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The View From Pompey's Head
Manufacturer: DoubleDay & Company
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contains 3 complete books and 4 book excerpts
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- A Good Writer from the Recent Past
- An excellent novel
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The View from Pompey's Head (Voices of the South)
Hamilton Basso
Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press
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A Good Writer from the Recent Past.......2005-06-16
Recently I read an article published several years ago in The Boston Globe about two prominent 20th Century writers who are now largely forgotten. Perhaps it says something about me that I have read both and enjoyed their work. They are Calder Willingham and Hamilton Basso.
I finished Basso's "The View from Pompey's Head" just last week. It is slow moving in a pleasant, languid, distinctly Southern manner. Basso gradually develops memorable characters, crafts fine scenes and steadily hones the plot - with the ultimate Southern shocker of miscegenation!
"The View From Pompey's head" spent 40 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List in the 1950s and was made into a Hollywood motion picture starring Richard Egan and the ravishing Dana Wynter. Basso published 11 books and edited The New Yorker for 20 years but is virtually forgotten today. Basso and "The View From Pompey's Head" deserve a wider audience and greater appreciation from readers in 2005.
An excellent novel.......2005-02-21
A NYC lawyer returns home to Pompey's Head, the small southern town he grew up in, to investigate a divorce case. The novel is a leisurely, old-fashioned study of the way people lived their lives--the novel of manners. Lives are probed and some interesting (and nasty) secrets revealed: rape, incest, and miscegenation among them. Basso is a sophisticatd and compelling writer, in full command of his material. Highly recommended.
Story of the South.......2004-09-22
"The View from Pompey's Head" is set in a fictional small city in the early 1950s. It's reminiscent of Savannnah, GA, but is clearly not intended to be a stand-in for that city. Anson Page, a New York lawyer, must return to his hometown of Pompey's Head, South Carolina on a business trip. Much of the novel consists of flashbacks to Anson's privileged childhood and young adulthood in Pompey's Head. There are so many flashbacks, that one starts to feel impatient and wish that we could just get on with the story.
This is a novel about the snobbery, class and racial prejudice. Anson left his town to get away from the snobbery and yet when he returns, he must confront the fact that Pompey's Head is where he belongs, despite the fact that it is a cultural backwater where narrow mindedness and snobbery prevail.
I enjoyed "The View from Pompey's Head." The writing is finely constructed and Hamilton Basso does an excellent job of depicting the mindset of the mid-century Southern elite. Page is a character with whom it is easy to identify.
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The View From Pompey's Head
Manufacturer: Popular Library
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ASIN: B000HB00IY |
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approx. 4 1/4" x 7" x 1".
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- Nasty, dark cyberpunk
- Great setting, average mystery
- Not Free SF Reader
- Great cybertech and hard boiled crime novel wrapped up in one hell of a book
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When Gravity Fails
George Alec Effinger
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ASIN: 0765313588
Release Date: 2005-10-13 |
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In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audrian has kept his independence the hard way. Still, like everything else in the Budayeen, he's available....for a price. For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the Arab ghetto, a madman whose bootlegged personality cartridges range from a sinister James Bond to a sadistic disemboweler named Khan. And Marid Audrian has been made an offer he cant refuse. The two hundred-year-old godfather of the Budayeens underworld has enlisted Marid as his instrument of vengeance. But first Marid must undergo the most sophisticated of surgical implants before he dares to confront a killer who carries the power of every psychopath since the beginning of time. Wry, savage, and not to be ignored, When Gravity Fails was hailed as a classic by Effingers fellow SF writers on its original publication in 1987, and the sequence of Marid Audrian novels it began were the culmination of his career.
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Nasty, dark cyberpunk.......2007-09-23
If you always wanted to read about cyborg transsexual prostitutes getting brutally murdered in post-future Beirut this is the book for you. The book is entertaining and a quick read, but not especially well written. The characterizations are consistent, if flat. The subject matter is really ugly. Most of the characters are totally amoral, and those that aren't are too high to care for the most part. As far as cyberpunk goes this book adds nothing original. It's an entertaining detective genre novel in a cyberpunk setting.
