Biology and the Social Crisis

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Biology and the Social Crisis
John Keith Brierley
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Biology and the Social Crisis - A Social Biology for Everyman
J.K. Brierley
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Biology and the Social Crisis: A social biology for everyman.... With a Foreword by C. D. Darlington, F.R.S.
J. K. BRIERLEY
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Contextualising the 'crisis in aged care' in Australia: a demographic perspective.(Report): An article from: Australian Journal of Social Issues
Graeme Hugo
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Title: Contextualising the 'crisis in aged care' in Australia: a demographic perspective.(Report)
Author: Graeme Hugo
Publication: Australian Journal of Social Issues (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2007
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Volume: 42 Issue: 2 Page: 169(14)

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Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason

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Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason
Val Plumwood
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Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason is a frontal attack on the irrational assumptions that drive Western society's progress toward ecological catastrophe. Val Plumwood maintains that "the dominant forms of reason--economic, political, scientific, and ethical/prudential--are failing us because they are subject to a systematic pattern of distortions and illusions," distortions that are blind to ecological value. Plumwood aims to expose the conjurers' trick that has gotten us into our predicament. With aplomb and precision, she traces the historical and cultural roots of our reasons for dominating nature.

Environmental Culture is the kind of rigorous philosophical analysis that will fortify the intellectual body of environmentalism. Unfortunately, her prose occasionally lapses into postmodernese, which, for many readers, will obscure her otherwise careful thought. On the other hand, Plumwood's impressive familiarity with philosophy, political theory, and ecology makes her a sophisticated and captivating thinker. And she writes with a sense of urgency that is appropriate for the large-scale ecological destruction being wrought by our current systems. Ultimately, she recommends a new rationality and ethic that can restore the world, one based on fundamental shifts in our thinking, such as expanding our ethics to include other species, and developing a place-based spirituality. Plumwood's prescriptions may be harder to swallow than her compelling critique of our failure of reason, but they point the way toward a world healed of its ecological crisis. --Eric de Place

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This is a much-needed and clearly argued account of what has gone wrong in our thinking about the environment. Written by one of our leading environmental thinkers, it is a compelling exploration of the contemporary ecological crisis, its origins, and the cultural illusions that lie behind it. Val Plumwood argues that historically-traceable distortions of reason and culture have resulted in dangerous forms of ecological denial. They have had a widespread effect in areas as diverse as economics, politics, science, ethics, and spirituality, and appear in the currently dominant form of globalization. Cutting through the "prudence vs. ethics" debate that has stunted environmental philosophy, Plumwood analyzes our ethical and spiritual failures as closely linked to our perceptual and prudential failures to situate ourselves as ecological beings. She argues that in the process, we gain a false idea of our own character and location, including an illusory sense of independence from nature, making us insensitive to ecological limits, dependencies and interconnections. Environmental Culture presents a radically new picture of how our culture must change in order to develop an ecologically rational society. Drawing on a range of ideas from feminism, democracy, globalization and post-colonial thought, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the environment and our place in it.

From Naked Ape to Superspecies: A Personal Perspective on Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis

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A Timely Perspective On Humanity in the Biosphere
Timely and thought-provoking
Reality for Environmental Dummies
Another anti-business rant from the hard left
If you are here, you are looking in the wrong place...

From Naked Ape to Superspecies: A Personal Perspective on Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis
David Suzuki , and Holly Dressel
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Human beings have acquired enormous technological muscle power, and - coupled with our numbers and our soaring consumption - we are now having an impact on the planet that no other species has ever had. We are trying to dominate nature, but we are still part of it.

Foresight has always been a key to our survival and we have never needed it more than we do now. As we look ahead to an uncertain future, we have to examine some of our most cherished notions, like the ability of science to give us the power to manage nature, the benefits and hazards of genetic engineering, the real impact of information explosion, and the need to keep the global economy growing forever.

As you will hear in the programs, despite the sophistication of our technology, we remain biological beings, animals, inextricably embedded in the natural world. We must redefine progress and find ways to live in balance with each other and nature.

