameters for tribal-state relations, including compacting for casino-style gaming; and highlights such topics as the authority of the federal agency responsible for regulating Indian gaming and the authority for gaming on newly acquired lands. Materials include excerpts from relevant case law, statutes, and regulations alongside excerpts from books, journal articles, and testimony by key authorities in the field. And because Indian gaming is far from uniform, with significant variation by state and tribe, throughout the book the editors provide specific examples of tribal and state experiences with tribal gaming. To assist students in working through such complex issues, each chapter includes teaching problems and notes. ... Read more

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Vision and memory are two of the most intensively studied topics in psychology and neuroscience. The present book concerns the interaction between vision and memory: How do we remember what we see? And how does our memory for the visual world influence subsequent perception and action? topics in psychology and neuroscience, and the intersectionetween them--visual memory--is emerging as a fertile ground for research. Certain memory systems appear to specialize in This book provides a state-of-the-art account of visual memory systems. Each chapter is written by an internationally renowned researcher, who has made seminal contributions to the topic. The chapters are comprehensive, providing both a broad overview of each topic and a summary of the latest research. They also present new perspectives that advance our theoretical understanding of visual memory and suggest directions for future research. After an introductory overview by the editors, chapters address visual sensory memory (iconic memory), visual short-term memory, and the relationship between visual memory and eye movements. Visual long-term memory is then reviewed from several different perspectives, including memory for natural scenes, the relationship between visual memory and object recognition, and associative learning. The final chapters discuss the neural mechanisms of visual memory and neuropsychological deficits in visual memory.This book is a comprehensive guide to visual memory research that will be a valuable resource for both students and professionals. ... Read more

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Coloproctology is a surgical specialty which dynamically changes every few years. There is a profusion of colorectal textbooks but specialty series on particularly complex topics as well as on the specialized management approach for trainees and training colorectal surgeons are actually few. The aim of this text is a superior quality colorectal book written by world experts targeted at senior surgical and colorectal trainees and young consultant coloproctologists in current areas of subspecialty expertise. The structure of the chapters is current and is based on what does not appear and is not addressed in current colorectal textbooks. This series has proven useful in areas already represented, including Neurosurgery, Vascular Surgery, Transplantation Surgery, etc. The text is aimed at being relatively didactic with an algorithm approach to specialized areas within coloproctology which could potentially be updated every 3 years or so with new topics to create a set for didactic training in colorectal surgery. It is anticipated that these texts will become valuable teaching textbooks and part of every coloproctologist’s armamentarium as well as appealing to all general surgeons and surgical trainees engaged in complex elective and emergency colorectal surgery.

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very useful in bedside teaching
I recommended this book because I found it is very useful in bedside teaching, for CR and fellow. It focus on something that are interesting only by colorectal surgeon /proctologist. Though it is not a textbook, I also recommended this for fellow/young attending.

The book is writing by many authors, bibliography as listed in Amazon web. Anyway, the writing style is friendly reading. The cited references are up-to-date. And even the long term results were well collected. For example, the long term result of glue for anal fistula is not as good as initial report. For example, the BRAF/KRAS gene mutation related with CIMP. For example, the debate on surgical timing of sigmoid diverticulitis. But, this also makes it not a textbook level for junior residents, because they have no ideas of those trials/meta-analysis reports. They may miss in the tables or flow chart, without supervised.

The only disadvantage that I could find are lacking of robotic surgery/single-port/NOTEs comments, lacking of anal fistula ligation introduction, lacking of colonoscopy screening policy changing since last year.
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From Connecticut to California, Native American tribes have entered the gambling business, some making money and nearly all igniting controversy. The image of the "casino Indian" is everywhere. Some observers suspect corruption or criminal ties, or have doubts about tribal authenticity. Many tribes disagree, contending that Indian gaming has strengthened tribal governments and vastly improved the quality of reservation life for American Indians.

This book provides the clearest and most complete account to date of the laws and politics of Indian gaming. Steven Light and Kathryn Rand explain how it has become one of today's most politically charged phenomena: at stake are a host of competing legal rights and political interests for tribal, state, and federal governments. As Indian gaming grows, policymakers struggle with balancing its economic and social costs and benefits.

