Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (LUST)

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What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with “What If All (name the city) Read the Same Book,” has devised 170 thematic reading lists that cater to every mood, occasion, and personality. These annotated lists cover such topics as mother-daughter relationships, science for nonscientists, mysteries of all stripes, African-American fiction from a female point of view, must-reads for kids, books on bicycling, “chick-lit,” and many more. Pearl's enthusiasm and taste shine throughout in this lively and informative illustrated guide.

Customer Reviews:

Great book about great books.......2006-08-22

For an avid reader like myself, it's often tough to know what to read next. In this book, Nancy Pearl helped me get quite a few suggestions.

The book is helpfully broken up into little chapters about different genres or subjects, such as Action Heroines. I found it great, because if I'm not interested in that particular subject, I can just skip to the next section.

The only thing that prevented me from giving this book 5 stars was that the summaries about the books are way too short. I really couldn't tell whether I'd like the book or not until I had come and read a few of the book's reviews on Amazon.

All in all, this is a marvelous book, chock full of great suggestions for the casual and avid reader. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

To be skimmed - eclectic but certainly not all- inclusive.......2006-04-03

I love books about books. Nancy Pearl also loves books and books about books, and compiles here a long list of favorites. She provides short- summaries of the books. She has a long list of categories in which she does this, but many of the categories I most care about including those in the realm of politics, religion, philosophy, poetry are not listed at all. She has a broad taste but to my mind a bit light. Nonetheless going down the lists one can find new suggestions for reading.
No one can read everything.
And some people who are great readers have much narrower focus than this work.
But this work does have valuable suggestions , and there should be something for almost everyone in it.
A book to be skimmed and not chewed and digested.

Nancy Pearl: A woman after my own heart!.......2006-02-25

If you love books, are a compulsive reader and, most important, are not a book snob, you will love this list by librarian Nancy Pearl. See also the Nancy Pearl librarian action figure (she raises her finger to shush noisy visitors). I have not read all the books mentioned in Book Lust, and she has not read all the books I adore, but there is plenty of common meeting ground--and a lot of good ideas. Read it. Enjoy. I liked it so much I immediately bought "More Book Lust".

A great read in itself.......2006-02-17

Nancy Pearl gives the reader an enticing framework of topics through which she tells us her favorite reads. Readers can be opened to whole new and creative themes for reading and will be delighted when they see their own favorites listed among Nancy's choices. The real dilemma: Continue reading Book Lust to the end or put it down while you run to get the recommended book(s) that strike your fancy?

A Disappointment.......2005-11-25

I usually love books full of suggestions of other books to read, but this one was really just a massive list of books arranged into somewhat random categories. It was impossible to tell from what she said which of the books I would actually enjoy reading. (Amazon lists and reader reviews are much more helpful.) Also, from those of the books she recommended that I had read, her taste is too all-inclusive for me. She seems to love everything, a lot of which I don't think is very good.

More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

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More reading about what one might read
A good way of finding new books
Respect and admiration for a brave bibliophile
Another disappointment
Book Luster!

More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
Nancy Pearl
Manufacturer: Sasquatch Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1570614350

Book Description

The response to Nancy Pearl's surprise bestseller Book Lust was astounding: the Seattle librarian and winner of the 2004 Women's National Book Award even became the model for the now-famous Librarian Action Figure. Readers everywhere welcomed Pearl's encyclopedic but discerning filter on books worth reading, and her Rule of 50 (give a book 50 pages before deciding whether to continue; but readers over 50 must read the same number of pages as their age) became a standard MO.

Once again organized by topic, this sprightly follow-up includes an array of titles in nearly 150 eclectic categories, including Plots for Plotzing (highly unusual storylines), Animal Love (in which humans fall in love with animals), The Autobiographical Gesture (memoirs about complex lives), Child Prodigies (child characters who are called on to perform great and sometimes heroic acts), Nagging Mothers, Crying Children (true tales from the frontlines of parenting), and Libraries and Librarians. Both a valuable reference and a vastly enjoyable read, More Book Lust offers a wealth of enthusiastic, quirky reading recommendations.

