##A 02 178533 5
##T Art and Illusion
Art and Illusion

@@

So much art criticism is so much a vapid waste of time that a book like this one is thoroughly a surprise. Every page yields fresh information (did you know that the comic strip was single-handedly invented by a Swiss gent named Topfler in the 1820s?) and worthwhile hypotheses about how art and artists gradually teach themselves energies of effect.

                                                                 Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 02 178874 6
##T Art and Illusion
Art and Illusion

@@
A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
Ernst H. Gombrich
2nd Edition 1969; 466 pp.
ISBN 0691017506
$70 postpaid 

from:

Princeton University Press
3175 Princeton Pike
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
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##A 02 179797 10
##T The Image
The Image

@@
This book is by an economist enchanted with cybernetics. HeÕs after the organizing principle in life, the image that everything comes together through. He scarcely mentions the brain, and heÕs right. It ainÕt the brain.
                             
                                                               Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 02 180172 11
##T The Image
The Image

@@
Kenneth E. Boulding
1956; 175 pp.
ISBN 0472060473
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

The University of Michigan Press
839 Greene Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
@@

##A 02 181162 14
##T Number Words and Number Symbols
Number Words and Number Symbols

@@
Suppose you want to help human communication to re-understand itself. So much of that understanding is wrapped up in numbers that if you penetrate the one you may have a foothold to tweak the other one onto a new course. Invent language and you invent humans.

This book penetrates numbers.                      

                                                                Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 02 181348 15
##T Number Words and Number Symbols
Number Words and Number Symbols

@@
A Cultural History of Numbers
Karl Menninger
1969; 480 pp.
ISBN 0262630613
OUT OF PRINT

The M.I.T. Press
Cambridge, MA 02142
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##A 02 191005 22
##T The World of M. C. Escher
The World of M. C. Escher

@@
Geometry set at its own throat via the images of dreams. The subjective frontier.                              

                                                               Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 02 191406 23
##T The World of M. C. Escher
The World of M. C. Escher

@@
M.C. Escher
1988; 263 pp.
ISBN 0810980843
$14.98 ($16.48 postpaid)
from:

Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Attn.: Cash Sales
100 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
800-345-1359
@@

##A 02 68927 28
##T Suterisms
Suterisms

@@
David SuterÕs visual mind-benders appear regularly in national publications such as The New York Times, HarperÕs, and The Progressive. Like the famous optical illusionist M.C. Escher, Suter melds foreground and background in drawings that inherently express contradictions in our political unconscious.

His images are so natural they seem obvious. Their simplicity and elegance are consistently captivating.         

                                                                     Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 02 76461 29
##T Suterisms
Suterisms

@@
David Suter
1986; 97 pp.
ISBN 0345337433
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 02 77438 33
##T The Anatomy of the Image Maps
The Anatomy of the Image Maps

@@
Bonnie Gordon has investigated a single halftone photograph of an unknown man (found in a junk store in Santa Monica), and a single book (Merriam-WebsterÕs Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged), for a decade, stretching their structures and contents to reveal unexpected connections between language and the human body. All the marks, lines, dots and words in her work are taken from the photo and the dictionary, via an elastic gelatin photoemulsion. Her work is summarized in this classy paperback.       

                                                              Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 02 131530 34
##T The Anatomy of the Image Maps
The Anatomy of the Image Maps

@@
Bonnie Gordon
1982; 48 pp.
ISBN 0898220289
$12 postpaid from:

Gordon
797 Potomac Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14209
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##A 02 2614 38
##T Ballast
Ballast

@@
In exchange for a few stamps per year, youÕll receive this idiosyncratic dispatch of verbal illusions and visual anecdotes. Works like conceptual anti-freeze Ñ keeps your inspiration unclogged. May it live long.

                                                              Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 02 24428 39
##T Ballast
Ballast

@@
Roy R. Behrens, Editor
$2/year 
(stamps only Ñ 8 $.25 stamps or 2 stamps/single issue)
from:

Ballast
Art Academy of Cincinnati
Eden Park
Cincinnati, OH 45202
@@

##A 02 87151 44
##T An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols
An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols

@@
Often IÕve seen religious or ceremonial art and wondered what a particular element stood for. This fascinating reference will, most likely, provide an answer Ñ or several. Each entry guides you from the symbolÕs generally accepted interpretation to its more specific cultural or geographic meaning. The illustrations are rich and varied, crossing time and continent.

                                                             Ñ Sarah Satterlee
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##A 02 87549 45
##T An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols
An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols

@@
J.C. Cooper
1978; 208 pp.
$12.95 postpaid 
from:

Thames & Hudson, Inc.
500 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY  10010
800-233-4830
@@

##A 02 31661 48
##T Inversions
Inversions

@@
Shape inverts into meaning. Meaning folds back into shape. A name becomes geometry, then swallows itself. Language put into symmetrical meaning, the same upsidedown, left to right. Playing a fugue of words, Scott Kim dances with visual double-jointedness.

                                                            Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 02 33361 49
##T Inversions
Inversions

@@
Scott Kim
1981; 122 pp.
ISBN 0070345465
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

MIT Press
55 Hayward Street
Cambridge, MA  02142
800-356-0343
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##A 02 85872 51
##T Man and His Symbols
Man and His Symbols

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Carl Jung did a nice thing just before he died. He helped with a British effort to bring all of his work together in one richly illustrated introduction to the breadth of his realm. This book covers his concepts of the unconscious, myths, individuation, the visual arts, dreams, and analysis. Why arenÕt all psychology books illustrated?

                                                              Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 02 86320 52
##T Man and His Symbols
Man and His Symbols

@@
Carl G. Jung
1964; 320 pp.
ISBN 0440351839
$5.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:

Dell Reader Service
P.O. Box 5057
Des Plaines, IL  60017-5057
@@

##A 02 50242 59
##T ANGUISH LANGUISH Ñ LADLE RAT ROTTEN HUT
ANGUISH LANGUISH Ñ LADLE RAT ROTTEN HUT

@@

@@

##A 02 27448 64
##T ANGUISH LANGUISH Ñ LADLE RAT ROTTEN HUT
ANGUISH LANGUISH Ñ LADLE RAT ROTTEN HUT

@@
H. L. Chace
OUT OF PRINT

Anguish Languish was published by Prentice Hall in 1955.
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##A 02 36898 69
##T Standing by Words
Standing by Words

@@
I cannot imagine a better English teacher than farmer, essayist, poet, novelist Wendell Berry. His writing and his thinking are hard liquor, the kind that makes you go Òwhooh!Ó with savor and respect. His subject this time is language, and the model is not far off. His writing (and speaking, if you get the chance to hear it) is his own best example. 
 
More even than his works on agriculture (The Unsettling of America, reviewed in Whole Systems, etc.), this book of essays goes to the center of a wide and terrible malaise that is obscured from our view by its very size. When the land weakens, when the use of language weakens, nothing else can be truly strong.

Berry wrote elsewhere once, ÒI stand for what I stand on.Ó
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##A 02 37350 71
##T Standing by Words
Standing by Words

@@
Wendell Berry
1983; 213 pp.
ISBN 0865471223
$10.50 ($12 postpaid)
from:

North Point Press
850 Talbot Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94706
415-527-6260
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##A 02 32694 73
##T Etc.
Etc.

@@
General Semantics is the art and science of thinking about symbols instead of swallowing them whole and unexamined. Etc. is the quarterly magazine put out by the International Society for General Semantics, and it prints smart, scholarly articles about the dangers of loose thinking and fuzzy talk. ItÕs a good antidote for face value. Your subscription also gets you a monthly collection of additions called Glimpse.
                                                                
                                                                   Ñ Anne Herbert
@@

##A 02 32901 74
##T Etc.
Etc.

@@
Russell Joyner, Editor
ISSN 0014164X
$25/year (4 issues)
includes membership and a subscription to Glimpse
from:

International Society for General Semantics
P.O. Box 2469
San Francisco, CA 94126
415-543-1747
or Whole Earth Access
@@

##A 02 37893 77
##T Maledicta
Maledicta

@@
The last taboos in our culture  Ñ  obscenity, insults, and completely tasteless ethnic and racial slurs  Ñ  are boldly investigated by these forbidden-word connoisseurs, basking in the thrill of the verboten. If the language in this journal was any filthier you would have to scrub it out with Comet. For you half-wit gutter throats with a deficient vocabulary, weÕre not only talking about four-letter words. Recent issues of Maledicta compare a list of obscenities printed or left out in 20 different dictionaries, then go on to explore all the euphemisms for farting, report on colorful verbal abuse by the rich and famous, track down bathroom graffiti, dirty jokes, and kakologia, categorize high school sex slang, and so on. Much of it is legitimate academic studies, although always done tongue-in-toilet.   
                                                                            Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 02 38260 78
##T Maledicta
Maledicta

@@
Reinhold Aman, Editor
ISSN 0916500292
$19 (annual) from:

Maledicta Press
331 South Greenfield Avenue
Waukesha, WI 53186
414-542-5853
@@

##A 02 40302 84
##T The Best of Maledicta
The Best of Maledicta

@@
Technically, this book should have been called The Worst of Maledicta. Quibbles aside, this compilation of eight years of Malediction is entertaining and even educational Ñ reading it will extend your vocabulary in ways that ReaderÕs DigestÕs ÒWord PowerÓ quizzes never could.

                                                          Ñ Sarah Vandershaf
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##A 02 41427 85
##T The Best of Maledicta
The Best of Maledicta

@@
Reinhold Aman, Editor
1987; 200 pp.
ISBN 0894714996
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Running Press
125 South 22nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
@@

##A 02 42432 86
##T They Have A Word for It
They Have A Word for It

@@
People who learn a second language often experience a new part of themselves, a personality or set of perceptions coaxed out of them by the inner nature of the new language. Howard RheingoldÕs collection of untranslatable words from 44 different languages shifts our perceptions from as many perspectives.

His is a dictionary of both words and ideas. It works to reveal the cultural blinders with which we experience the world.          
                               
                                                               Ñ Jeanne Carstensen



Ù Origins
@@

##A 02 42716 87
##T They Have A Word for It
They Have A Word for It

@@
A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases
Howard Rheingold
1988; 224 pp.
ISBN 0874774640
$7.95 ($9.45 postpaid)
from:

St. MartinÕs Press
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
800-225-3362
@@

##A 02 54960 93
##T The Use and Training of the Human Voice
The Use and Training of the Human Voice

@@
Everything you need to understand, train, improve, and enjoy your voice is here in this wonderful book. LessacÕs method is uncomplicated and precise . . . a basic system for actors, speakers, singers, everyone who uses the voice as an instrument beyond simple communication.

One of the best features of LessacÕs approach is the way he relates the voice to general health and the total person. Many people who never get near a stage or a microphone can use the book to make real gains in self-awareness and well-being.

Best of all, perhaps, the book is designed for self-teaching. It takes nothing for granted, but exposes every vital aspect of the use and training of the voice.                       Ñ Scott Beach
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##A 02 55920 94
##T The Use and Training of the Human Voice
The Use and Training of the Human Voice

@@
Arthur Lessac
1967; 320 pp.
ISBN 0896760723
OUT OF PRINT 

Drama Book Publishers
821 Broadway
New York, NY 10003
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##A 02 66155 97
##T The Overnight Guide to Public Speaking
The Overnight Guide to Public Speaking


@@
You can read this book overnight. Ed WohlmuthÕs advice, delivered in a breezy, optimistic style, will help your speech. His approach is a bit Òshow biz,Ó but you can modify that element to your own taste. When I had to give a three hour class recently I followed his suggestions, which included revising my remarks into a more informal style, consciously inserting some ÒsignalsÓ into the presentation and corraling a friend into letting me practice my talk on him the night before. Result: The class went well and everyone enjoyed themselves, including me. This book works. 
                                                                        
                                                                 Ñ Jay Kinney
@@

##A 02 71618 98
##T The Overnight Guide to Public Speaking
The Overnight Guide to Public Speaking


@@
Ed Wohlmuth
1983; 154 pp.
ISBN 0894712004
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Running Press
125 South 22nd Street
Philadelphia, PA  19103
800-428-1111
@@

##A 02 55668 101
##T Louder & Funnier
Louder & Funnier

@@
ÒYour heart is pounding, your breath is too short to catch, your mouth is full of cotton, your hands are so wet the papers youÕre clutching are curling, the voices around you are a numbing 
roar . . . .Ó  Yep, thatÕs me. I hate speaking publicly. I hate hating it. Although I havenÕt yet hadÑphew!Ñthe occasion to test its merits, the advice in this little book seems sound (and reassuring). It helps you identify what youÕre afraid of, analyze those fears and defuse them with specificsÑchecklists, exercises, and suggestions. Maybe thereÕs hope.

                                                                   Ñ Sarah Satterlee
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##A 02 59670 102
##T Louder & Funnier
Louder & Funnier

@@
Robert B. Nelson
1985; 115 pp.
ISBN 0898151422
$5.95 ($6.95 postpaid)
from:

Ten Speed Press
P.O. Box 7123
Berkeley, CA  94707
800-841-2665
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##A 02 74547 105
##T Singing
Singing

@@
Unusually comprehensive analysis and demonstration of the voice as an instrument. If you want to know how and why you sound as you do and donÕt mind somewhat technical explanations, Vennard is excellent. He includes detailed exercises on all the traditional subjects from breathing to articulationÑto give one example, the chapter on Resonance tells you where and how to place your larynx, tongue, palate, jaw, lips and teeth (wow!).

                                                                      Ñ Arlene Sagan
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##A 02 74999 106
##T Singing
Singing

@@
Singing
William Vennard
5th Edition 1968; 275 pp.
ISBN 0825800558
$25 ($27 postpaid)
from:

Carl Fischer, Inc.
Carl Fischer of Chicago
312 S. Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL  60604
800-621-4496
800-572-3272 (IL)


or Whole Earth Access
@@

##A 02 76187 111
##T Diction
Diction

@@
Have you ever tried to pronounce a French ÒuÓ or perhaps even more difficult, knowing how so well, be unable to successfully demonstrate? If so, Moriarty is your guide to French, German, Italian and Latin, especially if you are an American who 
Òpractices bad diction in nearly every utterance.Ó He tells you how to shape lips, tongue, and jaw and includes plenty of very helpful examples and historical parallels. It may be ostensibly for singers but itÕs a vade mecum for any budding polyglot.

                                                                       Ñ Arlene Sagan
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##A 02 76762 112
##T Diction
Diction

@@
Italian, Latin, French, German... the Sounds of 81 Exercises for Singing Them
John Moriarty
1975; 263 pp.
ISBN 0911318097
$16.00 postpaid from:

E.C. Schirmer Music Company, Inc.
138 Ipswich Street
Boston, MA  02215
800-777-1919
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##A 02 39011 116
##T Listening
Listening

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IÕm convinced we could relieve the majority of lifeÕs small problems by mutually improving our listening abilities. More than half of our waking hours are spent receiving message, and yet none are spent on doing it better. Listening matters. A few learn to do it skillfully. If a book would help you, attend to this one.

                                                                Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 02 39698 117
##T Listening
Listening

@@
It Can Change Your Life
Lyman K. Steil, Joanne Summerfield and George deMare
1983; 214 pp.
ISBN 0070609373
$6.95 postpaid from:

McGraw-Hill Inc.
P.O. Box 402
Hightstown, NJ  08520
800-262-4729
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##A 02 159019 121
##T The Art of Asking Questions
The Art of Asking Questions

@@
Q: Do you need to research peopleÕs opinion?

A: 1) Sometimes, 
    2) Often, 
    3) Always. 

If you chose 1, 2, or 3, then youÕll find this classic book (1951) indispensable. It will teach you how to avoid composing loaded questions like the one above, and how to make distinctions that make a difference. Without exception, every noble idea I have ever encountered began with a well put question.

                                                                       Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 02 159378 122
##T The Art of Asking Questions
The Art of Asking Questions

@@
Stanley L. Payne
1951,1979; 249 pp.
ISBN 0691028214
$9.95 postpaid from:

Princeton University Press
Attn: Order Department
3175 Princeton Pike
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
609-452-4900
@@

##A 02 160001 124
##T Public Opinion Polling
Public Opinion Polling

@@
The guy on the street, what does he really think about issue X, policy Y, or candidate Z? Maybe the mainstream media doesnÕt care enough about your concerns to have ever asked, or maybe they asked and you donÕt believe them. HereÕs how to use volunteers to do your own legitimate public opinion polling. Admirable book. Surprisingly effective.  

(The publishers also sell POLLSTART, special software for IBM PCs to speed the polling.)

                                                                        Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 02 160419 125
##T Public Opinion Polling
Public Opinion Polling

@@
A Handbook for Public Interest and Citizen Advocacy Groups
Celinda C. Lake with Pat Callbeck Harper
1987; 166 pp.
ISBN 0933280327
$19.95 ($22.70 postpaid)
from:

Island Press
P.O. Box 7
Covelo, CA  95428
800-628-2828 x416
@@

##A 02 72944 128
##T Audio-Forum (Languages)
Audio-Forum (Languages)


@@
DonÕt expect to learn a language by listening to tapes. The best you can expect from cassettes is tireless practice, at your convenience, of what you learn from a class or tutor. Audio-Forum has the best selection of courses, including a well respected crash course called ÒLanguage/30.Ó Some of the full-length courses were originally developed by the U.S. Foreign Service Institute. All come with a text book (essential) in a cacophonous selection of languages: Zulu, Xhosa, Serbo-Croatian, eight dialects of Arabic, Urdu, Khmer, and of course, good ole Spanish and French.

                                                                    Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 02 73595 129
##T Audio-Forum (Languages)
Audio-Forum (Languages)


@@
Catalog free 
from:

Audio-Forum
96 Broad Street 
Suite A-30
Guilford, CT 06437
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##A 02 59015 135
##T Language Acquisition Made Practical
Language Acquisition Made Practical

@@
This superb handbook trains you to learn any language in the world on your own, in the languageÕs home turf.

The trick is to teach native speakers to teach you to learn their language. Comprende? ItÕs done slowly, naturally, and playfully  Ñ  the way you learned English. Your assistant doesnÕt even have to dig your jive. You begin conversing with one word, trying to make as many mistakes as you possibly can, entertaining the folks in the marketplace or anywhere else theyÕll put up with your blabberings. This well-tested program shows you how to construct your own exercises that fit the language you are after 
and later how to discover its grammar by yourself. The goal is multiculturalism, inseparable from multilingualism. Like realizing that you donÕt need a degree in anything to build your own house,
@@

##A 02 59951 137
##T Language Acquisition Made Practical
Language Acquisition Made Practical

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E. Thomas Brewster and Elizabeth S. Brewster
1976; 384 pp.
ISBN 0916636003
$13 postpaid from:

Lingua House
135 North Oakland
P.O. Box 91
Pasadena, CA 91182
@@

##A 02 161355 140
##T Berlitz Video for Travellers
Berlitz Video for Travellers

@@
This series of videos is not designed to teach you a foreign language, but to give you the basics youÕll need to survive in most 
ÒtouristÓ situations. First, you watch and listen as the couple in the video acts out a typical vacation scenario (exchanging money, renting a room, ordering a meal, etc.); then, the scene repeats, and you take the place of the vacationers, replying to the actors on the screen using the vocabulary you just learned. This is definitely language minimalism, but if, like most of us, your first concern is finding out when the train leaves or if you can get a room with a bath, then these tapes are an excellent supplement to Òphrase-bookÓ French, German, Italian or Spanish. Each tape comes with an audio cassette, so you can practice in the car, and a Berlitz phrase book, so you can keep adding to your vocabulary.
                                                                         Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 02 162663 141
##T Berlitz Video for Travellers
Berlitz Video for Travellers

@@
$59.95 (VHS only) 
($62.95 postpaid)
from:

Berlitz Publications
900 Chester Ave.
Delran, NJ 08075
800-257-8345
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##A 02 111324 144
##T THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW
THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW

@@

@@

##A 02 205877 156
##T THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW
THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW

@@
Interview 
Shelley Wanger
ISSN 01498932
$20/year (12 issues)  
from:

Interview
19 East 32nd Street
New York, NY 10016
212-685-1800
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##A 02 221238 157
##T THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW
THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW

@@
DV: Diana Vreeland
Diana Vreeland
1985; 258 pp.
ISBN 0394731611
$3.95 ($4.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 02 225255 158
##T THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW
THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW

@@
Working
Studs Terkel
1985; 768 pp.
ISBN 0345325699
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road 
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 02 226017 159
##T THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW
THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW

@@
Bosses
Jim Wall
1986; 268 pp.
ISBN 0669134759
$17.95 ($19.95 postpaid)
from:

Lexington Books
D. C. Heath & Company 
2700 Richardt Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46219
@@

##A 02 229003 160
##T THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW
THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW

@@
Cops (Their Lives in Their Own Words)
Mark Baker
1985; 371 pp.
ISBN 0671614460
$4.50 ($5.50 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 02 230863 161
##T THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW
THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW

@@
Bloods 
An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans
Wallace Terry
1985; 320 pp.
ISBN 034531197
$4.50 ($5.50 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road 
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 02 35887 171
##T The Craft of Interviewing
The Craft of Interviewing

@@
Not a brilliant book, but plenty competent enough to vastly improve the level of most dumb-question-dumb-answer published conversation. It also helps if interviewers have studied and done a bit of field anthropology.

If you find yourself being an interviewee, these skills are even more important, since itÕs your ass on the line.

                                                                      Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 02 36201 172
##T The Craft of Interviewing
The Craft of Interviewing

@@
John Brady
1977; 244 pp.
ISBN 0394724690
$6.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 02 245238 174
##T The Tape-Recorded Interview
The Tape-Recorded Interview

@@
Some of your local history is in records, but a lot more of it is 
in minds. HereÕs how to ensure itÕs in both. When youÕre an old geezer, wouldnÕt you like to be asked what really happened in
1985?

                                                                 Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 02 245438 175
##T The Tape-Recorded Interview
The Tape-Recorded Interview

@@
A Manual for Field Workers in Folklore and Oral History
Edward D. Ives
1980; 130 pp.
ISBN 0870492918
$5.50 ($7 postpaid)
from:

University of Tennessee Press
740 Cascadilla Street
Ithaca, NY  14850
800-666-2211
@@

##A 02 78513 180
##T Interviews That Work
Interviews That Work

@@
Simply, the most useful stuff ever written about interviewing others. 

Biagi interviews famous interviewers and gets them to talk about how they do interviews. Not only do we hear professional conversationalists like Ted Koppel telling us what heÕs really doing when heÕs got someone on Nightline, we also pick up the techniques Biagi herself accumulated after finishing interviews with 40 other interviewing experts.

(Strategy for a great book: X-ray the familiar. Document the hidden structure in an overly visible process. Man, is that informative).
@@

##A 02 79432 182
##T Interviews That Work
Interviews That Work

@@
A Practical Guide for Journalists
Shirley Biagi
1986; 184 pp.
ISBN 0534056644
$17 ($19 postpaid)
from:

Wadsworth, Inc.
7625 Empire Drive
Florence, KY  41042
800-354-9706
@@

##A 02 84316 185
##T Oral History Association
Oral History Association

@@
The oldest (and only) national association for oral history. Great journal (annual Ñ explores developments in oral history, reviews books, etc.) and newsletter (quarterlyÑnews, bibliography, events, etc.). Also publishes pamphlets and books.
  
                                                                 Ñ Cliff Martin
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##A 02 84661 186
##T Oral History Association
Oral History Association

@@
Membership: $20 individual;
$10 student/retired; 
from:

Oral History Association
P.O. Box 926
University Station
Lexington, KY  40506-0025
@@

##A 02 81382 187
##T Voices
Voices

@@
My favorite all-round guide to the history and intent of oral history. Very useful for the beginner as it addresses a lot of issues in a simple way: legal and ethical considerations, preservation of oral history, the interview itself, etc.

                                                         Ñ Cliff Martin
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##A 02 81562 188
##T Voices
Voices

@@
Derek Reimer, Editor
 $7 (Canadian) postpaid
from:

Crown Publications
546 Yates Street
Victoria, B.C.
V8W 1K8
CANADA
@@

##A 02 140553 191
##T INTERVIEW TIPS AND TECHNOLOGY
INTERVIEW TIPS AND TECHNOLOGY

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by Lloyd Kahn

ItÕs best if the person youÕre interviewing is as relaxed and natural as possible. Usually youÕll go out to do the interview, start talking, everything going smoothly, and when you take out the tape recorder, things suddenly get stiff and formal. For a while I gave up the recorder for this reason and used a stenographerÕs hand book to take notes. This made for a more relaxed conversation, but unless you take shorthand, youÕll obviously only be able to get the highlights. (If you do forego the tape recorder for this method be sure to go home right afterward and reconstruct the conversation while itÕs fresh in your mind.) IÕve since gone back to the machine and in doing more than a hundred interviews in recent years, have ended up with the following techniques.
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##A 02 190493 198
##T Interview Technology
Interview Technology

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Martel Electronics  
Catalog $2 from:

Martel Electronics
920-A East Orangethorpe
Anaheim, CA  92801
800-331-5231
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##A 02 192830 199
##T Interview Technology
Interview Technology

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Sony BM-17 Microtranscriber
Suggested retail price
$350


Products are frequently cheaper locally. Sony sells through authorized local dealers Ñ check the Yellow Pages.
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##A 02 197613 200
##T Interview Technology
Interview Technology

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Olympus Tape Recorders

from:

Olympus Corporation
145 Crossways Park
Woodbury, NY  11797
516-364-3000 
Call for current prices.

Sold through authorized local dealers; alternatively, you can order directly from Olympus Corporation.
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##A 02 134543 201
##T Tele-Recorder 150
Tele-Recorder 150

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My interest in buying what DAK Industries refers to as a Òphone tapÓ is not so much spooking, but getting a reasonable cassette-tape record of a phone interview once my subject has agreed to let me tape the conversation. My previous experience with one of those suction-cup mikes was dismal. But the Tele-Recorder 150, which simply plugs into the phone jack (if you donÕt have an extra one, just get a Òduplex adaptor jack,Ó available from DAK for only $2), does the job. Most hand-held cassette recorders will connect to it. The recordings I get from phone interviews are now more reliable than the tapes yielded from face-to-face sessions, particularly when my subject is a mumbler.

Incidentally, this was my first experience in dealing with DAK, whose direct-mail ads you have probably seen. Service was prompt,
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##A 02 135169 203
##T Tele-Recorder 150
Tele-Recorder 150

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$27.40 postpaid  
from:

DAK Industries
8200 Remmet Ave.
Canoga Park, CA 91304
800-325-0800 (orders)
800-423-2866 (inquiries)

(order 9232)
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##A 02 47046 204
##T Norwood XLP Cassette Recorder
Norwood XLP Cassette Recorder

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This cassette recorder takes standard-sized cassettes, but can record and play at one-fourth normal speed, and also can record on two different tracks (one track at a time). Thus you can record or play back 12 hours on a C-90 cassette normally good for 1Ð1/2 hours: that means you can fit 8 times as much time on each cassette. The sound quality is good enough for voice and reading of books, though music wouldnÕt sound great.                        

                                                                     Ñ Warren Hatch
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##A 02 50880 205
##T Norwood XLP Cassette Recorder
Norwood XLP Cassette Recorder

@@
$134 postpaid from:

Norwood Industries
3828 South Main Street 
Salt Lake City, UT 84115
801-262-0800
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##A 02 171886 207
##T How to Read a Book
How to Read a Book


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Authors Adler and Van Doren propose a reexamination of the much-overlooked idea that there are techniques for reading books, just as there are techniques for driving in the rain and playing soccer. TheyÕve resurrected and present here a collection of rules and instructions of the sort used in the Middle Ages as part of the trivium of logic, grammar, and rhetoric. Few people could read then, but the ones who could usually read very well. The authors believe that with this rhetorical tool kit and a lot of hard work, most people can do the same.

I spent six years in college. My best intellectual happening there was coming across this book.                                  

                                                                     Ñ T. Durso
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##A 02 172044 209
##T How to Read a Book
How to Read a Book


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Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
1940, 1972; 426 pp.
ISBN 0671212095
$9.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
800-223-2348
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##A 02 161684 212
##T The ReaderÕs Adviser
The ReaderÕs Adviser

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If you throw darts at a world map and go where they point, youÕll have a much more interesting vacation than anything the travel bureau can offer. Likewise if you throw one of these hefty volumes at a bed, examine the open pages and read in the direction indicated, your mind will meet minds a bookstore dare not carry. Every goddamn page (2616 all told) has fascinating people and works that IÕve never heard of in my high rent liberal education, warmly and searchingly remarked upon, with all the access information you need to waltz cheerfully through library procedures to the goods.                                

                                                          Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 02 161989 213
##T The ReaderÕs Adviser
The ReaderÕs Adviser

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A LaymanÕs Guide to Literature
Sarah L. Prakken, Editor
13th Edition 1986
ISBN 0835224287
$75 each($78.75 postpaid);  $375/ 6 volume set 
($393.75 postpaid)
from:

R.R. Bowker Co.
P.O. Box 762
New York, NY 10011
800-521-8110
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##A 02 78599 219
##T The Lifetime Reading Plan
The Lifetime Reading Plan


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Will reading the best works of Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Chaucer, Shaw, Dickens, Voltaire, Thoreau, Freud, Nabokov, Borges, etc., make you a better person?

Yes.

Will this book help you DO IT? Also yes. The selection is fine, the 1-page introductions to each author by Fadiman are inviting, not daunting. 

                                                                   Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 02 79026 220
##T The Lifetime Reading Plan
The Lifetime Reading Plan


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Clifton Fadiman
3rd edition 1988; 256 pp.
ISBN 0060961740
$7.95 ($9.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper and Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
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##A 02 81919 224
##T The Read-Aloud Handbook
The Read-Aloud Handbook

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The value of this book is in its practical and simple approach  Ñ  if we want to we can have children who want to learn to read, and to think. We need only give them our time. Trelease makes convincing and hopeful arguments on how to reverse the increasing illiteracy in America. His chapter about televisionÕs effects on kids is downright scary, but he gives parents workable suggestions on how to control its influence. From picture books to novels, more than 300 titles are synopsized, and there are references to hundreds of other good books.
                                                                         
                                                                      Ñ Lindi Wood


Ù Storytelling
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##A 02 82090 225
##T The Read-Aloud Handbook
The Read-Aloud Handbook

@@
Jim Trelease
Updated Edition 1987; 243 pp.
ISBN 0140467270
$8.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Order Dept.
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600 (NJ)
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##A 02 274609 229
##T Fantagraphics
Fantagraphics

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Love and Rockets

Arguably the finest regular comic now being published. Written and drawn by the Hernandez brothers, Love and Rockets combines classic comic art with scripts worthy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Plus it has the best female characters in comics today. Seek this one out!
                                                  Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 02 363685 232
##T Fantagraphics
Fantagraphics

@@
Love and Rockets
Hernandez Brothers
$2.25 ($3 postpaid)
from:

Fantagraphics Books
1800 Bridgegate Street 
Suite #101 
Westlake Village, CA 91361
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##A 02 365158 233
##T Fantagraphics
Fantagraphics

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Itchy Planet
Leonard Rifas, Editor
Catalog free from:

Fantagraphics Books
1800 Bridgegate Street 
Suite #101
Westlake Village, CA 91361
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##A 02 365713 234
##T Fantagraphics
Fantagraphics

@@
Comics Journal
ISSN 01947869
$35/year (12 issues)   
from:

Fantagraphics Books
1800 Bridgegate Street 
Suite #101
Westlake Village, CA 91361
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##A 02 366143 250
##T ÒOmahaÓ The Cat Dancer
ÒOmahaÓ The Cat Dancer

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Funny animal comics for adults. The stories of Omaha and her friends day-to-day healthy-hippie lives. Entertaining and frequently erotic.
                                                          Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 02 366359 251
##T ÒOmahaÓ The Cat Dancer
ÒOmahaÓ The Cat Dancer

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Reed Waller and Kate Worley
1988
$2
Information free  
from:

Kitchen Sink Comix
2 Swamp Road 
Princeton, WI 54968
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##A 02 367416 254
##T Lone Wolf and Cub
Lone Wolf and Cub

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The continuing adventures of the ronin, Lone Wolf, and his infant son, Cub, in medieval Japan. Well drawn and written, and the stories sometimes provide unexpected insights into Japanese mores.
                                                         Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 02 367831 255
##T Lone Wolf and Cub
Lone Wolf and Cub

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1988
ISSN 0915419211
$2.50
Information free  
from:

First Comics
435 North LaSalle
Chicago, IL 60610
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##A 02 369116 261
##T The Phoenix Restaurant
The Phoenix Restaurant

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The sequel to FerretÕs Neo-Canton Legacy is another of his surreal tales starring the Neo-Canton Guy; this time the story concerns giant insects, annoying mutations, suicide and the problems of running a really high-class restaurant after a nuclear war. 

                                                       Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 02 369212 262
##T The Phoenix Restaurant
The Phoenix Restaurant

@@
Ferret
$4.50 postpaid  
from:

Fandom House
P. O. Box 1348
Denver, CO 80201
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##A 02 370421 267
##T Eddy Current
Eddy Current

@@
One night in the life of Eddy Current, mental patient and, with the aid of his mail-order ÒDynamic FusionÓ suit, super hero. A limited series that should be out as a graphic novel by the time youÕre reading this.

                                                      Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 02 370544 268
##T Eddy Current
Eddy Current

@@

Information free from:

Mad Dog Graphics
P. O. Box 931686 
Hollywood, CA 90093
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##A 02 371620 272
##T American Splendor
American Splendor

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Harvey has been chronicling his ÒordinaryÓ life in Cleveland for years now. He writes the strips and hires a variety of cartoonists to illustrate them. All true, all deadpan, always entertaining.

                                                                Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 02 371902 273
##T American Splendor
American Splendor

@@
Information free with SASE  
from:

Harvey Pekar
P. O. Box 18471 
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
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##A 02 372777 275
##T RAW
RAW

@@
Giant-format comics-as-art magazine, edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly. Exquisitely designed. 

                                                          Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 02 373137 276
##T RAW
RAW

@@
The Graphix Magazine that Lost its Faith in Nihilism
Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman, Editors
$4 each($5 postpaid) 
Flyer free from:

Raw Books
27 Greene Street 
New York, NY 10013
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##A 02 374030 285
##T Maus (A SurvivorÕs Tale)
Maus (A SurvivorÕs Tale)

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A personal tale of the Holocaust uses animals to represent people, but donÕt be fooled. This is serious, adult material. Although parts of the comic appeared in Raw magazine, this beautiful trade paperback is published by Pantheon Books. 

                                                            Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 02 374393 286
##T Maus (A SurvivorÕs Tale)
Maus (A SurvivorÕs Tale)

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Art Spiegelman
160 pp.
ISBN 0394747232
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

Pantheon Books
Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 02 24313 289
##T Watchmen
Watchmen

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Along with Maus, Watchmen is the closest thing to a truly satisfying adult novel that comics has yet produced.  Beginning with an idea that has become an adult comic cliche Ñ that of super heroes trying to function in the ÒrealÓ world Ñ Alan Moore takes us down into the heart of darkness where his characters (and the readers) are forced to confront their notions about the function of    Òheroes,Ó the price and meaning of love, and the value of human   life, all in a story thatÕs as well-written and suspenseful as any comic, and many books and movies, around today.

                                                              Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 02 31844 290
##T Watchmen
Watchmen

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Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
1986, 1987
ISBN 0446386898
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Ballantine Books/Random House
400 Hahn Road 
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 02 375321 299
##T Those Annoying Post Brothers
Those Annoying Post Brothers


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Ron and Russ Post are existential bad boys with the ability to shift into alternate universes. If Sartre had written Batman, this is what it might have looked like. 

                                                             Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 02 375719 300
##T Those Annoying Post Brothers
Those Annoying Post Brothers

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Matt Howarth
1987
$1.75
Information free with SASE  
from:

Vortex Comics
367 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario 
M5V 2A4
CANADA
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##A 02 364171 303
##T The Woman Trap
The Woman Trap

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Blue-haired journalist Jill BioskopÕs reports on fighting between the Afro-Pakistanis and ZubenÕ Ubian minorities in London and her love affair with an extraterrestrial are transmitted from the year 2025 back in time to 1993.  In these fifty-six pages of beautifully drawn dream-like panels the reader trips along through JillÕs intense mix of reality and hallucination, caused in part by the memory-blocking drug, H.L.V.  The Woman Trap also includes an insert, the newspaper from 1993 that published JillÕs mysterious reports and much editorial speculation as to their veracity.  The whole effect is wonderfully mystifying, leaving the reader to grapple with a story told from many perspectives, all true, all hallucination.

The publisher, Catalan Communications, has a whole series of
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##A 02 383274 305
##T The Woman Trap
The Woman Trap

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1988; 56 pp.
ISBN 0874160502
$12.95
Catalog free from:

Catalan Communications
43 East 19th Street
New York, NY 10003
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##A 02 376776 309
##T The Santa Cruz Comic News
The Santa Cruz Comic News

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If youÕre one of those people who buys the paper everyday just to check out the comics and then feels guilty because you only skim the front page, take heart. The Santa Cruz Comics Journal gives you all the funnies and none of the guilt. No news here, just funny drawings and jokes, from the political cartoons of Conrad and Oliphant to Jules FeifferÕs social satire to The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes. The rest of the paper is ads for businesses in Santa Cruz, California. These are easily ignored, even if you live in Santa Cruz. 
                                                            Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 02 376941 310
##T The Santa Cruz Comic News
The Santa Cruz Comic News

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Thom Zajac, Editor
$12/year(24 issues)
from:

Comic News Subs
P. O. Box 8543
Santa Cruz, CA 95061
408-426-0113
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##A 02 378362 313
##T Target
Target

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One of the most effective political tools is the cartoon. This quarterly promotes the art of graphic comment by shining a small spotlight on the greats of the past and on younger newspaper cartoonists. However, by focussing on those in traditional newspapers, those working in smaller-circulation papers, and mags Ñ where thereÕs more innovation and idiosyncrasy Ñ are slighted.
          
                                                      Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 02 378507 314
##T Target
Target

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The Political Cartoon Quarterly
Richard Samuel West
ISSN 87561808
$15/year (4 issues)
from:

Target
461 Sharon Drive
Wayne, PA 19087
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##A 02 271302 320
##T Tattoo: Pigments of Imagination
Tattoo: Pigments of Imagination

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Tattoos winding up backs, twisting around legs and arms, or curling up in some small curve of skin: dragons, eagles, cats, exotically dressed humans, and lots of other tattoo motifs writhe off the pages in Chris WroblewskiÕs book of dramatic color photographs.

American and English tattoo art is featured, mainly examples of the more outrageous, abstract design of the Õ70s and Õ80s. Not too many anchors and ÒI love momÓ tattoos, in other words. The introductory text is brief and perfunctory; look elsewhere for detailed history of the art. This is a fun visual introduction to the multicultural symbols of modern tattoo art and the various characters who choose to wear them.
                                                             Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 02 271832 321
##T Tattoo: Pigments of Imagination
Tattoo: Pigments of Imagination

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Chris Wroblewski
1987; 128 pp.
ISBN 0912383445
$15.95 ($17.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
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##A 02 272804 324
##T The Tattoo Historian
The Tattoo Historian

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Tattoos by over sixty artists from every continent except Antarctica cover Lyle TuttleÕs body. The intricate patterns cling to his body like multicolored long underwear. But Tuttle is humble about his body of tattoo art, which has been photographed and displayed around the world. ÒIÕm just an old hodgepodge of 
tattoos,Ó he said to me offhandedly. ItÕs this combination of firsthand experience and matter-of-factness that Tuttle brings to The Tattoo Historian.

Each issues reads like a walk through one section of TuttleÕs Tattoo Art Museum in downtown San Francisco. Behind glass are the Samoan tattoo tools Ñ boar-bone combs filed to sharp points Ñ used on Tuttle in Samoa. These artistic implements are pictured 
in the Historian along with a detailed account of a Samoan
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##A 02 273634 327
##T The Tattoo Historian
The Tattoo Historian

@@
Lyle Tuttle and Judy Tuttle, Editors
$5/issue 
(no subscriptions) 
from:

Tattoo Art Museum
30 Seventh Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-864-9798
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##A 02 276790 330
##T The Decorated Body
The Decorated Body

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Anthropologist Robert Brain examines the universal human need to transform the body. One of his principal aims is to diminish the traditional gap between how ÒprimitiveÓ and ÒcivilizedÕÓ body art is understood; our need to express group belonging or rebellion through hair style, clothing, and cosmetics is as urgent as that of the Senegalese, who stretch their childrenÕs skulls in infancy to ensure their beauty as adults.

This book not only wanders through the social, ritual, sexual, and symbolic roots of body decoration in cultures around the world, it cajoles you into experiencing the power and mystery of the primary human language Ñ that of the body. 

Well illustrated with great photos.            Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 02 277530 331
##T The Decorated Body
The Decorated Body

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Robert Brain
1979; 192 pp.
ISBN 0060104589
OUT OF PRINT 

Spalding and Rogers
Route 85/New Scotland Rd.
Voorheesville, NY 12186
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##A 02 280383 335
##T Obsolete Body Suspensions
Obsolete Body Suspensions

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IÕve never actually seen Stelarc perform a body suspension. IÕm not sure IÕd want to. The stretched landscape of his skin as he hangs from hooks through his flesh is difficult to look at even in a book.

Yet images of Stelarc hanging Ñ above water, surrounded by rocks, from granite slabs, or from wooden poles Ñ have floated in my mindÕs eye ever since seeing his book. As I stare into my computer, delving into the mindspace of the networks and electronic drawers where I store and manipulate my ideas, Stelarc haunts me. Disembodiment has for me become one of the resounding themes 
of the information age; his images reharness mind to body with the fierceness of a whip cracking in slow motion. And then slice 
them apart. The body is left suspended somewhere in mind, an
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##A 02 281788 337
##T Obsolete Body Suspensions
Obsolete Body Suspensions

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James D. Paffrath with Stelarc, Editors
1984; 160 pp.
ISBN 0910703000
$16.95 ($18.95 postpaid)
from:

Contemporary Arts Press
P. O. Box 3123
Rincon Annex
San Francisco, CA 94119
415-431-7672
415-431-7524
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##A 02 93503 340
##T MAIL ART
MAIL ART

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by Jeanne Carstensen


The mail art network, or just ÒThe NetworkÓ as itÕs often referred to, is a grassroots, global association of artists who communicate via the post. If the medium is mailable, it can be mail art; xerox art, artistÕs books, postcards, audio and video art, original postage stamps, language art, recycling art and ÒzinesÓ all qualify. Every mail artist has a LIST, the canvas of geographically remote names and addresses upon which she or he works. TheyÕre culled from mail art Õzines, friends, and from the mail art the artist receives from being on someone elseÕs list.

Why do talented artists, incessant communicators, and nice people
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##A 02 285096 350
##T Correspondence Art
Correspondence Art

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Should you want to gaze back on mail art Network activity through 1983 expertly frozen in an anthology of primary documents, Correspondence Art is more than just competent. Here is the international art-scene view of mail art in DETAIL, as told by the NetworkÕs more famous participants in manifestos, short art-history-type articles, and examples of their mail art.
          
                                                       Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 02 285262 351
##T Correspondence Art
Correspondence Art

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Source Book for the Network of International Postal Art Activity
Michael Crane and Mary Stofflet, Editors
1984; 522 pp.
ISBN 0931818028
$15.95 ($17.95 postpaid)
from:

Contemporary Arts Press
P. O. Box 3123 
Rincon Annex 
San Francisco, CA 94119
415-431-7672
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##A 02 286665 354
##T National Stampagraphic
National Stampagraphic

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ÒI stamp therefore I am,Ó these rubber stamp fanatics explain on their cover. This is the best single source of the mail-art staple Ñ rubber stamps. Short articles give ideas for projects, profile stamp artists, and cover some mail art shows, but the real news is in the ads. Many artists have started their own lines of rubber stamps, everything from tacky teddy bears to elegant calligraphy, to bizarre or whimsical designs. Order your catalogs here.                         
                                                
                                                                 Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 02 286769 355
##T National Stampagraphic
National Stampagraphic

@@
ISSN 07475527
$14/year (4 issues)   
$18 foreign
from:

TaylorÕd Graphics
1952 Everett Street
North Valley Stream, NY  11580
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##A 02 175769 357
##T Rubberstampmadness
Rubberstampmadness

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A few years ago, artists realized the value of being able to produce single images over and over and started designing their own rubber stamps. Since then, they have become a mainstay of mail art. Rubberstampmadness is the best the single source for all things rubber and stampable. Their how-to articles inspire you to new heights of stamping artistry, while their ads hawk stamps with images of everything from teddy bears and rainbows to Balinese masks and computer terminals. 

                                                              Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 02 175875 358
##T Rubberstampmadness
Rubberstampmadness

@@
$15/year(6 issues) 
from:

RSM Enterprises
P. O. Box 6585
Ithaca, NY 14851
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##A 02 178024 362
##T RUBBER STAMPLE
RUBBER STAMPLE

@@

Crazy, wild, fun rubberstamps for those important times in life.
These mail-order companies will start you stamping. 

                                                                    Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 02 178391 363
##T RUBBER STAMPLE
RUBBER STAMPLE

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All Night Media Inc.  
Catalog $2 
from:

All Night Media Inc.
Box 2666
San Anselmo, CA 94960
415-459-3013
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##A 02 184153 364
##T RUBBER STAMPLE
RUBBER STAMPLE

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Bizzaro, Inc.
Catalog $1  

P. O. Box 16160
Rumford, RI  02916
401-728-9560
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##A 02 184640 365
##T RUBBER STAMPLE
RUBBER STAMPLE

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A Stamp in the Hand
Catalog $2 from:

A Stamp in the Hand
P.O. Box 5160
Long Beach, CA  90805
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##A 02 185572 366
##T RUBBER STAMPLE
RUBBER STAMPLE

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Inkling Stamp Co. 
Catalog $3 from:

Inkling Stamp Co.
P.O. Box 40195
Santa Barbara, CA  93140
805-969-1367
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##A 02 45596 367
##T RUBBER STAMPLE
RUBBER STAMPLE

@@
Top-Drawer Rubber Stamp Catalog
Catalog free
from:

Top-Drawer Rubber Stamp Co.
Rte A02, Box 72A
Rochester, VT 05767
802-767-4761
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##A 02 186436 375
##T XEROGRAPHY
XEROGRAPHY

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WHAT ARE YOU GOOD FOR?  LET ME COUNT THE WAYS

By Gertrude Myrrh Reagan

BLACK AND WHITE
1. Making letterhead stationery in exactly the quantities needed.
2. Copying careworn phone lists onto strong paper.
3. Moving and editing text without a computer (cut and paste!).
4. Copying my kidÕs best drawing before he mails it away.
5. Cheaply enlarging or reducing (Kodak copier recommended).
6. Culling images I need for art projects without having to tear up large numbers of books and magazines.
7. Experimenting!  For instance, by making acetate xeroxes of drawings and laying them over either the original or another 
es.
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##A 02 285909 377
##T Instant Litter
Instant Litter

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The ultimate disposable art: xerox posters for garage bands, stapled to telephone poles. Art Chantry of Seattle was so struck by a phenomenon he calls Òmore a community primal scream than advertisingÓ that he began to collect and research the posters of the Seattle punk music scene.

The result, Instant Litter, is strange and wonderful and disturbing, filled with the manipulation of innocent middle-class images to display the frank and explosive energy of middle-class fugitives. Whenever possible the posters are deciphered by source and the history of the band; over 150 reproductions.        

                                                                  Ñ Sallie Tisdale
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##A 02 286091 378
##T Instant Litter
Instant Litter

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(Concert Posters from 
Seattle Punk Culture)
Art Chantry
1985; 112 pp.
ISBN 094110415X
$10 ($11.50 postpaid)
from:

The Real Comet Press
3131 Western Avenue #410
Seattle, WA 98121
206-283-7827
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##A 02 187657 382
##T XEROX ART MAGAZINES
XEROX ART MAGAZINES

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by  Jeanne Carstensen

Look at xerox art magazines for art and design ideas and for a dreamlike glimpse into the events of the artistÕs unconscious, love life, or neighborhood. Here is ample inspiration for your own xerox publishing efforts Ñ on a one-time or ongoing basis. These highly eclectic personal expressions are difficult to evaluate for an audience greater than one. So when reading through the reviews in Fact Sheet Five Ù, Sound Choice, or other magazines, take note of what sounds fun and order away. Experimentation is the rule here, for readers and publishers alike.  

Here are three I like:
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##A 02 187991 386
##T XEROX ART MAGAZINES
XEROX ART MAGAZINES

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Box of Water 
Stephen Perkins, Editor
$5 (2 issues) 
from:

Box of Water
135 Cole Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
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##A 02 189370 387
##T XEROX ART MAGAZINES
XEROX ART MAGAZINES

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False Positive
Donna Kossy, Editor
$10 (4 issues) 
from:

Out-of-Control Data Korporation
P.O. Box 432
Boston, MA 02258
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##A 02 189696 388
##T XEROX ART MAGAZINES
XEROX ART MAGAZINES

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PhotoStatic Magazine
Lloyd Dunn, Editor
$6/year (6 issues) 
from:

PhotoStatic Magazine
330 South Linn Street
Iowa City, IA 52240
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##A 02 169439 391
##T Work Hard and . . . Be Rewarded
Work Hard and . . . Be Rewarded

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Every office I have ever been in has at least one corner plastered with cartoons, doggerel, and folk art made possible by the xerox machine. Taped on walls and bulletin boards, circulated by friends, these half-serious postings are galleries for a national communications channel that touches nearly everyone. Like all folklore, they are unexamined messages from the cultureÕs subconscious; the material which gets passed around the most is often racist, pornographic, or anti-bureaucratic. These two collections, accurately subtitled ÒUrban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire,Ó relay the quiet shift from an oral folklore to an inked folklore, driven by the inventions of typewriters, copy machines, and instant printers.
                                                                     Ñ Kevin Kelly 
Ù Urban Legends
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##A 02 171562 392
##T Work Hard and . . . Be Rewarded
Work Hard and . . . Be Rewarded

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Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded 
Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire
Alan Dundes and Carl R. Pagter
1978; 223 pp.
ISBN 0253202078
$6.95 ($8.70 postpaid)
from:

Indiana University Press
10th and Morton Streets
Bloomington, IN 47405
812-335-6804
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##A 02 269540 393
##T Work Hard and . . . Be Rewarded
Work Hard and . . . Be Rewarded

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When YouÕre Up to Your Ass In Alligators...

Alan Dundes and Carl R. Pagter
1987; 272 pp.
ISBN 0814318673
$9.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Wayne State University Press
Detroit, MI 48202
313-577-6120
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##A 02 287421 398
##T ZINES: YOUR RIGHT TO RAVE
ZINES: YOUR RIGHT TO RAVE

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by Jeanne Carstensen

Deep down, I think we all believe weÕre the smartest hunks of flesh to ever walk the planet.

Admit it. You know the real truth and want to publish it. You are destined to write, edit, design, draw, and cartoon your ideas into the psyche of this raging nation (this nationÕs raging psyche?). If only you had access to the presses . . .

So start your own magazine. Engage the best writers and artists 
(you and your friends) and distribute it to the most influential opinion leaders (you and your friends). Exercise your right to rave. After all, thatÕs what professional writers do. They just get paid
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##A 02 340217 402
##T Factsheet Five
Factsheet Five

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Mike GunderloyÕs alternative/underground Õzine review is the best single source of Õzine information. Mike somehow manages to write hundreds of short, helpful, funny reviews each issue on 
Õzines of confounding variety. He calls Factsheet Five Òthe Õzine 
of crosscurrents and cross-pollination.Ó One 30-minute browse
of the anarchistic, evangelical, xerox- and mail-art, bioregional, libertarian, animal-rights, and music Õzine reviews (to name only a few kinds) spreads around a lot of strange pollen. DonÕt miss this Õzine of Õzines.

                                                                Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 02 340856 403
##T Factsheet Five
Factsheet Five

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Mike Gunderloy, Editor
ISSN 08906823
$8/year (4 issues) 
from:

Fact-Sheet Five
6 Arizona Avenue 
Rensselaer, NY 12144
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##A 02 343659 407
##T AFM
AFM

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Probably my favorite, though it can hardly be considered a Õzine. There is no front or back cover, and no pages in between. A postcard will get you an envelope of some kind of art; each mailing is unique.

My first AFM was an envelope full of lacy paper art, color cardboard shapes, and collages. ThereÕs nothing like receiving an AFM package, because itÕs not every day that you receive a colorful pile of whimsical pieces of art. My latest AFM package drew even more attention than usual around the office. It was a large box plastered with stamps and decorations. Inside was an original drawing which I now have on my wall: sort of eighties psychedelic.
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##A 02 344646 409
##T AFM
AFM

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Send SASE  to:

AFM
18 NW 100th Street 
Miami, FL 33150
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##A 02 347409 412
##T Slambook
Slambook

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More exploration in form. Slambook is a xeroxed booklet of a questionnaire put out at a concert or party. People answer questions like Who do you hate and like the most? Who is your favorite band, guitar player, and actor? What is your favorite club, restaurant, beer, radio station and record store? and What is your name, address, and occupation?

I like Slambook mainly because IÕve never seen anything like it before.

                                                                Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 02 347789 413
##T Slambook
Slambook

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$3 each postpaid 
from:

SeeHear
59 East 7th Street
New York, NY 10003
212-505-9781
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##A 02 348825 415
##T Art Police
Art Police

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I was immediately attracted to the cover: a pen-and-ink drawing of a robot french-kissing a skeleton. If that doesnÕt intrigue you, you might hate Art Police comic books.

Inside are more drawings of a slightly depraved nature Ñ lots of sex and war and clashing of humans and technology. But theyÕre recognizable nightmares, kind of post-industrial Blake.

                                                                Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 02 349056 416
##T Art Police
Art Police

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$15/year (3 issues) 
from:

Art Police
3131 First Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55408
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##A 02 350402 420
##T Jim
Jim

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Jim Woodring is a surrealist artist and writer who puts out his own magazine. I liked his drawings so much I asked him to illustrate an article for WER. Strange juxtapositions of animals and objects in eerie environments skillfully illustrate the poetry in JimÕs head. My own dreams seem boring in comparison.

Fantagraphics books Ù, publishers of Love and Rockets and many other quality comics, have just started publishing JIM. I would still recommend contacting Jim directly to see what back issues of the xeroxed JIM and other booklets he has available.

                                                                Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 02 350592 421
##T Jim
Jim

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Jim Woodring
 $2.75 each postpaid
from:

Fantagraphics Books, Inc.
1800 Bridgegate Street
Suite 101
Westlake Village, Ca 91361
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##A 02 199402 430
##T Woo-Woo
Woo-Woo

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Woo-Woo brought the office to a standstill when it arrived. Well, not quite Ñ Wow! Chortle! Hey, listen to this! Billing itself as Òa linguistic cattle prod, a visual alarm clock,Ó its gentle, transcendental anarchism is aimed at those of us who drowse from time to time. Wake up, get real, relax. Definitely my favorite        
Õzine.

                                                                     Ñ Sarah Satterlee
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##A 02 203093 431
##T Woo-Woo
Woo-Woo

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Brent Deaver, Editor
Send a dollar or two
or trade something.
from:

Woo-Woo
730 East Johnson
Madison, WI  53703
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##A 02 183344 436
##T WRITING ON A COMPUTER: INTRODUCTION
WRITING ON A COMPUTER: INTRODUCTION

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by Art Kleiner

A writing program Ñ or Òword processor,Ó as IBM dubbed it back in the early 1960s Ñ is essentially a compromise. It mediates between the staid, two-dimensional, printed page, and the wigged-out, evanescent, multi-dimensional world behind your computer screen. Most word processing newcomers are so dazzled by the freedom of shuffling words around, that they forget the real task of a word processor is formatting Ñ making sure the word looks exactly the way you want it on the printed page. YouÕll realize how hard that is the first time you try to word-process your resume.

Because the Macintosh is so rigidly and cleverly designed to control the look of the printed page, it (along with a laser printer)
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##A 02 336930 439
##T WRITING ON A COMPUTER: INTRODUCTION
WRITING ON A COMPUTER: INTRODUCTION

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Typing Tutor
Macintosh $59.95
IBM PC $49.95
from:

Simon & Schuster
Electronic Publishing Group
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
212-698-7000

Not copy-protected.
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##A 02 338699 440
##T WordPerfect
WordPerfect

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(5.0 for MS-DOS, Macintosh, Amiga, and other computers) Ñ The best all round. On the Mac and MS-DOS machines, it surpasses its equally quirky rival, Microsoft Word. Generally, I prefer WordPerfectÕs crypticness to WordÕs cumbersomeness. The Òclean screenÓ WordPerfect presents is its best-known feature, but it excels at subtleties Ñ like the way each line reformats itself as soon as you move to the next line. Version 5.0 is a much better formatter, especially for laser printers, than its still-available predecessor, version 4.1. Though 5.0Õs newness makes it (by definition) buggy, WordPerfectÕs support is well-reputed, and everywhere you go youÕll find people who know it. I use this program whenever IÕm on a strange computer, or need to create files that will travel from one computer to another.
                                                                         Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 02 339146 441
##T WordPerfect
WordPerfect

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Version 5.0; not copy-protected; IBM PC $495;
Macintosh $395
from:

WordPerfect Corporation
1515 Technology Way
Orem, UT 84057
800-321-4566
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##A 02 337746 442
##T PC-Write
PC-Write

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(for MS-DOS computers) Ñ Far and away the best bargain Ñ a full-fledged word processing program for $75. Great formatting control, especially on inexpensive printers which other programs canÕt always master. But shareware author Bob Wallace has tacked on so many features over the years, that this is somewhat hard to learn. It uses only plain text, and handles only short files; I use it for much of my quick, short work.

                                                                         Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 02 340229 443
##T PC-Write
PC-Write

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Version 2.5; not copy-protected.
$75 from:

Quicksoft
219 First Avenue North, #224
Seattle, WA 98109
206-282-0452
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##A 02 341373 444
##T Nota Bene
Nota Bene

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(for MS-DOS computers) Ñ A group of graduate students adapted an extremely versatile professional-level word processing program called XYWrite, added a superb set of extra features (different types of footnoting and bibliographies, for starters), and linked with a groundbreaking Òtext baseÓ facility. You enter, say, notes and interview transcripts, or material downloaded from computer networks. Then, while writing, say, a piece on superconductivity, you can browse through all segments that contain the phrase 
Òmaglev,Ó and import any into your document, for further juggling. Nota Bene is somewhat hackerish Ñ for many tasks, you must type in commands Ñ and its onscreen help is execrable. But I find myself using it for all my serious writing.

                                                                         Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 02 341691 445
##T Nota Bene
Nota Bene

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IBM  PC $495
Version 3.0; not copy-protected.
from:

Dragonfly Software
285 West Broadway,
Suite #600
New York, NY 10013
212-334-0445
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##A 02 342733 446
##T Framework II
Framework II

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(for MS-DOS computers) Ñ Probably the most intuitively correct word processing program ever designed, in a package that also includes spreadsheets, data management, and telecommunications. Most importantly, Framework frees you from what Ted Nelson calls Òthe tyranny of the fileÓ; you can work with as many documents as you wish at once, and switch rapidly back and forth between them. Tradeoff: formatting is not so versatile. Framework users live in this program and never leave. Expanded memory boards are highly recommended. I use it for complex jobs involving many interrelated documents.

                                                                         Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 02 342842 447
##T Framework II
Framework II

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IBM PC $695
from:

Ashton-Tate
10150 Jefferson Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90230
800-437-4329, ext. 2240; 303-799-4900, ext. 2240 (CO)

Copy-protected
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##A 02 343932 448
##T Q&A
Q&A

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(for MS-DOS computers) Ñ Best simple-to-use word processing program IÕve seen for MS-DOS computers, with enough features so youÕll hardly grow out of it. For a little extra, you get a version with a built-in file manager for easily making mailing lists. I use it to introduce other people to word processing.

                                                                         Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 02 344174 449
##T Q&A
Q&A

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Version 3.0; not copy-protected; IBM PC .
$349 from:

Symantec Corporation
10201 Torre Avenue
Cupertino, CA 95014
408-253-9600
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##A 02 345134 450
##T FullWrite Professional
FullWrite Professional

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(for Macintosh computers) Ñ  The kitchen sink and then some, including the ability to wrap text around graphics. Somehow, they designed all these complex features so that non-computer people can control them without twisting our brains through hoops. Only trouble: it requires 2 megabytes or more of memory, which effectively adds $800 (as I write this) to the cost of your Macintosh. This is the hands-down best word processing program, though, on every level, that I have ever used. I use it whenever I can.

                                                                         Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 02 345447 451
##T FullWrite Professional
FullWrite Professional

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Macintosh $295 from:

Ann Arbor Softworks
9852 Teller Road, #106
Newbury Park, CA 91320
805-498-4844

Version 1.0; not copy-protected.
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##A 02 346445 452
##T WriteNow
WriteNow

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(for Macintosh computers) Ñ Easy to learn, effective, and fast; best choice for a beginning word processing program. I use it for quick stuff on the Mac. A forthcoming version (2.0) is supposed to be more versatile.

                                                                         Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 02 346826 453
##T WriteNow
WriteNow

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$175 from:

T/Maker
1390 Villa Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
415-962-0195

Version 2.0; not copy-protected; Macintosh.
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##A 02 206203 455
##T ForComment
ForComment

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Organizations write important stuff in groups. If you want to change a company policy, say, everyone will want to get into the act: one person drafts a proposal, then herds of interested parties will review the draft, scrawling marginal notes and suggested changes all over the original. ForComment controls that group writing/approval process elegantly. Each comment is carefully stored by contributor, recording each personÕs suggestions by date and initials in an audit/edit trail file, so you can go back later and reconstruct how the final document was put together. You even get to try out suggested changes without modifying the original to see how well that suggestion might work. ForComment is particularly useful when all parties are linked together by a local area network, but works quite well passing the annotated document around on a floppy disk.                                                 Ñ Richard Dalton
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##A 02 206518 456
##T ForComment
ForComment

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$295  from:

Br¿derbund Software Inc.
17 Paul Drive
San Rafael CA 94903-2101
415-492-3200

Version 1.16; Not copy-protected. For IBM compatibles.
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##A 02 208842 457
##T Language Technology
Language Technology

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This thrilling periodical began with a seemingly dull mission: to explore machine (computer) translation of one language into another. The editors use that query as an excuse to follow their curiosity into overlapping concepts such as Controlled English (a simplified vocabulary to force clear technical writing), automatic lip syncing, bilingual word processors, synthetic grammars, hyper-linked text, and renewed Pidgin languages. Each issue expands the borderless territory of their search.

Language is so easily employed without gadgetry, that as in the case of arithmetic and mathematics, when technology does bear down upon it, it is pressed into self-discovery. In this awakening lies the germ of universal language calculators.
                                                                            Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 02 209323 458
##T Language Technology
Language Technology

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Louis Rossetto, Editor
$50/year (6 issues)
from:

Language Technology
P. O. Box 624
Norwell, MA 02061-0624
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##A 02 211268 460
##T Word Finder
Word Finder

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Often in writing itÕs important not to break stride as an idea leads you down an eloquent path. If you stumble on a wrong word or stupidly repeated word, that self-conciousness can throw you off, and stopping to grab a thesaurus for help can make you lose the thoughtÕs momentum entirely. Till now IÕve found RodaleÕs book The Synonym Finder ($19.95, Rodale Press) to be the least disruptive word fixer.

IÕve converted to Word Finder because its selection of alternate words is just as good as RodaleÕs, maybe better, and I can check it in mid-stride, as itÕs a Òdesk accessoryÓ for the machine IÕm writing on. That means I can ÒselectÓ any word thatÕs giving me pause, invoke the Word Finder desk accessory by grabbing it from the pull-down Apple menu always available on screen, and
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##A 02 211719 462
##T Word Finder
Word Finder

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$59.95 Macintosh version 1.0.
PC MS-DOS version 4.0 $79.95  
from:

Microlytics, Inc.
300 Main Street
East Rochester, NY 14445
800-828-6293

Not copy-protected.
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##A 02 212404 463
##T WebsterÕs New World Professional Thesaurus
WebsterÕs New World Professional Thesaurus

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Too often, the word you need on the page is not the word you entered on the screen. An onscreen thesaurus helps you scan through possible synonyms and automatically replaces the old word with the better word. Quality in an onscreen thesaurus depends on the number of synonyms available; this one puts the equivalent of a page or two of RogetÕs on your screen for every word you look up. I actually stopped using one word processor ÑFramework II Ñ because I couldnÕt get WebsterÕs Thesaurus to work with it. 

                                                                       Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 02 212664 464
##T WebsterÕs New World Professional Thesaurus
WebsterÕs New World Professional Thesaurus

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Korenthal Associates, Inc.
1987; 105 pp.
ISBN 0671660527
Software $129.95 (Software $132.45 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ  07675
800-624-0023; 800-624-0024 (NJ)

Version 1.0. Not copy-protected. IBM PC, PC/XT, PC AT, PS/2; hard disk; DOS 2.0 or higher; 1,208,576 bytes disk storage.
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##A 02 13337 466
##T CHINESE WORD PROCESSORS
CHINESE WORD PROCESSORS

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The complexities of Chinese have been married to the conveniences of personal computers. Of several Chinese software programs I know about, the Kuo Chiao program is the most affordable ($174). It allows four methods of entering words as characters: 1) by Pinyin (Roman letters); 2) by Chinese phonetics; 3) by radical and stroke order; and 4) by creating your own. Each way gives you 10,000 full-blooded Chinese characters (or newfangled simplified ones) ready to be word processed, left to right or up to down. Runs on an IBM compatible with a graphics card.

Far more elegant is the program TianMa (Heavenly Horse). It has similar input methods, but does sophisticated word analysis in which it will select the proper character based on the other words
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##A 02 14069 469
##T CHINESE WORD PROCESSORS
CHINESE WORD PROCESSORS

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Kuo Chiao Chinese Characters 
$174 postpaid  from:

Key International
834 Henderson Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94056
408-247-6220

Version 1.0.
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##A 02 18493 470
##T CHINESE WORD PROCESSORS
CHINESE WORD PROCESSORS

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TianMa
$615 postpaid  from:

Pacific Rim Connections
3030 Atwater Drive
Burlingame, CA 94010
415-699-0911

Version 2.06
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##A 02 34917 471
##T CHINESE WORD PROCESSORS
CHINESE WORD PROCESSORS

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FeiMa 
S Version $200; regular version $400; SE version $590 postpaid
from:

Unisource Software
23 East Street
Cambridge, MA 02141
617-477-8383
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##A 02 52291 472
##T FOREIGN LANGUAGE WORD PROCESSORS
FOREIGN LANGUAGE WORD PROCESSORS

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If youÕve been beating your head against the wall trying to find Macintosh-based word processing software in languages like Russian, Arabic, or Korean, here are a couple of companies that will save a lot  of wear and tear on your skull. LinguistsÕ Software specializes in European, Russian, Near and Far Eastern languages. Besides common tongues like Spanish, German, and French, LinguistsÕ Software carries modern and ancient Greek, Coptic, Hebrew, Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Arabic and Farsi, Akkadian, Cyrillic, Chinese, Kanji, Kana, Korean, and Thai. Their TECH and LaserTECH packages feature mathematical and scientific symbols. The documentation that accompanies their programs is pretty lame, but if you have some Macintosh experience you should be able to get the system up and running quickly anyway. Most of their software prices average between $80 and $100.
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##A 02 170184 474
##T FOREIGN LANGUAGE WORD PROCESSORS
FOREIGN LANGUAGE WORD PROCESSORS

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Japanese Language Services
Catalog free from:

Japanese Language Services
Software Department
186 Lincoln Street
Boston, MA 02111
617-338-2211
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##A 02 174757 475
##T FOREIGN LANGUAGE WORD PROCESSORS
FOREIGN LANGUAGE WORD PROCESSORS

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LinguistÕs Software
Catalog free from:

LinguistsÕ Software
925 Hendley Lane
Edmonds, WA 98020
206-775-1130
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##A 02 213381 477
##T WHY I LOVE MY USED COPY MACHINE
WHY I LOVE MY USED COPY MACHINE

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by Tom Ferguson

I relied on an outside copy service for my first ten years as a full time writer. I didnÕt really think I needed my own copier Ñ I only averaged 30-50 copies per week, and that only meant a trip or two to my local copy shop. 

Then about a year ago my wife Meredith received a small Canon Personal Copier as a present, and we suddenly found dozens of new ways to use it: Meredith used it for her archeology research. I brought my Òto copyÓ file home each night. Our daughter Adrienne made copies of her notes for her friends at school. And friends began dropping over regularly Òto use your copy machine.Ó  It was small, convenient, and quite nice to have around. I once overheard
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##A 02 290266 482
##T Canon PC20 Personal Copier
Canon PC20 Personal Copier

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IÕve come to believe that a personal copier is as important as a personal computer for doing research, writing, almost any intellectual activity. Having one vastly accelerated a book project for me Ñ I copied notes from my notebooks and quotes from books and taped them onto 5 x 8 cards, and those cards became the handy coin of the bookÕs realm. I share information more now, because
itÕs so easy to knock out a copy for someone, and I file stuff more reliably in multiple versions. A copier is even invaluable around the home Ñ copy the recipe from a bulky cookbook, copy the portion of the map youÕre driving on today, make a copy of AuntieÕs postcard or JuniorÕs theme for Mom.

The great thing about the small copiers that have much of their high-tech in disposable cartridges is that they so seldom break
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##A 02 290685 484
##T Canon PC20 Personal Copier
Canon PC20 Personal Copier

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Suggested retail $1,095; actually available for far less
Suggested retail $1,095; actually available for far less
(down to about $700). Check local Canon dealers and discount office-supply outfits. Cartridges containing toner in assorted colors, drum and developer are about $80.
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##A 02 213779 485
##T COPIER HALF-TONE ALTERNATIVES
COPIER HALF-TONE ALTERNATIVES

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A half-tone is a photo that has been rephotographed behind a black dot matrix; this breaks the image into individual dots so that it can later be reproduced in newspapers and magazines. Copyscreen is a clever variation on this idea, using a white dot matrix to simulate the half-tone process. Just place a Copyscreen onto the glass surface of any good copying machine and voila! Ñ near half-tone quality for the few cents it costs you for a regular copy. This is a great tool for making quick xeroxes for friends, and for little magazines that would like to run photos, but canÕt afford stats. 

                                                                      Ñ Richard  Kadrey
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##A 02 214101 486
##T COPIER HALF-TONE ALTERNATIVES
COPIER HALF-TONE ALTERNATIVES

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Copyscreen
$3.25 from:

Dot Pasteup Supplies
1612 California St.
P.O. Box 369
Omaha, NE 6810
800-228-7272.

Available at most art supply stores
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##A 02 109651 488
##T Elements of Style
Elements of Style

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A thin volume that teaches and demonstrates the virtues of brevity. And clarity. And how good writing is inseparable from common sense. ÒStrunk and White,Ó as everyone calls it, is fewer than 100 pages, but those pages last a lifetime.

                                                                        Ñ Steven Levy
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##A 02 109991 489
##T Elements of Style
Elements of Style

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William Strunk, Jr. & E.B. White
3rd Edition 1979; 85 pp.
ISBN 0024182206
$3.50 postpaid from:

MacMillan Publishing Co.
Order Dept.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
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##A 02 112581 494
##T Writing Without Teachers
Writing Without Teachers


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I ÒtaughtÓ college composition for three years, and was continually amazed at how intelligent, articulate people froze up when it came to committing themselves to paper. Peter Elbow has a solution: freewriting, best done in a class set up by and for people who want to write better.
                                                                       Ñ Steven Levy

According to Peter Elbow, writing is sculpted from a rocky mass that youÕve generated freely, rather than wrought from an agony of cerebral ozone. His advice on how ranges from the specific to the sublime. Read the book literally  Ñ  youÕll write. Then read Writing as a metaphor and just enjoy his wisdom.

                                                                     Ñ Stephanie Mills
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##A 02 112881 495
##T Writing Without Teachers
Writing Without Teachers


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Peter Elbow
1973; 196 pp.
ISBN 0195016793
$6.95 postpaid from:

Oxford University Press
16-00 Pollitt Drive
Fairlawn, NJ 07410
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##A 02 113688 498
##T On Writing Well
On Writing Well

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The fact that William Zinsser revised his excellent On Writing Well a mere four years after its first publication says more about writing well than anything I can think of. Writing, to be good, cannot be writ as if in stone, not even by a professor of it. ItÕs got to be honest, responsive, current, and above all mindful of the readerÕs impatient intelligence.

If you are serious about communicating with your readers, this book belongs on your shelf right next to Strunk and WhiteÕs Elements of Style and the dictionary of your choice.
                                                                     
                                                               Ñ Stephanie Mills
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##A 02 114164 499
##T On Writing Well
On Writing Well

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William Zinsser
3rd edition 1988; 246 pp.
ISBN 0060473975
$7.95 ($9.45 postpaid)
from:

J.B. Lippincott Co.
Downsville Pike
Route 3, Box 20B
Hagerstown, MD 21740
800-638-3030
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##A 02 291266 504
##T A WriterÕs Time
A WriterÕs Time

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There I was with a nice advance from a New York publisher to write a book, and there was only one tiny problem, which I did not discuss with the publisher. IÕd never written a book and didnÕt know how. I knew how to write, to edit, even to publish, but authoring? Help!

Help came in the form of a little book (read it in an evening; read it again the next evening) that spelled out precisely the task at hand: how to write a book. I got innumerable good things from AtchityÕs counsel, but the main three probably were these:

Time is everything in the labor of writing. Organize your time, and the writing will have a chance to organize itself. I used most of AtchityÕs tips except the taking of many mini-vacations (I didnÕt
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##A 02 292173 507
##T A WriterÕs Time
A WriterÕs Time

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Kenneth Atchity
1986; 194 pp.
ISBN 0393022358
$12.95 postpaid 
from:

W.W. Norton
500 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY  10110
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##A 02 117202 511
##T The Art of Fiction
The Art of Fiction

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The late John Gardner was an accomplished novelist with a passionate concern in promoting a literary ethic of conservatism and high standards. This book, Òdesigned to teach the serious beginning writer the art of fiction,Ó is a thoughtful consideration of the techniques and pitfalls of that art. It manages to maintain a critical rigorousness that demystifies the work of world-class fiction without dampening the enthusiasm of novices, who can benefit mightily from the pragmatic discussion herein.

                                                                         Ñ Steven Levy
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##A 02 117274 512
##T The Art of Fiction
The Art of Fiction

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John Gardner
1983; 224 pp.
ISBN 0394725441
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 02 115911 515
##T Becoming a Writer
Becoming a Writer

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Dorothea Brande makes not one mention of technique, her tacit assumption being that once a writer has gotten past the ÒrootÓ problems, a style manual should be easy to find. Instead she offers exercises for learning to see innocently, harnessing the flow of the subconscious, and reckoning with grittier concerns such as writerÕs block. ÒHer whole focus,Ó observes John Gardner in the foreword, Òis on the writerÕs mind and heart.Ó That single-mindedness of focus is the glory of this wise and useful little book.

                                                             Ñ Teresa Carpenter
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##A 02 116071 516
##T Becoming a Writer
Becoming a Writer

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Dorothea Brande
1981, 1934; 186 pp.
ISBN 0874771641
$6.95 ($8.20 postpaid)
from:

St. MartinÕs Press
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
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##A 02 138334 519
##T Writing & Illuminating & Lettering
Writing & Illuminating & Lettering

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Continuously in print since its initial publication in 1906, this is the text that anyone involved in the lettering arts ought to have. It has held an undisputed position as the best book on the craft of lettering for 80 years.

Through his study of medieval manuscripts in the British Museum, Edward Johnston rediscovered the dynamic properties of the square cut pen as the essential letter making tool. Single-handedly he revived an art that had been killed by the invention of printing in the 15th century.  Though somewhat dated in appearance, this bookÕs thinking remains sound; its spirit is pervasive: ÒAll things Ñ  materials, tools, methods  Ñ  are waiting to serve us and we have only to find the ÔspellÕ that will set the whole universe a-making for us.Ó                                                Ñ John Prestianni
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##A 02 138647 520
##T Writing & Illuminating & Lettering
Writing & Illuminating & Lettering

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Edward Johnston
1977; 439 pp.
ISBN 080088731X
$11.95 ($12.95 postpaid)
from:

Taplinger Publishing Co.
132 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
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##A 02 223872 526
##T The CalligrapherÕs Handbook
The CalligrapherÕs Handbook

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The original edition of The CalligrapherÕs Handbook, published in 1956, consisted of a series of essays on various aspects of the craft of calligraphy and illumination by students of Edward Johnston. These students not only worked in the tradition he revived, but also developed and refined certain aspects of practical technique long after the initial publication of his Writing and Illuminating and Lettering in 1906.