Light and Rand emphasize that tribal sovereignty is the very rationale that allows Indian gaming to exist, even though U.S. law subjects that sovereignty to strict congressional authority and compromised it even further through the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988. Their book describes Indian gaming and explores today's hottest political issues, from the Pequots to the Plains Indians, with examples that reflect a wide range of tribal experience: from hugely successful casinos to gambling halls with small markets and low grosses to tribes that chose not to pursue gaming. Throughout, they contend that tribal sovereignty is the key to understanding Indian gaming law and politics and guiding policy reform--and that Indian gaming even represents a unique opportunity for the emergence of tribal self-determination.

As political pressure on tribes to concede to state interests grows, this book offers a practical approach to policy reform with specific recommendations for tribal, federal, state, and local policymakers. Meticulously argued, Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty provides an authoritative look at one of today's most vexing issues, showing that it's possible to establish a level playing field for all concerned while recognizing the measure of sovereignty--and fairness--to which American Indians are entitled. ... Read more

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This book gives a very good overview of Indian gaming and it's place in the USA.

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Arecent search of the Mid-Hudson Library System for books on Indian casinos yielded "Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty, The Casino Compromise," (2005), University of Kansas Press, which promises much according to a back cover blurb: "Staying above the emotional fray usually surrounding this controversial subject, (the authors) succeed in making a comprehensive, balanced, and even entertaining analysis of the complex issues relating to gaming on Indian reservations."

The co-authors are Steven Andrew Light, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Dakota and his frequent collaborator, Kathryn R. L. Rand, Associate Professor and Associate Dean in the university's School of Law. They are co-directors of the Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law and Policy, a component of the Northern Plains Indian Law Center at the School of Law, and are active writers, speakers, bloggers on casino issues, consulting with federal, state, and local governments and interested groups.The Institute is said to be the only university-affiliated research institute dedicated to the study of Indian gaming.

So here is another academic, non-industry examinationof casino gambling, one,as might be expected by their use of the word "gaming" instead of "casinos" or "gambling", by scholars inclined to be sympathetic to the industry. And sympathetic they are, seeing gaming as an exercise of tribal sovereignty which enhances tribal self-determination and is an overall boon to the social, economic, and cultural life of tribes, as well to states and surrounding communities. It comes as a surprise to me to see this point of view from an academic source and I was particularly interested in examining their positions and arguments in the light of Earl Grinols' decidedly critical posture. ("Gambling in America, Costs and Benefits," 2004)

Their discussion of "gaming" is prefaced bya brief history of Indian-non Native relations, with swings of empowering tribes and assimilationist policies, and an overall neglect of Indian interests. The Supreme Court in the "California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians" case in 1987 permitted a tribe to operate free of state (civil not criminal) regulatory control,lending legal support for the growing number of gambling operations of Indian tribes. This decision helped set the stage for the passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 which created a framework of tribal-state compacts to regulate casinos. The 1996 "Seminole Tribe v. Florida"weakened the hand of the tribes by making states immune from suits charging them with failing to negotiate compacts in good faith.

While recognizing complexity and tradeoffs, Light and Rand broadly endorse the positive economic benefits of Indian casinos. "Although most obviously and directly affecting tribes, Indian gaming's economic impacts
extend beyond reservation borders. For nontribal communities the economic benefits derived from Indian gaming range from the tribal revenue sharing with state and local governments to the ripple effects generated by job creation and increased business and consumer spending." They particularly emphasize the positive economic effects on Indian reservations themselves, distinguishing the vast riches of the "outlier" Mashantucket Pequots from the modest successes of tribes without access to nearby metropolitan markets.

I confess an attraction for the argument that casinos can serve as springboards for further economic development which rescue tribes from welfare dependency, poverty, backwardness. This is especially true if reservation lands lie close to metropolitan areas or main interstate roads which are suitable for developments such as hotels, shopping malls, industries. The casino serves as a means of "primitive accumulation of capital" (which was historically associated with harms, such as the enclosures in England which forced peasants off the land) so that even if social harms outweigh the immediate benefits (my idea, not the authors') eventually other economic development (conscientiously pursued) can bring about a net positive picture.