Produced at the state of the art recording studios of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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A Timely Perspective On Humanity in the Biosphere.......2002-04-23

SUZUKI:

Although David Suzuki was trained to genetically engineer fruit flies to grow arms from their heads, his perspective on science and life is remarkably human. I would go so far as to say that his understanding of humanity and its place in nature is perhaps unequaled among environmental philosophers today. Aside from working as a scientist, Suzuki also spent some 30-some years producing nature documentaries. This gave him the opportunity travel the globe, visit many different cultures and geographic regions, from indigenous tribes to povrety-striken Third World nations. It was through profound cultural education that Suzuki unlearned the mad science he studied as a youth and gained new understand about culture, economics and biodiversity. Nowadays, Suzuki mainly spends his time writing books and articles. He also runs an environmental organization in Canada, where he and his family live, called the David Suzuki Foundation. The website address is: http://www.davidsuzuki.org/

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In this book Suzuki teams up with writer and researcher Holly Dressel to produce a sort of global guide to the biosphere-a work of scope and detail that will amaze you. They will walk you through ancient arboreal forests and the global economy with the ease of an experienced mountain tracker. They will be introduced you to people and movements that are sure to move. And perhaps most importantly the book will provide you with an important ecological perspective. Filled with stories, anecdotes, interesting facts, and tons of suggestions and references, from books to organizations - "From Naked Ape to Super-Species" is nothing less than a manual for humanity. Simply put, this is one of the most important books I have read.

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"Time is the one ingredient that is absolutely for vital for nature. It is the vast sweep of evolutionary time that has allowed life to flourish and huge changes to occur. In the 4 billion years that life has existed, the sun has increased in intensity by 25 percent, magnetic poles have switched and reversed back, continents have smashed into each other and then pulled apart, ice ages and warm periods have come and gone, and the atmosphere has been transformed from a non-oxygen to a oxygen-rich one. Yet life has persisted, simply because of the immense periods of time it has to make adjustments.

Today, the rate at which we are extracting trees, fish, topsoil and clean water, as well as creating pollutants and greenhouse gases, may match the speed of information technology and the economy, but it is not in synch with the reproductive rates of natural systems. More and more, our sources of information are no longer connected to the natural world and its limits. Politics, civic action and participatory democracy need time too. Democratic groups like PTAs and other voluntary human institutions take time to do their work.

Until we slow down the rate of growth in information and technology and learn to pay attention to the true pace of the non-technological planet, we'll keep making unrealistic demands that can't be fulfilled. At the very least, we need to understand that our accelerated rates of production and use of human-made technical information function at a completely different pace from that of the natural rates of information exchange, like those I experienced in the Brazilian rain forest."

MAIN ISSUES:

General Environment Issuses: from the toxification of our environment to Environmental Justice.

Consumer Issues: How do our shopping habits effect the world aroud us?

The Question of Progress: What does it mean?

Food Issues and Biotechnology: In Canada, America, the world abroad.

Globalization Issues: Impacts at home and abroad

Global Warming and Forest Issues

Non-Violent Direct Actions: some groups and individuals fighting against large international corporations for local sovereignty

Human Rights, Environmental Rights

Timely and thought-provoking.......2000-06-14

In his new book, From Naked Ape to Superspecies, David Suzuki explores a myriad of topics of profound importance. The environment is his central theme, though there are are chapters on genetic engineering, globalisation, and environmental activisim. Like other authors before him, Suzuki is deeply concerned about the current nature of the world. Biodiversity is threatened, cultural diversity is diminisihing with the onslaught of globalisation, and our very health and well-being are potentially in danger from genetically-modified (GM)food. Each of these topics is explained through the viewpoint of numerous experts in the various fields, as the book is based on a radio series which interviewed many people.

For a student of biological science, the book was real eye-opener as it exposed me to many of the ramifications of broad issues I had previously taken little notice of. I knew little of globalisation, now I think I know enough to be able to form an opinion. Same for GM food. I had not realised that Suzuki was so green, but he clearly has an active interest in the perhaps not-so-scientific side of environmentalism. He is a wise man who deserves to receive ample attention.

Overall, I found the book to be highly interesting and thought-provoking, and I recommend it to anyone with a more than a passing interest in the environment and other portentous issues. I have no criticisms to make, besides the fact that little written material seems to be referred to. As a result, the accuracy of some his comments must necessarily come under suscipician. This, however, should not detract from the overall superior quality of the book.

Reality for Environmental Dummies.......2000-03-26

I encountered this book first on tape, and have now ordered a copy for my town library, another for a faculty member at Norwich University who chairs a committee that makes an annual Earth Stewardship Prize award to students/faculty, and one for the Environment bookshelf in my own library. Unfortunately, this is a message that is far too late, but " better late than never". Those who think that simply expanding world trade, or consuming as usual, or that technology will save us from the results of human predation and exploitation of the ecosystem of the planet, or that there is no real global warming, or that the world can sustain an unlimited human population are the ones who MUST read this book. Yes, the earth will recover from what we humans are doing to it , but there won't be any of our (highly endangered) species around to find out what the world will look like then!