Great setting, average mystery.......2007-09-07
This gets 5 stars for the setting, the background and the character of Marid and to a lesser extent the supporting characters. The actual story/mystery gets 3 stars.
The middle-eastern setting, after the collapse of the 80's superpowers, based on the french quarter of New Orleans is appealing and original. We have drugs, vice, perfectly sculpted gender-bending beauties, cybernetic implants allowing you to be other personalities and learn skills along side the formalized rituals of Islam.
Marid himself is an interesting outsider, not a devout muslim, nor a user of cybernetic implants he hustles day in and day out to make a living beholden to nobody. Until a series of gruesome murders results in him becoming a puppet in a much larger game.
The actual mystery and the resolution is weak. Rather than solving the puzzle, it more or less comes to Marid for resolution. As a mystery I found it wanting. Though Marid isn't a crack private investigator so it is realistic he wouldn't be adept at solving the case.
On the whole this is a very good and original work. A relatively early cyberpunk(ish) novel in a unique setting. Not great, but far above average.
Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03
A really pleasant change of milieu, the setting for this excellent cyberpunk novel. Well worth a try. The characters in this novel are living in a Middle Eastern type setting, which is definitely different, so the chancer dodgy main character and the crime boss he is in trouble with, and others, are not what you are used to in this sort of book, by any stretch.
Great cybertech and hard boiled crime novel wrapped up in one hell of a book.......2007-06-08
I've read this novel 3 times now over the past 10 years and it remains one of my favorite books in this genre. What makes this book so much better than the other sci-fi books is the fantastic world and characters that populate the world as told by Mr. Effinger. This is at the heart of it, a great hard boiled crime novel set in a gritty, sci-fi futuristic world. The main protagonist, Marid, is a great flawed hero who may not be a boyscout but nonetheless follows his own brand of morality.
After reading it, I feel like I've walked the streets of this futuristic slum like city and drank with its colorful denizens...and I miss the dirt, the sleaze and the low lifes already!
Others who have reviewed this book have already given a good summary of the plot and setting...so I won't repeat it. However, if you like science fiction, but also like hard boiled crime with great characters and fast paced plot, this book is for you.
I wish some director would do a movie with this book with the same vision and daring that Ridley Scott had when he made Blade Runner.
The Truth is Out There Somewhere.......2006-12-28
When Gravity Fails (1987) is the first SF novel in the Budayeen series. Decades before, the United States and the Soviet Union self-destructed and split into many smaller nations. The rest of the world was also broken up into smaller countries, which have been continually upset by civil wars.
In this novel, Marid Audran is the son of a Berber and a French sailor. He was born in the year 1550 -- 2172 AD -- and grew up in Mauretania. He moved to the Budayeen as a youth. He is still called Maghribi by his friends because of his Algerian accent.
Marid is a street hustler. He does varied jobs, but earns enough to keep himself well supplied with pills. Lieutenant Okking of the local police has referred a foreigner to Marid and he arranges to meet the man in Chiriga's bar. Bogatyrev is looking for his son.
After they agree on the price, the Russian hands him some holotapes and a dossier and gives him 3,000 kiam as upfront money. Then some man calling himself James Bond shoots Bogatyrev. Marid calls Okking and reports the death.
Marid's friend Nikki, a sex changer, doesn't want to work for Abdoulaye -- her pimp -- any longer and asks Marid to represent her. He sets up a meeting with Hassan -- Friedlander Bey's mouthpiece -- to negotiate a settlement with Abdoulaye. Hassan decides that Nikki must forfeit all the jewelry and clothes provided by Abdoulaye and must also pay him 3,000 kiam. Marid thinks that is a stiff price, but Nikki agrees.
The next morning, Marid has a massive hypnotic-drug hangover on top of his booze hangover and the aftereffects of the tri-phets. Just as the muezzin start calling all good Muslims to morning prayers, someone starts pounding on his front door. He tries to ignore the pounding, but it won't go away. Marid crawls out of bed and slowly rises to his feet.