The New York Times (11/14/07) reported on such a scenario on the Tulalip Indian Reservation next to a busy highway between Seattle (35 miles away) and Vancouver (100 miles away).Starting with a casino in 1992, the Tulalips have leveraged their profits into constructing a major shopping mall, an amphitheater, a second larger casino, a resort hotel and are seeking to build a bio-gas plant and develop an industrial and business property. I note that all this is on reservation land (not off-reservationtaken into trust),taxes are paid ( Washingtoncollected $30 million in mostly sales taxlast year), the tribe members benefit (unemployment rate on reservation 10% today, compared to 65 % in 1995 and countywide rate of 4.5%.)The glowing newspaper report omits a discussion of harms but in this instance possibly a casino can be justified in the long run.

For their assessment of casinos' impact on surrounding communities, the authors heavily cite the 1999 report of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago which examined the impact of
casinos between 1980 and 1997 on one hundred sample communities within a fifty mile range as well as a 2000 study (the Harvard Study) reexamining the same data, by Taylor, Krepps, and Wang, "National Evidence for the Socioeconomic Impact of American Indian Gaming on Non-Indian Communities,"In 1980 only five of the sample communities were near casinos; by 1997 forty-five were, thus offering the opportunity to assess the impact of casinos. The NORC study "found consistent and substantial net benefits and few if any aggregate harms accruing to communities with casinos." The Harvard Study concluded that overall, the introduction of a tribal casino produced "substantial beneficial economic and social impacts on surrounding communities" especially in poor, isolated rural areas.

I note the apparent greater sophistication and originality of Grinols' economic analyses and his cautions about glowing assessments. "(There is) a tendency to state an industry's impact on regional jobs as an economic benefit without computing its significance in terms of value to area residents. Other common mistakes are to confuse business profitability with social profitability; to focus on the profits of the industry being added to the economy and to neglect to account for lost profits of other businesses;.....to make unsubstantiated claims about unemployment; and to neglect to consider externality costs."

"Externalities" are social and economic costs associated with gambling which don't show up on balance sheets of casinos, such as costs of problem and pathological gambling, crime, competition with local businesses, traffic, loss of real estate and sales tax from land under Indian sovereignty, etc.While providing a table listing possible harmful externalities, Light and Randexamine in detail only three areas: pathological and problem gambling. crime, reservation quality of life. This restricted examination in itself defuses the impact of harms.

Let's look at the first two. The NORC study concluded that the presence of a casino in or near a community did not significantly increase crime. To the contrary, it appeared that crime rates were reduced, "but not in an overwhelming way." The Harvard study, however, showed a substantial decrease in auto theft and robbery associated with proximity to a tribal casino, and other indications of decreased social ills (reduced welfare payments) perhaps relating to alleviation of poverty. Other authors are cited who cast doubt on the commonly perceived relation of casinos to crime.

But crime is also a byproduct of pathological and problem gambling and should also be considered in that context. A South Carolina study of video-poker players cited by Grinols showed that the percentages of pathological gamblers who engage in criminal behavior (without complicating other disorders such as alcoholism or depression) were as follows: wrote bad checks, 54.4 %; stole, 37.1 %; arrested 41 %.

Pathological and problem gambling are associated with a wide range of ills - crime, debt, unemployment, bankruptcy,marital discord, divorce, drug abuse,mental and physical problems, suicide,etc. In its
1999 report the National Gambling Impact Study Commission (NGISC ) reported that some 1.2 to 1.5 % of the population (3 million people) were pathological gamblers at some point during their lives while another 1.5 to 3.9 % of adults (between 3 and 7.8 million) were problem gamblers. Citing the NORC study Light and Rand give the economic cost of each pathological gambler at $10,550 over his or her lifetime and a lesser figure for problem gamblers. That comes to a $4 billion societal cost for pathological and problem gamblers.(If the construction of a new casino stimulates the development of pathological or problem gamblers in its region those new cases can be attributed to the casino.)

Now that's a lot of money but I kept thinking about the $10,550 for a lifetime of someone with a serious gambling problem. It doesn't seem high enough. I checked Grinols, welcoming a possible point of direct comparison on the issue. On page 167, Grinols estimates the average cost off a pathological gambler is $11,304 each year (2003 dollars). Each year! Compared to a similar figure in Light and Rand's book for a lifetime. I looked into it further.