Customer Reviews:

More reading about what one might read .......2007-06-29

No matter how books a person has read, there are always many more that one has not.
For those who love books there are always other books waiting somewhere which one has not read, and which can be of real interest.
This particular book is a sequel to one in the same format. Books are listed, briefly summarized and critiqued. One special set of classifications is for individual authors who happen to be favorites of Pearl.
For those who enjoy learning about new books this book will be a pleasure.
I again have taste and interests very different from Pearl's, and would if making my own lists have much different categories.
Still I believe most readers can learn about many interesting new titles here.

A good way of finding new books.......2007-06-03

If you're looking for books to read - in my experience, there are always too many, but if you are - I'd definitely suggest borrowing Book Lust and More Book Lust from the library. (I'd say buy it, but once you extract the titles that interest you I'm not sure how much use it would be. Still, it's up to you.)

Not everyone will find all of the reading lists in the book useful, but that's really how it was meant to be read. I skipped over more than half, only reading the sections that caught my attention, and I STILL had a good eighty titles by the time I'd finished.

My one complaint would be that I grew tired of seeing the "Too good to miss" listings (of which there are many) throughout both books. They're devoted to the work of one author that Nancy Pearl considers especially good, but I found them much less useful than everything else. Probably because they're not as varied, so if I don't happen to like the sound of one author's work I've got to skip to the next part.

Respect and admiration for a brave bibliophile.......2005-12-18

Wow...this lady can READ! If she's read half of those she's recommended in two volumes, RE-read many of them, AND found the time to write these books-listing-books atop that, well...I'm truly impressed. That's a life well-lived in the world of reading.

It's all a matter of opinion, but a few of her suggestions were outright bombs where I labored to get to page 10 (Amazon probably will strike me down for saying so, but thank God the library's free). Then again, there were a few which more than made up for them-and which I'd never have tried otherwise. I was delighted to find a few of my own favorites among her lists, and some that I'd found to be blatantly missing.

The important thing is to keep reading once you find an author or a style you love. If it's not on Nancy Pearl's list, it could-and should-be on your own.

Another disappointment.......2005-11-25

Even though I didn't like the first Book Lust, I couldn't help giving this one a try too, because I usually love books full of suggestions of other books to read. Unfortunately it is much like this first (as was to be expected): a massive list of books arranged into somewhat random categories. It was impossible to tell from what she said which of the books I would actually enjoy reading. (Amazon lists and reader reviews are much more helpful.) Also, from those of the books she recommended that I had read, her taste is too all-inclusive for me. She seems to love everything, a lot of which I don't think is very good.

Book Luster!.......2005-10-21

Nancy Pearl is the ultimate librarian and book-nut. This book follows in the same vein as her original Book Lust, but with different lists. Pearl provides an annotated list to each book she has enjoyed in categories such as: Best for Teens, Fantasy for Young and Old, Graphica, Libraries and Librarians, and many more. It was a quick read and I kept pen and paper handy to make my own TBR list from Pearl's findings.

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History

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The Novel as History, Indeed
Maybe You Had To Be There...
Great style, but is it really a novel in any sense?
At war with oneself
The novelist as central actor on the stage of history

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
Norman Mailer
Manufacturer: Plume
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ASIN: 0452272793

Customer Reviews:

The Novel as History, Indeed.......2007-01-26

On March 17, 2007 various anti-Iraq War forces will converge on the Pentagon to oppose the war and to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the original protest (and `levitation' according to some sources then such as Abbie Hoffman) of that symbol of American imperialism during the Vietnam War. Whether such a celebration is called for under the circumstances of the Iraq anti-war movement's continuing failure stop this war it is nevertheless fitting that Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night be reviewed with that upcoming event in mind.

Mailer attempted then, as he did several times later in his literary career in works like St. George and the Dragon, to work with new fictional tropes in order to enhance the value of the serious novel which was then as now in some decline. He took the original notes that he made at that first Pentagon event and wrote two forms of the story, one seemingly fictional and the other based on his first-hand impressions as a participant in a historical event. At the time this device had some novelty attached to it although he never achieved the mastery of the concept that Dr. Hunter Thompson was able to do under his concept of `gonzo' journalism. In any case for those anti-war history buffs or those who want to remember a small slice of the 1960's Mailer's history as a novel should hit the spot. Whatever philosophical differences one might have with the man or unsureness of the aptness of his various literary devices one thing is always truw. He sure as hell can write. Read on.