This new version reflects more than just a simple expansion of the repertory of techniques and craft methods. Heather Child, who edited the new Handbook, says in her preface:

ÒThe motivation for work has moved away from the functional making of manuscripts into the more innovative sphere of
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##A 02 228534 528
##T The CalligrapherÕs Handbook
The CalligrapherÕs Handbook

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Heather Child, Editor
1986; 260 pp.
ISBN 0800811984
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Taplinger Publishing Company
132 West 22nd Street
New York, NY  10011
212-741-0801
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##A 02 233330 532
##T Italic Calligraphy & Handwriting
Italic Calligraphy & Handwriting

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This little book contains concise and precise instruction on attaining a classic Òhand.Ó Master these teachings and you will be a calligrapher. DonÕt master them and you will still learn to honor the process.

                                                            Ñ Sarah Satterlee
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##A 02 233793 533
##T Italic Calligraphy & Handwriting
Italic Calligraphy & Handwriting

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Exercises & Text
Lloyd J. Reynolds
1969; 64 pp.
$4.50 ($5.50 postpaid)
from:

Taplinger Publishing Company
132 West 22nd Street
New York, NY  10011
212-741-0801
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##A 02 235232 537
##T John Neal, Bookseller
John Neal, Bookseller

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Just browsing through this catalog makes me wish I had continued with that calligraphy class I started 5 years ago and didnÕt. John Neal carries and reviews a wide assortment of books on letter arts Ñ instruction, history, reference, inspiration Ñ as well as supplies. 
                                                        Ñ Sarah Satterlee
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##A 02 235604 538
##T John Neal, Bookseller
John Neal, Bookseller

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Catalog of calligraphy books and supplies free from:


1833 Spring Garden Street
Greensboro, NC  27403
919-272-7604
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##A 02 237476 542
##T MacCalligraphy
MacCalligraphy

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This Japanese-style calligraphy package is a class act from start to finish.

Start with the packaging Ñ a simple wooden box Ñ and a nicely designed manual, then into the easily used software that lets you make brushstrokes that look like brushstrokes and not like ruled lines.

Different brush sizes, styles of stroke (Son, Gyou, Ten and Kai), touch and Washi (paper absorbency) give a great diversity of shape. Shades of grey, mixed on an inkstone with ink block and water, and wet or dry brush add texture. The thick- or thinness of the stroke is controlled by the velocity of the mouse; quick movement for thin lines, slow for fat.
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##A 02 237623 544
##T MacCalligraphy
MacCalligraphy

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$149.95 from:

Qualitas Trading Co.
6907 Norfolk Road
Berkeley, CA 94705

Version 2.0; for Macintosh. 512K. Not copy-protected.
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##A 02 239733 549
##T SYD FIELD ON SCREENWRITING
SYD FIELD ON SCREENWRITING

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A nuts-and-bolts approach to creating a screenplay. The book benefits greatly by its detailed references to successful examples Ñ particularly Robert TowneÕs script for Chinatown. Author Syd Field is a Hollywood insider who doesnÕt question the system, but frankly explains how a movie is structured and why. At times he sounds like an old-school mogul knocking sense into some artsy-fartsy literary type. This quality makes Screenplay not only a valuable writing resource, but an instructive volume for film buffs, too.
                                                                       Ñ Stephen Levy

ThereÕs also a companion volume, set up as a workbook. YouÕll probably want to read both.
                                                                         Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 02 240040 550
##T SYD FIELD ON SCREENWRITING
SYD FIELD ON SCREENWRITING

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Screenplay
Syd Field
1979, 1982; 246 pp.
ISBN 0440576474
$8.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Dell Reader Service
P.O. Box 5057
Des Plaines, IL 60017
800-932-0070
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##A 02 240909 551
##T SYD FIELD ON SCREENWRITING
SYD FIELD ON SCREENWRITING

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The ScreenwriterÕs Workbook
Syd Field
1984; 211 pp.
ISBN 0440582253
$8.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Dell Reader Service
P.O. Box 5057
Des Plaines, IL 60017
800-932-0070
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##A 02 240805 555
##T Script City
Script City

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Script City is the company to go to for the original scripts of hundreds of movies, TV movies, TV episodes, as well as books about how to write scripts, how to sell scripts, and the movie biz in general.

I bought a copy of the script for my favorite movie, Red Dawn, from them. Looking through the script, I almost had a spasm. The original script held together a lot better and told a far more coherent story than the final product. If nothing else, I reappraised John Milius, the director, pretty thoroughly.

If you want to write a movie script on a subject that has had several movies made about it already, procuring copies of the scripts of these movies might save your brainchild from being
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##A 02 241790 557
##T Script City
Script City

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Catalog $2 from:

Script City
1765 North Highland Avenue
Suite 760-WE
Hollywood, CA 90028
213-871-0707
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##A 02 242956 561
##T The Corporate Scriptwriting Book
The Corporate Scriptwriting Book

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For the Roxie, itÕs not. Short and sweet for a captive audience, it is. Ten minutes at the most, aimed at increased sales, morale improvement, skill training, or stockholder joy. Might be a slide show, video, or film. HereÕs how itÕs done. Judging by the awful presentations IÕve seen, the skills involved must be elusive. This book should help.

                                                                  Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 02 243204 562
##T The Corporate Scriptwriting Book
The Corporate Scriptwriting Book

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Business Films, Videotapes and Slide Shows
Donna Matrazzo
Revised Edition 1986; 207 pp.
ISBN 0932617077
$14.95 ($16.45 postpaid)
from:

Communication Publishing Co.
548 NE 43rd Avenue
Portland, OR 97213
503-239-5141
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##A 02 133892 566
##T The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

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THE visual style book. Turn a page in this finely printed volume and youÕll be treated to another ingenious chart that is at once simple, telling, and beautiful. Flamboyant graphs, particularly those dressing up insensible data, are bad craft: ÒIf the statistics are boring, then youÕve got the wrong numbers.Ó The rules are like writing well  Ñ  do it honestly and clearly. Tufte gives memorable, handsome examples of how to display information with integrity and clarity. The book is a good example. ItÕs one that you return to dip into before you pick up graph paper.             

                                                                       Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 02 136004 567
##T The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

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Edward R. Tufte
1983; 197 pp.
$34 postpaid from:

Graphics Press
Box 430
Cheshire, CT  06410
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##A 02 136970 571
##T Forget all the rules about graphic design.
Forget all the rules about graphic design.

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As he was being taken away by the police, acrobat Philippe Petit explained why he had walked a rope between two of the worldÕs tallest buildings: ÒI see three oranges, I have to juggle. I see two towers, I have to walk.Ó

Seeing unique aspects in commonplace things is also what makes for original graphic design. In this inspiring book, John Gill showcases a hundred of his toughest design problems with his wittiest solutions. According to Gill, to arrive at a unique solution you need to define a unique problem. However, the complete title of the book is: Forget all the rules you ever learned about graphic design. Including the ones in this book.
                                                             
                                                                       Ñ David Jouris
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##A 02 137328 572
##T Forget all the rules about graphic design.
Forget all the rules about graphic design.

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Bob Gill
1981; 168 pp.
ISBN 823018644
$17.95 ($19.95 postpaid)
from:

Watson Guptill Publishers
1695 Oak Street
Lakewood, NJ 08701
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##A 02 138187 575
##T Step-by-Step Graphics
Step-by-Step Graphics

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The current trend in graphics magazines is the how-to genre. 
Step-by-Step Graphics is a good entry-level introduction, offering solid advice on such basics as copy-fitting, trouble-shooting the airbrush, or simple techniques for adding color to black and white line art. The emphasis is on the creative process rather than the finished result, with lots of large, clear photos showing each stage of a project. Readers are encouraged to participate by sharing short cuts and case studies of their own. Though a bit pricey at $7.50 a copy, the information is often worth it.
                                                                   
                                                             Ñ Rebecca Wilson
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##A 02 139526 576
##T Step-by-Step Graphics
Step-by-Step Graphics

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Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel, Editorial Director
ISBN 08867682
$42/year (7 issues) 
from:

Step-by-Step Graphics
6000 North Forest Park Drive
P.O. Box 1901
Peoria, IL 61614-3592
800-255-8800
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##A 02 30689 579
##T How . . .
How . . .

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How . . . is geared for the graphic arts professional, focusing as much on business tips as studio techniques. Each issue offers advice from top-level art buyers on developing and presenting your portfolio. The how-to features include the evolution of concepts as well as the steps involved in their execution. Close-up articles feature graphics heavyweights such as Milton Glaser. The magazine itself is quite attractively designed.
                                                                   
                                                        Ñ Rebecca Wilson
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##A 02 31432 580
##T How . . .
How . . .

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Philip Smith, Editor-in-Chief
ISSN 08860483
$37/year (6 issues) 
from:

R.C. Publications
6400 Goldsboro Road
Bethesda, MD  20817
800-229-6700
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##A 02 144392 584
##T DesignerÕs Guide to Color
DesignerÕs Guide to Color

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Anybody who designs with color  Ñ  house painters, knitters,
graphic types, etc.  Ñ  will find these three volumes useful. They show the effect of thousands of two- and three-color combinations, and how perceived colors change in relation to their neighbors. The charts will lead you to thoughtful and often surprising color combinations.

Volume One shows many possible dual color combinations,
with one hue constant per page. Volume Two deals with pastels and brights, and includes more three-color combos. Each color is broken down into percentages of stock printing tints: yellows, 
magenta, cyan, and black, for graphic-arts folks. Most color books costs hundreds; these have gobs of color, few words, and are very affordable.                                                    Ñ Kathleen OÕNeill
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##A 02 145813 585
##T DesignerÕs Guide to Color
DesignerÕs Guide to Color

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DesignerÕs Guide to Color, Volume One
James Stockton
1984; 135 pp.
ISBN 0877013179
$9.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Chronicle Books
275 Fifth Street
San Francisco, CA  94103
800-722-6657
415-777-7240 (CA)
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##A 02 248277 586
##T DesignerÕs Guide to Color
DesignerÕs Guide to Color

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DesignerÕs Guide to Color, Volume Two
James Stockton
1984; 128 pp.
ISBN 0877013454
$12.95 ($14.95 postpaid)
from:

Chronicle Books
275 Fifth Avenue
San Francisco, CA  94103
800-722-6657
414-777-7240 (CA)
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##A 02 249071 587
##T DesignerÕs Guide to Color
DesignerÕs Guide to Color

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DesignerÕs Guide to Color, Volume Three
Jeanne Allen
1986; 119 pp.
ISBN 0877014086
$12.95 ($14.95 postpaid)
from:

Chronicle Books
275 Fifth Street
San Francisco, CA  94103
800-722-6657
415-777-7240 (CA)
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##A 02 53905 589
##T DesignerÕs Guide to Creating Charts and Diagrams
DesignerÕs Guide to Creating Charts and Diagrams

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Advanced chart making. Charts that dwell on the bland pages of a scholarly report need only to be clear and accurate. Charts that live in newspapers and magazines must compete with the flash of advertisements across the page. HereÕre some tips by the famous diagram maker who creates all those striking ones in Time magazine.

                                                                             Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 02 249708 590
##T DesignerÕs Guide to Creating Charts and Diagrams
DesignerÕs Guide to Creating Charts and Diagrams

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Nigel Holmes
1984; 192 pp.
ISBN 0823013154
$32.50 ($34.50 postpaid)
from:

Watson-Guptill Publications
1695 Oak Street
Lakewood, NJ 08701
212-764-7300
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##A 02 140923 594
##T Dot Pasteup Supplies
Dot Pasteup Supplies

@@
The kind of things you need to put together brochures, draft architectural plans, paste up newsletters, make advertisements, and put ideas into permanence. Sturdy, versatile tools for a paper society.                                                  

                                                                      Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 02 141220 595
##T Dot Pasteup Supplies
Dot Pasteup Supplies

@@
Catalog $1 from:

Dot Pasteup Supply Co.
P.O. Box 369
Omaha, NE 68101
800-228-7272
402-342-4221 (NE)
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##A 02 142052 598
##T Charrette
Charrette

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This is an excellent catalog for browsing  Ñ  itÕs the most complete graphic supplier IÕve seen. The prices are not discounted, but Charrette carries items that are difficult to find or are simply not found in this country. My favorite items are the metal stencils from France with letters that Le Corbusier used and the CaranÕd Ache Fixpencil from Switzerland that has fat leads for sketching     
(6B).                                                   
                                                    Ñ Lawrence Kasparowitz
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##A 02 142231 599
##T Charrette
Charrette

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Catalog $5 from:

Charrette
31 Olympia Avenue
P. O. Box 4010
Woburn, MA 01888-4010
617-935-6010
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##A 02 196721 603
##T Daniel Smith Inc.
Daniel Smith Inc.

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Here is an immense selection of absolutely first rate art supplies, as well as a wonderfully prompt and efficient mail order house. Their goods are discounted, generally 20-30 percent off retail, and are interestingly and informatively laid out in the illustrated 
(photos) yearly catalog, supplemented by intermittent special sale catalogs. In terms of sheer care and knowledgeability, no other art supplier I have found even comes close.

The fine artist is at home here. Unlike most of the other large art supply houses like Flax, Pearl, etc., they focus on fine arts and secondarily on graphic arts.
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##A 02 197286 605
##T Daniel Smith Inc.
Daniel Smith Inc.

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Materials and Information for Artists
Bimonthly catalog free
from:

Daniel Smith Inc.
4130 First Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98134
800-426-6740
800-228-0458 (WA)
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##A 02 250916 609
##T Art Hardware
Art Hardware

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Van GoghÕs yellows are fading. But at the same time many other paintings in the Museum of Modern Art which were painted on cheap masonite from the lumberyard are doing okay. What materials should you use? This guy knows a lot of possibilities, and knows a lot about them.

                                                                    Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 02 251278 610
##T Art Hardware
Art Hardware

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The Definitive Guide to ArtistsÕ Hardware
Steven L. Saitzyk
1987; 326 pp.
ISBN 0823002667
$19.95 ($21.95 postpaid)
from:

Watson-Guptill Publications
1695 Oak Street
Lakewood, NJ  08701
201-363-4511
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##A 02 198086 615
##T Art Reference Introduction
Art Reference Introduction

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ÒWhat do you do when you run out of ideas?Ó my civil servant Dad asked when he worried about me working as an artist. Use picture archives, thatÕs what.

A working artist needs pictorial reference as a tool for inspiration, for seeing visual connections not made before, or for models to draw from. Inventing images, drawing constructions out of the blue, is helped if youÕve got a few aids.

My bookshelves are lined with field-tested books that I crib from while working in the studio. I use them as creative inspiration. Small books will do. Like any postage stamp book. Mine cost me 25 
cents at a street sale. Stamps in general give good art-ref; theyÕre very graphic and basic, these vignettes and symbols of the world.
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##A 02 99724 617
##T The Complete Dover Art Catalogs
The Complete Dover Art Catalogs

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By far the most useful source for in-print copyright-free material is the fascinating collection from Dover pictorial archives  Ñ  very cheap books crammed with old, odd, wonderful reference pictures, weird typefaces, classy etchings, vintage photographs, and off-beat scientific treatises. Their free catalogs are a trip in themselves.

                                                                    Ñ David Wills
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##A 02 111532 618
##T The Complete Dover Art Catalogs
The Complete Dover Art Catalogs

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The Complete Dover Fine Art Catalog
Catalog free from:

Dover Publications, Inc.
31 East 2nd Street
Mineola, NY 11501
516-294-7000
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##A 02 103065 619
##T The Complete Dover Art Catalogs
The Complete Dover Art Catalogs

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The Complete Dover Art Instruction Catalog
ISBN 0486590763
Catalog free from:

Dover Publications, Inc.
31 East Second Street
Mineola, NY 11501
516-294-7000
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##A 02 155366 620
##T The Complete Dover Art Catalogs
The Complete Dover Art Catalogs

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The Complete Dover Pictorial Archive Catalog
Catalog free from:

Dover Publications, Inc.
31 East 2nd Street
Mineola, NY 11501
516-294-7000
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##A 02 113441 632
##T The Best of Life
The Best of Life

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An example of a good photo resource book is the paperback Best of Life. The worldÕs best photographers, out on the beat, bringing it all home. These are the images many of us (I) culled our (my) view of ÒrealÓ from.                                       

                                                                     Ñ David Wills
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##A 02 115557 633
##T The Best of Life
The Best of Life

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David E. Scherman, Editor
1973; 303 pp.
ISBN 0380449099
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Avon Books
P. O. Box 767
Dresden, TN 38225
800-223-0690
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##A 02 252812 636
##T The Electronic Clip Art Digest
The Electronic Clip Art Digest

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We use found-art a lot for illustrating our magazine, The Whole Earth Review. Over the years we have accumulated 20 feet of bookshelf space of illustration sources. Occasionally we manipulate an illustration we discover in a book by taking it into the Macintosh. We xerox the illo, then scan the xerox on an Abaton Scanner, and then stretch or reverse the image on the Mac.

Electronic clip art is for those who donÕt have a library of print images, or a nearby quality xerox machine, or a digitizing scanner, but who do want an image in a Mac paint file. 

This Digest catalogs by picture, and indexes by subject, all the 15,000 black and white digital images available from 30 commercial sources. The ÒartÓ ranges from the cutsie to the
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##A 02 253088 638
##T The Electronic Clip Art Digest
The Electronic Clip Art Digest

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$105.95 postpaid from:

The Electronic Clip Art Company
6376 Quail Run
Kalamazoo, MI 49009
616-375-8996
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##A 02 254879 639
##T Stock Workbook
Stock Workbook

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Pro photographers out and about on assignment usually return with more images than their client ordered. The photographers deposit the extra pictures in a joint repository called a stock agency. When you need a photograph, instead of hiring a commercial photographer to shoot it, you can check a stock agency to see if they already have one in stock. Rates vary depending on what you are going to use it for Ñ color advertising being the most expensive and black and white editorial being the least (probably $50 minimum). Unfortunately there is no central index yet to tell you which of the hundreds of agencies has what pictures, so it can be quite frustrating to research.

Stock agencies print gorgeous full-color publicity material to advertise their holdings, a source that is often ideal for artistic
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##A 02 255019 641
##T Stock Workbook
Stock Workbook

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1987; 215 pp.
ISBN 0911113207
Information free
from:

Scott & Daughters Publishing
940 North Highland Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
800-547-2688
213-856-0008 (CA)
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##A 02 256281 645
##T The Bettmann Archive
The Bettmann Archive

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Bettmann is the Taj Mahal of picture files. ItÕs a cornucopia of visual images comprised of historical portraits from all ages, a lifetime of movie stills, and news photographs since the turn of the century Ñ a total of 25 million images. The archive is both expensive and efficient to use, and many times the only source. We occasionally rent from them when we canÕt find a particular picture any other way. We call them with a query of what weÕre after, and theyÕll send photocopies of some candidates. If we pick one, they charge us about $75 for non-profit publication of the print they send.

                                                                        Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 02 257515 646
##T The Bettmann Archive
The Bettmann Archive

@@
Information free
from:

The Bettmann Archive
136 East 57th Street
New York, NY 10022
212-758-0362
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##A 02 259414 650
##T Picture Sources Four
Picture Sources Four

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I havenÕt found a better resource for locating pictures than this.  As editorial assistant for the Whole Earth Review, the job of locating illustrations for articles often falls to me.  This book eliminates a lot of the frustration in tracking down a particular type of photo Ñ which makes it well worth the $35 price tag.

Easy to use, Picture Sources Four lists major and minor sources for pictures Ñ archives, libraries, businesses, special collections Ñ with all the information youÕll need to do business (except price).  The best part is the hefty index section. The geographic index helped me locate nearby archives; the subject index is the most comprehensive IÕve seen.  The biggest drawback is the date of publication Ñ 1983.  Some of the material has to be dated. 
                                                           Ñ Corinne Cullen Hawkins
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##A 02 259708 651
##T Picture Sources Four
Picture Sources Four

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Ernest H. Robl, Editor
1983; 200 pp.
ISBN 0871112744
$35 ($36.50 postpaid)
from:

Special Libraries Association
1700 18th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-234-4700
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##A 02 104560 654
##T Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics
Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics

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For those who dream of flying not as an airplane flies but as a bird flies, or dream of trekking across alien landscapes, here at last is an exhaustive prescription for making the visual dimension of these dreams concrete.

Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics sketches out the techniques for generating realistic visual images from computer models. It actually shows how to do it. [Programming skills are mandatory Ñ KK.] Hardware, software techniques, actual code (in PASCAL) Ñ itÕs all presented with an unusual and refreshing concern for convenient, intuitive user controls.

                                                                    Ñ Ken Crossen
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##A 02 105178 656
##T Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics
Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics

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J.D. Foley and A. Van Dam
1982; 664 pp.
ISBN 0201144689
$48.50 postpaid 
from:

Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. Inc.
1 Jacob Way
Reading, MA  01867
800-447-2226
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##A 02 143237 661
##T Microcomputer Graphics
Microcomputer Graphics

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I am using Microcomputer Graphics to learn the fundamentals of two- and three-dimensional computer graphics. This book is for beginners. It takes you from programming the computer to drawing a line, to drawing objects that appear solid. Along the way you learn about 2-D and 3-D object scaling, rotation, and translation; line clipping; 3-D projection; and hidden-line and hidden-surface
routines. Each step is short and succinctly explained with lots of illustrations. 

                                                             Ñ Charlie Richardson
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##A 02 143640 662
##T Microcomputer Graphics
Microcomputer Graphics

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Microcomputer Graphics (for the IBM PC)
Roy E. Myers
1984; 268 pp.
ISBN 0201051583 
$14.95 ($16.45  postpaid)
from:

Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
1 Jacob Way
Reading, MA 01867
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##A 02 55507 663
##T Microcomputer Graphics
Microcomputer Graphics

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Microcomputer Graphics (for the Apple¨ Computer)

Roy E. Myers
1982; 282 pp.
ISBN 020105096X
$14.95 ($16.45 postpaid)
from:

Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
1 Jacob Way
Reading, MA 01867
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##A 02 262867 664
##T The Algorithmic Image
The Algorithmic Image

@@
The first (and only) book about computer graphics, in its myriad marvelous forms, which non-technical people can follow Ñ not just to look awestruck at the pictures, but to understand the conceptual underpinnings behind them. Books like this, Programmers at Work, and Computer Lib/Dream Machines are making Microsoft Press the pre-eminent quality computer book publisher.

                                                                 Ñ  Art Kleiner




Ù Computer Lib/Dream Machines
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##A 02 264237 665
##T The Algorithmic Image
The Algorithmic Image

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Graphic Visions of the Computer Age
Robert Rivlin
1986; 284 pp.
ISBN 0914845802
$24.95 ($27.45 postpaid)
from:

Microsoft Press
P.O. Box 1532
Hagerstown, MD  21741
800-638-3030
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##A 02 278882 672
##T IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

@@
The on-going technical bulletin where the graphic hackers hang out and show off their latest demos. 

                                                                          Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 02 279400 673
##T IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

@@
$58/12 issues 
(includes membership in the Computer Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) from:

Computer Society of the IEEE
10662 Los Vaqueros Circle
Los Alamitos, CA  90720-2578
714-821-8380.
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##A 02 281133 674
##T Zen & The Art of the Macintosh
Zen & The Art of the Macintosh

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When Gutenberg invented moveable type, he found strong resistance to it among the current publishing expertsÑ medieval monks transcribing the Bible. It seemed that what the monks most objected to was that his innovation removed the cursive strokes that connected letters within one word, breaking up the calligraphy and also separating writing from illustration. What Michael Green has done in this picture book is to pioneer the return to a unified graphic in which the artist creates both the typography and the illustration. The meditating Macintosh is the pen for this electronic manifesto. It promises a change in publication design.

                                                                         Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 02 281478 675
##T Zen & The Art of the Macintosh
Zen & The Art of the Macintosh

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Michael Green
1986; 236 pp.
ISBN 0894713477
$16.95 ($18.30 postpaid)
from:

Running Press
125 South 22nd Street
Philadelphia, PA  19102
800-428-1111
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##A 02 283012 681
##T DESKTOP SPECIAL EFFECTS
DESKTOP SPECIAL EFFECTS

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By Kevin Kelly

There are several low-rent computer graphic special effects methods. The rough and ready way is to hook up a personal computer to VCR. Create the graphics on the computer and have the VCR tape it. The only personal computer that will do that hassle-free is the Amiga computer (about $700). Its  claim to fame 
(otherwise itÕs an okay computer without much software to run on it) is that it is a low-price color computer that generates signals that are NTSC compatible, which means that you can plug it directly into TV equipment.

Because of this unique clean connection, the Amiga is used by small community TV stations to produce very simple special
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##A 02 283645 684
##T DESKTOP SPECIAL EFFECTS
DESKTOP SPECIAL EFFECTS

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Amiga 500

$700



For a dealer near you, call: 
Commodore Business Machines
800-436-4200.
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##A 02 286295 685
##T DESKTOP SPECIAL EFFECTS
DESKTOP SPECIAL EFFECTS

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Deluxe Video
$130 ($133 postpaid)
from:

Electronic Arts
P.O. Box 7530
San Mateo, CA  94403
800-245-4525.

Version 1.2 for the Amiga.
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##A 02 293385 686
##T DESKTOP SPECIAL EFFECTS
DESKTOP SPECIAL EFFECTS

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Video Charlie
$750 ($760 postpaid) from:

Progressive Image Technologies
322 East Bidwell
Folsom, CA  95630
916-985-7501
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##A 02 170265 688
##T Leonardo
Leonardo

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Most art books and magazines are about the product of art, with lots of four-color pictures to wow you. Leonardo is the opposite. 
ItÕs pure process, pure tool  Ñ  TECHNIQUE  Ñ  of the most advanced, most refined, most modern of arts. (The news stays the same in this world; only science and technology change, and art chases them.) I view this publication with the same contemporary fascination as Science or New Scientist. They announce the present (i.e., future).

Not cheap, not for browsing. Lay out the bucks and make the magazine earn it back in your work or settle it all at your library. 

                                                              Ñ Stewart Brand
Ù New Scientist
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##A 02 192132 690
##T Leonardo
Leonardo

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Roger F. Malina, Editor
$40/year (4 issues)
from:

Leonardo
P.O. Box 75
1442A Walnut
Berkeley, CA 94709
415-845-8298
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##A 02 296027 694
##T VERBUM
VERBUM

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Remember the sort of graphics you fantasized would be possible when you first heard of personal computers? They can finally be done. Artists are grabbing the cursor and spawning a distinct design sense, which this classy journal explores. ÒIt looks like computer artÓ is the first thing you are cured of. 
                              
                                                           Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 02 296475 695
##T VERBUM
VERBUM

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Michael Gosney, Editor
ISSN 08894507
$28/year(4 issues) 
from:

Verbum Subscriptions
P. O. Box 15439
San Diego, CA 92115
619-463-9977
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##A 02 201388 701
##T Ylem
Ylem

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Along every breaking edge of technology there are a few artists wedged into the nicks figuring out creative mis-uses for new-fangled things, immediately enlarging everyoneÕs scope. Our culture has bred a gang of artists hanging around Xerox machines, lasers, geodesics, Polaroid devices, video, and, of course, computers. Their art makes technology better, which makes them better artists. Some of their latest ideas and exhibit events can be found in this newsletter compiled by and for Òartists using science and technology.Ó
                         
                                                                  Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 02 201544 702
##T Ylem
Ylem

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Fred Stitt, Editor
$20/year
includes membership
$15 subscription only 
P. O. Box 749
Orinda, CA 94563
415-482-2483 
(afternoons only)
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##A 02 297985 706
##T Lightworks
Lightworks

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Most experimental art is so unsatisfying and pretentious to be around that the last thing in the world I want to do is read about it. Lightworks, an annual labor of love, is the opposite. Here they round up far-ranging explorations of art and communications that make it all great FUN. I like the wooden cut-outs of hitchhikers that are propped up along the road with an address scribbled on their backs, and space to document their journey as they are passed around the country. A whole issue was devoted to Sky Art Ñ from kites, to skywriting, to fireworks and helium balloon sculptures. An upcoming issue is called ÒAvailable ResourcesÓ and is dedicated to art made from recycled materials and found media. Some of it is weird and strange, but in an invigorating way. This magazine is about the art of possibilities.
                                                                            ÑÊKevin Kelly
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##A 02 298286 707
##T Lightworks
Lightworks

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Charlton Burch and Gary S. Vasilash, Editors
ISSN 01614223
$20/4 issues 
(about one per year)
from:

Lightworks
P.O. Box 1202
Birmingham, MI 48012
313-626-8026
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##A 02 106294 710
##T AutoCAD
AutoCAD

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Ideal uses for computer graphics: jobs that demand constant alterations, pictures constructed with numerical precision, and designs that make use of repeating patterns.

The best computer aided design (CAD) program for personal computers: AutoCAD. 

One typical application for this well-proven program would be to render a manufacturing sketch of a windmill, down to the thousandths of a inch. Or draw a project assembled out of standard components. Then when you are just about finished, amend the whole drawing, re-sizing it where needed, to fit a substituted smaller part. Ughhh. Get me my computer slave.
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##A 02 106800 713
##T AutoCAD
AutoCAD

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.
$300-$2,750 
from:

Autodesk, Inc.
2320 Marinship Way
Sausalito, CA 94965
415-331-0356
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##A 02 302007 716
##T COMPUTER DRAWING PROGRAMS
COMPUTER DRAWING PROGRAMS

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As in most areas of software, computer drawing programs are constantly being made obsolete by competitors or by later updates of themselves. Thus Fullpaint fulfilled MacPaintÕs potential, only to be aced out by SuperpaintÕs wider abilities. All these Macintosh drawing programs have, in turn, been quietly topped by Canvas from Deneba Software. This painting program lets you combine both bit-mapped and object-based art in the same drawing, with able access to laser fonts as well. Because its drawing tools are extensive and basic bezier curves are included in its repertoire, 
IÕve often turned to Canvas to crank out simple designs that would take more sweat and tears to produce in Postscript-based drawing programs like Adobe Illustrator or Aldus FreeHand. 

On the other hand, if you are a design professional utilizing the
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##A 02 302158 719
##T COMPUTER DRAWING PROGRAMS
COMPUTER DRAWING PROGRAMS

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Canvas
$195 (list price) 
from:

Deneba Software
7855 NW 12th Street,
Suite 202,
Miami, FL 33126
305-594-6965

Version 1.0; not copy-protected. Macintosh 512K required. Laserwriter suggested.
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##A 02 303243 720
##T COMPUTER DRAWING PROGRAMS
COMPUTER DRAWING PROGRAMS

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Aldus FreeHand
$495 (list price) 
from:

Aldus Corporation
411 First Avenue South
Suite 200
Seattle, WA 98104
206-622-5500

Version 1.0; not copy-protected, Macintosh Plus and external drive recommended. Laserwriter suggested.
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##A 02 304958 721
##T CAD MAGAZINES
CAD MAGAZINES

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Periodicals, not books, are where you keep up with stones rolling downhill as fast as computer assisted design is. As is often the case in truly vanguard fields, the advertisements can be more useful than whimpy editorial filler, which  is mostly what is in these two.

CAD/CAM is ÒFor The Macintosh Professional.Ó That last word will give you an idea of where their heart is Ñ corporations. But the Mac is where you want to be as it takes over the design field, particularly in the small shop. CADENCE is for ÒUsing AutoCAD in the Professional Environment.Ó ThereÕs that word again. This is the best rendezvous point to meet up with hundreds of specialized  AutoCAD applications and user groups thereof. The real power of AutoCAD is in these user-developed templates, and in the
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##A 02 305395 723
##T CAD MAGAZINES
CAD MAGAZINES

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CADENCE
Dave Baceski, Executive Editor
ISSN 08879141
$34.95/year(12 issues) 
from:

Ariel Communications
12710 Research Blvd.,
Suite 250
Austin, TX 78759
512-250-1700
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##A 02 306196 724
##T CAD MAGAZINES
CAD MAGAZINES

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The CAD/CAM Journal
Shawn G. Hopwood, Editor-in-Chief
ISSN 08912815
$20/year(6 issues)
Single copy $5
from:

Koncepts Graphic Images Inc.
16 Beaver Street
New York, NY 10004
212-425-4441
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##A 02 300378 728
##T Boeing Graph
Boeing Graph

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Numbers stun; pictures illuminate. If youÕve ever tried to present numerical information visually, you know how difficult it can be.

This program turns tables of data into exquisite three-dimensional graphs. You can choose among 32 different types of three-dimensional graphs, 15 types of two-dimensional graphs, and almost endless points of view. Graphs can be rotated, moved vertically and horizontally, repainted, and labeled as you choose. The program drives plotters and will use dot-matrix and laser printers.

If you present scientific or financial information to people, this is an exquisite tool. ItÕs also a lot of fun to play with.  
                                                                        Ñ Birrell Walsh
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##A 02 300574 729
##T Boeing Graph
Boeing Graph

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$395 from:

Boeing Computer Service
P. O. Box 24346/
Mail Stop 7A-32
Seattle, WA 98124-0346
800-368-4555.

Version 4.0; IBM compatible, 512K required. Will run on B/W or CGA monitors or with Hercules or EGA graphics adaptor.
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##A 02 307032 731
##T The AnimatorÕs Workbook 
The AnimatorÕs Workbook 

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This is a big book about drawing animation. I think itÕs the best book on hand-drawn animation because it stresses the subtleties of natural paths of movement. Subtle and natural equal convincing animation. Animation that isnÕt convincing is hard to look at. Convincing may be the key operative in film and in media in general.

                                                                   Ñ Bill Ritchey
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##A 02 307393 732
##T The AnimatorÕs Workbook 
The AnimatorÕs Workbook 

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Tony White
1986; 160 pp.
ISBN 0823002284
$27.50 ($29.50 postpaid)
from:

Watson-Guptill Publications
1695 Oak Street
Lakewood, NJ 08701
201-363-5679
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##A 02 308810 738
##T VideoWorks II
VideoWorks II

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Once upon a time, film animation was a labor-intensive process requiring dozens of worker-elves painting action sequences frame by frame onto acetate Òcells.Ó Modern video technology has changed all that, and the advent of high-powered $500,000 computers dedicated to video animation has made for some breath-taking TV commercials and station IDs. Still, it has mostly been the Macintosh that has brought animation techniques within reach of the artist on the street. 

VideoWorks II is the premiere animation program for the Mac. Not only does it enable you to animate short ÒmoviesÓ that run on the MacÕs screen, but it also gives you the ability to set up sequences of MacPaint and PICT documents and animated clips that can be run as Òslide showsÓ for business presentations. Included with the
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##A 02 309043 740
##T VideoWorks II
VideoWorks II

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$195 from:

Br¿derbund Software
17 Paul Drive
San Rafael, CA 94903
415-492-3200

Version 1.0. Not copy-protected. Macintosh 512K or larger.
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##A 02 310464 741
##T Cartoon Colour Co. 
Cartoon Colour Co. 

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This catalog has some tools youÕll need to begin, especially if you plan on building your own stand or if you want to have your animation shot on a professional stand:

1. Heavy mylar 12 field and 16 field.
2. A roll of punched background bristol.
3. Punched tracing paper.
4. Punched 3 field cells and tracing paper.
5. Punched cels.
6. Tap on punched strips.
7. A light box with pin strips (optional).

                                                                       Ñ Bill Ritchey
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##A 02 310768 742
##T Cartoon Colour Co. 
Cartoon Colour Co. 

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Catalog free 
from:

Cartoon Colour Co., Inc.
9024 Lindblade Street
Culver City, CA 90230
213-838-8467
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##A 02 132481 746
##T The Natural Way to Draw
The Natural Way to Draw

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This classic work by an outstanding art teacher is not only the best how-to book on drawing, it is one of the best how-to books weÕve seen on any subject. 
                                 
                                                                    Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 02 146736 747
##T The Natural Way to Draw
The Natural Way to Draw

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Kimon Nicolaides
1941, 1969; 221 pp.
ISBN 0395205484
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803

or Whole Earth Access
617-272-1500
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##A 02 148421 751
##T Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

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If youÕve always wanted to draw, but lacked the Òtalent,Ó Betty EdwardsÕ simple exercises can help you turn your stick figures into real drawings. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain gives the basics on how to see and how to put what you see onto paper.
                                                                  
                                                           Ñ Kathleen OÕNeill
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##A 02 148482 752
##T Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

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A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence
Betty Edwards
1979; 207 pp.
ISBN 0874770882
$9.95 ($11.20 postpaid)
from:

St. MartinÕs Press
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
212-674-5151
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##A 02 126326 754
##T Drawing on the Artist Within
Drawing on the Artist Within


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Once youÕve learned to draw what you can see youÕll want to draw what you can imagine. Betty EdwardsÕ new book, Drawing on the Artist Within, helps you add expressiveness and innovation, turning your drawing into art.                     

                                                           Ñ Kathleen OÕNeill
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##A 02 185287 755
##T Drawing on the Artist Within
Drawing on the Artist Within


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Betty Edwards
1986; 240 pp.
ISBN 0671493868
$18.95 postpaid 
from:

Simon and Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
800-223-2336
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##A 02 194814 759
##T Thinking with a Pencil
Thinking with a Pencil

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Good title, wonderful book  Ñ  an inviting pragmatic
introduction to the full range of image-representation. Nelms makes it look easy and great fun. 

                                                                  Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 02 194905 760
##T Thinking with a Pencil
Thinking with a Pencil

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Henning Nelms
1981; 368 pp.
ISBN 00898150523
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Ten Speed Press
P. O. Box 7123
Berkeley, CA 94707
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##A 02 195594 764
##T The ArtistÕs Handbook of Materials and Techniques
The ArtistÕs Handbook of Materials and Techniques

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Part of becoming a Rembrandt or Da Vinci is creating art work that lasts for several hundred years. Cracking, peeling, fading, or darkening colors are usually the result of poor technique.

This book thoroughly covers traditional media from pigment to finishing (the section on fresco sounds enticingly difficult). The new sections on polymers and synthetic organic pigments rounds it out.

No illustrations  Ñ  make your own.                 

                                                                  Ñ Kathleen OÕNeill
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##A 02 195921 765
##T The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques
The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques

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Ralph Mayer
4th Edition 1981; 733 pp.
ISBN 0670136662
$24.95 ($26.20 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin
Order Dept.
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600 (NJ)
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##A 02 311742 768
##T Drawing
Drawing

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About 15 years ago when I was a student at the Boston Museum School, I took an art history class for which this book was required reading. I was thoroughly impressed with this $5.95 book at the time. Unfortunately, I had the hots for this girl who wanted to borrow the book and swore that sheÕd return it. IÕve been looking to purchase the book ever since, but itÕs been out of print. 

The second edition is now available for $19.90 and I still think 
itÕs a good deal for the money. What Rawson does is to define a grammar of drawing, using terms which are unambiguous, and then to discuss drawing in terms of that grammar. I recommend this book because for me as an artist, the book is both an inspiration 
to do and an elucidation of what it is that I do. In a time when
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##A 02 311991 770
##T Drawing
Drawing

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Philip Rawson
2nd Edition 1987; 322 pp.
ISBN 0812212517
$17.95 ($19.90 postpaid)
from:

University of Pennsylvania Press
418 Service Drive
Blockley Hall
13th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6097
215-898-6261
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##A 02 313230 777
##T Printmaking
Printmaking

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I was about to say that this is the best book that gathers all of the printmaking media under one cover, but thatÕs not it. This is the best book on printmaking, period. Printmaking: History and Process includes sections of relief (e.g. woodcuts), intaglio (etching and engraving), silkscreen and lithography; and the treatment of each of these media is better than in any books IÕve seen on just one of them.

I learned many of the basic procedures of printmaking from this book. Now, years later, I am a full-time printmaker and I still use it.

                                                                    Ñ Turner McGehee
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##A 02 313373 778
##T Printmaking
Printmaking

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History and Process
Donald Saff and Deli Sacilotto
1978; 436 pp.
ISBN 0030856639
$36 postpaid from:

Holt, Rinehart and Winston
6277 Sea Harbor Drive
Orlando, FL  32887
800-782-4479
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##A 02 313873 782
##T The ArtistÕs Silkscreen Manual
The ArtistÕs Silkscreen Manual

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With clear line drawings and numerous photos, Mr. Gardner leads the reader step by step from selecting materials and assembling the frame, through stretching and preparing the screen, to choosing a squeegee and deciding upon the method for creating the stencil. There is a complete description of possible inks and chemicals involved and the use of same. Knife-cut stencils and photo stencil techniques are thoroughly explained with ample illustrations and an invaluable troubleshooting guide. Likewise for printing plus a glossary of terms and index. This is the only book on silkscreening that has taught me more than I picked up in a 
five-day workshop.

                                                                    Ñ Susan Edwards
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##A 02 314945 783
##T The ArtistÕs Silkscreen Manual
The ArtistÕs Silkscreen Manual

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Andrew B. Gardner
1976; 160 pp.
ISBN 044811593X
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

Putnam Publishing
P.O. Box 506 Ñ Dept. B.
E. Rutherford, NJ  07073
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##A 02 315645 787
##T Gocco
Gocco

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ÒGoccoÓ means ÒchildÕs play,Ó accurately descriptive of the level of expertise required to operate this nifty little gadget. And certainly any child in your household would be happy to prove it, if only the adult inhabitants would quit monopolizing it!

Essentially the Gocco is a photo screen printer. You use flash bulbs to make the screen. The original art needs to contain carbon (most inks and all photocopies are carbon-based). ThereÕs a little flash bulb housing that sits on top of the pressÕs upper half. When you press it shut, flash bulb light passes through a light-transparent film, over the artwork, hits the carbon of the artwork, is re-radiated as infra-red light, which melts the film, thereby making the print master. Lift off the flash bulb housing, and lift up a clear acetate sheet which sits on top of the print master.
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##A 02 316968 790
##T Gocco
Gocco

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The Gocco Guide
Claire Russell and Mary Worthington
1983; 129 pp.
$10 ($11 postpaid)
from:

Think Ink
1452 NW 185th
Seattle, WA  98177
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##A 02 315982 791
##T Gocco
Gocco

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Gocco Printer B-5

$320 ($328 postpaid)
from:

Think Ink
1452 NW 185th
Seattle, WA  98177

Image size 5" x 9". Comes with enough supplies to get started.
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##A 02 317566 792
##T Gocco
Gocco

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Gocco Printer B-6
$98 ($103 postpaid)
from:

Think Ink
1452 NW 185th
Seattle, WA  98177

Image size 4" x 5-3/4". Comes with enough supplies to get started.
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##A 02 22871 795
##T The Small Theatre Handbook
The Small Theatre Handbook

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All the practical steps to take in creating a new theater and maintaining it are covered by this good-humored handbook: from budgets, funding, and legal requirements to choosing plays, managing actors, and touring productions. Written with such love of small theatre, it still points out where stresses are sure to arise and tells how to work through them.

Green emphasizes the importance of keeping that critical balance of respect and responsibility between the artistic and administrative staffs.

The book should be a little longer in the fundraising area, but 
thereÕs an excellent bibliography. 
                                               Ñ Annette Rose, Antenna Theater
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##A 02 23265 796
##T The Small Theatre Handbook
The Small Theatre Handbook

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A Guide to Management and Production
Joann Green
1981; 163 pp.
ISBN 0916782204
$8.95 ($10.20 postpaid)
from:

Kampmann and Company
540 Barnum Avenue
Bridgeport, CT 06608
800-526-7626
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##A 02 322114 798
##T Audition
Audition

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Michael Shurtleff, casting director for such hits as The Graduate, Beckett, The Sound of Music, and Pippin, offers a montage of useful observation from a life spent discriminating winners from losers. Not as technique-oriented as Stanislavski, but a well-built compass indicating specific direction, and his tone and bits of show-biz lore are honest as a good comedian and quite in tune with the times.

                                                                      Ñ Peter Coyote
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##A 02 322413 799
##T Audition
Audition

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Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
Michael Shurtleff
1978, 1987; 264 pp.
ISBN 0553254340
$4.95 ($6.95 postpaid)
from:

Bantam Books
414 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
800-223-6834
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##A 02 319462 801
##T How to Be a Working Actor
How to Be a Working Actor

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Acting is, at best, a chancy way to make oneÕs living. Less than ten percent of professional actors earn a decent wage from acting alone. This book is written for those who aspire to join that ten percent. In their advice to the beginning actor on how to launch a career, the authors are realistic about the chances of success. But never do they lose faith that you, the reader, will be one of the lucky minority who bask in the limelight and get paid for it, too.

                                                                  Ñ Sarah Vandershaf
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##A 02 320640 802
##T How to Be a Working Actor
How to Be a Working Actor

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The InsiderÕs Guide to Finding Jobs in Theater, Film and Television
Mari Lyn Henry and Lynne Rogers
1986; 302 pp.
ISBN 0871314827
$9.66 ($12.16 postpaid)
from:

Henry Holt & Co.
115 West 18th Street
New York, NY 10011
800-247-3912
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##A 02 318674 807
##T Theatre Crafts
Theatre Crafts

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You say youÕre not a stage set designer? Well, step right this way anyhow and check out Theater Crafts How-To. This remarkable assortment of clever shop tricks and procedures Ñ youÕll probably be able to put many of them to work offstage. 

There are lots of things you wonÕt find in home-shop magazines: an inexpensive air cylinder with a 20-foot (or less) stroke, for instance, or a simple vacuum-former. How about directions for casting fake stone lions out of foam? Or a method of permanently bending PVC pipe into the frame for a gazebo? As youÕd expect, the book is particularly strong on lightweight constructions that can be easily dismounted  and rebuilt. ItÕs a way of thinking about
things that can be very useful Ñ just the opposite of the fortress-
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##A 02 318778 809
##T Theatre Crafts
Theatre Crafts

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Theatre Crafts How-To (Vol. 1)
Editors of Theatre Crafts Magazine
1984; 165 pp.
ISBN 0916477010
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Drama Books
P. O. Box 816
Gracie Station
New York, NY 10028
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##A 02 319783 810
##T Theatre Crafts
Theatre Crafts

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Theatre Crafts Magazine
Patricia MacKay, Editor
ISSN 00405469
$30/year(10 issues)
from:

Theatre Crafts Magazine
P.O. Box 470
Mt. Morris, IL 61054-0470
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##A 02 155471 815
##T FrenchÕs Basic Catalogue of Plays
FrenchÕs Basic Catalogue of Plays

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AmericaÕs giant of play publishers offers a catalog organized by special interest  Ñ  Chinese plays, Monologues, Black plays, etc.  Ñ  and indexed by author and title.

                                                           Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 02 171287 816
##T French's Basic Catalogue of Plays
French's Basic Catalogue of Plays

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$2 from:

Samuel French, Inc.
45 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
212-206-8990
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##A 02 140121 819
##T American Theater
American Theater

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This well-produced magazine covers the American theater scene with an editorial eye toward the significant themes in theater today.   Looking at the political commitment of the theater in Latin America, and especially in Chile, where actors are receiving death threats to stop their work, an American Theater editorial says, ÒitÕs been a very long time since American theater was the most important expression of political action.Ó It continues, Òthe atrocities in Chile Ñ should remind us of strings on our fiddle we too rarely play.Ó  This magazine wants to tune up those old strings.
Besides their excellent articles on theaters, plays, playwrights, various aspects of production and theater management, American
Theater publishes the complete text of a contemporary play in almost every issue.  
                                                            Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 02 141793 820
##T American Theater
American Theater

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Jim OÕQuinn, Editor
ISSN 87503255
$27/year (11 issues)
from:

Theater Communications Group
355 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10017
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##A 02 17299 826
##T Norcosto
Norcosto

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Low-cost theater equipment, costumes, makeup, etc. for school-size productions. I canÕt imagine opening a new wave nightclub or restaurant without some of these toys.

                                                               Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 02 17448 827
##T Norcosto
Norcosto

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Catalog for the Performing Arts
$2 from:

Norcosto
3203 North Highway #100
Minneapolis, MN 55422
612-533-2791.
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##A 02 177050 828
##T Mutual Hardware
Mutual Hardware

@@
Low-cost theater equipment, costumes, makeup, etc. for school-size productions. I canÕt imagine opening a new wave nightclub or restaurant without some of these toys.
                                                               
                                                                   Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 02 177270 829
##T Mutual Hardware
Mutual Hardware

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Theatrical Equipment and Supplies
Catalog $2 from:

Mutual Hardware Corp.
5-45 49th Avenue
Long Island City, NY 
11101-5686
718-361-2480.
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##A 02 323214 833
##T High Performance
High Performance

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Provocative quarterly examining the work of artists who, in making their lives their art, cut closer and closer to the bone while extending you the invitation to push your perceptual limits. Lots of photos and lucid, entertaining writing make even the most challenging contemporary art intriguing and accessible.

                                                                 Ñ Sarah Satterlee
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##A 02 323577 834
##T High Performance
High Performance

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A Quarterly Magazine for the New Arts Audience
Steven Durland, Editor
ISSN 01609769
$20/year(4 issues)
from:

High Performance
240 South Broadway, 5th Floor
Los Angeles, CA  90012
213-687-7362
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##A 02 325294 839
##T Pranks!
Pranks!

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Pranks! is a hilarious book that had me laughing out loud. At the same time it is a manual of cultural subversion that administers a hot-foot to the archetypes of authority and robotic propriety. In a series of over 30 interviews, counterculture figures, performing artists, filmmakers, and other assorted provocateurs describe their favorite pranks and the philosophies that motivated them. From psychedelic revolutionary Tim Leary to raunch-film director John Waters (Pink Flamingos, Hairspray) to the Velvet 
UndergroundÕs John Cale, the lineup of interviewees is truly remarkable.

But Pranks! isnÕt just a recounting of naughty anecdotes. Many of those interviewed, such as Earth First! environmentalist Mike Roselle, perform their pranks as the most direct way of getting
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##A 02 325465 841
##T Pranks!
Pranks!

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Andrea Juno and V. Vale, Editors
1987; 239 pp.
ISBN 0940642107
$14.99 ($17 postpaid)
from:

Re/Search Publications
20 Romolo #B
San Francisco, CA 94133
415-362-1465
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##A 02 327245 847
##T Survival Research Laboratories
Survival Research Laboratories

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Defining Survival Research Laboratories is not easy. They are performance artists or, rather, the directors of a performance group. The actual performers are machines. Nightmare constructions; bits and pieces of scavenged industrial equipment, the flotsam of a post-industrial society. These found machines are stripped down, rebuilt, given new identities and personalities, then let loose on each other in parking lots and warehouse spaces in performances of mechanical savagery.

But the performances are not just sensational Bread and Circuses destruction. SRLÕs shows function as a sophisticated and sinister version of a Fun House mirror: a twisted mixture of familiar images (bizarre cars, destructive construction equipment, ludicrous mechanical men) and highly political satire.
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##A 02 327994 849
##T Survival Research Laboratories
Survival Research Laboratories

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Information free from:

Target Video
678 South Van Ness
San Francisco, CA 94110
or

Re/Search
20 Romolo Street, Suite B
San Francisco, CA 94133
415-863-0118
415-362-1465
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##A 02 328557 851
##T Ventriloquism for Fun and Profit
Ventriloquism for Fun and Profit

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Before Paul Winchell became the successful inventor of the artificial heart valve, he was very successful in a more ÒnobleÓ profession Ñ ventriloquism. Here Winchell explores every facet of this entertaining craft. He explains in detail how to create the ventriloquial voice through proper lip and mouth control as well as how to make and manipulate a dummy.  (Pop quiz: whatÕs the name of WinchellÕs wooden pal?) ThereÕs a section on performing in public, including several routines.

Most material youÕll find in magic shops or book stores on ventriloquism are just pamphlets of 20 pages or so. This is by far the most comprehensive book IÕve seen and makes learning how fairly easy. (I tried it in a law class last week Ñ the professor
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##A 02 329306 853
##T Ventriloquism for Fun and Profit
Ventriloquism for Fun and Profit

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Paul Winchell
1954; 190 pp.
$3.98 $5.49 postpaid)
from:

Hollywood Magic Shop
6614 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA  90028
213-464-5610
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##A 02 330607 856
##T Words on Mime
Words on Mime

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I remember seeing Marcel Marceau when I was little and making my friends at recess the next day wriggle and shriek as I performed The Kiss.

Speaking on the art of mime, Decroux, MarceauÕs teacher, does with words what a mime does with body: makes manifest in you the reality of what his performance only suggests. Here, you are the mime, with his passion, intellect, spirit, grace.

Had I been a mime in 3rd grade, my friends would have swooned.

                                                                    Ñ Sarah Satterlee
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##A 02 330811 857
##T Words on Mime
Words on Mime

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Etienne Decroux
1985; 180 pp.
$12 ($13 postpaid)
from:

Mime Journal
Theater Department
Pomona College
Claremont, CA  91711
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##A 02 24689 862
##T ACTING INTRODUCTION
ACTING INTRODUCTION

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IDENTITY IS A FRAME; death is a curtain; we are all actors. Those who ÒactÓ the identity of others are directly connected to the lineage of Paleolithic shamans; first transformers; first knowers that identity is mutable.

That their magic is fundamental is proven time and time again by the power available to even the puffiest bourgeois theatrical when it brushes this charged ground.

A study of the following books will put stretch in your sense of self, aid the development of penetrating observation, and do for your human interactions what jogging does for the cardiovascular 
system. Become your own transformer. Practice throwing your
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##A 02 20852 864
##T An Actor Prepares
An Actor Prepares

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The Source Text. StanislavskiÕs studies of the techniques of the best actors of his day are the basis of all subsequent teachings. His dedication and worship of nature are an inspiration. 
                                                                 
                                                                Ñ Peter Coyote
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##A 02 21027 865
##T An Actor Prepares
An Actor Prepares

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Constantin Stanislavski
1964, 1987; 295 pp.
ISBN 0878300015
$18.95 ($20.70 postpaid)
from:

Routledge, Chapman & Hall
29 West 35th Street
New York, NY 10001-2291
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##A 02 21968 867
##T Respect for Acting
Respect for Acting

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Uta HagenÕs book is an indispensable companion to StanislavskiÕs. A consummate actress and teacher, she offers precise methodologies for developing oneÕs intuitions, perceptions and responses, and coaxing open the doors of the subconscious as reservoir for solutions to acting problems. (Which are real-life problems, no?)

Her style is passionate, and her standards are demandingly high, offered to what is best in world theater.
                                                        
                                                                       Ñ Peter Coyote
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##A 02 22030 868
##T Respect for Acting
Respect for Acting

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Uta Hagen with Haskel Frankel
1973; 227 pp.
ISBN 0025473905
$14.95 ($15.70 postpaid)
from:

Macmillan Publishing Co.
Order Department
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075

or Whole Earth Access
800-257-5755
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##A 02 15771 870
##T Impro
Impro

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Most theater texts are like books on learning to ride a bike. Only after you have the hang of it are they valuable. This book is a rare peek into genius. Keith Johnstone, associated with George Devine and Tony Richardson of the Royal Court Theatre in London, creator of the Theatre Machine, comes across as a true magician, an inspired innovator of techniques for plugging people into the wellsprings of their own imaginations. One of the most useful and provocative books I have ever read on theater.
                                   
                                                    Ñ Peter Coyote
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##A 02 16048 871
##T Impro
Impro

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Improvisation and Theatre
Keith Johnstone
1987; 208 pp.
ISBN 0878301631
$14.95 ($16.70 postpaid)
from:

Routledge, Chapman & Hall
29 West 35th Street
New York, NY 10001-2291
212-244-3336
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##A 02 333195 874
##T Improvisation for the Theater
Improvisation for the Theater

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Widely considered the best source for getting non-rote life seething on the stage. Take the chances, interact, make it through the lameness into originality that is.

                                                                      Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 02 333517 875
##T Improvisation for the Theater
Improvisation for the Theater

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Viola Spolin
Updated Edition 1983; 395 pp.
ISBN 0810110008
$10.95 ($11.82 postpaid)
from:

Northwestern University Press
625 Colfax Street
Evanston, IL 60201
312-491-5313
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##A 02 100997 880
##T The Dance Workshop
The Dance Workshop

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I love to dance. Since the age of five IÕve been moving to music aided and encouraged by my mother, who shares my love. I was hesitant to review books on dance because there is no music and you are sitting on your butt instead of moving about. But I remembered spending hours staring at my motherÕs book on ballet 
 Ñ  copying over and over the different positions the stick figures were doing. The Dance Workshop can be used in the same way. It starts off with warm-up exercises (very important if you want to spare yourself lots of pain) and progresses to positions, steps, and movements basic to all forms of dance. Instead of stick figures there are graceful drawings of people doing the movements step by step.                              
                                                                  Ñ Susan Erkel Ryan
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##A 02 101276 881
##T The Dance Workshop
The Dance Workshop

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A Guide to the Fundamentals of Movement
Robert Cohan
1986; 192 pp.
ISBN 0671612808
$10.95 ($12.05 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
201-767-5937
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##A 02 102214 885
##T On the Count of One
On the Count of One

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If you know the basics and really want to leap into the subject, modern dance in particular, then On the Count of One: Modern Dance Methods is the book you want. A very thorough and technical look at dance, discussing music, vocabulary, technique, and the teaching of modern dance.

The best thing to do is to take a dance class at your local JC, dance studio, or park recreation department, move with the music and use these books to help you further understand and enjoy this marvelous art.

                                                    Ñ Susan Erkel Ryan
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##A 02 102571 886
##T On the Count of One
On the Count of One

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Modern Dance Methods
Elizabeth Sherbon
3rd Edition 1982; 284 pp.
ISBN 0874845416
$19.95 ($21.95 postpaid)
from:

Mayfield Publishing Co.
1240 Villa Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
800-433-1279
415-960-3222 (CA)
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##A 02 103368 888
##T Dancing
Dancing

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Dance may not be something to learn from a book, but this book serves as a great introduction to those of us who are beguiled and yet intimidated by the idea of dancing. Addressed both to the hesitant adult beginner who prances around the house when
nobodyÕs looking and to the young adult considering a career in dance, Dancing cuts through a lot of the mystique and mistaken glamour with practical, specific advice: choosing a style of dance, finding a good teacher and getting the most out of a class, preventing injury, and even viewing dance.

A real aid for parents who want to get their youngsters started off on the right foot  Ñ  both daughters and sons (plenty of photos 
of men dancing, though most of the pronouns are ÒsheÓ).
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##A 02 103729 890
##T Dancing
Dancing

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A Guide for the Dancer You Can Be
Ellen Jacob
1981; 350 pp.
ISBN 0937180009
$11.95 ($13.20 postpaid)
from:

Variety Arts
305 Riverside Drive
Suite 4A
New York, NY 10025
800-221-2154
212-316-0399 (NY)

or Whole Earth Access
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##A 02 336132 894
##T Contact Quarterly
Contact Quarterly

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Subtitled Òa vehicle for moving ideas,Ó this is a magazine by and for dancers interested in improvisation, movement games, the space between athletics and art. Its patron saints are Simone Forti and Steve Paxton. Has a nice, casual spirit, full of shared energy, serious fun and eccentricity.

                                                              Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 02 336563 895
##T Contact Quarterly
Contact Quarterly

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Nancy Stark Smith and Lisa Nelson, Editors
ISSN 01989634
$17/year (4 issues) 
from:

Contact Quarterly
P.O. Box 603
Northampton, MA 01061
413-586-1181
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##A 02 10629 900
##T International Folk Dancing U.S.A.
International Folk Dancing U.S.A.

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Betty Casey traveled 25,000 miles while researching inter-national folk dancing as practiced in the United States.  Her book covers the folk dance scene better than any IÕve seen. Illustrated with 157 photographs and line diagrams, it contains information about folk dancing history, pioneer leaders in the folk dance movement, guidelines for setting up a group, and descriptions of over 150 dances from 30 different countries and areas worldwide.

The section on folk dance camps and organizations is a helpful guide to finding local folk dance groups. Since most groups tend to stick together for quite a while, chances are that most of those mentioned are still in existence.
                
                                                                        Ñ Denise Partida
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##A 02 10846 901
##T International Folk Dancing U.S.A.
International Folk Dancing U.S.A.

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Betty Casey
1981; 363 pp.
ISBN 0385133081
$11.25 ($13.50 postpaid)
from:

Betty Casey
59 Hilltop Drive
Kerrville, TX 78028
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##A 02 9661 904
##T The Complete Book of Square Dancing
The Complete Book of Square Dancing

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Swing your partner just like your grandparents did; square dancing is a uniquely American tradition. In recent years, the 85 basic moves, known as Òmainstream,Ó have been standardized so you can dance without ineptitude anywhere thereÕs a group squarinÕ up. The moves, plus a bit about calling them, are nicely diagrammed, photographed, and explained so you can get a head start on learning or bone up for teaching. Round dancing is explained, too. Yee HAH! 

                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 02 9767 905
##T The Complete Book of Square Dancing
The Complete Book of Square Dancing

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The Complete Book of Square Dancing (and Round Dancing)
Betty Casey
1976; 192 pp.
ISBN 0385036035
OUT OF PRINT 

Doubleday & Company
501 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
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##A 02 11612 908
##T Viltis
Viltis

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Lively and eclectic, Viltis is considered by many to be THE folk dancing magazine. Along with the news and views, you get recipes and travel stories from folks bringing back new dances from afar. Viltis is one of those rare labors of love, and looks it. Editor Vytautas F. Beliajus has been at it since 1942.
                                                          
                                                                    Ñ Denise Partida
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##A 02 11818 909
##T Viltis
Viltis

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Vytautas F. Beliajus, Editor
ISSN 00426253
$15/year(6 issues)
from:

Viltis
P. O. Box 1226
Denver, CO 80201
303-839-1589
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##A 02 6918 910
##T Folkraft Records
Folkraft Records

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The catalog for Folkraft Records lists over 700 records (7", 
45 rpm) for folk dances from all over the world. Margin notes tell you what each dance is; for example, DÕHammerschmiedsgselln is a Bavarian mixer for two couples or four men, while Szatmari Karikaza is a Hungarian circle dance for women. You get the 
idea . . .

Each record is mailed out with accompanying instructions for the dance or dances on it. The Folkraft label also has records for square and contra dances, rhythm studies, and exercise and fitness music. Dance Record Distributors, Ltd., can obtain the recordings of every other record company worldwide for teachers and libraries. 
                                                                   Ñ Denise Partida
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##A 02 7239 911
##T Folkraft Records
Folkraft Records

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$3-$4.50
Catalog free from:

Dance Records Distributors
P. O. Box 102
Florham Park, NJ
07932-0102
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##A 01 125182 5
##T The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy

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The Nature Conservancy is responsible for preserving over two million acres of land, as well as innumerable rare and endangered plants and animals. For my money, they manage their purchases with the best network of volunteer and professional land stewards. Recently, The Nature Conservancy has gone international because many of the birds we protect here winter south of the border. ÒTo save them here, they must be saved there as well.Ó A fringe benefit of joining is a 4-color, top-notch quarterly.

                                                              Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 125292 6
##T The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy

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The Nature Conservancy Magazine
Sue Dodge, Editor
ISSN 00280852
Membership $10/year
(includes 6 issues of Nature Conservancy Magazine)
from:

Nature Conservancy Magazine
1800 North Kent Street 
Arlington, VA 22209
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##A 01 127074 9
##T Land Trust Exchange
Land Trust Exchange

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Most land preservation groups tend to be small, volunteer, community oriented, and with very specific tasks in mind. Land Trust Exchange serves as a national clearinghouse for all of them. Their National Directory lists more than 500 groups by state. You can also find out if a group exists where you live and learn about other written material they distribute by writing them.
                                                               
                                                       Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 01 127278 10
##T Land Trust Exchange
Land Trust Exchange

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National Directory of Land Conservation Organizations
National Directory of Local and Regional Land Conservation Organizations

Updated Edition 1988
$10 ($12 postpaid)
from:

Land Trust Exchange
1017 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
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##A 01 128109 11
##T Ducks Unlimited
Ducks Unlimited


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This 587,000-member organization has been responsible for the preservation of more waterbird breeding grounds (especially marshlands) than any government or other group. Working internationally (ducks havenÕt learned about Canadian, U.S., and Mexican boundaries), Ducks Unlimited restores, manages, and purchases wetlands throughout North American waterfowl flyways.

                                                        Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 128298 12
##T Ducks Unlimited
Ducks Unlimited


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Membership $20/year
(includes 6 issues of Ducks Unlimited magazine)
from:

Ducks Unlimited
1 Waterfowl Way
Long Grove, IL 60047
312-438-4300
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##A 01 128543 14
##T The Trust for Public Land
The Trust for Public Land

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TPL does not hold land permanently and it is not a membership organization. Instead it buys threatened land and then resells it to public agencies for open space. It is designed to represent the public interest in the Òhere today, gone tomorrowÓ world of real estate transactions. Open space is where you find or create it, and for TPL this includes inner city lots.  412,000 acres have been transferred nationwide.
                                                                 
                                                         Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 01 128903 15
##T The Trust for Public Land
The Trust for Public Land

@@
Information free 
from:

The Trust for Public Land
116 New Montgomery Street
Fourth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-495-4014
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##A 01 130194 16
##T Izaak Walton League of America
Izaak Walton League of America


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An old conservation group with a distinct midwestern twang. Rooted morality. Never upstarts. They are hard, persevering workers who maintain, protect, and restore soil, forests, water and air. A wholesome 50,000 members. Publishes Outdoor America and has an endowment fund to purchase unique natural areas.
                                                                  
                                                       Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 130445 17
##T Izaak Walton League of America
Izaak Walton League of America


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Outdoor America
Carol Dana, Editor
Membership $20/year 
(includes 4 issues of Outdoor America) from:

Izaak Walton League
1701 North Fort Myer Drive
Suite 1100
Arlington, VA 22209
703-528-1818
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##A 01 125659 21
##T Land-Saving Action
Land-Saving Action

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The last decade has seen a tremendous expansion of private-sector preservation of open space lands. This book, with chapters by 29 experts, embodies the experience that ten years has produced, and will serve as a bible for anyone who loves a piece of land enough to want to find out how to save it.
                                                           
                                                       Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 01 125710 22
##T Land-Saving Action
Land-Saving Action

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Russell L. Brenneman 
and Sarah M. Bates, Editors
1984; 250 pp.
ISBN 093328022X
$24.95 ($27.70 postpaid)
from:

Island Press
P.O. Box 7
Covelo, CA 95428
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##A 01 131176 24
##T Earth First!
Earth First!

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Out on the front lines of eco-defense is Earth First!. ÒNo compromise in the defense of Mother Earth!Ó Direct action against the machinery (not people) and eco-theatre is their modus operandi. Because many environmental groups have become top-heavy with managerial salaries and glossy promotions, Earth First! attracts more youth and makes more efficient use of limited funds.                                                         

                                                      Ñ Peter Warshall




Ù Ecodefense
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##A 01 131340 25
##T Earth First!
Earth First!

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(The Radical Environmental Journal)
Dave Foreman, Editor
$20/year (8 issues)  
from:

Earth First!
P. O. Box 5871
Tucson, AZ 85703
602-622-1371
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##A 01 7147 27
##T Sierra Club
Sierra Club

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The Sierra Club has many parts which provide different services. They have integrated their politics with the Big Boys so well that sometimes I think the leadership loses touch. This occurred, for instance when the Sierra Club supported a huge water project in California (the Peripheral Canal) which its membership overwhelmingly hated and its defense fund was essentially trying to halt. The Sierra Club is also the ÒhatedÓ symbol for those who feel environmentalists are commie extremists. Caught in all these cross-currents, they can use more input and support from their membership. The voice of John Muir needs a 1980s broadcast system.                                                
                                                      Ñ Peter Warshall

Ù Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund
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##A 01 7315 28
##T Sierra Club
Sierra Club

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Jonathan F. King, Editor-in-Chief
Membership $33/year 
(includes 6 issues of Sierra magazine ISSN 01617362)
from:

Sierra Club
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
415-776-2211
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##A 01 116968 29
##T National Audubon Society
National Audubon Society

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The strength of Audubon since 1905 has been its naturalist backbone. More than any other environmental organization, its members actually know the animals and plants they try to conserve. Not only that, they seem to love their knowledge with early naturalist enthusiasm. The educational aspects of Audubon are truly admirable. Their politics vary locally and, if you contribute, itÕs good to earmark your contribution for a particular purpose, especially for specific sanctuaries.
                                                            
                                                          Ñ Peter Warshall


Ù also see review of Audubon Magazine
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##A 01 117078 30
##T National Audubon Society
National Audubon Society

@@

from:

National Audubon Society
Membership Data Center
P. O. Box 2666
Boulder, CO 80322

(includes 6 issues of Audubon Magazine Ñ see separate review)
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##A 01 117931 31
##T The Conservation Foundation
The Conservation Foundation

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Runs an eco-mediation ÒDispute Resolution ProgramÓ to bypass lawyers, courts, and the big bucks (Ù see separate review of their book: Resolving Environmental Disputes).
                                                             
                                                      Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 7688 32
##T The Conservation Foundation
The Conservation Foundation

@@
Information available free 
from:

The Conservation Foundation
Dept. QQ
1250 24th Street NW
Washington, CD 20037
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##A 01 118950 35
##T LOBBYING AND LITIGATING GROUPS INTRODUCTION
LOBBYING AND LITIGATING GROUPS INTRODUCTION

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These are the organizations in which hardnosed lawyers use the
courts to keep government agencies from slouching and swallowing even more eco-destruction, pollution, and poisoning of the planet.  Some of them also lobby legislation before Congress.

                                                         Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 119358 36
##T Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Defense Fund

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We live in a technical world, and our problems are rarely simple. A big part of the Environmental Defense FundÕs success is due to an ability to analyze the scientific and economic aspects of environmental problems, suggest alternatives, and communicate them effectively to decision-makers and the public. 

                                                            Ñ Richard Nilsen


Ù To Burn or Not to Burn
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##A 01 119075 37
##T Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Defense Fund

@@
EDF Letter
Norma H. Watson, Editor
Membership $20/year 
(includes 6 issues of EDF Letter
ISSN 01632566)
from:

Environmental Defense Fund
257 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010
212-505-2100
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##A 01 153568 40
##T Natural Resources Defense Council
Natural Resources Defense Council

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Since its beginning in 1970, NRDC has chosen its court battles
carefully and been in the thick of many consequential environmental decisions.  70,000 members support the effort; a  considerable part of it directed at gaining enforcement of laws and regulations already on the books.

                                                       Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 01 44337 41
##T Natural Resources Defense Council
Natural Resources Defense Council

@@
The Amicus Journal
Peter Borrelli, Editor
Membership $10/year 
(includes  4 issues of The Amicus Journal ISSN 02767201
and the NRDC Newsline Newsletter) 
from:

Natural Resources Defense Council
122 East 42nd Street
Room 4500
New York, NY 10168
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##A 01 157743 45
##T Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund
Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund

@@
An independent spin-off of the Sierra Club (Ù see separate  review), this group of 23 lawyers  represent many environmental groups, including the Sierra Club.  They spend their time litigating, not lobbying or doing scientific research.

                                                             Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 01 82148 46
##T Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund
Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund

@@
In Brief

Quarterly newsletter
free from:

Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund
2044 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
415-567-6100
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##A 01 65321 49
##T ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS INTRODUCTION
ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS INTRODUCTION

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ÒA man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until he has performed the vision on Earth for the people to see . . .Ó
                                                              Ñ Black Elk

Many have visions. More blab on. Few do anything until the pesticide planes fly overhead or the robins arrive no more. Here is the spectrum of environmental warriors  Ñ  all effective and necesssary in different ways  Ñ  all inspired by the hope that maybe, just maybe, our grandchildren will find a few spots of ancient, untouched planet to hear the sound of creeks, alone and with peaceful minds.                                      

                                                              Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 34526 50
##T Ecodefense
Ecodefense


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Inspired by Ed AbbeyÕs The Monkey Wrench Gang, Ecodefense sports proven techniques of tree spiking, road spiking, disabling heavy equipment, fence cutting, trap clearing, lock jamming, billboard trashing, and sundry skills of propaganda, camouflage, sneaking around, escape and evasion, and the like. Fascinating stuff; best not to skim and try, but really study before trying  Ñ  for two good reasons. One is that monkeywrenching mostly takes place in country where retribution is not only in the courts but also by direct action: you get the living shit beat out of you. The second is that monkeywrenching the wrong target is grotesquely counterproductive; you have not only to be right every single time, but conspicuously right, or youÕre just another random vandal
making everyone else feel sick about being alive. The book
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##A 01 34927 52
##T Ecodefense
Ecodefense


@@
A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching
Dave Foreman, Editor
1985; 197 pp.
ISBN 0933285035
$12 ($13.50 postpaid)
from:

Earth First!
P. O. Box 5871
Tucson, AZ 85703
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##A 01 36766 56
##T Ambio
Ambio

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Authoritative and glossy.  This Sweden-based magazine is the voice of establishment international environmentalism.  When 
I was working a couple of years ago on an article about 
genotoxins  Ñ  the flood of new chemicals that cause cancer and gene damage  Ñ  Ambio was my most indispensable source of 
up-to-date information.                                           

                                                       Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 01 36896 57
##T Ambio
Ambio

@@
A Journal of the Human Environment
Arno Rosemarin, Editor-in-Chief
ISSN 00447447
 $105/year (6 issues)
from:

Pergamon Journals, Inc.
Maxwell House 
Fairview Park
Elmsford, NY 10523
914-592-7700
@@

##A 01 32366 60
##T THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT
THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT

@@
The Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is one of the most remarkable examples of participatory democracy alive in the United States.  Forcing humans to consider the consequences of their acts, it has brought together scientists, citizens, corporate executives, congressmen, and lawyers in an unprecedented manner.
Unfortunately, the EIS has stopped few projects, and itÕs currently under attack . But it has slowed a percentage, with the benefit of reducing environmental damage and, at times, development costs. It gives Americans a say in projects that they subsidize with their taxes and must live with long after the developer goes home.

These two books are still the best introduction.

                                                                       Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 32739 61
##T THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT
THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT

@@
Environmental Impact Assessment
Patrick H. Heffernan 
and Ruthann Corwin, Editors
1975; 277 pp.
ISBN 0877350612
$13.50 ($15.14 postpaid)
from:

Freeman, Cooper & Co.
1736 Stockton Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
415-362-6171
@@

##A 01 33705 62
##T THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT
THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT

@@
The Environmental Impact Statement Process
A Guide to Citizen Action
Neil Orloff
1978; 242 pp.
ISBN 0878150218
$7.50 ($9.75 postpaid)
from:

Information Resources Press
1700 North Moore St.
Suite 700
Arlington, VA 22209
@@

##A 01 120067 65
##T Resolving Environmental Disputes
Resolving Environmental Disputes

@@
This survey of a decade of eco-mediation is published by The Conservation Foundation (Ù see separate review). It has an interesting  appendix of case studies, a reminder that opponents can find common ground underfoot.

                                                        Ñ  Richard Nilsen
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##A 01 124666 66
##T Resolving Environmental Disputes
Resolving Environmental Disputes

@@
Gail Bingham
1986; 284 pp.
ISBN 0891640878
$17 postpaid from:

The Conservation Foundation
1250 24th Street NW
Washington, DC 20037
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##A 01 121590 69
##T How Can I Help?
How Can I Help?

@@
Ram Dass and Paul Gorman approach charitable service as a liberation from the prison of self and separateness, and as a solution to the inarticulate loneliness we feel when we lack a connection to others. The anecdotes are the best part here, and the reader wants more of them. Between peopleÕs stories, the authors narrate simple psychology directed to the helping professions.
                                                          
                                                            Ñ Sallie Tisdale
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##A 01 121641 70
##T How Can I Help?
How Can I Help?

@@
(Stories and Reflections on Service)
Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
1985; 243 pp.
ISBN 0394729471
$6.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 01 174997 72
##T Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR)
Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR)


@@
ILSRÕs goal:  self-reliant urban communities that can generate income from within rather than suck from the resource tits of rural communities. TheyÕve established a good reputation in waste-recycling (Ù see review of Waste to Wealth) and theyÕre active in other areas as well.
                                                           
                                                        Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 175234 73
##T Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR)
Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR)


@@
Membership $50/year
Publications list free
from:

Institute for Local Self-Reliance 
(ILSR)
2425 18th St. NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-232-4108
@@

##A 01 176123 74
##T Institute for Community Economics (ICE)
Institute for Community Economics (ICE)

@@
ICE helps local groups form community land trusts. In Dallas, Texas, 11 neighborhood groups have banded together to buy up vacant urban lots. Houses scheduled for demolition are moved onto the lots. The land trust owns the lots; individuals own the houses and lease the land. This keeps the land off of the speculative real estate market so that the only increases in price are from inflation or improvements to the houses. Result: affordable housing for low-income people. The Handbook explains how to do it in your neighborhood.                                  