Grinols uses cost figures based on nine studies (everyone agrees that more studies need to be done and estimates are not accurate) which he cites in detail, one of which is the NORC study. The NORC study (on which Light and Rand rely) can be found on the web as an appendix to the report of the 1999 NGISC cited previously. Page 63 shows a table listing types of costs (i.e. unemployment benefits and the like) and past year and lifetime cost estimates. No estimates are included -none (they are too difficult to estimate) - for lifetime costs relating to job loss, unemployment or welfare benefits, poor physical or mental health, treatment of gambling addiction. Nor are any costs attributed to family costs (costs of divorce, separation, spousal abuse, child neglect and abuse) or "abused dollars" (gambling money acquired form family, friends under false pretenses, "loans" that are never repaid.)

Obviously the $10, 550 figure is a gross underestimate of lifetime costs.Our authors should know better than to pass it off as an estimate; it is only a step in constructing an estimate. Taking Grinol's figures for costs of problem and pathological gamblers, the total lifetime costs come to not $ 4 billion but an order of magnitude higher, perhaps to hazard a guess, $80 billion to $100 billion.

In addition to downplaying costs, Light and Rand throw cold water on the idea that casinos actually increase the numbers of pathological and problem gamblers."As one study puts it `in the light of the large extent to which gambling has been legalized in America over the past few decades, the failure to find an obvious pattern of increasing prevalence of pathological gambling should raise serious doubts about just how likely the disorder is to be triggered by increasing opportunities to gamble.'"

Citing (not quoting) the NORC report,they go on to say "more Americans have beenexposed to gambling...Between the national commission reviews -1975 and 1998-the proportion of Americans who had gambled at least once in their livesjumped from 68% to 86%. However, the percentage of Americans gambling in the past year increased only slightly, from 61 percent to 63 percent, in spite of increased availability of gambling opportunities. Together these finding suggest that while people are experimenting with gambling, this has not turned people into habitual or problem gamblers. Other have suggested that the availability of gambling has little or no impact on problem or pathological gambling prevalence rates because the origins of gambling addiction are tangled with other addictive behaviors unrelated to gaming."

Now this is interesting because the NORC report clearly states: "The availability of a casino within 50 miles (versus 50-250 miles) is associatedwith about double the prevalence of problem and pathological gamblers...This finding is similar to the overall level of past-year casino gambling (40% of adults living close to casinos versus 23 % of adults living 50-250 miles away)...."Grinols extrapolates social costs from these extra problem and pathological gamblers which in his view exceed the extra benefits to a region by a ratio of more than 3:1.

A chapter "Indian Gaming in Context" examines "stereotypes...newly manifested prejudice and backlash," mistaken ideas characterizing public discussion of Indian casinos. They criticize such notions as: "Tribes are composed of `casino Indians'", "Tribes should pay their `fair share'"; "Tribal government cannot be trusted." Anti-casino activists should look at these rebuttals to common arguments against Indian casinos.On the whole, the rebuttals are weak and rely heavily on ad hominem rhetoric (...tribes face substantial obstacles rooted at best in misinformation and ignorance and at worst in prejudice and ethnocentrism in their efforts to realize the promise of tribal sovereignty."

They rebut "Tribes are composed of `casino Indians'" by quoting the harshest critics who equate tribes' search for federal recognition and casino-building ("Bet by bet, the Indians are scalping customers for millions"), asking us to respond to the "scalping" innuendo. They offer in rebuttal a single quotation from a chief (....it will never be all about gaming.")There is no objective examination of the relation between tribes seeking recognition and their casino-building ambitions.Regarding "Tribal Sovereignty is simply an unfair advantage", Light and Rand, approvingly state:" Indian gaming is an exercise of sovereign governmental authority by Indian tribes." Throughout the book this theme is repeatedly sounded, the authors clearly leaning to an expansive view of sovereignty favored by tribes (with broader casino building powers), rather than the "compromised nature of tribal sovereignty as defined by federal Indian law." Can sovereignty, I wonder, be anything but "compromised" with small entities living in the midst of a large populous country? What does sovereignty mean when tribes are sovereign and their members can vote and lobbyand run for office in U.S. elections ?If tribes are sovereign can they also grow and sell marijuana?Conduct foreign relations?