Maybe You Had To Be There..........2006-08-15

I read Armies of the Night for a graduate school class. I found this novel/history very difficult to read. I would sometimes find myself reading a page over three times before I could get anything out of it. It was inaccessible, frustrating, and in short order I felt great hostility bordering on hatred for the author. For example, early in the book Mailer announces to a room full of people that he had just urinated all over the restroom floor when he could find neither the light switch nor the urinal. He is inebriated at the time. Perhaps he intended this to be a humorous revelation, I thought it was obnoxious.

Another example of Mailer's ego, is when he states early in the book that he is "probably willing to die" for the anti-war cause. This is revealed as macho swagger because at the moment of truth, Mailer is unwilling to even do a paltry five days in jail for the cause. He complains about the conditions in jail; he can't shave and his clothes get dirty. I thought the authorities were generous to provide everyone a bed to sleep in, as well as meals, coffee, and reading material but this was apparently insufficient for Mr. Mailer as he finds fault with all of it.

The book gets better when we leave Mailer's personal experience and are finally permitted to learn something about the brave young men and women who made up the heart of the protest. Some of the protesters spent the night in the cold outside the Pentagon, some were beaten by the guards, and others had water poured on them while they were sleeping. Unfortunately this part of the book is much briefer than Mailer's narrative.

For me, this book is ruined by Mailer's self-important posturing. If the author's goal was to make readers hate him, I think he succeeded. I have utterly no idea why this book won a Pulitzer Prize. Perhaps it is an example of the adage "you had to be there." I have read Mailer's other Pulitzer Prize winner, The Executioner's Song, and I liked it. This book however, was awful.

Great style, but is it really a novel in any sense?.......2005-07-21

I'm not going to try to answer my own question. I will say that this is an interesting look at the 67 march from Mailer's perspective. The section on the development of the march itself and the organizers was very informative, as was the section entitled "Why are we in Vietnam?" (a clear reference to Mailer's previous novel, which was criticized for not answering the question clearly enough.

The analysis of the changing liberalism in the US is also quite good. Overall, there is no plot. And Mailer's attempts to avoid even the most minor suffering are laughable especially when held against the suffering of the Vietnamese and the US soldiers enlisted to fight a meandering war.

Reading the book in 2005, however, gives the book great significance. It's clear that liberals write books and conservatives work in politics. And unfortunately, neither side listens to the other very closely.

Mailer's style in this book is very fast and pulled me through the first section quickly. Things slow down in the second section, but not because the subject matter is slower. Mailer clearly wanted to switch styles (and even talks about how he prides himself on changing styles with every work).

Anyway. Enjoy it for the connections to 2005 America, but remember that Mailer is...Mailer. And he loves to talk about himself and how important he is to everyone around him.

At war with oneself.......2005-07-17

Most interesting to me, being a rather apolitical person, was the way Mailer described his "image" as a being completely outside of himself, and how the character "Mailer" in the book can be seen as his image, while the Narrator can be seen as the real Mailer. Mailer is an enjoyable author to read, as his utterly opinionated and iconoclastic personality cannot be kept apart from his subject matter, a fact that is all the more true for ARMIES OF THE NIGHT. I was surprised how much self-awareness he actually possesses... writing in the third person allowed him to step outside himself and observe some of his more unusual personality traits. I also enjoyed the books BARK OF THE DOGWOOD and the new novel KITE RUNNER-----that is, if you're looking for something really different and great to read.

The novelist as central actor on the stage of history .......2004-10-31

The novelist places himself in center stage. He writes of the March on Washington in protest of the Vietnam War as if he were a major character. He writes with a great sweep and strength almost as if he had recaptured the power once present when he wrote his first published novel. But of course there is no way he cannot let his own generous capacity for grandiose grandstanding not come into the picture. Still all things considered it is no doubt one of his best books. And it is one which gives a broad- lens picture of the Anti- War movements various components .
Mailer is very good here, and the book does record a moment in the history of the great republic. But it is necessary to be wary of the author's various theories of power in American life.
This is a man who can write so wonderfully at times, but is also capable of tremendous nonsense.
Let the reader judge where this is outstanding, and where it should never have been written.