                                                        Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 01 176241 75
##T Institute for Community Economics (ICE)
Institute for Community Economics (ICE)

@@
Community Land Trust Handbook
1982; 224 pp.
ISBN 0878574395
$6 ($7.05 postpaid);
Information on Community  Land Trusts & Community Loan Funds and ICE literature list free 
from:

Institute for Community Economics (ICE)
151 Montague City Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
413-774-5933
@@

##A 01 177223 77
##T Going Co-op
Going Co-op

@@
If my group of 14 aspiring homeowners had read this book before we purchased the seven-unit apartment building we turned into a co-op a few years back, we would have saved a lot of time and energy. Going Co-op is a solid, readable, nuts-and-bolts introduction to creating your own housing cooperative: selecting and financing the building; working out the legalities; keeping things democratic; and setting group policies, for example, the crucial issue of buying in and selling out. It includes a sample set of co-op bylaws (very important) and a sample occupancy agreement (even more important). I just wish the co-authors had placed more emphasis on the fact that even the best of contracts donÕt hold co-ops together  Ñ  friendships do.

                                                             Ñ Michael Castleman
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##A 01 177603 78
##T Going Co-op
Going Co-op

@@
(The Complete Guide to Buying and Owning Your Own Apartment)
William Coughlan, Jr. & Monte Franke
1983; 249 pp.
ISBN 0807008699
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper and Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
@@

##A 01 178211 80
##T The Barter Network Handbook
The Barter Network Handbook

@@
Another one of those slightly fusty do-gooder manuals, but the subject is one that, like open-air farmersÕ markets and 
(sometimes) recycling centers, can do a lot to connect a community. Sometimes you barter goods, but mostly people barter services; either way, you leave the IRS out of it. Village economics in an urban world, self-rewarding.
                                                                 
                                                      Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 01 178633 81
##T The Barter Network Handbook
The Barter Network Handbook

@@
(Building Community Through Organized Trade)
David Tobin and Henry Ware
1983; 69 pp.
$5.95 ($8.45 postpaid)
from:

Volunteer:  The National Center for Citizen Involvement
1111 North 19th Street
Suite 500
Arlington, VA 22209
703-276-0542
@@

##A 01 71114 84
##T Communities 
Communities 

@@
These days communes are not what they used to be. To find out what they are becoming, read this journal, which has been around as long as the oldest ongoing commune has.        

                                                          Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 01 71193 85
##T Communities 
Communities 

@@
(Journal of Cooperation)
Charles Betterton, Editor
ISSN 01999346
$16/year (4 issues)
from:

Communities
Journal of Cooperation
105 Sun Street
Stelle, IL 60919
@@

##A 01 73570 89
##T Builders of the Dawn
Builders of the Dawn

@@
This comprehensive gathering of interviews, guidelines, and analysis proves that experience more than theory is designing the current evolution of American communes. Pass through this accumulated advice first if you are headed for an intentional community. Dwell here if you intend to manage one.
                                                                
                                                            Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 01 73779 90
##T Builders of the Dawn
Builders of the Dawn

@@
(Community Lifestyles in a Changing World)
Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson
1986; 372 pp.
ISBN 0940267012
$12.95 ($14.70 postpaid)
from:

Sirius Publishing
Baker Road
Shutesbury, MA 01072
@@

##A 01 72570 94
##T Community Referral Service
Community Referral Service

@@
A) Communities seeking new members publish their
circumstances in this complete directory. B) Potential
members seeking to join an established commune can shop for a suitable one. C) Those searching for other commune-bent individuals connect up. Friendly service.
                                                                        
                                                            Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 01 72876 95
##T Community Referral Service
Community Referral Service

@@
New Age Community Guide Book
Bobbi Corcoran, Editor
1988; 128 pp.
ISBN 0938333097
$8 postpaid from:

Community Referral Service
P. O. Box 2672
Eugene, OR 97402
@@

##A 01 132651 97
##T Small Town
Small Town

@@
A little magazine bound to be useful to any community large enough to have a town hall. ItÕs about character, controlled growth, and planning.
                                                                     Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 01 179312 98
##T Small Town
Small Town

@@
Kenneth Munsell, Editor
ISSN 01961683
$30/year (6 issues)
from:

Small Towns Institute
P. O. Box 517
Ellensburg, WA 98926
@@

##A 01 180198 100
##T The Small Community
The Small Community

@@
People could probably have very interesting times, lifetimes, even, following the precepts laid out in this good old (vintage 1942) book. There are definite ways and means of developing community, it says  Ñ  certain things are known, and there are rules to play by.

Author Arthur Morgan wrote forthrightly, with a (now) rare sense of assurance about his values. Indeed, his elegant sense of honor seems quite out of place amid the pragmatisms, corruptions, and complications of our time. But his straightforward aspiration to human greatness, democratic practice, fine culture, and high ideals, coupled with the belief that these aspirations can best be fulfilled in the small community, makes resoundingly good sense.

Because the creation of that context is of such great importance,
@@

##A 01 180564 102
##T The Small Community
The Small Community

@@
(Foundation of Democratic Life)
Arthur E. Morgan
1984; 313 pp.
ISBN 0910420289
$10 ($11 postpaid)
from:

Community Service, Inc.
P. O. Box 243
Yellow Springs, OH 45387
@@

##A 01 100975 106
##T National Trust for Historic Preservation
National Trust for Historic Preservation

@@
It may be ironic, but the best hope for preserving wonderful
old buildings  Ñ  conservation  Ñ  is innovation. Imaginative new uses for the aging structures plus creative methods of finance are what it takes. Confrontation and emotional hassling donÕt usually work. The sophisticated techniques of preservation are discussed, in color, in the bimonthly Historic Preservation magazine. News from the front lines arrives in the monthly Preservation News. Both come with a membership in the lively National Trust for Historic Preservation.                                                 

                                                           Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 01 101138 107
##T National Trust for Historic Preservation
National Trust for Historic Preservation

@@
Historic Preservation ¥ Preservation News
Membership $15
(includes subscriptions to Historic Preservation and Preservation News)
from:

National Trust for Historic Preservation
1785 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036
202-673-4000
@@

##A 01 98497 111
##T Displacement
Displacement

@@
Few experiences provoke as much frustration, outrage, and even grief as being forced to move. ItÕs distressingly common  Ñ  2.5 million U.S. residents are displaced from their homes and neighborhoods each year. ItÕs happened to me and many people I know. Written by a nationwide team of community lawyers and organizers, Displacement describes all the methods by which you could be thrown out of your house  Ñ evictions, condo conversions, rent hikes, arson, and mortgage foreclosures just for starters  Ñ  and the (mostly) legal methods for fighting back. (Sometimes the government eventually learns itÕs cheaper to give illegal squatters their occupied houses than to keep them empty.) Individuals about to lose their homes should look here, but the book is really about building and maintaining neighborhoods. It will instruct you
@@

##A 01 98953 113
##T Displacement
Displacement

@@
(How to Fight It)
Chester Hartman, Dennis Keating and Richard LeGates
1982; 224 pp.
ISBN 0960609814
$10 postpaid from:

National Housing Law Project
1950 Addison street
Suite 200
Berkeley, CA 94704
415-548-9400
@@

##A 01 90953 117
##T Sustainable Communities
Sustainable Communities

@@
ÒSustainability implies that the use of energy and materials in an urban area be in balance with what the region can supply continuously through natural processes such as photosynthesis, biological decomposition and the biochemical processes that support life. The immediate implications of this principle are a vastly reduced energy budget for cities, and a smaller, more compact urban pattern interspersed with productive areas to collect energy, grow crops for food, fiber and energy, and recycle wastes.Ó

How this concept is to be implemented is what this book is about. It isnÕt just talk; there are case studies and lots of eminently practical ideas here, complete with the economics. The call to
@@

##A 01 91642 119
##T Sustainable Communities
Sustainable Communities

@@
Sim Van der Ryn and Peter Calthorpe
1986; 256 pp.
ISBN 0871568004
$25 ($28 postpaid)
from:

Sierra Club Bookstore
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
@@

##A 01 66689 121
##T Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming
Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming

@@
ÒIf the discoveries of the New Alchemy Institute are so important, why arenÕt you rich?Ó a Famous Person once asked John Todd, cofounder of the Institute.  Good question.  The answer is that ideas not obviously mainstream take a while to be accepted, no matter how wonderful. Convincing demonstrations donÕt necessarily help either; note that there have been practical solar homes for decades, but no solar building boom until builders, buyers, bankers and educators had sufficient incentive. Recent work, imaginatively reported, got things started.

The New Alchemy InstituteÕs experiments (Next Whole Earth Catalog, p. 177) in aquaculture, bioshelters, small-scale farming and innovative architecture have proven successful, but so far 
have not ignited a massive thrust towards an ecologically sound,
@@

##A 01 67244 123
##T Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming
Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming

@@
(Ecology as the Basis of Design)
Nancy Jack Todd & John Todd
1984; 210 pp.
ISBN 0871568144
$10.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Sierra Club Bookstore
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
@@

##A 01 92350 126
##T Livable Cities
Livable Cities


@@
All over the U.S.A., deteriorating neighborhoods and even entire towns are being revitalized. And not necessarily by displacing the people living there either. How is this being done?  By people getting together!  Lots of successful war stories and the winning tactics and strategies are presented here with a voice in keeping with the subject:  positive, tough, competent, and experienced. Good hopeful reading for people who want to get control of their neighborhoodÕs destiny. This is all easily read, too  Ñ  a pleasure!
                                                                                
                                                               Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 01 92632 127
##T Livable Cities
Livable Cities


@@
(A Grass-Roots Guide to Rebuilding Urban America)
Robert Cassidy
1980; 340 pp.
ISBN 0030562910
$8.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Henry Holt & Co.
115 West 18th Avenue
New York, NY 10011
@@

##A 01 93396 129
##T Livable Streets
Livable Streets

@@
We all know that Òwe gotta do something about all these cars,Ó but whatÕs to be done?  This book is divided into two parts: the first is an exhaustive (so to speak) study of the effects of traffic on the denizens of 21 San Francisco streets; part two chronicles the history of an attempt to change traffic patterns in Berkeley for the better. That politically tumultuous move is compared to a similar effort in England. Theory meets reality in both cases. Interesting, instructive, and fortunately easy to read. Highly recommended for car-haters.                                      

                                                               Ñ J.Baldwin
@@

##A 01 93477 130
##T Livable Streets
Livable Streets

@@
Donald Appleyard
1981; 364 pp.
ISBN 0520047699
$14.95 ($16.45 postpaid)
from:

University of California Press
2120 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
415-642-4701
@@

##A 01 45518 134
##T GAY POLITICS INTRODUCTION
GAY POLITICS INTRODUCTION

@@
Books by and about gay men and lesbians no longer hide their covers. They range from the personal through the political, touching on history, culture, legal rights, parenting, and literature. Gay and lesbian writing (their worlds do not always overlap) explores community and its ramifications, using specifics of culture to propose universals of human experience.
                                                               
                                                         Ñ Aaron Shurin
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##A 01 46438 135
##T Another Mother Tongue
Another Mother Tongue

@@
Poet Judy Grahn traces gay cultural history from the legends and vocabulary of gay life, bringing new meaning and cohesiveness to same-sex experience. Dykes and Faggots (she celebrates these words, revealing their etymology and power) have served as shamans in various cultures throughout history  Ñ  including our own. They flame; they burn; they change themselves and the world.
                                                                
                                                   Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 01 46635 136
##T Another Mother Tongue
Another Mother Tongue

@@
(Gay Words, Gay Worlds)
Judy Grahn
1984; 324 pp.
ISBN 0807067172
$9.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
@@

##A 01 47381 138
##T A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples
A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples

@@
Anyone whoÕs entered into a business with a friend without
signing a contract knows what pressure that can put on a personal relationship. This book approaches lesbian/gay relationships with the same concerns  Ñ  how to deal with money, time, and parental issues before they become problems. And its information on financial agreements, wills, and child custody and support is as useful for unmarried straight couples as it is for gays.

Included are case histories, sample contracts, and established legal precedents (including, for example, what precedents the Marvin vs. Marvin case established). But the book is especially valuable for its simple language and tone of loving concern  Ñ  it is about how to keep it together.
                                                                      Ñ Annette Jarvie
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##A 01 47637 139
##T A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples
A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples

@@
Hayden Curry and Denis Clifford
4th Edition 1986;  257 pp.
ISBN 087337021X
 $17.95 ($19.45 postpaid)
from:

Nolo Press
950 Parker Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
415-549-1976
@@

##A 01 48466 141
##T Gay Community News
Gay Community News

@@
The best weekly coverage of gay and lesbian current events. Politically progressive.

                                                         Ñ Aaron Shurin
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##A 01 48792 142
##T Gay Community News
Gay Community News

@@
M. Stein, S. Poggi and Jennie McKnight, Editors
ISSN 01470728
$33/year (50 issues) 
from:

GCN
62 Berkeley Street
Boston, MA 02116
617-426-4469
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##A 01 49576 144
##T The Advocate
The Advocate

@@
Political and cultural reporting with colorful features
and interviews.

                                                      Ñ Aaron Shurin
@@

##A 01 49838 145
##T The Advocate
The Advocate

@@
Gerry Knoll, Managing Editor
ISSN 00018996
$39.97/year (26 issues) 
from:

The Advocate
P. O. Box 4371
Los Angeles, CA 90078
213-871-1225
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##A 01 201103 148
##T The Quilt: Stories from the NAMES Project
The Quilt: Stories from the NAMES Project

@@
In the wake of the AIDS crisis comes the NAMES Project Quilt, a travelling memorial of patchwork panels dedicated to those who have died of AIDS. Created by friends, families and lovers, the Quilt increases national awareness and preserves the memory of people who have lost their lives to AIDS. Perhaps the most moving photos are of the panels left nameless due to the stigma that may be attached to losing someone to AIDS.

Profits from book sales go to the NAMES Project and will help raise funds for local support groups providing direct services to people with AIDS. For more information about the NAMES Project: P.O. Box 14573, San Francisco, CA 94114

                                                                             Ñ Lisa Geduldig
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##A 01 207096 149
##T The Quilt: Stories from the NAMES Project
The Quilt: Stories from the NAMES Project

@@
Cindy Ruskin
1988; 160 pp.
ISBN 0671665979
$22.95 ($25.25 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Rd.
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 01 50565 155
##T A Different Light Bookstore
A Different Light Bookstore

@@
A comprehensive catalog of gay and lesbian literature.

                                                       Ñ Aaron Shurin
@@

##A 01 50778 156
##T A Different Light Bookstore
A Different Light Bookstore

@@
Catalog free 
from any of these locations:

A Different Light Bookstore
548 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014

4014 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90029

489 Castro Street
 San Francisco, CA 94114
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##A 01 51471 157
##T Jack the Modernist
Jack the Modernist

@@
Robert GlŸckÕs post-modern prose is all a reader could ask for: wryly self-conscious, full of careening rhythms and inventive formal approaches, love-laden, psychologically probing, and politically smart. GlŸck writes about sex with the unabashedness of Genet and the perceptiveness of Proust. Always before him is the integration of eroticism and the social issues that feed it.
                                                                    
                                                           Ñ Aaron Shurin
@@

##A 01 51855 158
##T Jack the Modernist
Jack the Modernist

@@
Robert GlŸck
1985; 166 pp.
ISBN 091401711X
$7.95 ($9.20 postpaid)
from:

Gay Presses of New York
Box 294
Village Station, NY 10014
@@

##A 01 52515 159
##T The Lesbian Path
The Lesbian Path

@@
This anthology draws on the work of over thirty of AmericaÕs
finest lesbian writers, including Judy Grahn, Susan Griffin, Audre Lorde, and Jane Rule. The stories offer a range of always-true tales, exploding the boundaries of traditional autobiography, and proposing a view of lesbianism as more than a sexual or political fact:  itÕs a way of being in the world.              

                                                         Ñ Aaron Shurin
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##A 01 52842 160
##T The Lesbian Path
The Lesbian Path

@@
Margaret Cruikshank, Editor
Revised Edition 1985; 219 pp.
ISBN 0912516968
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Subterranean Co.
Box 10233
Eugene, OR 97440
@@

##A 01 57941 163
##T Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality

@@
Boswell nails down history with scrupulous scholarship,
using a wide variety of source materials to explore the problematic relationship between the Christian church and homosexuality. Changing, evolving attitudes towards sexuality, from the pre-Christian era through the middle ages, portray homosexuality as a natural expression caught in a social crisis. The introduction and appendices are invaluable historical documents.                                            

                                                         Ñ Aaron Shurin
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##A 01 58118 164
##T Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality

@@
(Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century)
John Boswell
1980; 424 pp.
ISBN 0226067114
$12.95 postpaid 
from:

University of Chicago Press
11030 South Langley Avenue
Chicago, IL 60628
@@

##A 01 28595 167
##T MEDIA TACTICS INTRODUCTION
MEDIA TACTICS INTRODUCTION

@@
by Tim Redmond

One of my favorite stories about local politics goes back to the late 1970s, when Abbie Hoffman was living under an assumed name in a small town on the St. Lawrence River in upstate New York. The way Abbie tells it, he read in the newspaper one day that the Army Corps of Engineers had plans to blast a new shipping channel right through the section of the river that ran by his home. The project would involve dynamiting several small islands and opening an environmentally sensitive stretch of waterway to major shipping.

Hoffman decided to risk blowing his cover and start fighting the plan. For weeks, he went around and knocked on his neighborsÕ
@@

##A 01 135051 173
##T Rules for Radicals
Rules for Radicals

@@
Toward a science of revolution. Much radical literature is aimed at fighting. This book is aimed, by an expert, at winning.
                                                            
                                                         Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 01 135332 174
##T Rules for Radicals
Rules for Radicals

@@
Saul D. Alinsky
1971; 224 pp.
ISBN 0394717368
$3.95 ($4.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 01 123423 177
##T Women Winning
Women Winning

@@
The advent of women as candidates for elected offices in America began in earnest in the 1970s. This book conveys the excitement of a new group reaching out for elected political power and also includes strategic and organizational advice that candidates of either sex will find valuable. The author is a Democratic Party committeewoman and a seasoned veteran of six years in the Maine state legislature.                                   

                                                        Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 01 123715 178
##T Women Winning
Women Winning

@@
(How to Run for Office)
Barbara M. Trafton
1984; 164 pp.
ISBN 0916782441
$9.95 ($11.20 postpaid)
from:

Harvard Common Press
c/o Kampmann & Company
9 East 40th Street
New York, NY 10016
@@

##A 01 122394 180
##T How to Make Meetings Work
How to Make Meetings Work

@@
It always amazes me how a group of otherwise pleasant people can go collectively insane as soon as they get in a meeting together. Anyone who suffers through the wrangling and frustration of poorly run meetings will find this book very useful. I particularly like its emphasis on achieving consensus, a worthy goal that lots of people talk about without knowing much of how it can be achieved.                               

                                                         Ñ Linda Williams
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##A 01 122786 181
##T How to Make Meetings Work
How to Make Meetings Work

@@
Michael Doyle and David Straus
1976; 301 pp.
ISBN 0515090484
$3.95 ($4.70 postpaid)
from:

Berkley Publishing Group
Order Dept.
P.O. Box 506
East Rutherford, NJ 07073
@@

##A 01 25740 185
##T LEFT/RIGHT INTRODUCTION
LEFT/RIGHT INTRODUCTION

@@
Dividing the political realm up into Left and Right is a legacy of the French Revolution and, like the guillotine, not always applicable to the modern world. Nevertheless, until someone comes up with a better set of pigeonholes, we are stuck with the Left/Right metaphor, and most activities and actors in the political realm end up falling on one side of the fence or the other.

The conceit of this section is that the following selection of magazines serves as a rough introduction to the spectrum of the Left and Right. This is similar to trying to boil the worldÕs cuisines down into a half-dozen fast food restaurants. ItÕs both an interesting exercise and an impossible task, and should be read with no illusions about its completeness.
                                                                        Ñ Jay Kinney

...
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##A 01 17648 186
##T LEFT POLITICAL PUBLICATIONS INTRODUCTION
LEFT POLITICAL PUBLICATIONS INTRODUCTION

@@
The Nation and The Progressive are the two best general magazines on the American Left.  They are also two  of the oldest national magazines Ñ of any political stance Ñ still being published.   Long considered "liberal," both magazines have responded to the languishing disintegration of liberalism by broadening their purview to include democratic socialism as a serious option.

In These Times, The Guardian, The Fifth Estate and Open Road are the newer kids on the block.

                                                                        Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 01 15747 187
##T The Nation
The Nation


@@
The Nation was founded in 1856.   As a weekly, it provides timely commentary on late-breaking news.  Alexander CockburnÕs slash-and-burn Press criticism column is particularly provocative.

                                                             Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 01 16124 188
##T The Nation
The Nation


@@
Victor Navasky, Editor
ISSN 00278378
$36/year(47 issues);
$64/2 years
from:

The Nation
Box 1953
Marion, OH 43305
212-242-8400
@@

##A 01 16841 189
##T The Progressive
The Progressive

@@
The Progressive was founded in 1909.  Its forte is longer analytical articles presented with striking black-and-white graphics.

                                                       Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 01 17096 190
##T The Progressive
The Progressive

@@
Erwin Knoll, Editor
ISSN 00330736
$16.97/year (12 issues)
from:

The Progressive
409 East Main Street
Madison, WI 53703
800-525-0643
@@

##A 01 19824 193
##T In These Times
In These Times

@@
One notch to the left of The Nation and The Progressive  is In These Times, the Òindependent socialist newspaperÓ published weekly in Chicago. ITT distinguishes itself from the preceding publications through its emphasis on hard news and its overt stumping for socialism. The writing in ITT is intelligent, nonsectarian and nonrhetorical, and includes good coverage of popular culture. If a good case for socialism can be made in the late Õ80s, itÕll likely be in In These Times.

                                                              Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 01 20058 194
##T In These Times
In These Times

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James Weinstein, Editor
$34.95/year(41 issues)
from:

In These Times
1300 West Belmont Avenue
Chicago, IL 60657
312-472-5700
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##A 01 27574 197
##T The Guardian
The Guardian

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Though the GuardianÕs subtitle, Òthe independent radical newsweekly,Ó sounds similar to In These TimesÕs, the Guardian is a distinctly different entity. Progressive in the '50s, New Left in the Õ60s, Marxist-Leninist in the Õ70s, the Guardian has tended to reflect the changing tilt of left activists from era to era. These days, the Guardian has cut back on the rhetoric, undergone a much-needed graphic redesign, and tempered its penchant for revolutionary dogmatism. If pinned down under duress, the Guardian would probably still call itself communist, though the word doesnÕt surface often in its pages.

                                                              Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 01 27788 198
##T The Guardian
The Guardian

@@
William A. Ryan, Editor
ISSN 00175021
$27.50/year (46 issues)
from:

The Institute for Independent Social Journalism, Inc.
33 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
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##A 01 18701 199
##T The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate

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On the far-left fringes of the far left is the Fifth Estate. Starting out in Detroit as one of the seminal underground papers of the 
Õ60s, FE evolved into a unique radical publication defying any easy label. Suspicious of any "ism,Ó despairing of the bitter fruits of industrial civilization, and with grave misgivings about the role of words and numbers themselves in warping human consciousness, FE publishes brilliant, if wordy(!), critiques of nearly everything.

                                                            Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 01 18951 200
##T The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate

@@
ISSN 00150800
$5/year (4 issues)
$7 foreign
from:

The Fifth Estate Cooperative
4632 Second Avenue
Detroit, MI 48201
313-831-6800
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##A 01 17817 202
##T Open Road
Open Road

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Even farther to the left of In These Times and the Guardian, we run into the anarchists, who may not like Capitalism but hate governments even more. Open Road is the most accessible, regularly published anarchist paper in North America. Since its inception several years ago, Open Road has reported on a variety of anti-authoritarian activities ranging from anti-nuke demonstrations to Native American struggles to bombings by alleged revolutionaries.   With ÒterrorismÓ so much in the news, OR is one of the few publications that prints communiques from leftists undertaking armed actions.

                                                             Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 01 18121 203
##T Open Road
Open Road

@@
2 hoursÕ pay/year
(4 issues) or $50 (sustainer)
from:

The Open Road Collective
P. O. Box 6135, Station G
Vancouver, BC
V6R 4G5
CANADA
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##A 01 66476 207
##T CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL PUBLICATIONS INTRODUCTION
CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL PUBLICATIONS INTRODUCTION

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Suspected of being moribund only ten years ago, conservatism and the GOP have experienced a wave of popularity during the Õ80s that has left the Left gasping for air. As indicative of this phenomenon,  Human Events and The American Spectator spent much of the Õ70s as wistful outsiders, but have increased in influence and prestige in recent years.

                                                                    Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 01 20569 208
##T Human Events
Human Events

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Human Events, Òthe National Conservative Weekly,Ó is touted as one of Ronald ReaganÕs favorite publications and is a good place to go to gain insight into the perspective he represents. With conservatives in power the tabloid gives particular attention to Capitol affairs, though national and international news and issues are also covered.

                                                              Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 01 20808 209
##T Human Events
Human Events

@@
Thomas S. Winter and Allan Ryskind, Editors
ISSN 00187194
$35/year (52 issues)
from:

Human Events
422 First Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
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##A 01 21704 211
##T The American Spectator
The American Spectator

@@
The American Spectator spent the Õ70s handcrafting its mix of snide humor, biting opinions, and copious book reviews in Bloomington, Indiana. In recent years it has moved to Arlington, Virginia, as its editor, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., has risen from obscurity to become a nationally syndicated columnist.

With a format roughly similar to the New York Review of Books, The American Spectator delivers a wholly conservative assemblage of wit, bile, and criticism.

                                                              Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 01 21834 212
##T The American Spectator
The American Spectator

@@
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., 
Editor-in-Chief
ISSN 01488414
$24/year (12 issues);
$28 foreign
from:

The American Spectator
P. O. Box 10448
Arlington, VA 22210
800-341-1522
703-243-3733(VA)
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##A 01 148634 215
##T LIBERTARIAN POLITICAL PUBLICATIONS INTRODUCTION
LIBERTARIAN POLITICAL PUBLICATIONS INTRODUCTION

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Libertarians prefer to consider their philosophy of minimal government and maximum liberty as being beyond both Left and Right. However, what distinguishes most contemporary libertarians from the anarchists on the left is the libertariansÕ enthusiasm for nonregulated Òfree enterpriseÓ economics. With that in mind, Reason magazine in California and Laissez Faire Books in New York can be arguably included with others on the Right.

                                                            Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 01 23598 216
##T Reason
Reason

@@
A lot of libertarian publications have come and gone in the last decade, but Reason (subtitled ÒFree Minds and Free MarketsÓ) has stuck it out. Some good investigative reporting, a selection of columns (including one on investments), and both slick paper and slick design make this a very readable magazine.

                                                                 Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 01 23962 217
##T Reason
Reason

@@
Robert W. Poole, Jr., Editor
ISSN 00486906
$15.95/year (11 issues)
from:

Reason
P. O. Box 3724
Escondido, CA 92025
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##A 01 24648 219
##T Laissez Faire Books
Laissez Faire Books

@@
Laissez Faire Books is a modest bookstore in lower Manhattan with a sizeable mail-order business. It claims to have the 
ÒworldÕs largest selection of books on LibertyÓ which is probably an accurate claim if you define Liberty as synonomous with libertarian politics, the Austrian school of (Òfree marketÓ) economics, and Ayn RandÕs Objectivism.

                                                              Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 01 25011 220
##T Laissez Faire Books
Laissez Faire Books

@@
Catalog free from:

Laissez Faire Books
532 Broadway 
Seventh Floor
New York, NY 10012
212-925-8992
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##A 01 22775 221
##T The Spotlight
The Spotlight

@@
The Spotlight, published by the Liberty Lobby, is the best place to get a handle on the surge in support of the far right in middle America. By turns populist, anti-Zionist (its critics say anti-semitic), isolationist, and anti-communist, the Spotlight claims a bigger paid circulation than any other publication in this survey. Photo features on paramilitary groups like the White Patriots Party rub elbows with articles on embattled doctors touting alternative cancer cures and investigative pieces on organized crime. ItÕs an explosive mix you should be aware of. 

                                                              Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 01 23033 222
##T The Spotlight
The Spotlight

@@
Vincent J. Ryan, Editor
ISSN 01916270
$30/year (51 issues)
from:

The Spotlight
300 Independence Avenue SE
Washington, DC 20003
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##A 01 164010 227
##T How to Lobby Congress
How to Lobby Congress

@@
Abundant, detailed savvy on effective use of Washington, DC. Affecting national policy is not impossible, merely difficult.
                                                            
                                                            Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 01 164235 228
##T How to Lobby Congress
How to Lobby Congress

@@
(A Guide for the Citizen Lobbyist)
Donald deKieffer
1982; 228 pp.
ISBN 0396079695
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

Dodd, Mead & Co.
6 Ram Ridge Road
Spring Valley, NY 10977
800-237-3255; 914-352-3900(NY)
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##A 01 219628 230
##T The Next Hurrah
The Next Hurrah

@@
ThereÕs an art to writing junk-mail seductive enough to get a wary reader to pull out his or her checkbook. Richard ArmstrongÕs mastery of that mode is put to much better use in this engrossing, wide-ranging look at political applications of new information technologies.

He starts with what he knows best Ñ direct mail fund-raising Ñ then shows how this ties in with voter databases, campaign software, telephone banks, opinion polling, electronic news-releases, broadcast production, cable TV, satellite relays, and computer communications. Neither a utopian nor a cynic, at one point he asserts that the new political technology (particularly 
computers) is ÒamateurizingÓ campaigns Ñ giving newcomers 
capabilities that only entrenched Òparty machinesÓ had in the past.
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##A 01 219690 233
##T The Next Hurrah
The Next Hurrah

@@
(The Communications Revolution
in American Politics)
Richard Armstrong
1988; 300 pp.
$18.95 ($20.45 postpaid)
from:

William Morrow & Co.
Wilmor Warehouse
39 Plymouth Street
P.O. Box 1219
Fairfield, NJ  07007
@@

##A 01 214386 237
##T Campaigns & Elections   
Campaigns & Elections   

@@
A slick trade journal for professional campaigners, political consultants, and those running (or interested in running) for public office.

Unabashedly committed to candidate-packaging and -marketing, most of the articles are how-to pieces and interviews with successful practitioners. The ads are intriguing, and each issueÕs 
Òdirectory of resourcesÓ (paid listings for PR firms, mailing-list brokers, fundraisers, computer specialists, etc.) seems like an essential tool. My favorite column is ÒPolitics Across AmericaÓ:  local campaign stories rarely picked up by reporters outside the immediate locale.

C&E has an odd pricing policy: subscriptions cost 50% more than
@@

##A 01 214674 239
##T Campaigns & Elections   
Campaigns & Elections   

@@
James M. Dwinell, Executive Editor
ISSN 01970771
$48/year 
(7 issues) 
or $4.50 per issue
from:

C & E, Inc.
1331 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Suite 1200-E
Washington, D.C. 20004
800-237-7842
@@

##A 01 160479 242
##T League of Women Voters
League of Women Voters

@@
This volunteer organization has come to stand for citizen participation in responsible and responsive government. Its nonpartisan stance allows the League to concentrate on researching the facts about candidates and issues and getting them out to voters. From local to national issues, their publications catalog is a useful first stop in the search for answers.
                                                           
                                                            Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 01 160643 243
##T League of Women Voters
League of Women Voters

@@
Catalog free from:

League of Women Voters of the United States
Publication Sales
1730 M Street NW
Tenth Floor
Washington, DC 20036
202-429-1965
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##A 01 159315 245
##T The Almanac of American Politics
The Almanac of American Politics

@@
Who did what, where, when. For each state and congressional district a recent political history; for every Senator and Representative, a profile, ratings by political interest groups 
(who their friends and enemies are) and their voting records on key issues; and federal funds spent in each district. Know your representatives in Congress.                     

                                                               Ñ Diana Barich
@@

##A 01 159596 246
##T The Almanac of American Politics
The Almanac of American Politics

@@
Michael Barone and Grant Ujifusa
1987; 1415 pp.
ISBN 089234038X
 $39.95 postpaid
from:

National Journal
1730 M Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
800-424-2921
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##A 01 216492 248
##T Congress Stack
Congress Stack

@@
This electronic database is ideal for anyone who wants or needs to ÒworkÓ Congress. In fact, lobbyists and public-interest groups will soon probably wonder how they ever got along without it.

Built on the versatile HyperCard program, it pulls together information about every member of Congress, their biographies, home districts (including maps and zip-codes), office staff 
(names, roles, and phone numbers), and committee assignments. This information is all available on paper, but not from one source, not so conveniently cross-linked and customizable, and not in a 
form where it can be so quickly searched and output to other applications. You can, for example, take a zip code and quickly find 
what Congressional District itÕs in and who represents it. Or take
@@

##A 01 216786 251
##T Congress Stack
Congress Stack

@@
$159.95 from:

Highlighted Data, Inc.
P.O. Box 17229
Washington, DC 20041
703-241-1180
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##A 01 158297 253
##T National Center for Policy Alternatives (NCPA)
National Center for Policy Alternatives (NCPA)

@@
Formerly known as the Conference on Alternative State and Local Policies, this public policy think-tank and resource center was established in 1977 to provide innovative policy ideas for state, city, county and town governments. The organization produces reports and legislative proposals on farmland preservation, energy conservation, pension fund investment, economic development and more. It also schedules regular national seminars and publishes a quarterly newsletter, Ways and Means.
                                                                      
                                                                 Ñ Tim Redmond
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##A 01 158706 254
##T National Center for Policy Alternatives (NCPA)
National Center for Policy Alternatives (NCPA)

@@
Ways and Means
Sandra Martin, Editor
ISSN 02937416
$15/year(4 issues)
Publications list free
from:

National Center for Policy Alternatives (NCPA)
2000 Florida Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-387-6030
@@

##A 01 162655 257
##T Information U.S.A.
Information U.S.A.

@@
This mammoth directory is dedicated to Òall federal bureaucratsÓ and makes the point that 710,000 members of this much maligned profession are actually information specialists. The premise at the heart of the book is simple: Òsomewhere in the federal government there is a free source of information on almost any topic you can think of.Ó A book that opens doors and gives the name, address, phone number and price list behind each one.
                                                                
                                                           Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 01 163009 258
##T Information U.S.A.
Information U.S.A.

@@
Matthew Lesko
Revised Edition 1986; 1253 pp.
ISBN 0140467459
$22.95 ($25.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120 
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600(NJ)
@@

##A 01 14122 262
##T CitizensÕ Guide on the Freedom of Information Act
CitizensÕ Guide on the Freedom of Information Act

@@
The horseÕs mouth. This compact little pamphlet tells you how to request government documents through the Freedom of Information Act and the 1974 Privacy Act (which allows you to see what the government has on you in its records), and also warns you which types of documents you canÕt get.

                                                   Ñ Sarah Vandershaf
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##A 01 116531 263
##T CitizensÕ Guide on the Freedom of Information Act
CitizensÕ Guide on the Freedom of Information Act

@@
A CitizenÕs Guide On Using the Freedom of Information Act
1987; 50 pp.
$1.75 postpaid from:

Superintendent of  Documents
United States 
Government Printing Office 
Washington, DC 20402

(House Report 100-199) 
Committee on Government Operations
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##A 01 187130 267
##T Fund for Open Information and Accountability
Fund for Open Information and Accountability

@@
Ever wondered if Big Brother has you in his files? Why not find out? The procedure is simple. Fill out some basic forms and mail them to the government agency of your choice. They should notify you within a month whether or not you exist in their files. If you do theyÕll give you a number, and you start waiting. My dealings with the National Security Agency, for example, went on for 7 months before I got a definitive response.

More interesting is the FBI response. After telling me that no new material had been added to my file since my last FOI search, they added coyly that Ònew references identified during our search were documents that originated with another agency.Ó Hmm, what does that mean?
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##A 01 191227 269
##T Fund for Open Information and Accountability
Fund for Open Information and Accountability

@@
Files Kit
$3 postpaid from:

FOIA, Inc.
145 West Fourth Street
New York, NY 10012
212-477-3188
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##A 01 201516 270
##T Fund for Open Information and Accountability
Fund for Open Information and Accountability

@@
Our Right to Know
Ellen Ray, Editor
$10/year (2 issues)
from:

FOIA, Inc.
145 West Fourth Street
New York, NY 10012
212-477-3188


(Newsletter)
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##A 01 166129 271
##T The Criminal Records Book
The Criminal Records Book

@@
Your bad self has gotten you in trouble. YouÕve gone straight. Can your name be cleared? Maybe. If itÕs possible to do so in California, this book will tell you how in minute detail. Even shows the forms you must fill out and what to say on them. Though specifically for California folks, the basic steps will work in other states after a bit of imaginative snooping and adapting. If youÕre contemplating a life of crime, this peek at the bureaucratic hassles involved might serve as a deterrent!

                                                                        Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 01 166306 272
##T The Criminal Records Book
The Criminal Records Book

@@
Warren Siegel
2nd Edition 1986; 128 pp.
ISBN 0873370325
$14.95 ($16.45 postpaid)
from:

Nolo Press
950 Parker Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
800-992-6656
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##A 01 38907 275
##T World Game Projects
World Game Projects

@@
       ÒTo make the World work 
         For 100% of Humanity 
         In the shortest possible time 
         Through spontaneous cooperation 
         Without ecological offense 
         Or the disadvantage of anyone.Ó

Buckminster Fuller initiated the World Game in 1969 as one means of accomplishing this worthy goal. The idea is that with enough data on world resources and their distribution (including accumulated technology and problem-solving skills), the worldÕs citizens will do whatÕs best for all. Fuller assumed that once it was obvious that there was enough of everything to go around, 
people would stop fighting wars and get to work making the world
@@

##A 01 39180 277
##T World Game Projects
World Game Projects

@@
The World Game
$25/year
(includes World 
Game Report newsletter)
from:

World Game Projects, Inc.
University City Science Center
3508 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-387-0220
@@

##A 01 218847 278
##T World Game Projects
World Game Projects

@@
Global Data Manager  
$95 postpaid from:

World Game Projects, Inc.
University City Science Center
3508 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-387-0220
@@

##A 01 106021 281
##T The New State of the World Atlas
The New State of the World Atlas

@@
Put this next to the superb Times Atlas of World History (Ù see separate review) as by far the most provocative atlas of contemporary history. Understanding leaps to your eye when you survey a map such as ÒNo. 26; A Sort of Survival,Ó where arrows and numbers show the torrents of dislodged humans sluicing across continents and oceans (100,000 from Argentina to Spain since 1976? 130,000 from China to Hong Kong in 1979 alone?) Wonder what nations have political prisoners, the death penalty, or routine torture?  Ñ  check map No. 25. Wonder where the gold is, the unemployment, the nuclear weapons, the nuclear reactors, the jobs, the separatist movements, education, the worst slums, the degrees of inflation, the degrees of population growth, the degrees of pollution?
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##A 01 106626 283
##T The New State of the World Atlas
The New State of the World Atlas

@@
Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal
1984; 172 pp.
ISBN 0671506641
$10.95  $12.20 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 01 107265 285
##T Worldwatch Institute
Worldwatch Institute

@@
This is the best single source for understanding the problems that face our planet. Worldwatch Institute examines the kinds of economic and environmental issues that politicians by their very nature have a tough time grappling with, and it suggests solutions in a politically even-handed and unhysterical way. Five to six papers on specific subjects are issued yearly and these become an annual book called State of the World.          

                                                               Ñ Richard Nilsen


Ù Whole Earth Security: A Geopolitics of Peace
@@

##A 01 107608 286
##T Worldwatch Institute
Worldwatch Institute

@@
State of the World
(A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society)
Lester R. Brown, et al.
1988; 268 pp.
ISBN 039330440X
$9.95 from:

Worldwatch Institute
1776 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036
@@

##A 01 190508 287
##T Worldwatch Institute
Worldwatch Institute

@@
Worldwatch Papers
Subscription $25/year
(Includes 5-8 papers
and the yearÕs edition
of State of the World)
from:

Worldwatch Institute
1776 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036
@@

##A 01 53657 290
##T Whole Earth Security: A Geopolitics of Peace
Whole Earth Security: A Geopolitics of Peace

@@
Ninety-three pages. The most original analysis of the nuclear impasse in print, leading to the most realistic and hopeful policy. The new terrain of battle contains the transform of impasse into sight.

A masterpiece.                     
                 
                                                        Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 01 53762 291
##T Whole Earth Security: A Geopolitics of Peace
Whole Earth Security: A Geopolitics of Peace

@@
Daniel Deudney
July 1983; 93 pp.
ISBN 0916468542
$4 postpaid from:

Worldwatch Institute
1776 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20036

(Worldwatch Paper 55)
@@

##A 01 108332 295
##T Amnesty International
Amnesty International

@@
ItÕs always a shock to learn that God is not interested in your pain. The best you can hope for is the help of other people. 

The use of torture is steadily increasing worldwide. It is difficult to find out about and nearly impossible to check. So far the only deterrent is public opinion. That requires a respected international investigative organization. Amnesty International delivers.

Torture is a runaway phenomenon  Ñ  far from preventing fanaticism, it increases fanaticism, which leads to more torture, and so forth. It will not cease until indeed it becomes as universally unthinkable as slavery. 

If weÕre going to have an intelligence and espionage establishment,
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##A 01 108854 297
##T Amnesty International
Amnesty International

@@
Amnesty Action
Membership $25/year
(includes 6 issues of Amnesty Action newsletter)
Publications list free
from:

Amnesty International USA
322 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10001
212-807-8400
@@

##A 01 134261 298
##T Amnesty International
Amnesty International

@@
Torture in the Eighties
1984; 263 pp.
ISBN 0939994062
$5.95 ($7.20 postpaid)
from:

Amnesty International USA
322 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10001
212-807-8400
@@

##A 01 237819 299
##T Amnesty International
Amnesty International

@@
Amnesty International Annual Report
ISBN 0939994275
 $10.20 postpaid
from:

Amnesty International USA
322 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10001
212-807-8400
@@

##A 01 109990 302
##T Pravda
Pravda

@@
Pravda, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, used to be the less-than-informative official version of Soviet reality. Now, in the context of the radical reform movement in the USSR, Pravda, like most of the rest of the Soviet media, is hot stuff Ñ a place where you can follow the latest political battles between reformers and conservatives, read about the latest exposŽ of corruption among officials, and laugh at satirical political cartoons lampooning bureaucrats. The regular features remain as well: TV and radio program listings (PushkinÕs poetry is prime time fare), highly opinionated and critical letters to the editor (usually criticizing the newspaper for either going too far or not going far enough!) and texts of important speeches and documents. If the English-language daily dose is more than you
@@

##A 01 110235 304
##T Pravda
Pravda

@@
$630/year (365 issues) 
or $99.50/year (52 issues)
from:

Context Corp.
2233 University Avenue
Suite 225
St. Paul, MN 55114
612-646-2548
@@

##A 01 112047 306
##T NACLA Report on the Americas
NACLA Report on the Americas

@@
Latin America and the Middle East: two hotspots, one near, one far. Their usual coverage in the media is as running sores of strife and woe. These two magazines take a different tack, attempting to describe the regions with depth and sympathy. The North American Congress on Latin America and the Middle East Research and Information Project (Ù see review of MERIP Middle East Report) are nonprofit research groups whose forte is political and economic analysis. NACLAÕs reports tend to be journalistic looks at the effect of U.S. foreign policy south of the border, while MERIPÕs have a somewhat stiffer academic stamp. Both have moved beyond the ÒThird WorldismÓ of the 60s New Left to a more considered approach where the complexities of real world politics are given their due. I recommend both for unexpected insights.
                                                                            Ñ Jay Kinney
@@

##A 01 112229 307
##T NACLA Report on the Americas
NACLA Report on the Americas

@@
Mark Fried, Editor
ISSN 01491598
$20/year(6 issues)
from:

North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
475 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10015
@@

##A 01 113981 310
##T MERIP Middle East Report
MERIP Middle East Report


@@
Latin America and the Middle East: two hotspots, one near, one far. Their usual coverage in the media is as running sores of strife and woe. These two magazines take a different tack, attempting to describe the regions with depth and sympathy. The North American Congress on Latin America (Ù see review of NACLA Report on the Americas) and the Middle East Research and Information Project are nonprofit research groups whose forte is political and economic analysis. NACLAÕs reports tend to be journalistic looks at the effect of U.S. foreign policy south of the border, while MERIPÕs have a somewhat stiffer academic stamp. Both have moved beyond the ÒThird WorldismÓ of the 60s New Left to a more considered approach where the complexities of real world politics are given their due. I recommend both for unexpected insights.
                                                                             Ñ Jay Kinney
@@

##A 01 114431 311
##T MERIP Middle East Report
MERIP Middle East Report


@@
Joe Stork, Editor
ISSN 00477265
$20/year(6 issues)
from:

MERIP
475 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10115
212-870-3281
@@

##A 01 2471 318
##T The Whole World is Watching
The Whole World is Watching


@@
Todd Gitlin is probably the countryÕs second-best observer (after Abbie Hoffman) of how media manipulates, shapes, defines, and creates popular political movements  Ñ  and how those movements can turn the relationship around. Nobody involved with politics at any level should be without this book.                

                                                                 Ñ Tim Redmond
@@

##A 01 26088 319
##T The Whole World is Watching
The Whole World is Watching


@@
(Mass Media in the Making & Unmaking of the New Left)
Todd Gitlin
1980; 327 pp.
ISBN 0520040244
$10.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

University of California Press
2120 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
415-642-4701
@@

##A 01 26661 322
##T The ReporterÕs Handbook
The ReporterÕs Handbook

@@
Most good reporting starts when a reporter smells that some- thingÕs wrong. But you donÕt have to be a professional reporter to follow your nose. Anyone can help stop a local abuse by tracking down the facts, but it often means an extended hunt down a trail of paper and interviews. This manual for following that trail is an encyclopedic directory in itself, listing dozens of documents, agencies, and reports that you might never hear about any other way. Put together by a group of experienced investigative journalists, itÕs one of the few college textbooks thatÕs fun to read.                                                           

                                                                   Ñ Art Kleiner
@@

##A 01 27125 323
##T The ReporterÕs Handbook
The ReporterÕs Handbook

@@
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.
1983; 504 pp.
ISBN 0312673930
$19.95 ($21.20 postpaid)
from:

St. MartinÕs Press
Cash Sales Dept.
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
@@

##A 01 64424 325
##T FOREIGN NEWS MONITORS
FOREIGN NEWS MONITORS

@@
During World War II, the U.S. Government began systematically monitoring foreign radio broadcasts and news publications. The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) and the Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) are now run by the CIA. With thousands of print browsers, and listening posts worldwide, much of what they cull from open sources is quickly translated, sorted and republished. Since the sources are public, so is their selection. FBIS and JPRS reports are gold mines Ñ the most concentratedly rich and diverse news sources IÕve ever encountered. And since your tax dollars pay for them, you can read them free at most Government Document Depositories. (There are Government Document Depositories in libraries in most major cities and universities in the U.S. All of them are open to the general public,
@@

##A 01 90013 335
##T FOREIGN NEWS MONITORS
FOREIGN NEWS MONITORS

@@
Foreign Broadcast Information Service

FBIS Daily Reports $125/year microfiche; $290/ year paper 
(5/week) 
from:

National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
5285 Port Royal Road
Springfield, VA 22161
703-487-4630

Available at most Government
Document Depositories, in major
city and university libraries.
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##A 01 155895 336
##T FOREIGN NEWS MONITORS
FOREIGN NEWS MONITORS

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Joint Publications Research Service 
from:

National Technical Information Service 
(NTIS)
5285 Port Royal Road
Springfield, VA 22161 
and 
University Microfilms International
Old Mansfield Road
Wooster, OH 44691-9050
703-487-4630

JPRS documents and serial publications available.
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##A 01 156617 337
##T FOREIGN NEWS MONITORS
FOREIGN NEWS MONITORS

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Transdex
Write for subscription information from:

University Microfilms International
Old Mansfield Road
Wooster, OH 44691-9050

Monthly and annual indices of
all Joint Publications Research
Service (JPRS) publications available at most libraries that
receive JPRS publications.
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##A 01 100059 338
##T NEWS FROM ABROAD VIA RADIOTELETYPE
NEWS FROM ABROAD VIA RADIOTELETYPE

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Coverage of events outside the U.S. by the U.S. mass media is inadequate at best. Fortunately, you donÕt have to settle for what they offer. A shortwave radio gives you direct access to broad-casts from foreign countries, and if itÕs of sufficient quality, it can pick up much more than music and voice. With the proper accessories, patience, and practice, you can also use it to tune in and read news-text transmissions from foreign press agencies.

This is NOT as simple as clicking around the TV dial. There are many variables that can reduce a distant stationÕs signal to gibberish, and you quickly see that English is a minority language. 
Even with the best equipment, monitoring radioteletype (RTTY) signals is a challenge, but itÕs also the ultimate bypass:  world
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##A 01 107231 346
##T NEWS FROM ABROAD VIA RADIOTELETYPE
NEWS FROM ABROAD VIA RADIOTELETYPE

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Teleprinter Corporation

from:

Teleprinter Corporation
550 Springfield Avenue 
Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922
201-464- 5310
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##A 01 109593 347
##T NEWS FROM ABROAD VIA RADIOTELETYPE
NEWS FROM ABROAD VIA RADIOTELETYPE

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CP-100 Computer Patch Interface
$329.95  from:

Advanced Electronic Applications, Inc.
P. O. Box 2160
Lynnwood, WA 98036
206-775-7373
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##A 01 218966 348
##T NEWS FROM ABROAD VIA RADIOTELETYPE
NEWS FROM ABROAD VIA RADIOTELETYPE

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Commodore SWL TEXT
$99.95 from:

Advanced Electronic Applications, Inc.
P. O. Box 2160
Lynnwood, WA 98036
206-775-7373
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##A 01 110950 349
##T NEWS FROM ABROAD VIA RADIOTELETYPE
NEWS FROM ABROAD VIA RADIOTELETYPE

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RTTY Today
Dave Ingram
$10.95 postpaid  
from:

Universal Electronics, Inc.
4555 Groves Road
Suite 13A
Columbus, OH 43232
614-866-4605
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##A 01 172227 350
##T NEWS FROM ABROAD VIA RADIOTELETYPE
NEWS FROM ABROAD VIA RADIOTELETYPE

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World Press Services Frequencies
$10.95 postpaid  
from:

Universal Electronics, Inc.
4555 Groves Road
Suite 13A
Columbus, OH 43232
614-866-4605
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##A 01 112926 351
##T NEWS FROM ABROAD VIA RADIOTELETYPE
NEWS FROM ABROAD VIA RADIOTELETYPE

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The DX-ers Guide to Computing
George Wood
$3 postpaid 
from:

Radio Sweden
S-105 10 
Stockholm
SWEDEN
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##A 01 124358 352
##T NEWS FROM ABROAD VIA RADIOTELETYPE
NEWS FROM ABROAD VIA RADIOTELETYPE

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The BeginnerÕs Guide to DXing 
Free from:

Radio Sweden
S-105 10 
Stockholm
SWEDEN
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##A 01 157251 353
##T NEWS FROM ABROAD VIA RADIOTELETYPE
NEWS FROM ABROAD VIA RADIOTELETYPE

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Communications in Space
Free from:

Radio Sweden
S-105 10 
Stockholm
SWEDEN
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##A 01 69526 358
##T AN INTELLIGENT GUIDE TO INTELLIGENCE
AN INTELLIGENT GUIDE TO INTELLIGENCE

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by Robert Horvitz

With information already past the glut stage, we donÕt need more information so much as better ways of finding and using what we want and need to know. What we need is more intelligence.

Intelligence can be defined as the means by which information is processed to bring out its use-value. It can also be the product of that process. Intelligence can be as simple as passing on a clipping to someone who might benefit from reading it (connecting a need with a source), or as complex as a team-written study projecting the world 25 years into the future.

The two most common vernacular meanings of the word
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##A 01 104833 361
##T The Puzzle Palace
The Puzzle Palace

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The Puzzle Palace is a monumental reporting feat on the National
Security Agency, the most secret government agency America has ever had. Organized in 1952 as a codemaking and codebreaking agency, the NSA has also tapped and translated foreign radio, scanned satellite signals, and burglarized offices. ItÕs gathered intelligence on organized crime and Cuba (for President Kennedy), and Vietnam protesters and drug dealers (for Johnson and Nixon). It has tried to completely avoid public scrutiny and legal constraint; itÕs the kind of agency that can only exist in a government that feels it is at war. I got lost sometimes in the bookÕs voluminous detail, but itÕs a necessary book and IÕll forgive some denseness. 

ItÕs our first glimpse of the police that Ivan Illich foresees for the
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##A 01 105439 363
##T The Puzzle Palace
The Puzzle Palace

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(A Report on AmericaÕs Most Secret Agency)
James Bamford
1982, 1983; 655 pp.
ISBN 0140067485
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600(NJ)
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##A 01 70592 365
##T Intelligence and Espionage
Intelligence and Espionage

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The open literature on covert intelligence is extensive, ranging from declassified documents, memoirs and exposes to histories, case studies and spy fiction. For a broad, expert survey of whatÕs worth reading, check your library for George ConstantinidesÕ Intelligence and Espionage: An Analytical Bibliography.

                                                            Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 01 70756 366
##T Intelligence and Espionage
Intelligence and Espionage

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(An Analytical Bibliography)
George C. Constantinides
1983; 559 pp.
$71 from:

Westview Publishing Co.
6065 Mission Gorge Road
Suite 425
San Diego, CA 92120
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##A 01 72973 367
##T Strategic Intelligence
Strategic Intelligence

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Among the Òclassics,Ó my favorite is probably Strategic Intelligence by Sherman Kent. KentÕs prose is timelessly lucid, and his three-part analysis (intelligence as knowledge, as organization, as activity) is said to have influenced the development of the U.S. spy agencies. The word ÒstrategicÓ in the title points the discussion toward ways to identify and acquire      Òknowledge which is vital for national survival.Ó  

Anyone wanting to understand why nations have intelligence agencies, and how information needs structure their activity, should read it.

                                                              Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 01 73469 368
##T Strategic Intelligence
Strategic Intelligence

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1949
OUT OF PRINT

Princeton University Press
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##A 01 75021 369
##T SUPERPOWER INTELLIGENCE
SUPERPOWER INTELLIGENCE

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The U.S. Intelligence Community is uniquely comprehensive in its description of dozens of federal agencies, bureaus and systems presently engaging in this line of work. It is especially valuable for its sketches of lesser-known units like the National Reconnaissance Office, the Foreign Agriculture Service, and the Nuclear Detonation Detection System, as well as cooperative arrangements between the United States and its allies. Richelson has compiled a similar study on the U.S.S.R., Sword and Shield: Soviet Intelligence and Security Apparatus. This may be the best scholarly treatment available, but perhaps not surprisingly, it is less detailed and more speculative than his volume on the U.S. ItÕs also much drier than the defectorsÕ accounts that have provided much of what is known about the Soviet agencies. 
                                                                        Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 01 75419 370
##T SUPERPOWER INTELLIGENCE
SUPERPOWER INTELLIGENCE

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The U.S. Intelligence Community
Jeffrey T. Richelson, Editor
1985; 381 pp.
$16.95
from:

Ballinger Publishing Co.
54 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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##A 01 75695 371
##T SUPERPOWER INTELLIGENCE
SUPERPOWER INTELLIGENCE

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Sword and Shield
Jeffrey T. Richelson,
1986; 297 pp.
$16.95
from:

Ballinger Publishing Co.
54 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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##A 01 76070 372
##T KGB Today: The Hidden Hand
KGB Today: The Hidden Hand

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Among accounts written about Soviet defectors, John BarronÕs KGB Today: The Hidden Hand stands out for its vivid recounting of the careers of Stanislav Levchenko, Rudolph Herrmann, and other recent former Soviet spies. 

                                                                Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 01 76461 373
##T KGB Today: The Hidden Hand
KGB Today: The Hidden Hand

@@
John Barron
1983; 257 pp.
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Berkley Books
Order Dept.
P. O. Box 506
East Rutherford, NJ 07073
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##A 01 77097 374
##T Soviet Intelligence and Security Services
Soviet Intelligence and Security Services

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For a good annotated guide to books on the subject of spying by the USSR, see the Bibliography on Soviet Intelligence and Security Services.

                                                          Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 01 77411 375
##T Soviet Intelligence and Security Services
Soviet Intelligence and Security Services

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Bibliography on Soviet Intelligence and Security Services
Raymond G. Rocca & John J. Dziak
1985; 203 pp.
ISBN 0813370485
$23.50 ($26 postpaid)
from:

Westview Press
5500 Central Avenue
Boulder, CO 80301
303-444-3541
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##A 01 78050 378
##T Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

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Exposes of the seamy side of U.S. intelligence by Congressional Committees and disillusioned former agents became an important source of public information in the 1970s. Most donÕt concern intelligence-gathering per se, but rather clandestine acts intended to push other societies in directions favorable to U.S interests, or to suppress criticism and dissent in the United States itself. 

The record compiled in 1975-6 by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (a.k.a. the Church committee, after former Idaho Senator Frank Church) continues to be a milestone as the most vigorous, authoritative investigation of crimes committed by 
U.S. intelligence agencies in the name of national security. Purchasable copies of the testimony and reports released by the
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##A 01 78277 380
##T Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

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1975-6 by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (a.k.a. the Church committee).

 At your local Government Document Depository (many libraries in major cities and universities).
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##A 01 78908 381
##T Inside the Company: CIA Diary
Inside the Company: CIA Diary

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The most illuminating and thought-provoking of the exposes by former agents is still Philip AgeeÕs Inside the Company: CIA Diary. The naming-names aspect made this book notorious, but far more important is the demythifying insight Agee gives into the bureaucratic details of agentry, as well as the CIAÕs entire role in international relations. As he climbs the clandestine career ladder, moving from one Latin American country to another in the 1960s, AgeeÕs gung-ho patriotism gradually turns to confusion, revulsion, then militant opposition. ThereÕs a deep, tragic irony in that the social assessments he learns to perform in his job eventually turn him against his employer and ÒAmerican capitalismÓ generally.

                                                                Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 01 79133 382
##T Inside the Company: CIA Diary
Inside the Company: CIA Diary

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Philip Agee
1975; 660 pp.
ISBN 055326012X
$5.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:

Bantam Books
414 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
800-223-6834
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##A 01 79634 384
##T The Clandestine Service of the C.I.A.
The Clandestine Service of the C.I.A.

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Offers a brief explanation/defense of covert action. Published by the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, this inexpensive pamphlet is part of a recent effort to counter the flood of harsh criticism unleashed against the Agency in the 1970s. 

                                                             Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 01 80083 385
##T The Clandestine Service of the C.I.A.
The Clandestine Service of the C.I.A.

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Hans Moses
1983; 24 pp.
$1.25 postpaid 
from:

Association of Former Intelligence Officers
6723 Whittier Avenue
Suite 303A
McLean, VA 22101
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##A 01 80422 386
##T Intelligence Requirements for the 1980s
Intelligence Requirements for the 1980s

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The centerpiece of the effort to counter the flood of harsh criticism unleashed against the U.S. intelligence community in the 1970s is a most interesting seven-volume series of book-length studies under the collective title:  Intelligence Requirements for the 1980s. Based on topical seminars at which former intelligence officials, Congressional staffers, academics and businessmen discuss covert collection, analysis and estimates, counter-intelligence, domestic spying, etc., it is probably the most in-depth, unhostile, unclassified review of the general issues facing U.S. intelligence today. Unfortunately, some volumes predate important policy changes instituted by the Reagan Administration.

                                                          Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 01 80726 387
##T Intelligence Requirements for the 1980s
Intelligence Requirements for the 1980s

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Roy Godson, Editor
 $7.50-$11.95 
($55/set) postpaid
from:

National Strategy Information Center
Washington, D.C
212-838-2912

Call for titles and individual prices.
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##A 01 81174 388
##T Tom Davis Books
Tom Davis Books

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Mail-order specialist in muckraking political and conspiracy books, many concerning intelligence agencies, bankers, royal families, Masons, organized crime, etc.  All points of view, all shades of credibility.  Stuff not generally found in bookstores Ñ not even in the National Intelligence Book Center (Ù see review).

                                                             Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 01 81408 389
##T Tom Davis Books
Tom Davis Books

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Catalog free 
from:

Tom Davis Books
P. O. Box 1107
Aptos, CA 95001-1107
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##A 01 82322 391
##T National Intelligence Book Center
National Intelligence Book Center

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A bookstore and mail-order service for unclassified books and videotapes, apparently aimed at intelligence professionals and amateurs with a yen to know.  Many manuals, case studies and histories; extensive selection of books on cryptography, investigative techniques and ÒcomsecÓ (communications security). Stock is mainly from commercial publishers, but a few government documents are sprinkled in. They also buy and sell out-of-print books. Their current catalog doubles as a 115-page bibliography thatÕs a pretty good introduction to unclassified intelligence literature, with an emphasis on anti-KGB material and Òtradecraft.Ó ÒDue to the hectic hours of many of our customers,Ó the Center has a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week electronic order line at 202-797-1234.
                                                                Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 01 82642 392
##T National Intelligence Book Center
National Intelligence Book Center

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Catalog $6 from:

National Intelligence Book Center 
(N.I.B.C.)
1700 K Street NW
Suite 607
Washington, D.C. 20006
202-797-1234
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##A 01 84052 394
##T INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY
INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY

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by Robert Horvitz

ThereÕs a growing number of periodicals available to the public reporting on intelligence work. They run the gamut from rabidly hostile to sycophantic, from thoroughly researched to merely polemical to just plain fluff. When the stance is critical and the focus is on agencies of the country where the publication is based, an intelligence magazine may be operating at the edge of that societyÕs tolerance for journalism.

Among the better critical journals, Intelligence/Parapolitics provides a concise monthly overview of recent press reports about covert activities worldwide. Most articles are summarized, others 
are reprinted whole. Emphasis is always on facts rather than
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##A 01 35715 403
##T INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY
INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY

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Access Reports/FYI
Harry Hammitt, Editor
$250/year (24 issues) 
from:

Monitor Publishing Co.
1301 Pennsylvania Ave., 
Suite 1000
Washington, D.C. 20004
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##A 01 138840 404
##T INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY
INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY

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Big SISter
$5/4 issues
from:

OASIS
Box 1666
Wellington, Aotearoa 
NEW ZEALAND
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##A 01 154198 405
##T INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY
INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY

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Counterpoint
Stanislav Levchenko and Peter Deriabin, Editors
$35/year (12 issues)
from:

Ickham Publications Ltd.
Westonhanger
Ickham, Canterbury CT3 1QN
ENGLAND
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##A 01 202627 406
##T INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY
INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY

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Covert Action Information Bulletin
Louis Wolf, Editor
ISSN 0275309X
$15/year (3 issues)
from:

Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB)
P.O. Box 50272
Washington, D.C. 20004
202-737-5317
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##A 01 204566 407
##T INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY
INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY

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Espionage
Jackie Lewis, Editor/Publisher
$21/year (6 issues)
from:

Leo 11 Publications
P.O. Box 1184
Teaneck, NJ 07666
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##A 01 205628 408
##T INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY
INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY

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First Principles
Sally Berman, Editor
$15/year (6 issues)
$10/year for students
from:

Center for National Security Studies
122 Maryland Avenue NE
Washington, D.C. 20002
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##A 01 206123 409
##T INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY
INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY

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Foreign Intelligence Literary Scene 
Marjorie W. Cline and David L. Thomas, Editors
$25/year (6 issues)
from:

National Intelligence Study Center
1800 K Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20006
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##A 01 207561 410
##T INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY
INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY

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Geheim
(DM)
$90/year (4 issues)
from:

Geheim
Lutticher Strasse 14
5000 Koln 1
Federal Republic of Germany
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##A 01 208025 411
##T INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY
INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY

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Intelligence and National Security: 
Christopher Andrew, Editor
£22/year (3 issues)
from:

Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.
Gainsborough House
11 Gainsborough Road
London E11 1RS,
ENGLAND
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##A 01 208484 412
##T INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY
INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY

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Intelligence/Parapolitics
Olivier Schmidt, Editor
$25/year (12 issues)
from:

Association pour la Droite 
a lÕInformation
16 rue des Ecoles
75005 Paris
FRANCE
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##A 01 209140 413
##T INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY
INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY

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Intelligence Quarterly
Michael Speers and Nigel West, Editors
$30/year (4 issues)
from:

Michael Speers
P.O. Box 232
Weston, VT 05161
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##A 01 209417 414
##T INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY
INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY

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International Journal of Intelligence . . .
International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
F. Reese Brown, Editor-in-chief
$10/issue (quarterly)
from:

Intel Publishing Group
P.O. Box 188
Stroudsburg, PA 18360
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##A 01 212230 415
##T INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY
INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY

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Lobster
Robin Ramsay, Editor
$14/year (4 issues)
from:

Lobster
17C Pearson Avenue
Hull HU5 2SX
ENGLAND
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##A 01 216944 416
##T INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY
INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY

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Military Intelligence
Capt. William A. Purciello, Editor
$14/year (4 issues)
from:

Superintendent of Documents
U.S. Government Printing Office
Washington, D.C. 20402
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##A 01 218572 417
##T INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY
INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY

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The National Reporter
John Kelly, Editor
$13/year(4 issues)
from:

The National Reporter
P.O. Box 21279
Washington, D.C. 20009
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##A 01 236505 418
##T INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY
INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINES SURVEY

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Nightwatch 
Free (12 issues/year)
from:

Security and Intelligence Foundation
1010 Vermont Avenue
Suite 1020
Washington, D.C. 20005
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##A 01 102109 419
##T CovertAction Information Bulletin
CovertAction Information Bulletin

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The actions and covert actions of the intelligence agencies of the world affect us every day  Ñ  usually in ways unknown to us. CovertAction Information Bulletin has been keeping tabs on our own spies since 1978 and has earned a bucketful of criticism from those same spies for its efforts.

I look to CAIB for information running counter to the received truths of our pundits and quiescent press corps. CAIB has its own axes to grind (of a largely leftist variety) but that doesnÕt lessen its fundamental value. If you want to begin discerning the difference between information and disinformation, between the aboveboard and the underhanded, CAIB is a good place to start.

                                                               Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 01 102304 420
##T CovertAction Information Bulletin
CovertAction Information Bulletin

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Louis Wolf, Editor
ISSN 0275309X
$15/year (4 issues)
from:

CovertAction Information Bulletin (CAIB)
P.O. Box 50272
Washington, DC 20004
202-737-5317
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##A 01 103406 426
##T Critique
Critique

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What Richard Hofstadter characterized in 1965 as the ÒParanoid StyleÓ in American politics  Ñ  the nativist notion that we are being manipulated and subverted by secret conspiracies  Ñ  dates back to the earliest days of our country when a furor against supposed Illuminati skullduggery exploded in 1798. Since then, popular scapegoats for domestic ills have included Freemasons, Papists, immigrants, and more recently Communists. The penchant for fingering secret enemies is hardly exclusive to the U.S.  Ñ  the Nazis rode to power in Germany by exploiting fears of Reds and Jews, after all  Ñ  but it may be only in America that this world view has been able to bloom into its lushest, most mutant 
varieties.

Critique, a small, handsomely typeset biannual subtitled ÒA
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##A 01 103895 429
##T Critique 
Critique 

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(A Journal Questioning Consensus Reality)
Bob Banner, Editor
ISSN 07356501
$15/year(3 issues)
from:

Critique Publishing
P.O. Box 11368
Santa Rosa, CA 95406
707-525-9401
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##A 01 89308 431
##T Monitoring Times
Monitoring Times

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This monthly tabloid, aimed at shortwave listeners, hams, scanner enthusiasts and satellite dish owners, tells how to receive virtually any radio signal in the air. Its frequency data, international broadcasting news, and equipment reviews are much fresher than Popular Communications, which covers a similar domain. Lots more simple build-it projects, too.

                                                            Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 01 89403 432
##T Monitoring Times
Monitoring Times

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Bob Grove, Editor
ISSN 08895341fcritique
$16/year(12 issues) 
from:

Monitoring Times
P. O. Box 98
Brasstown, NC 28902
704-837-9200
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##A 01 90190 435
##T U.S. Military Radio Communications
U.S. Military Radio Communications

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The most comprehensive, unclassified monitoring guide to U.S. military radio communications, in three softbound volumes. If trouble starts anywhere in the world, and you have a shortwave receiver, a decent antenna, and these books, thereÕs a chance you wonÕt have to wait until the evening news to find out whatÕs happening.

Focusing mainly on voice and radioteletype channels, Volume 1 is organized by both region and service, covering Air Force, Army, and Navy bases worldwide. Volume 2 looks at affiliated agencies, like the Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency and NASA. A composite frequency-order list of stations starts in Volume 2 and concludes in Volume 3.
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##A 01 94487 437
##T U.S. Military Radio Communications
U.S. Military Radio Communications

@@
Michiel Schaay, Editor
1985; 259 pp.(3 volumes)
$33.95 postpaid 
from:

Universal Shortwave Radio
1280 Aida Drive
Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
614-866-4605
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##A 01 90653 438
##T Power Structure Research Database
Power Structure Research Database

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For the past ten years, Daniel Brandt has been compiling a 
Òpower structure researchÓ database with its own easy-to-use, search-and-sort software designed to run on a microcomputer. It presently contains the names of nearly 30,000 individuals and groups identified in 55,000 citations from books and articles about the intelligence community, big business, the U.S. foreign policy establishment, domestic spying and political infiltration, assassination and conspiracy theories, and right-wing organizations.

Each name-entry is linked to as many as 50 published sources. 
Names associated with a foreign country at a certain time can be identified by specifying the place and time span of interest. For
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##A 01 93862 441
##T Power Structure Research Database
Power Structure Research Database

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4 floppy disks $35-$100 
from:

Micro Associates
P. O. Box 5369
Arlington, VA 22205
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##A 01 95347 442
##T The National Security Archive
The National Security Archive

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Former Washington Post reporter Scott ArmstrongÕs initial idea was to create a public depository for documents concerning U.S. national security, foreign policy, military and intelligence activities obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests. Acquiring documents turned out to be just the start. Most of what the National Security Archive does now is assemble and index topical collections from primary sources to provide Òas complete a documentary record of recent and contemporary policymaking as possible within the constraints of security classification.Ó

Current projects range from the history of U.S. military uses of space to the evolution of U.S. policy toward South Africa 1960-87. The Archive sells such collections and their indexes as
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##A 01 95861 444
##T The National Security Archive
The National Security Archive

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Information from:

The National Security Archive
1755 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Suite 500
Washington, D.C. 20036
202-797-0882
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##A 01 96766 447
##T Search For Security
Search For Security

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This fat, spiral-bound guide to philanthropic support is designed to help projects on war prevention and improving national security find and get grants. Over 70 foundations are profiled, including their funding criteria, deadlines and contact addresses, plus lists of grants awarded. Also includes a survey and analysis of groups that succeeded in getting these grants. A well-done, time-saving reference. Nothing else quite like it. 

                                                            Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 01 97018 448
##T Search For Security
Search For Security

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(A Guide to Grantmaking in International Security and the Prevention of Nuclear War)
1985; 281 pp.
$45 postpaid 
from:

Access
1730 M Street NW
Suite 605
Washington, DC 22036
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##A 01 204041 449
##T CCS Communication Control, Inc.
CCS Communication Control, Inc.

@@
If youÕve ever watched a spy movie and wondered whether all those odd little gadgets the actors were using were real, this catalog is the place to find out. CCS Communications is a company that keeps a low profile. They deal in surveillance and countersurveillance equipment, everyday essentials in the Lifestyles of the Rich and Paranoid. Their clients range from private individuals to multinational corporations to embassies that want to keep tabs on their rivals without their rivals keeping tabs on them. If youÕre in the market for a terrorist-proof limousine, a tear gas pen, a voice scrambler, or a new night vision scope, you need look no further.  

                                                            Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 01 204516 450
##T CCS Communication Control, Inc.
CCS Communication Control, Inc.

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Comprehensive catalog $25;  
Brochure free from:

CCS Communication Control, Inc.
160 Midland Avenue
Port Chester, NY 10573
914-934-8093
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##A 01 59711 453
##T WOMENÕS POLITICS INTRODUCTION
WOMENÕS POLITICS INTRODUCTION

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Feminism questions the use of difference to legitimate hierarchy, an arrangement that Starhawk terms Òpower over.Ó The idea that thereÕs no justification for using woman as Òthe nigger of the worldÓ (Yoko Ono) remains fundamental to the whole cause. For most of the women (and some of the men) who absorb that truth, feminism is a life-changing, irreversible experience:  hard to practice day to day, harder not to.

So feminism is a way of being thatÕs still uphill, not quite a campaign that can be won. Thus it should come as no surprise 
that the founding mothers of contemporary feminism are still 
hard at it, pushing the understanding forward. Three of them
 Ñ  Steinem, Friedan, and Morgan  Ñ  have produced books which
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##A 01 60504 456
##T Sisterhood is Global
Sisterhood is Global

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This book is almost overpowering. A formidable (838 pp.) anthology cum almanac, it presents articles on the conditions of womenÕs lives and their movements as understood by contributors from seventy different countries. The contributors employ a variety of genres  Ñ  from rather dry sociological prose, to colloquial accounts of organizing experiences, to impassioned pleas for support of revolutionary movements, to folktales, to bitterly funny political nonsatire.

All these are prefaced by entries sketching the demography, government, economy, Ògynography,Ó Òherstory,Ó and mythography of the countries represented. What emerges is a picture of 
ubiquitous injustice being met by widespread awakening and
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##A 01 61499 458
##T Sisterhood is Global
Sisterhood is Global

@@
Robin Morgan, Editor
1984; 838 pp.
ISBN 0385177976
$14.95 ($16.95 postpaid)
from:

Doubleday and Company
Direct Mail Order
501 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
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##A 01 85557 460
##T Connexions
Connexions


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A quarterly magazine covering the same unwieldy beat as Sisterhood is Global, Connexions gathers reports from women around the world on one theme (e.g. Media: Getting to Women, or Women and Militarism) for each issue. The diverse voices and concerns of women from both industrial and nonindustrial countries convey the real challenge of an international womenÕs movement  Ñ  creating not just common theory, but understanding that spans continents.  ItÕs the best place to begin without having to buy a plane ticket.                                 
            
                                                         Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 01 85788 461
##T Connexions
Connexions


@@
(An International WomenÕs Quarterly)
Connexions Collective, Editors
ISSN 08867062
$15/year (4 issues)
from:

Connexions
4228 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, CA 94609
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##A 01 111510 463
##T Not An Easy Choice
Not An Easy Choice

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Is it anti-life to be pro-abortion rights?  Author Kathleen McDonnell shows how public focus on that question is hindering understanding of abortion Ñ especially of womenÕs feelings about it.  Outstanding book.
                                                                     
                                                          Ñ Jeanne Carstensen


Ù Test-Tube Women
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##A 01 182174 464
##T Not An Easy Choice
Not An Easy Choice

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(A Feminist Re-Examines Abortion)
Kathleen McDonnell
1984; 157 pp.
ISBN 0896082644
$8 ($9.50 postpaid)
from:

South End Press
300 Raritan Center Parkway
Edison, NJ 08818
617-266-0629
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##A 01 211319 467
##T ABORTION
ABORTION

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This essay was in response to the question:  What are the consequences of treating the fetus as a human being?  The question was posed (and other responses can be found) in the Summer, 1986 issue of Whole Earth Review magazine.

                                                             Ñ Richard Nilsen

By Sallie Tisdale

Ah Ñ to imagine a world without killing, a world with peace.  What a grand dream it is.  Imagine a world in which the unborn child is as cherished as the one held in your arms asleep, a world in which the same arms are open to the unprepared and unhappy and unable,
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##A 01 82999 474
##T Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

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This collection, which is SteinemÕs first book  Ñ  sheÕs been too busy as an organizer and journalist for the last twenty years to write one before now  Ñ  is a better place than most to begin to learn what feminism is today.