Another anti-business rant from the hard left.......2000-03-21

Yet another of-the-left anti-free market anti-business rant by a second rate 'scientist' that few people take seriously these days. Suzuki should keep to his last. Still, if you're already persuaded to his viewpoint -- a fellow traveller -- this book is a beauty.

If you are here, you are looking in the wrong place..........2000-03-02

If you are reading this review and contemplating whether or not to buy this book, consider the fact that it would be hypocritical to buy this book instead of borrowing it from the library.

Habitat of Grace: Biology, Christianity & The Global Environmental Crisis (ATF Science and Theology Series)

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Habitat of Grace: Biology, Christianity & The Global Environmental Crisis (ATF Science and Theology Series)

Manufacturer: ATF Press
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In 1990, the Worldwatch Institute in Washington estimated that humankind has about forty years to make the transition to 'an environmentally stable society'. If we have not succeeded by then, it concluded, 'environmental deterioration and economic decline are likely to be feeding on each other, pulling us into a downward spiral of social disintegration'. Worldwatch is no millenarian cult, but a sober and careful organization whose annual summaries of world affairs have become the planet's unofficial environmental health reports. Its pronouncements are cautiously worded, influential, and worth attending to, even if the timing is hard to predict.

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Creative but restrictive

The Modern Crisis
Murray Bookchin
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Creative but restrictive.......2000-12-05

The essays from Bookchin, a key figure in Green philosophy and propounder of Social Ecology as a rival to Deep Ecology, are a mixed lot to say the least. The essay dealing with the replacement of capitalism's culture of egoism with the participatory practices of communitarianism is worthwhile if not exactly original. The essay on Social Ecology however is disappointing since, on close examination, it never really gets beyond a hollow rhetorical stage in laying out what should be the book's centerpiece.

The essay on market economy vs. moral economy is the compilation's strongest. Generally, Bookchin's skillful rhetoric manages to vividly contrast the misanthropy of market economy with the humanism of moral economy, laying bare the ultimate cost of placing greed before need. However - and this is an important reservation - the author's framework of commercial transaction within moral economy fails to penetrate beyond the medieval emphasis on honest dealing. Replacing market gouging with honest dealing is thin gruel indeed after some four centuries of failure. The problem with Bookchin's analysis is not his enemies. It's the recourses he offers. The dehumanizing cash nexus of market economy is a problem indeed, but the author's retreat into moral admonition represents little more than wishful thinking. Reliance on honest, profitable dealings constitutes a step backward, not forward, and likely represents the absence of genuine alternatives to planned economy and the real possibilities of modern technology which Bookchin too often appears to equate with its corrosive capitalist offspring, viz. mass marketing.

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This digital document is an article from The Ohio Journal of Science, published by Ohio Academy of Science on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 368 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Bass Islands' identity crisis and a possible solution. (Social Science, Environmental, Field Biology Poster Session 02:00 PM-03:00 PM).
Author: Mark A. Kleffner
Publication: The Ohio Journal of Science (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: Ohio Academy of Science
Volume: 103 Issue: 1 Page: A-21(1)

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The coming-crisis in long-term care.: An article from: The Futurist

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The coming-crisis in long-term care.: An article from: The Futurist

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This digital document is an article from The Futurist, published by World Future Society on January 1, 1990. The length of the article is 685 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The coming-crisis in long-term care.
Publication: The Futurist (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1990
Publisher: World Future Society
Volume: v24 Issue: n1 Page: p49(2)

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Textbook in sedimentology, petrology, and petrography of sand and sandstones. Includes new techniques and their utility, new literature, new illustrations, new problems.

Analyses of oil extracted from oil-impregnated sandstone deposits in Utah (Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey Special studies)

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Analyses of oil extracted from oil-impregnated sandstone deposits in Utah (Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey Special studies)
R. E Wood
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BIVALVIA OF THE SPILSBY SANDSTONE AND SANDRINGHAM SANDS (LATE JURASSIC-EARLY CRETACEOUS) OF EASTERN ENGLAND: PART 1; PAGES 1-94; PLATES 1-20.