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no frills, but just what you want!
What a great idea!

Book Lust Journal (LUST)

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Many readers have wished for a way to record their thoughts after finishing a book, or to remember their impressions of their book club meeting. Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Journal is the perfect place to do these things and more. Based on the famous bestseller, this conveniently sized journal is a great place for readers to expand their reading experience. The template offers plenty of room for internal discussion to recall favorite passages of books, or to think about how the book they're currently reading reflects their own life. The template also functions as an easy-access reference tool to return to previous entries they have written. A detailed introduction explains how to make the most of the journal, while The Pearl 100 offers informed suggestions on great reads. Additional templates enable readers to record books on their "To Read" list, notebook passages to remember, and keep tabs on books lent to friends and family.

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no frills, but just what you want!.......2007-06-20

This journal is great. There are plenty of pages for each of the four sections without being bulky or oversized. You have plenty of room to write a review of the books you've read. I was not bothered by the "no dividers" thing. I simply used the sticky tabs that are small and different colors, and placed them at the beginning of the four sections. presto-fix-o. enjoy your reading adventures, then use this book to recount the places you visit!

What a great idea!.......2006-08-12

I read so many books as a kid I can't even begin to try to remember them all. This is a great way for anyone to keep track of their readings. I've recently started reading for pleasure again and find much comfort that I have my feelings and memories about the book at my finger tips. No more wondering 'why was it i liked that book so much, I can't possibly remember, it's been so long since I've read it...'

The only thing that could make it better would be some kind of divider to help you find the separate sections faster. Otherwise, a great purchase!

Exploring the Titanic: Scott Foresman Reading Classroom Library (Time Quest Book)

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Titanic
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If you like reading about the Titanic you will love this book!!
A fabulous read
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Exploring the Titanic: Scott Foresman Reading Classroom Library (Time Quest Book)
Robert D. Ballard
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Titanic.......2006-03-23

Do you like old ships? Well, I know the right one for you. It is the Titanic. It is about a ship that hit an ice berg and went down. So go under water with Dr.Robert Ballard and explore the Titanic. Good Luck! This book is recommended for 8 and up.

A Sad, Yet True Look at the TITANIC .......2006-02-12

Exploring the TITANIC is a very profound read. Robert Ballard (author of this book) is an avid diver, with the dream of finding and exploring the TITANIC. He joined a bunch of French explorers, and traveled far into the deep of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland where the TITANIC sank in 1912. Ballard used Argo (an advanced water-safe camera) to take pictures of the TITANIC until he found that he could not use Argo anymore because the rough waves were pounding against it. Minute after minute, hour after hour, the Knorr (the submarine Ballard was traveling on) floated in a sea of darkness because the only light they had was the light from Argo. About ten hours went by before Ballard decided to use Angus. Angus was an older camera that Ballard had used in previous explorations. In an hour or two, Ballard had found the TITANIC. Somehow he was not satisfied. He wanted to take clear pictures but did not know how to get them with the technology that he had with him. He pondered this for days. He knew that he was about 13 feet above the TITANIC. Then it came to him that he just needed to go down 13 feet more to get his pictures. Ballard convinced the Captain to go down the 13 feet. When they reached their target, they were able to get their pictures.
Ballard's dream was still not fulfilled because he had not yet explored the TITANIC. About a year later, Ballard and two other divers went underwater to explore the TITANIC. They had traveled down four or five times to complete their mission of exploring the TITANIC. Ballard's dream was fulfilled.
I would recommend this book to any reader that is NOT sensitive. This book told about people on the TITANIC who died. I think the author told us too much about people's lives and made us care about them too much. It was sad when you found out the person died. If they weren't killed, then one of the person's loved ones was killed. For example, Jack Thayer was talked about very much in the beginning. I became fond of him because the author gave so much detail about his life. When Ballard told us that Thayer had survived the crash, he did not stop there. He went on to tell us that Jack's father and his friend did not make it. This made me very emotional. If you would like to learn about Robert Ballard and his exploration of the TITANIC, then by all means, read this book. If the sad parts about the people who died bother you, just skip those pages and you'll still learn a lot about exploring the TITANIC.