Gloria Steinem may be one of the finer human beings around, a noble exponent of an epochal cause. Start with her courage: in surviving, without self-pity, an arduous childhood (see ÒRuthÕs SongÓ), and the slings and arrows aimed at her as AmericaÕs 
Best-Known Feminist (ÒIntroductionÓ). Add to that her unyielding insistence on justice for all, her constant awareness of the contributions and concerns of women and men of color, and her attention to the economic inequity between the dominant minority
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##A 01 83666 476
##T Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

@@
Gloria Steinem
1985; 420 pp.
ISBN 0451155009
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Pearson, Inc.
Box 120 
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600(NJ)
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##A 01 88269 478
##T Heresies
Heresies

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Produced by a collective, each issue of Heresies is a special: Feminism and Ecology, Third World Women, Women Working Together and Sexuality have been among their subjects. Some of the material is a grind  Ñ  theoretical, rhetorical stuff on feminism as a subject. Some of it is revelatory, especially that dealing with feminism as a practice or perspective. Everything they publish has consequence, and the art they include is striking Ñ images that hit home.

There are scores of excellent feminist magazines, from stately small-press literary journals to scholarly quarterlies to outraged 
tabloids to the rangier, avant-garde offering of Heresies. Its inclusion here as the sole representative of all that rich cultural
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##A 01 88615 480
##T Heresies
Heresies

@@
Heresies Collective, Editors
ISSN 01463411
$17/2 years (4 issues)
from:

Heresies
P. O. Box 1306
Canal Street Station
New York, NY 10013
212-227-2108
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##A 01 86610 483
##T The Second Stage
The Second Stage

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The Second Stage continues the obdurately fair appraisal of the relationship between the sexes begun twenty years ago in The Feminine Mystique. Fair in that Betty Friedan doesnÕt let women off the hook. She foresees a positive synthesis emerging from the womenÕs movement and proclaims that it is not for women only. So she doesnÕt exempt men from the opportunity to change, either.

ThereÕs a lot to quibble with in Friedan  Ñ  sheÕs straight, she has odd blind spots around lesbianism, race, culture, and ecology, and she extrapolates from the present in a rather linear way.  She is, however, aware of the extent to which the megainstitutions like the State and Capitalism have gone haywire, and that makes for a fairly meaningful larger context.
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##A 01 87432 486
##T The Second Stage
The Second Stage

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Betty Friedan
Revised Edition  1986; 346 pp.
ISBN 0671630644
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 01 183506 488
##T Dreaming the Dark
Dreaming the Dark

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Starhawk is a witch, and Dreaming the Dark is a thoughtful exposition of paganism  Ñ  the timeless and eternally new Òold religion,Ó witchcraft, which was the religious practice of men and women before god was extricated from immanence, unsurprisingly becoming a patriarch in the process. The politics of male sky-god religion parallel the politics of female oppression, which is why it is no coincidence that a lot of good churchmen once tortured hundreds of wise women (and men) to death in order to confirm spirituality as the franchise of a masculine elite. In spite of all that, magic never died. Dreaming the Dark is convincing propaganda against hierarchy of any sort, religious or temporal, and for high anarchy. ItÕs also a straightforward introduction to the philosophy and practice of magic.
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##A 01 184624 492
##T Dreaming the Dark
Dreaming the Dark

@@
(Magic, Sex & Politics)
Starhawk
1982; 242 pp.
ISBN 0807010014
$9.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
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##A 01 16369 496
##T Peace Corps
Peace Corps

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Ivan Illich once commented rather impolitely that righteously inclined Americans would do more good if they worked at local 
U.S.A. problems instead of imposing themselves on foreign hosts. 
(My own experience abroad agrees; I suspect a contribution of my air fare money would have done more good than I did.)  Nonetheless, there are certainly places where spirited yet humble application of expertise can help. If you want to get into this line of work, the Peace Corps is probably your best bet, but there are many other possibilities  Ñ  especially church groups. ÒDoing timeÓ is one of the best ways to learn.                                       

                                                                 Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 01 140804 500
##T Peace Corps
Peace Corps

@@
Information free from:

Peace Corps
806 Connecticut Avenue
Room P-301
Washington, DC 20526
800-424-8580 ext. 93
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##A 01 56122 501
##T Gandhi on Non-Violence
Gandhi on Non-Violence

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You might as well go straight to the fountainhead and listen to the piercing words of the humblest servant of nonviolence, Mahatma Gandhi. No one elseÕs example in modern times has so radically shifted so many peopleÕs lives (mine included) as this Òhalf-nakedÓ saint. The late Thomas Merton, a Christian monk with his own inspiring life of nonviolence, selected the few statements Gandhi wrote down of his experiment in truth for this slim volume. As Gandhi said, ÒNonviolence cannot be preached. It has to be practiced.Ó                                                 

                                                                    Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 01 56586 503
##T Gandhi on Non-Violence
Gandhi on Non-Violence

@@
Thomas Merton, Editor
1965, 1986; 82 pp.
ISBN 0811200973
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

New Directions
80 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
212-255-0230
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##A 01 55003 507
##T The Evolution of Cooperation
The Evolution of Cooperation

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The ÒPrisonerÕs DilemmaÓ is a situation where two individuals can choose to cooperate with each other or not cooperate (defect). If they both cooperate they each get three points. If they both defect they each get one point. If one cooperates and one defects, the cooperator gets zero and the defector gets five. Author Robert Axelrod uses this non-zero-sum game to explain the arms race, international relations and the interaction of regulatory agencies with those they regulate.

First the good news:  in a population of individuals interested in their own welfare, where no central authority exists, it pays to cooperate. Cooperative rules ÒwonÓ over noncooperative ones in simulated iterations.
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##A 01 55429 510
##T The Evolution of Cooperation
The Evolution of Cooperation

@@
Robert Axelrod
1984; 241 pp.
ISBN 0465021212
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
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##A 01 165030 512
##T Center for Innovative Diplomacy (CID)
Center for Innovative Diplomacy (CID)

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Whether through sister-city relationships, trade agreements, nuclear free zones, cultural exchanges, or sanctuary for Central American refugees, localities are increasingly getting involved in foreign policy.

The Center for Innovative Diplomacy tracks, analyzes, and promotes this encouraging trend in participatory democracy.  Their Bulletin of Municipal Foreign Policy reports on international affairs at the local level and debates conservatives who believe foreign policy is strictly a federal matter.  The Bulletin is organized by foreign policy topics and regions so itÕs easy to find the latest news on arms control, Central America, civil defense, or South Africa (among other topics); organizational contact
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##A 01 165187 514
##T Center for Innovative Diplomacy (CID)
Center for Innovative Diplomacy (CID)

@@
Membership $35/year
(includes quarterly
CID Report and Bulletin of Municipal Foreign Policy)

Information free
with SASE from:

Center for Innovative Diplomacy 
(CID)
17931 F Skypark Circle
Irvine, CA 92714
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##A 01 97500 516
##T PeaceNet
PeaceNet

@@
This computer messaging service hosts over a hundred online conferences for peace and social activist groups:  the National Freeze Campaign, the Christic Institute, the Central America Resource Network, the Center for Innovative Diplomacy, Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space, etc.  ItÕs worth joining not just for the news-postings and calendars of events  
(e.g. American Peace TestÕs schedule of nuclear blasts at the Nevada test site), but because participating groups often use PeaceNet to administer themselves.  ItÕs a treat to follow discussions of internal issues, goals, strategies and tactics, and most times kibitzers can add their two cents.  Openness is an important principle for many of these groups; PeaceNet makes 
that ideal both practicable and involving.  (The system has
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##A 01 98228 518
##T PeaceNet
PeaceNet

@@
Reachable in larger cities through Telenet, after a sign-up fee of $10, the cost is $10 per month, plus $5 per hour (off-peak) and .005 cents per kilobyte for disk storage in excess of 100k. Groups get discounts.
from:

PeaceNet
Institute for Global Communications
3228 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
415-923-0900
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##A 01 8071 520
##T MEDIATION INTRODUCTION
MEDIATION INTRODUCTION

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By Jake Warner

These days many people try to avoid our formal court system as they might avoid a rabid skunk, and for the most part, they are right. Taking a dispute to court (small claims court excepted) normally involves a major expenditure of money, a lot of time, at least as much anxiety, and, in the end, usually disappointment.
The hopelessness of resolving any dispute through civil litigation has spawned a considerable industry dedicated to solving disputes in other ways.

Called Alternative Dispute Resolution (or ADR), this movement advocates the private resolution of disputes.  One of ADRÕs
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##A 01 198829 539
##T MEDIATION INTRODUCTION
MEDIATION INTRODUCTION

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National Association for Community Justice
For a list of community-based groups formed to mediate disputes contact:

National Association for Community Justice
149 Ninth Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
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##A 01 199525 540
##T MEDIATION INTRODUCTION
MEDIATION INTRODUCTION

@@
Center for Mediation in Law
Information from:

Center for Mediation in Law
34 Forrest
Mill Valley, CA 94941
415-383-1300
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##A 01 134816 541
##T Getting to Yes
Getting to Yes

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This book on negotiation comes as a great personal relief to me and may well to you. IÕve always avoided situations that involved bargaining because of all the dishonesty that seemed to be required. When I was forced, by life, to bargain anyway, I usually did poorly, which reinforced my reluctance. All that is now cured by this modest 163 pages of exceptional insight and clarity.

The point is to negotiate on principle, not pressure  Ñ  on mutual search for mutually discernible objectivity, patiently and firmly putting aside every other gambit.  The book is a landmark, already a bible for international negotiators but just as useful for deciding which movie to see tonight or which school to send the family scion to.
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##A 01 135754 543
##T Getting to Yes
Getting to Yes

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(Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In)
Roger Fisher & William Ury
1981; 163 pp.
ISBN 0395317576
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Attn.: Mail Order
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
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##A 01 136934 546
##T Community Conflict Resolution Training Manual
Community Conflict Resolution Training Manual

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There are hundreds of mediation groups in the U.S. Some specialize in a narrow type of dispute. Others are the quasi-official arms of juvenile or domestic relations courts. (California and several other states require court-sponsored mediation of all contested child custody lawsuits.)  Perhaps the group with the broadest vision of the full range of disputes is the Community Board Program, founded and directed by Roy Shonholtz. Headquartered in San Francisco, this organization has helped start similar groups in two dozen other communities. They offer topnotch training sessions (run periodically at different locations around the country), designed for both community people and professionals.  These folks also publish a number of newsletters, manuals, and videotapes. 
                                                                 Ñ Jake Warner
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##A 01 137119 547
##T Community Conflict Resolution Training Manual
Community Conflict Resolution Training Manual

@@
Judith Lynch, Editor
1984; 89 pp.
$25 from:

The Community Board Program, Inc.
149 Ninth Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
415- 552-1250
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##A 01 28191 550
##T The Mediation Process
The Mediation Process

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This is the best and most accessible general text in the field. I particularly like it because there is relatively little material on the general wonders of mediation, but lots of specifics on how mediation sessions should be conducted.  Although Moore probably overdoes it a bit when he divides a typical mediation into twelve stages (a half dozen would surely serve as well), I found it a real learning experience to follow him through each.  
                                                                          
                                                              Ñ Jake Warner
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##A 01 31678 551
##T The Mediation Process
The Mediation Process

@@
(Practical Strategies for Resolving Conflict)
Christopher W. Moore
1986; 348 pp.
ISBN 0875896731
$24.95 ($26.95 postpaid)
from:

Jossey-Bass Publishers
350 Sansome Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
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##A 01 40151 553
##T Mediation Quarterly
Mediation Quarterly

@@
There are dozens of local mediation-oriented newsletters popping up, but this is the best.

                                                          Ñ Jake Warner
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##A 01 53348 554
##T Mediation Quarterly
Mediation Quarterly

@@
John Allen Lemmon,
Editor-in -Chief
ISSN 07394098
$36/year (4 issues) individuals;$48/year institutions & libraries
from:

Jossey-Bass, Inc.
350 Sansome Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
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##A 01 63300 558
##T Soldier of Fortune
Soldier of Fortune

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Repulsive, ghoulish, brutal, sickening. ThatÕs war. And thatÕs often the response to this notorious magazine that serves as a clubhouse for self-avowed mercenaries and gung-ho warriors. The talk is of guns and guns and bigger weapons, strategies, and heroics. Us against them. But war is really the enemy we should be fighting. Know thy enemy, portrayed unflinchingly in these pages.
                                                                        
                                                               Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 01 63652 559
##T Soldier of Fortune
Soldier of Fortune

@@
Robert K. Brown, Editor
ISSN 01456784
$26/year(12 issues)
from:

Soldier of Fortune
Subscription Dept.
P. O. Box 348
Mount Morris, IL 61054
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##A 01 61163 561
##T The War Atlas
The War Atlas

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The current placement and strength of armies and weapon systems; the fruits of wars already waged; the flow of the arms trade  Ñ  all these rather dry yet scary statistics are here converted into handsome, multicolored maps which effortlessly make the obscure clear. If, like me, youÕve been questioning whether we really need yet another dozen or two books examining the arms race and nuclear dilemma to the point of utter redundancy, youÕll probably find The War Atlas conveys most of the same information in a much more interesting form.                                

                                                              Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 01 61319 562
##T The War Atlas
The War Atlas

@@
(Armed Conflict-Armed Peace)
Michael Kidron and Dan Smith
1983; 120 pp.
ISBN 0671472534
$9.95 ($11.20 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 01 62167 564
##T How to Make War
How to Make War

@@
Did you ever wonder what would really happen if our navy and the Russian navy went to war?  Or perhaps you would like to know just how much a war would cost (monetarily). Whatever your interest, if it concerns the implements, components, and probabilities of war, James F. Dunnigan has covered it in How to Make War.  I couldnÕt put this book down. It makes the defense budget debates much more transparent and infuriating.             

                                                                     Ñ Hal Ham
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##A 01 62331 565
##T How to Make War
How to Make War

@@
James F. Dunnigan
Updated Edition 1988; 442 pp.
ISBN 0688019757
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Morrow Publishing Co.
Wilmor Warehouse
39 Plymouth Street
Fairfield, NJ 07006
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##A 01 193526 571
##T SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY INTRODUCTION
SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY INTRODUCTION

@@
Gimme some numbers!  And thatÕs just what you get from these folks as they attempt to discover and understand the flow of energy and resources through society.  TheyÕre doing our homework for us.                                                      

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 01 40973 572
##T Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)


@@
Since its humble beginnings in 1982, RMI (Amory and Hunter Lovins, props.) has shown the way in energy and resource management research; IÕll let them explain themselves:

ÒBecause the problems of the world cannot be solved by piecemeal thinking, the interdisciplinary staff of 20 emphasizes synthesis. RMI has documented, for example, how least-cost energy strategies can inhibit nuclear proliferation, abate acid rain, save wild rivers, rescue troubled utilities, cut electric rates, forestall the CO2 threat to global climate, make farms and industries more profitable, rebuild distressed local economies, and save enough money to pay off the National Debt by 2000.Ó
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##A 01 41662 574
##T Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)


@@
Jon Klusmire, Editor

Publications list free;
Newsletter(4 issues) free
from:

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)
1739 Snowmass Creek Road
Old Snowmass, CO 81654-9199
303-927-3851
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##A 01 42435 576
##T The Regeneration Project
The Regeneration Project

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This project is based on a simple truth:  if you import products, food, and energy into your area, you export money out of your local economy.  Not good.  Not efficient.  Dumb, even.  The Regeneration Project offers the analytic and organizing skills to counter such forces. The idea is to maximize conservation where possible, then minimize imports by making, repairing, or growing what you need locally, locally. The project is increasingly successful because it works  Ñ  not surprising with the hand of Robert Rodale involved. 

                                                                   Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 01 42615 577
##T The Regeneration Project
The Regeneration Project

@@
Regeneration
Marilyn Stevens, Editor
$15/year (bi-monthly newsletter)
Publications list free
from:

The Regeneration Project
33 East Minor Street
Emmaus, PA 18098
215-967-5171
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##A 01 43309 580
##T New Alchemy Institute
New Alchemy Institute


@@
The Alkies have been working on sustainable technology and agriculture for about 17 years now and doing a good job of it too. Recent work includes a composting greenhouse and designs for 
eco-righteous housing thatÕll appeal to builder/developers as well as owners. They offer lots of classes, consulting services, and a host of publications. The quarterly newsletter always seethes with interesting action, much of it backed by strict scientific methodology  Ñ  one reason NAI has been so successful.
                                                                                
                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 01 43739 581
##T New Alchemy Institute
New Alchemy Institute


@@

Membership $35/year
(includes 4 issues of New Alchemy Quarterly ISSN 08951497
David A. Willis, Managing Editor);
$20 low income
from:

New Alchemy Institute
237 Hatchville Road
East Falmouth, MA 02536
617-564-6301
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##A 01 42950 584
##T The Meadowcreek Project
The Meadowcreek Project

@@
In some respects, the Meadowcreek Project is like the New Alchemy Institute (Ù see separate review); a demonstration of ecologically sound living technique. Unlike New Alchemy, the crew actually lives there, along with apprentices, conference participants, and visitors, totally immersed in whatÕs going on. 
(The Alkies prefer to live embedded in the local community. Hard to say which works best.) MeadowcreekÕs principal thrust is teaching. The 300-acre working farm together with a conference center encourages a high degree of theoretical discussion tempered by hands-on practice. A good way to learn. The best way to learn, probably. The project has earned an enviable reputation for inspiration education.
                                                                    Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 01 145672 585
##T The Meadowcreek Project
The Meadowcreek Project

@@
Sample newsletter free Information packet $2 postpaid
from:

Meadowcreek Project, Inc.
Fox, AR 72051
501-363-4500
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##A 01 141634 589
##T Volunteers in Technical Assistance
Volunteers in Technical Assistance

@@
For 25 years, Volunteers in Technical Assistance has been a reliable source of expert advice and an experienced stack of publications. You donÕt join VITA as you would the Peace Corps, for instance, but you can make your special knowledge available through them. Their record of action is inspiring; see for yourself in VITA News.                                                           

                                                               Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 01 142044 590
##T Volunteers in Technical Assistance
Volunteers in Technical Assistance

@@
VITA News  
Margaret Crouch, Editor
ISSN 08820937
$15/year(4 issues)
from:

Volunteers in Technical Assistance
1815 North Lynn Street
Suite 200
Arlington, VA 22209-2079
703-276-1800
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##A 01 138084 592
##T Intermediate Technology Development Group
Intermediate Technology Development Group

@@
ITDG stands for Intermediate Technology Development Group, founded by the late E.F. Schumacher of Small Is Beautiful fame 
(Ù see review). TheyÕve executed successful projects all over the world, and publish some of the more useful literature available on alternative technologies.                                         

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 01 138282 593
##T Intermediate Technology Development Group
Intermediate Technology Development Group

@@
Information free 
from:

Intermediate Technology Development Group of North America, Inc. (ITDG)
777 United Nations Plaza
Suite 9A
New York, NY 10017
212-972-9877
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##A 01 142749 595
##T TRANET
TRANET

@@
Networking and information exchange is the name of the game, and TRANET (from TRANsnational NETwork for appropriate/alternative technologies) has done it better and wider for ten years now. Their         newsletter has good reviews of pertinent books plus lots of news excerpts.  Lively and effective despite a bit of Õ70s character, TRANET is the place to look first to see whatÕs going on globally among people taking control of their own lives.  In 1988, Rain
Magazine from Portland, Oregon was merged with TRANET.
                                                                            
                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 01 142994 596
##T TRANET
TRANET

@@
Bill Ellis, Editor
ISSN 07390971
Membership $30/year
(6 issues); also provides membership to a counterpart individual, organization or library in the Third World.
from:

TRANET
P.O. Box 567
Rangeley, ME 04970
207-864-2252
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##A 01 139080 598
##T APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY SOURCES
APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY SOURCES

@@
No less than 1000 of the best appropriate tech books and documents  Ñ  about 140,000 pages  Ñ  have been microfiched to fit into a small suitcase. A simple 120 AC, 240 AC, or 12-volt
(vehicle battery) fiche reader accompanies this deluge of information. Instant library! Affordable, too; the price of all this is about five percent of the real books, not to mention the cost of shipping and storing them. More than 100 countries have partaken of this so far.

This powerful idea was hatched by Ken Darrow of VIA (Volunteers in Asia). His Appropriate Technology Sourcebook contains sharp reviews of all 1000 of the fiched books.
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##A 01 139405 600
##T APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY SOURCES
APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY SOURCES

@@
Appropriate Technology Microfiche Reference Library
Library in case $695;
fiche reader $225-350.
Information free (postage and handling varies by destination)
from:

Appropriate Technology Project
Volunteers in Asia, Inc.
P.O. Box 4543
Stanford, CA 94305
800-648-8043
415-326-8581(CA)
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##A 01 104354 601
##T APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY SOURCES
APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY SOURCES

@@
The Appropriate Technology Sourcebook
Ken Darrow and Mike Saxenian
Revised Edition 1986; 800 pp.
ISBN 0917704177
$17.95 ($19.95 domestic & $20.95 foreign  postpaid);
$9 for local groups in developing countries from:

Appropriate Technology Project
Volunteers in Asia, Inc.
P.O. Box 4543
Stanford, CA 94305
800-648-8043
415-326-8581(CA)
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##A 01 40888 603
##T How the Other Half Builds
How the Other Half Builds

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ÒExisting informal sector housing, often termed slums, represents a solution rather than a problem.Ó This is a radical concept to many theoretical low-income housing planners, but not to its author, Witold Rybczynski; heÕs well-known for puncturing the ineffectual arguments of self-righteous do-gooders. The basic premise is simple: In order to determine what to plan as housing for the poor, find out what they need; to find out what they need, go see what theyÕve done without the aid of planners. YouÕd think this would go without saying, but planners often are blinded by class differences and elitist educations. This paper should help, 
and not just in less-developed areas of the world. The idea that the people can handle a lot of their own needs should be a major premise of any democratic society.                     Ñ J. Baldwin
Ù Bernard Rudofsky on Architecture
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##A 01 43040 604
##T How the Other Half Builds
How the Other Half Builds

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Witold Rybczynski et al.
1984; 89 pp.
$6.00 postpaid
($8.00 Canadian) 
from:

Center for Minimum Cost Housing
School of Architecture
McGill University
Macdonald-Harrington Building
815 Sherbrooke Street West 
Montreal, PQ, H3A 2K6
CANADA
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##A 01 143936 608
##T Waste to Wealth
Waste to Wealth

@@
This is the most exciting of many publications from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (Ù see separate review).  Taxpayers pay $10 billion a year for waste disposal  Ñ  not counting the costs of cleaning up leaky landfills.  Waste to Wealth defends the 100 percent pollution-free alternative of finding ways to re-use garbage. Ground-up old tires (crumb rubber) become rubber products once again; recycled scrap plastic becomes virgin plastic for another loop of consumer use; discarded industrial oils fuel homes.                                               

                                                       Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 144182 609
##T Waste to Wealth
Waste to Wealth

@@
(A Business Guide for Community Recycling Enterprises)
Neil Seldman and Jon Huls
1985; 109 pp.
ISBN 0917582489
$35 ($38 postpaid)
from:

Institute for Local Self-Reliance 
(ILSR)
2425 18th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-232-4108
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##A 01 144959 611
##T Profit from Pollution Prevention
Profit from Pollution Prevention

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Bucky Fuller said for years that pollution is just good stuff in the wrong place at the wrong time. This Canadian book offers hard evidence that not only can many pollutants be controlled but that the control can produce income. Experience has proven over and over that without economic incentive, polluters wonÕt do much. Turns out that with economic incentive, they wonÕt be much inclined to do much until convinced. This book examines a host of common industrial polluting materials and practices. Alleviation tactics are discussed. For many nasties, successful case studies are presented. If you need to deal with a polluter, this book should be included in your homework.                              

                                                                 Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 01 145327 612
##T Profit from Pollution Prevention
Profit from Pollution Prevention

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(A Guide to Industrial Waste Reduction & Recycling)
Monica E. Campbell 
and William M. Glenn
1982; 404 pp.
ISBN 0920668216
$25 ($26 postpaid)
from:

Firefly Books
3520 Pharmacy Avenue
Unit 1-C
Scarborough, Ontario, M1W 2T8
CANADA
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##A 01 149354 614
##T To Burn or Not to Burn
To Burn or Not to Burn


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Modern incineration plants require a guaranteed volume of garbage, squeezing competitive recycling operations out of the market. They also produce toxic gases and a residue ash which must often be buried in hazardous waste landfills. The ILSR (see Waste to Wealth review in this cluster) and the Environmental Defense Fund are the groups most informed. EDFÕs To Burn or Not to Burn does a thorough and instructive cost-benefit comparison of garbage burning and recycling for New York City.          

                                                           Ñ David Finacom

Ù Environmental Defense Fund
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##A 01 149749 615
##T To Burn or Not to Burn
To Burn or Not to Burn


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(The Economic Advantages of Recycling over Garbage Incineration for New York City)
Dan Kirshner and Adam C. Stern
1985; 101 pp. 
$20 postpaid from:

Environmental Defense Fund
257 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
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##A 01 59259 618
##T Garbage Reincarnation
Garbage Reincarnation


@@
This classroom manual on garbage recycling is the gem at the bottom of the trash heap and like all great ÒactivityÓ books for kids, a book every adult will learn tons from. The authors are champions of human energy over the false application of high technology.                                            

                                                            Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 64653 619
##T Garbage Reincarnation
Garbage Reincarnation


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Updated Edition 1986; 51 pp.
$5.95 from:

Sonoma County Community Recycling Center
P. O. Box 1375
Santa Rosa, CA 95402
707-584-8666
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##A 01 150497 622
##T Love Canal
Love Canal

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Lois Gibbs describes herself  Ñ  Òbefore Love CanalÓ  Ñ  as a typical Òdumb housewife,Ó preoccupied with raising her children, keeping a tidy house, and pursuing her hobbies. In December 1977, three months after her son started kindergarten, he developed epilepsy and a lowered white blood count. Soon afterward, she read in the local paper that her sonÕs school had been built on an abandoned chemical dump, where Hooker Chemical and Plastics Corporation had dumped over 43 million pounds of toxic industrial wastes before selling the site to the school board for one dollar. Mrs. GibbsÕ battle to transfer her son to another school grew into all-out war against local, state, and federal governments, resulting in national publicity and  Ñ  finally  Ñ  a federal
order to relocate some one thousand families whose homes had
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##A 01 152026 624
##T Love Canal
Love Canal

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(My Story)
Lois Marie Gibbs, as told to Murray Levine
1982; 174 pp.
ISBN 0394179943
$6.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 01 157061 627
##T Hazardous Waste in America
Hazardous Waste in America

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The compendium of information about the particular components of the 80 billion pounds of hazardous waste materials generated annually by American industries  Ñ  350 pounds per year for each inhabitant of the U.S. The book includes a directory of 8000 toxic dumps located in all 50 states; a field guide to locating undisclosed waste sites; a selection of case studies of toxic dumps and their tragic human toll; an excellent ÒcitizenÕs legal guide to hazardous wastesÓ; and an intelligent, emphatic discussion of the political, legal, practical, and philosophical solutions to a toxic nightmare that is all too real.
                                                                  Ñ Carol Van Strum

The cream of the crap, so to speak.
                                                                  Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 158048 628
##T Hazardous Waste in America
Hazardous Waste in America

@@
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., 
Lester Brown and Carl Pope
ISBN 0871568071
$12.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Sierra Club Books
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
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##A 01 154772 630
##T CitizenÕs Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste
CitizenÕs Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste

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Founded by Lois ÒLove CanalÓ Gibbs. Assists grassroots struggles about waste dumps. ÒOrganizeÓ is their battle cry and theyÕre the best. EveryoneÕs Backyard is their quarterly. CCHWÕs Action Bulletin covers the nation. Good reviews and access. A wonderful spirit of hope and rightful action exudes from their clamoring. Just what tons of toxic goop requires.            

                                                         Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 155057 631
##T CitizenÕs Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste
CitizenÕs Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste

@@
EveryoneÕs Backyard
Membership $15/year 
(includes 4 issues of EveryoneÕs Backyard and periodic Action Bulletins) from:

Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste
P. O. Box 926
Arlington, VA 22216
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##A 01 171001 634
##T Environmental Action
Environmental Action

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From the national political lobby that created Earth Day. They also coordinated efforts on the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Occupational and Safety Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, etc.  Best magazine on this subject.
                                                              
                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 171141 635
##T Environmental Action
Environmental Action

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Rose Marie L. Audette and Hawley Truax, Editors
ISSN 0013992X
Membership $20/year (6 issues) 
from:

Environmental Action
1525 New Hampshire Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036
202-745-4870
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##A 01 171900 637
##T National Coalition Against Misuse of Pesticides
National Coalition Against Misuse of Pesticides

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Be it insecticide, herbicide, rodenticide, or fungicide, NCAMP has the long and short of it.

A broad-spectrum coalition (farmers, churches, labor, health, homemakers and politicos) who stress less damaging alternatives like Integrated Pest Management (Ù see review). Pesticides and You is their most potent newsletter.
                                                             
                                                            Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 153653 638
##T National Coalition Against Misuse of Pesticides
National Coalition Against Misuse of Pesticides

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Pesticides and You
ISSN 08967253
Membership $20/yr
(includes 5 issues of Pesticides and You) from:

National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides (NCAMP)
530 7th St., S.E.
Washington, DC 20003
202-543-5450
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##A 01 172941 641
##T Society for Occupational and Environmental Health
Society for Occupational and Environmental Health

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This academic and neutral forum has conferences with papers like 
ÒSperm Count Suppression in Lead-Exposed MenÓ and ÒSpontaneous Abortion and Type of Work.Ó Mainly for higher income brackets, but their knowledge is a powerful aid to all workers who contract an occupational disease.
                                                               
                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 173256 642
##T Society for Occupational and Environmental Health
Society for Occupational and Environmental Health

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The Archives of Environmental Health Journal 
Kaye H. Kilburn, M.D., 
Editor-in-Chief
ISSN 00039896
Membership $60/year 
(includes 6 issues of The Archives of Environmental Health Journal and 3 issues of the SOEH
Letter) from:

Society for Occupational and Environmental Health
P.O. Box 42360
Washington, DC 20015-0360
301-762-9319
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##A 01 173954 643
##T Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides

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More action.  NCAP takes the broadest political overview of pesticides on the planet. Their muckraking is a bit too anxious to get me bloody scared, but theyÕre here to inform and help and they do it well. Publishes Journal of Pesticide Reform and great infor-
mation on herbicide spraying in forests.
                                                                       
                                                             Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 200084 644
##T Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides

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Journal of Pesticide Reform
Mary OÕBrien, Editor
ISSN 0893357X
Membership $25/year 
(includes 4 issues of Journal of Pesticide Reform) from:

Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP)
P.O. Box 1393
Eugene, OR 97440
503-344-5044
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##A 01 168204 647
##T BioCycle
BioCycle

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BioCycle is close to my feces-fertilizer-farm-food-feces revolving vision. It features my favorite Compost Guru, Clarence Golueke. I once thought their bumper sticker should read: ÒHave You Hugged Your Humus Today?Ó  Herein, the creators of AmericaÕs long-term wealth.
                                                            
                                                                   Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 168458 648
##T BioCycle
BioCycle

@@
Jerome Goldstein, Editor.
ISSN 02785055
$43/year (10 issues)  
from:

BioCycle
Box 351
Emmaus, PA 18049
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##A 01 169374 650
##T Resource Recycling
Resource Recycling

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Resource Recycling focuses more on heavy metal; if they could, the editors would probably mine old landfills. For the moment, the magazine works closely with industrial producers exploring ways for the consumer and companies to both profit by reuse and waste reduction.                                                  

                                                                Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 169490 651
##T Resource Recycling
Resource Recycling

@@
Jerry Powell, Editor
ISSN 07444710
$27/year (7 issues) 
from:

Resource Recycling Magazine
P. O. Box 10540
Portland, OR 97210
503-227-1319
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##A 01 152690 654
##T RecycleNet: Modem
RecycleNet: Modem

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A computer network for recyclers.

                                                        Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 01 153055 655
##T RecycleNet: Modem
RecycleNet: Modem

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Factsheet $1 with SASE
from:

Association of New Jersey Recyclers (ANJR)
Attn: Fred McCamic, SYSOP
P. O. Box 625
Abescon, NJ 08201
Voice (609) 641-8292
Modem (609) 641-9418

300 or 1200 Baud, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity
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##A 03 159894 5
##T ONE HIGHLY EVOLVED TOOLBOX
ONE HIGHLY EVOLVED TOOLBOX

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by J. Baldwin
This toolbox was born inauspiciously in 1949 as a few rusty screwdrivers and a battered adjustable wrench living in a demoted Buster Brown lunch bucket. These days it takes form as a two-and-a-half-ton walk-in van that unfolds into a neighborhood workshop wherever it parks. ItÕs set up so anyone can use it with minimal instruction; no point letting a ton of tools sleep most of the time.  The tools are a diverse lot chosen for versatility, quality, and the ability to work well together. They ENABLE you, literally, to do just about anything short of precision machining.

Folks have used this tool set to build hardwood furniture, boats, bicycles, solar collectors, and even whole houses. WeÕve mass-produced 300 looms and thousands of parts for geodesic domes.
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##A 03 25351 26
##T U.S. General
U.S. General

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As far as I know, this is the only large-inventory mail-order hardware store left, which is too bad. Also too bad is that this catalog is a lot thinner than it used to beÑmuch less variety. The lack of variety will reduce the apparent demand for less familiar but nonetheless very useful tools, leading their makers to discontinue production. Too bad again. You should note that not everything shown is of top quality, but U.S. General usually doesnÕt hide thatÑthey grade the selections  ÒHomeownerÕs,Ó 
ÒMechanicÕs,Ó and ÒIndustrial.Ó Prices and service are decent.
                                                                          
                                                       -  J. Baldwin


Ù ONE HIGHLY EVOLVED TOOLBOX
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##A 03 25719 27
##T U.S. General
U.S. General

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Catalog $2 
from:

U.S. General
100 Commercial Street
Plainview, NY 11803
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##A 03 26517 28
##T Sears Power and Hand Tools
Sears Power and Hand Tools

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Sears is the place to look for wrenches, steel cabinets, and reasonably priced power tools. Quality is fine. Warranty is honored without argument (if youÕre honorable). They have lots of other stuff too, at average prices. But their salesÑah, their salesÑare often remarkable. Decide what you want, and wait to pounce. Patience can save you 40 percent or more. Large stores often have freight-damaged and reconditioned goods too, ask a clerk. Many of SearsÕ tools are national bestsellers.                               

                                                             -  J. Baldwin
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##A 03 26779 29
##T Sears Power and Hand Tools
Sears Power and Hand Tools

@@
Catalog free
from:

Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Dept. 609
Sears Tower
Chicago, IL 60607

or check your phone book under Sears
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##A 03 27945 32
##T Brookstone
Brookstone

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Ah me, Brookstone has become gentrified. But that hasnÕt reduced the quality or selection of interesting tools, many of which are available only here. Prices tend to be high, service good, and the warranty impeccable: if you donÕt like it, send it back. My experience with Brookstone has been uniformly pleasant.    

                                                                - J. Baldwin
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##A 03 28297 33
##T Brookstone
Brookstone

@@
Catalog free
from:

Brookstone Company
127 Vose Farm Road
Peterborough, NH 03458
603-924-7181

(Hard-to-find tools)
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##A 03 29077 37
##T The Eastwood Company
The Eastwood Company

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This catalog is an inspiring assortment of auto body restoration tools, many of which youÕve probably not seen before. By inspiring, I mean that the tools are so well described that even metalworking illiterati can understand enough to see potential uses beyond the automotive. A good bibliography of instruction books accompanies the tools and materials. I heartily recommend this catalog as the beginning of an education in metalworking, particularly if all you know is wood.                                                    

                                                                 - J. Baldwin
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##A 03 29237 38
##T The Eastwood Company
The Eastwood Company

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(Auto Restoration Tools and Techniques)
Catalog $2 from:

The Eastwood Company
580 Lancaster Ave.
Box 296-WH
Malvern, PA 19355
800-345-1178
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##A 03 10089 42
##T RENTING TOOLS 
RENTING TOOLS 

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by J. Baldwin

Rented tools let you do the job yourself instead of hiring someone whose only attribute may be possession of a tool you donÕt own or donÕt care to own. Renting is also a good way to try out several brands of something expensive before you buy. A surprising variety of tools can be rented these days. You should shop around; I have found very different prices, policies, and selection at competing rent-its. One thing is common to all though: a damage deposit. Be sure and bring some cash.

Check the tool for proper operation before leaving the store. Write
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##A 03 11611 45
##T Moving Heavy Things
Moving Heavy Things

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I remember once watching in wonder as a lone man carried a full-size upright piano up a flight of stairs! How did he do it? This marvelous little primer brings to us mere mortals the secrets of manipulating weighty objectsÑwithout damaging them or us. Not only are the secrets well explained and illustrated (with Mr. AdkinsÕ nifty drawings), the proper spirit is attended. The book encourages independence. Every household should have one. 

                                                               - J. Baldwin
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##A 03 11951 46
##T Moving Heavy Things
Moving Heavy Things

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Jan Adkins
1980; 48 pp.
ISBN 0395292069
$12.95 ($14.45 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Attn.: Order Processing
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
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##A 03 13608 48
##T Come-Along Hoist/Winch/Puller
Come-Along Hoist/Winch/Puller

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You can put a half-ton of moxie on anything and lift or drag it 12 feet. If youÕll settle for six feet, the capacity grows to a full ton. Load is released a notch at a time without danger of running amok. IÕve used mine for fence stretching, car unstucking (you can even drag Õem sideways), aligning house framing, lifting engines from vehicles, river rescue work, and hoisting things to rooftops.  IÕve had good luck with Masdam brand ($25 or so) from BurdenÕs or your
local hardware store. 

                                                       - J. Baldwin
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##A 03 12528 49
##T Come-Along Hoist/Winch/Puller
Come-Along Hoist/Winch/Puller

@@
Catalog free from:

BurdenÕs Surplus Center
P. O. Box 82209
Lincoln, NE  68501-2209
800-228-3407 (24 hours)

or check your local hardware store
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##A 03 12718 51
##T Handyman Jack
Handyman Jack

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Basically the Handyman Jack is a super-heavy-duty bumper jack, but it bears no resemblance to the inadequate things that Detroit supplies with their inadequate automobiles. It weighs 29 pounds, has a capacity of three and one-half tons, and a lift of three feet.

IÕve used mine for lifting my truck, stretching shrunken plastic water pipe, and a number of odd lifting and spreading jobs, and wouldnÕt part with it for anything.

Warning:  Beware of the handle, or EAT TEETH.
                                                                      
                                                        - Douglas Canning
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##A 03 12936 52
##T Handyman Jack
Handyman Jack

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$45-$75
Information free 
from:

Harrah Manufacturing Co.
46 West Spring Street
Bloomfield, IN 47424
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##A 03 27304 55
##T WHY GOVERNMENT SURPLUS IS CHEAP
WHY GOVERNMENT SURPLUS IS CHEAP



@@
by Will Baker

This is irrelevant, but good: friend of a friend in San Diego bought
a big steel cabinet-machine at a government surplus place ($50).
Took it home and tried all the knobs and switches; nothing worked. Pried open the back and saw some connectors out of their sockets. Plugged them in. Tried a switch. Machine whined and began to clang Ñ loud. Tried more switches. It wouldnÕt shut off. After ten minutes, a siren started Ñ deafening. Tried all the knobs and switches. WouldnÕt stop wailing. He got scared and ran out. His
house blew up. It was a U.S. Navy self-destruct bomb designed to 
destroy captainÕs cabin and all papers, in case of capture.

Ù URBAN LEGENDS
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##A 03 22065 56
##T Jerryco
Jerryco

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This imaginative and often zany catalog describes a melange of surplus from both military and civilian enterprises obsoleted or gone wrong or sometimes merely overdone. IÕve found that the offerings can stimulate my design process. IÕve also bought things just for the hell of it. Service has been exceptionally pleasant, honest, and fast. Highly recommended. By the way, Jerryco is sort of the bargain basement of Edmund Scientific (see review), with whom they are associated.                             

                                                     - J. Baldwin


Ù Edmund Scientific
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##A 03 22455 57
##T Jerryco
Jerryco

@@
Catalog 50¢
from:

Jerryco, Inc.
601 Linden Place
Evanston, IL 60202
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##A 03 23272 59
##T BurdenÕs
BurdenÕs

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ThereÕs not much Òwar surplusÓ around these days, so old-time stores like BurdenÕs have concentrated on hydraulic and pneumatic components, electronic parts, industrial leftovers, and discounted tools. As with all surplus outlets, you are at an advantage if you have some experience with this sort of merchandise; there are few explanations beyond the specifications. 

Imaginative use of a catalog like this can lead to unexpected new capabilities; indiscriminate use can lead to an overstuffed garage.          

                                                                   - J. Baldwin
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##A 03 23523 60
##T BurdenÕs
BurdenÕs

@@

Catalog free
from:

BurdenÕs Surplus Center
P. O. Box 82209
Lincoln, NE 68501-2209
800-228-3407 (24 hours)
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##A 03 24283 62
##T MAIL-ORDER DISCOUNT TOOLS AND  SUPPLIES 
MAIL-ORDER DISCOUNT TOOLS AND  SUPPLIES 

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If you keep firmly in mind that you get what you pay for, stores like this one can be a good place to shop. Typically, a few name-brand items are featured at attractive prices. If there is no brand name, and the price seems unbelievable, then be sure your needs donÕt require top quality. I donÕt say that last with a sneer either  Ñ  there are many times when top quality is silly: the wrenches you keep in the trunk of your car, for instance. (Mine came from Harbor Freight.)       

                                                           -  J. Baldwin
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##A 03 24328 63
##T MAIL-ORDER DISCOUNT TOOLS AND  SUPPLIES 
MAIL-ORDER DISCOUNT TOOLS AND  SUPPLIES 

@@
Harbor Freight Salvage  
Catalog free
from:

Harbor Freight Salvage
3491 Mission Oaks Blvd.
Camarillo, CA 93010
805-388-3000
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##A 03 43170 65
##T BREAKING THE WHOLESALE BARRIER
BREAKING THE WHOLESALE BARRIER

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by J. Baldwin

So ya wanna buy it wholesale? Of course! ThatÕs what a retailer does before adding the typical 40 percent to the price tag. If the services and handy-but-high-rent location of the retailer mean little to you, the galling markup can be avoided at your local wholesaler. The problem is getting accepted there; the wholesaler is definitely not interested in small-order, walk-in trade. On the other hand, anyone with stuff for sale wants to sell it. With this in mind, here are some effective ways of penetrating the wholesale barrier.
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##A 03 49003 70
##T GraingerÕs
GraingerÕs

@@
HereÕs some incentive for breaking the wholesale barrier. 
GraingerÕs fat catalog features tools and shop equipment at good prices, but is most famous for motors, fans, compressors, pumps, and other stuff commonly found under Òindustrial suppliesÓ in the Yellow Pages. IÕve had very good service from GraingerÕs, as both a legitimate and an illegitimate customer. TheyÕre easy to find with 188 stores across the U.S.A. (see their catalog for locations nationwide).                                                               

                                                               - J. Baldwin
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##A 03 49257 71
##T GraingerÕs
GraingerÕs

@@
Catalog free
from:

W. W. Grainger, Inc.
5959 West Howard Street
Chicago, IL 60648

or check your local phone book
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##A 03 38940 75
##T Shopsmith
Shopsmith

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YouÕll hear snorts of derision when you mention Shopsmith to a professional woodworker. Next, you can expect nasty comments pertaining to jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none, lightweight, and so forth. While it is true that this machine is not well suited for work with heavy structural lumber, itÕll easily handle most anything a home craftsperson will ask it to do. It is at one time
(with a bit of fiddling) a drill press, lathe, table saw, sander, and boring machine. With attachments it can do more, but it wonÕt take up more space. And thatÕs the great advantage of the Shopsmith:   itÕs not an awful lot bigger than an ironing board. You can have a home shop in an apartment, condo, mobile home, boat, or anywhere else a whole roomful of power tools wonÕt fit.
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##A 03 39172 77
##T Shopsmith
Shopsmith

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Catalog free
from:

Shopsmith, Inc.
3931 Image Drive
Dayton, OH 45414
800-543-7586
800-762-7555 (OH)
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##A 03 40014 79
##T Ryobi 10" Planer
Ryobi 10" Planer

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At last, a thickness planer that can be carried to the job site by one workerÑit only weighs 58 pounds. ItÕll handle wood up to five inches thick and ten inches wide, taking off an eighth of an inch at a time under suitable conditions. The price is right too: less than $400.                                                            

                                                              -  J. Baldwin
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##A 03 40425 80
##T Ryobi 10" Planer
Ryobi 10" Planer

@@
$400 (approx.)
Information free 
from:

Ryobi America Corp.
1433 Hamilton Parkway
Itasca, IL 60143
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##A 03 41130 81
##T Cutawl
Cutawl

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This relatively unknown tool can be found in virtually every display and exhibit shop. ItÕs also used to make the layers of  architectural landscape contour models, to cut out fancy lettering, and to make slick prototypes of displays that will later be cut out on production machinery.

The thing is a sort of sabersaw combined with a woodpecker. It cuts with a tiny chisel or sawblade, leaving a flawless machined edge. The steering is so accurate that it is feasible to cut lacework out of Masonite, Formica, thin metal, or any other thin, cuttable sheet material. ItÕs unique; no other tool can match its capabilities. IÕve used one a lot. Used ones can sometimes be found at less cost.                                                         
                                                                   -  J. Baldwin
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##A 03 41261 82
##T Cutawl
Cutawl

@@
$550 (approx.)
Information free 
from:

Blackstone Industries
Route 6
Bethel, CT 06801
203-792-8622
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##A 03 142324 84
##T Victorinox SwissChamp¨
Victorinox SwissChamp¨

@@
The famous maker of the Swiss Army knives, Victorinox, has given me two golden opportunities at once. I have acquired the ultimate portable toolbox, the new SwissChamp knife, and can become the best-loved uncle of the year by giving away my old Champion model to my 12-year-old nephew.

What does the SwissChamp offer that the Champion doesnÕt? Well, pliers combined with a wirecutter (finally), a clever miniature screwdriver that stores inside the corkscrew, a small wood chisel, an extra-small screwdriver, and a high-pressure ball-point pen which stores alongside the toothpick. The chisel means a lot to me, but the pliers made the decision to buy inevitable. This is, however, no longer a pocketknife. Its weight and bulk will wear
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##A 03 142740 86
##T Victorinox SwissChamp¨
Victorinox SwissChamp¨

@@
Catalog free from:

Victorinox
151 Long Hill Cross Roads
P.O. Box 846
Shelton, CT  06484-0931
800-243-4032
203-929-6391 CT
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##A 03 50258 88
##T Woodcraft
Woodcraft

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A rival of Garrett Wade (see review), Woodcraft has similar but not identical goods, often cheaper but with less selection. When I need something, I shop both catalogs.  Service is impeccable.                              


                                                            - J. Baldwin




Ù Garrett Wade Woodworking Tools
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##A 03 50547 89
##T Woodcraft
Woodcraft

@@
Catalog $3 
from:

Woodcraft
41 Atlantic Avenue
Box 4000
Woburn, MA 01888
800-225-1153
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##A 03 131346 91
##T Garrett Wade Woodworking Tools
Garrett Wade Woodworking Tools

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This catalog of super-quality woodworkerÕs tools comprises irresistable studio color portraits of each tool, backed by a brief discussion of the toolÕs merits and uses so you can be sure you need one.  Or allÑthey really are hard to resist when presented in this way.  Garrett Wade also distributes the high-precision Swiss INCA power tools and the Swedish all-purpose professional woodworking machines made by LUNA.  A well-stocked book selection tells you how to use all these things.  Hide my checkbook!

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 03 135547 92
##T Garrett Wade Woodworking Tools
Garrett Wade Woodworking Tools

@@
ISSN 080696622X
Catalog $4
from:

Garrett Wade Co.
161 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY  10013
800-221-2942
212-807-1757 NY
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##A 03 22836 94
##T Gerstner Tool Chests
Gerstner Tool Chests

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If you enjoy reading this Catalog you are probably the kind of person who is seized by an irresistible urge to open all those beautifully fitted little drawers in antique cabinets. You can satisfy the urge in your home thanks to H. Gerstner & Sons, Inc.

They make superb wood cases that will hold small interesting things of almost any size and shape: machinistÕs chests, medical instrument cases, boxes for artists, photographers, dental hygienists, and so on, ad infinitum. The thing that sets Gerstner apart from their competitors is their concern with quality. You can buy a box from them that will stand with perfect aplomb on
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##A 03 29923 96
##T Gerstner Tool Chests
Gerstner Tool Chests

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$250-$600
Information $1
from:

H. Gerstner & Sons
P. O. Box 517
Dayton, OH 45402
513-228-1662
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##A 03 31216 99
##T The Razor Edge Book of Sharpening
The Razor Edge Book of Sharpening

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ÒHow do you sharpen this?Ó No myth or mystery to that question after reading this book. Using his method the first time, I obtained an edge on my Swiss Army knife that would, as Juranitch promised, Òshave the hair off the back of my dry arm.Ó Equally amazing, the edges are durable.

His company (Razor Edge Systems) designs, manufactures, and sells sharpening equipmentÑeverything from hand held hones and sharpening guides up to the sharpening machines in meat packing plants.                                             

                                                            - J. D. Adams, M.D.
Ù Meat on the Table
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##A 03 31246 100
##T The Razor Edge Book of Sharpening
The Razor Edge Book of Sharpening

@@
John Juranitch
1985; 145 pp.
ISBN 0446380024
$12.50  ($15.50 postpaid)
from:

Razor Edge Systems, Inc.
P. O. Box 150
Ely, MN 55731


Brochure free
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##A 03 32254 102
##T Wood FinisherÕs Handbook
Wood FinisherÕs Handbook

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Few do-it-yourself enterprises are as redolent of potential disaster as applying that final finish to wood. Even the more obedient among us Ñ those who read the instructions on the can  Ñ  often come to grief, gnashing in despair as our paintbrushes with their cargos take on a  life of their own quite out of control. How do those creeps in Fine Woodworking do it? They know whatÕs in this book, is how.

I like the way the author answers your questions just before you ask. I also like the range of techniques shown Ñ everything from   
Òlost artÓ procedures to the latest chemical wonders. The
book is easier to read than many of its genre, so our last excuse for imperfect finishing is gone.                  
                                                                  - J. Baldwin
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##A 03 32506 103
##T Wood FinisherÕs Handbook
Wood FinisherÕs Handbook

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Sam Allen
1984; 160 pp.
ISBN 0806979143
$10.95 ($12.45 postpaid)
from:

Sterling Publishing
2 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016
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##A 03 33366 105
##T WelderÕs Handbook
WelderÕs Handbook

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Think of welding as metal glue; lots of interesting possibilities appear when you can stick pieces of metal together in a trustworthy manner. Welding isnÕt all that difficult, either. Best bet is an evening welding class at your local high school. Next best, or as a brushup, is this book. ItÕs just the basicsÑall you need for most work. The examples are mostly automotive, but the principles hold true whether youÕre repairing a farm tractor, welding up a driveway gate, or fixing the kidsÕ swing set. DonÕt forget that youÕll need to practice a bit; books arenÕt everything.
                                                            
                                                                   - J. Baldwin
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##A 03 33585 106
##T WelderÕs Handbook
WelderÕs Handbook

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Richard Finch and Tom Monroe
1985; 160 pp.
ISBN 0895862573
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Price, Stern, Sloan Inc.
P.O Box 21942
Los Angeles, CA 90021
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##A 03 34711 109
##T Stationary Power Tool Techniques
Stationary Power Tool Techniques

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Wow! Not just a how-to, but a remarkably comprehensive collection of methods of getting your power tools to do everything but sit up and beg. The author has a good reputation, and itÕs easy to see why: the only way he could possibly have accumulated all these tricks is by working with the tools many thousands of hours. HeÕs especially good on jigs and fixtures that expand the toolsÕ capabilities. And here I thought I knew all there was to know . . .
                                                                           
                                                                     - J. Baldwin
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##A 03 34895 110
##T Stationary Power Tool Techniques
Stationary Power Tool Techniques

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The Complete Book of Stationary Power Tool Techniques
R. J. De Cristoforo
1985; 388 pp.
ISBN 0943822467
$31.95 ($34.90 postpaid)
from:

Popular Science Books
Sherman Turnpike
Danbury, CT 06816
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##A 03 120552 112
##T Tools and How To Use Them
Tools and How To Use Them

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The best guide to tools a householder or homesteader might need to know and use. There are 1500 drawings of common items as well as forgotten tools. Descriptions include the generic names the tools have been known by, usage, sizes, and care of the tool. The section on brushes alone is worth the price of the book. Even though I trained as an apprentice house painter, not until Jackson and DayÕs book did I hear of a washing down brush, a mottler, a flogger, a softener, a pencil overgainer, or a fitch. 

                                                                 Ñ Paul Hawken
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##A 03 120795 113
##T Tools and How To Use Them
Tools and How To Use Them

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Albert Jackson and David Day
1978; 352 pp.
ISBN 0394735420
$11.95 ($12.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD  21157
800-638-6460
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##A 03 43378 116
##T Pyramid Foundry Sets
Pyramid Foundry Sets

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The ability to make castings adds great potential to a workshop or art studio, yet few people get into it. The techniques arenÕt difficult, but they are unfamiliar. Pyramid makes it easy to understand and do; their kits set you up with supplies, equipment, and instruction. IÕve seen the sets used for boat restoration, machine repair, and making antique auto parts. The projects were successful, though there was certainly some time spent learning the hard way. Even that wasnÕt too bad; you can recast your boo-boos. The sets can handle aluminum, bronze, grey iron, and jewelry metals.                                                                      
                                                        -  J. Baldwin

Ù Jewelry Techniques
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##A 03 43596 117
##T Pyramid Foundry Sets
Pyramid Foundry Sets

@@
$250-$450 
(approx.)
Information free
from:

Pyramid Products Co.
3736 South Seventh Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85041
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##A 03 8153 119
##T The Art of Blacksmithing
The Art of Blacksmithing

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Woodworkers are often amazed that metal can be manipulated by simple handmethods. Mysterious! As with wood, itÕs just matter of knowing what you are doing . . . and messing up a bunch of material as you learn. All the basics are here, with drawings (that also look hand-forged) helping things along. The emphasis in on making traditional hardware such as hinges and even muzzle-loading weapons. My experience has shown that youÕll need instruction too; books can only take you so far with this sort of thing. 

                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 03 8295 120
##T The Art of Blacksmithing
The Art of Blacksmithing

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Alex W. Bealer
Third Revised Edition 1984
487 pp.
ISBN 0060152257
$24.45 ($25.95 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
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##A 03 3229 122
##T The Making of Tools
The Making of Tools

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Blacksmithing can be a lot more than making horseshoes and barn door hinges.  Mr. WeygersÕs beautiful book shows techniques of making your own tools by the clever use of scrap metal.  His attitude is encouraging (and unusually nonchauvinistic for a blacksmith).  He makes clear the many paths that open to a person who develops the skills of a blacksmith. His lucid drawings and obvious love of his work draw you in; you want to try it.  The book itself is a model of how good books can get if properly nurtured. Mr. Weygers has written many booksÑall very fine. Your library can get them.
                                                                              
                                                                 - J. Baldwin
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##A 03 4532 123
##T The Making of Tools
The Making of Tools

@@
Alexander G. Weygers
1973; 93 pp.
ISBN 0442293607
$11.95 postpaid
from:

Simon and Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 03 18776 127
##T Classic Hardware
Classic Hardware

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Being primarily a Òdesign-as-you-goÓ craftsperson, I got particularly excited about this hardware catalog from Garrett Wade. The color photographs of their British- and North American-made hardware are reproduced in full scale. That means I can cut out the pictures, place them on my piece of furniture, or whatever, and see exactly what IÕll be gettingÑno surprises!
                                                                       
                                                           Ñ Stephen Seitz



Ù Renovation
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##A 03 19005 128
##T Classic Hardware
Classic Hardware

@@
Classic Hardware II

Catalog $1
from:

Garrett Wade
161 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10013
800-221-2942
212-807-1757(NY,AK,& HI)
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##A 03 20013 130
##T C & H BuyerÕs Guide
C & H BuyerÕs Guide

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In a way, this could be considered a shop ÒfurnitureÓ catalog; they carry racks, bins, shelving, office stuff, material handling equipment, safety items, and (oops) pneumatic tools. Much of the stock could be used in hi-tech household interiors tooÑa bit of thought will doubtless suggest uses that the makers never dreamed of. Distribution is nationwide. $15 minimum order.
                                                                             
                                                               - J. Baldwin
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##A 03 20361 131
##T C & H BuyerÕs Guide
C & H BuyerÕs Guide

@@
Catalog free 
from:

C&H Distributors
P. O. Box 04499
Milwaukee, WI  53204
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##A 03 21011 133
##T Allen Specialty Hardware
Allen Specialty Hardware

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Several people have asked me to build video cabinets with ÒLazy SusanÓ  bases so the TV monitor can be turned toward the viewer. The design problem is how to provide enough clearance to turn a television set without building a cabinet the size of a small outbuilding. One solution is an extension slide with a built-in swivel. This allows the TV to slide out of the cabinet before it is turned, reducing the amount of clearance required (some counterbalancing is usually needed). These extension slides and many other hard-to-find items (concealed hinges, folding leg devices, etc.) are available from this unpretentious catalog.
                                                             
                                                             Ñ Stephen Seitz
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##A 03 21363 134
##T Allen Specialty Hardware
Allen Specialty Hardware

@@
Catalog and handbook $1
from:

Allen Specialty Hardware
P.O. Box 10833-W
Pittsburgh, PA 15236
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##A 03 14802 137
##T The WEST SYSTEMª 
The WEST SYSTEMª 

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This system is a well-worked-out system of  products that facilitate Òcold moldingÓ wood into complex shapes that would otherwise be difficult to accomplish. The completed item is a laminate of thin wood strips or sheets, and epoxy resin; itÕs light, strong, and not subject to the bane of conventionally used wood: rot. If you like, the work can be finished ÒbrightÓ (natural) bringing out the beauty of the wood, but purists insist that the WEST SYSTEMª is mostly plastic. In truth, the end result is a bit of both plastic and wood  Ñ  the best of both. A more valid criticism is that the epoxy is dangerously toxic to work with. No two ways about it, you must be careful. Proper procedures are well developed in this literature, and seem to work OK if followed with discipline.
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##A 03 15385 140
##T The WEST SYSTEMª 
The WEST SYSTEMª 

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The Gougeon Brothers on Boat Construction
(Wood and WEST SYSTEMª MATERIALS)
Gougeon Brothers
Revised Edition 1985; 297 pp.
ISBN 0878121668
$27.50 ($29.70 postpaid)
from:

Gougeon Brothers, Inc.
P. O. Box X-908
Bay City, MI 48707
517-684-1374
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##A 03 19428 141
##T The WEST SYSTEMª 
The WEST SYSTEMª 

@@
West Systemsª Products Catalog 
Catalog free from:

Gougeon Brothers, Inc.
P. O. Box X-908
Bay City, MI  48707
517-684-7286
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##A 03 114114 142
##T The WEST SYSTEMª 
The WEST SYSTEMª 

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West Systemª Technical Manual

1988; 32 pp.
$2 postpaid from:

Gougeon Brothers, Inc.
P. O. Box X-908
Bay City, MI 48707
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##A 03 16386 144
##T Livos Non-Toxic Finishes
Livos Non-Toxic Finishes

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Wood finishing is one of those places where nasty chemicals and nice people tend to meet intimately. If this has bothered you, a choice is now available. These finishes have no petroleum distillates, lead, or other carcinogenically suspicious substancesÑ theyÕre entirely brewed from plantstuffs. They donÕt evaporate or otherwise get into your environment even through direct contact. Sounds good to me, though I have not tried any (yet). Obviously itÕs a fine idea. German-made.                                              

                                                        - J. Baldwin


Ù Wood FinisherÕs Handbook
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##A 03 16736 145
##T Livos Non-Toxic Finishes
Livos Non-Toxic Finishes

@@
Catalog free from:

Livos Plant Chemistry
614  Aqua Fria Street
Santa Fe, NM  87501
505-988-9111
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##A 03 17637 147
##T Devcon
Devcon

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One way to conserve energy and resources is to fix things that break rather than throwing them away. The Devcon Corporation makes a wide variety of products that can solve some very nasty repair problems as well as increasing the life of various hardware. Typical are Plastic Steel and Plastic Aluminum. A far cry from their sissy hardware store counterparts, they are super strong and you can (for instance) repair engine blocks. Devcon makes a paint called ÒZÓ that actually outperforms hot dip galvanizing (Milspec, no less). Devcon Rubber repairs split rubber boots better than anything else IÕve seen. They make a wear-resistant self-lubricating epoxy compound that can be used to make long-wearing bearing surfaces in wood. (It can also be used to build up worn shafts.) The list goes on.
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##A 03 18085 149
##T Devcon
Devcon

@@
Catalog and nearest dealer location free from:

Devcon Corporation
30 Endicott Street
Danvers, MA 01923
617-777-1100

or check your local industrial supply dealer
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##A 03 42794 154
##T The Art of Electronics
The Art of Electronics

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Extremely good book. As a practicing digital-electronics technician with no formal training (my major in college was cultural anthropology), IÕve hunted high and low for good electronics textbooks. This one is the best, bar none. No extraneous math, lots of insiderÕs information on the peculiarities of circuit design, and a huge range of topics covered clearly and thoroughly. So well written that IÕve had difficulty putting it down! Has a good index and bibliography and works well as a stand-alone reference book. As an introduction and workbook on todayÕs electronics it has no peer.                                    

                                                       Ñ Bud Spurgeon
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##A 03 70184 155
##T The Art of Electronics
The Art of Electronics

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Paul Horowitz  and Winfield Hill
1980; 716 pp.
ISBN 0521298377
$37.50 postpaid from:

Cambridge University Press
510 North Avenue
New Rochelle, NY 10801
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##A 03 139848 157
##T Personal Electronics Book
Personal Electronics Book

@@

This is one of those rarest of booksÑone that is informative and well written.  The Personal Electronics Book is a comprehensive primer on not just what electronics to buy, but how to buy just about anything electrical that costs more than a light bulb. One cautionary note though: with the dollar bobbing around world markets like a demented jellyfish, some of the prices quoted in the book may be incorrect. 
                                                             
                                                          Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 03 159625 158
##T Personal Electronics Book
Personal Electronics Book

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Peter McWilliams
1987; 331 pp.
ISBN 0136573541
$10.95 ($12.45 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Rd.
Old Tappan, NJ  07675
800-223-2336
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##A 03 144463 160
##T DON LANCASTERÕS COOKBOOK LIBRARY
DON LANCASTERÕS COOKBOOK LIBRARY

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These books provide the home-brew tinkerer with a, um, grounding in the basics of micro circuitsÑwith which you can build your own calculators, amplifiers, meters and terminals, and get a start on building your own computer. Each book deals with a different type of component. CMOS circuits are building-block electronic switch circuits out of which computer choice pathways are woven. TTL circuits are simpler, more often used to build clocks, meters, and peripherals. Getting through TTL is a good step towards learning CMOS. Active filters are useful in amplifying or controlling sound frequencies. Lancaster takes pride in teaching you to make things that are more useful and versatileÑmore artistic, reallyÑthan what you can buy commercially. YouÕll need some electronics experience, or lots of time, or both. 
                                                              Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 03 70141 161
##T DON LANCASTERÕS COOKBOOK LIBRARY
DON LANCASTERÕS COOKBOOK LIBRARY

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Active Filter Cookbook 
Don Lancaster
1978; 240 pp.
ISBN 0672211688
$15 ($18.45 postpaid)
from:

Howard W. Sams & Co.
Department DM
4300 West 62nd Street
Indianapolis, IN 46268
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##A 03 77482 162
##T DON LANCASTERÕS COOKBOOK LIBRARY
DON LANCASTERÕS COOKBOOK LIBRARY

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CMOS Cookbook 
Don Lancaster
1986; 414 pp.
ISBN 0672213982
$14.95 ($17.45 postpaid)
from:

Howard W. Sams & Co.
Department DM
4300 West 62nd Street
Indianapolis, IN 46268
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##A 03 78234 163
##T DON LANCASTERÕS COOKBOOK LIBRARY
DON LANCASTERÕS COOKBOOK LIBRARY

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TTL Cookbook 
Don Lancaster
1977; 416 pp.
ISBN 0672210355
$14.95  ($17.45 postpaid)
from:

Howard W. Sams & Co.
Department DM
4300 West 62nd Street
Indianapolis, IN 46268
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##A 03 146225 166
##T Consumer Reports - Electronics in The Home
Consumer Reports - Electronics in The Home

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The more antiquated among us sometimes find it difficult to deal with things electronic. Which devices are useful? Which of those are best? Consumer Reports, at its best here, explains it all as it reviews home computers, TVs, hi-fis, radios, tape decks, phones, and alarms. As is their custom, the Consumers Union folks donÕt comment on every model of every brand. They make up for this by educating you in the basics so you can, for instance, make sense out of specification sheets and salesman hype. This is the best general introduction to electronic gadgetry this side of the nearest teenage hacker.
                                                                                      
                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 03 146439 167
##T Consumer Reports - Electronics in The Home
Consumer Reports - Electronics in The Home

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Editors of Consumer Reports Books
with Monte Florman
Updated Edition 1988; 320 pp.
ISBN 0890432155
$7 ($10 postpaid)
from:

Consumer Reports Books
540 Barnum Avenue
Bridgeport, CT 06608
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##A 03 9540 172
##T Using Your Meter
Using Your Meter

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I bought several copies of this book recently: a couple for friends and two for myself. For $3.95 I got a complete course in electronics along with various instructions and tips on how to use meters around the house and inside electronic circuitry. I also learned how to buy meters, what features to look for, what kind of meters to use in what applications. So did my friends.

The text is clear although the information is very dense. Evans moves right along in 144 pages, covering all the electronics I studied in all the high school and college physics courses I ever took and also how to use that information practically. This is the kind of book you should read three times. The very basic stuff is in
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##A 03 11047 174
##T Using Your Meter
Using Your Meter

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Alvis J. Evans
1985; 128 pp.
$3.95 ($6.45 postpaid)
from:

Radio Shack  Ñ  018344
Mail Order Dept.
900 Terminal Road
Ft. Worth, TX 76106

subtitle: VOM and DVM Multitesters
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##A 03 149168 178
##T Electronic Buyers Club (EBC)
Electronic Buyers Club (EBC)

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If over a yearÕs time youÕre buying much in the way of electronic supplies, this place is well worth knowing about. EBC is the only supplier IÕve found that beats MouserÕs prices (next item). The catch is you have to buy a membership for $35. For that you get your own membership number and a thick, very well laid-out catalog. The catalog alone may be worth the membership cost for the search time you can save (no specs, thoÕ). EBCÕs selection of active and passive components, tools, and supplies is fairly broad, though limited to a few manufacturers, a problem if exact replacement is an issue. Their digital IC selection is very broad.
IÕm a member.
                                                           
                                                      Ñ James Stockford
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##A 03 149334 179
##T Electronic Buyers Club (EBC)
Electronic Buyers Club (EBC)

@@
Membership $35
from:

Electronic Buyers Club
1803 NW Lincoln Way
Toledo, OR 97391
800-325-0101

Membership includes catalog
and updates
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##A 03 150099 181
##T Mouser Electronics
Mouser Electronics

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Mouser Electronics is the best all-purpose supplier of electronic components and supplies IÕve found. Of all the standard mail order sources of electronic passive and active devices, hardware, and tools, MouserÕs prices are lowest, often by 20-30 percent. Their selection is very broad, especially for switches, connectors, LEDs, and capacitors. They even have a good selection of printed circuit board supplies, grommets and stand-offs, computer interface panels, and drafting aids. Perfect for hobbyists, prototype designers, and electronic repair shops.
                                                             
                                                            Ñ James Stockford
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##A 03 150458 182
##T Mouser Electronics
Mouser Electronics

@@
Catalog free from:

Mouser Electronics
P. O. Box 699
Mansfield, TX 76063
800-346-6873
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##A 03 147305 184
##T J & R Music World
J & R Music World

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Mail order can offer major savings over local retail. Unlike most mail order consumer electronics stores, J & R offers three comprehensive catalogsÑon computers, stereos, and videotapes. Between them youÕll find home security devices, musical keyboards, telephones, blank tapes, copiers, watches, and shavers. 
                                                            
                                                            Ñ Saul Feldman

But you should always check local sale prices first !

                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 03 147575 185
##T J & R Music World
J & R Music World
¥ Wisconsin Discount Stereo

@@
Catalog free
from:

J & R Music World
Dept. BS2388
59-50 Queens-Midtown Expressway
Maspeth, NY 11378-9896
800-221-8180
718-417-3737 (NY)
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##A 03 107966 188
##T GLASS INTRODUCTION
GLASS INTRODUCTION


@@

ONE OF THE MOST magical moments I experience is what happens in taking a just-completed stained glass window off the workbench and holding it up to the sunlight. The window transforms before my eyes from a cold grouping of pieces of glass into an entity that is almost alive.

There are exciting things happening in glass these days which will shatter any limiting beliefs you may have about this material. For clarityÕs sake, glass can be broken into three main subject categories:
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##A 03 109300 190
##T Stained Glass Primers
Stained Glass Primers

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Peter Mollica has put together an excellent pair of books on stained glass. It was from them that I learned the basics when I first began. Volume one teaches the fundamentals of the craft by going step-by-step through the making of a leaded glass window, and using the copperfoil technique. The straightforward instructions are accompanied every step of the way by helpful black-and-white photos. Volume two introduces more advanced techniques including the use of easels, painting on glass, firing in a kiln, and how to reinforce and install a window. An annotated bibliography of books on glass completes this solid introduction to the craft.
                                                 
                                                              - David Jouris
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##A 03 109492 191
##T Stained Glass Primers
Stained Glass Primers

@@
Stained Glass Primer (Vol. 1) 
Peter Mollica
1971; 87 pp.
ISBN 0960130667
$4.95  ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Mollica Stained Glass Press
10033 Broadway Terrace
Oakland, CA 94611
415-655-5736
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##A 03 8900 192
##T Stained Glass Primers
Stained Glass Primers

@@
Stained Glass Primer (Vol. 2) 
Peter Mollica
1977; 207 pp.
ISBN 0960130632
$4.95  ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Mollica Stained Glass Press
10033 Broadway Terrace
Oakland, CA 94611
415-655-5736
@@

##A 03 49938 194
##T The Art of Painting on Glass
The Art of Painting on Glass

@@

A marvelous book on vitreous painting by a man who clearly loves his craft. Albinas Elskus gives a personal and comprehensive discourse on paints and how to mix them and explains the necessary tools and equipment a beginner would need. Most of the book is devoted to the techniques involved in painting on glass, including designing, tracing, matting, staining, enameling, etching, and firing. Full of wonderful photographs and drawings.
                                                                  

                                                        - David Jouris
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##A 03 110542 195
##T The Art of Painting on Glass
The Art of Painting on Glass

@@
(Techniques and Designs for Stained Glass)
Albinas Elskus
1980; 147 pp.
ISBN 0684176432
OUT OF PRINT

MacMillan Publishing Co.
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##A 03 110335 199
##T Glass Fusing
Glass Fusing

@@

Here is a beautifully designed manual on the basics of warm glass. ItÕs loaded with clearly written technical information on kilns, tools, supplies, firing, fusing, annealing, sagging, slumping, molding, and finishing. And thereÕs an extended appendix which includes a helpful ÒglasseryÓ for definitions of glassworking terms and a list of suppliers. This book also has some of the best illustrations IÕve seenÑ with hundreds of color photos. It is practically impossible to look at this work and not be inspired to try it yourself. Wow!                                    

                                                              - David Jouris
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##A 03 113762 200
##T Glass Fusing
Glass Fusing

@@
Boyce Lundstrom and Daniel Schwoerer
1983; 137 pp.
ISBN 0961228202
$19.95 ($21.45 postpaid)
from:

Vitreous Publications, Inc.
Camp Colton
Colton, OR 97017
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##A 03 114780 202
##T Glassblowing: A Search for Form
Glassblowing: A Search for Form

@@

Glassblowing is out of print but well worth looking for at the library or used book shops, as there is a dearth of well-written, inspiring books on this subject. Littleton begins by discussing the nature of glass and its history, but devotes most of the book to a personal account of his techniques and what he has learned during his years of work with hot glass.                         


                                                           - David Jouris
@@

##A 03 115017 203
##T Glassblowing: A Search for Form
Glassblowing: A Search for Form

@@
Harvey K. Littleton
ISBN 0442243413
OUT OF PRINT

Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
@@

##A 03 71647 207
##T WHERE TO LEARN THE GLASS ARTS
WHERE TO LEARN THE GLASS ARTS

@@
Here are some of the best places to learn.
                                                                  
¥N.Y. Experimental Glass Workshop
Year-round school offering classes, workshops, and demonstrations in all areas of glass work. Facilities available for rent to independent glass artists.

¥Camp Colton Glass Program
A summer school for basic and advanced fusing work.

¥Fenton and Gaines Glass Studio
A spring and fall workshop series covering both cold and warm glass, featuring well-known glass workers.
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##A 03 145080 209
##T WHERE TO LEARN THE GLASS ARTS
WHERE TO LEARN THE GLASS ARTS

@@
N.Y. Experimental Glass Workshop
Catalog free
from:

N.Y. Experimental Glass Workshop
142 Mulberry Street
New York, NY 10013
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##A 03 154438 210
##T WHERE TO LEARN THE GLASS ARTS
WHERE TO LEARN THE GLASS ARTS

@@
Camp Colton Glass Program
Catalog free
from:

Camp Colton
Colton, OR 97017
503-824-3152
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##A 03 156465 211
##T WHERE TO LEARN THE GLASS ARTS
WHERE TO LEARN THE GLASS ARTS

@@
Fenton and Gaines Glass Studio
Catalog free
from:

Fenton and Gaines Glass Studio
4001 San Leandro Street No. 8
Oakland, CA 94601
415-533-5515
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##A 03 157808 212
##T WHERE TO LEARN THE GLASS ARTS
WHERE TO LEARN THE GLASS ARTS

@@
Pilchuck School
Catalog free
from:

Pilchuck School
107 South Main Street #324
Seattle, WA 98104
206-445-3111
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##A 03 16029 214
##T Professional Stained Glass Magazine
Professional Stained Glass Magazine


@@

Features articles on stained glass technique, equipment evaluations, and designing. The December issue is devoted to a nationwide listing of suppliers in all areas of glass work. 
                                                       

                                                        - David Jouris
@@

##A 03 38442 215
##T Professional Stained Glass Magazine
Professional Stained Glass Magazine


@@
Albert Lewis, Editor-in-Chief
ISSN 08851808
$25/year (10 issues)
from:

The Edge Publishing Group, Inc.
245 West 29th St.
Room 1303
New York, NY 10001
212-629-3290
@@

##A 03 124470 217
##T Whittemore-Durgin Glass Company
Whittemore-Durgin Glass Company

@@

A fat, fascinating catalog of glassworking supplies and tools.

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 03 158644 218
##T Whittemore-Durgin Glass Company
Whittemore-Durgin Glass Company

@@
Information free
from:

Whittemore-Durgin Glass Company
P. O. Box 2065
Hanover, MA 02339
617-871-1743
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##A 03 118154 222
##T Neues Glas
Neues Glas

@@

This German/English magazine is as sleek and glittery as a gallery showcaseÑwhich it sort of is. The work shown is a good representation of the cutting edge of glass artistry.      

                                                                  - J. Baldwin
@@

##A 03 118515 223
##T Neues Glas
Neues Glas

@@
Karl Gunter Nicola, Editor
ISSN 07232454
$37.50/year (4 issues)  
from:

Verlagsanstalt Handwerk GmbH
Postfach 8120
D4000 Dusseldorf 1
West Germany
@@

##A 03 117098 225
##T New Work
New Work

@@

This quarterly tabloid magazine includes articles, portfolios, news, reviews; plus listings of classes, seminars, fairs, exhibitions and positions open. Published by people who are actively involved in glass work.                      

                                                           - David Jouris
@@

##A 03 117350 226
##T New Work
New Work

@@
William Warmus, Editor
$15/year (4 issues) 
from:

New York Experimental Glass Workshop, Inc.
647 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
@@

##A 03 116215 228
##T Glass Art Society Journal
Glass Art Society Journal

@@

The Glass Art Society puts out this handsome journal each year after their annual conference.  New techniques, controversy, and classy photographs of recent work abound.     