Halfway to the door, Marid realizes that he is naked. He pauses to think about getting dressed, but the pounding continues. He decides to ignore the clothes and opens the door. Facing him are the Black Widow Sisters, who proceed to beat him thoroughly. He doesn't know why they are doing it, but soon loses track of what was happening. He hangs limply in their grasp and starts feeling like it is all a bad memory.
When he reawakes later that morning, Marid takes seven tabs of Sonneine without water. Then someone knocks on his door. At first, Marid is afraid to answer the door, but the caller shouts in Hassan's voice. Asking them to wait, Marid pulls on some clothes and then lets in Hassan and Abdoulaye.
Nikki has disappeared and both want to know about their money. Marid neither knows nor cares, but they make clear that he is responsible for paying Nikki's debt. He arranges to pay Hassan and Abdoulaye 2,500 kiam and defers payment of the remainder, but he must pay an extra 1,500 for late payment.
Marid visits the apartment of the Black Widow Sisters where Nikki had been staying, only to find Nikki missing and the tortured body of Tamiko on the bed. Marid gets a short, incomplete call from someone who sounds like Nikki. Then he calls Okking to report another body.
Later, Yasmin -- Marid's sex changed girl friend -- gives him a note from Nikki with 3,000 kiam attached. The note states that Nikki will be staying with Herr Lutz Seipoli at his villa. Marid then pays off Abdoulaye and gets a receipt.
In this story, Marid pays a visit to Seipoli, but the German denies knowing Nikki. Then on the first Wednesday of Ramadan, Marid gets involved in one of the little adventures of Faud the Chronically Unlucky and Saied the Half-Hajj kills the pimp Sonny. Nassir calls the police.
When Sargeant Hajjar arrives, he takes Marid into custody and drives him out to a motel, where he turns Marid over to Friedlander Bey's bodyguards. Inside a motel room, Marid and Friedlander Bey hold a confused conversation until Marid finally realizes that Bey is talking about the murder of Abdoulaye. After proving that he did not owe Abdoulaye any money and that he had an alibi for the time of the murder, Marid is released back to Hajjar. The next day Friedlander Bey hires Marid to find Abdoulaye's murderer.
Friedlander Bey owns most of the Budayeen and probably the surrounding city as well. Even the police work for him. Marid is appointed as police liaison and Lieutenant Okking is told to cooperate with him. Now Marid just needs to find the killers and everything will be fine.
The Budayeen is the red light district of a fictitious North African city of the twenty-second century. Supposedly, the city is based on New Orleans, with the Budayeen as the walled vice center -- the French Quarter -- where all the tourists go for an exciting time. Death is not uncommon in the Budayeen and the police are mostly concerned with crime against the tourists and other visitors.
How much the author knew about the Muslin cities of the Near East is not clear. Maybe most of the exotic culture comes from reference material and popular misconceptions. The vice and corruption in New Orleans is legendary, but does it also apply to the cities of North Africa? After all, they both experienced the joys of French rule.
Highly recommended for Effinger fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of exotic cultures, private detectives and cyberpunk.
-Arthur W. Jordin
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When Gravity Fails
Manufacturer: Talsorian Games, Inc.
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A supplement for Cyberpunk. Adventuring in the World of George Alec Effinger's Novels.
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When Your Gravity Fails
Ji
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Just so.......2007-02-07
A totally amazing journey, ready for anyone who is willing to try.
A change of life, being and self worth.
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What to Do When Gravity Fails
Dan Rattiner
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A beautiful, wrenching debut novel chronicling the life of a family struggling for survival during the Armenian genocide in Turkey, in 1915.
At the center: Yerwant, who, at thirteen, left his home in the Anatolian hills of Turkey to study at an Armenian boarding school in Venice. Now, in May 1915, after forty years, he is planning a long-awaited reunion with his family at their homestead, Skylark Farm. But while joyful preparations for Yerwant’s arrival are being made in the town of his birth, Italy enters the Great War and closes its borders. At the same time, in Turkey, Yerwant’s family begins a brutal odyssey of forced marches and prison camps, hunger and humiliation at the hands of the Young Turks who are determined to rid their nation of minorities. In the unfolding story we follow Yerwant’s family as it struggles to survive and as four of its children set out on a dangerous and daring course of their own: to reach Yerwant, and safety, in Italy.