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BIVALVIA OF THE SPILSBY SANDSTONE AND SANDRINGHAM SANDS (LATE JURASSIC-EARLY CRETACEOUS) OF EASTERN ENGLAND: PART 1; PAGES 1-94; PLATES 1-20.

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BIVALVIA OF THE SPILSBY SANDSTONE AND SANDRINGHAM SANDS (LATE JURASSIC-EARLY CRETACEOUS) OF EASTERN ENGLAND: PART 2, PAGES 95-123, PLATES 21-27.

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BIVALVIA OF THE SPILSBY SANDSTONE AND SANDRINGHAM SANDS (LATE JURASSIC-EARLY CRETACEOUS) OF EASTERN ENGLAND: PART 2, PAGES 95-123, PLATES 21-27.

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BIVALVIA OF THE SPILSBY SANDSTONE AND SANDRINGHAM SANDS [LATE JURASSIC - EARY CRETACEOUS] OF EASTERN ENGLAND: PART 2.

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BIVALVIA OF THE SPILSBY SANDSTONE AND SANDRINGHAM SANDS [LATE JURASSIC - EARY CRETACEOUS] OF EASTERN ENGLAND: PART 2.

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Borehole (slurry) mining of coal, uraniferous sandstone, oil sands, and phosphate ore (Report of investigations)

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Borehole (slurry) mining of coal, uraniferous sandstone, oil sands, and phosphate ore (Report of investigations)
G. A Savanick
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GEOLOGY OF SAND AND SANDSTONE

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Geology of sand and sandstone,
F. J Pettijohn
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Instrumental analysis of tars and their correlations in oil-impregnated sandstone beds. Uintah and Grand Counties, Utah (Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey Special studies)

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Instrumental analysis of tars and their correlations in oil-impregnated sandstone beds. Uintah and Grand Counties, Utah (Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey Special studies)
J. Wallace Gwynn
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Models of sand and sandstone deposits: A methodology for determining sand genesis and trend (Oklahoma Geological Survey. Bulletin 118)

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Models of sand and sandstone deposits: A methodology for determining sand genesis and trend (Oklahoma Geological Survey. Bulletin 118)
John W Shelton
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This book is an introduction to the application of computer simulation and theory in the study of the interaction of energetic particles (1 ev to the MeV range) with solid surfaces. The authors describe methods that are applicable both to hard collisions between nuclear cores of atoms down to soft interactions, where chemical effects or long-range forces dominate. The range of potential applications of the technique is enormous. In surface science, applications include surface atomic structure determination using ion scattering spectroscopy or element analysis using SIMS or other techniques that involve depth profiling. Industrial applications include optical or hard coating deposition, ion implantation in semiconductor device manufacture or nanotechnology. The techniques described will facilitate studying plasma-sidewall interaction in fusion devices. This book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers, both academic and industrial, in surface science, semiconductor engineering, thin-film deposition and particleSHsurface interactions in departments of physics, chemistry and electrical engineering.

Atomic and Ion Collisions in Solids and at Surfaces: Theory, Simulation and Applications.: An article from: American Scientist

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Atomic and Ion Collisions in Solids and at Surfaces: Theory, Simulation and Applications.: An article from: American Scientist

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Set off on the eternal trail of the Beat experience in the city that inspired many of Jack Kerouac's best-loved novels including On the Road, Vanity of Duluoz, The Town and the City, and Desolation Angels. This is the ultimate guide to Kerouac's New York, packed with photos of the Beat Generation and filled with undercover information and little-known anecdotes.

Eight easy-to-follow walking tours guide you to:

Greenwich Village bars and cafes where Kerouac and his friends Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, William Burroughs, Diane di Prima, Gregory Corso, Hettie and LeRoi Jones, John Clellon Holmes, Joyce Johnson, and others read poetry, drank, turned-on, and talked all night long.

The Chelsea-district apartment where Jack wrote On the Road.

Midtown clubs where Beat poets mingled with artists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning and listened to jazz and blues greats Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Billie Holiday.

Times Square, a magnet for Kerouac and the Beats.

Columbia University, where the original Beats first met and began a revolution in American literature and culture.

Each tour includes a map of the neighborhood, subway and bus information, and an insider's angle on Jack Kerouac's life in New York. A must for Beat enthusiasts and critics.

Bill Morgan is a painter and archival consultant working in New York City. His previous publications include The Works of Allen Ginsberg 1941-1994: A Descriptive Bibliography and Lawrence Ferlinghetti: A Comprehensive Bibliography. He has worked as an archivist for Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, and Timothy Leary.