A case can be made that this book overplays successes and downplays harms.Toward what end?The authors seek a reform of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) of 1998, one that strengthens the hand of tribes, reduces the power of states, and puts the federal government in a stronger regulatory position so that it can better carry out its responsibility to the tribes.Thus, Congress could cap the percentage of gambling revenues that states can demand and empower the Secretary of the Interior to "consider whether both tribal and state sovereignty are adequately protected, that is, whether the terms of the compact appear fair and reasonable, taking into account tribal self-determination."With their strongly positive view of gaming and expansive Indian sovereignty nothing stands in the way of facilitating as much a possible the unimpeded growth of the Indian casino industry.


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The dark tale of a missing brother, a cat on drugs, a scientist who rediscovers himself, some metaphysical poetry, a girl who makes rain and a ton of great writing. That's pretty much Monkeybicycle's Issue 7in a nutshell. The strength of the journal has always been its diversity of voices and the range of emotions they evoke, and the latest offering is no different. In its reading, a host of feelings arose: some euphoric, some disturbing, all totally entertaining. I don't know how Mr. Seighman and company do it, but MB somehow is always able to collectively assert the full spectrum of reading experiences in a 200-page journal. It's like a candy store, a smorgasbord for any reader, of any disposition. Here are just a few of the things I experienced while reading:

I cheered triumphantly at the final act from Carl, the ex-ballplayer turned gourmet chef whose restaurant is about to go under and cost him millions, in James Kaelan's "Annals of Gastronomy."

I found myself laughing out loud (while at work, where laughing never happens) reading about the cat Chopsticks who's addicted to hard drugs, in Ryan Boudinot's "Chopsticks." Poor Chopsticks. He was a mess.

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I mourned for the dampness following Bianca in Roxane Gay's "The Weight of Water," about a girl who just can't seem to shake the rain clouds.

I wondered and tensed up over what the hell happened exactly to Zach's brother Vince in "My Brother's Keeper" by Andrew Ervin.

Angi Becker Stevens'"Your Dreams and What They Mean" whisked me away to another reality, where dreams and waking life are one and the same.

My mind was blown into infinity by Yassen Vassilev's poem "Amnesia During Meditation," and Molly Gaudry's three-part verse "Sadness, War, Heartbreak" contained a visceral melancholy that crumpled my being, but also awakened it.

I felt strangely sympathetic when Professor Hilbert, recently mourning the death of his wife and seeking to marry his housekeeper Marta, seeks solace with someone unexpected in Reed Hearne's "It Takes Two Entangled."

There were other things I felt, things too numerous or revealing to mention, and things you will probably feel, things you didn't expect to feel, maybe, when you pick up Issue 7. This is all part of the fun. It's a carnival ride and a feast. I don't know what kind of magic cooked up such a feast, but this should be what reading is all about. ... Read more

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Univ. of Arizona, Tucson. Text delivers detailed descriptions of exemplary drug treatment programs for adolescent substance abuse. Covers outpatient, residential, family-oriented, and therapeutic community programs. Addresses the trends in adolescent substance use and various treatment approaches. Hardcover, softcover available and listed in approval week 2003-16. ... Read more

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In the vast Star Trek universe, many diverse alien races abound, and now they finally get their due! Presenting a collection of six tales set throughout the Star Trek galaxy, each by a different creative team and featuring a different Star Trek alien race.This collection includes stories of the Gorn, Vulcans, Andorians, Orions, the Borg, and Romulans (by industry legend John Byrne), and features guest-stars such as Captains Kirk and Pike, Spock, and many other familiar faces. ... Read more

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Born in Nicaragua, Rubén Darío is known as the consummate leader of the Modernista movement, an esthetic trend that swept the Americas from Mexico to Argentina at the end of the nineteenth century. Seeking a language and a style that would distinguish the newly emergent nations from the old imperial power of Spain, Darío’s writing offered a refreshingly new vision of the world—an artistic sensibility at once cosmopolitan and connected to the rhythms of nature. The first part of this collection presents Darío’s most significant poems in a bilingual format and organized thematically in the way Darío himself envisioned them. The second part is devoted to Darío’s prose, including short stories, fables, profiles, travel writing, reportage, opinion pieces, and letters. A sweeping biographical introduction by distinguished critic Ilan Stavans places Darío in historical and artistic context, not only in Latin America but in world literature. ... Read more

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Dario's selected writings
I ordered 2 copies of this book.Delivery was prompt but one of the copies is defective, missing like 10 pages of the introduction. I was of course disappointed.