Antonia Arslan draws on the story of her own family to tell the story of Skylark Farm. She has transformed the “obscure memories” that are her heritage into a novel as lyrical and poignant as a fable.
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Heart-wrenching story, beautifully written.......2007-08-28
I believe I have read all the novels about the Armenian Genocide, and have been touched by all of them, but this was the only book that made me cry. Ms. Arslan's description was heart-wrenching, painful to read, and I couldn't bring myself to put it down. Knowing that this is based on Ms. Arslan's own family, made it all the more moving. Sadly, the reader clearly comprehends that the events depicted were not a singular episode, but multiplied tens of thousands of times. A beautiful book that should become required reading for schoolchildren, starting in middle-school.
Poignant reading.......2007-05-12
I had ordered this book and received it very quickly. The moment I started reading, I couldn't put it down. I think it is well written and extremely sad, but not overly dramatized. A story of tremendous courage and family love in the face of unimaginable brutality. I have just returned from a visit to Armenia and visited the Genocide Museum in Yerevan and some of the horrible photo's on display, made me think of the family in this book and what they suffered.
If ever another book comes out written by Antonia Arslan, I will buy it immediately.
Skylark Farm.......2007-04-29
I am always reticent when I pick up a book that discusses the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1917. Being the offspring of parents who survived the Genocide in Marash, Turkey, I've lived in a cocoon--my cocoon being the United States. On the other hand my reality is that my parents went through these atrocities.
Professor Arslan must have faced many of the same issues that I have in dealing with her families tortured past. Her book truly reflects the depth of her emotions in committing her families' story to paper.
I could not put her book down although I was tempted to do so many times particularly during the forced march to Aleppo, Syria. Although I knew the outcome, I still wanted to live the experience despite that fact that none of it was new to me. My families' story parallels Professor Arslans as would undoubtedly be true of many other Armenian families that were subject to this tragic period in history.
This is a book for everyone. One does not have to be Armenian to become a member of the family as they lived and loved in their city in Turkey.
Skylark Farm is a story of love, passion, sacrifice, hope and the will to go on despite the evil that was perpetrated.
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Ultra Wideband Wireless Communication
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An international panel of experts provide major research issues and a self-contained, rapid introduction to the theory and application of UWB
This book delivers end-to-end coverage of recent advances in both the theory and practical design of ultra wideband (UWB) communication networks. Contributions offer a worldwide perspective on new and emerging applications, including WPAN, sensor and ad hoc networks, wireless telemetry, and telemedicine. The book explores issues related to the physical layer, medium access layer, and networking layer.
Following an introductory chapter, the book explores three core areas:
* Analysis of physical layer and technology issues
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* Review of MAC and network layer issues, up to the application
Case studies present examples such as network and transceiver design, assisting the reader in understanding the application of theory to real-world tasks.
Ultra Wideband Wireless Communication enables technical professionals, graduate students, engineers, scientists, and academic and professional researchers in mobile and wireless communications to become conversant with the latest theory and applications by offering a survey of all important topics in the field. It also serves as an advanced mathematical treatise; however, the book is organized to allow non-technical readers to bypass the mathematical treatments and still gain an excellent understanding of both theory and practice.
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One of the classic political novels, an SF vision of low-tech world conquest. Arslan is a young Asian general who conquers the world in a week without firing a shot and shortly thereafter sets up his headquarters in a small town in Illinois.
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Shotless Coup.......2006-08-15
Arlsan grips you from the start. Its that simple. It twists you and turns you and makes you want to conspire against General Arslan with the characters.
Arslan is a as cruel as they come. Hes hearltless, shameless,a bisexual rapist, favoring children, and he is a flawless strategist deserving to be with the greatest of military minds.
His sense of humor isnt good, but it makes you laugh nervously anyways.
Engh wrote this as if he were standing there, watching it transpire neutrally. The detail and dialouge is outstanding. This is one for the ages.
Higly Recommended.