If you like reading about the Titanic you will love this book!!.......2005-07-10

It's a true story about the Titanic and what things Robert Ballard and his team find in the Titanic.

A fabulous read.......2001-12-21

I first read this book almost 15 years ago, at age 5 : I loved it, and read it uncountable times. Today it is still just as fascinating. Beautifully illustrated and clearly written, it was the first of many Ballard books that I read. I would also recommend the Discovery of the Bismark and The Wreck of the Isis, just as interesting but less well known. A great way to start reading about the great ships of the past.

Read about the Hole thing from the Beginning.......2001-11-22

Goes behind the Titanic. Why did the Titanic sank, why it was built, how they came up with the name Titanic etc. It has everything you need to know about the Titanic. Even has real actual pictures taken of the Titanic in the water and above.

Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings

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How the Great Writer Was a Great Performer

Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings
Malcolm Andrews
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Charles Dickens had three professional careers: novelist, journalist and public Reader. That third career has seldom been given the serious attention it deserved. For the last 12 years of his life he toured Britain and America giving 2-hour readings from his work to audiences of over two thousand. These readings were highly dramatic performances in which Dickens's great gift for mimicry enabled him to represent the looks and voices of his characters, to the point where audiences forgot they were watching Charles Dickens. His novels came alive on the platform: at the end of a reading, it seemed to many that a whole society had broken up rather than that a solitary recitalist had concluded. This book tries to recreate, in greater detail than hitherto, the sense of how those readings were performed and how they were received, how Dickens devised his stage set and tailored his books to make them into performance scripts, how he conducted his reading tours all around the country and developed a quite extraordinary rapport with his listeners. No single study of this late career of Dickens has drawn to such an extent on contemporary witnesses to the readings as well as tried to assess in some depth the significance of what Dickens called 'this new expression of the meaning of my books'. 'I shall tear myself to pieces', he said as he waited eagerly to go on stage for his performance, and that is ironically what he did, in ways he perhaps had not quite intended: he fractured into dozens of different characters up there on the platform, and as he thus tore himself to pieces his health collapsed irretrievably under the pressures he put upon himself to achieve these masterly illusions.

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How the Great Writer Was a Great Performer.......2007-01-14

There is an enormous expanse of Shakespeare studies going back centuries. Shakespeare was a hugely popular author in his time; 250 years later, the hugely popular author was Charles Dickens, and the academic world has begun its centuries of labor for the newcomer. To write a biography of Shakespeare takes a good deal of guesswork; Dickens, however, put an effort into being well known. He wrote lots of big novels, many of them with autobiographical parts. He publicly campaigned for good works. He wrote thousands of letters, which have been collected, of course, into multi-volume sets. And he toured on stage, reading from his works, when such an act was a complete novelty. This last endeavor, which cemented the bond between the author and his readers in a way that no other writer ever did, is the fascinating subject of _Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings_ (Oxford University Press) by Malcolm Andrews. A professor of Victorian and Visual Studies, Andrews is the editor of _The Dickensian_, the century-old journal of the international Dickens Fellowship, and brings to his subject obvious love and enthusiasm. The book is certainly not a biography of Dickens, but is the best of ways to get an idea of what sort of a public figure he was, and how adoring was his public.

Dickens loved acting, performing in amateur theatricals all his life, but being on the stage was certainly not the way a gentleman would make a living. He saw his readings as yet another way to cement a bond between an author and his readers; he had been performing on the page with great success especially as an author of serialized novels by which he had become part of the lives of millions. Dickens wished to convert that relationship in print into something more personal. He made a little fun of himself in a letter to a friend, "I must go to Bradford in Yorkshire, to read once more to a little fireside party of 4000," but there was sincere affection in both directions between the author and his audience. In his print fiction, he is, as Andrews says, the "virtuoso narrator... He plays to his readers in his fiction, carefully cultivating their sympathies and coaxing them into active responsiveness: cajoling, facetious, hectoring, buttonholing." When he took to the stage himself, he was ready to be the same beguiling narrator in person. He was forceful in playing roles, as he had been even before he wrote characters into his novels; he "composed his writing out loud", sometimes performing the roles before writing down the words in the text. In performance, he dressed in evening clothes and was concerned to avoid charges of exaggeration, but Andrews quotes many spectators who were dazzled as he changed before their eyes into Scrooge, Fagin, Mrs. Gamp, and the rest.