                                                                Ñ David Jouris
@@

##A 03 116463 229
##T Glass Art Society Journal
Glass Art Society Journal

@@
Christine Robbins, Editor
ISSN 02789426
$17/year (annual)  
from:

Glass Art Society
P.O. Box 1364
Corning, NY 14830
@@

##A 03 145639 233
##T Jewelry Concepts and Techniques
Jewelry Concepts and Techniques

@@
ÒMy stars!Ó is what my grandmother would say when confronted with the need for superlatives but unable to think of any that would fit.  ThatÕs what sheÕd say about this work.  Total, comprehensive, magnificent, fascinatingÑyour choice.  Quite literally, Mr. Untracht has looked at every style, technique, form, and material (even plastic)  used in jewelrymaking in just about every culture, past and present.  History, symbolic meaning 
(something most jewelers seem to ignore), heretofore-secret methods are all shown in minute detail along with tables of metal characteristics.  ThereÕs seemingly no end to it, and itÕs all presented in a way that makes it hard to quit reading even when your thing isnÕt jewelry.  In short, the book itself is a work of art.  And obviously a work of love as well.  Reading along IÕve also been
struck by how few of us moderns really get into something, in
@@

##A 03 145726 235
##T Jewelry Concepts and Techniques
Jewelry Concepts and Techniques

@@
Oppi Untracht
1982; 864 pp.
ISBN 0385041853
$65.00 ($67.50 postpaid)
from:

Doubleday & Co.
501 Franklin Ave.
Garden City, NJ   11530
@@

##A 03 71367 238
##T Metal Techniques for Craftsmen
Metal Techniques for Craftsmen

@@
If you read this book, youÕll know more about metalworking than just about anybody you know. International in scope, it covers an incredible collection of techniques from many countries and cultures. The various techniques are presented with a complete set of instructions for each one and are illustrated by excellent photographs, often of native craftsmen doing their thing. Tools are described and illustrated in detail. Everything is described in detail. Reading this book will take you right up to that point where youÕll have to do it awhile yourself to get into it any further. This is a real assembly of diverse information, some of it hard to find, and a metal-crafter-jeweler should be into new things within an hour of getting his hands on it. This is one of those rare and super books written by someone that wanted to lay his trip on others.
@@

##A 03 79541 240
##T Metal Techniques for Craftsmen
Metal Techniques for Craftsmen

@@
Oppi Untracht
1968; 509 pp.
ISBN 0385030274
$35 ($37 postpaid.)
from:

Doubleday & Co.
501 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY  11531
@@

##A 03 143777 243
##T Design and Creation of Jewelry
Design and Creation of Jewelry

@@

From brooch to buckle, from lapidary to enamelling, filigree,cloisonne, forging, casting, Japanese Kasane Uchi, Renaissance niello, twentieth century photo etching . . . this is your guide to a craft with but one aim: decorative, personal adornment.

                                                                     Ñ Don Lohr
@@

##A 03 144260 244
##T Design and Creation of Jewelry
Design and Creation of Jewelry

@@
Robert von Neumann
Third Edition
1982; 321 pp.
ISBN 0801970679
$18.50 ($22.50 postpd.)
from:

Chilton Book Co.
Chilton Way
Radnor, PA  19089
@@

##A 03 94505 246
##T JEWELRY TECHNIQUES
JEWELRY TECHNIQUES

@@
Once youÕve begun to delight in creating jewelry, youÕll probably solder your soul to one particular technique. Here are some of the best for specialized detail. Remember, each author has his/her eye for decorative design. YouÕll probably want several books. Some of the techniques go back four thousand or more years.  

                                                                   Ñ Don Lohr




Ù Pyramid Foundry Sets
@@

##A 03 141939 247
##T JEWELRY TECHNIQUES
JEWELRY TECHNIQUES

@@
Creative Casting
Sharr Choate
1986;  213 pp.
ISBN 0517561743
$12.95 
($14.45 postpaid)
from:

Crown Publishers
225 Park Avenue South
New York, NY  10003
800-526-4264
@@

##A 03 154336 248
##T JEWELRY TECHNIQUES
JEWELRY TECHNIQUES

@@
Metalwork and Enamelling
Herbert Maryon
Fourth Edition 1971; 335 pp.
ISBN 0486227022
$5.95 ($7.45 postpaid)
from:

Dover Books
31 E. Second Street
Mineola, NY  11501
800-223-3130
@@

##A 03 140551 252
##T Lapidary Journal
Lapidary Journal

@@

I get an itch in my fingers and groin looking at the pictures in this magazine. More beguiling than jewelry-store jewelry, this solid journal has the fascinating stuffÑthe finding and working of the GEMS! Gorgeous, tiny, perfect . . . (This isnÕt gonna translate into black & white pictures . . .) Look at that sapphire!

                                                         Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 03 140852 253
##T Lapidary Journal
Lapidary Journal

@@
Sonia Gilbert, Editor
ISSN 00238457
$20.00/year (12 issues)
from:

Lapidary Journal
Circulation Department
P.O. Box 41094
Nashville, TN  37204
619-275-3505
@@

##A 03 155213 256
##T Complete Metalsmith
Complete Metalsmith

@@
LetÕs say youÕre a jewelrymaker and you canÕt figure out a way to make a hidden hinge for a box. So you write your uncle, the master goldsmith. He sits down, gets very stoned, and sends you a beautifully descriptive letter, complete with imaginative little drawings, written in a tight, clear hand. Now imagine a whole book on jewelry-making done in this very personal, friendly, and accessible way, and you have The Complete Metalsmith. The title to the contrary, this book wonÕt tell you much about blacksmithing, titanium, or stainless steel, but it will tell you a lot about goldsmithing, and in a marvelous way. Tim McCreightÕs style is light and humorous, as well as technically knowledgeable. The book is visually and factually stimulating enough that I reread it a second time as soon as I finished it once, to try and take more of
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##A 03 155553 258
##T Complete Metalsmith
Complete Metalsmith

@@
Tim McCreight
1984; 150 pp.
ISBN 0871921359
$11.95 postpaid
from:

Davis Publications
Printers Building
Worcester, Ma  01608
@@

##A 03 148124 260
##T JEWELRYMAKING EQUIPMENT
JEWELRYMAKING EQUIPMENT

@@

Here are two of the very best sources of jewelry-making equipage.  Quality is high, with prices to match. Selection is inspiring. Some of the tools are adaptable for other work such as modelmaking. IÕll bet you didnÕt know that many of the tools even existed!  Yum!

                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin




Ù Tool Catalogs
@@

##A 03 149677 261
##T JEWELRYMAKING EQUIPMENT
JEWELRYMAKING EQUIPMENT

@@
Allcraft
Catalog $5 from:

Allcraft Tool & Supply Co.
60 South MacQuesten Parkway
Mount Vernon, NY  10550
800-645-7124
914-667-9100
@@

##A 03 94780 262
##T JEWELRYMAKING EQUIPMENT
JEWELRYMAKING EQUIPMENT

@@
Dixon Precision Tools and Equipment 
Catalog $3
from:

William Dixon, Inc.
750 Washington Avenue
Carlstadt, NJ  07072
201-935-0100
@@

##A 03 52247 268
##T Fine Woodworking Magazine
Fine Woodworking Magazine

@@
The impeccable production of this magazine reflects the same spirit and imaginative classy workmanship as the work it shows. Articles are much more detailed than youÕd find in a less specialized magazine, yet are written in nontechnical language, and illustrated as if the reader was a beginner. There is no trace whatever of artzy-craftzy.

And we mustnÕt forget the advertisements. A good mag attracts quality advertisers. In this case, the ads are an invitation to 
fiscal madness. TheyÕre nicely produced too, tending to show the latest innovations just as the editorial content of the magazine does.
@@

##A 03 52549 270
##T Fine Woodworking
Fine Woodworking

@@
ISSN 03613453
$18/year (6 issues)
$21/year foreign 
Single copy $3.75; $4.25 foreign
from:

The Taunton Press
Subscription Dept.
63 South Main Street
Box 355
Newtown, CT 06470
@@

##A 03 78510 271
##T Fine Woodworking On
Fine Woodworking On



@@

Bending wood, chairs and beds, planes and chisels, woodworking machines . . . and a bunch of other subjects.  The series is made up of articles (about 30 in each book) from the past twelve years of Fine Woodworking magazine (see previous review), and that means good writing, good illustrations, and lots of different voices and opinions.  These books give me a feeling of being a student with lots of teachers.
                                                          
                                                              Ñ J.  Baldwin
@@

##A 03 60138 272
##T Fine Woodworking
Fine Woodworking

@@
Paul Bertorelli, Editor
1986
12-book series 
$7.95 ea. postpaid
from:

The Taunton Press
63 South Main Street
Box 355
Newtown, CT 06470
@@

##A 03 92344 273
##T Fine Woodworking Techniques
Fine Woodworking Techniques

@@

Another series from the pages of Fine Woodworking (see two previous reviews), this time exclusively concerned with the technical articles theyÕve published in past issues.  By pros, for pros or those about to be.
                       
                                                               Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 03 64317 274
##T Fine Woodworking
Fine Woodworking

@@
Editors of Fine Woodworking magazine
1981
7 book series 
$17.95 ea.  postpaid
from:

The Taunton Press
63 South Main Street
Box 355
Newtown, CT 06470
@@

##A 03 102929 275
##T Fine Woodworking Video Workshops
Fine Woodworking Video Workshops

@@

Stuff one of these in your Beta or VHS and see how itÕs done.  Certainly the wave of a how-to future, these video cassettes by the editors of Fine Woodworking (see previous three reviews) lead you by the hand through such subjects as bowl turning, dovetailing, wood finishing, and other subjects that are tricky to address inanimately. I know folks who share the costs, passing the tapes
among friends. You might also recommend that your library get Õem. 

                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 03 76924 276
##T Fine Woodworking
Fine Woodworking

@@
$49.95 Ð $59.95 postpaid Information free
from:

The Taunton Press
63 South Main St.
Box 355
Newtown, CT 06470
@@

##A 03 46340 277
##T Understanding Wood
Understanding Wood

@@

A superb book for wood craftsmen about wood, not woodworking. The author teaches wood technology, contributes to Fine Woodworking magazine, and has been carving the stuff since he was a kid. He has done a painstaking job of making accessible a lot of essential but technical information about what wood is (from cells on up) and why it acts as it does. ItÕs the difference between knowing that a board can check and warp, and knowing why. The photos, captions, and design are equal to the fine text.
                                                            
                                                           Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 03 46637 278
##T Understanding Wood
Understanding Wood

@@
 (A CraftsmanÕs Guide to Wood Technology)
R. Bruce Hoadley
1980; 256 pp.
ISBN 0918804051
$24.95 ($26.45 postpaid )
from:

Taunton Press
63 South Main Street
P. O. Box 355
Newtown, CT 06470
800-243-7252
203-426-8171
@@

##A 03 30135 280
##T Wood Magazine
Wood Magazine

@@
Better Homes and Gardens puts out this friendly, competent
magazine. As youÕd expect, the content and presentation are homeowner orientedÑmore so than the Fine Woodworking publications (see items reviewed in this cluster). Some folks find this atmosphere less intimidating than listening to professional woodworkers who sound more like artists than hobbyists. Wood has plenty of enticing advertisements, too.                                                         

                                                              - J. Baldwin
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##A 03 30320 281
##T Wood Magazine
Wood Magazine

@@
Larry Clayton, Editor
ISSN 0743894X
$18/year (6 issues)
from:

Wood
Locust at 17th
Des Moines, IA 50336
@@

##A 03 63570 286
##T CERAMICS INTRODUCTION
CERAMICS INTRODUCTION

@@

ItÕs no coincidence that clay has been in use constantly for at least 9,000 years; what other material can be shaped to almost any form, kept workable (moist) as long as necessary, dried, and then fired until it achieves a rock-hard permanence? Its immediacy makes it one of the most spontaneous of media. 
                                                                    
                                                             - Mary Law
@@

##A 03 64734 287
##T Hands in Clay
Hands in Clay

@@

This is the most detailed of the general texts that I know. Almost half the book is about historical ceramics, showing the enormous variety of ways clay has been used over the centuries, with lots of good pictures of ancient pots and diagrams of methods and tools used. The second half focuses on your hands in clay, explaining various methods (handbuilding, making sculpture, working on the wheel and casting, surface treatments, glazing, and firing). Glaze chemistry is explained in the Appendix, with a good example of glaze calculation, too.                  

                                                                       Ñ Mary Law
@@

##A 03 64855 288
##T Hands in Clay
Hands in Clay

@@
Charlotte F. Speight
1983; 348 pp.
ISBN 0874846455
$21.95 ($23.95 postpaid)
from:

Mayfield Publishing Co.
1240 Villa St.
Mountain View, CA 94041
415-960-3222
@@

##A 03 65547 291
##T The Ceramic Spectrum
The Ceramic Spectrum

@@

My absolute favorite on glazes and materials testing. Every time I open it I want to run out to my studio and mix some test glazes.
                                                           
                                                                 Ñ Mary Law
@@

##A 03 65875 292
##T The Ceramic Spectrum
The Ceramic Spectrum

@@
Robin Hopper
1984; 224 pp.
ISBN 0801972752
$42 ($46.50 postpaid)
from:

Chilton Book Co.
Cash Sales Dept.
Chilton Way
Radnor, PA 19089
800-345-1214
@@

##A 03 68652 294
##T The Kiln Book
The Kiln Book

@@

The best book on kilns and kiln building that IÕve seen. ItÕs well designed, clear, and the information is easy to find when you need it.                                                                   

                                                                   Ñ Mary Law
@@

##A 03 68897 295
##T The Kiln Book
The Kiln Book

@@
Frederick L. Olsen
Second Edition 1983; 291 pp.
ISBN 0801970717
$30 ($34.50 postpaid)
from:

Chilton Book Co.
Cash Sales Dept.
Chilton Way
Radnor, PA 19089
800-345-1214
@@

##A 03 66712 297
##T Studio Potter
Studio Potter

@@

Written by potters for potters, Studio Potter is packed with information about how potters think and operate. They sponsor a program to help people sponsor apprenticeships.        

     
                                                               Ñ Mary Law
@@

##A 03 66837 298
##T Studio Potter
Studio Potter

@@
Gerry Williams, Editor
$15/year (2 issues)
from:

Studio Potter
P. O. Box 70
Goffstown, NH 03045
603-774-3582
@@

##A 03 172014 300
##T Ceramics Monthly
Ceramics Monthly

@@

Ceramics Monthly has lots of pictures of recent work, latest technique, profiles of noted potters, and a listing of upcoming exhibitions. Each April issue features an exhaustive list of summer classes.                                       

                                                              Ñ Mary Law
@@

##A 03 172292 301
##T Ceramics Monthly
Ceramics Monthly

@@
William Hunt, Editor
ISSN 00090329
$20/year (10 issues)
from:

Ceramics Monthly
P. O. Box 12448
Columbus, OH 43212
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##A 03 53673 306
##T BASKETRY INTRODUCTION
BASKETRY INTRODUCTION

@@

A Kampuchean friend, Meng Sovan, once made several small bamboo baskets for me to take home to my family. They were lovingly craftedÑclearly a special gift. I thanked my friend for his kindness, and asked how I could carry them unharmed for the duration of my travels. ÒNo problem,Ó he said. He sat down and made me a nice big basket to carry them in.        

                                                             Ñ David Jouris
@@

##A 03 96531 307
##T Basketry Today with Materials from Nature
Basketry Today with Materials from Nature

@@

An inspiring introduction to basketry, with chapters on gathering and dyeing natural materials, weaving, plaiting, twining, coiling, pine needle baskets, and nontraditional freestyle forms. Clear, well-made photos and drawings explain the steps in making the different basket styles.
                                            
                                                      Ñ David Jouris
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##A 03 96773 308
##T Basketry Today with Materials from Nature
Basketry Today with Materials from Nature

@@
Dona Z. Meilach and Dee Menagh
1979; 200 pp.
ISBN 051753135
$8.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Crown Publishers
225 Park Ave. South
New York, NY 10003
800-526-4264
@@

##A 03 98589 310
##T The News Basket
The News Basket

@@

A spiffy and wholly professionally turned out magazine, rich in enthusiasm for basketry, oriented toward serious professional work. Full of information on whatÕs happening in basketry and where. Lots of photographs of imaginative work and how it is done.                  


                                                               Ñ David Jouris
@@

##A 03 98951 311
##T The News Basket
The News Basket

@@
Shereen LaPlantz, Editor
ISSN 07426569
$18.50/year (6 issues)
from:

Press de LaPlantz
P.O. Box 220
Bayside, CA 95524
@@

##A 03 97639 313
##T The Nature of Basketry
The Nature of Basketry

@@

This book will cure your narrow mind about baskets. The range of human basketry is awesome, ingenious, gorgeous. You canÕt beat it, but you can join it.                                          


                                                      Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 03 97872 314
##T The Nature of Basketry
The Nature of Basketry

@@
Ed Rossbach
1986; 192 pp.
ISBN 0887400590
$14.95  ($16.95 postpaid)
from:

Schiffer Publishing
P. O. Box E
Exton, PA 19341
@@

##A 03 7306 316
##T BASKETRY SUPPLIERS
BASKETRY SUPPLIERS

@@
WeÕve found these folks to be trustworthy sources:
                                                                 
¥ The Caning Shop - A reputation for taking a personal interest in customers and giving interesting classes. Carries basketry and caning supplies, tools, and books. 

¥ Tint & Splint Basketry - Full line of basketry supplies, tools, books. Known for really good colored reed. Reputed to have best wholesale rates. Offers classes and workshops.  

¥ H. H. Perkins - Nice folks to deal with, and in the business for over 70 years. Tools, supplies, and books.

                                                               Ñ David Jouris
@@

##A 03 13350 317
##T BASKETRY SUPPLIERS
BASKETRY SUPPLIERS

@@
The Caning Shop
Catalog $1 from:

The Caning Shop
926 Gilman Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
415-527-5010
@@

##A 03 14261 318
##T BASKETRY SUPPLIERS
BASKETRY SUPPLIERS

@@
Tint & Splint Basketry
Catalog free with SASE 
from:

Tint & Splint Basketry.
30100 Ford Road
Sheridan Square
Garden City, MI 48135
313-522-7760
@@

##A 03 14379 319
##T BASKETRY SUPPLIERS
BASKETRY SUPPLIERS

@@
H. H. Perkins
Catalog free from:

H.H. Perkins Co.
P. O. Box A.C.
Amity Station
Woodbridge, CT 06525
203-389-9501
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##A 03 125312 323
##T Threads
Threads

@@
The publishers of Fine Woodworking and Fine Home-building 
(see reviews) have come out with another beautiful magazine, Threads. With a style and look all its own, Threads is not just another pretty face. It is filled with interesting, well-written articles that cover the gamut of the fiber arts field. It has articles about and by leading textile artists as well as pieces on freestyle embroidery, Gobelins-style tapestry, weft twining, hand-quilting, knitting, dyeing, felting, sewing hand-wovens, and on and on. My particular interests are in embroidery and weaving, but I find that every time an issue of Threads arrives, I read it cover to cover. The piece de resistance is the back cover, which is like a great dessert after a wonderful meal.
                                              
                                                            Ñ Susan Erkel Ryan
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##A 03 125666 324
##T Threads
Threads

@@
Betsy Levine, Editor
ISSN 08827370
$18/year (6 issues)
from:

The Taunton Press
Subscription Dept.
P.O. Box 355
Newton, CT 06470
@@

##A 03 126854 326
##T Fiberarts
Fiberarts

@@

A copy of Fiberarts will fill you in on the latest shows, classes, and events in the field. They run lots of color pictures of fiberwork, making the magazine a good source for inspiration. 
                                                           
                                                            - Marilyn Green
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##A 03 127121 327
##T Fiberarts
Fiberarts

@@
Carol Lawrence, Editor
ISSN 0164324X
$18/year (5 issues)
from:

Fiberarts
50 College Street
Asheville, NC 28801
@@

##A 03 60310 329
##T The Fiberworks Source Book
The Fiberworks Source Book

@@

Keep a firm grip on your Visa card when you delve into this succulent catalogÑthe variety alone will make you greedy. 
YouÕll find goodies such as rubber stamps (for use with permanent fabric color), the addresses of professional associations and schools, and every sort of stuff to use for knitting, weaving, spinning, papermaking, basketry, and just about everything else that can possibly be construed as fiber.  Your library may have it.                                                
                                                     
                                                                 Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 03 60553 330
##T The Fiberworks Source Book
The Fiberworks Source Book

@@
Bobbi A. McRae
1985
OUT OF PRINT 

Betterway Publications
@@

##A 03 62613 333
##T A Silk WorkerÕs Handbook
A Silk WorkerÕs Handbook

@@

Once a precious, handmade book fit for museums (silk fabric samples throughout), this loving treatise about the character of silk has been issued as an affordable trade paperback (no samples, alas). ItÕs about the practical techniques of using silk, in all its varieties, and how silkÕs unusual origins shape the personality of its fabrics. ItÕs by hands passionately intimate with this queen of fibers.                                                            

                                                                Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 03 62857 334
##T A Silk WorkerÕs Handbook
A Silk WorkerÕs Handbook

@@
Cheryl Kolander
1985; 168 pp..
ISBN 0934026181
$12 ($14.50 postpaid)
from:

Interweave Press
306 N. Washington Ave.
Loveland, CO 80537
@@

##A 03 55997 337
##T Soft Sculpture
Soft Sculpture

@@

A book to help you turn your wildest fabric fantasies into
sculpture that wonÕt come apart at the seams. A soft sculpture can be anything from a silk cactus to a velvet dog to a life-size corduroy drum set. Who needs clothes anyway?
                                                         
                                                     Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
@@

##A 03 56115 338
##T Soft Sculpture
Soft Sculpture

@@
Carolyn Vosburg Hall
1981; 112 pp.
ISBN 0871921294
$18.95 postpaid 
from:

Davis Publications
50 Portland St.
Worcester, MA 01608
@@

##A 03 134705 341
##T The Key to Weaving
The Key to Weaving

@@

Written by a master weaver, this comprehensive book covers looms, weave structures (with instructions for dozens of new patterns), tapestry techniques, color, and an in-depth chapter on fibers. If you can only have one book on weaving, this is it.
                                                             

                                                               Ñ Rhoda London
@@

##A 03 135110 342
##T The Key to Weaving
The Key to Weaving

@@
Mary E. Black
Second Revised Edition 1980
698 pp.
ISBN 0025111701
$39.95 ($43.15 postpaid )
from:

Macmillan Publishing Co.
Order Dept.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
800-257-8247
@@

##A 03 137007 344
##T Fashions from the Loom
Fashions from the Loom

@@

Clearly-drawn patterns of basic clothing designs: tunics, skirts, scarfs, blouses, vests, capes. Truly handwoven clothing made easy.

                                                    Ñ Rhoda London






Ù Charmian WatkinsÕ Clothes Book
@@

##A 03 137418 345
##T Fashions from the Loom
Fashions from the Loom

@@
Betty J. Beard
1980; 96 pp.
ISBN 0934026033
$12  ($14.50 postpaid)
from:

Interweave Press
306 North Washington Avenue
Loveland, CO 80537
@@

##A 03 138095 347
##T Working With the Wool: To Weave a Navajo Rug
Working With the Wool: To Weave a Navajo Rug

@@

The most comprehensive book ever on weaving an authentic Navajo rug.

                                                       Ñ Rhoda London
@@

##A 03 138275 348
##T Working With the Wool: To Weave a Navajo Rug
Working With the Wool: To Weave a Navajo Rug

@@
Noel Bennett  and Tiana Bighorse
1983; 120 pp.
ISBN 0873580842
$8.95 ($10.95  postpaid)
from:

Northland Publishing Co.
P.O. Box N
Flagstaff, AZ 86002
@@

##A 03 139013 349
##T Techniques of Rug Weaving
Techniques of Rug Weaving

@@

The total rug book.

                                                   Ñ Rhoda London
@@

##A 03 139291 350
##T Techniques of Rug Weaving
Techniques of Rug Weaving

@@
Peter Collingwood
1987; 527 pp.
ISBN 823052001
$50 ($52 postpaid)
from:

Watson-Guptill Publishers
P. O. Box 2013
1695 Oak St.
Lakewood, NJ 08701
@@

##A 03 84689 352
##T Handwoven
Handwoven

@@

The best weaving journal, with specific focus in each issue on a particular area of weaving Ñ Early American, tapestry, etc.  
An Òinstructions supplementÓ shows you how to make the items shown in the feature articles.                        

                                                         - Diana Sloat
@@

##A 03 106967 353
##T Handwoven
Handwoven

@@
Jane Patrick, Editor
ISSN 01988212
$18/year (5 issues)
from:

Interweave Press
306 North Washington Ave.
Loveland, CO 80537
@@

##A 03 140276 356
##T Warping All By Yourself
Warping All By Yourself

@@

Everything you ever wanted to know about warping a loom.

                                                            Ñ Rhoda London
@@

##A 03 140298 357
##T Warping All By Yourself
Warping All By Yourself

@@
Cay Garrett
1974; 192 pp.
ISBN 0930670019
$6  ($8 postpaid)
from:

Interweave Press
306 North Washington Avenue
Loveland, CO 80537
@@

##A 03 132307 359
##T Spinning and Weaving with Wool
Spinning and Weaving with Wool

@@

How to card and spin, illustrated with excellent photographs. There are specifications and sources (some obsolete) for a wide variety of spinning wheels. Best of all, there are plans for building your own rough but inexpensive hand carder, drum carder, hand-cranked table spinning wheel, counterbalanced loom (well-designed), warping reel, and umbrella swift.                

                                                               - Diana Sloat
@@

##A 03 4048 360
##T Spinning and Weaving with Wool
Spinning and Weaving with Wool

@@
Paula Simmons
Updated Edition 1977; 221 pp.
ISBN 0914718231
$14.95 ($16.45 postpaid)
from:

Globe-Pequot Press
Order Dept.
Box Q
Chester, CT 06412
800-243-0495
@@

##A 03 61520 363
##T Universal Yarn Finder
Universal Yarn Finder

@@

An invaluable source for choosing the right yarn for each project. One thousand four hundred yarns (fingering, sport, heavy worsted or four-ply, bulky, and specialty) are listed in tabbed sections, with description, specifications, cleaning instructions, and how much of the yarn youÕd need to knit a crewneck sweater. You can use the book to determine if the yarn you have at home will work for the project youÕve planned. Included are mail-order addresses. 
                                                              
                                                                Ñ Marilyn Green
@@

##A 03 61899 364
##T Universal Yarn Finder
Universal Yarn Finder

@@
Maggie Righetti
1987; 100 pp.
ISBN 0139400656
$10.95 ($13.22 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
800-223-2348
@@

##A 03 57329 367
##T ReaderÕs Digest Complete Guide to Needlework
ReaderÕs Digest Complete Guide to Needlework

@@

The title of this book should be changed to The ReaderÕs Digest GOOD Guide to Needlework. Though it is not complete, the skills are covered with an excellence IÕve come to expect from ReaderÕs Digest how-to books. Tools, basic techniques, and instructions are covered thoroughly, with sample projects. Recommended jumping-off point for a beginning needle worker.
                                                                 

                                                   - Evelyn Eldridge-Diaz
@@

##A 03 57486 368
##T ReaderÕs Digest Complete Guide to Needlework
ReaderÕs Digest Complete Guide to Needlework

@@

Virginia Colton, Editor
1979; 504 pp.
ISBN 08957705988
$23.95 ($24.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Rd.
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 03 58348 370
##T Inspiration for Embroidery
Inspiration for Embroidery

@@

If I were to choose one book from all the fiber art books, it would be Inspiration for Embroidery. I always pick it up between projects and it never fails to get me working again.
                                                              
                                                           Ñ Marilyn Green
@@

##A 03 58597 371
##T Inspiration for Embroidery
Inspiration for Embroidery

@@
Constance Howard
1985; 240 pp.
ISBN 0713447680
$15.50 ($16.50 postpaid)
from:

Charles T. Branford Co.
P. O. Box 41
Newton Centre, MA 02159
@@

##A 03 81717 373
##T The Complete Book of Machine Quilting
The Complete Book of Machine Quilting

@@
Most books on quilting donÕt go into much (if any) detail on quilting with a sewing machine. The Complete Book of Machine Quilting makes up for what the other books have skipped. This book has everythingÑincluding a very clear and complete explanation of how a sewing machine does what it does, and instructions for projects and cautions/directions for working with unusual materials on the sewing machine. The discussion of finishing the edges of a quilt is the best I have seen. In a section entitled ÒHow NOT to Machine Quilt a Sheet,Ó The Fannings follow someone elseÕs instructions and the project doesnÕt work. They explain whatÕs going wrong as they work on it so the same wonÕt happen to us. The book is clever, comprehensive and useful. ItÕs a good buy for traditional quilters 
as well as for the busy person who wants to make a quilt in one day.                                                             Ñ Marilyn Green
@@

##A 03 82167 374
##T The Complete Book of Machine Quilting
The Complete Book of Machine Quilting

@@
Robbie Fanning and Tony Fanning
1980; 334 pp.
ISBN 0801968038
$17.95 ($22.45 postpaid)
from:

Chilton Book Company
Cash Sales Dept.
Chilton Way
Radnor, PA 19089
800-345-1214
@@

##A 03 84892 377
##T Patchwork Patterns
Patchwork Patterns

@@

Once youÕve gotten hooked on patchwork, youÕll find BeyerÕs book a fascinating discovery. The appeal of the book is her innovative system for drafting geometric patchwork patterns. She uses paperfolding and makes drafting seem easy even to math klutzes like me. Her methods could be used for any craft requiring a geometric design  Ñ  not just for quiltmaking. BeyerÕs quilts are breathtaking in their use of color and intricate technical perfection. Now you can do it, too.                

                                                              Ñ Marilyn Green
@@

##A 03 85220 378
##T Patchwork Patterns
Patchwork Patterns

@@
Jinny Beyer
1979; 200 pp.
ISBN 0914440276
$16.95 ($19.95 postpaid)
from:

EPM Publications
P. O. Box 490
McLean, VA 22101
@@

##A 03 59350 381
##T The Textile Booklist
The Textile Booklist

@@

The latest books in textiles, fiber arts, needle arts, costumes, and related subjects are listed (some with expert reviews).

                                                             Ñ Marilyn Green
@@

##A 03 17082 382
##T The Textile Booklist
The Textile Booklist

@@
Kaaren Buffington , Editor
$12.50/year (4 issues) 
from:

Textile Booklist
P. O. Box 4392
Arcata, CA 95521
@@

##A 03 77688 384
##T ReaderÕs Digest Complete Guide to Sewing
ReaderÕs Digest Complete Guide to Sewing

@@

Easily the one book I would recommend for any home sewer, whether beginner or accomplished old-timer. Tools, methods, and techniques are covered with thorough and easy-to-follow instructions and every option and variation imaginable. The sewing machine section, compiled with the aid of Singer, is a comprehensive overview of electric sewing machines: how to use, maintain, and understand them. Sections on special techniques for menÕs and childrenÕs clothing, and sewing for the home, are included.                                               
                                                 
                                                      Ñ Evelyn Eldridge-Diaz
@@

##A 03 77865 385
##T ReaderÕs Digest Complete Guide to Sewing
ReaderÕs Digest Complete Guide to Sewing

@@
Virginia Colton, Editor
1976; 528 pp.
ISBN 0895770261
$23.95 ($24.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Rd.
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 03 78740 387
##T Power Sewing
Power Sewing

@@

How to make things fit without having a fit. Unfortunately, the illustrations are crudely printed, but the information is sophisticated, easy to use, and hard to find elsewhere.        

                                                                   Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 03 79069 388
##T Power Sewing
Power Sewing

@@
(New Ways to Make Fine Clothes Fast)
Sandra Betzina
1985; 255 pp.
ISBN 0961561408
 $20 postpaid
from:

Power Sewing
P. O. Box 2702
San Francisco, CA 94126
@@

##A 03 79637 392
##T Sew Sane
Sew Sane

@@

Sewing machines occasionally take on a recalcitrant character that will drive you batty if you let Õem get away with it. This book unmasks the ÒgremmiesÓ that cause puckers, missed stitches, and all those maddening stigmata of the amateur sewer. ItÕs written for the totally unmechanical mind.                                  

                                                                    Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 03 79906 393
##T Sew Sane
Sew Sane

@@
Gale Grigg Hazen
1985; 63 pp.
$12.95 ($14.70 postpaid)
from:

Sewing Place
P. O. Box 4762
San Jose, CA 95150
@@

##A 03 83853 395
##T SEWING SUPPLIES
SEWING SUPPLIES

@@

These mail order companies provide a sewing shop in your mailbox. Sewing Emporium carries a complete line of sewing machines and attachments. Clotilde has unusual, clever sewing notions, and offers videotapes teaching you how to sew. Newark Dressmaker Supply is like an old general store; they carry the basics including some fabrics and even Òdoll ingredientsÓ (heads and other body parts).  

                                                          Ñ Marilyn Green


Ù The Complete Dollmaker
@@

##A 03 84193 396
##T SEWING SUPPLIES
SEWING SUPPLIES

@@
Newark Dressmaker Supply 
Catalog free 
from:

Newark Dressmaker Supply
P.O. Box 2448
Dept. WE 
Lehigh Valley, PA 18001
215-837-7500
@@

##A 03 7583 397
##T SEWING SUPPLIES
SEWING SUPPLIES

@@
Clotilde Inc. 
Catalog $2.50 
from:

Clotilde Inc.
1909 SW First Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33315
305-761-8655
@@

##A 03 7752 398
##T SEWING SUPPLIES
SEWING SUPPLIES

@@
Sewing Emporium
Catalog $1.50 
from:

Sewing Emporium
1079 3rd Avenue
Chula Vista, CA 92010
619-420-3490
619-420-4002
@@

##A 03 133869 401
##T Synthetic Dyes for Natural Fibers
Synthetic Dyes for Natural Fibers

@@

An easy, step-by-step book for dyeing, explaining dye procedures with tables and formulas for using Cibacron, Procion, and acid dyes. Good coverage of color theory, color mixing, and the chemistry of fiber and dye. Supplier list and glossary of terms. Easy to read and follow. ItÕs the most exciting book IÕve seen for the serious fiber artist.                                    


                                                         Ñ Rhoda London
@@

##A 03 134064 402
##T Synthetic Dyes for Natural Fibers
Synthetic Dyes for Natural Fibers

@@
Linda Knutson
1986; 168 pp.
ISBN 0934026238
$12 ($14.50 postpaid)
from:

Interweave Press
306 North Washington Ave.
Loveland, CO 80537
@@

##A 03 44517 404
##T The Weaving, Spinning, and Dyeing Book
The Weaving, Spinning, and Dyeing Book

@@

For the beginning weaver, this is a meaty, provocative, well-formatted introduction to a variety of weaving techniques Ñ card, inkle, backstrap, Navajo Ñ all covered well enough to get you started and keep you inspired with endless project ideas.  Its sections on buying a floor loom, synthetic acid dyeing, and suppliers are superb.                                

                                                           Ñ Diana Sloat
@@

##A 03 46015 405
##T The Weaving, Spinning, and Dyeing Book
The Weaving, Spinning, and Dyeing Book

@@
Rachel Brown
1978; 366 p.
ISBN 0394733835
$18.95 ($19.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 04 3477 5
##T Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

@@
Of all the books written on nutrition, I still find this the most interesting. Dr. Price was a practicing dentist who noticed the marked decline in his young patientsÕ health and dental condition. In 1930, he began a 150,000-mile trek around the globe seeking out healthy primitive peoples whose teeth (and health) were excellent. In his book 14 tribal diets are completely examined, diets which give their people almost perfect dental and physical health.

Wonderfully, each diet is radically different from the other. What is consistent is not the foods, their proportion or kind, but the fact that each of the diets is completely indigenous and totally derived from a direct relationship to the personÕs environment.
@@

##A 04 220001 9
##T Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

@@
Weston A. Price, D. D. S.
1945, 1970; 526 pp.
ISBN 0916764001
$27.50 ($29.50 postpaid)
from:

Cancer Book House
Cancer Control Society
2043 North Berendo Street
Los Angeles, CA 90027
213-663-7801
@@

##A 04 221187 11
##T Prevention
Prevention

@@
They put it so homely, have been at it so long (40 years), and have been right so often, that you canÕt ignore Prevention when talking about nutrition and health, even though they seem to recycle the same stories over and over again. (ÒSELENIUM: A Critical MineralÓ.)

YouÕll have to wade through a tide of vitamin supplement ads to
get to the interesting news, but in recent years, as they explore new medical territory such as diet and the immune system, itÕs worth the trip.

                                                            Ñ Kevin Kelly


Ù Medical Self-Care Magazine
@@

##A 04 221548 12
##T Prevention
Prevention

@@
Robert Rodale, Editor
ISSN 00328006
$13.97/year
(12 issues)
from:

Prevention
33 East Minor Street
Emmaus, PA 18098
@@

##A 04 222415 14
##T Nutrition in Clinical Practice
Nutrition in Clinical Practice

@@

All around, the most levelheaded scientific treatment of nutrition  Ña field rife with unbalanced theories. Cautious, yet open minded. A good clear summary for students.             

                                                                  Ñ Michael Lerner
@@

##A 04 22253 15
##T Nutrition in Clinical Practice
Nutrition in Clinical Practice

@@
Marion Nestle, Ph.D.
1985; 328 pp.
ISBN 0930010116
$16.95 ($18.55 postpaid)
from:

Jones Medical Publications
355 Los Cerros Drive
Greenbrae, CA 94904
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##A 04 223304 17
##T Nutrition Action
Nutrition Action

@@
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a pro-consumer lobbying group, publishes some of the most useful consumer materials on the subject of food and nutrition. Ask them for a sample copy of their newsletter, Nutrition Action, and their catalog of books and computer programs. My own personal favorite is their Nutrition Scoreboard ($3.95), a kitchen wall poster which lists Òhealth scoresÓ for dozens of different kinds of foods. This is the expert to consult when making out your shopping list. If you are committed to healthy eating, you should consider becoming a member of CSPI.                                  

                                                        Ñ Tom Ferguson, MD
@@

##A 04 223710 18
##T Nutrition Action
Nutrition Action

@@
Healthletter
Michael Jacobson, Editor
ISSN 01995510
$14.95/year
(10 issues);
Catalog free
from:

Center for Science in the Public Interest
1501 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
202-332-9110
@@

##A 04 266786 21
##T Nutritive Value of Foods
Nutritive Value of Foods

@@

Since natural food does not come with a list of ingredients on the label, the Department of Agriculture has kindly prepared this authoritative analysis of common foods. If youÕre serious about nutrition, itÕs a buy.                                   

                                                               Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 04 267168 22
##T Nutritive Value of Foods
Nutritive Value of Foods

@@
Susan E. Gebhardt and Ruth H. Matthews
1985; 72 pp.
$2.75 postpaid 
from:

Superintendent of Documents
U.S. Government Printing Office
Washington, DC 20402

Stock #001-000-04457-5
@@

##A 04 205678 24
##T Joy of Cooking
Joy of Cooking

@@

You really need only one book in the kitchen. This book. Along with everything (!!) else, it is the only cookbook with two handy red ribbons to mark your place. DonÕt bother with the paperback editions. They will not survive kitchen duress. 
                                                                 
                                                              Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 04 206070 25
##T Joy of Cooking
Joy of Cooking

@@
Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker
1931, 1979; 930 pp.
ISBN 0026045702
$16.95 postpaid 
from:

Macmillan Publishing Co.
Order Department
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
@@

##A 04 208630 29
##T Easy Basics for Good Cooking
Easy Basics for Good Cooking

@@

Joy of Cooking and Fannie Farmer are my two favorite references for creating in the kitchen, but if I didnÕt already know what is so clearly taught in Easy Basics, they might easily be too advanced. The illustrations and instructions in this book are so clear and logical I would use them to teach a child. 
                                                             
                                                        Ñ Evelyn Eldridge-Diaz
@@

##A 04 208644 30
##T Easy Basics for Good Cooking
Easy Basics for Good Cooking

@@
Sunset Editors
1982; 192 pp.
ISBN 0376020938
$7.95 ($9.70 postpaid)
from:

Lane Publishing Company
Attn: Mail Order Dept.
80 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025-3691
@@

##A 04 207384 32
##T The New LaurelÕs Kitchen
The New LaurelÕs Kitchen

@@
There are a lot of vegetarian cookbooks around. The big difference here, the one which makes this book superior, is that The New LaurelÕs Kitchen has a giant section on nutrition. There are complete descriptions of the different food components, analyses of foods, calorie-computation tables, and a good bibliography. You can cook a recipe from the front of the book, then refer to the back and see how much of which minerals, carbohydrates, etc., you gave your family that day. Tasty recipes, too.
                                                            
                                                         Ñ Evelyn Eldridge-Diaz
@@

##A 04 207722 33
##T The New LaurelÕs Kitchen
The New LaurelÕs Kitchen

@@
Laurel Robertson, Carol Flinders 
and Brian Ruppenthal
1986; 512 pp.
ISBN 089815166X
$15.95 ($16.95 postpaid)
from:

Ten Speed Press
P. O. Box 7123
Berkeley, CA 94707
@@

##A 04 267524 36
##T On Food and Cooking
On Food and Cooking

@@

ItÕs an incredible task to write an encyclopedia, but Harold
McGee carries it off.  He has written a summary of what the world knows (well, what the West knows; he only had 684 pages) about the science of food.  Each kind of food  Ñ plant and animal  Ñ  is discussed, its history, and all the ways of cooking and brewing that we use.  McGee makes complexities comprehensible:  he uses technical terms and he explains them simply and lightly.  He makes accessible the knowledge about food that our culture has gained in the last several millennia.  Cooks cannot stop reading this book; they mutter, red-eyed, ÒJust one more page!Ó 
                                                                         
                                                                    Ñ Birrell Walsh
@@

##A 04 267833 37
##T On Food and Cooking
On Food and Cooking

@@
(The Science and Lore of the Kitchen)
Harold McGee
1984; 684 pp.
ISBN 0684181320
$29.95 postpaid 
from:

Macmillan Publishing Co.
Order Dept.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
@@

##A 04 268866 40
##T Unmentionable Cuisine
Unmentionable Cuisine

@@
This engrossing book of lore and recipes makes a great contribution to eco-cuisine which ainÕt of the vegetarian persuasion.  Unmentionable Cuisine gives the how and why of eating all the icky parts of conventional livestock, then goes on to suggest that eating surplus dogs, cats, starlings, and giant African snails could be a way for Americans to have protein while muddling towards frugality. I say Americans, because other cultures have been eating weird things for millennia, and with gusto. In fact, most of the recipes Calvin Schwabe presents are traditional, some of them dating way back into EuropeÕs pagan past, when communicants drank real blood.  Eaters of road kills, pet haters, eco-hunters, and truly serious cooks should find this book indispensible. It suggests savory ways to get your goat (or eel
@@

##A 04 269487 42
##T Unmentionable Cuisine
Unmentionable Cuisine

@@
Calvin W. Schwabe
1987; 423 pp.
ISBN 0813911621
$14.95 ($16.95 postpaid)
from:

University Press of Virginia
Order Dept.
P. O. Box 3608
University Station
Charlottesville, VA 22903
@@

##A 04 200586 44
##T Food Finds
Food Finds

@@
ThereÕs one in every neck of the woodsÑa persistent local kitchen that continues to cook up the best food that good ingredients will allow. Because of notoriety or entrepreneurship, some of these finicky cooks sell their vittles by mailÑmostly the kinds that ship well: like regional sauces, home-baked goods, cheeses, and preserves. What youÕll get in your mailbox is premium food mindfully prepared in the Òold-fashionedÓ way of small batches begun with fresh ingredients. The manna comes at premium prices 
(no free lunches) from family businesses with primarily rural addresses (there are a few monks, too). This catalog has their stories, addresses, and mail order prices. 

                                                                         Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 04 200954 45
##T Food Finds
Food Finds

@@
Allison and Margaret Engel
Revised Edition1988; 224 pp.
ISBN 006091114X
$12.95 ($14.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper and Row
Trade Dept.
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
@@

##A 04 229563 47
##T How to Be Your Own Butcher
How to Be Your Own Butcher

@@
A fact-packed book written by fourth-and fifth-generation
professional butchers. Emphasizes independence, health, and saving money as reasons for learning home butchering. Describes the tools youÕll need and how to choose and care for them. Tells how and where to obtain animals. Great advice on how to select animals, transport carcasses, butcher the beasties, and wrap and store the cuts of meat. Lamb, chicken, beef, veal, pork, game birds and variety meats are all covered in detail. Plenty of step-by-step illustrations to inspire confidence and guarantee success. For the price of a good steak, you really can become your own butcher.
                                                                  
                                                             Ñ Mary Bowling

Ù The Razor Edge Book of Sharpening
@@

##A 04 229813 48
##T How to Be Your Own Butcher
How to Be Your Own Butcher

@@
Stanley, Leon and Evan Lobel
1983; 128 pp.
ISBN 0399507558
$9.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Putnam Publishing
Special Sales
200 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
@@

##A 04 202708 52
##T Williams-Sonoma Catalog for Cooks
Williams-Sonoma Catalog for Cooks

@@
A comprehensive selection of the best cooking equipment, from ovenware and serving pieces and stoves to non-skid flooring. Many of their handsomest items they import directly. Like most good tools, these are pricey. TheyÕre worth it in the long run however, for the savings in anguish and scorched dishes.

Local comparison shopping for some of these things might save you a little money, but if youÕre outfitting a kitchen by mail, this is the place to begin. 

                                                                   Ñ Stephanie Mills
@@

##A 04 202817 53
##T Williams-Sonoma Catalog for Cooks
Williams-Sonoma Catalog for Cooks

@@
Catalog free 
from:

Williams-Sonoma
Mail Order Dept.
P. O. Box 7456
San Francisco, CA  94120-7456
415-421-4242
@@

##A 04 201500 55
##T JessicaÕs Biscuit Cookbook Catalog
JessicaÕs Biscuit Cookbook Catalog

@@

An excellent selection of cookbooks (over 1,000). These include: ethnic, international, and regional cookbooks; locally published cookbooks; vegetarian and other special diet cookbooks; food commentary and history; professional cooking texts and references; wine books; restaurant guides. If you use cookbooks, youÕll love this catalog.                            

                                                             Ñ Walt Noiseux
@@

##A 04 201735 56
##T JessicaÕs Biscuit Cookbook Catalog
JessicaÕs Biscuit Cookbook Catalog

@@
Catalog free 
from:

JessicaÕs Biscuit
Box 301
Newtonville, MA 02160
800-225-4264 
800-322-4027(MA)
@@

##A 04 256917 59
##T Meat on the Table
Meat on the Table

@@

If youÕre a carnivore, you either hire someone (in effect) to do your killing for you, or you do it yourself. HereÕs how to do it yourselfÑ  equipment, technique, proceduresÑall served up in a chatty personal way by a famous hunter of small game.
                                                                              
                                                                        Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 04 257185 60
##T Meat on the Table
Meat on the Table

@@
Galen Geer
1985; 206 pp.
ISBN 0873643305
$16.95 ($19.95 postpaid)
from:

Paladin Press
P. O. Box 1307
Boulder, CO 80306
@@

##A 04 258927 62
##T Getting the Most From Your Game and Fish
Getting the Most From Your Game and Fish

@@

Be it for dinner, trophy, or pelt, this friendly book shows you how to treat your kill. The tone is non-macho and respectful of the deadÑa rarity in this sort of thing. The illustrations deserve special mention for effectiveness in showing the procedures, oogy parts and all.  (Vegetarians may gain a few converts.)
    
                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 04 259189 63
##T Getting the Most From Your Game and Fish
Getting the Most From Your Game and Fish

@@
Robert Candy
1978; 278 pp.
ISBN 091146901X
$12.95 ($14.95 postpaid)
from:

Backcountry Publications
P. O. Box 175
Woodstock, VT 05091
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##A 04 257988 67
##T Shooting
Shooting

@@

Just about everything you need to know about rifles, pistols, and shotguns is hereÑhow to choose and how to use. ThereÕs a bit about black powder arms and archery, too. While a bit short of the 
coverÕs promise of Òhow to become an expert,Ó the book is a good overview with less of the authorÕs personal bias than in many other books; youÕre taught enough to make your own decisions. 
                                                                                
                                                                    Ñ J. Baldwin



Ù Survival Guns
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##A 04 258239 68
##T Shooting
Shooting

@@
Edward A. Matunas
1986; 438 pp.
ISBN 0943822637
$31.95 ($34.95 postpaid)
from:

Stackpole Books
P. O. Box 1831
Harrisburg, PA 17105
@@

##A 04 259926 70
##T The Beginning Bowhunter
The Beginning Bowhunter

@@

The difference between firearms and bow-and-arrow is a bit like the difference between a backhoe and a shovel; doing it by hand may be more work, but the direct contact leads to a more intimate knowledge of the business at hand. A bowhunter must truly understand the habits of the intended quarry (in this case deer) to get close enough to shoot. This book is a personal instruction, rather like having the author at your side as you learn.       
                                                                             
                                                                    Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 04 260189 71
##T The Beginning Bowhunter
The Beginning Bowhunter

@@
Tony Kinton
1985; 122 pp.
ISBN 0934802211
$9.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Stackpole Books
P. O. Box 1831
Harrisburg, PA 17105
@@

##A 04 261059 73
##T Beeman Precision Airguns
Beeman Precision Airguns


@@

Quiet, extraordinarily accurate, cheap to feed, and legal almost anywhere, modern adult airguns are a worthy substitute for common Ò.22Ó firearms. Beeman has been the leading source of airguns for a long time now, and this catalog/guide is a good example why. 

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 04 261182 74
##T Beeman Precision Airguns
Beeman Precision Airguns


@@
Catalog free 
from:

Beeman Precision Arms, Inc.
3440-WER Airway Drive
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
707-578-7900
@@

##A 04 14008 78
##T Fly-FishermanÕs Primer
Fly-FishermanÕs Primer

@@
The Fly-FishermanÕs Primer is an excellent basic guide to the gentle art of fly fishing. All the most important topics are covered in the text, including equipment, knots, casting, presentation, insect life, nymphing and wading. A beginning fly fisherman could pick up this book, spend a few evenings with it, then head out to the river and do fairly well. (Of course, that depends on the river. A knowledgeable friend and a little experience help, too.)

The book also contains knowledge useful to more than advanced fly fishermen. Plenty of competent fly fishermen cannot tie a decent nail knot or distinguish a may fly from a caddis fly. The
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##A 04 14465 80
##T Fly-FishermanÕs Primer
Fly-FishermanÕs Primer

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Paul N. Fling and Donald L. Puterbaugh
1985; 160 pp.
ISBN 0806978902
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

Sterling Publishing Co.
2 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016
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##A 04 15403 83
##T Trout
Trout

@@
Above all, this is the one book to buy. It is a window on the entire subject for $125Ñjust about what a top river guide charges for the day. However, no guide will get you through the hard timesÑthe long winter months of the off-seasonÑthe way this book will. If there is a college course on fly fishing somewhere, this is the text, for beginners and experts. Unlike a text, each chapter sparkles with fishing tales.

The two volumes of Trout, in an attractive slip case, are divided into six separate books or subjects (1745 pages): The Evolution of Fly-Fishing; American Species of Trout and Grayling; Physiology, Habitat, and Behavior; The Tools of the Trade; Casting, Wading and Other Skills; Trout Strategies, Techniques, and Tactics. Color
@@

##A 04 16021 85
##T Trout
Trout

@@
Ernest Schwiebert
1984; 1800 pp.  (2 Vol.)
ISBN 0525242694
$125 postpaid 
from:

E. P. Dutton/Viking Penguin Books
Box 120 
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275 
201-387-0600(NJ)
@@

##A 04 17044 88
##T Dan BaileyÕs Fly Shop
Dan BaileyÕs Fly Shop


@@

Reading Dan BaileyÕs Fly Shop mail order catalog during the off-season is sweet torture for anglers of the fly fishing persuasion. The color photographs of fly patterns, rods, reels, fly boxes, and tying supplies can easily intoxicate fly fishermen caught in these painful winter doldrums.

BaileyÕs catalog not only offers a good selection of pre-tied dry flies, wet flies, nymphs, and streamers but all the necessary fly-tying accessories and supplies. 
                                                        
                                                          - Danielle Toussaint
@@

##A 04 17464 89
##T Dan BaileyÕs Fly Shop
Dan BaileyÕs Fly Shop


@@
Catalog free 
from:

Dan BaileyÕs Fly Shop
P. O. Box 1019 
Livingston, MT 59047
406-222-1673
@@

##A 04 17358 91
##T CabelaÕs
CabelaÕs

@@

CabelaÕs doesnÕt have quite the variety of Dan BaileyÕs Fly Shop 
(see review), but the prices are generally lower.
                                                        
                                                         - Danielle Toussaint
@@

##A 04 17681 92
##T CabelaÕs
CabelaÕs

@@
Catalog free 
from:

CabelaÕs
812 13th Avenue
Sidney, NE 69160
800-237-4444
@@

##A 04 84377 94
##T The Compleat Angler
The Compleat Angler

@@

This angling classic, originally published in 1654, is the first serious written work about fishing.
                                                            
                                                                 Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 04 239407 95
##T The Compleat Angler
The Compleat Angler

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The Compleat Angler
Izaak Walton. Edited by Bryan Loughrey
1654, 1985; 160 pp.
ISBN 0140590072
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275; 201-387-0600(NJ)

Audio version also available; see card 4 for access info and to hear sound clip.
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##A 04 57587 97
##T The Compleat Angler
The Compleat Angler

@@
The Compleat Angler Tape Version
Nelson Runger, Narrator
6 cassettes/7.5 hours $37.95; 30-day rental $12.50
from:

Recorded Books
Box 409
Charlotte Hall  MD  20622
800-638-1304

Please call for detailed information regarding shipping information and charges.
@@

##A 04 24851 99
##T WILD EDIBLES INTRODUCTION
WILD EDIBLES INTRODUCTION

@@
GARDENING IS STACKING THE DECK against Nature. Foraging wild edibles is a confrontation with Nature in all its glorious fickleness. Sometimes MinerÕs Lettuce just canÕt be found. Was it deer? A drought? Overharvested last year? A new drainage drying the soil? Insects? Foraging, like hunting, attunes the body, mind, and spirit to life cycles and seasonal change. ItÕs still the most direct-connect to plant powers.

Foraging is a skill. How much can you harvest without subverting next yearÕs supply? Is the fruit ripe enough? Is the root large enough? Is it endangered like American ginseng? Is it a poisonous look-alike?                                         
                  
                                                         Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 04 23949 100
##T The Mushroom Feast
The Mushroom Feast

@@

I had to choose one in a world of mouth-watering mushroom books. This is it . . . the apex of fungal finesse . . . vraiment francaise.
                                                                
                                                             Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 04 24159 101
##T The Mushroom Feast
The Mushroom Feast

@@
Jane Grigson
1975, 1983; 305 pp.
ISBN 0140462732
$5.95 ($6.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120
Beregenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275; 201-387-0600(NJ)
@@

##A 04 26038 104
##T Field Guide to North American Edible Wild Plants
Field Guide to North American Edible Wild Plants

@@

The best introduction:  great photos, clear descriptions of each plantÕs favorite spot, range maps, seasonal coverage, harvesting advice, recipes, and a list of poisonous look-alikes for each plant. YouÕll love their elderberry blossoms deep fried in batter or their sassafras jelly.                                     

                                                              Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 04 26288 105
##T Field Guide to North American Edible Wild Plants
Field Guide to North American Edible Wild Plants

@@
Thomas S. Elias and Peter A. Dykeman
1982; 286 pp.
OUT OF PRINT
from:

Van Nostrand Books
7625 Empire Drive
Florence, KY 41042
@@

##A 04 27262 109
##T FORAGING-REGIONAL GUIDES
FORAGING-REGIONAL GUIDES

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Edible Garden Weeds of Canada and Edible Wild Fruits and Nuts of Canada are the most elegant and informative books on wild edibles. Edible Native Plants of the Rocky Mountains is the best on the Rockies and some more southern species.  PetersonÕs has a cozy appendixÑedibles are clustered by old fields, waste grounds, swamps, thickets, still water, and (like Japanese haiku) by season. Identification remains difficult. Roots digs the deepest into specialty foraging: good drawings, botany, Indian uses, medicinal uses, harvesting, drying, and preparing of roots, tubers, corms, and rhizomes.              

                                                                  Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 04 27573 110
##T FORAGING-REGIONAL GUIDES
FORAGING-REGIONAL GUIDES

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Edible Garden Weeds of Canada
Adam F. Szczawinski and Nancy Turner
1978; 184 pp.
$12.95  postpaid 
from:

University of Chicago Press
11030 South Langley 
Chicago, IL 60628
@@

##A 04 27721 111
##T FORAGING-REGIONAL GUIDES
FORAGING-REGIONAL GUIDES

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Edible Wild Fruits and Nuts of Canada
Adam F. Szczawinski and Nancy Turner
1979; 212 pp.
$12.95  postpaid 
from:

University of Chicago Press
11030 South Langley 
Chicago, IL 60628
@@

##A 04 28049 112
##T FORAGING-REGIONAL GUIDES
FORAGING-REGIONAL GUIDES

@@
Edible Native Plants of the Rocky Mountains
H. D. Harrington
1974; 292 pp.
ISBN 0826303439
$10.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

University of New Mexico Press
Albuquerque, NM 87131
505-277-4810
@@

##A 04 29387 113
##T FORAGING-REGIONAL GUIDES
FORAGING-REGIONAL GUIDES

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A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants  
Lee Allen Peterson
1978; 330 pp.
ISBN 039531870X
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Company
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
@@

##A 04 28999 114
##T FORAGING-REGIONAL GUIDES
FORAGING-REGIONAL GUIDES

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Roots (An Underground Botany and ForagerÕs Guide) 
Douglas B. Elliott
1976; 128 pp.
ISBN 0856991325
$7.95 ($9.70 postpaid)
from:

The Chatham Press
PO Box A
Greenwich, CT 06870
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##A 04 106879 120
##T FOODS BY MAIL INTRODUCTION 
FOODS BY MAIL INTRODUCTION 

@@
THEREÕS BEEN A world of change in co-ops and small distributors since we last gathered together this information in 1981. Small companies have gotten bigger; big companies have grown chillier. And a lot of companies have disappeared. Far fewer are willing to do mail-order business with individuals or food-buying clubs. But those who have survived this financial winnowing are still friendly, cheerful, and know each other, and their customers, well.                          
                                                                  
                                                                 Ñ Sallie Tisdale
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##A 04 79836 121
##T The Simpler Life Food Reserves
The Simpler Life Food Reserves

@@

Specializes in emergency food programs ranging from six days to two years, including water storage capability of all sizes. Uses freeze-dried, pouch foods, and others. Offers an earthquake-preparedness kit complete with optional stove, cookbooks, menu plans. No minimum order.                            
                                                                -Sallie Tisdale
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##A 04 79997 122
##T The Simpler Life Food Reserves
The Simpler Life Food Reserves

@@
Catalog free 
from:

Arrowhead Mills
P. O. Box 2059 
Hereford, TX 79045
806-364-0730
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##A 04 82693 123
##T Walnut Acres
Walnut Acres


@@

Walnut Acres is practically a village unto itself, with its own farm, bakery, mill, cannery, and a small processing plant for condiments and dressings. Most of the produce and grains grown at the farm are organic. Also specialty items like jams and small housewares. Will ship anywhere by UPS or common carrier with no minimum order.                                       

                                                            -Sallie Tisdale
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##A 04 83197 124
##T Walnut Acres
Walnut Acres


@@
Catalog free 
from:

Walnut Acres
Penns Creek, PA 17862
717-837-0601
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##A 04 83732 127
##T Mountain Ark Trading Company
Mountain Ark Trading Company

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Lots of the staple macrobiotic foodsÑwhole grains, sea vegetables, and soy productsÑplus other natural foods. The miso selection includes 28 varieties! You have no idea how plump, well-formed, and tasty brown rice can be until youÕve tried Chico SanÕs Macrobiotic Quality Short Grain Brown Rice. Really, try some side by side with the typical food co-op variety. The catalog is beautiful and educational; mail order service is quick and accurate.                 
 
                                                              Ñ Jeffrey Bonar
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##A 04 84049 128
##T Mountain Ark Trading Company
Mountain Ark Trading Company

@@
Catalog $1 
from:

Mountain Ark Trading Co.
120 South East Street
Fayetteville, AR 72701
800-643-8909
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##A 04 80783 130
##T Coffee Bean International
Coffee Bean International

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The owner, Jeff Ferguson, travels to Latin America several times a year and takes along an organic farm certifier annually, to guarantee the integrity of his line of organic coffees. He does all his own roasting and packs in vacuum bags. Also offers coffee from China, East Timor, and Jamaica; a large selection of black and green teas, including several exotics; herbs, spices, and candies. One hundred and fifty-seven varieties of coffee total. Guarantees same day roast and ship.              
                                                              
                                                               -Sallie Tisdale
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##A 04 81080 131
##T Coffee Bean International
Coffee Bean International

@@
Catalog free  
from:

Coffee Bean International
2181 NW Nicolai 
Portland, OR 97210
503-227-4490
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##A 04 81772 132
##T Ozark Cooperative Warehouse
Ozark Cooperative Warehouse

@@

A large, consumer-owned warehouse, doing about three quarters of its business with private food-buying clubs. Minimum order varies depending on location in its 8-state region of the mid-south. Over 1,000 products with an emphasis on organic products and small, local growers. Also staples, teas and coffees, and herbs. Happy to make referrals and answer questions, too.

                                                          Ñ Sallie Tisdale
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##A 04 82019 133
##T Ozark Cooperative Warehouse
Ozark Cooperative Warehouse

@@
Catalog $4.78 
from:

Ozark Cooperative Warehouse
P. O. Box 30
Fayetteville, AR 72702
501-521-COOP
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##A 04 76216 137
##T CheesemakerÕs Journal
CheesemakerÕs Journal

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Cheesemaking, like home brewing, seems eminently suitable to amateurs. Both are really small-time bacteria farming. A knack for livestock, or something similar, might help because you raise and breed whole populations of little beasties, keeping them fed and sheltered in your kitchen. 

CheesemakersÕ Journal is an encouraging bimonthly with just the right mix of how-to tips, recipe swaps, and new improvements in the art.  

                                                              Ñ Kevin Kelly 
                                                    
Ù Small Stock
@@

##A 04 76733 138
##T CheesemakerÕs Journal
CheesemakerÕs Journal

@@
Robert Carroll, Editor
$12/year 
(6 issues) from:

New England Cheesemaking Supply Company
P. O. Box 85
Ashfield, MA 01330
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##A 04 77019 140
##T Cheesemaking Made Easy
Cheesemaking Made Easy

@@

Cheesemaking Made Easy is the book to start with. Given an abundant supply of milk you can roll out hard, soft, salty, moldy, quick, or old cheeses.

                                                            Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 04 77217 141
##T Cheesemaking Made Easy
Cheesemaking Made Easy

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Ricki and Robert Carroll
1982; 143 pp.
ISBN 0882662677
$6.95 ($8.45 postpaid)
from:

New England Cheesemaking Supply Company
P. O. Box 85
Ashfield, MA 01330
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##A 04 266460 144
##T Home Dairying
Home Dairying

@@

With well-aged confidence Home Dairying tells how to produce recognizable cheeses as well as their next of kin: cream, yogurt, and butter.                                   

                                                         Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 04 269842 145
##T Home Dairying
Home Dairying

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Katie Thear
1983; 96 pp.
ISBN 0713438789
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

New England Cheesemaking Supply Company
P. O. Box 85
Ashfield, MA 01330
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##A 04 270848 148
##T Goat Cheese
Goat Cheese

@@

Goat Cheese is the whole story on small-scale goat cheese brewing written by the Nuns of the Benedictine Monastery of Mont-Laurier, France.
                                                                  
                                                            Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 04 271992 149
##T Goat Cheese
Goat Cheese

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(Small-Scale Production)
The Mont-Laurier Benedictine Nuns
1983; 95 pp.
ISBN 0960740414
$7.95 ($8.45 postpaid)
from:

New England Cheesemaking Supply Company
P. O. Box 85
Ashfield, MA 01330
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##A 04 6913 152
##T New England Cheesemaking Supply Company
New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

@@

The complete and almost sole source for amateur cheesemaking information and tools is New England Cheesemaking Supply Company.  Molds, rennet paste, cultured bacteriaÑanything you need is stocked.                                       

                                                        Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 04 70210 153
##T New England Cheesemaking Supply Company
New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

@@
Catalog $1 
from:

New England Cheesemaking Supply Company
P. O. Box 85
Ashfield, MA 01330
413-628-3808
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##A 04 107889 156
##T BEER AND WINEMAKING INTRODUCTION 
BEER AND WINEMAKING INTRODUCTION 


@@

WHERE A DECADE AGO there were perhaps four brewing conglomerates and a double handful of major wineries in New York and California, there are now over 50 microbreweries from coast to coast and commercial wineries in over 40 states. The making of fermented beverages is as old as culture itself and has roots on all continents in all latitudes, with adaptation for local ingredients and climate. Home beer and winemaking can be a bioregional event at a gut level and a reward for all your senses.
                                                         
                                                                  Ñ Don Ryan
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##A 04 108961 157
##T The Complete Joy of Home Brewing
The Complete Joy of Home Brewing

@@
The joy comes through indeed in this very thorough book by the editor of Zymurgy, and president of the American Homebrewers Association. The bookÕs logic is quite clever: after an engaging history lesson the beginner is run through a simple recipe and instructions for making five gallons of beer of rewarding quality. There follow chapters of greater depth on processes and ingredients, then a cycle through a more demanding recipe where the brewer can use more complicated techniques and can exercise more choice over ingredients. That is followed by descriptions of the chemistry of malt, yeast, hops, and water, and of techniques and theory so that brewers can create their own recipes. Then a cycle through the process once again.  There are 13 appendices, from a glossary to a treatise on siphoning, but no index.                                
                                                                  Ñ Don Ryan
@@

##A 04 109184 158
##T The Complete Joy of Home Brewing
The Complete Joy of Home Brewing

@@
Charlie Papazian
1984; 331 pp.
ISBN 0380883694
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Avon Books
P. O. Box 767
Dresden, TN 38225
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##A 04 112080 160
##T American Brewer
American Brewer

@@

This quarterly is both stylish and competent, with many familiar brewer/writers as regular contributors, such as Bill Moore, author of the classy primer, Home Beermaking.                 

                                                                 Ñ Don Ryan
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##A 04 112283 161
##T American Brewer
American Brewer

@@
Scott Schoepp, Editor
ISSN 08877416
$13.50/year 
(4 issues)Sample issue $3
from:

American Brewer
Box 510
Hayward, CA 94541
415-538-9500
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##A 04 113032 164
##T Zymurgy
Zymurgy

@@

Zymurgy, the journal of the American Homebrewers Association, offers American Brewer (see separate review) strong competition. A slightly thicker magazine, Zymurgy carries lots of political and convention news and seems, because of relative maturity, to be able to reach higher into the next level of professional beermaking for ideas on techniques and ingredients. Zymurgy also features stories by and about recognized brew experts, such as Byron Burch, author of the classic Quality Brewing, who was the supplier of ingredients and recipes for my first beers a dozen years ago.                                             

                                                               Ñ Don Ryan
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##A 04 113161 165
##T Zymurgy
Zymurgy

@@
Charlie Papazian, Editor-in-Chief
ISSN 01965921
$21/year 
(5 issues) 
from:

American Homebrew Association
P. O. Box 287
Boulder, CO 80306-0287
303-447-0816
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##A 04 143850 167
##T BEER AND WINE :  MAIL ORDER SUPPLIERS
BEER AND WINE :  MAIL ORDER SUPPLIERS

@@

HereÕs a selection of mail order suppliers of beer and wine-making
equipment.  For local sources check your Yellow Pages.

                                                            Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 04 136590 168
##T BEER AND WINE :  MAIL ORDER SUPPLIERS
BEER AND WINE :  MAIL ORDER SUPPLIERS

@@
Bacchus and Barleycorn
Catalog free 
from:

Bacchus and Barleycorn
6110 Johnson Drive 
Mission, KS 66202
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##A 04 136767 169
##T BEER AND WINE :  MAIL ORDER SUPPLIERS
BEER AND WINE :  MAIL ORDER SUPPLIERS

@@
Cape Cod Brewers
Catalog free 
from:

Cape Cod Brewers
P. O. Box 1139
South Chatham, MA 02659
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##A 04 137811 170
##T BEER AND WINE :  MAIL ORDER SUPPLIERS
BEER AND WINE :  MAIL ORDER SUPPLIERS

@@
The Cellar
Catalog free 
from:

The Cellar Home Brew Supplies
P. O. Box 33525
Attn: AW
Seattle, WA 98133
206-365-7660
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##A 04 211287 171
##T BEER AND WINE :  MAIL ORDER SUPPLIERS
BEER AND WINE :  MAIL ORDER SUPPLIERS

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Great Fermentations
Catalog free 
from:

Great Fermentations
87 Larkspur Street
San Rafael, CA 94901
800-542-2520; 
415-459-2520 (CA)
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##A 04 251334 172
##T BEER AND WINE :  MAIL ORDER SUPPLIERS
BEER AND WINE :  MAIL ORDER SUPPLIERS

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WilliamÕs Brewing
Catalog free 
from:

WilliamÕs Brewing
P. O. Box 2195
San Leandro, CA 94577
415-895-2739
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##A 04 109909 176
##T Modern Winemaking
Modern Winemaking

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Modern Winemaking fills the need for a book that anticipates the first-time winemakersÕ wish to evaluate deficiencies in their first bottling and to approach subsequent efforts with efficiency and sophistication. This book is neither dry nor pretentious. The author is the happy combination of a research chemist, commercial vintner and vineyardist, teacher, and engaging writer. The amateur winemaker could do no better except, perhaps, for From Vines to Wines (next review).                   
                                                              
                                                                Ñ Don Ryan
@@

##A 04 110087 177
##T Modern Winemaking
Modern Winemaking

@@
Philip Jackisch
1985; 289 pp.
ISBN 0801414555
$25 ($26 postpaid)
from:

Cornell University Press
124 RobertÕs Place
Ithaca, NY 14850
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##A 04 110975 180
##T From Vines to Wines
From Vines to Wines


@@

This book is so satisfyingly inclusive it could almost have gone in the Whole Systems section of this catalog. Jeff Cox, an editor at Organic Gardening for about 15 years, may be the John McPhee of winemaking. He talks about wine by detailing the influences on it, then dissects those influences until he has described a huge circle of interrelatedness. The chapters on selecting the site for your vineyard are a pure, sweet ecology lesson. This book is a little thinner than JackischÕsÑwith greater scopeÑso it lacks a tiny bit of the depth, but itÕs soooo good. Get Õem both.
 
                                                                       Ñ Don Ryan

Ù Organic Gardening
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##A 04 111145 181
##T From Vines to Wines
From Vines to Wines


@@
(The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Growing Grapes in Your Backyard and Making Your Own Wine)
Jeff Cox
1985; 253 pp.
ISBN 0060154276
$18.45 ($20.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
@@

##A 04 114107 184
##T MAKING FRUIT WINE OR BEER AT HOME
MAKING FRUIT WINE OR BEER AT HOME

@@

Two video cassettes, The Way to Make Wine From Fruit and The Way to Make Beer, taped in a home kitchen, show just how simple it can be to make fruit wine or beer at home, using pots, measuring cups, and strainers you probably already have. No specific recipes, youÕll still need one of the books or magazines reviewed in the Brewing section. Rent one from your retailer or have your club buy the pair.                                                            

                                                             Ñ Don Ryan


Ù Brewing
@@

##A 04 114268 185
##T MAKING FRUIT WINE OR BEER AT HOME
MAKING FRUIT WINE OR BEER AT HOME

@@
The Way To Make Wine From Fruit  
Information free
Video $39.95  postpaid
from:

Great Fermentations
87 Larkspur Street
San Rafael, CA 94901
800-542-2520 
415-459-2520(CA)
@@

##A 04 144076 186
##T MAKING FRUIT WINE OR BEER AT HOME
MAKING FRUIT WINE OR BEER AT HOME

@@
The Way To Make Beer 
Information free 
Video $39.95  postpaid
from:

Great Fermentations
87 Larkspur Street
San Rafael, CA 94901
800-542-2520
415-459-2520(CA)
@@

##A 04 226442 188
##T Putting Food By
Putting Food By

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Even a tiny garden can grow more than one family can immediately use. Putting Food By is 500 pages of readable instructions on drying, freezing, canning, smoking and root cellar storage. The book is laid out with frequent topic headings and charts, making it handy for quick reference. Freezing is by far the easiest method, and feasible for nearly every type of food, even eggs. Sun drying is ideal for fruit, except where itÕs humid; so there are instructions for making an indoor box dryer. With nearly two-thirds of every food dollar going to processing and marketing, it is easy to see that home processing saves money. This book, with suggestions on freezing TV dinners from leftovers and storing pre-cooked meals, even shows how it can save time.               

                                                      Ñ Rosemary Menninger
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##A 04 226571 189
##T Putting Food By
Putting Food By

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Ruth Hertzberg,
Beatrice Vaughan
and Janet Greene
1984; 533 pp.

$7.95
($8.95 postpaid) from:

Viking Penguin Books
299 Murray Hill Pkwy.
East Rutherford, NJ 07073

or Whole Earth Access
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##A 04 227425 192
##T Garden WayÕs Guide to Food Drying
Garden WayÕs Guide to Food Drying

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Drying is a good way to preserve food if canning and freezing are not viable options. Here is the best overview of preserving food in this fashion. A plan is included for building your own electric dehydrator. Detailed instructions are given for drying many fruits, vegetables, meats, dairy products, grains, herbs, and blossoms 
(for potpourris and herbal teas) by sun or oven. Included are storage techniques, recipes, and other uses for the drying equipment such as bread raising and yogurt making.
                                                               
                                                          Ñ Evelyn Eldridge-Diaz
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##A 04 227639 193
##T Garden WayÕs Guide to Food Drying
Garden WayÕs Guide to Food Drying

@@
Phyllis Hobson
1980; 216 pp.
ISBN 0882661558
$7.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Garden Way Publishing
Storey Communications
Schoolhouse Road
Pownal, VT 05261
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##A 04 228554 196
##T FOOD DEHYDRATION
FOOD DEHYDRATION

@@

In addition to an excellent, somewhat funky little book, Dry ItÑ
YouÕll Like It! , a group called Living Foods Dehydrators offers a catalog of dehydrators and accessories.

                                                             Ñ Dick Fugett
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##A 04 228707 197
##T FOOD DEHYDRATION
FOOD DEHYDRATION

@@
Dry It  Ñ YouÕll Like It!
Gen MacManiman
Updated Edition 1983; 75 pp.
ISBN 0961199806
$4.95 postpaid 
from:

MacManiman, Inc.
3023 362nd SE
Fall City, WA 98024
206-222-5587
@@

##A 04 224181 198
##T FOOD DEHYDRATION
FOOD DEHYDRATION

@@
Living Foods Dehydrators
Catalog free
from:

Living Foods Dehydrators
3023 362nd SE
Fall City, WA 98024
206-222-5587
@@

##A 04 41325 202
##T Fit or Fat?
Fit or Fat?

@@

If you want muscle to replace your fat, exercise aerobically, eat low-fat foods, and read this book.
                                                        
                                                       ÑArt Kleiner
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##A 04 42392 203
##T Fit or Fat?
Fit or Fat?

@@

Covert Bailey
1978; 107 pp.
ISBN 0395271622
$5.95 ($6.95 postpaid)
from:
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803

Audio version also available; see card 4 for access info and to hear sound clip.
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##A 04 177004 205
##T Fit or Fat?
Fit or Fat?

@@
Fit or Fat? (cassette tape)
Covert Bailey
ISBN 0394298187
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD  21157
800-638-6460
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##A 04 237230 206
##T The Aerobics Program for Total Well-Being
The Aerobics Program for Total Well-Being

@@

Kenneth Cooper, the George Washington of the fitness movement, has probably had more positive impact on the lives of more Americans than any other living physician. This is his introduction to aerobic exercise, and it is a good one indeed.