Some miss the point.......2005-09-28
Arslan (AKA A wind from Bukhara) is not a joyfully pleasant book in the vein of a Tom Clancy thriller, but it is not meant to be. A few other reviewers miss this point and I felt it needed a reply. What it is, is an examination of power, how those who have it abuse it and those how don't fall prey to it. It is also a book of its time (as all books are). It is set in a time before mobile phones, the internet and global terrorism, a time when the cold war was still in full bloom. Complaining that it just wouldn't happen as it is described (an explanation is given, despite what some other reviewers have said) is like complaining that H.G. Well's "War of the Worlds" sucks because there aren't really any Martians.
As for the story, it concerns a small part played out during the conquering of the world by an otherwise insignificant power. The initial story told by the character, Franklin Bond, is set in a Midwestern town, is well done, has solid character development and includes some well done thriller scenes. It also has some brutal, unsettling and disturbing scenes as Arslan's power is established.
The latter parts of the book lack the pacing of the first and are weaker for it. The focus of the book changes to that of Hunt Morgan, Arslan's lover and the target of much of Arslan's abuse. Interestingly Arslan, who is loathsome from the start, is written as a charismatic character as often the worst real life monsters are. And he has a plan, and through Hunt's eyes and latter on again through Franklin Bond's we see Arslan's terrible plan move towards its conclusion.
Overall it a worthwhile book to read. As a story, the first part is undeniably readable but the book loses energy latter on. As an examination of the use (abuse) of power it is skilfully done though I am not totally convinced. 3.5/5
IF YOU LIKE THAT KIND OF THING. . . ........2005-08-08
Hmmm. . . so Arslan is a tale of power, honor, loyalty, politics, etc., etc., etc., about a lovably perverse dictator (there's a concept for ya!) who just wants to save us from ourselves. I'm sorry, but for the sake of any unwary readers who may be tempted to pick up this book, expecting an exciting adventure tale, or gripping thriller, I really feel I ought to butt in here, and be crude, rude and honest.
Here goes---the fact is that Arslan is a rapist. He rapes children. He rapes young Hunt during the above mentioned "school atrocity" scene (horribly reminiscent of the siege of the school in Beslan). He has a deep-rooted contempt, not to mention hatred, for females, whom he reduces to the status of sexual chattels and performs unumbered, Nazi-like atrocities throughout the course of the book.
As Abraham Lincoln allegedly said, if you like this kind of thing, it's the kind of thing you will like. Me, after the schoolhouse rapes, I couldn't really get interested in the philosophy, interplay of fathers, sons, power, sex, politics, blah, blah; all I wanted was for a real protagonist to appear, and kill Arslan---preferably in some manner both hideous and slow. This did not happen. I felt let down.
Thomas Duncan from the UK, I agree with you---the book is self-indulgent and anonymous in detail. It simply isn't credible that nobody would oppose Arslan, or that Americans, especially Americans from the heartland, would simply role over and play dead for a man who wants to rape and destroy their children, and their home land.
And Engh's idolization of this dictator is, to be frank, disturbing, especially in light of the preceding 20th century. With the exception of his psychotic son, Sanjar, nobody ever puts up a real fight against Arslan---and Sanjar's a chip off the old block, he's really no different from his old man. There's nobody on the human side, our side; nobody who, instead of wanting to save us from ourselves, wants to save us from guys like Arslan. Franklin Bond spends the entire book trying to grow a pair (he doesn't succeed), and Hunt falls in love with his rapist, his romantic musings about his "lover" providing the books only humor, albeit inadvertantly.
Arslan is brutal, sometimes poorly written, unpleasant and frequently unintelligent. You have been warned.
Equal parts brilliant and flawed.......2004-11-01
I'm tempted to give Arslan another star for the writing in the 'Hunt Morgan' sections alone, but ultimately Engh squanders what starts as a compelling and potentially brilliant treatise on the complexities of power and the relationships between those who possess it and those who do not.
The first half of the book [written from the point of view of the 'Franklin Bond' character] sets up the story, the characters and rolls out the Engh's main arguments and socio-political theories. The writing is clear, penetrating and full of wonderful detail. The characters of Arslan, Bond and Hunt Morgan are very well rounded and complex, each with their own believable paths.