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If you still groove to the work of the Beat poets, and Kerouac is your idol, a guided visit to their New York stomping grounds is a mandatory pilgrimage. If, alternatively, you're going to New York but feel overwhelmed by its size and options, a focus--taking a walking tour of Kerouac land, for instance--could provide an entertaining structure. Whatever your reasons, if a Kerouac junket is in your cards, Morgan's guidebook provides all the history, stories, neighborhood routes, and Beat trivia you could desire.

Each tour is easy to follow. Morgan tells you how long the tours take to walk (most are a couple of hours), how to reach the starting points by subway and bus, and includes a map of the route region, complete with labeled highlights, followed by a narrative that's a pleasure to read, evincing poetic talent, historic knowledge, and specific, precise instructions. Take the Columbia University tour, for instance. Starting on the east side of Broadway at 116th Street in front of Columbia's main gates, and lasting two to two and a half hours, it takes in the scene where the Beat Generation first appeared in the 1940s "like a wild seed in a city garden." Stopping at McMillin Theater (where Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky performed a poetry reading on February 5, 1959), Columbia Bookstore (site of a Ginsberg vision that led to his book The Visionary Poetics of Allen Ginsberg), and Low Library Plaza (site of many early beat photos), the tour continues by St. Paul's Chapel, Hamilton Hall, Butler Library, and the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, passes the room Ginsberg took in 1948, the 1944 domicile of the Kerouacs and Joan Vollmer Adams, and the brick apartment building where the Kerouacs lived with Joan Adams, then continues by Riverside Park, the West End Bar, the Yorkshire Residence Club, and an apartment where William S. Burroughs once lived. There are 23 sites in all. Morgan explains each site's Beat significance, including quotes from poems and novels that allude to it. Morgan details nine such walks, taking in Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Chelsea, Greenwich Village, Queens, Yonkers, and the Bronx. With a who's who of Beat personalities and dozens of historic photos, The Beat Generation is as much a contribution to the literary world as it is a useful and enlightening travel guide. --Stephanie Gold

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Shoe leather resident tourism.......2005-05-23

Having moved to New York not long ago, I've been devouring the history and architecture of the city. This book blends the best of both, adding a third party to the mix -- literature. Dividing the city -- mostly Manhattan -- into eight two-hour walking tours, this guidebook offers literary references, beat-gen biographical information, and urban commentary in a useful, insightful style. The book is due an update -- the Gotham Book Mart has moved and several once-vacant lots are no longer undeveloped -- but this book has made for several wonderful walking weekends, and I know I'll retrace my steps in the future.

great stuff for beat locals and tourists alike.......2000-07-28

of course anyone who lives in new york city can tell you where the white horse and cedar tavern are, but do they all know that where sam goody now stands on sixth avenue and ninth street is the very same place that the cafeteria kerouac wrote about extensively in visions of cody once stood?

this book is filled with a lot of well-known and plenty of not so well known places where various members of the beat generation ate, performed, lived, got drunk in, or otherwise played out their lives. the tours are broken down by area and there are clear directions to help you find where you're going (even if the place no longer exists). each tour also begins with a street map of the area covered and clearly numbered destinations, which was very helpful, although i did wish that the book had also come with an overview map of all manhattan and destinations so that i could more easily combine tours or skip around to places of interest if i didn't want to follow a complete tour.

each stopping place in the tour book includes a paragraph or two on why the place is important to beat history and who/what occured there. although the title of the book claims that new york was "jack kerouac's city," the tours really include many of the other important beat figures as well as a few others that were influenced by the beat movement, such as bob dylan.

this is a great way for beat aficionados visiting new york to get a taste of the city, and a fun way for locals to spend an afternoon or two discovering new spots and seeing familiar places in a new light.

Better than wandering.......2000-06-07

It would be next to impossible to find these places on your own. Even more impossible to learn as much about each of the sites as is presented in this guide. Each tour follows a logical route and there are plenty of stops that you probably never would have thought of--eg. Serpico's apartment, the former site of Thomas Wolfe's East 8th St. apartment. Using this guide is a great way to see the Village, East and West. And the insight will keep you reading even as you're moving to the next stop. Take your time. Spread the tours over a couple of afternoons. And linger for a while in Washington Square.

A great companion to this book is "The Beat Generation in New York." I wouldn't recommend carrying this heavy book around with you, but after you've finished the tours, open the book to look at the pictures taken at many of the places you've just visited.

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