Exercises covered include walking, running, swimming, biking, exercise biking, basketball, tennis, raquetball, badminton, and nearly any other form of activity you can think of. Cooper evaluates them all in terms of Òaerobics pointsÓ per hour, which you can use to estimate the aerobic value of virtually any athletic activity.  Thus unlike many exercise programs, you can pick your
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##A 04 237320 208
##T The Aerobics Program for Total Well-Being
The Aerobics Program for Total Well-Being

@@
Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper
1982; 320 pp.
ISBN 0553341510
$10.95 ($12.45 postpaid)
from:

Bantam Books
414 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
@@

##A 04 238440 211
##T Listen to Your Pain
Listen to Your Pain

@@
Every blessing has its price, and for the rewards of sport there are injuries. Whether you call them counterblessings, learning experiences, or just agony and frustration depends on your philosophical system. But when it gets down to physiology, all systems are similar, and so is our first questionÑwhatÕs wrong, and what can I do about it?

Listen to Your Pain explains basic body structure and general causes of injury. Where it excels is in the very practical, how-to-find-it sections. Each section has a label like ÒChin-up Pain,Ó 
ÒTennis Elbow,Ó or a generic ÒOuter Knee Pain, Slightly to the
Front.Ó After finding the problem, youÕre given an explanation, a 
do-it-yourself test to confirm the diagnosis, and finally
@@

##A 04 239056 213
##T Listen to Your Pain
Listen to Your Pain

@@
(The Active PersonÕs Guide to Understanding, Identifying, and Treating Pain and Injury)
Ben E. Benjamin, Ph.D. with Gale Borden M. D.
1984; 340 pp.
ISBN 014006687X
$10.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120
Begenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275 
201-387-0600(NJ)
@@

##A 04 236197 217
##T Stretching
Stretching

@@

A lot of athletesÑpro and amateurÑare getting into mixing 
ÒhardÓ sports (football, swimming, running) with ÒsoftÓ ones 
(yoga, stretching, TÕai Chi).  P.E. teacher Bob Anderson teaches stretching clinics for professional and college athletic teams. His straight-forward book is a fine introduction to combining tension exercises with relaxation exercises, as U.S. sales of over 400,000 attest. It includes special stretching routines for use before, during, and after running, swimming, cycling, football, tennis, basketball, etc. IÕve been doing his stretching routines before and after running. It makes quite a difference.
                                                            
                                                          Ñ Tom Ferguson, M.D.
@@

##A 04 236306 218
##T Stretching
Stretching

@@
Bob Anderson
1980; 192 pp.
ISBN 0394738748
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

Home Book Service
P. O. Box 650
Bolinas, CA 94924
@@

##A 04 241976 221
##T Getting Stronger
Getting Stronger

@@
Until recently, the beginning weightlifter had only a few unenthused manuals to assist in training. But now Bill Pearl, a four-time Mr. Universe, has come out with a book for the beginner and intermediate. It not only introduces weightlifting but goes on to give specific programs for strength training in 19 sports. From running, swimming, and cycling to tennis, skiing, and soccer, there are specific routines designed to increase strength and improve performance.
   
The book gives a core group of all the basic lifts with
illustrations and explanations, and for each sport thereÕs a specific series of exercises selected from the core group. The 
routines were developed with some impressively qualified
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##A 04 242327 223
##T Getting Stronger
Getting Stronger

@@
(Weight Training for Men and Women)
Bill Pearl and Gary T. Moran, 
Ph. D.
1986; 320 pp.
ISBN 0895864401
$12.95 ($14.45 postpaid)
from:

Home Book Service
P. O. Box 650
Bolinas, CA 94924
@@

##A 04 2091 225
##T The Book of Massage
The Book of Massage

@@

Better than medicine, a caring touch can heal and restore.
Learning how is mere good manners. There are several approaches, some from the East and some from the West (both illustrated well in this soothing book). All begin with a comfortable mat and hands pressing knowingly. Get the knowing from this excellent guide.

                                                               Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 04 33745 226
##T The Book of Massage
The Book of Massage

@@
(The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Eastern and Western Techniques)
Lucinda Lidell
1984; 192 pp.
ISBN 0671541390
$9.95 postpaid 
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 04 239868 229
##T Tai Chi  Ñ  Ten Minutes to Health
Tai Chi  Ñ  Ten Minutes to Health

@@

As the title promises, this book is less a philosophical tome to this taoist exercise than a handy manual designed to instruct the reader in step-by-step detail. The book employs 590 photographs and 295 diagrams in illustrating Tai ChiÕs 44 moves and positions  Ñ  enough for any beginner to quickly familiarize himself with Tai ChiÕs graceful calisthenics.

                                                                 ÑKen Conner
@@

##A 04 272924 230
##T Tai Chi  Ñ  Ten Minutes to Health
Tai Chi  Ñ  Ten Minutes to Health

@@
Chia Siew Pang and Goh Ewe Hock
1985; 131 pp.
ISBN 091636030X
$14.95 ($15.85 postpaid)
from:

CRCS Publications
P. O. Box 1460
Sebastopol, CA 95473
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##A 04 274616 232
##T DolanÕs Sports
DolanÕs Sports

@@

IÕve dealt with many of the martial arts mail order houses and this is the best IÕve seen. Wide range of equipment and books from many different arts. All the equipment IÕve ordered from them 
(they manufacture much of what they sell) has been sturdy, well made, and worth its price. ThereÕs some garbage, of course, but far less than the other sources IÕve seen. They have a wonderful and rare (for this field) 30-day no-questions-asked refund/exchange policy. 

                                                                 Ñ John Michael Greer
@@

##A 04 274838 233
##T DolanÕs Sports
DolanÕs Sports

@@
Catalog free 
from:

DolanÕs Sports
26 Highway 547
P. O. Box 26
Dept. 88-1
Farmingdale, NJ 07727
201-938-6656
@@

##A 04 235505 236
##T Martial Arts: The Spiritual Dimension
Martial Arts: The Spiritual Dimension

@@
Martial Arts: The Spiritual Dimension helped revive my love for the martial artsÑenough so that I resumed my Shaolin kung-fu  training again after a five year break. (I had studied kung-fu for seven years before.)

The special strength of this book lies in its clear explanations of the internalÑspiritual and psychologicalÑaspects that are at the core of serious training.   Peter Payne has a knack for lucidly explaining these essential concepts that are often difficult for a beginner (especially a Westerner) to understand.

Another big plus for the book is Mr. PayneÕs non-chauvinistic stance, i.e., nowhere does he proclaim that one system is better
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##A 04 6204 239
##T Martial Arts: The Spiritual Dimension
Martial Arts: The Spiritual Dimension

@@
Peter Payne
1981; 96 pp.
ISBN 0500810257
$10.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Thames & Hudson
500 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY  10110
800-233-4830
@@

##A 04 240730 243
##T GallowayÕs Book on Running
GallowayÕs Book on Running

@@
Back in the dark ages of runningÑtwelve years agoÑthe only way to learn was by making your own mistakes and then attempting to figure out what had gone wrong. Sooner or later the dedicated runner experienced everything from tendonitis and failed knees to orthotics and the high cost of sports medicine. Those who were lucky are still running while those who were not are lame forever.
 
If books like this had been around thereÕd be more old runners running and fewer of us sitting around wishing weÕd known then what we know now. Galloway, a former Olympic team member, covers everything from training and injuries to physiology and nutrition in an easy to read volume that is as relevant to a casual
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##A 04 241235 245
##T GallowayÕs Book on Running
GallowayÕs Book on Running

@@
Jeff Galloway
Revised Edition 1984; 287 pp.
ISBN 0394727096
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

Home Book Service
P. O. Box 650
Bolinas, CA 94924
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##A 04 40112 248
##T The Complete Book of Running
The Complete Book of Running

@@

The best known running book. 
                                                          
                                                               Ñ Dick Fugett
@@

##A 04 41102 249
##T The Complete Book of Running
The Complete Book of Running

@@
James F. Fixx
1977; 314 pp.
$16.95 ($17.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 04 245001 250
##T RunnerÕs World
RunnerÕs World

@@

Although the bloom has faded along with the publicity, the running boom produced a multitude of converts, from joggers sold on the physical and mental rewards to the hardcore runners who canÕt do without that race-day energy. Back in the boom days RunnerÕs World was the only show in town, but over the years The Runner kept trying harder, and that vitality produced a wider-ranging magazine. RunnerÕs World, recently purchased by Rodale Publications of Organic Gardening fame, keeps a tight focus on running. Take your choice. 

                                                                 Ñ Dick Fugett
@@

##A 04 245254 251
##T RunnerÕs World
RunnerÕs World

@@
Amby Burfoot, Executive Editor
ISSN 08971706
$19.95/year 
(12 issues) 
from:

Rodale Press
33 East Minor Street
Emmaus, PA 18098
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##A 04 244022 254
##T The Complete Book of Exercisewalking
The Complete Book of Exercisewalking

@@

Attention joggers: When your joints give out (and they will), keep in mind that walking (quickly) is surpassed only by swimming as a whole body workout. To earn as many aerobic points as you do running, youÕll have to walk up hills or stairs, or carry weights, or spend more time moving. This book tells how. ItÕs a lifelong exercise.                                                           
                                                                  
                                                            ÑKevin Kelly
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##A 04 244373 255
##T The Complete Book of Exercisewalking
The Complete Book of Exercisewalking

@@
Gary D. Yanker
1983; 266 pp.
ISBN 0809255359
$10.95 ($12.95 postpaid)
from:

Contemporary Books
180 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60601
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##A 04 232214 258
##T Skiing ¥ Jean-Claude Killy
Skiing ¥ Jean-Claude Killy

@@

The more complex the skill, the more a visual demonstration can help. SyberVisionÕs ski cassette shows the same skiers doing the same turns on the same hill, time after time. The theory is that this neural programming will translate into improved performance, and indeed I found that after watching for an hour, I was unconsciously weighting and unweighting as I mentally made turns.
                                                        
                                                                   Ñ Dick Fugett
@@

##A 04 216193 259
##T Skiing ¥ Jean-Claude Killy
Skiing ¥ Jean-Claude Killy

@@
60-minute Video and 4 Audiocassettes: $89.95 
Video only: $69.95 
UPS Shipping fee $3.50
(CA residents add 6.5% sales tax.)  Catalog $2
from:

SyberVision Systems, Inc.
6066 Civic Terrace Ave.
Newark, CA  94560-3747
800-255-9666
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##A 04 65572 261
##T Swim for Fitness
Swim for Fitness

@@

The explanations of what to do in the water are brief and to the point, and the diagrams are excellent. Unless you are already an expert swimmer, this book will help you swim more efficiently. 
ItÕs written by an avid competitive swimmer.   

                                                                  Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 04 74660 262
##T Swim for Fitness
Swim for Fitness

@@
Marianne Brems
1979; 173 pp.
ISBN 0877013586
$7.95 ($9.45 postpaid)
from:

Chronicle Books
275 Fifth Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
800-722-6657
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##A 04 85658 266
##T United States Masters Swimming
United States Masters Swimming

@@
Swimming is the easiest way we earthlings can escape the relentless force of gravity. Because water is denser than flesh, the body floats. Moving through water uses all the muscles in the body and avoids continuous jarring contact with terra firma. 
ThatÕs why swimming is the single best physical therapy for injured bodies.

It is also an excellent form of lifetime exercise. As an organized activity it is called Masters Swimming. This international body has  over 25,000 U.S. members and offers competition within 5-year age brackets from the twenties clear into the nineties. Fully half of the members never compete and swim only for the exercise. Masters Swimming offers access to pools, instruction for
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##A 04 107024 268
##T United States Masters Swimming
United States Masters Swimming

@@
Information free with SASE
from:

U.S. Masters Swimming
c/o Dorothy Donnelly
P. O. Box 496
Avon, CT 06001
203-673-6508
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##A 04 107462 269
##T Swim Magazine
Swim Magazine

@@

For adult fitness and competitive swimmers, with specialized
articles (ÒChlorine, Asthma and SwimmingÓ) and nontechnical presentation.
                 
                                                        Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 04 107691 270
##T Swim Magazine
Swim Magazine

@@
Kim A. Hansen, Editor
ISSN 87552027
$12/year (6 issues) 
from:

Swim
P. O. Box 45497
Los Angeles, CA 90045
213-674-2120
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##A 04 246068 273
##T TRIATHLONS INTRODUCTION
TRIATHLONS INTRODUCTION

@@
According to legend, the Ironman triathlon was conceived when a group of inebriated navy jocks stationed in Hawaii debated an Ultimate Physical Test, based on what was then available. There was the Waikiki 2.4 mile Rough Water Swim, the Around-Oahu 112 mile bike ride, and of course, the Honolulu Marathon.

ÒHarhar!Ó announced one inspired participant just before sliding under the table. ÒLetÕs do Õem all!.Ó (Or at least thatÕs my favorite interpretation of the event.)  But unlike most beer-assisted schemes, this one actually materialized, and in 1978 15 entrants 
did their darndest, with 12 finishing. With only a little imagination, you can picture the blood, sweat, and toil. So could
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##A 04 275612 276
##T Cross Training 
Cross Training 

@@

If youÕre planning your premier triathlon, then look at Cross Training by Katherine Vaz. It will give you basic techniques, training schedules, and equipment needs without smothering you with details. Go do a triathlon and have fun before you decide to make life complex.

                                                               Ñ Dick Fugett
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##A 04 275912 277
##T Cross Training 
Cross Training 

@@
(The Complete Book of the Triathlon)
Katherine Vaz
1984; 239 pp.
ISBN 0380879573
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Avon Books
P. O. Box 767
Dresden, TN 38225
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##A 04 247455 280
##T Dave ScottÕs Triathlon Training
Dave ScottÕs Triathlon Training

@@
After youÕve tasted the high that comes from a three-sport immersion in physical and mental challenge, you may get serious in your efforts, as well as more advanced in your reading. For the most information, try Dave ScottÕs Triathlon Training. His coverage of each sport is as good as youÕll find anywhere, as well as being quite readable. Besides the basics, he discusses everything from heat and altitude training to weights, stretching,
and race psychology, besides having a quality chapter on nutrition.
ScottÕs record of five Ironman victories speaks for itself, and 
heÕs produced a book to match it.

                                                                          Ñ Dick Fugett
@@

##A 04 248061 281
##T Dave ScottÕs Triathlon Training
Dave ScottÕs Triathlon Training

@@
Dave Scott with Liz  Barrett
1986; 224 pp.
ISBN 0671604732
$9.95 postpaid  
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 04 108068 284
##T Triathlete
Triathlete

@@
ThereÕs no longer a struggle to decide which magazine to recommendÑthey just merged. The new hybrid is Triathlete, combining coverage of training tips with race results, personalities, and schedules. Even a single sport enthusiast would do well to browse through it, for there are good stories on technique for each sport.  Beginning swimmers, for whom little exists, will find it especially beneficial.               

                                                                      Ñ Dick Fugett
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##A 04 108491 285
##T Triathlete
Triathlete

@@
C. J. Olivares, Jr., Editor
$19.95/year (12 issues)
from:

Triathlete
1127 Hamilton Street
Allentown, PA 18102
215-821-6864
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##A 04 249409 288
##T Hippocrates
Hippocrates

@@
For a magazine thatÕs only been on the stands for a little over a year and a half [since March 1987], Hippocrates has carved out a nice little niche for itself.  With sharp, investigative reporting, extremely colorful illustrations, and a well articulated curiosity over todayÕs health issues thatÕs hard to match elsewhere, Hippocrates probes into the hows and whys of our current health environment.  How does chocolate affect the nervous system?  Why do some people hear voices?  Are all natural foods healthy?  

Most theories and suppositions made in Hippocrates stem from durable scientific stuffÑnot to be confused with stuffy, since most material is taken from entertaining, first-hand accounts.  Best of all, exploration into the delicate relationships that exist
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##A 04 262851 290
##T Hippocrates
Hippocrates

@@
Eric W. Schrier, Editor
$24.00/year (12 issues)
from:

Hippocrates
P.O. Box 56863
Boulder, CO  80322-6863
800-525-0643
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##A 04 250546 293
##T How A Man Ages
How A Man Ages

@@
This is a fast, breezy overview of the aging process in menÑwhat happens to you independent of illness. ThereÕs a lot on how to stay in shape, and there is frank discussion of attempts (such as face-lifts) to hold off the appearance of the inevitable. You could say 
itÕs a book on how the healthy man ages. 

                                                              Ñ Michael Castleman


As I wend my way towards old-fartdom, I find this book to be horrifyingly, encouragingly, true.

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 04 250699 294
##T How A Man Ages
How A Man Ages

@@
(Growing Older: What to Expect and What You Can Do About It)
Curtis Pesmen and the Editors of Esquire
1984; 226 pp.
ISBN 0345309995
$7.95 ($8.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 04 251748 297
##T The Seasons of a ManÕs Life
The Seasons of a ManÕs Life

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This book was the original inspiration for the popular book Passages. Interviews with a small group of men at various stages of their lives show a fascinating thing: personal and emotional growth doesnÕt stop when you become an Òadult.Ó This idea isnÕt new, but this book was the first to show the processes involved. Its revelations have stood up over time despite the lack of depth in the sample chosen for study.

                                                      Ñ Michael Castleman
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##A 04 252055 298
##T The Seasons of a ManÕs Life
The Seasons of a ManÕs Life

@@
Daniel J. Levinson
1978; 363 pp.
ISBN 0345324870
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
@@

##A 04 252791 301
##T MenÕs Reproductive Health
MenÕs Reproductive Health

@@

This comprehensive book is by far the best on the subject. ItÕs written by experts for an audience of health professionals, but 
itÕs easily understood by nonmedical readers willing to work at it. Covers common problems such as prostate, AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and urology.
                                                                 
                                                              Ñ Michael Castleman
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##A 04 253013 302
##T MenÕs Reproductive Health
MenÕs Reproductive Health

@@
Janice Swanson, R. N., Ph. D., 
and Katherine Forrest, M. D., 
M. PH., Editors
1984; 398 pp.
ISBN 0826142001
$29.95 ($31.95 postpaid)
from:

Springer Publishing Co.
536 Broadway
New York NY 10012
@@

##A 04 91627 305
##T OUR BODIES, OURSELVES
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES

@@

Breathe deeply of this wonderful book. It expands our notions of what it means to be women and stay healthy in our minds, our relationships, our workplaces, and our bodies. Like a perceptive friend, it nurtures and challenges us to take control of our own well-being. The New Our Bodies, Ourselves is itself a model of health; it has the strength of its original convictions and the flexibility to adapt to changes that bear on those convictions. This 1984 edition is two-thirds revised with new chapters on alternative medical care, alcohol and drugs, environmental and occupational health, and new reproductive technologies. I hope this rare book continues to adapt and expand for at least a few 
more decades. A Spanish language edition is available directly
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##A 04 91802 307
##T OUR BODIES, OURSELVES
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES

@@
The New Our Bodies, Ourselves
The Boston WomenÕs Health Book Collective
1985; 647 pp.
ISBN 0671460889
$12.95 ($14.95 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675

Bulk discount available ($3.88 plus shipping costs) for clinics and other groups providing health-counseling services.
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##A 04 134139 308
##T OUR BODIES, OURSELVES
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES

@@
Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas
(Spanish Edition of
Our Bodies, Ourselves)
The Boston WomenÕs Health Book Collective
1979; 383 pp.
$5 ($6 postpaid)
from:

The Boston WomenÕs Health Book Collective
Spanish Edition
P. O. Box 192
West Somerville, MA 02144
@@

##A 04 92926 311
##T My Body, My Health
My Body, My Health

@@

Written by several people long-respected in gynecology and family planning circles, its concise yet surprisingly thorough chapters cover the gamut of womenÕs most frequently encountered health concerns: pregnancy, birth control, abortion, surviving a pelvic exam, common infections, menstrual problems, abnormal pap smears, breast self-exam, breast lumps, cancer, sexual problems, menopause, surgery, etc. The sections on teenage sexuality, vaginal hygiene, recognition of early signs of pregnancy, facing surgery, and special help in choosing a method of birth control are sensitively written and cover topics not easily found elsewhere. This is a fine piece of workÑour first lay gynecology  textbook.
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##A 04 93414 313
##T My Body, My Health
My Body, My Health

@@
(The Concerned WomanÕs Book of Gynecology)
Felicia Stewart, M.D., Felicia Guest, Gary Stewart, M.D., 
and Robert Hatcher, M.D.
1981; 564 pp.
ISBN 0553012991
$11.95 ($13.45 postpaid)
from:

Bantam Books
414 East Gold Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
@@

##A 04 94207 316
##T Menopause, Naturally
Menopause, Naturally

@@

A guide for women entering the frightening territory of their 
40s and 50s. This new phase of life inevitably brings up deep feelingsÑmostly negative.  Most younger women believe that menopause means depression, irritability, unhappiness, and sexual decline.  Greenwood gently explains that it means none of these things.  She puts a sisterly arm around the worried reader and tells her the facts:  hot flashesÑa mildly uncomfortable sign of hormonal changes, something like a midlife case of pimples;  emotional upsetsÑno more common than in younger women; the end of sexÑno way!
@@

##A 04 94507 318
##T Menopause, Naturally
Menopause, Naturally

@@
(Preparing for the Second Half of Life)
Sadja Greenwood, M.D.
Revised Edition 1988; 201 pp.
ISBN 0912078839
$11.95 ($14.95 postpaid)
from:

Volcano Press
P. O. Box 270
Volcano, CA 95689
209-296-3445
@@

##A 04 36485 321
##T DISABILITIES INTRODUCTION
DISABILITIES INTRODUCTION

@@

THE BEST SOURCE OF INFORMATION on any particular disability is someone who has had that disability for a few years.

Occupational therapists are another good source, but donÕt let Òthe  expertsÓ make decisions for you. Ask questions. Beware of rumors of medical or engineering wonders and never buy anything unless youÕve used it, preferably at home. When dealing with agencies, firmly tell them what you want. DonÕt let doctors, salespeople, or the U.S. government intimidate you.                       
                                                                     
                                                                     Ñ Mark OÕBrien
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##A 04 37279 322
##T A Handbook for the Disabled
A Handbook for the Disabled

@@
A comprehensive guide to devices (store-bought and homemade) and agencies for paralyzed and temporarily bedridden people. Lunt thoroughly researched this book and has included manufacturersÕ addresses. This is the only book IÕve seen that discusses both equipment and agencies. My only qualm is that she calls disabled people Òpatients,Ó an inappropriate word for people who are not living in a hospital.
                                                                    Ñ Mark OÕBrien

Reading this book made me realize how many unsung heroes are working in their basements, inventing new problem-solvers for the disabled.
                                                                    Ñ Sallie Tisdale
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##A 04 37538 323
##T A Handbook for the Disabled
A Handbook for the Disabled

@@
(Ideas and Inventions for Easier Living)
Suzanne Lunt
1984; 276 pp.
ISBN 0684180308
$9.95 postpaid 
from:

MacMillan Publishing Co.
Order Dept.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
@@

##A 04 38538 326
##T The Wheelchair Child
The Wheelchair Child

@@

I wish my parents could have had a book like this when I became disabled in the 50s.  Russell, who has a disabled child, speaks from experience and sheÕs had all the experiences that come with raising a kid who uses a wheelchair. In direct language, she offers advice on the education, clothing, recreation, and socialization that disabled children need. Russell is British, so about half of her practical advice applies only to people in the U.K. Her advice on dealing with problems like sibling jealousy, parent burnout, and sexuality is universally applicable.

                                                                   Ñ Mark OÕBrien
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##A 04 38829 327
##T The Wheelchair Child
The Wheelchair Child

@@
(How Handicapped Children Can Enjoy Life to Its Fullest)
Philippa Russell
1985; 262 pp.
ISBN 0134560122
$9.95 postpaid 
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 04 39625 330
##T ABLEDATA
ABLEDATA

@@

A computer databank listing all commercially available items for disabled people, ABLEDATA includes everythingÑclothing, wheelchairs, speech synthesizers. It can be searched by computer or you can make voice requests.
                                                           
                                                               ÑMark OÕBrien
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##A 04 39747 331
##T ABLEDATA
ABLEDATA

@@
Information free
from:

NARIC
8455 Colesville Road 
Suite 935
Silver Spring, MD  20910-3319
800-34-NARIC
(TDD and voice)
@@

##A 04 255419 332
##T Cripple Liberation Front Marching Band Blues
Cripple Liberation Front Marching Band Blues

@@

Not a how-to book so much as a what-itÕs-like book that describes the authorÕs experience with polio, hospitals, rehabilitation, and his efforts to live independently.  There is a great deal of pain in this book, the pain inherent in the sudden onset of disability.  Tough, realistic, and decidedly unsentimental, it is also often tender, wise, and hilarious in its account of disability.  Honest to the bone, it is the best written book on how it feels to be disabled.

                                                           Ñ Mark OÕBrien
@@

##A 04 12330 333
##T Cripple Liberation Front Marching Band Blues
Cripple Liberation Front Marching Band Blues

@@
Lorenzo Wilson Milam
1984; 220 pp.
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

Mho & Mho Works
P.O. Box 33135
San Diego, CA 92103
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##A 04 256499 336
##T Disability Rag
Disability Rag

@@

The Rag conveys the opinions and the politics of disabled people with vigor and clarity.  It deals with the nitty-gritty of disabilityÑattendants, accessible buses, and employing a reader.  The Rag also addresses the fear and anger disabled people feel about living in a world that sees us in stereotypical terms.  This is a tough, scrappy, honest magazine, without advertising.

                                                             Ñ Mark OÕBrien
@@

##A 04 256550 337
##T Disability Rag
Disability Rag

@@
Mary Johnson, Editor
ISSN 07499596
$9/year (6 issues)
from:

Disability Rag
Subscription Dept.
Box 6453
Syracuse, NY 13217
@@

##A 04 40680 339
##T Products For People With Vision Problems 
Products For People With Vision Problems 

@@

Products For People With Vision Problems is a fascinating catalog that features a wide range of useful products for blind and vision-impaired people.                                               
                                                               
                                                               Ñ Mark OÕBrien
@@

##A 04 40908 340
##T Products For People With Vision Problems 
Products For People With Vision Problems 

@@
Catalog free  
from:

American Foundation for the Blind
Consumer Products Dept.
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
201-862-8838
@@

##A 04 41487 341
##T Access to the World
Access to the World

@@

Tells disabled people everything they need to know about travel.
                                                                           
                                                              ÑMark OÕBrien
@@

##A 04 41880 342
##T Access to the World
Access to the World

@@
(A Travel Guide for the Handicapped)
Louise Weiss
Revised Edition 1983; 221 pp.
ISBN 0871967871
$16.95 postpaid 
from:

Facts on File, Inc.
460 Park Avenue South 
New York, NY 10016
@@

##A 04 42658 344
##T Design for Independent Living
Design for Independent Living

@@

Through photos and interviews, this book shows that disabled people can live well outside of hospitals and institutions.
                                                                         
                                                                 ÑMark OÕBrien
@@

##A 04 42967 345
##T Design for Independent Living
Design for Independent Living

@@
(The Environment and Physically Disabled People)
Raymond Lifchez and Barbara Winslow
1981; 208 pp.
ISBN 0520044347
$14.95 ($16.45 postpaid)
from:

University of California Press
2120 Berkeley Way 
Berkeley, CA 94720
@@

##A 04 254027 347
##T Sports Õn Spokes
Sports Õn Spokes

@@

Sports from a wheelchair and all sorts of chairs built with racing bicycle technology are what this lively magazine is about.

                                                            Ñ Mark OÕBrien
@@

##A 04 254593 348
##T Sports Õn Spokes
Sports Õn Spokes

@@
Cliff Crase, Senior Editor
ISSN 01616706
$9/year
$12 foreign
from:

Sports Õn Spokes
5201 North 19th Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85015-9986
602-246-9426
@@

##A 04 43679 350
##T World Institute on Disability
World Institute on Disability



@@

A place to find out about independent living centers near you, either in North America or abroad.

                                                      ÑMark OÕBrien

WID also publishes a free quarterly newsletter providing information on research, and discussion of attendant services.

                                                       ÑCandida Kutz
@@

##A 04 248945 351
##T World Institute on Disability
World Institute on Disability



@@
World Institute on Disability 
Information free 
from:

World Institute on Disability
1720 Oregon Street
Suite 4
Berkeley, CA 94703
415-486-8314
@@

##A 04 240367 352
##T World Institute on Disability
World Institute on Disability



@@
Attendant Services Network
Joan Leon, Executive Editor
Quarterly newsletter free
from:

World Institute on Disability
1720 Oregon Street
Suite 4
Berkeley, CA 94703
415-486-8314
@@

##A 04 44689 353
##T Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund

@@

I was almost kept out of graduate school once because I was disabled. DREDF helped me realize I had a case. A lobbying and litigation group, they are the first place to go if you think you may be a victim of discrimination.                           
                                                              
                                                          Ñ Mark OÕBrien
@@

##A 04 44861 354
##T Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund

@@
Information free 
from:

Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
2212 Sixth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
415-644-2555
@@

##A 04 282589 358
##T From Chocolate to Morphine
From Chocolate to Morphine

@@

Drug use and abuse is a complicated subject more often used by politicians and journalists as camouflage for, and diversion from, the real problems of society than given an open, unbiased, and critical look by people who actually know the subject. The other common approach is brain-dead boosterism by stoned philosophers and unscrupulous dealers. Weil and RosenÕs approach is to discuss calmly, objectively, and knowingly, the legal, social, and medical histories of the many drugs, legal and illegal, that are fun, and sometimes not so fun, to use. They cover everything youÕre likely to find in the local store, street corner, or neighborÕs living room
@@

##A 04 282728 360
##T From Chocolate to Morphine
From Chocolate to Morphine

@@
(Understanding Mind-Active Drugs)
Andrew Weil, M. D. and Winifred Rosen
1983; 250 pp.
ISBN 0395331900
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
@@

##A 04 279046 365
##T Kicking It
Kicking It

@@

This is a tough but supportive book, discussing the physiological
and emotional dependency on cigarets. Through a series of habit-
breaking techniques, the book teaches you how to conquer your
addiction to smoking. Author David Geisinger also provides a
thoughtful analysis of the sociology of smoking.

                                                      Ñ Rochelle Perrine Schmalz
@@

##A 04 280677 366
##T Kicking It
Kicking It

@@
(The New Way to Stop Smoking Permanently)
Dr. David L. Geisinger
1980; 160 pp.
ISBN 0451141423
$3.50 ($4.50 postpaid)
from:

New American Library
Box 120 
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600(NJ)
@@

##A 04 281451 367
##T Out of the Shadows
Out of the Shadows

@@
A few years ago we (at PlaneTree Health Resource Center) were asked to research sex addiction and found little information on the subject. Out of the Shadows addresses this issue in a frank, readable, and compassionate manner, and brings into the open the problem of compulsive sexual behavior.

Author Patrick Carnes identifies three levels of sexual addiction and discusses the importance of family relationships in the development of the recovery from this compulsive behavior.

By using the 12 steps program of Alcoholics Anonymous, Carnes 
gives hope and understanding to the 6-10 percent of us who suffer from this kind of addiction.       
                                                 - Rochelle Perrine Schmalz
@@

##A 04 281801 368
##T Out of the Shadows
Out of the Shadows

@@
(Understanding Sexual Addiction)
Patrick Carnes, Ph.D
1983; 173 pp.
ISBN 0896380866
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

CompCare Publications
2415 Annapolis Lane
Minneapolis, MN 55441
@@

##A 04 187549 370
##T ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

@@
Known to most AAÕs as the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous is the bible of the program. It explains briefly how AA came into being and how it works. It describes AAÕs program for living (and thriving) sober. It also contains accounts by 42 AAs of their alcoholism, from progressive drinking to hitting bottom by entering AA and on to recovery.

In two other AA books, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Òa co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous tells how members recover and how the society functions.Ó  Living Sober has Òsome methods AA members have used for not drinking.Ó

                                         - A member of Alcoholics Anonymous
@@

##A 04 277282 371
##T ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

@@
The Big Book  
Alcoholics Anonymous
Third Edition 1976; 575 pp.
ISBN 0916856003
$5.65 postpaid
from:

Alcoholics Anonymous
World Service Office, Inc.
P.O. Box 459
Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163
@@

##A 04 18888 372
##T ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

@@
Living Sober
Alcoholics Anonymous
1975; 87 pp.
ISBN 0916856046
$1.75 postpaid
from:

Alcoholics Anonymous
World Service Office, Inc.
P.O. Box 459
Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163
@@

##A 04 19741 373
##T ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

@@
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Alcoholics Anonymous
1953, 1965; 192 pp.
ISBN 0916856062
 $4.25 postpaid
from:

Alcoholics Anonymous
World Service Office, Inc.
P.O. Box 459
Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163
@@

##A 04 283475 379
##T NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS

@@

Based on the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous, NA serves the needs of addicts who have decided to quit using drugs. Like AA, NA is not affiliated with other organizations. 
They welcome anyone with an honest desire to quit using drugs,
Òregardless of age, race, creed, religion or lack of religion.ÓApproximately 6,200 NA groups currently meet in the U.S.
The book (with the same name as the organization) explains
the method and includes first-person success stories.                                                            
                                                               
                                                           - Jeanne Carstensen
@@

##A 04 283743 380
##T NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS

@@
Narcotics Anonymous 
Narcotics Anonymous
Information free from:

Narcotics Anonymous
World Service Office, Inc.
P.O. Box 9999
Van Nuys, CA 91409
818-780-3951
@@

##A 04 186408 381
##T NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS

@@
Narcotics Anonymous (the book)
Fourth Edition 1987
ISBN 0912075023
$8 ($8.64 postpaid)
from:

Narcotics Anonymous
World Service Office, Inc.
P.O. Box 9999
Van Nuys, CA 91409
818-780-3951
@@

##A 04 32757 383
##T 20 QUESTIONS: ARE YOU AN ALCOHOLIC?
20 QUESTIONS: ARE YOU AN ALCOHOLIC?

@@
Ñ Reprinted with permission of AA World Services, Inc.

To answer this question, ask yourself the following questions and answer them as honestly as you can.
1.  Do you lose time from work due to drinking?
2.  Is drinking making your home life unhappy?
3.  Do you drink because you are shy with other people?
4.  Is drinking affecting your reputation?
5.  Have you ever felt remorse after drinking?
6.  Have you gotten into financial difficulties as a result of        
     drinking?
7.  Do you turn to lower companions and an inferior environment 
     when drinking?
8.  Does your drinking make you careless of your familyÕs welfare?
@@

##A 04 61206 388
##T SELF-HELP AND HOW-TO INTRODUCTION
SELF-HELP AND HOW-TO INTRODUCTION

@@
SELF-HELP AND HOW-TO BOOKS all have one thing in common: They all help you achieve some kind of resultÑfixing a car, buying a computer, building a house, or losing weight. Psychology, on the other hand, is about processÑthe process of being human. A psychological perspective can help you achieve just about any other end, but it is not an end in itself.            
                                                                 Ñ Michael Robertson

Psychology self-help books have to be read at the right time. The psychological insight one person gains from a book leaves other people cold. TheyÕve already Òbeen thereÓ or theyÕre not ÒreadyÓ for it yet.                                                           
                                                                Ñ Corinne Hawkins
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##A 04 65806 390
##T Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By You?
Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By You?

@@

Traditional concepts of romantic commitment can no longer sustain relationships. The intimacy that we all seek breaks down in the face of competing demands and conflicting expectations. This book provides a new model, based on personal growth in a committed relationship, to fill the gap created by the collapse of old forms. They supply practical tools for understanding and communicating about the intense feelings that are often provoked by a long-term relationship or marriage. The last part of the book contains exercises that have proved to be valuable to many of the couples IÕve seen in therapy.                          
                                                              
                                                          Ñ Michael Robertson
@@

##A 04 66087 391
##T Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By You?
Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By You?

@@
Jordan Paul, Ph.D., and
Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
1983; 313 pp.
ISBN 0896380645
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

CompCare Publications
Division of Comprehensive Care Corp.
18551 Von Karman Avenue
Irvine, CA  92715
800-328-3330
@@

##A 04 181608 394
##T Children of Alcoholism
Children of Alcoholism

@@

I came from a teetotaling family but lots of my friends didnÕt. The kids with alcoholic parents often behaved in ways that I didnÕt understand  (and they probably didnÕt either). This book makes it so clear what was going on, I wish IÕd had it then. If you have alcoholic parents in your life (or are an alcoholic parent) youÕll probably learn a lot here. 

                                                                    Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 04 181961 395
##T Children of Alcoholism
Children of Alcoholism

@@
(A SurvivorÕs Manual)
Judith S. Seixas and Geraldine Youcha
1985; 208 pp.
ISBN 0671645277
$14.95 ($16.95 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 04 62451 397
##T The Road Less Traveled
The Road Less Traveled

@@

A psychological (not pop-psychological) guide to modern living. The first 60 pages are practical descriptions of the type of discipline that is needed to face the problems of life. The remainder of the book deals with love, grace, and spiritual growth. It is simple enough to be used immediately, and also deep enough to work on for a lifetime.

                                                               Ñ David Hawkins
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##A 04 62465 398
##T The Road Less Traveled
The Road Less Traveled

@@
M. Scott Peck, M.D.
1978; 316 pp.
ISBN 0671250671
$9.95 postpaid 
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 04 182547 403
##T When the Mental Patient Comes Home
When the Mental Patient Comes Home

@@

Dealing with a mental patient in my life has been like dealing with parts of myself that IÕd just as soon avoid. Getting past the guilt and distaste turns out to be part love and part technique, like so many other skills. This nonpreachy, nonsectarian book has helped a lot.                                                   

                                                                   Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 04 182790 404
##T When the Mental Patient Comes Home
When the Mental Patient Comes Home

@@
George Bennett
1980; 118 pp.
ISBN 0664242952
$7.95 ($8.95 postpaid)
from:

The Westminster Press
925 Chestnut
Philadelphia, PA 19107
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##A 04 68929 406
##T Panic
Panic

@@

This author leads the reader through the escalation of anxiety from a garden variety of fear to serious phobia. He talks about the short-term efficacy of drug treatment while noting that it doesnÕt address the belief system that maintains anxiety, resulting in possible drug dependency. 

                                                           Ñ Michael Robertson
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##A 04 69313 407
##T Panic
Panic

@@
(Facing Fears, Phobias, and Anxiety)
Stewart Agras
1985; 151 pp.
ISBN 071671731X
$12.95 ($14.45 postpaid)
from:

W. H. Freeman & Co.
4419 West 1980 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84104
@@

##A 04 167363 409
##T Advanced Techniques of Hypnosis and Therapy
Advanced Techniques of Hypnosis and Therapy

@@

Gradually the sciences of the human mind are achieving levels of abstraction and rigor appropriate to the discussion of mental processes. But Milton Erickson has been ahead of the field in this respect for forty years. This big book is a collection of his papers with some commentary by Jay Haley, and it is a most extraordinary collection. EricksonÕs method, whether of therapy or research, is the precise use of hypnosis. Under this investigation, the human mind turns out to be as precise in its evolutions and timing as a minuet.                                      
                                                     
                                                             Ñ Gregory Bateson
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##A 04 167433 410
##T Advanced Techniques of Hypnosis and Therapy
Advanced Techniques of Hypnosis and Therapy

@@
(Selected Papers of
Milton H. Erickson, M.D.)
Jay Haley, Editor
1967; 557 pp.
ISBN 0808901699
$89 ($94 postpaid)
from:

Grune & Stratton
Ordering Processing
6277 Sea Harbor Drive
Orlando, FL 32821
@@

##A 04 63753 412
##T Women and Psychotherapy
Women and Psychotherapy

@@

This is the best consumer handbook for thinking about psychotherapy IÕve seen. There are chapters on sexism and feminist therapy that are specifically aimed at women, but the rest of it will be as useful to men. It answers the basic questions on deciding if you need therapy, the therapeutic Òcontract,Ó guidelines for psychoactive drug use, and grievances.

                                                             Ñ Corinne Hawkins
@@

##A 04 64021 413
##T Women and Psychotherapy
Women and Psychotherapy

@@
National Coalition for WomenÕs Mental Health
1985; 32 pp.
$3.75 ($5 postpaid)
from:

Federation of Organizations for Professional Women
2437 15th Street NW
Suite 309
Washington, DC 20009
202-328-1415
@@

##A 04 183678 416
##T The Love Tapes
The Love Tapes

@@
The personal growth movement has spawned a booming industry in self-hypnosis tapes that promise to do everything from increase your bustline to clean up your karma from past lives. Outrageous claims notwithstanding, such cassettes can be powerful tools for helping to change old habits, and many are used in hospitals for stress management and to accelerate healing. Of the couple dozen brands IÕve sampled, The Love Tapes provide the best combination of strategies in the most easily accessible format.

Despite the name, the tapes are refreshingly neutral about pushing any particular ideological viewpoint. A wide range of topics, from 
health and relationships to business, feature messages consistently well-grounded in modern psychological theory. The
@@

##A 04 184789 419
##T The Love Tapes
The Love Tapes

@@
Catalog $1
from:

Effective Learning Systems
5221 Edina Industrial Blvd.
Edina, MN 55435
612-893-1680
@@

##A 04 177215 422
##T Staying Alive
Staying Alive

@@

Arms race nuttiness is so obvious; why doesnÕt somebody do something about it? Dr. Walsh gives us a look at the psychology involved, and suggests what we may do as individuals. ItÕs gonna be work, but itÕs not hopeless (I hope). The book is brief, sharp, and free of airhead clichesÑa nonpolitical call to action starting with self-understanding.

ÒWhen I do not know who I am I serve you.Ó

ÒWhen I know who I am I am you.Ó

                                                                    Ñ J. Baldwin
Ù Peace Politics
@@

##A 04 177423 423
##T Staying Alive
Staying Alive

@@
(The Psychology of Human Survival)
Roger Walsh, M.D.
1984; 125 pp.
ISBN 0394726901
$7.95 ($8.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
@@

##A 04 179320 426
##T Thou Shalt Not Be Aware
Thou Shalt Not Be Aware


@@

This is a compelling, compassionate book about both childhood and psychoanalysis. Freudian psychology so pervades our thought and language that Alice MillerÕs corrections of its errors are necessary for our continued use of its concepts. For all of us who want to understand how childhood affected us, but particularly for those of us who were abused or are tempted to abuse, this is an essential book. It also gives all of us some ideas for thinking about how to prevent the violence and self-destruction that are the adult consequences of abusive and neglectful parenting. 

                                                             Ñ Michael Robertson
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##A 04 179468 427
##T Thou Shalt Not Be Aware
Thou Shalt Not Be Aware


@@
(SocietyÕs Betrayal of the Child)
Alice Miller
1984; 331 pp.
ISBN 0374276463
$16.95 ($18.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
@@

##A 04 178342 430
##T The Right to Feel Bad
The Right to Feel Bad

@@

ÒWazza matter? You look depressed.Ó This upbeat book says thatÕs natural, just as feeling joyful is natural. YouÕre not sick. Things will be better (or feel better) later if you just hang in there. Drugs usually wonÕt help and may hinder progress by masking the natural processes going on, processes that are essential to growth and healing. The book hit me dead center as no other on the subject has. My heart says, ÒYeahÑthis is how it is.Ó
                                                      
                                                                  Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 04 178450 431
##T The Right to Feel Bad
The Right to Feel Bad

@@
(Coming to Terms with Normal Depression)
Lesley Hazleton
1984; 263 pp.
ISBN 0345324013
$3.50 ($4.50 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 04 180635 433
##T The Evolving Self
The Evolving Self


@@

Kegan sees our journey as a cyclical process of continuing
growth and loss. He pinpoints the obstacles to growth and suggests how to overcome those obstacles, depending on the cycle of development in which they occur. The result is a very clear and readable book about how people can grow psychologically written with a great deal of respect for the readerÕs individual integrity.
                                                            
                                                          Ñ Michael Robertson
@@

##A 04 180782 434
##T The Evolving Self
The Evolving Self


@@
(Problem and Process in Human Development)
Robert Kegan
1982; 318 pp.
ISBN 0674272307
$7.95 ($9.45 postpaid)
from:

Harvard University Press
79 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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##A 04 211456 437
##T DREAMWORK INTRODUCTION
DREAMWORK INTRODUCTION

@@

DREAMWORK consists of remembering your dreams and seeking to understand them. ThereÕs nothing esoteric or psychologically dangerous about it. ItÕs simply a matter of taking a look at whatÕs right in front of your mindÕs eye, and using what you see to improve your life. We all know how to turn on televisions, ride elevators and open pop-top cans, but nobody teaches us how to dream. This situation is changing rapidly, however, because the most important ÒsecretÓ of dreamwork is becoming more and more well-knownÑanyone who has tried to remember their dreams and understand their meaning has discovered that the ability to obtain valuable knowledge is not a gift or talent but a skill, like tying
@@

##A 04 217735 439
##T Creative Dreaming
Creative Dreaming



@@

My first and still one of my favorite introductions to the hows and whys of dreamwork. It gives a compelling, lucid history of dreamwork throughout the centuries and around the world, introduces several different approaches to self-analysis, touches on the highest aspects of dreamworkÑlucid dreaming and other methods of altering dreams as they happenÑand offers practical advice on keeping dream diaries and developing dream control.
                                                           
                                                             Ñ Howard Rheingold
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##A 04 217970 440
##T Creative Dreaming
Creative Dreaming

@@
Patricia Garfield
1976; 256 pp.
ISBN 0345331443
$2.95 ($4.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 04 220458 441
##T Living Your Dreams
Living Your Dreams

@@

Learn the Òmind movieÓ approach: dreams are internal scenarios, and we are the producers, directors, and audiences of our own nightly shows. We can learn how to interpret and even consciously direct the action. The authorÕs orientation toward the more mundane but personally important aspects of dreamworkÑwhat we can learn about our personal and business relationships, for exampleÑcan prove the value of dreamwork to people who arenÕt interested in creativity or spiritual growth but are very interested in why they arenÕt getting along with their spouse or boss.
                                                   
                                                           ÑHoward Rheingold
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##A 04 221007 442
##T Living Your Dreams
Living Your Dreams

@@
Gayle Delany
Revised and expanded edition 1988; 259 pp.
ISBN 0062502018
$10.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial PArk
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
@@

##A 04 223199 444
##T Lucid Dreaming
Lucid Dreaming

@@

An account of the most exciting realm of dreamworkÑthe ability to awaken in your dreams and control their outcomes as you participate in them! Author Stephen LaBerge is a scientist, long associated with StanfordÕs Sleep Laboratory, and an accomplished 
ÒoneironautÓ (his word for those of us who explore the dream realm).
                                                              ÑHoward Rheingold
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##A 04 223759 445
##T Lucid Dreaming
Lucid Dreaming

@@
Stephen LaBerge
1986; 304 pp.
ISBN 0345333551
$3.95 ($4.95 postpaid)
from:

Ballantine Books/Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 04 224998 447
##T Lucidity Letter
Lucidity Letter

@@

Awareness within dreams is not an easy state to achieve, but the experience can be worth the effort. This newsletter (actually a scholarly journal in pamphlet guise) tells you why. In it, researchers, psychotherapists, physicians and other scientists report on their progress uncovering the role lucid dreams can play in physical and mental healing, as well as in everyday problem-solving. Other articles discuss the nature of the lucid dream itself. For the lucidity connoisseur.
                                                       
                                                           ÑSarah Vandershaf
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##A 04 225131 448
##T Lucidity Letter
Lucidity Letter

@@
Jayne Gackenbach, Ph. D., Editor
$10/year (2 issues)
from:

Lucidity Letter
Department of Psychology
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA 50614
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##A 04 225884 450
##T Dream Network Bulletin
Dream Network Bulletin

@@

This newsletter has a folksier, broader approach to dreaming than does Lucidity Letter. It covers dream interpretation, dream poetry, even the role dreams play in maintaining proper nutrition! Weak on scientific rigor, strong on fascinating first-person accounts.

                                                             ÑSarah Vandershaf
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##A 04 226082 451
##T Dream Network Bulletin
Dream Network Bulletin

@@
Linda Magallon, Editor
$18/year (6 issues)
from:

Dream Network Bulletin
1083 Harvest Meadow Court
San Jose, CA 95136
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##A 04 235656 453
##T At a Journal Workshop
At a Journal Workshop

@@
Progoff, a former protege of psychologist Carl Jung, has devised an innovative way of keeping a psychological journal.

Like most Jungian psychologists, Progoff feels that each of us possess self-directing, self-healing capacities which are not always accessible to our day-to-day consciousness. Persons seeking to get in touch with these capabilities have usually required professional guidance. The Intensive Journal method was developed to allow people to use journal-writing to gain entry to those capacities. 

My own experiences with the exercises were deep and surprising. When people asked Ana•s Nin how to keep a diary, she referred them to this book.                              ÑTom Ferguson, M.D.
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##A 04 238110 455
##T At a Journal Workshop
At a Journal Workshop

@@
(The Basic Text and Guide for Using the Intensive Journal Process)
Ira Progoff
1975; 320 pp.
ISBN 087941006X
$11.95 ($15.45 postpaid)
from:

Dialogue House Library
45 West Tenth Street
New York, NY  10011
212-673-5880
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##A 04 139158 458
##T Pathways: A Success Guide  for a Healthy Life
Pathways: A Success Guide  for a Healthy Life

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Suppose you want to start an exercise program or eat a healthier diet or manage stress more gracefully. Perhaps youÕve tried this before on your own and this time you want some help from a friend. This book is just such a friend. With humor, with compassion, with understanding of how people change, and with a firm hand this book can guide you to a healthier way of living.

Pathways doesnÕt flood you with unnecessary information. It is designed around a clever map-like device, a pathfinder, which guides you directly to the information you need and helps you develop a health action plan to maximize your chances of success.
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##A 04 139685 460
##T Pathways: A Success Guide  for a Healthy Life
Pathways: A Success Guide  for a Healthy Life

@@
Donald W. Kemper, James Giuffre 
and Gene Drabinski
Second Edition 1987; 145 pp
ISBN 0961269057
$14.65 ($15.90 postpaid)
from:

Healthwise
P.O. Box 1989
Boise, ID 83701
208-345-1161
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##A 04 73276 462
##T DonÕt Shoot the Dog!
DonÕt Shoot the Dog!

@@

There are two kinds of training. One is the sort I used to do for the infantryÑintense imparting of information and skills. An activity far worthier and more interesting than itÕs given credit for. But even worthier (and more uncredited) than that is the second kind of trainingÑthe shaping of behavior. This new book looks like the very best on the subjectÑa full-scale mind-changer.

It is customary to apologize whenever saying something favorable about behavior modification and the insights of B.F. Skinner. I now hasten to fail to do that. We all strive to modify the behavior of everyone around us (including ourselves) all the time, usually with
@@

##A 04 73734 464
##T DonÕt Shoot the Dog!
DonÕt Shoot the Dog!

@@
(The New Art of Teaching and Training)
Karen Pryor
1984; 187 pp.
ISBN 0553253883
$3.95 ($5.45 postpaid)
from:

Bantam Books
414 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
@@

##A 04 47839 467
##T How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life
How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life

@@

Almost a parody of the self-help genre, this glib book nevertheless can shake your bad time-management habits and start better ones. IÕve used it and wasnÕt sorry.  Last time I saw author Alan Lakein he was headed for an indefinite vacation at Big SurÑproving something, I would say.          

                                                            Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 04 47988 468
##T How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life
How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life

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Alan Lakein
1973; 160 pp.
ISBN 0451134303
$10.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

McKay/Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 04 74967 470
##T The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook

@@

Stress, a universal fact of existence, differs in degree and kind from one person to another. The three basic sources of stressÑ  your environment, your body, your thoughtsÑrequire different responses. This book offers a wealth of tools for reducing stress and increasing relaxation. ItÕs mainly instruction with a minimum of theory. An excellent resource for creating a relaxation program that suits you.                                
                                                            
                                                               Ñ Corinne Hawkins
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##A 04 75251 471
##T The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook

@@

Matthew McKay, Martha Davis 
and Elizabeth Robbins
Second Edition 1982; 208 pp.
ISBN 09349860405
$12.50 ($13.75 postpaid)
from:

New Harbinger Publications
2200 Adeline
Suite 305
Oakland, CA  94607

Audio version also available; see card 5 for access info and to hear sound clip.
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##A 04 232676 474
##T The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook 
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook 

@@
Relaxation Tapes
$10.95 (UPS $3 for one tape; 50¢ each additional tape)
from:

New Harbinger Publications
5674 Shattuck Avenue
Oakland, CA  94609
415-652-0215

Tape 1.  Progressive Relaxation
and Breathing
Tape 2.  Body Awareness and Imagination
Tape 3.  Autogenics and Meditation
Tape 4.  Self Hypnosis
Tape 5.  Thought Stopping
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##A 04 21097 475
##T Treating Type A Behavior  Ñ  And Your Heart
Treating Type A Behavior  Ñ  And Your Heart

@@

The way you live can kill you before your time, but itÕs not too late to change. HereÕs how.
                                                               
                                                               Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 04 21717 476
##T Treating Type A Behavior  Ñ  And Your Heart
Treating Type A Behavior  Ñ  And Your Heart

@@
Meyer Friedman, M. D. 
and Diane Ulmer, R. N., M. S.
1984; 308 pp.
ISBN 0449208265
$3.95 ($4.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road 
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 04 2613 479
##T Shyness
Shyness

@@

Eighty percent of the population feels shy in one situation or another.  For some itÕs a minor nuisance, for others itÕs debilitating.  This is the first and only self-help book to thoroughly cover the subject.

                                                          Ñ Corinne Hawkins
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##A 04 135616 480
##T Shyness
Shyness

@@
Philip G. Zimbardo
1984; 350pp.
ISBN 0515089192
$3.95 ($4.70 postpaid)
from:

Berkley Publishing Group
390 Murray Hill Parkway
East Rutherford, NJ 07073
@@

##A 04 158415 485
##T A Guide to Physical Examination
A Guide to Physical Examination

@@

May I please recommend A Guide to Physical Examination? This excellent book is the central core for most courses in physical diagnosis. It is in a large, well-illustrated format with an excellent discussion of the art of interviewing patients so that they give the story. Each system of the body is arranged by chapter, techniques for examination are outlined without jargon, and abnormal findings are noted in red in the margin. It is interesting to note that while M.D. training may spend one to two weeks covering the material outlined in BatesÕ book, physician 
assistantsÕ training devotes four to five months on the same . . . .

This book will be useful to anyone interested in any aspect of the
@@

##A 04 159075 487
##T A Guide to Physical Examination
A Guide to Physical Examination

@@
Barbara Bates, M. D.
Third edition 1983; 561 pp.
ISBN 0397543999
$35.95 ($37.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
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##A 04 159920 489
##T Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 
Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 

@@
LangeÕs Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment is an excellent reference, but it must be used in conjunction with a carefully taken medical history and careful physical examination. ItÕs necesssary to know what youÕre treating. When you have the patientÕs signs and symptoms in hand, then you go to Lange or any of the numerous other texts.
                                                                Ñ John Benecki, P.A.

This is probably the single most useful medical reference book you can own. With it you can do two things: you can begin to understand your illness or injury, andÑmore important perhapsÑyou can decide whether your doctor understands it. Is your doctor current? Has she (he) diagnosed and treated your condition according  to the
@@

##A 04 160514 491
##T Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 
Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 

@@
Steven A. Schroeder, Marcus A. Krupp, and Lawrence M. Tierney Jr., Editors
1988; 1,066 pp.
ISBN 0838513441
 $32.50 postpaid
from:

Appleton and Lange
25 Van Zant Street
Norwalk, CT 06855
800-423-1359
@@

##A 04 35010 496
##T Where There Is No Doctor
Where There Is No Doctor

@@

The best book for Third World medical situations. (Also available in Spanish, Portuguese, and Khmer.)                           
                                                                          
                                                                 Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 04 45804 497
##T Where There Is No Doctor
Where There Is No Doctor

@@
(A Village Health Care Handbook)
David Werner
1977; 403 pp.
ISBN 0942364031
$8 postpaid 
from:

The Hesperian Foundation
P. O. Box 1692 
Palo Alto, CA 94302
@@

##A 04 168204 499
##T Anatomy of an Illness
Anatomy of an Illness

@@

Peerless reading for the hospital bed.  Norman Cousins, longtime editor of Saturday Review, acquired a second fame a few years ago with an article in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine chronicling his self-inflicted recovery from a crippling and supposedly irreversible ailment (his spine was disintegrating). With the aid of his unusual doctor Cousins got the hell out of the hospital, took full responsibility for his own treatment, and began trying stuffÑmassive vitamin C, massive cheerfulness (the famous home-showing of Marx Brothers and Candid Camera films). The miracle of cure plus CousinsÕ intellectual and lively
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##A 04 168645 501
##T Anatomy of an Illness
Anatomy of an Illness

@@

Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration
Norman Cousins
1981; 173 pp.
ISBN 0553343653
$6.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:

Bantam Books
414 East Golf Road
Des Plains, IL 60016

Audio version also available; see card 6 for access info and to hear sound clip.
@@

##A 04 36089 504
##T Anatomy of an Illness
Anatomy of an Illness

@@
Anatomy of an Illness (Tape Version)
Dan Lazar, Reader
4 1-hour cassettes
Rental $9.50
Purchase $32 ($34.50 postpaid)
from:

Books on Tape
P.O. Box 7900
Newport Beach, CA  92658
800-626-3333
@@

##A 04 101152 506
##T Emergency Medical Guide
Emergency Medical Guide

@@

No special knowledge or skill is required to use this up-to-date first aid guide, though one might wish for a less academic tone of voice. ÒEmergencyÓ doesnÕt just mean accident, eitherÑthere are instructions for treating acute illness and delivering a baby away from medical assistance. An anatomy lesson is included to help you understand whatÕs going on, and there is a good bit of emergency prevention advice. Everybody should have this sort of knowledge available, preferably in their head.          
                                                                            
                                                                    Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 04 101495 507
##T Emergency Medical Guide
Emergency Medical Guide

@@
John Henderson, M. D.
Fourth Edition 1978; 681 pp.
ISBN 0070281696
$7.95 postpaid 
from:

McGraw Hill Book Co.
Professional Publishing Services
P. O. Box 400
Hightstown, NJ 08520
609-426-7600
@@

##A 04 73535 510
##T Medicine for Mountaineering
Medicine for Mountaineering

@@

Medicine for Mountaineering provides a detailed discussion of 
first aid in situations where there is no doctor around the corner. It accents the psychology involved in boondock emergenciesÑa critical aspect that is only now being recognized.

                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin




Ù Mountaineering
@@

##A 04 91337 511
##T Medicine for Mountaineering
Medicine for Mountaineering

@@
J. A. Wilkerson, M. D., Editor
Third Edition 1985; 440 pp.
ISBN 0898860865
$11.95 postpaid 
from:

Mountaineer Books
306 Second Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
800-553-4453
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##A 04 11357 515
##T Mountaineering First Aid
Mountaineering First Aid

@@

First aid books tell you what to do Õtil the doctor comes. But what if the doctor isnÕt coming? Mountaineering First Aid is a brief, light booklet outlining seven steps (including basic first aid) that will help Òstabilize the situation.Ó The steps are intended to help you organize and keep psychologically cool under trying circumstances. First aid is only part of it; you must insure the safety of the other members of the party and get everyone back to safety. Good stuff to know for anyone who ventures beyond the parking lot. 

                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 04 102630 516
##T Mountaineering First Aid
Mountaineering First Aid

@@
Martha J. Lentz, Ph.D., R.N., et al.
Third Edition 1985; 112 pp.
ISBN 089886092X
$4.95 postpaid 
from:

Mountaineer Books
306 Second Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
800-5534453
@@

##A 04 103794 519
##T A Sigh of Relief
A Sigh of Relief


@@

This is an ultra-simple first aid handbook for childhood emergencies. Some would say too simple, but itÕll get things started and may greatly decrease unnecessary worry. The large format and bold index make it easy to find what you need fast. Just the thing for babysitters. 

                                                                       Ñ J. Baldwin



Ù Parenting
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##A 04 104149 520
##T A Sigh of Relief
A Sigh of Relief


@@
(The First Aid Handbook for Childhood Emergencies)
Martin I. Green
Updated Edition 1984; 264 pp.
ISBN 0553340905
$12.95 ($14.45 postpaid)
from:

Bantam Books
414 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
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##A 04 59301 523
##T Guide to Dental Health
Guide to Dental Health

@@

This special issue of The Journal of the  American Dental Association shows you how to care for the family fangs.

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 04 63720 524
##T Guide to Dental Health
Guide to Dental Health

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Journal of the American Dental Association Guide to Dental Health
William F. Wathen, D. M. D., Editor
52 pp.
ISSN 00028177
$3 postpaid from:

American Dental Association
Subscription Dept. CG-29 
211 East Chicago Avenue 
Chicago, IL 60611
312-440-2500

Special Issue of JADA (The Journal of the American Dental Association)
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##A 04 209455 525
##T How to Save Your Teeth
How to Save Your Teeth

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It takes implacable discipline to keep those choppers chipper, but it can be done. This book explains how to do it (in case your dentist hasnÕt) and explains most of the other dental procedures youÕre likely to encounter in this mortal coil.

                                                                   Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 04 209707 526
##T How to Save Your Teeth
How to Save Your Teeth

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(The Preventative Approach)
Howard B. Marshall, D. D. S.
1980; 334 pp.
ISBN 0140465073
$5.95 ($6.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120 
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600(NJ)
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##A 04 211744 529
##T Dental Emergency Kit
Dental Emergency Kit


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Worst Fears Confirmed Department:  YouÕre about halfway down the Colorado River on that long-dreamed-of (and expensive) ten-day raft trip and a filling falls out, leaving you in attention-demanding pain.  The butterfly bandages and iodine in the first aid kit arenÕt going to help save the day, but this dental emergency kit likely will; it has everything you need to take care of most unexpected tooth terrors.  A booklet tells you what to do.
                                                               
                                                                  ÑJ. Baldwin

This was extremely difficult to track downÑif there is even a remote chance you could use this I highly recommend ordering as itÕs becoming increasingly rare.               Ñ Candida Kutz
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##A 04 212075 530
##T Dental Emergency Kit
Dental Emergency Kit


@@

$9.99 ($13.24 postpaid)
from:

Brigade Quartermasters
1025 Cobb International Blvd.
Kennesaw, GA 30144-4349
800-228-7344

Kit is manufactured by :
Advanced Bio Systems, Inc.
Dental Care Division                                                    80 East Hawthorne Avenue
Valley Stream, NY 11580
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##A 04 210735 531
##T Where There Is No Dentist
Where There Is No Dentist

@@

This is a manual for those with no knowledge of dentistry but who nonetheless have been appointed by the fates to do some. The book is thorough, cautious, and illustrated well enough to upset the squeamish. If you expect to work in less-developed countries or other bush situations, you might need to know all this. The same outfit also publishes Where There Is No Doctor. 
                                                                                   
                                                                 Ñ J. Baldwin



Ù Where There Is No Doctor
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##A 04 211078 532
##T Where There Is No Dentist
Where There Is No Dentist

@@
Murray Dickson
1983; 195 pp.
ISBN 0942364058
$4.50 postpaid 
from:

The Hesperian Foundation
P. O. Box 1692
Palo Alto, CA 94302
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##A 04 50565 535
##T The PeopleÕs Pharmacy Series
The PeopleÕs Pharmacy Series

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The GraedonsÕ four volumes are the books on drugs for the general reader. Written by a pharmacologist who knows his stuff and shoots from the hip, The PeopleÕs Pharmacy series helped create the current medical consumer revolution and remains the most personable and readable assemblage of self-care information, opinions, and recommendations on prescription and over-the-counter drugs currently available.

The Graedons provide an excellent overview and hit all the high points.

                                                       Ñ Tom Ferguson, M.D.
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##A 04 50905 536
##T The PeopleÕs Pharmacy Series
The PeopleÕs Pharmacy Series

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The PeopleÕs Pharmacy: Totally New and Revised  
Joe Graedon
1977,1988
ISBN 0312904991
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

St. MartinÕs Press
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY  10010
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##A 04 233469 537
##T The PeopleÕs Pharmacy Series
The PeopleÕs Pharmacy Series

@@
The PeopleÕs Pharmacy-2
Joe and Teresa Graedon
1980; 468 pp.
ISBN 0380760592
$5.95 ($6.95 postpaid)
from:

Avon Books
P. O. Box 767
Dresden, TN 38225
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##A 04 51265 538
##T The PeopleÕs Pharmacy Series
The PeopleÕs Pharmacy Series

@@
Joe GraedonÕs New PeopleÕs Pharmacy #3
(Drug Breakthroughs of the Õ80s)
Joe and Teresa Graedon
1985; 427 pp.
ISBN 0553341340
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

Bantam Books
414 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
@@

##A 04 51114 539
##T The PeopleÕs Pharmacy Series
The PeopleÕs Pharmacy Series

@@
Fifty-Plus GraedonsÕ PeopleÕs Pharmacy for Older Adults  
Joe and Teresa Graedon
1988; 459 pp.
ISBN 0553344854
$13.95 ($15.45 postpaid)
from:

Bantam Books
414 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
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##A 04 60198 543
##T The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs
The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs

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A drug encyclopedia, my favorite. The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs is one of the most detailed and easily the most usable of the breed. It contains in-depth listings of the 200+ most frequently prescribed drugs, complete with mode of action, side effects, contraindications, time required for benefit, recommended follow-up exams, interactions with other drugs, and  Ñespecially hard to findÑuse during pregnancy and breastfeeding. No opinions or recommendations here, just the facts. 

                                                            Ñ Tom Ferguson, M.D.
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##A 04 60579 544
##T The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs
The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs

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James W. Long, M. D.
1988; 994 pp.
ISBN 006096233X
$10.95 ($12.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Kaystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
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##A 04 22503 548
##T The Essential Guide to Nonprescription Drugs
The Essential Guide to Nonprescription Drugs

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Equally as good as The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs (see previous review) is this massive book, covering over-the-counter
remedies.  ItÕs the perfect antidote to  20-second shampoo commercials Ñ here you get 20 pages on anti-dandruff ingredients Ñ     and comparable treatment for scores of other substances.

                                                             Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 04 22785 549
##T The Essential Guide to Nonprescription Drugs
The Essential Guide to Nonprescription Drugs

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David R. Zimmerman
1987; 886 pp.
ISBN 0060910232
$12.95 ($14.95 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
@@

##A 04 54367 553
##T PLANT POWER INTRODUCTION
PLANT POWER INTRODUCTION

@@

PLANTS, OF COURSE, are subject to as much moralizing as anything else. They provide our essential powerÑthe energy to live, the medicines to be cured of diseases, the materials for clothes and shelter, and the relief from ordinary, everyday experience. In preparing this section, we were shocked by how many books on all aspects of plant power had disappeared. It felt like modern humans wished to hide, and in some sense, deny the massive vegetative influences in their lives. So, with respect and rebelliousness, this cluster has mostly out-of-print books. Hopefully, the carrots and the ayahuasca understand.

                                                            Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 04 55508 555
##T Medicines from the Earth
Medicines from the Earth

@@

Has 250 of the plants most used for complaints and ailments. Cross-referenced by plant, illness, preparation (teas, compresses, etc.); best season to collect; and by chemical constituents discovered by pharmacologists. ItÕs the best modern Òherbal.Ó


                                                                 Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 04 55912 556
##T Medicines from the Earth
Medicines from the Earth

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(A Guide to Healing Plants)
William A. R. Thomson, M.D., Editor
Revised by Richard Evans Schultes
1978; 179 pp.
ISBN 0912383011
$12.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
@@

##A 04 7338 559
##T Plants of the Gods
Plants of the Gods

@@

Richard Evans Schultes has been the nexus of almost everything interesting and supportive concerned with economic and cultural uses of plants. This book gives precise and illuminating portraits of the many peoples of Earth who pay homage and gain insights with the aid of psychedelic plants: an exquisite, thoroughly scholarly book.

                                                          Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 04 266742 560
##T Plants of the Gods
Plants of the Gods

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(Origins of Hallucinogenic Use)
Richard Evans Schultes 
and Albert Hoffmann
1979; 192 pp.
ISBN 091283372
$16.95 ($19.95 postpaid)
from:

Van der Marck Editions
1133 Broadway
Suite 1301
New York, NY 10010
@@

##A 04 246964 562
##T The Body Electric
The Body Electric

@@

This book is almost as annoying as it is astounding.  Robert Becker is an orthopedic surgeon who spent most of his career studying bone-healing, tissue regeneration and the biological role of electromagnetic currents and fields.  He wanted to find out how and why some animals could regenerate entire limbs and even vital organs and hoped that some of this resilience could be unlocked in the human body.  Early on, he read reports from the Soviet Union about Òcurrents of injuryÓ Ñweak electrical flows in plants and animals that seemed to have something to do with tissue repair.  In the West, bioelectricity was regarded as a subject unfit for serious research . . . .
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##A 04 247220 564
##T The Body Electric
The Body Electric

@@
(Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life)
Robert O. Becker, M. D.
and Gary Selden
1985; 364 pp.
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

William Morrow & Co.
Wilmor Warehouse
39 Plymouth Street
Fairfield, NJ 07006
201-227-7200
@@

##A 04 259784 567
##T The Web That Has No Weaver
The Web That Has No Weaver

@@

Everyone working with acupuncture and oriental herbs says that this is by far the best introductory book on understanding Chinese medicine.  The author anticipates questions that an informed, Western-trained doctor might ask, and gracefully weaves his explanations with these in mind, sewing together Western and Eastern conceptions of the body.

                                                               ÑKevin Kelly
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##A 04 273233 568
##T The Web That Has No Weaver
The Web That Has No Weaver

@@
(Understanding Chinese Medicine)
Ted J. Kaptchuk. O. M. D.
1983; 402 pp.
ISBN 0809229331Z
$11.95 postpaid
from:

Contemporary Books
180 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60601
@@

##A 04 136164 573
##T MEDICAL SELF-CARE INTRODUCTION
MEDICAL SELF-CARE INTRODUCTION


@@

Our principal reviewer of things medical is Tom Ferguson, M.D. He founded Medical Self-Care magazine twelve years ago when such ideas were considered radical. These days, heÕs extended his practice to include Self-Care Productions, based in Austin, Texas. 
                                                                       
                                                                 Ñ J. Baldwin

ÒBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.Ó
                                                                       
                                                                Ñ Mark Twain
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##A 04 137038 574
##T Take Care of Yourself
Take Care of Yourself


@@
One of the most useful tools to come out of the new paramedic training programs is the clinical algorithmÑbig, detailed flow charts, one for each of the common medical complaints (such as sore throat, dizziness, low back pain) that might bring a person to a medical clinic. They tell you the key questions to ask to decide whether the person needs to see the doctor NOW, needs to see the doctor sometime soon, or if home remedies are indicated.

The heart of this book is the 94 most commonly used clinical algorithms, presented in full-page size with nice graphics. There are additional chapters on skills for the medical consumer such as how to find a physician.
                                                             
                                                      Ñ Tom Ferguson, M.D.
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##A 04 137365 575
##T Take Care of Yourself
Take Care of Yourself


@@
(The ConsumerÕs Guide to Medical Care)
Donald M. Vickery, M. D. 
and James F. Fries, M. D.
Third Edition 1981; 370 pp.
ISBN 0201080915
$14.38 ($15.32 postpaid)
from:

Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
1 Jacob Way
Reading, MA 01867
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##A 04 140289 577
##T Medical Self-Care Magazine
Medical Self-Care Magazine

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This magazine was founded twelve years ago by the very same Tom Ferguson, M.D., whose medical reviews have graced our pages for a like period. As you might guess, the magazine encourages wellness  Ñtaking care of yourself to stay healthy. Articles are current, authoritative, and mercifully free of fearmongering, hype, and fad. The issue I have here on my desk has a thorough article on something I recently needed to know about: Are the new Urgent Care CentersÑoften found in shopping mallsÑany good, or are they 
ÒMedical McDonalds?Ó (The article says theyÕre mostly OK, and cost about half of a hospital emergency room. Turned out to be true.) Useful stuff. The book reviews are particularly good.
 
                                                                 Ñ J. Baldwin
Ù Hippocrates
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##A 04 140575 578
##T Medical Self-Care Magazine
Medical Self-Care Magazine

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Michael Castleman, Editor
ISSN 01622285
$15/year (6 issues)
from:

Medical Self-Care
P.O. Box 1000
Point Reyes, CA 94956
415-663-8462
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##A 04 166393 580
##T National Self-Help Clearinghouse (NSHC)
National Self-Help Clearinghouse (NSHC)

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If you have a pressing social or health concern, thereÕs probably a corresponding self-help group. There are now an estimated 500,000 groups in the U.S. aloneÑwith 20 million members. NSHC is a clearinghouse for all U.S. (and many international) self-help organizations. If you want to find an arthritis support group in San Jose or the chapter of Parents Without Partners nearest to Goshen, Indiana, theyÕre the ones to ask. They publish a newsletter and a journal (Social Policy) and can provide information on current self-help research, advice on starting your own group, and addresses for the twenty-odd regional self-help clearinghouses that have sprung up around the U.S. within recent years. 
 
                                                                   Ñ Tom Ferguson, M.D.
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##A 04 166450 581
##T National Self-Help Clearinghouse (NSHC)
National Self-Help Clearinghouse (NSHC)

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National Self-Help Clearinghouse (NSHC)
Information free (with SASE) 
from:

National Self-Help Clearinghouse 
(NSHC)
33 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
212-840-1259
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##A 04 20412 582
##T National Self-Help Clearinghouse (NSHC)
National Self-Help Clearinghouse (NSHC)

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Social Policy
Frank Riessman and Alan Gartner, Editors
ISSN 00377783
$20/year (4 issues)
from:

Social Policy
33 West 42nd Street
Room 1212
New York, NY 10036
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##A 04 90730 585
##T The New Holistic Health Handbook
The New Holistic Health Handbook

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For some of us around this office, the very word holistic is usually taken as sufficient cause for rejecting a book as airheaded. Fortunately, this Handbook gets right to work presenting a comprehensive overview of the alternatives to conventional medical practice. Homeopathy, Rolfing, healing with sound, biofeedback, herbs, yoga, acupuncture, and Native American methods are all here. So are a whole bunch of ideas youÕve probably never heard of even if you live in California. YouÕll have heard of many of the presenters though; Ph.Ds and M.D.s abound 
(including Tom Ferguson, M.D.). The information is solid and informative, enthusiastic but not annoyingly proselytizing. This is probably the best place to learn about alternative ways of healing.                                
                                                                             
                                                                         Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 04 138310 586
##T The New Holistic Health Handbook
The New Holistic Health Handbook

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(Living Well in a New Age)
Shepherd Bliss, Editor
1985; 429 pp
ISBN 0828905614
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120
Begenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600(NJ)
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##A 04 53721 590
##T Complete Home Medical Guide
Complete Home Medical Guide

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This has become my favorite medical encyclopedia.

Virtually anything you need to know about medicine at home is in here. I now rely mainly on two books: HarrisonÕs Principles of Internal Medicine (the classic text used in most medical schools) and this one, which is written for the lay person. For a book written by an Ivy League med school, it is surprisingly supportive of pediatrics for parents and other medical self-care. Four stars.
 
                       Ñ Michael Castleman (editor of Medical Self-Care)
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##A 04 164584 591
##T Complete Home Medical Guide
Complete Home Medical Guide

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The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide
Donald F. Tapley, M. D. et al, Medical Editors
1985; 911 pp.
ISBN 0517558424
$39.95 ($41.95 postpaid) from:

Crown Publishers
225 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10003
800-526-4264
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##A 04 278469 594
##T Headaches: The Drugless Way to Lasting Relief!
Headaches: The Drugless Way to Lasting Relief!

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The bookstore I used to work in sold out of its 3 copies of this book in as many days. (Very good for an independent.)  Obviously the book succeeds in filling a niche. I myself tried the trapezius muscle massage when suffering from one of my frequent headaches and was blissfully relieved. Some of the theory in this book is hokey; nonetheless the relief techniques described 
(including scalp massage with a brush, Òfacial calisthenics,Ó 
and acupressure) more than make up for HeadachesÕ shortcomings.
                                                                
                                                                  ÑCandida Kutz

Ù Alternative Body Views
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##A 04 278695 595
##T Headaches: The Drugless Way to Lasting Relief!
Headaches: The Drugless Way to Lasting Relief!

