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The white woman and her valley
I am a student of history and local history is especially interesting to me so I love the Arch Merrill books. His writing style is informative and at the same time very easy to read. Every time I travel to Letchworth Park I am reminded of this book and Merrill's vivid description of the beauty and the story of Mary Jemison. Merrill's books should not be out of print because they are the most valuable resource we have in keeping the history of Western New York alive! I aspire to write local history in the tradition of Arch Merrill and I respect him as a role model.
The white woman and her valley
This is one more book written by Arch Merrill that I have enjoyed reading. I believe why this book is so awesome is because the setting is in the early days of the Indians and their settlements in the area that is home to me....western New York State. I have always wanted to know more about the history of this area and era.the seller was very prompt is mailing this book to me and the condition of the book was excellent!
The Jameson Reader
Hardt and Weeks have compiled an excellent overview of Jameson's impressive volume of work. The excerpts from Jameson will prove thought-provoking to any student or activist who wants to maintain the critical praxis of Marxism, but wants to move away from its historic economic focus. Consequently, by expanding Marx's concept of the mode of production, and through insightful analyses of history, art, film, music, and architecture Jameson provides an insight into the value of Marxism for what Wendy Brown (and others) have called these postmodern times.
The Jameson Reader
Fredric Jameson (b. 1934) is one of the most influential and original thinkers of our time. He first began to publish important work in the 1960s. After earning a Ph.D. in French literature at Yale in 1959, Jameson revised his dissertation and published it as "Sartre: The Origins of a Style," a book which is still one of the finest examinations of its subject.Throughout the Sixties, Jameson read deeply in Marxist literature, from Mehring and Plekhanov to Adorno, Lukacs, and Sartre, and his extensive research and immersion in Marxism resulted in 1971's seminal "Marxism and Form," a landmark in Marxist criticism and an unsurpassed dialectical survey of the 20th century's most important communist writings. With this book, Jameson established himself as the foremost Marxist critic of his time, rivalled only by Terry Eagleton, whose approaches to criticism and the dialectic are highly disparate from Jameson's.Jameson's interests and expertise are catholic, and his prose style, so often referred to as "difficult" or "impenetrable," has always struck me with its elegance, precision, and singularity. No one else writes sentences like him, and no other critic's prose offers as much sheer aesthetic pleasure. In his criticism, Jameson's allusions and insights are always profound and original. His powers of associative and lateral thinking are unique. Whatever his subject, from critiquing a Balzac novel to limning "The Godfather," Jameson's approach is resolutely Marxist and his dialectic fluid and densely erudite."The Jameson Reader" offers readers an excellent introduction to the world of Jameson's thought, with essays ranging from the state of Marxist criticism in modern academe to "narrative as a socially symbolic act." His groundbreaking examinations of postmodernism are included as well. The introduction and commentary by the editors are superb throughout.Anyone seeking familiarity with the work of Fredric Jameson should start with "The Jameson Reader." No one looks at our modern world with a more penetrating gaze, and if any modern critic's work will last, it is his.
The Last Scream
I liked this book. I am a big fan of the Fear Street series and I am always on the hunt for more Fear Street books. Most bookstores don't carry them anymore, some thrift stores carry them but it is a hit and miss, and my county libraries don't really carry them. If I decide to get more books, I will going to this website again. Thanks.
The Last Scream
Synopsis: There have been numerous deaths occurring in Fear Park. A bomb exploded in the `House of Mirrors' killing twelve people; A person got trapped to death beneath the Ferris Wheel; the manager of the Animal Preserve was mauled to death by lions and so on. Due to these strange and bizarre incidents, Fear Park had been closed till now.Dierdre Bradley has a nightmare about the Park. She dreams about watching the "Hatchet Show", an event that took place at the park in 1935, where some kids who were chopping wood became crazy and started chopping each other to death. In her dream, Dierdre sees her boyfriend Robin chopping others in the group. Dierdre wakes up and foresees her dream as a warning of things to come in Fear Park. Dierdre's father, Jason is the owner of Fear Park and plans to reopen it to the public. Dierdre cannot convince her father to close the park because they have literally invested all their money into its success, and without it, they would be broke.What Dierdre is unaware of is that her boyfriend Robin Fear is the cause for all the trouble. Robin's father Nicholas, did not want the Bradleys to build an amusement park in his land, but they did anyway, so Robin is trying to fulfill his father's wishes to make sure that Fear Park is closed one way or another, even if it means killing the Bradleys. Having made himself and his girlfriend Meghan immortal, Robin is experienced in the black arts, and chants spells on Jason and Dierdre to close down Fear Park.However, Robin starts becoming very suspicious when Dierdre starts hanging out with a tall, lanky, red-haired guy named Gary. Robin's attempt at killing Dierdre fails whenever she is with Gary. Robin gets convinced that Gary is an immortal person too, and is protecting Dierdre from Robin's spells. Who will win the battle, Robin or Dierdre?Review: Since I haven't read the previous two volumes in the "Fear Park" series, I really didn't know what to expect. Even though it is fairly easy to understand the storyline (without reading the previous 2 books), this was a really hard book to read, mainly because it was so gory. I have read a lot of Fear Street books, and I hardly remember any of them having this much violence. Some parts were just disgusting, like when Jason starts removing big fat worms from his throat, or when someone starts vomiting green glob from the Ferris Wheel.Also, I thought the book ended really abruptly, because there were quite a few issues Stine never gave an explanation to, especially in terms of who Gary really is. Why did he suddenly start hanging around Dierdre in the first place? If he is not immortal, then why didn't Robin's spells work on him?Even though I enjoyed the twist in the climax of the story, I felt that there was hardly any suspense or fear in the book, and a lot of unnecessary gruesome details. Unless you are a fan of the previous Fear Park novels, I would avoid reading this one.