But then a strange thing happens. Engh ends this portion of the book and begins a new section called 'Hunt Morgan.' Hunt's 'voice' is devestatingly lyrical and expressive - some of the best writing of the novel is contained in this section. But even as Engh creates a powerfull, more lyrical voice for Hunt's POV all this beautiful writing hides a hollow narrative center. We re-live some of the scenes first introduced in the 'Franklin Bond' section and then follow Hunt as he travels with Arslan to Bukhara. All of this wonderful writing amounts to very little character or story development; we continue to range around in Hunt's mind as he is subjected to similar events concerning Arslan, none of which deepen our understanding of either character. This continues for over one hundred pages.
Beautiful the writing may be, but structurally the book falls apart. From here on out Engh flies on fumes, coasting until the next 'Franklin Bond' section yet when it finally arrives, it is nothing more than a melodramatic end-cap to the story that [again] does not further her characters, the argument, or the narrative.
Ultimately Arslan fails in spite of its superior effort. The ideas and characters so assuredly introduced spiral out of Ms. Engh's control and by the end of the novel, one gets the feeling that indulgence set her adrift, forcing her into an artificial ending rather than a re-working and re-structuring of the novel. Still, I would recommend this book to anyone frustrated with the lack of well written speculative fiction. As a very interesting failure, it facinates.
Politics, gender, troubling.......2004-02-28
Arslan is distinguished by some rather extraordinary politics on race and gender. It's a fascinating book, well-written and weirdly plausible. Times being what they are, people do seem to miss the politics of the book, though--Arslan, the general of the book's title, plans to reduce all areas of the world to basic self-sufficiency as a way of getting rid of injustice, sickness, etc. The author seems to present this as a tough but rational contention, just as she presents an Arslan who is both loathesome and heroic. Is the post-Arslan world better off? I'm not really sure what the author intends us to believe. This is a book with troubling race and gender politics--Arslan's Eurasian soldiers range all the way from inscrutable to vicious, with a lot of emphasis on their crude, savage loyalty. And there is a creepy quality to the relentless depiction of sexual violence and coercion--rather as though we the readers are meant to get a semi-conscious kick out of it. This is certainly a fascinating book, as much to analyze and debate as to read.
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- Neuroanatomical Basis of Clinical Neurology
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Superbly illustrated and clearly written Neuroanatomical Basis of Clinical Neurology bridges the gap between the twin disciplines of neuroanatomy and neurology, aiding the understanding of neurologic disorders by investigating their anatomic basis. The extensive coverage of the peripheral and central nervous systems in the context of neurological disorders and conditions sets it apart from other neuroanatomy texts. The book covers both morphological and functional aspects of neuroanatomy. It describes the anatomy of each component of the central, peripheral, and somatic nervous systems in detail, and then demonstrates the relationship between neuroanatomy and the function of the sensory and motor systems. The author has skilfully integrated text and diagrams, highlighting and clarifying the numerous functionally important pathways in the central and peripheral nervous systems. In addition, he includes descriptions of molecular pathways within cells, and the ways in which their perturbation can give rise to disease mechanisms. The extensive illustrations and comprehensive coverage combine to make Neuroanatomical Basis of Clinical Neurology an extraordinarily complete resource to the human nervous system and the principles of neuroscience.
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A must read textbook.......2002-09-04
It is obvious that a great effort and well thought out approach have crystallized this magnificent work. The quality of presentation and organization of this book is impressive. It is not often that I see such a well thought out and strong product in the field of neuroscience. The neuronanatomical facts are accurate, comprehensive and well described. Title of the book is very attractive; the content is well organized and easy to read. It has a unique approach to neuroanatomy that stand apart from the existing textbooks in the same field. It follows a clear and consistent hierarchy of structure, function and clinical relevance.
Arslan's textbook contains voluminous clinical correlations, illustrations and radiographic images that would undoubtedly provide the readers the ability to visualize the human brain in a clear three dimensions approach. It certainly enhances understanding of the complex circuitry of the CNS. It addresses the peripheral and central nervous systems in a highly organized, understandable, methodical and lucid manner. This is a superb textbook that deserves all the recognition and praise.