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Harry C. Ehrmantraut, Ph. D.
1987; 137 pp.
ISBN 0890874905
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Celestial Arts
P. O. Box 7327
Berkeley, CA  94707
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##A 04 162074 597
##T The PeopleÕs Book of Medical Tests
The PeopleÕs Book of Medical Tests

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ItÕs your choice:  a possible disease or a dangerous diagnostic 
testÑeither of which may be detrimental to your health. Before slipping into a hospital gown, IÕm going to consult this book. It tallies up the recognized risks of common medical tests (pain, expenses, and complications). ItÕll also give the honest details of each procedure, its preparation, and the normal range of results so I can ask the doctor intelligent questions afterwards. It could help me avoid an unnecessary operation or medication, and for that IÕll give it my kiss of eternal gratitude.  One quarter of this book addresses medical tests that can be done at home and evaluates them in the same careful manner.                        
                                                                          
                                                             Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 04 162352 598
##T The PeopleÕs Book of Medical Tests
The PeopleÕs Book of Medical Tests

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David S. Sobel, M. D. 
and Tom Ferguson
1985; 510 pp.
ISBN 0671553771
$12.95 ($14.40 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
Order Dept.
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 04 185546 602
##T Take This Book to the Hospital With You
Take This Book to the Hospital With You

@@

When hurt, maybe dying, who doesnÕt tend to kowtow to someone who offers to make everything OK again? The illness of modern medicine is that it abuses this time of natural deference. It has forgotten that the patient is part of the cure. Take This Book stridently urges all bodies to restore their roles in the healing wards. Take this book to the hospital with you and youÕll make yourself a better patient, your doctor a better doctor, and your hospital a better place to get well.                     
                                                                   
                                                              Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 04 185639 603
##T Take This Book to the Hospital With You
Take This Book to the Hospital With You

@@
(A ConsumerÕs Guide to Surviving Your Hospital Stay)
Charles B. Inlander and Ed Weiner
1985; 221 pp.
ISBN 0878575375
$9.95 postpaid 
from:

Rodale Press
33 East Minor Street
Emmaus, PA 18098
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##A 04 144476 607
##T Planetree Health Resource Center
Planetree Health Resource Center

@@

Planetree started as a laypersonÕs medical library. (If you think thatÕs nothing special, try getting useful health or specific disease information at your local library.) Now with more than two thousand volumes, itÕs a model for similar efforts in other cities. In 1986 Planetree opened a Model Hospital Unit in Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco. A ward has been transformed into a friendly place where patients can interact with their families, recreating in the lounge, cooperating in treatment, and even preparing healthy meals themselves. Instant success!
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##A 04 144905 609
##T Planetree Health Resource Center
Planetree Health Resource Center

@@
Membership $20/year (includes subscription to Planetalk newsletter) from:

Planetree Health Resource Center
2040 Webster Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
415-923-3680

Recommended books list free
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##A 04 165167 610
##T The PeopleÕs Medical Society
The PeopleÕs Medical Society

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Doctors have the American Medical Association to look after their interests. Hospitals have the American Hospital Association. Now health consumers have the PeopleÕs Medical Society (PMS). PMS now has more than 70,000 active members. The group was established in response to the Ògrowing cost and depersonalization of medical care, and the monopolistic excesses of the medical profession.Ó In addition to pro-consumer lobbying on health issues, PMS provides a newsletter and other publications to help its members: avoid unnecessary medical care; save money on the care they do need; obtain access to the medical information they need; become experts on the health issues which concern them; join together with other local consumers to provide
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##A 04 165603 612
##T The People's Medical Society
The People's Medical Society

@@
Membership $15/year
(includes bimonthly newsletter)
Information free from:

The PeopleÕs Medical Society
14 East Minor Street
Emmaus, PA 18049
215-967-2136
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##A 04 259544 613
##T How to Start a PeopleÕs Medical Library
How to Start a PeopleÕs Medical Library

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This booklet, published by the PeopleÕs Medical Society (PMS) in cooperation with Planetree, should help spread the Planetree and PMS philosophy of humanistic healthcare.
                                                                
                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 04 260367 614
##T How to Start a PeopleÕs Medical Library
How to Start a PeopleÕs Medical Library

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Ed Weiner, PeopleÕs Medical Society with Planetree Health Resource Center
1983; 35 pp.
$2.95 ($4.45 postpaid)
from:

Planetree Health Resource Center
2040 Webster Street
San Francisco, CA  94115
415-923-3680
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##A 04 141391 617
##T The Medical Self-Care Catalog
The Medical Self-Care Catalog

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A catalog of self-help medical tools put together by Medical Self-Care publisher Carole Pisarczyk. The catalog carries all kinds of handy gadgets to help you stay in shape and deal with health problems on your ownÑyou can order your own black bag of medical tools, the ultimate back support cushion for your car, a heating pad that supplies moist heat, an otoscope for examining your kidÕs ears, a doctor-quality bathroom scale, a childÕs stethoscope, a vaginal speculum, an ovulation thermometer, a super-duper first aid kit, a chinning bar that slips into any door frame, and, as they say, much, much more.

                                                                    Ñ Tom Ferguson, M.D.
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##A 04 141652 618
##T The Medical Self-Care Catalog
The Medical Self-Care Catalog

@@
Catalog free from:

The Medical Self-Care Catalog
P.O. Box 999
Point Reyes, CA 94956
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##A 04 170517 623
##T GROWING OLDER INTRODUCTION
GROWING OLDER INTRODUCTION

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If we can let go of the trite image the words evoke, Òsenior citizenÓ is actually a lovely and respectful appellation. Alex Comfort wrote,  Ò ÔOldÕ people are people who have lived a certain number of years, and that is all.Ó I appreciate the sentiment, but that isnÕt quite all: old people are people who have had more experience, learned more, seen and felt and, perhaps, understood more than young people. A long life deserves to be capped with the honorific ÒseniorÓÑmay we all achieve it some day.

The marketplace is rapidly filling with advice on how to ÒbeÓ old. Many of these books repeat each other, dipping into topics in shallow, even patronizing ways. Older people donÕt really need different nutrition or exercises merely because of age; common
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##A 04 171845 625
##T Sourcebook for Older Americans
Sourcebook for Older Americans


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It is unfortunate that the governmentÕs provision of basic financial support for older people requires 250-plus pages to explain, but it does. Given the almost incomprehensible nature of the current Social Security and Medicare system, anyone using it is best equipped with a tour guide. This book, while failing to make a complex system exactly simple, explains it in far simpler and more patient language than you will ever hear on the phoneÑ  that is, if you ever get off hold. 

                                                                   Ñ Sallie Tisdale
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##A 04 172183 626
##T Sourcebook for Older Americans
Sourcebook for Older Americans


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Joseph L. Matthews with 
Dorothy Matthews Berman
1984; 274 pp.
ISBN 0917316932
$12.95 ($14.45 postpaid)
from:

Nolo Press
950 Parker Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
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##A 04 172898 629
##T Elderhostel
Elderhostel

@@
Elderhostel offers an international program of classes and seminars for people over 60. (Spouses under 60 and companions over 50 are welcome too.) You can study aborigine culture in Australia, barns of Vermont, dance, religion . . . itÕs an impressive and ever-changing list. The prices are low and may include travel fare, room and board. Scholarships are available. The catalog is exuberant, and the people involved seem to share that feeling. We hear 100 percent good news about Elderhostel, both from 
ÒstudentsÓ and leaders. 

                                                                   Ñ J. Baldwin
 
Ù TRAVEL
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##A 04 173273 630
##T Elderhostel
Elderhostel

@@
Catalog free from:

Elderhostel
80 Boylston Street
Suite 400
Boston, MA 02116
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##A 04 174260 633
##T The Senior Citizen Handbook
The Senior Citizen Handbook

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Written by two retired teachers who have sped up with age, this encyclopedic book touches on many subjects of particular interest to seniors. YouÕll find good information (including current addresses and bibliographies) on such disparate matters as pets, spots before your eyes, credit discrimination, swindlers, taxes, and senior citizen discounts. The authors talk as peers, never down, although I could wish for more detail on certain medical points. 

                                                            Ñ Sallie Tisdale
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##A 04 46457 635
##T Gray Panthers Project Fund, Inc.
Gray Panthers Project Fund, Inc.

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A national organization of old (and young) people working for social change related to issues affecting the elderly.
                                                           
                                                              Ñ Sallie Tisdale
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##A 04 47600 636
##T Gray Panthers Project Fund
Gray Panthers Project Fund

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Gray Panthers Project Fund    
Membership dues on a graduated scale range from $5 to $25.
Members receive Network, the organizationÕs quarterly newspaper and local chapter publications.
Information free (with SASE)
from:

Gray Panthers Project Fund
311 South Juniper Street 
Suite 601
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-545-6555
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##A 04 214389 637
##T Gray Panthers Project Fund
Gray Panthers Project Fund

@@
Network
$12/year (4 issues)
from:

Gray Panthers Project Fund
311 South Juniper Street 
Suite 601
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-545-6555
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##A 04 49809 638
##T Sound Sex and the Aging Heart
Sound Sex and the Aging Heart

@@

Aging neednÕt decrease the old libido. Heart problems or the fear of Òdying in the saddleÓ neednÕt ruin your sex life.
                                                                        
                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin 


Ù SEX
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##A 04 42091 639
##T Sound Sex and the Aging Heart
Sound Sex and the Aging Heart

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Lee D. Scheingold and 
Nathaniel N. Wagner
1974; 168 pp.
$19.95 postpaid from:

Human Sciences Press
Order Dept.
72 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10011
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##A 04 152551 642
##T Who Dies?
Who Dies?

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No Grim Reaper and no sappy platitudes lurk in these pages. The gentle, powerful philosophy is based on love and awareness in the best Buddhist sense. ItÕs about being. There are few books in this catalog that have been recommended by so many of our readers. Perhaps thatÕs because Who Dies? is such a good recipe for living.

                                             Ñ J. Baldwin 
                                             [Suggested and tested by Peter Rabbit]
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##A 04 152774 643
##T Who Dies?
Who Dies?

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(An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying)
Stephen Levine
1982; 317 pp.
ISBN 0385170106
$9.95 postpaid from:

Doubleday and Company
Direct Mail Order
501 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
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##A 04 154842 646
##T On Death and Dying
On Death and Dying


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On Death and Dying establishes a psychological fact that most people close to a dying person already know, even if they canÕt admit it: one tends to turn away. Even from husbands, even from wives, even from oneÕs own children. Dying people are casualties of life. Their dying, especially if it is a long, drawn-out affair, is a reminder of how vulnerable we all are, and thatÕs something most people want to forget. This is a powerful book, because it forces the reader into the point of view of someone dying. Suddenly youÕre on the other side of that glass between the living and the dying, and itÕs not comfortable. But, as Elisabeth Kubler-Ross points out, the point is not always to ÒcomfortÓ the healthy. That tendency is a major cause of the intense psychic suffering dying people must endure, in addition to the physical failures that
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##A 04 155219 648
##T On Death and Dying
On Death and Dying


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Elisabeth KŸbler-Ross, M. D.
1969; 289 pp.
ISBN 002089130X
$4.95 postpaid from:

Macmillan Publishing Co.
Order Dept.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
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##A 04 46072 651
##T How to make your own coffin
How to make your own coffin

@@

Simple, easy-to-follow instructions on making your own pine coffin.  Helps your loved ones beat the high cost of dying.
                                                     
                                                               Ñ Mark Faigenbaum 
                                                         





Ù Dealing Creatively with Death
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##A 04 46206 652
##T How to make your own coffin
How to make your own coffin

@@

Information and plans $3.25 postpaid  from:

St. Francis Center
2201 P Street NW 
Washington, DC 20037
202-363-8500
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##A 04 156358 656
##T Dealing Creatively with Death
Dealing Creatively with Death

@@

All the details you need to know about simple funeral arrangements and other practical aspects of dealing with death are in this famous book. 

                                                            Ñ Sallie Tisdale





Ù How to make your own coffin
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##A 04 156429 657
##T Dealing Creatively with Death
Dealing Creatively with Death

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(A Manual of Death Education and Simple Burial)
Ernest Morgan
11th Edition 1988; 192 pp.
ISBN 0914064266
$9 ($10.50 postpaid) from:

The Celo Press
1901 Hannah Branch Road 
Burnsville, NC 28714
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##A 04 153821 659
##T Recovering From the Loss of a Child
Recovering From the Loss of a Child

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Who would argue that there is a worse experience than the sudden loss of a child? It would be a moot argument; for those who have been through it, nothing can compare.  Katherine Donnelly begins with the premise that, contrary to our social myths, bereaved parents desperately want to talk about their pain. Silence is their worst enemy. Here she tells, beginning with the death, the stories of many families who have lived this nightmare. She follows them, with sensitive descriptions, to that far-off land of recovery.

                                                              Ñ Sallie Tisdale
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##A 04 43307 660
##T Recovering From the Loss of a Child
Recovering From the Loss of a Child

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Katherine F. Donnelly
1982; 226 pp.
ISBN 0025321501
$13.94 postpaid from:

Macmillan Publishing Co.
Order Dept.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
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##A 04 43135 662
##T The ExecutorÕs Manual
The ExecutorÕs Manual

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Executors and executrixes need to know everything in this thorough book. 

                                                                  Ñ Sallie Tisdale
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##A 04 44169 663
##T The ExecutorÕs Manual
The ExecutorÕs Manual

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Charles K. Plotnick 
and Stephan R. Leimberg
1986; 462 pp.
ISBN 0385279485
$17.50 postpaid  from:

Doubleday & Company
Direct Mail Order
501 Franklin Avenue 
Garden City, NJ 11530
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##A 04 145872 667
##T HOSPICE INTRODUCTION
HOSPICE INTRODUCTION



@@
Hospice is an attitude, not a place or process. It refers to the approach of comfort rather than cure, involvement of the patient and his or her family in all aspects of care, and especially, the meeting of every need the patient expresses, whenever possible. Hospice is the way we used to take care of our elderly and ill fellows, without thinking.  A positive step backward. 
                                                                      
                                                                  Ñ Sallie Tisdale
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##A 04 146770 668
##T Dying at Home with Hospice
Dying at Home with Hospice

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This prosaic overview of hospice care is aimed at families and potential recipients. The book includes an interesting history of care for the dying, basic physical care, and problems unique to dying children. It isnÕt just about home care; in-hospital and independent hospices are also discussed. ThereÕs a list of hospices, too. 
                                                                   Ñ Sallie Tisdale
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##A 04 147067 669
##T Dying at Home with Hospice
Dying at Home with Hospice

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Deborah Chase
1986; 204 pp.
ISBN 0801609593
$15.95 postpaid from:

C.V. Mosby
11830 Westline
Industrial Drive
St. Louis, MO 63146
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##A 04 149010 671
##T Hospice: Complete Care for the Terminally Ill
Hospice: Complete Care for the Terminally Ill

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The physical experience of dying has long been ignored by writers of medical texts. At last, an accurate, easy-to-read textbook on dying and hospice care, useful for physicians, nurses, and support workers. Covers physical, psychological, spiritual, and ethical issues with an aggressively liberal perspective.
                                                       
                                                             - Sallie Tisdale



Ù Who Dies?
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##A 04 149317 672
##T Hospice: Complete Care for the Terminally Ill
Hospice: Complete Care for the Terminally Ill

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Jack M. Zimmerman, M.D.
Second Edition 1986; 311 pp.
ISBN 0806722126
$34.50 postpaid from:

Urban and Schwarzenberg
7 East Redwood Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
301-539-2550
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##A 04 147731 675
##T Gramp
Gramp


@@

A remarkable, difficult book. With starkly beautiful photographs and almost painfully frank narrative, Gramp tells the story of a respected, popular man as he declines into senility and finally dies. His loving family cares for him to the last day, shunning all manner of ÒhelpÓ aimed at masking or prolonging GrampÕs condition. It is a rare and honest story which shows us pictures of an old man naked in a bare room and, later, the same man newly dead; such images are imbued with a palpable affection. A unique and enlightening book.                                           
                                                                       
                                                            Ñ Sallie Tisdale
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##A 04 148082 676
##T Gramp
Gramp


@@
Mark and Dan Jury
ISBN 0140045260
OUT OF PRINT

Viking Penguin Books




Look for this in your local library
or used bookstore; even betterÑwrite the publisher requesting it back in print.
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##A 04 243738 680
##T SUICIDE INTRODUCTION
SUICIDE INTRODUCTION

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About 30,000 people kill themselves in the United States every year. An estimated ten to forty times that number try to kill themselves but donÕt dieÑeither because they donÕt really want to die, or because they donÕt know how.

Suicide attempters go through ordeals on top of the ordeals that made them want to die in the first place. When I was researching a long article about suicide in 1982, I heard about a woman who jumped from a high building and hit a parked car several stories below, but didnÕt die. Instead she was wheeled, conscious, to the local emergency room. She spent the next year in bed, her still-suicidal mind the only functioning part of her body.
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##A 04 70463 684
##T SUICIDE INTRODUCTION
SUICIDE INTRODUCTION

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Suicide Prevention Hotline 

800-333-4444
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##A 04 71202 685
##T The Hemlock Society
The Hemlock Society

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The Hemlock group counsels people who face terminal illness and would rather die quickly and painlessly first. Their book describes several case histories and techniques. Personally, I believe most people facing painful death would be better served by other optionsÑhospice care, home care, or pain relief centers. However, HemlockÕs newsletter and book (Let Me Die Before I Wake) can guide the people who need it toward a prepared, graceful exit  
Ñthat doesnÕt emotionally wound the people left behind. Reading about voluntary euthanasia makes suicide seem less like a romantic escape and more like a tedious chore. 

                                                                    Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 04 71508 686
##T The Hemlock Society
The Hemlock Society

@@
The Hemlock Society
Membership $20/year
(Includes Hemlock Quarterly Newsletter)
Information free from:

Hemlock Society
P. O. Box 66218
Los Angeles, CA 90066
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##A 04 33426 687
##T The Hemlock Society
The Hemlock Society

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Let Me Die Before I Wake
Derek Humphry
1984; 132 pp.
ISBN 0394620224
$10 ($12 postpaid) from:

Hemlock Society
P. O. Box 66218
Los Angeles, CA 90066
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##A 04 72211 689
##T After Suicide
After Suicide

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How to recover from the devastating fact that someone you love has committed a suicide at you. This book has what you might not expect from a series called Christian Care Books: lots of insight, some solid taboo-busting, no rejection of non-Christians and hardly any preaching.                                             
                                                                   
                                                              Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 04 72474 690
##T After Suicide
After Suicide

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John H. Hewett
1980; 119 pp.
ISBN 0664242960
$7.95 ($8.95 postpaid) from:

The Westminster Press
925 Chestnut
Philadelphia, PA 19107
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##A 04 85942 694
##T SEX INTRODUCTION 
SEX INTRODUCTION 

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Three recent trends make access to good information about sex more important than ever.  First, the highly visible controversies about pornography and abortion (which have the effect, in my opinion, of obscuring useful personal information).  Second, the rise of the VCRÕs popularity and the growing number of sexual videotapes.  Third, the proliferation of sexually transmitted diseases.  Here are the essentials. 

                                                               ÑArt Kleiner
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##A 04 263612 695
##T The Sexuality Library
The Sexuality Library

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One of the most delicate and potentially embarrassing situations I dealt with as a long time bookseller was that of helping a customer choose appropriate books on sexuality.  

Acutely aware of this, and of the need for access to better sex education for allÑchildren to older adults, gays, straights, and bisexualsÑsex educator Joani Blank (owner of Good Vibrations; see review this section) has come up with a simple solution.

The Sexuality Library offers a mail-order service of sexual self-help books thoughtfully (and with obvious love) selected by a panel of sex educators, and Good Vibrations customers and staff.  You wonÕt find books specifically on AIDS or other sexually
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##A 04 263826 697
##T The Sexuality Library
The Sexuality Library

@@
Catalog $1.00 from:

The Sexuality Library
3385 22nd Street
San Francisco, CA  94110
415-550-0912
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##A 04 190615 705
##T THE JOY OF SEX SERIES
THE JOY OF SEX SERIES

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If a book is judged on how profoundly it affects peopleÕs lives, and how many lives it reaches, this book is one of the all-time greats. You canÕt read it without trying some of the ideas in it, and those lead to others, and human relationships grow steadily warmer. In the writing, the content, and the illustrations, warmth is what the book is about. And imagination, and variety. Contact. Health.
                                                                    
                                                               Ñ Stewart Brand

More Joy of Sex has been updated and revised to include information on AIDS.  It is a joy!
                                                              
                                                               Ñ Salli Rasberry
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##A 04 190889 707
##T THE JOY OF SEX SERIES
THE JOY OF SEX SERIES

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The Joy of Sex 
Alex Comfort
1972; 253 pp.
ISBN 0671626922
$14.95 postpaid from:

Simon & Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 04 195472 708
##T THE JOY OF SEX SERIES
THE JOY OF SEX SERIES

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More Joy of Sex
Alex Comfort
1987; 215 pp.
ISBN 0517566907
$17.95 ($20.45 postpaid)
from:

Crown Publishers
225 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10003
800-526-4264
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##A 04 70759 709
##T THE JOY OF SEX SERIES
THE JOY OF SEX SERIES

@@
Joy of Lesbian Sex
Dr. Emily Sisley 
and Bertha Harris
1977; 191 pp.

OUT OF PRINT
@@

##A 04 196472 710
##T THE JOY OF SEX SERIES
THE JOY OF SEX SERIES

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The Joy of Gay Sex
Dr. Charles Silverstein 
and Edmund White
1977; 207 pp.
ISBN 067124079X
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 04 194788 713
##T SEXUAL FANTASIES COLLECTED BY NANCY FRIDAY
SEXUAL FANTASIES COLLECTED BY NANCY FRIDAY

@@
By female and male acclaim these are the horniest books in print. They are made of letters to Nancy Friday by innumerable women telling their sexual fantasies in vivid detail. TheyÕre liberating and a turn-on for womenÑcompletely defusing any lingering guilt about having such fantasiesÑand enlightening and a turn-on for men, dissolving what was long thought to be a major difference and barrier between the sexes (also tangentially educating males on how to be a sensitive and imaginative lover rather than a narrow-minded clod).

The second book, Forbidden Flowers, is even more explicit since the women are responding to the excitement of My Secret Garden.
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##A 04 194923 715
##T SEXUAL FANTASIES COLLECTED BY NANCY FRIDAY
SEXUAL FANTASIES COLLECTED BY NANCY FRIDAY

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My Secret Garden
Nancy Friday
1983; 352 pp.
ISBN 0671617575
$4.50 ($5.50 postpaid )from:

Simon & Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 04 43858 716
##T SEXUAL FANTASIES COLLECTED BY NANCY FRIDAY
SEXUAL FANTASIES COLLECTED BY NANCY FRIDAY

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Forbidden Flowers
Nancy Friday
1982; 336 pp.
ISBN 0671622250
$4.50 ($5.50 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 04 208140 717
##T SEXUAL FANTASIES COLLECTED BY NANCY FRIDAY
SEXUAL FANTASIES COLLECTED BY NANCY FRIDAY

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Men in Love
Nancy Friday
1980; 542 pp.
ISBN 0440159032
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Dell Books
P. O. Box 5057
Des Plaines, IL 60017-5057
800-255-4133
@@

##A 04 285618 721
##T Sex for One
Sex for One

@@

In Sex For One, Dodson takes the reader on an autobiographical journey through her discovery and celebration of masturbation. ItÕs filled with helpful and lucid information and spirited writing, illustrated with DodsonÕs fine and erotic drawings.
                                            
                                                   Ñ Susie Bright and Joani Blank

For the ultimate in safe sex, learn some new techniques for the most primary form of sexual expresion.  A refreshingly positive book.
                                                  Ñ Salli Rasberry
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##A 04 290598 722
##T Sex for One
Sex for One

@@
(The Joy of Selfloving)
Betty Dodson
1987; 192 pp.
ISBN 0517566761
$15.95 ($17.45 postpaid)
from:

Crown Publishers, Inc.
225 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10003
800-526-4264
@@

##A 04 291371 724
##T For Yourself ¥ For Each Other
For Yourself ¥ For Each Other

@@
For Yourself is an important womenÕs source book. Masturbation and orgasmic potential are discussed. Specific exercises and pleasure-oriented ÒhomeworkÓ are given to help the woman who has never had an orgasm or who is dissatisfied with her sexual responsiveness.

For Each Other, also by Lonnie Barbach, is written for women about sexual intimacy with the men in their lives. Discusses orgasm, increasing sexual desire, communicating about sex, changing sexual patterns, and other similar concerns.

                                             -Susie Bright and Joani Blank

Ù The Sexuality Library
@@

##A 04 140900 725
##T For Yourself ¥ For Each Other
For Yourself ¥ For Each Other

@@
For Yourself
(The Fulfillment of Female Sexuality)
Lonnie Garfield Barbach
1975; 191 pp.
ISBN 0451139828
$3.50 ($4.50 postpaid)
from:

New American Library
Box 120 
Bergenfield, NJ 07621
800-526-0275
201-387-0600 (NJ)
@@

##A 04 239905 726
##T For Yourself ¥ For Each Other
For Yourself ¥ For Each Other

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For Each Other
Lonnie Garfield Barbach
1984; 316 pp.
$4.50 ($5.50 postpaid)
from:

New American Library
Box 120 
Bergenfield, NJ 07621
800-526-0275
201-387-0600 (NJ)
@@

##A 04 198012 728
##T Sexual Solutions
Sexual Solutions

@@
FinallyÑa book written by a man for men, which says what we women have been trying to tell them lo these many yearsÑitÕs not how long you make it, itÕs how you make it long. Castleman, a medical journalist, uses humor, sensitivity, and thoroughness in describing how to do sex. He covers obstacles to problem-free lovemaking, ejaculation and erection problems, what turns women on and off, what to do if the woman you love gets raped, and how to develop or enhance your sensuality.

Once or twice IÕve had the pleasure of a lover who understood that sex wasnÕt a job to get done, but rather a game to play. The lover always laughed at my suggestion he give courses on lovemaking to
@@

##A 04 198471 730
##T Sexual Solutions
Sexual Solutions

@@
Michael Castleman
1983; 288 pp.
ISBN 0671447564
$8.95 postpaid 
from:

Simon & Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 04 291007 733
##T USING CONDOM SENSE FOR SAFER SEX
USING CONDOM SENSE FOR SAFER SEX

@@
By Salli Rasberry
As we all know, condoms have a bad reputation.  There are two major reasons for our aversion to condoms.  Years ago, they tended to be thick, smelled of rubber and tasted terrible.  If that wasnÕt awful enough, they often broke due to the old-time manufacturing conditions.  Times have changed.  There are condoms on the market, particularly the Japanese imports, that are thinner, more sensuous and without taste or smell.

Modern day condoms seldom break . . . .  ÒThe production tolerance for defective condoms is 0.25 percent.  The best estimate of present-day failure rate due to manufacturerÕs error is one in every 1,000 good-quality condoms.  The shelf life of condoms is
@@

##A 04 292306 743
##T How to Persuade Your Lover to Use a Condom . . .
How to Persuade Your Lover to Use a Condom . . .

@@

This book stresses the importance of establishing good communication with your partner about safe sex.
                                                       
                                                              ÑSalli Rasberry
@@

##A 04 292540 744
##T How to Persuade Your Lover to Use a Condom . . .
How to Persuade Your Lover to Use a Condom . . .

@@
How to Persuade Your Lover to Use a Condom . . . and Why You Should
Patti Breitman, Kim Knutson,
and Paul Reed
1987; 84 pp.
ISBN 0914629433
$4.95 ($6.20 postpaid)
from:

St. MartinÕs Press
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY  10010
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##A 04 293161 747
##T Safe Sex: The Ultimate Erotic Guide
Safe Sex: The Ultimate Erotic Guide

@@

A first-hand account of erotic yet safe sex.
                                                        
                                                             ÑSalli Rasberry
@@

##A 04 293881 748
##T Safe Sex: The Ultimate Erotic Guide
Safe Sex: The Ultimate Erotic Guide

@@
John Preston and Glenn Swann
1987; 202 pp.
ISBN 0452258960
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

New American Library
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ  07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600(NJ)
@@

##A 04 295881 750
##T Complete Guide to Safe Sex
Complete Guide to Safe Sex

@@

Editor Ted McIlvenna assembled an ÒAIDS task forceÓ to write the most complete and positive book I have seen on the subject. Lots of suggestions on how to enjoy a healthy, playful, and safe sexual life.  Up-to-date information about the AIDS virus, safe sex techniques for all lifestyles, and a special section on how to talk to your children.
                                                            
                                                              ÑSalli Rasberry
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##A 04 296064 751
##T Complete Guide to Safe Sex
Complete Guide to Safe Sex

@@
Ted McIlvenna, M. Div., Ph. D.
1987; 218 pp.
ISBN 0930846052
 $8.95 postpaid
from:

Exodus Trust
1523 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA  94109
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##A 04 296825 754
##T SAFER SEX ON VIDEO
SAFER SEX ON VIDEO

@@
In the video ÒNorma and Tony,Ó two friends experiment with condoms, dental dams, lotions and other protective products.  Provides good role model illustrating open communication skills as well as sexual hygiene techniques.  Thirty-minute video.

Made by Michael Castelman for high-school students, Common Sense is also good for the older set.  Very funny, very popular, it has appeared on cable TV and will soon be shown theatrically on the midnight movie circuit.
                                                          
                                                         ÑSalli Rasberry
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##A 04 297051 755
##T SAFER SEX ON VIDEO
SAFER SEX ON VIDEO

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Norma and Tony: Following Safer Sex Guidelines
National Sex Forum
1985; 30 minutes
Rental $25.00 
Purchase $150.00
from:

Multi-Focus, Inc.
1525 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA  94109
415-673-5100

EXPLICIT
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##A 04 256094 756
##T SAFER SEX ON VIDEO
SAFER SEX ON VIDEO

@@
Common Sense
Rental $45.00 
Purchase $451 postpd.
from:

Perennial Education, Inc.
930 Pitner Avenue
Evanston, IL  606202
1-800-323-9084
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##A 04 297840 757
##T Personal Safe Sex Sampler Kit
Personal Safe Sex Sampler Kit

@@

Exodus Trust offers the Personal Safe Sex Sampler Kit, a fun way to try some of the best condoms available , as well as dental dams, lotions, lubricants, and latex gloves.  The excellent sex education brochure that comes with the kit contains risk reduction guidelines ands ways to discuss and enjoy safe sex products.
                                                             
                                                             ÑSalli Rasberry
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##A 04 298205 758
##T Personal Safe Sex Sampler Kit
Personal Safe Sex Sampler Kit

@@
$22.45 postpaid
from:

Exodus Trust
1523 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA  94109
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##A 04 30098 759
##T The Rubber Tree
The Rubber Tree

@@

All kinds of condoms (over 50 varieties), sponges and creams.  A non-profit service.
                                                               
                                                              Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 04 30449 760
##T The Rubber Tree
The Rubber Tree

@@
Catalog free (with SASE) 
from:

ZPG  Ñ  Seattle
4426 Burke Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98103
206-633-4750
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##A 04 50248 763
##T SEX AIDS INTRODUCTION
SEX AIDS INTRODUCTION

@@
In many places mail order is the only way to buy vibrators,
lingerie, and sex toys. The companies here send catalogs discreetly (usually in plain envelopes) and donÕt release your name without permission. As Stephanie Mills once wrote, ÒIf all the electric pleasuring devices available herein were plugged in simultaneously, both coasts would be browned out. So much the better.Ó
 
                                                  Ñ Art Kleiner and Joani Blank
@@

##A 04 197092 764
##T EveÕs Garden
EveÕs Garden

@@
 
A classy, comparatively mainstream source for lingerie and toys.

                                                             ÑJ. Baldwin
@@

##A 04 197184 765
##T EveÕs Garden
EveÕs Garden

@@
Catalog $2 from:

EveÕs Garden
119 West 57th Street
Suite 1406
New York, NY 10019
212-757-8651
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##A 04 192677 766
##T Good Vibrations
Good Vibrations

@@

Joani BlankÕs store. Her publications describe vibrators
in variety, without embarrassment and with consumer-oriented
panache. 
                                                    
                                                               ÑJ. Baldwin





Ù The Sexuality Library
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##A 04 192795 767
##T Good Vibrations
Good Vibrations

@@
Catalog $1 
($6 includes a guidebook to vibrators)
from:

Good Vibrations
3492-A 22nd Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-550-7399
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##A 04 293392 769
##T SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES INTRODUCTION
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES INTRODUCTION

@@

Sex is still fun, but itÕs getting riskier too.  The epidemic of STDs has changed the very nature of our intimate lives.  With ten million new cases of STDs annually, caution is a more common sexual milieu.  The best cure is still prevention.  Read on. 

                                                      Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 04 89938 770
##T AIDS INFORMATION
AIDS INFORMATION

@@

AIDS is here and we all have to learn about it. Undeniably. According to our medical consultants at Whole Earth there isnÕt a book yet thatÕs accurate, up to date, and unbiased. The monthly newsletter AIDS Alert will give you the news from inside the medical profession on AIDS research and treatment, plus talk on health care workers and AIDS. I learned more from reading the May 1986 issue than from months of news in the national media. ItÕs a bit expensive; you might try the nearest university library. If you want to talk to a human being about AIDS, contact the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (800-863-2437 in northern California, 
415-863-2437 nationwide) or the national AIDS Hotline (800-342
-AIDS).  The S.F. AIDS Foundation also sends out free information
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##A 04 5231 774
##T AIDS INFORMATION
AIDS INFORMATION

@@
AIDS Alert
Theresa Waldron, Editor
$149/year (12 issues) 
from:

American Health Consultants
67 Peach Tree Park Dr. NE
Atlanta, GA 30309
404-351-4523
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##A 04 240598 775
##T AIDS INFORMATION
AIDS INFORMATION

@@
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Information free from:

San Francisco
AIDS Foundation
333 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
800-863-2437
415-863-2437 in Northern  California
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##A 04 242582 776
##T AIDS INFORMATION
AIDS INFORMATION

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National Aids Hotline

800-342-AIDS
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##A 04 250326 777
##T AIDS INFORMATION
AIDS INFORMATION

@@
Surgeon GeneralÕs Report on AIDS
Free from:

AIDS
P.O. Box 1452
Washington, DC  20044
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##A 04 252551 778
##T AIDS INFORMATION
AIDS INFORMATION

@@
AIDS Treatment News
John S. James, Editor
$100/year (26 issues)
($32 for persons with AIDS or ARC)
from:

ATN Publications
P.O. Box 411256
San Francisco, CA  94141
415-255-0588
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##A 04 245670 779
##T AIDS INFORMATION
AIDS INFORMATION

@@
BETA  Bulletin of Experimental Treatment for AIDS  
Bimonthly
Free from:

San Francisco AIDS Foundation
P.O. Box 6182
San Francisco, CA  94101-6182
415-863-AIDS
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##A 04 104864 780
##T AIDS INFORMATION
AIDS INFORMATION

@@
AIDS Targeted Information
$125/year (12 issues)
$275  institutions
from:

Williams & Wilkins
PO Box 23291
Baltimore, MD  21203
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##A 04 89648 781
##T AIDS INFORMATION
AIDS INFORMATION

@@
AIDS Information Resources Directory
Trish A. Halleron, MPH
and Janet I. Pisaneschi, PhD, Senior Editors
1988; 192 pp.
ISBN 0962036307
$10 postpaid
from:

American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR)
1515 Broadway, Suite 3601
New York, NY 10036-8901
212-719-0033
Fax: 212-719-1712
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##A 04 141218 782
##T AIDS INFORMATION
AIDS INFORMATION

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AIDS/HIV Experimental Treatment Directory
Donald Abrams, M. D. et al, Medical Editors
ISBN 08985030
$30/year (4 issues) USA
$50 overseas. Single copy $10 USA; $15 overseas
Free to people with AIDS and ARC.
from:

American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR)
1515 Broadway, Suite 3601
New York, NY 10036-8901
212-719-0033
Fax: 212-719-1712
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##A 04 86908 797
##T AMERICAN SOCIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION (ASHA)
AMERICAN SOCIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION (ASHA)

@@

A sexually transmitted disease information supermarket.  Michael Castleman, editor of Medical Self-Care, called ASHA ÒTHE place to find out about STDs.Ó  Free pamphlets are available on herpes, chlamydia, AIDS, pelvic inflammatory disease, and other forms of VD. Their VD National Hotline (800-227-8922; 800-982-5883 in California) can make local referrals to clinics and doctors, as well as answer questions about all STDs.  The people and publications are uniformly knowledgable and friendly.

                                                                 Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 04 87195 798
##T AMERICAN SOCIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION (ASHA)
AMERICAN SOCIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION (ASHA)

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Sexually Transmitted Disease Pamphlets
free with 45¢ SASE 
from:

ASHA
P. O. Box 13827
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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##A 04 132175 799
##T AMERICAN SOCIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION (ASHA)
AMERICAN SOCIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION (ASHA)

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VD National Hotline  

800-227-8922
800-982-5883 (CA)
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##A 04 89033 802
##T THE HERPES RESOURCE CENTER (HRC)
THE HERPES RESOURCE CENTER (HRC)

@@

Learning I had herpes was a painful discovery. Plugging into the resources of the HRC, especially their newsletter, The Helper, provided sorely needed emotional support and medical information. ItÕs well-written and intelligent, with a sense of humor; I felt among friends. Part of ASHA, the HRC also publishes pamphlets and funds research.

                                                                 Ñ Cindy Fugett
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##A 04 89250 803
##T THE HERPES RESOURCE CENTER (HRC)
THE HERPES RESOURCE CENTER (HRC)

@@
The Herpes Resource Center (HRC) 
Herpes Information Pamphlets free with 45¢ SASE 
from:

HRC
P. O. Box 13827
Research Triangle Park, NC
27709
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##A 04 68111 804
##T THE HERPES RESOURCE CENTER (HRC)
THE HERPES RESOURCE CENTER (HRC)

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The Helper
Charles Ebel, Editor
$20/year (4 issues) 
from:

HRC
P. O. Box 13827
Research Triangle Park, NC                    27709
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##A 04 87986 806
##T The Truth About Herpes
The Truth About Herpes

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If youÕve got herpes, youÕve got questions. Whether you just got herpes or have had it a long time, this book can help alleviate that sense of unease that comes from not knowing. Stephen Sacks does an admirable job of not preaching, which means some questions 
(Òshould I tell my partner?Ó) are left for you to decide. Recommended by the Herpes Resource Center (see previous review). 

                                                                  Ñ Cindy Fugett
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##A 04 88165 807
##T The Truth About Herpes
The Truth About Herpes

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Stephen L. Sacks, M.D.
Third Edition 1987; 216 pp.
ISBN 0901574580
$13 postpaid from:

Herpes Resource Center
P. O. Box 13827
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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##A 04 31607 810
##T And the Band Played On
And the Band Played On

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One of the great detective stories Ñ a detailed, riveting account of the rise of AIDS. Shilts is a San Francisco Chronicle reporter, himself gay, who was in the midst of the emergency from its very beginnings and established a reputation as the best-informed reporter in the country.

The subject is organizational failure-to-learn on an epic scale, a sort of ÒWar and PeaceÓ of institutional blindness. Everybody knew early about AIDS, and nearly everybody pretended not to knowÑ doctors, gays, media, scientists, the public, government in general and the Reagan administration in particular. In the details of the denial amid the relentlessly emerging horror are shadowy 

Ù The Quilt: Stories from the NAMES Project
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##A 04 46988 812
##T And the Band Played On
And the Band Played On

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(Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic)
Randy Shilts
Revised 1988; 640 pp.
ISBN 014011369X
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600 (NJ)
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##A 04 96415 816
##T Contraceptive Technology
Contraceptive Technology

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Current books on birth control are harder to find now that theyÕre not the hot sellers they were during the 60s and 70s. Yet most of us, even baby boomers, continue to need birth control in the 80s. Contraceptive Technology is written for physicians, but itÕs still the best, most current source of birth control information for the layperson. It contains almost anything you could ask about birth control use, safety and effectiveness. I count on the biennial editions to keep me posted on any new methods and to nourish my hope that a perfect Òno risk, no messÓ contraceptive will be discovered.                                                     
                                                            
                                                                 Ñ Janna Katz
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##A 04 96569 817
##T Contraceptive Technology
Contraceptive Technology

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Robert A. Hatcher, M.D., et al.
14th Edition 
1988-89; 437 pp.
ISBN 0829018182
$16.95 ($18.95 postpaid)
from:

Irvington Publishers
740 Broadway
Suite 905
New York, NY 10003
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##A 04 98043 821
##T The New No-Pill, No-Risk Birth Control
The New No-Pill, No-Risk Birth Control

@@
At first glance, natural family planning sounds like my idea of the
Òperfect contraceptiveÓ: itÕs safe; completely natural, and nearly 100 percent effective. So why isnÕt everyone using it? Maybe because they havenÕt read Nona AguilarÕs recently-updated book. To be sure, natural family planning isnÕt for everyone. For all the benefits described in this book, not everyone is ready for the required periods of sexual abstinence and meticulous charting of daily fertility signs. But for couples in search of an ideal birth control method, this guide has a lot to offer. There is excellent instruction on every aspect of the method, sensitive advice, resources, and a lot of encouragement. Interviews with couples using the method give real motivation and even show the
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##A 04 98422 823
##T The New No-Pill, No-Risk Birth Control
The New No-Pill, No-Risk Birth Control

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Nona Aguilar
1986; 240 pp.
ISBN 0892563001
$9.95 postpaid 
from:

Macmillan Publishing Co.
Order Dept.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
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##A 04 18991 827
##T Family Planning Perspectives
Family Planning Perspectives

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ÒFactsÓ about population and reproduction activities on a large scale are a quagmire of conflicting numbers that will grab both your legs and suck you down, babbling like a fool. The Alan Guttmacher Institute publishes this journal as a small spot of firm ground. It runs the most recent research, some in academic style, about what can be said on the topic with any solidness. Occasionally, itÕll tackle ethical issues.

                                                                  Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 04 31014 828
##T Family Planning Perspectives
Family Planning Perspectives

@@
Denise Kafka, Editor
ISBN 00147354
$26/year (6 issues) 
from:

The Alan Guttmacher Institute
111 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10003
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##A 04 10375 832
##T You Can Have a Baby
You Can Have a Baby

@@
With an estimated one out of ten Americans suffering from infertility, chances are you know someone trying to get pregnant and failing month by month. Give them You Can Have a Baby and they might name the kid after you! A great source of basic information about what infertility is and how to overcome it. In a factual, not frightening, way, it tells you when to seek medical help and what to expect at the office of your local infertility specialist.

Surprisingly, a lot of infertility is caused by popular misconceptions about the best way to get pregnant. If this is your problem, the facts in this book will set you straight and let
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##A 04 10764 834
##T You Can Have a Baby
You Can Have a Baby

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Joseph H. Bellina, M.D.
 and Josleen Wilson
1985; 427 pp.
ISBN 0517556197
OUT OF PRINT


Crown Publishers
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##A 04 11657 837
##T New Conceptions
New Conceptions

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Making babies by any method other than the usual way is the immense subject of this book. It is not surprising that when procreation is moved from the bedroom to the lab bench, confusion is born. This author does an admirable job in weaning the confusion away from the tools so you can decide if you want to use them. I came away from her compassionate reporting with the distinct sense that new-fangled conceptions are a long lever bending our culture profoundly.                       
                                                             
                                                              Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 04 12012 838
##T New Conceptions
New Conceptions

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Lori B. Andrews, J. D.
1984; 326 pp.
ISBN 0312566107
$14.95 ($16.45 postpaid)
from:

St. MartinÕs Press
Cash Sales
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
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##A 04 12960 840
##T Test-Tube Women
Test-Tube Women

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Needles, tubes, and speculums are probing ever deeper into 
womenÕs bodies, seeking a scientific understanding of the mystery of creation. Test-Tube Women is a feminist map to this new and largely foreign world of motherhood in the age of in vitro fertilization, sex selection, amniocentesis, surrogate mothering, and other rapidly expanding reproductive technologies. In 35 essays, studies, and first-person accounts, the authors collectively argue that the new reproductive technologies are an extension of menÕs attempts to control womenÕs bodies and, further, are biased toward white upper-class eugenics.
This is important and insightful reading for anyone interested in how these technologies are changing our livesÑwhich they areÑ
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##A 04 13205 842
##T Test-Tube Women
Test-Tube Women

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(What Future for Motherhood?)
Rita Arditti, Renate Duelli Klein and Shelley Minden, Editors
1984; 482 pp.
ISBN 0863580300
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

Methuen, Inc.
29 West 35th Street
New York, NY 10001
212-244-3336
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##A 04 213605 845
##T The Tentative Pregnancy
The Tentative Pregnancy

@@
Dramatic advances in medical technology now allow doctors to detect birth defects in a child before it is born. What effect does this have on pregnant women? This difficult subject is tackled by The Tentative Pregnancy. This is not an insensitive consumer guide. It is a deeply caring look at the powerful emotions and ethics of 
Òamniocentesis,Ó a test that determines whether an unborn baby is deformed. Until now the feelings of the expectant mother have been rarely heard on this subject. Anyone considering amniocentesis will want to hear what over 120 women said and felt about the procedure. The lessons of this book will become even more important as amniocentesis and other fetal tests become routine. 
                                                                
                                                                      Ñ Janna Katz
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##A 04 213834 846
##T The Tentative Pregnancy
The Tentative Pregnancy

@@
(Prenatal Diagnosis and the Future of Motherhood)
Barbara Katz Rothman
1986; 274 pp.
ISBN 0670808415
$6.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600 (NJ)
@@

##A 04 215735 848
##T JANET ISAACS ASHFORD ON CHILDBIRTH ALTERNATIVES
JANET ISAACS ASHFORD ON CHILDBIRTH ALTERNATIVES

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The title says it allÑ300-plus pages about birth. A true panoply executed in the Whole Earth Catalog format, The Whole Birth Catalog is the best source for everything on the topic I have seen. This book is advocacy as well as education for alternative and innovative birthing options.

                                                               Ñ Andrea Sharp

Janet Isaacs Ashford also edits Childbirth Alternatives Quarterly, 
Òthe on-going Whole Birth Catalog.Ó 
                                                             
                                                              Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 04 143065 850
##T JANET ISAACS ASHFORD ON CHILDBIRTH ALTERNATIVES
JANET ISAACS ASHFORD ON CHILDBIRTH ALTERNATIVES

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The Whole Birth Catalog
(A Sourcebook for Choices in Childbirth)
Janet Isaacs Ashford, Editor
OUT OF PRINT
ISBN 0895941074

The Crossing Press

Look for it at your local library.
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##A 04 249757 851
##T JANET ISAACS ASHFORD ON CHILDBIRTH ALTERNATIVES
JANET ISAACS ASHFORD ON CHILDBIRTH ALTERNATIVES

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Childbirth Alternatives Quarterly
Janet Isaacs Ashford, Editor
ISSN 02726319
$20/year (4 issues) 
from:

Janet Ashford
327 North Glenmont Drive
Solano Beach, CA 92075
619-481-7065
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##A 04 249990 852
##T JANET ISAACS ASHFORD ON CHILDBIRTH ALTERNATIVES
JANET ISAACS ASHFORD ON CHILDBIRTH ALTERNATIVES

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Mothers and Midwives
(A History of Traditional Childbirth)
Janet Isaacs Ashford
1988; 20 pp
ISBN 0961996811
 $7.95 postpaid from:

Janet Isaacs Ashford
327 North Glenmont Drive
Solano Beach, CA 92075
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##A 04 188712 859
##T Special Delivery
Special Delivery


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Special Delivery affirms that birth is normal and that all births are different. It covers homebirth, hospital birth, and birth center birth, with information on the physical, emotional, and spiritual elements of birth; tools for handling labor nutrition and exercises; preparation for birth and labor; emergencies and complications; care of the newborn; and post-delivery care of the mother. This is an easy to read book, full of pictures, illustrations, and personal stories balanced by the advice and suggestions of the author who is a midwife, childbirth educator, mother, teacher, and founder and head of the national organization Informed Birth and Parenting.
                                                           
                                                        Ñ Peggy OÕMara McMahon
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##A 04 189013 860
##T Special Delivery
Special Delivery


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Rahima Baldwin
Updated Edition 1986; 192 pp.
ISBN 0890879346
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Celestial Arts
P. O. Box 7327
Berkeley, CA 94707
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##A 04 214693 869
##T A Good Birth, A Safe Birth
A Good Birth, A Safe Birth

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A Good Birth, A Safe Birth assumes that pregnant women must know their options before they can determine their birthing preferences; this book tells you your options by analyzing scientific data supporting the safety and normalcy of birth in various settings.

Based on interviews with 2,000 women and the best of the childbirth books of the last few years, itÕs a consumerÕs guide for finding ÒDr. Right,Ó for avoiding unnecessary cesareans, for evaluating high-tech interventions, for choosing a pediatrician, for successfully breastfeeding, and for accepting the roller coaster emotions of new motherhood. Also included is an
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##A 04 214931 871
##T A Good Birth, A Safe Birth
A Good Birth, A Safe Birth

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Diana Korte and Roberta Scaer
1984; 336 pp.
ISBN 0553340689
$7.95 ($9.45 postpaid)
from:

Bantam Books
414 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
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##A 04 35321 873
##T Childbirth Graphics
Childbirth Graphics

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Amazing 3-D models and graphic posters for teaching (or learning about) the hard to imagine exit of a baby from the womb.    
                                                                 
                                                                 Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 04 35474 874
##T Childbirth Graphics
Childbirth Graphics

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Catalog free from:

Childbirth Graphics
1210 Culver Road
Rochester, NY 14609
716-482-7940
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##A 04 217510 876
##T CHILDBIRTH RESOURCES
CHILDBIRTH RESOURCES

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To find out about childbirth classes, midwives, and birth options in your area, write to any or all of the following organizations.

                                                        Ñ Peggy OÕMara McMahon
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##A 04 95054 877
##T CHILDBIRTH RESOURCES
CHILDBIRTH RESOURCES

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Informed Birth and Parenting
Catalog free from:

Informed Birth and Parenting
P. O. Box 3675 
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
313-662-6857
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##A 04 95342 878
##T CHILDBIRTH RESOURCES
CHILDBIRTH RESOURCES

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NAPSAC
National Association of Parents and Professionals for Safe Alternatives in Childbirth
Membership $15/year 
(includes NAPSAC News Quarterly ISSN 01921223)
Information free from:

NAPSAC International
P. O. Box 646
Marble Hill, MO 63764
314-238-2010
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##A 04 95861 879
##T CHILDBIRTH RESOURCES
CHILDBIRTH RESOURCES

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International Childbirth Education Association
Catalog free from:

International Childbirth Education Association
P. O. Box 20048
Minneapolis, MN 55420
612-854-8660
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##A 04 218455 880
##T Circumcision
Circumcision

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It isnÕt often one has an option with surgery. Circumcision, often done routinely, is one of those times. My husband and I used this book to help make our decision (further complicated by our both being Jewish) not to circumcise if we had a son. All aspects of the question are fully covered, including a description of the operation and before and after diagrams. The decision to not circumcise is reversible, but circumcision is irrevocable.
                                                                     
                                                                Ñ Andrea Sharp
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##A 04 218698 881
##T Circumcision
Circumcision

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(An American Health Fallacy)
Edward Wallerstein
1980; 281 pp.
ISBN 0826132413
$18.95 ($21.45 postpaid)
from:

Springer Publishing Co.
536 Broadway
New York, NY 10012
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##A 04 3119 885
##T How It Feels to be Adopted
How It Feels to be Adopted

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Jill Krementz has created a wonderful book in this collection of revealing portraits of nineteen adopted children. Ranging from eight to sixteen years in age, the children talk candidly about their experiences and feelings. Some were adopted at birth, some first lived in foster homes, some have single parents, some are in transracial homes, and some have made the journey from other countries. This book offers prospective adoptive parents the valuable opportunity to look down the road and anticipate at least some of the feelings their child(ren) will encounter. An excellent book to give an adopted child who will discover that other adopted children share the same yearnings, fears and joys.
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##A 04 4357 887
##T How It Feels to be Adopted
How It Feels to be Adopted

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Jill Krementz
1982; 107 pp.
ISBN 0394528514
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 04 8117 890
##T The Adoption Resource Book
The Adoption Resource Book

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Written by a librarian and an adoptive parent, this is a thoroughly detailed introduction to the ÒhowsÓ of adoption.  Gilman explains how agencies work, how intercountry adoptions are arranged, how to find a child independently, and how to answer the inevitable questions from parents, friends, and your adopted child once you have adopted. She explains the requirements, procedures, and paperwork involved in the alternative methods of adopting, and illustrates each method with brief anecdotes. The book includes both an extensive annotated bibliography and a directory of agencies and services. Those looking for basic information will find it here, plus some perspective on how adoption has changed in the last fifteen years.
                                                       
                                                     Ñ David and Mary Lee Cole
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##A 04 8408 891
##T The Adoption Resource Book
The Adoption Resource Book

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Lois Gilman
Updated Edition 1987; 318 pp.
ISBN 0060962097
$8.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
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##A 04 9346 894
##T The Adoption Triangle
The Adoption Triangle

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Written in something of an academic style, The Adoption Triangle nevertheless provides important insights into the process of adoption and how it affects all those involved: the triangle of children, birth-parents, and adoptive parents. Unlike other books listed here, this one was written by professionals in the field of social work and adoption with the intention of affecting public policy and private practice. The authorÕs advocacy of open adoption, radical at the time of the bookÕs first edition in 1978, is now widely supported. Readers will continue to find the book useful for its exploration of the strong and complex emotions felt by everyone involved in adoption.
                                                             
                                                    Ñ David and Mary Lee Cole
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##A 04 9504 895
##T The Adoption Triangle
The Adoption Triangle

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(Sealed or Opened Records: How They Affect Adoptees, Birth Parents, and Adoptive Parents)
Arthur D. Sorosky, M. D.,
Annette Baran, M. S. W. 
and Reuben Pannor, M. S. W.
1984; 237 pp.
ISBN 0385197020
$9.95 postpaid 
from:

Doubleday & Co.
501 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
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##A 05 6669 5
##T Redesigning the American Dream
Redesigning the American Dream

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Do you dream of living in a single-family home? Do you live in one? You might find this eloquent argument against the idea provocative. Architect Dolores Hayden shows that the traditional home is often inappropriate for the rising number of single-parent families, families with more than one adult wage earner, and the elderly. Much better would be further development of the housing we already have by means of Òmother-in-lawÓ apartments and cleverly refurbished neighborhoods. The role (some would say plight) of women is discussed with unusual sensitivityÑrare in books addressing planningÑwith womenÕs needs incorporated 
centrally into every proposed design. I found the level of research to be deeper than other books on the subject, and mercifully free 
of simplistic analysis.  Easy to read too; no academic poopadoodle at all.                                                                   Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 13205 6
##T Redesigning the American Dream
Redesigning the American Dream

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Dolores Hayden
1984; 270 pp.
ISBN 0393017796
$6.95 ($8.95 postpaid)
from:

W. W. Norton
500 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10110
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##A 05 3486 8
##T House
House

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Like the needle of the acupuncturist, this book is accurately,
painfully, exquisitely right. On the surface it chronicles the building of a home from conception to move-in. But what itÕs really about is the subtle class struggles that go on between people who are ÒprofessionalsÓ and those Òin the professionsÓ 
 Ñ  in this case the owners are a lawyer and a Ph.D educator confronting equally educated carpenters. Ego trips abound. Misunderstandings worthy of a tempestuous-yet-loving marriage illuminate the scene with snarls, huffs, laughs, and compromises. Just like real life.                                      

                                                                   Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 4071 9
##T House
House

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Tracy Kidder
1986; 352 pp.
ISBN 0380701766
$4.50 ($5.50 postpaid)
from:

Avon Books
Route 2
P.O. Box 767
Dresden, TN 38225
800-223-0690
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##A 05 4619 13
##T Finding and Buying Your Place In the Country
Finding and Buying Your Place In the Country

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IÕm glad somebody wrote this book and did it so thoroughly. Scher is a lawyer who manages to wade with you through the waters of easements, zoning, taxes, contracts, deeds of trust, mortgages, and escrow without muddying them up. Also advice on evaluating propertyÑsoil, water, structures, and on bargaining strategies. If you study this book, thereÕs no excuse for being Òtaken.Ó And itÕs
been updated at last!

                                                         Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 05 124622 14
##T Finding and Buying Your Place In the Country
Finding and Buying Your Place In the Country

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Les Scher
Revised Edition 1988; 393 pp.
ISBN 0020084005
$14.95 ($16.15 postpaid)
from:

Macmillan Publishing Co.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08370
800-257-8247
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##A 05 125379 16
##T How to Avoid the 10 Biggest Home-Buying Traps
How to Avoid the 10 Biggest Home-Buying Traps

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Here they are folks, and history shows that people like yourselves blow it over and over again on these not-necessarily-obvious matters: The house with too high a price; The unforseen expenses; The tight mortgage; The gyp builder; The no-design house; The garbled floor plan; The old-house lemon; The marginal house 
(where everything about it just gets by); The energy guzzler; The gimmick house. The author shows how subtle the traps can be and gives a great lesson in avoiding them. The book ends with a handy checklist, an antidote to naivete.                           

                                                           Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 125608 17
##T How to Avoid the 10 Biggest Home-Buying Traps
How to Avoid the 10 Biggest Home-Buying Traps

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A. M. Watkins
Revised Edition 1987; 200 pp.
ISBN 0884627101
$10.95 ($12.95 postpaid)
from:

Longman Trade
520 N. Dearborn St.
Chicago, IL 60610
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##A 05 2614 19
##T How to Inspect a House
How to Inspect a House

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Hopes and lies get put to the test when a prepurchase house inspection is performed.  You can have it done for you, but best is to have at the task yourself; that way youÕll learn more about the place.  This manual shows you how to check all the things that must be right if you are to live without regret.  Termites!  Rot!  ThereÕs a lot to it, but thereÕs also a lot to a 30-year mortgage.  The book is a handy guide to keeping an eye on the house after you buy it, too.

                                                                 Ñ  J. Baldwin
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##A 05 157870 20
##T How to Inspect a House
How to Inspect a House

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George Hoffman
Revised Edition 1987; 186 pp.
ISBN 0201110725
 $8.95 postpaid
from:

Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
1 Jacob Way
Reading, MA 01867
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##A 05 159191 22
##T Strout Realty
Strout Realty

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Strout Realty has more than 14,000 associates all over the world, all hooked together by a computer net. TheyÕre one of the better places to find the house or land of your dreams. (Or, for that matter, to get rid of a house or land that turns out to be not of your dreams.) The illustrated catalog will get you drooling, especially over some of the prices in less popular states.

                                                                     Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 159246 23
##T Strout Realty
Strout Realty

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Catalog free
from:

Strout Realty
P.O. Box 4528
Springfield, MO 65808
800-641-4266
205-222-4431
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##A 05 8973 26
##T The Plan of St. Gall in Brief
The Plan of St. Gall in Brief

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One of the most thrilling publications in years, the three-volume Plan of St. Gall also had a thrilling price  Ñ  $450. (ItÕs now out of print, and itÕs worth over $1,000!) This condensed version leaves a surprising amount of the thrill intact. The richness of the color, the wealth of models, drawings, diagrams, and maps, leads you into the heart of deeply civilized intelligence circa 800 A.D. St. Gall is the smartest intentional community (monastery in this case) ever designed.                                    

                                                                Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 05 9360 27
##T The Plan of St. Gall in Brief
The Plan of St. Gall in Brief

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Lorna Price
1982; 104 pp.
ISBN 0520043340
$35 ($36.50 postpaid)
from:

University of California Press
2120 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
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##A 05 142349 30
##T Traditional Islamic Craft in Moroccan Architecture
Traditional Islamic Craft in Moroccan Architecture

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The good news that Andre Paccard conveys in these books
is that the masterful artisans of Islamic architecture and design are alive and well, producing exquisite work of a quality we might associate only with earlier centuries. Paccard was able to obtain permission to photograph many Moroccan buildings (palaces in particular) that are normally closed to visitors or the camera, and the splendid results are shown, in color, on over 1,000 pages. Paccard was also privy to the traditionally secret craft techniques passed down orally from master to apprentice, and some of these are presented here in text, diagrams, and photos.
                                                         
                                                                 Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 05 142817 31
##T Traditional Islamic Craft in Moroccan Architecture
Traditional Islamic Craft in Moroccan Architecture

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Andre Paccard
1980; 508 pp. 582 pp.
(2 vol.)
ISBN 2864860031
OUT OF PRINT 

State Mutual Book & Periodical Service Ltd.
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##A 05 177404 34
##T Finland: Living Design
Finland: Living Design

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Elegant is a word not often used to describe design in our country, but in Finland itÕs hard to avoid: Finnish designers seem incapable of producing anything tacky.

Perhaps more than in any other country, designers and architects combine the ultra-modern with traditional materials, color, and light. The resulting aesthetic has a subtle beauty that stands as an antidote to sleaze.  So does this well-crafted book.         

                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 177534 35
##T Finland: Living Design
Finland: Living Design

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Elizabeth Gaynor
1984; 250 pp.
ISBN 084780545X
$35 ($37 postpaid)
from:

Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.
597 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10017
800-433-1238
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##A 05 178622 38
##T Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings
Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings


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One of the most wonderful books in print. In 1877 the American, Morse  Ñ  curator of the Peabody Museum in Salem, Massachusetts and an early solar inventor  Ñ  travelled to Japan, fell in love with the culture, and opened the West to it (Fenollosa and Ezra Pound followed his lead). Lovingly perceived, understood, and illustrated, the detailed genius of Japanese home life comes across intact.
                                                          
                                                          Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 05 178799 39
##T Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings
Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings


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Edward S. Morse
1972; 372 pp.
ISBN 0804809984
$8.50 ($10.50 postpaid)
from:

Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc.
28 South Main Street
Rutland, VT 05701-0410
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##A 05 55707 41
##T The Japanese House
The Japanese House

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Japanese architects are concerned with subtleties so different
than ours, it can be most instructive to understand what they are
trying to accomplish. This book explains whatÕs what, which may
not be at all what a Westerner would expect. 

                                                               Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 60931 42
##T The Japanese House
The Japanese House

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A Tradition for Contemporary Architecture
Heinrich Engel
1964; 495 pp.
ISBN 0804803048
$89.95 ($92.50 postpaid )
from:

Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.
28 South Main Street
P.O. Box 410 
Rutland, VT 05701-0410
802-773-8930
800-773-8229
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##A 05 39771 45
##T BERNARD RUDOFSKY ON ARCHITECTURE
BERNARD RUDOFSKY ON ARCHITECTURE

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These books utterly changed my basic ideas of shelter and building. The variety, ingenuity, art, and wit of folks building without restrictions or architectural training can be both inspiring and shocking to a citizen of a major industrialized nation.  

Architecture Without Architects is mostly photographs.  Mr. Rudofsky adds extensive, erudite commentary to his photographs 
in The Prodigious Builders, based on his many years of observing  
vernacular architecture. His analyses show up most modern architecture  as limp or effete.                                

                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 160064 46
##T BERNARD RUDOFSKY ON ARCHITECTURE
BERNARD RUDOFSKY ON ARCHITECTURE

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Architecture Without Architects   
Bernard Rudofsky
Revised Edition 1987; 128 pp.
ISBN 0826310044
$14.95 ($16.45 postpaid)
from:

University of New Mexico Press
Journalism Building
Room 220
Albuquerque, NM 87131
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##A 05 40249 47
##T BERNARD RUDOFSKY ON ARCHITECTURE
BERNARD RUDOFSKY ON ARCHITECTURE

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The Prodigious Builders
Bernard Rudofsky
1977; 383
ISBN 0156746255
OUT OF PRINT

Irvington
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##A 05 40772 51
##T Commonsense Architecture
Commonsense Architecture

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Hundreds of expert sketches with captions show us how clever folks can be designing their buildings. No text, and itÕs not missed. Many of the ideas, all taken from real construction, are so smart that you wonder what all the talk these days is concerning energy efficiency and other problems that seem to have been well solved centuries ago. Embarrassing and humbling and a real mind-stirrer.
                                                                          
                                                              
                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 41079 52
##T Commonsense Architecture
Commonsense Architecture

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John S. Taylor
1983; 160 pp.
ISBN 0393016471
 $5.95 postpaid
from:

W. W. Norton
Order Dept.
500 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10110
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##A 05 179457 55
##T A Pattern Language
A Pattern Language

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This project is overwhelmingly ambitious  Ñ  to establish a language for talking about what people really need from buildings and communities, drawing from many epochs and cultures but focusing on our own. The genius of Alexander et al. is that they simply ignore the stylistic fad-mongering that passes for architectural thought, and get on with sensible, useful, highly distilled wisdom about what works and what doesnÕt. TheyÕre not shy about laying down rules of thumb  (ÒBalconies and porches which are less than six feet deep are hardly ever usedÓ)  Ñ  often with research citations to back them up, and charming, pointed illustrations.

The most important book in architecture and planning for many
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##A 05 180099 57
##T A Pattern Language
A Pattern Language

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Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein
1977; 1,169pp.
ISBN 0195019199
$49.95 postpaid 
from:

Oxford University Press
16-00 Pollitt Drive
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
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##A 05 183423 60
##T The Linz Cafe
The Linz Cafe

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Christopher AlexanderÕs books, especially A Pattern Language
(see previous review), ask for demonstration of the ideas presented. The enlightened sponsors of a design exposition offered him a chance to show his stuff in the summer of 1980. He responded with a deceptively simple and subtle cafe. This modest book shares that same spirit with quiet, lucid explanations of what he was trying to achieve, and photographs for those unlucky enough to be unable to stop in for a beer. Judging by this book only
(I have not seen the cafe), IÕd say the cafe has that charm one finds now and then in a building designed by somebody who has not been messed up by an education in architecture. The designerÕs love and regard for the people who will use the building shows. ItÕs appalling that this is considered unusual or difficult to achieve, but we live in strange times.                          Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 183868 61
##T The Linz Cafe
The Linz Cafe

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Das Linz Cafe
Christopher Alexander
1982; 94 pp.
ISBN 0195202635
$35 postpaid 
from:

Oxford University Press
16-00 Pollitt Drive
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
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##A 05 181683 64
##T The Production of Houses
The Production of Houses


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This records the successful completion of a housing project done according to architect Christopher AlexanderÕs unorthodox theories. The project was set in Mexico, mostly to avoid American building codes which conspire to keep design and construction in the hands of architects and builders. Alexander requires that the end users of a building can and must participate in its construction from start to finish  Ñ  not merely in an advisory capacity. If necessary, the project is guided by a Òmaster builderÓ
(in this case Alexander) who acts as coordinator, inspiration, and source of critical information.

I find this book inspiring, essentially Òright,Ó and certainly one to read before building anything. My only qualm is that the ideas are
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##A 05 68188 66
##T The Production of Houses
The Production of Houses


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Christopher Alexander
1985; 381 pp.
ISBN 0195032233
$42.50 postpaid
from:

Oxford University Press
16-00 Pollitt Drive
Fairlawn, NJ 07410
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##A 05 10078 68
##T PAOLO SOLERI AND THE ARCOSANTI PROJECT
PAOLO SOLERI AND THE ARCOSANTI PROJECT

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Arcosanti is the name of the first Òarcology,Ó a compact city that will someday shelter 5,000 people, their art, and their work. Arcosanti will temper its own climate and make its own energy. Huge built-in greenhouses will grow the food and heat the entire complex in winter. The work goes slowly  Ñ  in 19 years only about three percent of the project has been completed, but whatÕs there is wonderful to see. ItÕs been built mostly by volunteers who have paid to work with master architect Paolo Soleri. Workers IÕve talked to agree that the experience was worth it, though not without controversy.  The Cosanti Foundation also supports itself by giving workshops on a variety of related subjects, publishing books by and about Mr. Soleri (the drawings are terrific) and by casting bells in bronze and stoneware. Visitors are welcome.
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##A 05 10751 70
##T PAOLO SOLERI AND THE ARCOSANTI PROJECT
PAOLO SOLERI AND THE ARCOSANTI PROJECT

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Cosanti Foundation
Information on educational
programs, bells, and Soleri
books free from:

Cosanti Foundation
6433 Doubletree Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85253
602-948-6145
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##A 05 51152 71
##T PAOLO SOLERI AND THE ARCOSANTI PROJECT
PAOLO SOLERI AND THE ARCOSANTI PROJECT

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Arcosanti Workshops

Write for information on workshops from:

Cosanti Foundation
6433 Doubletree Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85253
602-948-6145
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##A 05 41803 75
##T The Jersey Devil Design/Build Book
The Jersey Devil Design/Build Book

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Architects usually Òhave it built,Ó preferring to act only as designers. (Well, maybe they donÕt prefer to act only as designers, but thatÕs how things usually go.) The Jersey Devil crew contracts and builds their own designs, thus maintaining complete and doubtless scary control of their creations. No excuses. Result: highly unusual buildings with a sassy spirit not often seen. Nice book too.                                                          

                                                          Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 42218 76
##T The Jersey Devil Design/Build Book
The Jersey Devil Design/Build Book

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Michael J. Crosbie
1985; 96 pp.
ISBN 0879051906
$19.95 ($21.45 postpaid)
from:

Gibbs M. Smith, Inc.
P. O. Box 667
Layton, UT 84041
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##A 05 106421 79
##T Designing Houses
Designing Houses


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Though not billed as such, Designing Houses is a thing-makerÕs dream book! Even if designing and building your own Òbig houseÓ is not within your current reach, you cannot help being caught up in the enthusiasm generated within. Modelmaking is stressed throughout, starting with the setting up of your own ÒarchitectÕs office,Ó obtaining the instruments and tools of the trade and quite an ample course on cardboard construction. Best of all are the drawings: neat, simple, funky, their inevitable influence
on your own sketches makes this handsome volume underpriced . . . now where did I lay my X-acto . . .     

                                                            Ñ Joe Eddy Brown
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##A 05 107070 81
##T Designing Houses
Designing Houses


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Les Walker and Jeff Milstein
1976; 153 pp.
ISBN 087951096X
$10.95 ($13.40 postpaid)
from:

The Overlook Press
RR 1, Box 496
Woodstock, NY 12498
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##A 05 104854 83
##T Right Where You Live
Right Where You Live

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House buyers or renters are the intended readership of this book, but it serves equally well as a primer for house designers and remodelers. Good features and bad are examined in an easy going conversational style that makes the information easily readable even to kids  Ñ  a nice way to get them into the process. For practice, try testing your present digs against the criteria presented here. (You might want to move.) The kitchen chapter is especially good.  Note that this is just the basics; youÕll have to supply the imagination.                                         

                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 104971 84
##T Right Where You Live
Right Where You Live

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Constance Brady, A.I.A.
1979; 188 pp.
ISBN 0890872422
$9.95 ($10.84 postpaid)
from:

Conarc
P. O. Box 339
Bethel Island, CA 94511
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##A 05 89315 86
##T The Complete Guide to Factory-Made Houses
The Complete Guide to Factory-Made Houses

@@
If you buy a factory-made house, you wonÕt be doing anything unusual; about 50 percent of new housing is now made somewhere other than where it ends up. WeÕre talking kits  Ñ  panelized, precut and modular: log houses, domes, mobile homes (that hardly ever hit the road again once theyÕre delivered), and factory-made rooms such as kitchens and bathrooms. We are no longer talking cheap junk  Ñ  factory-made homes are often better made than on-site building because quality control is easier. Statistics show that many, if not most, owner-built homes are kits.

This book gives you the advantages and disadvantages of the options, useful buying tips, and a list of manufacturers.

                                                         Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 89438 87
##T The Complete Guide to Factory-Made Houses
The Complete Guide to Factory-Made Houses

@@
A. M. Watkins
Revised Edition 1987; 200 pp.
ISBN 0884627098
$10.95 ($12.95 postpaid)
from:

Longman Trade
520 North Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60610
@@

##A 05 107950 90
##T Design Works Kits
Design Works Kits


@@
Design Works offers a series of kits to help you visualize your ideas before taking action. The ArchitectÕs Drawing Kit consists of grids drawn in perspective. You tape these under tracing paper, then draw your heartÕs desire to scale in three dimensions, just as real architects do. (Many of them use grids just like these.) ItÕs easier than you think. Interior Design Kits are available too; one each for kitchen and bath, home furniture, office furniture, and architectural components such as windows and doors. You donÕt draw these. Instead, you cut out little perspective pictures of the items and stick them on a slick perspective-chart sheet. They 
donÕt stick permanently, so you can try different configurations by
shuffling them around. Design Works also sells a House Building Kit containing everything you need to make models as described in
@@

##A 05 108353 92
##T Design Works Kits
Design Works Kits


@@
Daniel K. Reif
$14.95 -$26.95
brochure free from:

Design Works, Inc.
11 Hitching Post Road
Amherst, MA 01002
413-549-4763
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##A 05 109292 93
##T Structures
Structures


@@
Guess who stayed up all night reading a structure book? ThatÕs extreme behavior even for a technotwit! What fascinates me about this book is the way it illuminates a traditionally difficult subject. Most other books challenge the reader not so much with the task of understanding the subject matter, as with comprehending the writing.  No problem here; this must be one of the all-time great examples of clear presentation combined with an interest-holding writing style. (What good are clear explanations if you fall out of your chair with boredom?) Such matters as stress, strain, YoungÕs Modulus, cantilevers, shear, and torsion are discussed as theory nicely tied to real-life examples. Simple illustrations and competent photographs reinforce the often witty text. The Secrets Are Revealed.
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##A 05 111816 95
##T Structures
Structures


@@
J. E. Gordon
1978; 395 pp.
ISBN 0306801515
 $11.95 postpaid
from:

Da Capo Press, Inc.
233 Spring Street
New York, NY 10013
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##A 05 160388 98
##T Reducing Home Building Costs with OVE
Reducing Home Building Costs with OVE

@@

YouÕd think that the basic ideas of OVE (Optimum Value Engineering) would be common practice, but thatÕs the building trades for youÑtechnologically about a century behind the rest of society.  Nonetheless, the suggestions shown here will cut costs, especially if youÕre an owner-builder.  The suggestions also tend to cut innovation and delightÑtheyÕre a true challenge to an architect with fancy designs.  In any case, this booklet will show you overbuilding is not necessarily a requirement of good quality, itÕs usually just stupid.
                       
                                                                     Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 161540 99
##T Reducing Home Building Costs with OVE
Reducing Home Building Costs with OVE

@@
NAHB Research Foundation
Manual $7 from:

NAHB Research Foundation
627 Southlawn Lane
Rockville, MD 20850
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##A 05 110483 102
##T Drafting
Drafting

@@

When I first got this book, I kept mumbling ÒArrgh . . . I wish IÕd had this book last year,Ó or some such remark born of unhappy memories of a past disaster.  Mr. Syvanen has a good knack for explaining things you donÕt see explained elsewhere.  Follow his lucid instructions and youÕll soon be drawing up your own house plans.  Your beginnership is assumed.                                

                                                               Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 110660 103
##T Drafting
Drafting

@@
Bob Syvanen
1982; 112 pp.
ISBN 0914788485
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

Globe Pequot Press
Box Q 
Chester, CT 06412
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##A 05 112577 106
##T The Owner-Builder and the Code
The Owner-Builder and the Code

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Whether youÕre a complier or defier, youÕre going to have to deal with the building code sooner or later. Well, ÔtheÕ code isnÕt correct . . . there are hundreds. Worse, the interpretation of whatever codes apply to you is up to your inspector, who may not be friendly for a variety of reasons, including political. With the exception of obvious safety regulations, inspectors and codes generally work against innovation, art, good sense, and the democratic process. This book presents some horror stories and some field-proven tactics for getting the inspector to see things your way. The examples are from a largely bygone era of California ÒfunkadelicÓ building, but the principles certainly apply to the present. Did you know that the sheriff can force you to leave your new home if the bedroom isnÕt the right size?     
                                                                       Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 112641 107
##T The Owner-Builder and the Code
The Owner-Builder and the Code

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Ken Kern, Ted Kogon, 
and Rob Thallon
1976; 173 pp.
ISBN 0686312236
$10 ($11.50 postpaid)
from:

Owner-Builder Publications
Box 817
North Fork, CA 93643
@@

##A 05 114841 109
##T The Owner Built Home
The Owner Built Home

@@
Ken KernÕs first book has been around just about as long as the original Whole Earth Catalog, and is written in a similar spirit. Ken seemed unwilling to take anyoneÕs word for anything. He liked to think for himself, working against government meddling in his life, challenging conventional wisdom. This book is full of wise decisions and clever details. Philosophy is mixed with experience  Ñ  both getting richer with time. My guess is that thousands of interesting people have been encouraged to act by KenÕs books, lectures, and workshops. He practiced what he preached  more than anyone IÕve ever met (except perhaps for monks).