A Darío for Our Time
The poems, prose, and letters in this new edition of Rubén Darío's selected writings are indispensable for readers of poetry with an interest in world culture. Darío is no mere literary figure--though he is certainly major in that category--; Darío is a font and fountain of literature and sensibility that bespeaks the New World, and with the bilingual presentation in this book, his poetry speaks our language as well--better than well, beautifully. For the key element in such a volume is, of course, the translation, and here you find three distinguished, widely recognized translators muscially gifting you with their and Darío's voices in ranges you can sing along with by scanning the lefthand-page Spanish. Old favorites--"The Swans," for example--renew themselves here and new discoveries abound.
If you read poetry, perhaps even more if you write poetry, "Rubén Darío: Selected Writings" demands your attention--now!

A Master Poet
Along with Becquer, Ruben Dario is the wellspring of modern Spanish poetry. Poets who followed him-- from Juan Ramon Jimenez to Federico Garcia Lorca or Pablo Neruda-- recognized their debt to this Nicaraguan poet who (Lorca said) "taught maestros and children with a sense of universality and generosity lacking among today's poets. He taught Valle-Inclan and Juan Ramon and the Machado brothers, and his voice was water and saltpeter in the furrow of an ancient language.... Spanish had never known such a feast of words, such a clash of consanants, lights and forms [...] He captured the murmur of the jungle in a single adjective and like fray Luis de Leon, a master of language, he made stellar signals with the lemon and the hoof of a deer and with mollusks full of infinity and terror. He placed the sea - with frigates and shadows-- in the pupils of our eyes, and laid an enormous promenade of gin over the grayest afternoon the sky has ever known. He called the dark north wind by its first name-- all heart, like a Romantic poet--and laid his hand on the Corinthian capital with eternal sadness and ironic doubt." Dario's poetry is translated here by two American poets: Steven F. White, a leading authority on Nicaraguan literature, and Greg Simon, co-author of a memorable translation of "Poet in New York." Readers should be grateful for this selected Dario, which makes an ample selection of poetry and prose accessible to a new generation of English readers.

Embarrassingly bad
Ruben Dario was the first great Spanish symbolist poet and perhaps the greatest of all Latin American poets.It's good to see a substantial selection of his poetry in Spanish in accessible form.The English translations, however, are inept almost beyond belief.What the reader with some Spanish needs is a careful and competent trot, as in the wonderful "Penguin Book of Spanish Verse," where the translator gets every nuance.

What the reader gets is verse translations in which every consideration of meaning is subordinated to the need for rhyme.Moreover, the translators, in the interest of a spurious readability, make no attempt to suggest the orotund classicizing side of Dario's diction. I have the impression that many such poems, among Dario's best, have been suppressed as too difficult and/or unfashionable.Finally, the translators apparently wouldn't recognize a literary allusion or quotation in the original if it fell on them.

The Stavans introduction is just contemptible, as both biography and literary criticism.Stavans' prose style, as always, is just awful.Mr. Stavans, there is no such English word as "illusive"!

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This is a great hiking book -- new hikes!
60 Hikes within 60 Miles is a gem for those of us looking for trails that are easier (EZ to mid-intermediate), long, and close to Seattle.There are trails I haven't heard of before I got this book. With this book and Beyond Mt. Si, you're set.These trails are so beautiful, old growth, some paved over railroad tracks, and the Preston-Snoqualmie Falls trail with the outlook is awesome.

One suggestion, however:Pet restricted trails should be noted.Went to the Watershed Reserve Trail in Redmond, and discovered that dogs weren't allowed (HORSES WERE ALLOWED! go figure) Luckily, the Arboretum is close by off 520, so that lowered a few raised hackles and saved the day.Dog-friendly is an important feature to add in trail descriptions.

Other than that, this is an excellent, easy to follow hiking book.

60 Hikes within 60 Miles
Got this book about an year ago and have since done almost half of the hikes described in this book. Can't say if these are the 60 best hikes (there are much more than 60 hikes in the covered area), but they've definitely all been great hikes so far.

The hikes can all be done as day trips from Seattle: The maximum driving distance from Seattle is 60 miles, except for the Mt Rainier hikes, which are more like 60 miles as the crow flies. Come to think of it, the driving time would be a more relevant criteria than the distance, but of course that wouldn't make for such a nice title.