His most dramatic piece was the harrowing one of Sikes murdering Nancy, and the description of the performance here shows that it was physically exhausting. Perhaps it contributed to his final illness. On 15 March 1870, lame and partially stricken with paralysis, he gave his last reading, and after the applause had died down, he addressed the audience with thanks, and a farewell to performing on stage, although he reassured them he would keep writing: "Ladies and Gentlemen, in but two short weeks from this time, I hope that you may enter, in your own homes, on a new series of readings, at which my assistance will be indispensable; but from these garish lights I vanish now for evermore, with a heartfelt, grateful, respectful, and affectionate farewell." He didn't complete _Edwin Drood_, but was buried in Poets' Corner a mere twelve weeks later, to world-wide lamentation. To read Andrews's book is to come as close as we can get to seeing Dickens perform and to feeling the affection his audiences had for him, and at its end we feel their loss.

Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Philosophy

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Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Philosophy
Lori Gruen , and Dale Jamieson
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The first anthology to highlight the problems of environmental justice and sustainable development, Reflecting on Nature provides a multicultural perspective on questions of environmental concern, featuring contributions from feminist and minority scholars and scholars from developing countries. Selections examine immediate global needs, addressing some of the most crucial problems we now face: biodiversity loss, the meaning and significance of wilderness, population and overconsumption, and the human use of other animals. Spanning centuries of philosophical, naturalist, and environmental reflection, readings include the work of Aristotle, Locke, Darwin, and Thoreau, as well as that of contemporary, mainstream figures like Bernard Williams, Thomas Hill, Jr., and Jonathan Glover. Works by Val Plumwood, Bill Devall, Murray Bookchin, and John Dryzek comprise a radical ecology section. Featuring insightful section introductions by the editors, this comprehensive and timely collection of philosophical and environmental writing will inform, enlighten, and encourage debate.

Presenting Archaeology to the Public: Digging for Truths: Digging for Truths (Readings in Indian Government and Politics)

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Just wonderful!

Presenting Archaeology to the Public: Digging for Truths: Digging for Truths (Readings in Indian Government and Politics)
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In the face of increasing public interest and demand for information, archaeologists are collaborating with historians, museum curators, and exhibit designers to devise the best strategies for translating archaeological information to the public. This book opens doors for public involvement. It highlights successful case studies in which specialists have provided with the opportunity and necessary tools for learning about archaeology. Little Big Horn, Sabino Canyon, Monticello, and Poplar Forest are just a few of the historical sites featured.

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Just wonderful!.......1997-12-09

Gives access to educators and archaeologists to information on stategies to public presentation of archaeological infomation.

Something to Talk About: Creative Booktalking for Adults

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Something to Talk About: Creative Booktalking for Adults
Cyr Ann-Marie
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ASIN: 0810854368

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This is the first book to focus solely on booktalking to adults. Here is an instruction manual and a material sourcebook in one; providing the reader with both step-by-step instructions on how to write a booktalk and 88 samples to use when creating a booktalk program for an adult audience.

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Reading Foucault for Social Work

Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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ASIN: 023110717X

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This is the first book-length introduction to the work of Michel Foucault in social work. The social work profession is being challenged today to adapt to changing societal and cultural conditions and to carve out a new societal niche. Foucault's work offers a particularly relevant entry point for revisiting social work's mission, activities, and objectives. A critical reexamination of its practices, institutional arrangements, and knowledge helps us to envision alternative social work practices and strategies for social change.

Each chapter emphasizes different notions from Foucault's writings. Contributions include conceptual, philosophical, and methodological considerations, and discussions from various fields and levels of practice. The book covers policy in child welfare and child protection; gay-lesbian youth services; grief work and the family; client-worker interaction in a welfare office; and the social movement of the elderly. It includes a rountable discussion with Foucault on social work and a glossary.

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