Neuroanatomical Basis of Clinical Neurology.......2002-05-11
I regard this book an outstanding neuroanatomy textbook that fills the gap between the peripheral and central nervous systems. The approach that combines neuroanatomy with neurology, and the inclusion of images, obtained by modern technologies, like CT and MRI, is a remarkable and innovative way to these disciplines and surely finds a broad audience among first year medical students in their anatomy and neuroanatomy courses.
An excellent book in neuroanatomy.......2002-05-09
I have reviewed "Neuroanatomical Basis of Clinical Neurology" by Orhan Arslan for its scope, intended audience, and utility. Dr. Arslan has produced a textbook that encompasses conventional neuroanatomy, integrated with neurobiology at the molecular and systems level with pertinent clinical correlations. It contains illustrations and radiographic images that would undoubtedly provide the readers the ability to visualize the human brain in a clear three dimensions approach. It addresses the gap between the peripheral and central nervous systems in a highly organized, understandable, methodical and lucid manner.
As an individual, who had been involved in neuroscience research and teaching for over 20 years at the medical schools of the Northwestern and Indiana universities, I have had opportunities to review books in the area and I believe that the Neuroanatomical basis of Clinical neurology is possibly the most comprehensive neuroanatomy text compiled in the recent years. The book is very clear and logical in its presentation and will serve as an invaluable text for medical students in their freshmen, junior and senior years. I am sure that it will be helpful to those appearing for the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE).
Zafar Iqbal, Ph.D.
Best neuroscience book avaliable.......2002-01-20
I read this book and find it to be the an excellent book of neuroscience. It puts major emphasis on the clinical application and virtually all commonly encountered neurological condition.
I consider this book among the best all neuroscience book avaliable
An excellent book fo neuroscience.......2002-01-18
I am quite impressed by superb organization.In this book Neuroanatomical pathways are clearly written, supplemented by
excellent diagrams. Clinical syndromes are exhaustively coverd.
The book truly bridges the gab between the peripheral and central neurvous systems. If you want to buy a book that can be
used for neuroscience courses, this is the one you should get.
Eric Martin
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Writing to Delight: Italian Short Stories by Nineteenth-Century Women Writers (Toronto Italian Studies) (Toronto Italian Studies)
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The nineteenth century represents a crucial historical and cultural phase in the development of modern Italy.
Writing to Delight provides a selection of short stories written by some of the most accomplished and acclaimed female authors of nineteenth-century Italy, made available to an English-speaking audience for the first time through this translation. The stories that make up this anthology are written in a realistic vein and describe the life and concerns of women at a time when Italy was going through major social and economic changes. Imbued with didactic aims, the authors of these stories strove to inspire and at the same time educate their public.
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Writing to Delight also serves as an instrument for a critical investigation of both the cultural productions of nineteenth-century Italy and the process of formation of modern Italian identities. With the growth of the middle-classes and a more diffuse literacy among the population, women became a visible and conspicuous social force as consumers of cultural goods, such as books and newspapers. Many of the writers included in this anthology - Matilde Serao, Marchesa Colombi, Neera, Contessa Lara - were not only very successful writers of fiction but also worked as journalists for some of the main national newspapers of the time. They were well acquainted with their readers' tastes and expectations and made such awareness an integral part of their creative process. Their fiction thus reflects the many topics and concerns that informed the social and cultural debates of nineteenth-century Italy.
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Especially recommended.......2006-12-09
Edited by Antonia Arslan (professor of contemporary Italian literature, University of Padua) and Gabriella Romani (assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Seton Hill University), Writing to Delight: Italian Short Stories By Nineteenth-Century Women Writers is an anthology of selected short stories by some of the most accomplished and acclaimed female writers of nineteenth-century Italy, all translated into English for the first time. A clear window into cultural views of Italian history, particularly attesting to the restrictive concept of female domesticity that was so widespread and ingrained in the setting. Writing to Delight is especially recommended for college library shelves and students or connoisseurs of Italian literature and literary fiction.
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Arslan
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