The format of the book is quite practical. In particular, I appreciate the trailhead GPS coordinates, the easily accessible and detailed overview map, and the trail elevation profiles. There are more than a dozen criteria for choosing a hike, including trail length, crowdedness and various scenic features. Only, I wish this information was presented in a table rather than in list form, which makes choosing hikes based on multiple criteria a bit tedious.

I wasn't too enthusiastic about the schematic trail maps that lack topographic information. However all the trails I've seen so far were well marked, so this didn't turn out to be a big issue. On the other hand the book could use more pictures and perhaps less text: In this context, a picture (with a good caption) really can be worth a thousand (or at least a few hundred...) words.

Before you leave on any of the hikes, be sure to check with the WSDOT and the relevant park authorities that the roads to the trail (and the trail itself) are accessible. Look for recent trail reports on the WTA's site. At least two of the trails (Bare Mountain and Carbon Glacier) are no longer accessible (with no immediate plans to fix the access roads).

Finally, I can't help but think that the information in such books would be more useful if presented on the Web: People could upload or link pictures, add trail reports, download GPS routes etc. Searching and sorting through lists of hikes should also be much easier. In fact the hikes in this book seem to be on trails.com, might be worth a look...

A template that should be followed by all hiking guidebooks
The structure and organization of this books is really stunning and authors haven't left anything to complain about. This is one of very few books which has complete elevation profile for each hike instead of just elevation gain. The hiking maps are actually useful and well marked with all points of interests. Best of all, each hike contains GPS coordinates which I'm so pleased to have because wordy descriptions just doesn't cut it all the time. The descriptions long but actually useful instead like in other books where authors love to write them in painful and poor artistic styles. Each hike contains small B&W low quality photo which are usually OK and not always represents the best view from the trail. I also own 55 Hikes Around Snoqualmie Pass: Mountains to Sound Greenway (100 Hikes In...) and given choice between two I will prefer this one because of its superb structure and organization plus modern details such as GPS coordinates.

I think this book should be template for all other hiking guidebooks out there.

Good content, but presentation could be much better
What I like:

* I love how it features hikes *within* Seattle, Kirkland and Bellevue. Many guidebooks skip hikes within the city altogether. The one you can kayak to is pretty neat! I expect that these trails will be good for the colder months, when trails in the Cascades are snowed out. I'm looking forward to using this book more and more later in the year.

* The descriptions are quite thorough. The details help me visualize the hike, and this can be motivating sometimes. This has some cons though -- see below.

* It has a section for nearby activities. I find that useful when planning side trips/activities.

* It provides the GPS coordinates of the trailhead.


What I don't like:

* Each page has a header that is a black area with white text. On the left page it says "{hike #} 60 hikes within 60 miles" and on the right side, "Seattle including Bellevue, Everett and Tacoma". I think this space could be used better if it displayed the name of the hike and the general area instead of the same text over and over.

* Key at-a-glance information is shown in a black box with small white text. This information is quite important to me when deciding which hike to do, and I would rather have it in a more readable form. Better yet, have it in a form that I can actually digest "at a glance" (!) instead of having to read the small white-on-black text. Other guidebooks show some of this information graphically, with stars or hiker icons to indicate difficulty and/or rating. At the very least, I think the font should be the same size as the descriptive text.

* Driving directions and GPS coordinates are printed as black text over a light/dark gray background. Bad contrast!

* The descriptive text is loooong. I appreciate that sometimes, but I it's too verbose for my taste. The font size is rather small, which for me makes reading the description even less appealing.

* Whether or not dogs are allowed is also in the description text. Since I have a dog, I'd like to know this immediately, so again, I think it should be displayed more prominently.

* It would be nice if it had a topographical map for the longer trails. I find it hard to reconstruct the lie of the land from the map and the elevation graph, especially since the map doesn't have mile markers along the representation of the hike's trail. [Yes, I have my own topo map of the entire area, but a small one that I can carry with the trail description is convenient as a adjunct to a larger map.]


All things considered, I have mixed feelings about this book. It has good content, but I think there are better ones out there. Call me superficial, but I'm a weekend hiker, and the difference between an engaging/beautiful versus so-so/mediocre presentation can have a big effect on my enthusiasm for a particular hike :)

Awesome
An awesome book, very detailed descriptions, good maps, elevation profiles with every trip, GPS, driving instructions. This is far better than all the mountaineers books. Go get a copy today. ... Read more