Ironically, he was killed in February of 1986 when a partially
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##A 05 115311 111
##T The Owner Built Home
The Owner Built Home

@@
Ken Kern
Revised Edition 1975; 374 pp.
ISBN 0686312201
$10 ($11.50 postpaid)
from:

Owner-Builder Publications
Box 817
North Fork, CA 93643-0817

Other titles available; send SASE for information and price list
@@

##A 05 113760 115
##T Ken KernÕs Homestead Workshop
Ken KernÕs Homestead Workshop

@@
Well . . . KenÕs shop is so different from mine, yet I gotta agree with just about everything heÕs showing in this uniquely personal book.  He and his wife Barbara cover the entire shop bit  Ñ  from construction of the actual structure to the use of the tools.  Hand tools. Nonelectric hand tools, especially.  They end the book with a case history of how they invented, made, and refined an all-purpose cart as an example of how their shop and themselves interact so well.  It isnÕt often I say ÒI wish IÕd written that,Ó but IÕm saying it now. This book is certainly the most informative and proper-attitude-inducing IÕve ever seen on this subject. It should be very helpful to anyone designing a shop.                            
              
                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 113947 116
##T Ken KernÕs Homestead Workshop
Ken KernÕs Homestead Workshop

@@
Barbara and Ken Kern
1981; 166 pp.
ISBN 068417846X
OUT OF PRINT
Send SASE for information and price list from:

Owner-Builder Publications
Box 817
North Fork, CA 93643
@@

##A 05 116168 118
##T The Owner Builder
The Owner Builder

@@
Some of the best news in years is the success of the Owner
Builder Center in Berkeley, California. ItÕs one of the first, and certainly the biggest of such enterprisesÑtheyÕve taught more than 10,000 people how to build or remodel their own place while saving up to 40 percent. The ÒOBCÓ has also spawned about 20 other centers and doubtless inspired many more. They are strongly nonsexist.

What the OBC staff has learned from all that teaching has been gathered into a series of books. First is Before You Build.  Next, youÕll need to read Building Your Own House.

OBC also puts out a newsletter, The Owner Builder. It features
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##A 05 116790 120
##T The Owner Builder
The Owner Builder

@@
Patrick Lynch, Editor
$8/year (4 issues);
$15/2 years (8 issues)
from:

Owner Builder Center
1250 Addison Street
Suite 209
Berkeley, CA 94702
415-848-6860
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##A 05 116302 121
##T Before You Build
Before You Build

@@

Begin your homework with this book. Everything you need to know is explained in chronological order. Equally important, the author wisely insists you be realistic about your desires, needs, competence, attitude, time and finances. The psychological effects of the projectÑoften ignored until too lateÑare discussed in experienced detail. This book is by far the best of its kind. ItÕs by the OBC (Ù The Owner Builder, see separate review).

                                                                     Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 76130 122
##T Before You Build
Before You Build

@@
Robert Roskind
1983; 240 pp.
ISBN 0898150361
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Ten Speed Press
P. O. Box 7123
Berkeley, CA 94707
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##A 05 163758 125
##T Building Your Own House
Building Your Own House

@@
Watching many students make the same mistakes over and over has led the author to accent the tricky parts. In addition to the expected instruction, he answers the questions he knows you will ask: ÒHow accurate do I have to be here?Ó ÒWhat will the inspector want to see, and when?Ó ÒWhat if a board has a curve in it?Ó The book gets the foundation in and frame up. Later books will guide you to move-in day. The information is complete, jargon-free, well illustrated, liberally festooned with sample worksheets,
schedules and worksheets. Really good. Another goodie from OBC
(Ù The Owner Builder, see separate review).

                                                                        Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 14305 126
##T Building Your Own House
Building Your Own House

@@
Robert Roskind
1984; 448 pp.
ISBN 0898151848
$17.95 ($18.95 postpaid)
from:

Ten Speed Press
P. O. Box 7123
Berkeley, CA 94707
@@

##A 05 11587 128
##T Fine Homebuilding
Fine Homebuilding

@@
Fine is the word for this attractively produced magazine. The articles are about building, as youÕd expect, and are unusually complete. TheyÕre aimed at anyone who is interested in building, but the attitude of professionalism together with a proper spirit is what makes the magazine different. Whether the subject is modern or (more likely) traditional, youÕll find an emphasis on excellence, quality, and refinement lacking in other publications. A pleasure! The same folks also publish Fine Woodworking and ThreadsÑequally good. (See those reviews in Crafts section.)
                                                                             
                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin

Ù Fine Woodworking
@@

##A 05 11854 129
##T Fine Homebuilding
Fine Homebuilding

@@
Mark Feirer, Managing Editor
ISSN 02731398
$24/year (7 issues)
from:

The Taunton Press
P. O. Box 355
Newtown, CT 06470
@@

##A 05 223787 132
##T New England Builder
New England Builder

@@
Perhaps the most savvy builderÕs periodical around, this paper has the very latest from the builders themselves.  YouÕll find totally detailed drawings of nifty solutions to nasty carpentry problems, lots of tool using tips, and even straight talk about using computers on the job. What regionalism there is in the articles will still be useful in similar climates.  (Anywhere it snows, you get ice dams in the roofing, right?)  A subscription to this paper will give a real education to an owner-builder.

                                                         Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 224400 133
##T New England Builder
New England Builder

@@
(The Journal of Light Construction)
Steven Bliss, Editor
$22/year (12 issues)
from:

New England Builder
P.O. Box 278
Montpelier, VT  05602
802-223-6123
@@

##A 05 120997 135
##T The Moveable Nest
The Moveable Nest

@@
One of our favorites in past Whole Earth Catalogs, this book is an inspiring array of ideas for making a rented place into your own personal homeÑwithout losing the damage deposit. The suggestions are imaginative, and the instructions are the most lucid IÕve ever seen for anything. The whole thing is done in a friendly, nonchauvinist, encouraging manner that should lure even the most chickenhearted novice into action. Give a copy to someone you like.                                                
                                                         
                                                                  Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 121157 136
##T The Moveable Nest
The Moveable Nest

@@
Tom Schneider
Revised Edition 1984; 191 pp.
ISBN 0898151228
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Ten Speed Press
P. O. Box 7123
Berkeley, CA 94707
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##A 05 164212 140
##T ConranÕs Living in Small Spaces
ConranÕs Living in Small Spaces

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Must a small house mean small amenity and a drop in your standard of living?  Of course not, but that glib answer must be tempered with imagination and elan, as this book demonstrates so well.

HereÕs a rousing collection of clever and mostly affordable interior schemes.  The password is elegance.  All nicely shown in professionally done photographs.  All proven.  All proof that we donÕt need huge houses.  Inspiring and appropriate as we learn to live more lightly on the land.
                                                                       
                                                                   Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 173960 141
##T ConranÕs Living in Small Spaces
ConranÕs Living in Small Spaces

@@
Lorrie Mack
1988; 143 pp.
ISBN 0316543837
$24.95 ($26.45 postpaid)
from:

Little, Brown & Co.
200 West Street
Walthan, MA  02254
800-343-9204
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##A 05 122467 143
##T High-Tech
High-Tech


@@
I have no doubt that if I were acquisitive I would be equipping my life with high-tech house gear and decor. The stuff is sturdy, highly practical, often cheap, and  Ñ  except for right now  Ñ  outside of fashionability. The fashion is understandable  Ñ  the clarity of the high-tech approach is often quite beautiful. But then I think sewer manhole covers and military architecture are beautiful and Regency furniture is strictly for unfrequented museums.

This well-made book lavishly covers the range of high-tech possibilities, with a generous, if unannotated, directory of suppliers  Ñ  over 2000!                                  
                                                           
                                                               Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 05 122760 144
##T High-Tech
High-Tech


@@
Joan Kron and Suzanne Slesin
1978; 286 pp.
ISBN 051753262X
$29.95 ($32.55 postpaid)
from:

Crown Publishers
225 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10003
800-526-4264
@@

##A 05 67597 149
##T The Complete Guide to Home and Auto Burglar Alarms
The Complete Guide to Home and Auto Burglar Alarms

@@

Yipe! In some parts of the country the chances of having your house burglarized this year are one in ten or even worse. Your best defense is a cohesive neighborhood full of people you know. Next best is some appropriate hardware correctly installed. How to choose the hardware is what this book is about. Everything is explained in lay language with lots of tips for proper false-alarm-free installation, though if youÕre not handy with tools, youÕll need Home Security (Ù see separate review). 
                                                                        
                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 67887 150
##T The Complete Guide to Home and Auto Burglar Alarms
The Complete Guide to Home and Auto Burglar Alarms

@@
Doug Kirkpatrick
Revised Edition 1986; 192 pp.
ISBN 091319302X
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Baker Publishing
16245 Armstead St. Suite 125
Granada Hills, CA 91344
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##A 05 68724 152
##T Home Security
Home Security

@@
You wonÕt find much electronic wizardry here, but you will find clear writing and brilliantly done illustrations showing how to install security equipment. The book covers the installation of lights, door and window locks, grilles, safes, alarms, and all the detailing that goes with them. The chapter on fishing wires through walls is the best IÕve ever seen on this tricky procedure. Fire safety, fencing, and a good discussion of accident-proofing your place completes the book. ItÕs all done in that well-turned-out Time-Life manner.                                                     

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 68992 153
##T Home Security
Home Security

@@
Editors of Time-Life Books
1979; 136 pp.
ISBN 0809424207
$10.99 ($14.22 postpaid)
from:

Time-Life Books
1450 E. Parham Rd.
Richmond, VA 23280-9985
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##A 05 70065 156
##T Mountain West Security Catalog and Reference Manual
Mountain West Security Catalog and Reference Manual

@@

This fascinating catalog is where you find the hardware to use with the instructions in the previous two books . The selection is comprehensive, sophisticated (though not CIA level), and useful. Educational too; each itemÕs purpose is explained briefly.    

                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 70627 157
##T Mountain West Security Catalog and Reference Manual
Mountain West Security Catalog and Reference Manual

@@
Catalog $2 from:

Mountain West
4215 N. 16th St.
P. O. Box 10780
Phoenix, AZ 85064
800-528-6169
602-263-8831(AZ)
@@

##A 05 74921 159
##T Peace of Mind in Earthquake Country
Peace of Mind in Earthquake Country

@@
Fascinating. ThereÕs no better book on earthquakes, and no other
book at all that tells you what to do about them: where to locate,
evaluating sites and buildings, insurance, design, and where to run.

                                                         Ñ Stewart Brand

By the way, did you know that the worst earthquake known in United States history hit near St Louis in 1811? ItÕs called
the New Madrid quake, and it was so strong that the Mississippi ran north for a few days! Look it up in the library . Paranoia lives!

                                                           Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 75483 160
##T Peace of Mind in Earthquake Country
Peace of Mind in Earthquake Country

@@
Peter Yanev
1988; 304 pp.
ISBN 0877012164
$8.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Chronicle Books
275 Fifth Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
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##A 05 175874 162
##T Indoor Air Quality and Human Health
Indoor Air Quality and Human Health

@@
Here is a non-technical distillation of whatÕs been learned about indoor air pollution since the late 1970s when airtight energy-efficient measures slowed the renewal rate of fresh air in houses.  If you have been following this subject in magazines or technical journals, there wonÕt be much news here;  if you havenÕt been, this is a nicely laid-out introduction to whatÕs been discovered so far 
(mainly radiation and carcinogens). The mathematical equations are tucked away in one appendix, and there is a glossary and a list of manufacturers for things like heat exchangers and a gadget you leave in your basement that measures problems (if you have any) with radiation from radon gases seeping into your house from the soil.
                                                                Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 05 176788 163
##T Indoor Air Quality and Human Health
Indoor Air Quality and Human Health

@@
Isaac Turiel
1985; 173 pp.
ISBN 0804712557
$24.95 postpaid
from:

Stanford University Press
Stanford, CA 94305
415-723-9434
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##A 05 204054 168
##T Carpentry
Carpentry

@@

ÒHow do I get outta this mess?Ó If youÕd read this book first, you probably wouldnÕt be IN a mess. If youÕre already in a mess, the answer is probably in here; tricks of the carpentry trade is what this book is about. ItÕs a very useful addition to any general carpentry text. The 400 drawings by architect Malcolm Wells make things especially clear.                                    

                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 204718 169
##T Carpentry
Carpentry

@@
Bob Syvanen
2nd Edition 1988; 112 pp.
ISBN 0871067838
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

The Globe Pequot Press
Box Q
Chester, CT 06412
@@

##A 05 13675 172
##T Interior Finish
Interior Finish

@@

By the same author as Carpentry (see previous review), Interior Finish has tips and tricks of the trade for those inside jobs. ItÕs equally good at keeping you out of trouble, especially of the
sort that makes you feel and possibly even look like a fool. Such
as having all that installed plumbing end up outside the wall that
is supposed to contain it. You wouldnÕt do anything like that,
would you?                                           

                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin


Ù Living Space
@@

##A 05 13843 173
##T Interior Finish
Interior Finish

@@
Bob Syvanen
1988; 128 pp.
ISBN 0914788566
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

The Globe Pequot Press
Box Q 
Chester, CT 06412
@@

##A 05 14691 175
##T Residential Carpentry
Residential Carpentry

@@
You can tell that this is a vocational-ed. textbook; itÕs utterly competent and utterly coldblooded. Has test questions at the ends of chapters too. The instructions are given as ÒproceduresÓ (e.g. Procedure for Framing a Dormer) that are divided into steps detailed right down to which size nail to use. The nails themselves, and even the hammer, are explained in the introductory chapters. If youÕre smart enough to read, youÕre not likely to screw things up.  I can see why the Berkeley Owner-Builder Center (see review) recommends this book.

                                                          Ñ J. Baldwin
                                                          
Ù The Owner-Builder Center
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##A 05 15001 176
##T Residential Carpentry
Residential Carpentry

@@
Mortimer P. Reed
2nd Edition 1980; 705 pp.
ISBN 0471815446
 $17.95 postpaid
from:

John Wiley & Sons
Order Dept.
1 Wiley Drive
Somerset, NJ 08875
201-469-4400
@@

##A 05 24201 179
##T Modern Carpentry
Modern Carpentry

@@

If I had to choose just one house carpentry book, this would be it. Carpenter unions use it to teach apprentices, and it gets updated frequently. It contains a wealth of information well presentedÑ  the pictures and illustrations are understandable and are nicely integrated into the text.                    

                                                            Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 05 12522 180
##T Modern Carpentry
Modern Carpentry

@@
Willis H. Wagner
1987; 592 pp.
ISBN 087006648X
$23 postpaid
from:

Goodheart-Willcox
123 West Taft Drive
South Holland, IL 60473
800-323-0440
@@

##A 05 16679 183
##T Wiring Simplified
Wiring Simplified

@@

Not only is this book a most useful tool for the home electrician, it also has a hole punched all the way through it, for hanging over a nail. That is a kind of practicality that all American publishers should learn. Everything youÕll need to wire your home yourself.

                                                               Ñ J. D. Smith
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##A 05 17027 184
##T Wiring Simplified
Wiring Simplified

@@
H. P. Richter and W.C. Schwan
35th Edition 1987; 160 pp.
ISBN 0960329439
$3.50 ($5.25 postpaid)
from:

Park Publishing, Inc.
123 North Second Street
Stillwater, MN 55082
@@

##A 05 15750 187
##T Do-It-Yourself Plumbing
Do-It-Yourself Plumbing

@@
There are many books that adequately handle this subject, but this one is special: in addition to being commendably clear on repairs, both graphically and in the text, it has a really fine section on designing your own plumbing system.  I especially like the 
authorÕs insistence on explaining the basic reasons underlying his instructions, as well as the building codes. That way you really learn something. This is another of the excellent Popular Science books.                                                                 

                                                               Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 16086 188
##T Do-It-Yourself Plumbing
Do-It-Yourself Plumbing

@@
Max Alth
1975; 301 pp.
ISBN 0943822904
$19.95 ($22.90 postpaid)
from:

Popular Science Books
Sherman Turnpike
Danbury, CT 06816
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##A 05 17770 191
##T Builders Booksource
Builders Booksource

@@

Oh boy, a bookstore just for people who build things. The catalog is very comprehensive, covering every aspect of building with at least one good book, and usually with several  Ñ  each with a review. The store carries many more titles than are in the catalog
(lucky Bay Area residents can visit). If you have special needs, ask them for a reference.  Bet they have it.                           

                                                                   Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 18094 192
##T Builders Booksource
Builders Booksource

@@
Catalog free from:

Builders Booksource
1801 Fourth Street
Berkeley, CA  94710
415-845-6874
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##A 05 22119 195
##T ReaderÕs Digest Fix-It-Yourself Manual
ReaderÕs Digest Fix-It-Yourself Manual


@@
Say what you will about ReaderÕs Digest magazine, youÕre going to have to admit they do a great manual. With this one at your side, you can undertake the repair of just about anything found in a typical household. If you donÕt know about tools or how things work, the book tells you what you need to knowÑand without any trace of chauvinism. The range of subjects covered is huge, everything from tightening the rungs in the kitchen stool to whipping that rusty Coleman stove back into shape. The Dreaded Oversimplification only appears briefly in the auto section. A superior book in every way, especially in clarity. Cheaper than a repair personÕs housecall too.                                   

                                                                  Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 22360 196
##T ReaderÕs Digest Fix-It-Yourself Manual
ReaderÕs Digest Fix-It-Yourself Manual


@@
ReaderÕs Digest
1978; 480 pp.
ISBN 0895770407
$21.95 ($22.95 postpaid)
from:

ReaderÕs Digest
Attn.: Order Entry
Pleasantville, NY 10570
@@

##A 05 48483 201
##T CERAMIC HOUSES
CERAMIC HOUSES

@@
Fire an adobe house as if it were a huge ceramic pot.  It would then be weatherproof, earthquake-resistant, and about as permanent as a building can get.  You could even glaze it.  What a wonderful, simple idea!  Think of the possibilities, particularly in places where modern building materials are expensive, inappropriate 
(which is often), or unavailable.  Architect Nader Khalili first wrote of his attempts at actually doing this in a book with the unlikely name Racing Alone.  It was inspiring, but for some inexplicable reason it was published without illustrations.  Ceramic Houses is equally inspiring and is loaded with drawings, whole chapters on Middle East adobe building techniques and aesthetics, structural theory made easy enough to use, and, at last, photographs.  The how-to is experienced and presented in enough
@@

##A 05 49092 203
##T CERAMIC HOUSES
CERAMIC HOUSES

@@
Racing Alone
Nader Khalili
1983; 241 pp.
ISBN 0062504452
$14.95 ($16.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row Publishers
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
@@

##A 05 71374 204
##T Ceramic Houses
Ceramic Houses

@@
Ceramic Houses
How to Build Your Own
Nader Khalili
1986; 221 pp.
ISBN 0062504460
$19.95 ($21.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row Publishers
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
@@

##A 05 73444 205
##T CERAMIC HOUSES
CERAMIC HOUSES

@@
Geltaflan Foundation

Information from:

Geltaftan Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 145
Claremont, CA  91711
@@

##A 05 25311 210
##T Adobe
Adobe

@@
A very thorough book on many aspects of adobe construction. Mientras que descansas has adobes (while youÕre resting, make some adobes).                                           
                                                          Ñ Lloyd Kahn

Well, making adobe isnÕt particularly restful, but sooner or later you have made enough to raise a house. This revised edition includes the modern with the ancient; energy efficiency and code-meeting along with the traditional techniques and aesthetic considerations.                                                   
                                                          Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 25598 211
##T Adobe
Adobe

@@
Build it Yourself
Paul Graham McHenry, Jr.
Revised Edition 1985; 158 pp.
ISBN 081650948
$18.50 ($19.85 postpaid)
from:

University of Arizona Press
1230 North Park #102
Tucson, AZ 85719
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##A 05 27717 214
##T Earth Sheltered Housing Design
Earth Sheltered Housing Design

@@
Clearly not the last word, and just as clearly not the first, this second edition presents the state of the art in earth sheltered building technique. ItÕs illustrated with a wonderfully varied collection of real, lived-in houses with examples from virtually all feasible climates. Critics have been claiming that earth sheltering has no future, but youÕd never know it from this book. As experience has been gathered  Ñ  sometimes painfully  Ñ  the advantages and efficiencies of earth sheltered houses are becoming harder to ignore.                                               

                                                          Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 28001 215
##T Earth Sheltered Housing Design
Earth Sheltered Housing Design

@@
Underground Space Center
2nd Edition 1985; 350 pp.
ISBN 442287461
 $20.95 postpaid
from:

Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
Mail Order Service
7625 Empire Drive
Florence, KY 41042-0668
@@

##A 05 35838 223
##T Tensile Structures
Tensile Structures

@@
Tensile structures (air buildings are included in this category) are one of the most economical and daring ways of covering a space with minimum material. As materials and techniques improve, ambitious projects are becoming more common; the main airport terminal at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for instance, is a ÒtentÓ several thousand feet long. Closer to home, we are beginning to see tensile-structure shopping malls, greenhouses, and warehouses. ThereÕs talk of hotels and dormitories.

This book is a tantalizing visual introduction with lots of photos of models and real buildings. The theory chapters are for engineers who are not intimidated by calculations, but you donÕt need the intricate math to try your ideas in model form.  
                                                                  Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 36042 224
##T Tensile Structures
Tensile Structures

@@
Frei Otto, Editor
1973; 491 pp.
ISBN 0262650053
$25 ($26.25 postpaid)
from:

MIT Press
55 Hayward Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
@@

##A 05 36815 227
##T Moss Fabric Structures
Moss Fabric Structures

@@

The same Moss that makes the especially fine camping tents also makes larger structures for shelter and exhibit purposes. I know of at least one code-meeting home thatÕs a group of MossÕs larger, double-walled structures. ItÕs nice; I may live in one myself someday. Bill Moss advocates his designs as an answer to the ridiculous costs of conventional building. ItÕs an idea that might just work.                                                    

                                                               Ñ J. Baldwin


Ù Moss Tents
@@

##A 05 36905 228
##T Moss Fabric Structures
Moss Fabric Structures

@@
Moss Backpacking Tents, Fabric Exhibits, and Outdoor Structures
Information free from:

Moss Inc.
Marketing Dept.
Box 309
Camden, ME 04843
207-236-8368
@@

##A 05 37854 231
##T The Yurt Foundation
The Yurt Foundation

@@
In the 70s, yurts earned respect for being simple, cheap, and charming. A hippie image gained at the same time seems a disadvantage today, but that hasnÕt stopped progress  Ñ  theyÕre now highly developed permanent structures. These folks are the experts on this side of the pond. They sell plans for models up to 54 feet in diameter and three stories high.  Nice people to work with, too.                                                          

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 37892 232
##T The Yurt Foundation
The Yurt Foundation

@@
$15-$50
Information  free
from:

The Yurt Foundation
Bucks Harbor, ME 04618
@@

##A 05 179339 234
##T The Indian Tipi
The Indian Tipi

@@
Tipis are cheap and portable. To live in one involves intimate familiarity with fire, earth, sky and roundness. The canvas is a shadow-play of branches by day, people by night. Depending on your bodyÕs attitude about weather, a tipi as dwelling is either a delight or a nuisance. Whichever, you can appreciate the elegant design of a tipi and the culture that produced it. 

The LaubinÕs book is the only one on tipis, but it is very good.  All the information you need, technical or traditional, is here, and the Laubins are interesting people.   

                                                           Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 05 180854 235
##T The Indian Tipi
The Indian Tipi

@@
Its History, Construction and Use
Reginald and Gladys Laubin
1985; 288 pp.
ISBN 0345335546
$3.95 ($4.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Rd.
Westminster, MD 21157
@@

##A 05 44878 240
##T Log Home Guide for Builders & Buyers
Log Home Guide for Builders & Buyers

@@

A magazine devoted to (guess what) log building. A typical issue has extensive, well illustrated  articles on  building technique, problem-solving, and encouraging examples of finished homes. 
The winter issue is a massive directory of logsmiths and kits.

                                                                ÑÊJ. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 45224 241
##T Log Home Guide for Builders & Buyers
Log Home Guide for Builders & Buyers

@@
Allan T. Muir, Editor
ISSN 07075006
$18/year (5 issues) 
from:

Muir Publishing Co., Inc.
Highway 32 & 321
Cosby, TN 37722
@@

##A 05 14552 243
##T The JoinersÕ Quarterly
The JoinersÕ Quarterly

@@
Timber framers get together for a chat in this newsletter. The ads are instructive too. ThereÕs a lot going on these days as this
ancient building method is reborn utilizing modern materials
for energy efficiency.

                                                          Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 17287 244
##T The JoinersÕ Quarterly
The JoinersÕ Quarterly

@@
Steve Chappell, Editor
$7.50/year (4 issues) US;
$12.50/year foreign
from:

Fox Maple Press
Snowville Road
RR1 Box 583
West Brownfield, ME 04010
207-935-3720
@@

##A 05 42992 246
##T Building the Alaska Log Home
Building the Alaska Log Home

@@
Why should an Alaska log home be any different? Maybe itÕs the fierce individualism that seems to permeate anything that has to do with Alaska -  folks go there to do things their way. Maybe itÕs the irrefutable climate -  you have to be right or you freeze. The homes shown here, in enticing color, are masterpieces of the logsmithÕs art. No funky minerÕs cabins for these folks. The book isnÕt funky either; itÕs surprisingly slick and includes lots of Alaska bush-living lore mixed in with the competent instruction. Yet the author carefully avoids the usual log home fantasy hype. He makes it sound like the hard work it most assuredly is.
                                                                                       
                                                               Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 43187 247
##T Building the Alaska Log Home
Building the Alaska Log Home

@@
Tom Walker
1984; 178 pp.
ISBN 0882402331
$19.95 ($21.45 postpaid)
from:

Alaska Northwest Publishing Company
130 2nd Avenue South
Edmonds, WA 98020
@@

##A 05 96102 250
##T Log House Publishing
Log House Publishing

@@
Perhaps the best-known master log builder is Canadian B. Allan Mackie. HeÕs authored many respected books, and runs the B. Allan Mackie School of Log Building, which lots of people think is the best around. ItÕs certainly one of the oldest.  His catalog lists the available publications and classes. 

                                                                         Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 118159 251
##T Log House Publishing
Log House Publishing

@@
Information free
from:

Log House Publishing Company, Ltd.
R.R. 1
Pender Island, B.C.
V0N 2MO 
CANADA
604-629-6521
@@

##A 05 43976 252
##T Timber Frame Construction
Timber Frame Construction

@@
If you live where big wood is available, timber frame construction 
(also called post-and-beam) offers an interesting alternative to the usual 2x4 stick building. Done right, timber frame buildings are charming, strong, and not necessarily more expensive than more common construction. The weight of the parts, as well as tradition, makes a congenial crew a necessity, which can be fun. This handsome and experienced book will get you started. It covers the whole bit from history to how to hold the chisels. The complete procedure for making a simple garden shed is presented as a practice project -  a fine idea.     
                        
                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin

Ù Tools and How To Use Them
@@

##A 05 44264 253
##T Timber Frame Construction
Timber Frame Construction

@@
Jack Sobon and Roger Schroeder
1984; 204 pp.
ISBN 0882663658
$12.95 ($14.95 postpaid)
from:

Garden Way Publishing
Storey Communications
Pownal, VT 05261
@@

##A 05 45895 255
##T Practical Pole Building Construction
Practical Pole Building Construction

@@

Why hang a house up in the air on a bunch of poles? The biggest advantage of this building method is adaptability to otherwise unbuildable sites. Hillsides, unstable soils, and flood plains are no problem. In most cases, poles are much cheaper than a normal foundation, and since the poles, instead of the walls, carry the structural loads, dramatic open plans can be accommodated. This book tells you how to do it, including calculations.            

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin


Ù The Owner Built Home
@@

##A 05 46115 256
##T Practical Pole Building Construction
Practical Pole Building Construction

@@
Leigh Seddon
1985; 183 pp.
ISBN 0913589160
$9.95 ($11.20 postpaid)
from:

Williamson Publishing Company
P. O. Box 185
Charlotte, VT 05445
@@

##A 05 46976 259
##T Chainsaw Savvy
Chainsaw Savvy

@@
How to tame, train, and feed a chainsaw, done in enough detail to keep you safe yet efficient. First you cut the tree down. Then you cut it up.                                              

                                                                  Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 47309 260
##T Chainsaw Savvy
Chainsaw Savvy

@@
A Complete Guide
Neil Soderstrom
1982; 144 pp.
ISBN 087100187X
$10.95 ($12.45 postpaid)
from:

Morgan & Morgan
145 Palisade Street
Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
@@

##A 05 48003 263
##T Chainsaw Lumbermaking
Chainsaw Lumbermaking

@@
It takes nerves of steel and good ear protectors, but itÕs otherwise entirely feasible to turn trees into boards with a chainsaw. This book escorts you through the entire process, commencing with tree selection. The critical and delicate business of sharpening chains for lumbermaking purposes is covered in practiced detail, as are plans for constructing your own lumbering device. Exceptionally well illustrated.              

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 48334 264
##T Chainsaw Lumbermaking
Chainsaw Lumbermaking

@@
Will Malloff
1982; 212 pp.
ISBN 0918804124
$23.95 ($25.45 postpaid)
from:

The Taunton Press
63 South Main Street
Newtown, CT 06470
@@

##A 05 49259 266
##T BaileyÕs
BaileyÕs

@@

Saws, accessories, calk boots, sharpeners, safety equipment, and everything else loggers need, at a discount. TheyÕre nice people 
to deal with, too.                                                              

                                                        Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 49454 267
##T BaileyÕs
BaileyÕs

@@

Catalog $2 from:

BaileyÕs
44650 Highway 101
P. O. Box 550
Laytonville, CA 95454
800-322-4539
707-984-6133
@@

##A 05 30441 270
##T Renovation
Renovation

@@
If I owned a hardware store or ran the local lumberyard, IÕd buy a desk copy of this book for do-it-yourself customers to paw through.  The ones who should have done some homework before they walked in can here learn the names of the things they need. Those with questions about the best way to do something will find the explanation of methods well-integrated in text, line illustration, and photographs. Both groups will return to the sales desk informed and encouraged.

In an age when people write books on subjects they have scarcely mastered, and publishers back them, what makes Renovation shine is experience and teamwork. The illustrator used to be a 
contractor. The photographer had previously remodeled a loft and
@@

##A 05 30975 272
##T Renovation
Renovation

@@
Michael Litchfield
1983; 571 pp.
ISBN 0471049034
 $35.95 postpaid
from:

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
1 Wiley Drive
Somerset, NJ 08875
@@

##A 05 31956 275
##T The Old-House Journal
The Old-House Journal

@@
Fix up an old house and Òyou will have made a home while cherishing a piece of history  Ñ  all without destroying the beauty of your old house or compromising the unique story it has to tell. Rather, you will have enriched that story and made it part of your own.Ó So say the editors of this monthly that is obviously as much a labor of love as the restorations they champion. Articles are likely to deal with such matters as authentic architectural styling details, restoration of windows, and rewiring. The tone is do-it-yourself, and generally inspiring. A lively letters department lets readers trade information easily. The ads are probably worth the price of the subscription.

Since 1976, Old-House Journal has printed compendiums of each
@@

##A 05 32318 277
##T The Old-House Journal
The Old-House Journal

@@
Patricia Poore, Editor
ISSN 00940178
$21/year (6 issues). 
The OHJ Yearbook (1985): $18. The 1980s Set: $69. 
The 1986 BuyerÕs Guide Catalog: $10.95 to OHJ subscribers; $13.95  to nonsubscribers.
from:

The Old-House Journal
69A Seventh Avenue 
Brooklyn, NY 11217
718-636-4514
@@

##A 05 182199 279
##T RenovatorÕs Supply
RenovatorÕs Supply

@@
If youÕre considering a renovation project, youÕll soon run into a problem: how to replace the missing hardware with authentic copies or the real thing?  Start your search in this yummy catalog of old time lighting, plumbing, general hardware and even some furniture.            
              
                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 184677 280
##T RenovatorÕs Supply
RenovatorÕs Supply

@@
Catalog free from:

RenovatorÕs Supply, Inc.
RenovatorÕs Old Mill
Millers Falls, MA 01349
@@

##A 05 29421 283
##T OrthoÕs Home Improvement Encyclopedia
OrthoÕs Home Improvement Encyclopedia


@@

ÒHm . . . bet we could fix up this hovel with a little work. Wonder if we could handle the job ourselves?Ó With this weighty tome in your grasp, you probably can, assuming you have conquered initial fears and are thus able to start, and even thatÕll be easier because of the color pictures of the results you may expect. ItÕs so comprehensive that the table of contents takes up the entire back cover in fine print; if what you need isnÕt there, you probably donÕt need to know it. It covers house and grounds, adding and repairing. 
                                                                           
                                                           Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 29462 284
##T OrthoÕs Home Improvement Encyclopedia
OrthoÕs Home Improvement Encyclopedia


@@
Karin Shakery, Editor
1985; 512 pp.
ISBN 0897210662
$24.95 ($25.95 postpaid)
from:

Ortho Books
6001 Bollinger Canyon Road
Room TB-120
San Ramon, CA 94583
@@

##A 05 33741 287
##T The Straight Poop
The Straight Poop

@@
This charming home-published book takes a chatty personal approach rather than a scary authoritarian one, but itÕs professional nevertheless. A special section dubbed ÒThe Dirty DozenÓ will get you through most emergencies without calling a plumber. Other repairs are discussed with unusual realism, especially concerning the yukkiness likely to be encountered. 
(Things are rarely as neat as other books would have you believe.) A boon: old-style plumbing such as Victorian commodes that sound like dragon burps are addressed with an expertise IÕve never seen anywhere else.                                                        

                                                         Ñ J. Baldwin
Ù Do-It-Yourself Plumbing
@@

##A 05 34020 288
##T The Straight Poop
The Straight Poop

@@
A PlumberÕs Tattler
Peter A. Hemp
1986; 176 pp.
ISBN 0898151465
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Ten Speed Press
P. O. Box 7123
Berkeley, CA 94707
@@

##A 05 23142 290
##T Home Renovation
Home Renovation


@@

Fix up that old dog, is what this book is about. Historical significance isnÕt very significant here, but making the old place better is. Convert your garage into a family room, for instance. Zillions of little details are laid out in plain order-your-breakfast lingo and good drawings. The hard-work part isnÕt glossed over either, so you can get a realistic idea of what youÕre up against. Recommended by the Owner Builder Center (see review). 
 
                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin
                                                       

Ù The Owner Builder Center
@@

##A 05 23536 291
##T Home Renovation
Home Renovation


@@
Francis D. K. Ching 
and Dale E. Miller
1983; 338 pp.
ISBN 0442215924
 $20.95 postpaid
from:

Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
Mail Order Service
7625 Empire Drive
Florence, KY 41042
@@

##A 05 225161 292
##T Masonry
Masonry

@@
Mountains slowly get smaller, and so do stone and brick buildings.  Little by littleÑa crack here and a chip there, spalling, freeze and thaw, acid rainÑthe surface and ornaments wear away.  The whole business sort of reminds me of the frustration and rewards experienced by those who care for wooden boats; essentially a lost cause, but worth the effort in order to enjoy the wonderful and often irreplaceable handiwork a bit longer.

This book is not a do-it-yourself manual.  Its main purpose is to familiarize you with the procedures used by skilled experts to diagnose, prevent and treat problems.  If a stone or brick building is part of your responsibilities, your homework starts here.
                                                                
                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 225492 293
##T Masonry
Masonry

@@
(How to Care for Old and Historic Brick and Stone)
Mark London
1988; 208 pp.
ISBN 0891331255
$12.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Preservation Press
National Trust for Historic Preservation
1600 H Street NW
Washington, DC  20006
202-673-4200
@@

##A 05 72222 300
##T ENERGY INTRODUCTION
ENERGY INTRODUCTION

@@
When Whole Earth publications started in 1968, there was much glib talk of Òfree energyÓ from the sun, wind, and methane digesters. Some folks (not us) even thought that this free energy would by itself cause extensive political decentralization, a naive, or at least premature, view. But we have learned a few things:

¥ Funky hardware gives funky results, regardless of the righteousness of the maker.
¥ Reliable hardware is hard to produce and costs more than one would hope.
¥ Reduction of demand (conservation) is not very exciting but is 
the cheapest energy strategy and certainly is Step One.
¥ Household-size methane digesters donÕt work.
@@

##A 05 3614 302
##T Climatic Design
Climatic Design

@@
Climatic Design is attaining nearly biblical status among energy-conscious designers and architects. ItÕs valuable as a reliable and comprehensive reference to the layperson as well, but itÕs not bedtime reading.

Much of the book is organized as a series of specific maxims, replete with text and drawings, that form parts of broad bioclimatic strategies such as Òpromote earth coolingÓ and 
Òminimize infiltration.Ó Some of the theory is abstruse and hard to use, but the bulk of the book is excellent background for those thinking about a new house in the broadest terms: site, orientation, and rough floor plans.                            
                                                            
                                                         Ñ David Godolphin
@@

##A 05 112933 303
##T Climatic Design
Climatic Design

@@
Donald Watson, FAIA, 
and Kenneth Labs
1985; 280 pp.
ISBN 0070684782
$42.50 postpaid 
from:

McGraw-Hill Book Co.
Order Services
13955 Manchester Road,
Manchester, MO 63011
@@

##A 05 129902 306
##T The Superinsulated Home Book
The Superinsulated Home Book


@@
If you want a house that uses very little energy, you should probably make it superinsulated and relatively airtight. Amply illustrated and very current, this book covers the principles and practice that apply to every square foot of a low-energy house, from the tapered foundation insulation to the continuous ridge vent. On the way it thoroughly treats key subjects like the air/vapor barrier, ventilation systems, and energy efficient appliances.

Just as The Passive Solar Energy Book (Ù see separate review) ignores superinsulation, this one doesnÕt know what to make of solar. The reading is slow going in parts, but itÕs worth it; the authors have done their homework heroically. All the information is there.                                                            
                                                           Ñ David Godolphin
@@

##A 05 130149 307
##T The Superinsulated Home Book
The Superinsulated Home Book


@@
J. D. Ned Nisson 
and Gautam Dutt
1985; 316 pp.
ISBN 047188734X
$20.90 postpaid 
from:

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Order Dept.
1 Wiley Drive
Somerset, NY 08875
@@

##A 05 26399 309
##T Passive Annual Heat Storage
Passive Annual Heat Storage

@@
Insulate the Earth? Uh huh. Sure. At first thatÕs what this book seems to be saying, and it sounds outrageous. ItÕs against everything weÕve been taught. But it works. Until now, earth sheltered housing has had to be carefully waterproofed and insulated to protect against dampness. The alleged benefits of using the surrounding earth as a heat source in winter and a heat absorber in summer canÕt work if the house is insulated against the earth surrounding it. But what if the surrounding earth is kept dry and is itself insulated? This book is a complete exposition of that radical idea. The few places built using this concept have worked, absorbing and storing summer heat for use in winter, just as the designers hoped. This may be the break earth sheltered housing has needed.                           
                                                               Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 26853 310
##T Passive Annual Heat Storage
Passive Annual Heat Storage

@@
John Hait and the Rocky Mountain Research Center
1983; 152 pp.
ISBN 0915207001
$14.95 postpaid 
from:

Rocky Mountain Research Center
P. O. Box 4694
Missoula, MT 59806
@@

##A 05 140829 311
##T Home Power Magazine
Home Power Magazine

@@

This magazine is surprisingly sassy for a freebie. There are advertisers involved, so I guess you couldnÕt call the contents unbiased, yet I donÕt see anything that could be called conflict of interest. The letters to the editor are particularly interesting because they reflect actual users at work, the best ÒhorseÕs 
mouth.Ó As with any new field, it is a good idea to read up from as many standpoints as possible. YouÕll find lots to gnaw on here.                   
       
                                                               Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 149515 312
##T Home Power Magazine
Home Power Magazine

@@
Free in U.S.
from:

Home Power Magazine
P.O. Box 130
Hornbrook, CA 96044-0130
916-475-3179
@@

##A 05 187095 315
##T A Golden Thread
A Golden Thread

@@
The past gives permission to the future, vaulting hysterias of Nowness.  ItÕs the difference between some kid intoning solar slogans and granddad remarking that yeah, well, why in hell do you think he built the familyÕs Cape Cod salt box with the main rooms on the south side?

Whole Earth has been party to the making of this bookÑwe ran Butti & PerlinÕs surprising history of solar water heaters in California around 1900 in Fall Õ77, solar water heaters in Florida around 1930 in Spring Õ78, and a stroll past 2500 years of solar invention in Winter Õ79. ItÕs wonderful stuff, not only for the permission and fascinations in it, but also as a peerless source of design ideas.                                       
                                                           Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 05 187437 316
##T A Golden Thread
A Golden Thread

@@
(2500 Years of Solar Architecture and Technology)
1980; 289 pp.
ISBN 0917352076
$19.95 ($21.95 postpaid)
from:

Cheshire Books
514 Bryant Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
415-321-2449
@@

##A 05 126451 320
##T The Passive Solar Energy Book
The Passive Solar Energy Book

@@
Despite advanced age in a fast-changing field, MazriaÕs book remains the single best guide to passive solar house design. Its basic information on solar energy, orientation, and the arrangement of rooms is current. Organization, illustration, assemblage of tools, and use of patterns (based on Christopher AlexanderÕs A Pattern Language) are first-rate.  Use the book with confidence but consider these warnings: Mazria works in the sunny Southwest and shows a slight bias towards that climate. The book recommends far too much south glass per square foot of floor area given todayÕs tight, well-insulated houses.

High-performance glazings threaten to replace moveable
@@

##A 05 126899 322
##T The Passive Solar Energy Book
The Passive Solar Energy Book

@@
Edward Mazria
1979; 687 pp.
ISBN 0878572384
$29.95 postpaid 
from:

Rodale Press
33 East Minor Street
Emmaus, PA 18098
@@

##A 05 188209 324
##T New Solar Home Book
New Solar Home Book

@@

One of the most popular solar home books ever is back in updated form.  The writing and illustrations are easily understood, making this book a good place to start if you donÕt know much about the principles involved.

                                                        Ñ J. Baldwin




Ù The New Solar Electric Home
@@

##A 05 188636 325
##T New Solar Home Book
New Solar Home Book

@@
Bruce Anderson with Michael Riordan
Revised Edition 1987; 204 pp.
ISBN 0931790700
$16.95 ($19.45 postpaid)
from:

Brick House Publishing Co.
3 Main Street
P.O. Box 512
Andover, MA 01810
@@

##A 05 128966 327
##T Custom Builder
Custom Builder

@@

Custom Builder (formerly called Solar Age; then Progressive
Builder) is still a solar architecture magazine, as it has been for more than ten years. ItÕs a good example of a two-way publication; ideas are argued theoretically first and again when enough field experience becomes available. ItÕs all served up in lay language,
so you can keep up with things without being a pro.       

                                                         Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 129045 328
##T Custom Builder
Custom Builder

@@
William DÕAlessandro, 
Editor-in-Chief
ISBN 08952493
$23.97/year (12 issues)
from:

Custom Builder
Subscription Services
P.O. Box 985
Farmingdale, NY 11737
@@

##A 05 78061 329
##T RENEW AMERICA PROJECT
RENEW AMERICA PROJECT

@@
The Renew America Project (used to be called Solar Lobby) is in there hammering away at legislators who still think thereÕs no energy problem.  Denis Hayes, an old hand at this, is at the helm. The Fund for Renewable Energy and the Environment is the educational arm of the outfit.  They publish attractive booklets 
(the recent State of the States, for instance) full of disquieting facts and figures on current environmental topics, particularly useful for teachers.  Their Renew America Catalog features a tempting selection of environmentally sensitive  items such as energy-efficient light bulbs, radon test kits and recycled paper products.  All well done and effective. 

                                                                   Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 78189 330
##T RENEW AMERICA PROJECT
RENEW AMERICA PROJECT

@@
Renew America Project
$25/year membership
from:

Renew America Project
1001 Connecticut Ave. NW
Suite 719
Washington, DC  20036
202-466-6880

Members receive quarterly newsletter, annual State of the States Reports and the Renew America Catalog.
@@

##A 05 228497 331
##T RENEW AMERICA PROJECT
RENEW AMERICA PROJECT

@@
Fund for Renewable Energy and the Environment

Information from:

Renew America Project
1001 Connecticut Ave. NW
Suite 719
Washington, DC  20036
@@

##A 05 226540 332
##T RENEW AMERICA PROJECT
RENEW AMERICA PROJECT

@@
Renew America Catalog
Catalog $2
from:

Renew America Project
128 Intervale Rd.
Burlington, VT  05401
@@

##A 05 226803 333
##T RENEW AMERICA PROJECT
RENEW AMERICA PROJECT

@@
The State of the States
1988
$15 Individuals
$20 Bus./Gov.
from:

Renew America Project
1001 Connecticut Ave.
Suite 719
Washington, DC  20036
202-466-6880
@@

##A 05 50416 337
##T Solar Catalog
Solar Catalog

@@
This juicy catalog features a good selection of hardware needed for solar heating. ItÕs where you order products made of Sun-Lite  Ñ  the best fiberglass-reinforced plastic glazing. It can be had in rolls, or in prefabricated panels ready to install. The roll stock can be used to make solar heated water tanks for thermal storage and aquaculture. It works well for greenhouses. Note that this catalog, like most others, doesnÕt criticize or otherwise comment on suitability of items shown. It pays to read up on prospective purchases, and to discuss them with folks who have some experience.                        
                                   
                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 50458 338
##T Solar Catalog
Solar Catalog

@@
Catalog $3 
from:

Solar Components Corp.
88 Pine Street
Manchester, NH 03103
@@

##A 05 51233 341
##T Zomeworks
Zomeworks

@@
In a business rife with doubtful quality and broken promises,
Zomeworks has attained a reputation for reliable products. Their formula for success: Clever, simple products that perform like the advertisements say they will. Founder Steve Baer has a knack for whipping things down to essentials, and the products show that. No government largesse has been involved either; perhaps thatÕs one reason for the lean, no-nonsense designs. Look at their catalog for a lesson in clarity.

                                                                          Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 51488 342
##T Zomeworks
Zomeworks

@@
Information free 
from:

Zomeworks Corp.
P. O. Box 25805
Albuquerque, NM 87125
505-242-5354
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##A 05 52638 345
##T Solar Card
Solar Card

@@

Is the neighborÕs tree gonna shade your solar hot water heater in February? Will your proposed garden get enough sun for tomatoes? You can find out easily by viewing your surroundings through the lines printed on a Solar Card. ItÕs a bit awkward to use but itÕs cheap and it works. Tell them your city and state when ordering. 
                                                  
                                                        Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 52750 346
##T Solar Card
Solar Card

@@
$14.95 from:

Design Works, Inc.
11 Hitching Post Road
Amherst, MA 01002
@@

##A 05 53678 348
##T The Spec Guide
The Spec Guide

@@
Like a showroom without sales pressure, this guide lists more than one thousand energy related products and their specifications. YouÕll find side-by-side comparison of such things as hot water heating systems, collectors, controls, instruments, thermal storage hardware, and wind energy sets. You wonÕt find judgment though; thatÕs up to you. Note that performance claims are the manufacturerÕs. If the GuideÕs price seems high, think of what it would take you in time and postage to round up all this stuff. Be grateful.                                                              

                                                               Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 53786 349
##T The Spec Guide
The Spec Guide

@@
Editors of Solar Age Magazine
8th Edition 1986; 412 pp.
ISBN 091898406
$47.99 ($49.99 postpaid)
from:

SolarVision, Inc.
7 Church Hill
Harrisville, NH 03450
603-827-3347
@@

##A 05 56763 351
##T REAL GOODS
REAL GOODS

@@

One of our favorite purveyors of alternative-energy stuff is back, complete with their fat (the fattest anywhere), annotated catalog dubbed Alternative Energy Sourcebook.  ÒSourcebookÓ refers to the basic education presented along with the merchandise Ñ a valuable service for a customer without enough knowledge to make a good choice of equipment.  The company also publishes Real Good News, with sale prices, updates to the Sourcebook, and letters from users in the field.  That feedback brings new meaning to the term
 ÒrealÓ in the company name.  IÕve bought lots of items from these folks.  No complaints.  Quite the reverse, in fact; this store is a real gem.
                                                                         Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 154725 352
##T REAL GOODS
REAL GOODS

@@
Alternative Energy Sourcebook
Catalog $5 ($6.50 postpaid)
from:

Real Goods Trading Co.
3041 Guidiville Road
Ukiah, CA  95482
707-468-9214
@@

##A 05 12641 353
##T REAL GOODS
REAL GOODS

@@
Real Good News

Free (4 issues/year)
with Sourcebook order   
from:

Real Goods Trading Co.
3041 Guidiville Road
Ukiah, CA  95482
707-468-9214
@@

##A 05 54722 358
##T PHOTOVOLTAICS INTRODUCTION
PHOTOVOLTAICS INTRODUCTION

@@

Photovoltaic (PV) panels make electricity when the sun shines on them. They do it quietly, simply, reliably (at last!), and if not cheaply, at least for less money than last year. TheyÕre already competitive with all other non-utility sources of electricity. The price has been steadily dropping, if you take inflation into consideration, and will drop further as production rises, which it is. Watch a billion dollar industry being born, folksÑPV is coming on line fast.                                      

                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 61243 359
##T Practical Photovoltaics
Practical Photovoltaics

@@
Practical Photovoltaics presents the theory and practice of photovoltaics in a nontechnical manner; read it and youÕll have good reason to claim you know what youÕre doing. There are complete instructions for assembling your own panels from individual cells (which are often available at a discount)Ña great way to save money.                                      

                                                       Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 61586 360
##T Practical Photovoltaics
Practical Photovoltaics

@@
Richard J. Komp, Ph.D.
Second Edition 1984; 1916 pp.
ISBN 0937948063
$16.95 ($18.45 postpaid)
from:

AATEC Publications
P. O. Box 7119
Ann Arbor, MI 48107
313-995-1470
@@

##A 05 59214 362
##T The New Solar Electric Home
The New Solar Electric Home

@@

The New Solar Electric Home is an update of one of our favorite PV books. The new version concentrates on the design of complete household PV systems, especially the equipment that ÒinvertsÓ the low voltage DC power into the 110-volt AC power you and your appliances are used to. (The author recommends the Heart Interface, a device available from most of the suppliers shown in this clusterÕs PHOTOVOLTAIC SUPPLIERS Ù.) Recent developments make photovoltaic homes truly practical for the first time.

                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 59619 363
##T The New Solar Electric Home
The New Solar Electric Home

@@
The Photovoltaics How-To Handbook
Joel Davidson
1987; 408  pp.
ISBN 0937948098
$18.95 ($20.45 postpaid)
from:

AATEC Publications
P. O. Box 7119
Ann Arbor, MI 48107
@@

##A 05 60284 364
##T RVersÕ Guide to Solar Battery Charging 
RVersÕ Guide to Solar Battery Charging 

@@
RVersÕ Guide to Solar Battery Charging is a finely detailed
guide to installing PV systems in your motorhome, trailer, boat, or cabin. IÕve lived PV-powered for six years now and can vouch that this book is what you need to know. Wish IÕd had it in 1980.
                                                                     
                                                         Ñ J. Baldwin





Ù Trailers and RVs
@@

##A 05 60485 365
##T RVersÕ Guide to Solar Battery Charging 
RVersÕ Guide to Solar Battery Charging 

@@
Noel and Barbara Kirkby
1987; 164 pp.
ISBN 093794808X
$12.95 ($14.45 postpaid)
from:

AATEC Publications
P. O. Box 7119
Ann Arbor, MI 48107
313-995-1470
@@

##A 05 58173 367
##T The PV Network News
The PV Network News

@@

This quarterly newsletter continues to serve as a clearinghouse for PV knowhow developed by folks using photovoltaics in their daily lives. The product reviews and field-proven tips are often way ahead of more formal publications not so intimately involved with reality. A feature, ÒSolar Works,Ó is an up-to-date bibliography and source list  Ñ  itself worth the price of the subscription.                                                    

                                                                 Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 58403 368
##T The PV Network News
The PV Network News

@@
A.D. Paul Wilkins, Editor
$15/year (4 issues)
from:

The PV Network News
Route 10
Box 86PV/W
Santa Fe, NM 87501
@@

##A 05 56307 371
##T PHOTOVOLTAIC SUPPLIERS
PHOTOVOLTAIC SUPPLIERS

@@
There are now many competent suppliers of trustable equipment. These are a few that I or friends have found to be pleasant to work with. Prices vary; you should shop around.

¥ Photocomm hawks their wares in a comprehensive and educational catalog. They offer complete packaged systems for residential power and water pumping, among other things. These 
folks are on the way to being the largest supplier of photovoltaics.

¥ Solar Electric Systems specializes in photovoltaic equipment for recreational vehicles (RVs). Prices are good. They have a book too: RVerÕs Guide To Solar Battery Charging and Inverters (Ù see separate review). Obviously, such equipment is useful for other than RV use.
@@

##A 05 56922 373
##T PHOTOVOLTAIC SUPPLIERS
PHOTOVOLTAIC SUPPLIERS

@@
Photocomm 
Catalog $5.95  
from:

Photocomm, Inc.
Catalog and Mail Order Division
P. O. Box 649
North San Juan, CA 95960
800-544-6466
916-292-3754
@@

##A 05 2090 374
##T PHOTOVOLTAIC SUPPLIERS
PHOTOVOLTAIC SUPPLIERS

@@
William Lamb Solar Electric Specialties
Information free  
from:

William Lamb Corp.
10615 Chandler Blvd. 
North Hollywood, CA 91601
818-980-6248
@@

##A 05 57091 375
##T PHOTOVOLTAIC SUPPLIERS
PHOTOVOLTAIC SUPPLIERS

@@
Windlight Workshop  

Catalog/Handbook $6 postpaid
from:

Flowlight Solar Power
P. O. Box 548H
Santa Cruz, NM 87567
505-753-9699
@@

##A 05 18670 376
##T PHOTOVOLTAIC SUPPLIERS
PHOTOVOLTAIC SUPPLIERS

@@
Talmage Energy Systems 
Catalog $3  
from:

Talmage Engineering
P. O. Box 497A
Kennebunkport, ME 04046
@@

##A 05 57349 377
##T PHOTOVOLTAIC SUPPLIERS
PHOTOVOLTAIC SUPPLIERS

@@
Solar Electric Specialties Co.
Information free  
from:

Solar Electric Specialties Co.
P. O. Box 537
Willits, CA 95490
707-459-9496
@@

##A 05 20327 378
##T PHOTOVOLTAIC SUPPLIERS
PHOTOVOLTAIC SUPPLIERS

@@
Solar Electric Systems  
Update newsletter  free 
from:

Solar Electric Systems
P. O. Box 1562
Cave Creek, AZ 85331
@@

##A 05 34793 380
##T Solid Fuels Encyclopedia
Solid Fuels Encyclopedia

@@

The name Jay Shelton is often heard when wood heat is being discussed. His research has developed a trustworthy body of information on wood and coal burning for household heating. This book covers every aspect of the subject: stoves, fireplaces, chimneys, furnaces, air circulation, safety, and proper operation. ItÕs done in plain language with excellent illustrations.     

                                                          Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 34951 381
##T Solid Fuels Encyclopedia
Solid Fuels Encyclopedia

@@
Jay W. Shelton
1983; 268 pp.
ISBN 0882663070
$12.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Shelton Research, Inc.
P.O. Box 5235
Santa Fe, NM 87502
@@

##A 05 191240 384
##T Wood Heat Safety
Wood Heat Safety

@@
Fire inspectors, code writers, and insurance companies are all getting tougher about standards for wood heating appliances.  They have good reason too; the statistics show the sad results of inexpert or careless wood heating practices.  This book probably has your exact situation and what to do about it, illustrated and discussed down to the last tiny detail.  Particular attention is given to problems found in older houses, a subject not often dealt with in other books.  Of course, the information youÕll need for a new place is there, too, equally detailed.  The calm and competent presentation is mercifully free of horror stories and especially easy to use.

                                                      Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 191875 385
##T Wood Heat Safety
Wood Heat Safety

@@
Jay W. Shelton
1979; 165 pp.
ISBN 0882661604
$9.95 ($12.95 postpaid)
from:

Shelton Research, Inc.
P.O. Box 5235
Santa Fe, NM 87502
@@

##A 05 192655 386
##T Shelton Research, Inc.
Shelton Research, Inc.

@@

Jay SheltonÕs own lab publishes results of their research, in pamphlet form, usually well before it appears elsewhere.

                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 192777 387
##T Shelton Research, Inc.
Shelton Research, Inc.

@@
For information send a  
S.A.S.E. to:

Shelton Research, Inc.
P.O. Box 5235 
Santa Fe, NM 87502
@@

##A 05 3128 388
##T How To Get Parts Cast For Your Antique Stove
How To Get Parts Cast For Your Antique Stove

@@

This booklet tells you how to get or make the parts you need to keep that old beast cookinÕ. They have other old-stove information too. Send S.A.S.E. for list.                                          

                                                           Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 4433 389
##T How To Get Parts Cast For Your Antique Stove
How To Get Parts Cast For Your Antique Stove

@@
Clifford Boram
1982; 52 pp.
ISBN 0961220406
$5 postpaid 
from:

Autonomy House Publications
417 North Main Street
Monticello, IN 47960
@@

##A 05 19789 391
##T Drying Wood with the Sun
Drying Wood with the Sun

@@
Remember those government ÒEnergy GrantsÓ a few years back? Not all turned out to produce worthy designs, but these well-proven solar firewood dryer plans are fine. Several basically similar ideas are presented in easily understood drawings accompanied by the expected explanations and materials lists. The rig will work just about anywhere, greatly speeding the drying process of any wood, or whatever else you put in there. Vegetables, even.  Looks good to me. Be sure and pay attention to their warning not to attach the dryer to your house; the damp heat and wood-loving insects could damage it.                                        

                                                           Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 20020 392
##T Drying Wood with the Sun
Drying Wood with the Sun

@@
N.C.A.T.
1983; 24 pp.
$5 postpaid 
from:

National Center for Appropriate Technology
P. O. Box 4000
Butte, MT 59702
406-494-4577
@@

##A 05 20853 394
##T Finnish Fireplace Construction Manual 1984
Finnish Fireplace Construction Manual 1984

@@
Nice books extolling the virtues of massive masonry woodstoves head you in the right direction, but donÕt lead you by the hand past the potential disasters. Building one of these monsters is tricky business  Ñ  you must allow for expansion, and must not build pockets that could trap explosive or noxious gases. This book, by an acknowledged master of the art, is a minutely detailed, illustrated and genuine manual. It really does get down to the tiniest moves, and thatÕs hard to do when one is psychologically involved with tons of material. I expect this manual will have the desired effect: lots of Finnish fireplaces will now be built, and theyÕll be good ones.                                             

                                                     Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 21072 395
##T Finnish Fireplace Construction Manual 1984
Finnish Fireplace Construction Manual 1984

@@
Albert A. Barden, III
1984; 65 pp.
$17 postpaid from:

Maine Wood Heat Company
RFD 1, Box 640
Norridgewock, ME 04957
207-696-5442
@@

##A 05 18802 399
##T Be Your Own Chimney Sweep
Be Your Own Chimney Sweep

@@

Few enterprises are so ripe for messy disaster as sweeping the creosote and the potential fire hazard thereof out of your chimney. This clearly written book tells you how to do it right, and appears to be realistic about the difficulties. YOU should be realistic about                              
the dangers of creosoteÑ that chimney needs cleaning at least
once a year. 

                                                         Ñ J. Baldwin


Ù RUNNING A BUSINESS
@@

##A 05 19159 400
##T Be Your Own Chimney Sweep
Be Your Own Chimney Sweep

@@
Christopher Curtis 
and Donald Post
1979; 101 pp.
ISBN 0882661574
OUT OF PRINT 

Garden Way Publishing
@@

##A 05 38904 402
##T The August West System
The August West System

@@
Need a job? If thereÕs no tough competition nearby, you could get into the chimney sweeping business. This outfit will outfit you, teach you the trade, and help you set up the business, for about
two grand. Their reputation as professionals will rub off on you, allaying customer fears. I know several folks who have done very well with August West as their start.  Alas, youÕll have to do your own chimney free.        

                                                       Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 39144 403
##T The August West System
The August West System

@@
Information kit free  
from:

August West Systems, Inc.
38 Austin Street
P. O. Box 658, 
Worcester, MA 01601
800-225-4016
617-753-5544
@@

##A 05 73557 405
##T Alternative Sources of Energy
Alternative Sources of Energy

@@

ASE (Alternative Sources of Energy) started long ago as a funky publication serving experimenters and has matured along with the technology it serves. No more homemade windmill articles; sad but realistic. Instead we read the industry news and latest developments in commercially available hardware, all slickly presented as befits the serious business at hand. Each issue concentrates on a specific subject such as cogeneration or wind power. ASE is one of the best ways to keep up with ASE.  ItÕs
thoroughly professional in every way.
           
                                                                    Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 73798 406
##T Alternative Sources of Energy 
Alternative Sources of Energy 

@@
Larry Stoiaken, Editor
ISSN 01461001
$58/year(10 issues)
from:

Alternative Sources of Energy
107 South Central Avenue
Milaca, MN 56353
@@

##A 05 77044 408
##T National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT)
National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT)

@@
ÒEn-CatÓ (National Center for Appropriate Technology) publishes the findings of their research as inexpensive booklets (most less than $5). The subject matter is aimed at ordinary folks who wish to know more about subjects common to the appropriate tech field: solar water heaters, composting toilets, biogas, weatherizing a mobile home . . . lots more. Their publications tend to summarize the baffling amount of information available elsewhere  Ñ a very useful service.  They also have a free consulting service                  (Ù NATAS, see separate review).                                                     

                                                               Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 127411 409
##T National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT)
National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT)

@@

Publications catalog free 
from:

National Center for Appropriate Technology
3040 Continental Drive
P. O. Box 3838
Butte, MT 59702
406-494-4572
@@

##A 05 76023 410
##T NATAS
NATAS

@@
The National Appropriate Technology Assistance Service is associated with NCAT, (see previous card) but does business in a different way: when you need technical advice on energy matters, you call their 800 number. You will be connected with an expert who will get you the best information available. Right then.       Call 1-800-428-2525 (1-800-428-1718 in Montana) 9am-6pm Central Time on weekdays. TheyÕll take on anything from a homeownerÕs simple solar water heater dilemma to municipal energy policy. Free! In this case, our gummint is doing something right.                    

                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 118695 411
##T NATAS
NATAS

@@
Energy Information free 
from:

NATAS
U.S. Department of Energy
P. O. Box 2525
Butte, MT 59702
800-428-2525
800-428-1718 (MT)
@@

##A 05 78972 412
##T Common Sense Wind Energy
Common Sense Wind Energy

@@

Read about commercial scale wind energy in ASE magazine. Read up on residential scale wind energy in this remarkably clear, mercifully brief roundup of the basics. In contrast to most other wind power books, this one is realistic  Ñ  a very essential ingredient for success in this oft overhyped field.         

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 79205 413
##T Common Sense Wind Energy
Common Sense Wind Energy

@@
California Office of Appropriate Technology
1983; 83 pp.
ISBN 0931790387
$8.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Brick House Publishing Co.
3 Main Street
Andover, MA 01810
@@

##A 05 79911 416
##T The Residential Hydro Power Book
The Residential Hydro Power Book

@@
You can put that nearby stream to work making electricity, maybe. Individual experimenters have been messing around for years with small hydro generator sets that are well within most budgets. As is common with such enterprises, a body of reliable information together with acceptable hardware has slowly developed  Ñ  everything learned the hard way. HereÕs the first good book on the subject. ItÕs informal, subjective, and real: what has worked so far and what hasnÕt. What isnÕt known reliably yet is admitted and discussed as far as is possible. (ThatÕs called honesty.) Alas, our lawsuit-happy society has necessitated the censoring of certain 
procedures known to work but at some risk.

Too bad. Nonetheless, youÕll learn enough to set up a working
@@

##A 05 80233 418
##T The Residential Hydro Power Book
The Residential Hydro Power Book

@@
Keith Ritter
1986; 150 pp.
$10 postpaid from:

Homestead Engineering
P.O. Box 7
20312 Highway 36
Bridgeville, CA 95526
707-777-3670
@@

##A 05 132566 422
##T HOUSEHOLD/WATER USE INTRODUCTION
HOUSEHOLD/WATER USE INTRODUCTION

@@
Water conservation has entered the mainstream. It is as common as small cars. Utilities now understand: Citizens would rather cut use by half than pay for bonds and new taxes to double supply. River lovers have been an effective lobby: Save water at home; you save trout streams in the hills. Even the tortoise-like plumbing industry has accepted low-flush toilets as the sound of the future. This is a success story. But donÕt forget to insist that your plumbing supply store sell water-saving shower heads. And flow reducers for toilets (should be less than 2 gallons per flush). DonÕt forget to vote against unnecessary bonds when conservation can do the job. Hats off to water savers. Relish it next time you swim or fish or float downstream. There is no longer any single book in
@@

##A 05 32591 424
##T Captain Hydro Water Conservation Workbook
Captain Hydro Water Conservation Workbook

@@

A great book for teaching kids about water conservation. 

                                                         Ñ Peter Warshall


Seems to me that adults could probably learn a few things here too. (I did). This program has proven to be effective. 

                                                         Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 76414 425
##T Captain Hydro Water Conservation Workbook
Captain Hydro Water Conservation Workbook

@@
East Bay Municipal Utility District
1982; 39 pp.
50 cents
TeacherÕs Guide $2
from:

Innovative Communications
207 Coggins Drive
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
415-944-0923
@@

##A 05 186504 427
##T Planning for an Individual Water System
Planning for an Individual Water System

@@
The system you want will depend on the volume of water you need 
(enough for washing dishes or for fire protection), the possible source (well, pond, or roof collector), the quality of the water 
(potable or possibly polluted), the conveyance mechanism 
(electricity or gravity feed) and trade-offs between how much money you have and how much time you can spend operating and maintaining your water supply (hand pumps, backwash filter or automatic chlorinator). This book is the best, no-fooling-around American-style do-it-yourself manual. The best for electric pumps and wiring your water supply system. Gorgeously illustrated with lots of great safety tips.      

                                                                      Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 05 186643 428
##T Planning for an Individual Water System
Planning for an Individual Water System

@@
American Assoc. for Vocational Instructional Materials
Fourth Edition 1982; 160 pp.
ISBN 0896060977
$12 ($14 postpaid)
from:

American Association for Vocational Instructional Materials
120 Driftmier
Engineering Center
Athens, GA 30602
@@

##A 05 190084 430
##T Troubled Water
Troubled Water

@@
ÒTill taught by pain, man knows not waterÕs worth.Ó  Ñ Byron
The question I have been most asked by readers is: ÒIs my water safe?Ó The news in this book is not easily swallowed: plastic pipes leach carcinogens into drinking water; the Clean Water Act has not been effective; in-house water treatment like activated carbon helps, but far from ensures, clean water; bottled water may be just as polluted as tap water.

The quick-flowing prose, muckraking style, and good advice make this the best access to household water safety and aquatic politics. In general, if we forget cost, distillers and reverse osmosis filters are better than activated charcoal (AC). Under-the-sink AC is better than tap-installed. DonÕt ever use powdered AC
@@

##A 05 190639 432
##T Troubled Water
Troubled Water

@@
Jonathan King
1985; 235 pp.
ISBN 0878575715
OUT OF PRINT

Rodale Press
@@

##A 05 185598 436
##T We All Live Downstream
We All Live Downstream


@@
From the karst (limestone) watersheds of Eureka Springs comes the most radical support for waterless toilets. Plagued by underground pollution, The Water Center has produced the only in-print book surveying dry toilets  Ñ  from commercial varieties to home-grown; from incolets to moulder (cold, slow compost) varieties. I would like more about dry toilet headaches: flies, shock loading, maintenance, installation, quality of final compost. But there is no better access.

Downstream also surveys greywater systems and community water politics, knowing full well that water connects and our feces are but fine fertilizers for future food. An impressive, populist production.                                
                                                             Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 05 185736 437
##T We All Live Downstream
We All Live Downstream


@@
A Guide to Waste Treatment that Stops Water Pollution
Pat Costner with Holly Gettings
and Glenna Booth
1986; 92 pp.
ISBN 0962003409
$6.95 ($8 postpaid)
from:

The National Water Center
P. O. Box 264
Eureka Springs, AR 72632
501-253-9755
@@

##A 05 189166 439
##T Septic Tank Practices
Septic Tank Practices


@@
A modest title for a book that clearly lays out aspects of various types of on-site sewage treatment and their relationship to soil, water use, construction, maintenance, and politics. Written by a brilliant biologist who has integrated theory with a practical hands-on approach.                         
                                                          Ñ Sim Van der Ryn 


This book is wonderful  Ñ  outrageous and authoritative
simultaneously.                              
                                                           Ñ Stewart Brand


Ù The Straight Poop
@@

##A 05 189270 440
##T Septic Tank Practices
Septic Tank Practices


@@
Peter Warshall
1979; 177 pp.
ISBN 0385127642
$4.95 ($6.95 postpaid)
from:

Whole Earth Access
2990 Seventh Street
Berkeley, CA  94710
800-845-2000
@@

##A 05 23599 443
##T EXCRETA DISPOSAL
EXCRETA DISPOSAL

@@
This is a basic textbook containing what you need to know in order 
to design and construct privies and other relatively crude waste 
disposal systems commonly used in Third World countries. The
World Health Organization(WHO) is continually updating this
information in publications briefly described in their latest catalog .

                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 05 23865 444
##T EXCRETA DISPOSAL
EXCRETA DISPOSAL

@@
Excreta Disposal for Rural Areas and Small Communities 
E. G. Wagner and J. N. Lanoix
1958; 187 pp.
ISBN 9241400390
$16.80 ($18.80 postpaid)
from:

WHO Publications Center USA
49 Sheridan Avenue
Albany, NY 12210
@@

##A 05 36363 445
##T EXCRETA DISPOSAL
EXCRETA DISPOSAL

@@
WHO List of Publications & Documents
Catalog free from:

WHO Publication Center USA
49 Sheridan Avenue
Albany, NY  12210
518-436-9686
@@

##A 05 201335 450
##T PUMPING WATER W/ SOLAR, WIND, AND MUSCLE POWER
PUMPING WATER W/ SOLAR, WIND, AND MUSCLE POWER

@@
You can pump water with the sun, utilizing photovoltaic panels and matching pumps available from most of the stores listed in 
Photovoltaic Suppliers.  

Some models can mate with windmills, such as the traditional models from Heller-Aller and Dempster.

Then thereÕs the old standby, the hand pump. TheyÕre available from Baker. Some hand pumps can be mated to windmills and electric  motors too. 
                                                      Ñ Peter Warshall          

And hand pumping tends to reduce water use, sez J. Baldwin.
Ù Wind and Water Energy
@@

##A 05 201832 451
##T PUMPING WATER W/ SOLAR, WIND, AND MUSCLE POWER
PUMPING WATER W/ SOLAR, WIND, AND MUSCLE POWER

@@
Dempster Industries 
Catalog free from:

Dempster Industries, Inc.
Box 848
Beatrice, NE 68310
402-223-4026
@@

##A 05 24927 452
##T PUMPING WATER W/ SOLAR, WIND, AND MUSCLE POWER
PUMPING WATER W/ SOLAR, WIND, AND MUSCLE POWER

@@
Heller-Aller
Information $1.50  
from:

Heller-Aller
P.O. Box 29
Corner  Ñ  Perry and Oakwood 
Napoleon, OH 43545.
@@

##A 05 26080 453
##T PUMPING WATER W/ SOLAR, WIND, AND MUSCLE POWER
PUMPING WATER W/ SOLAR, WIND, AND MUSCLE POWER

@@
Baker Manufacturing
Catalog free 
from:

Baker Manufacturing
Evansville, WI 53536
608-882-5100
@@

##A 05 201165 456
##T Rife Hydraulic Engines
Rife Hydraulic Engines

@@

If you want to raise water from a moving stream, a ram will do the job, incessantly (and noisily), without any power source other than the stream itself. Rams are simple, relatively cheap, and 
reliable under suitable conditions, but water sources with wide fluctuations in volume may require you to retune it now and then,
which can be a hassle. They come in various sizes so you can match the machine to your local requirements. For a more sophisticated (and expensive) device that does pretty much the same thing, see separate review of High Lifter Water Systems Ù.

                                                               Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 208099 457
##T Rife Hydraulic Engines
Rife Hydraulic Engines

@@
Catalog $3 
from:

Rife Hydraulic Engine Manufacturing Co.
Box 790
Norristown, PA 19404
@@

##A 05 208837 459
##T High Lifter Water Systems
High Lifter Water Systems

@@

High LifterÕs silent water-powered water pump will lift efficiently from a water source flowing as little as one quart a minute. Under ideal conditions, it can lift as high as 1000 feet.                                                
Unlike the hydraulic ram, (see previous item), it is easy to start and not subject to tuning problems. 
                                                    
                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 05 209078 460
##T High Lifter Water Systems
High Lifter Water Systems

@@
Information free 
from:

High Lifter Water Systems
P.O. Box 29829
Oakland, CA 94604
415-763-0595
@@

##A 05 157141 463
##T Voluntary Simplicity
Voluntary Simplicity

@@

The theory of improving everything by simplifying oneÕs life Ñ save the Earth, save your civilization, save yourself. I figure, if it feels good, itÕll happen. Fortunately it feels good. This book gives context and motivation, not how-to.                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                          Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 05 157545 464
##T Voluntary Simplicity
Voluntary Simplicity

@@
Toward A Way of Life that Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich
Duane Elgin
1981; 312 pp.
ISBN 0688003222
$6.95 ($8.45 postpaid)
from:

William Morrow Publishing Co.
Wilmor Warehouse
39 Plymouth Street
Fairfield, NJ 07006
@@

##A 05 106593 467
##T Amish Society
Amish Society

@@
The Amish are a religious community that originated in Europe during the Reformation and is now concentrated in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. They are one of the most resilient subcultures in America and also some of our best farmers. Sociologists keep waiting for them to die out or otherwise homogenize into the goo of the American melting pot, but this they refuse to do. This definitive study, by an Amishman turned college professor, is a fascinating history and provides a detailed look inside the Amish character. Their way of life, which from the outside may look hard or dull or quaint or boring, turns out to be a model for the necessary values embodied in the concepts of community and local politics.
                                                          Ñ Richard Nilsen
Ù Gohn Brothers
@@

##A 05 133513 468
##T Amish Society
Amish Society

@@
John A. Hostetler
1980; 432 pp.
ISBN 080182334X
$9.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Johns Hopkins University Press
701 West 40th Street
Suite 275
Baltimore, MD 21211
@@

##A 05 136023 471
##T The Simple Life
The Simple Life


@@
Those of us who would like to see the simple life become a norm in this great land of ours may find this a distressing book. Since Colonial times, numerous ideologies of and attempts at simple living have flamed briefly, only to be overwhelmed by the indomitable spirit of materialism and privatism that seems far more native to the American character than material simplicity. Nevertheless, plain living is an idea that canÕt be conquered, and in chronicling it Shi relates a considerable sweep of this nationÕs history and higher yearnings.                      

                                                            Ñ Stephanie Mills
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##A 05 136258 472
##T The Simple Life
The Simple Life


@@
David E. Shi
1985; 332 pp.
ISBN 0195040139
$8.95 postpaid 
from:

Oxford University Press
16-00 Pollitt Drive
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
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##A 05 136674 475
##T COUNTRY STORE CATALOGS
COUNTRY STORE CATALOGS

@@
Like the Amish community it serves, LehmanÕs is gentle, bucolic, and competent. Not a trace of tourist-fake-nostalgia in the farm-kitchen gear: gas refrigerators, wood cookstoves, and 50-gallon iron ÒcannibalÓ cauldrons. You can still get real Flexible Flyer sleds here! Cumberland General Store has similar country stuff, plus a wonderful selection of horse drawn buggies and wagons. The Vermont Country Store specializes in old-style cotton clothes and household goodies. They still make Õem like they used to.  

                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin


Ù Community Playthings
@@

##A 05 136950 476
##T COUNTRY STORE CATALOGS
COUNTRY STORE CATALOGS

@@
Cumberland General Store 
Catalog $3.75  from:

Cumberland General Store
Route 3
Crossville, TN 38555
800-334-4640
615-484-8481 (TN)
@@

##A 05 7650 477
##T COUNTRY STORE CATALOGS
COUNTRY STORE CATALOGS

@@
LehmanÕs 
Catalog $2 from:

Lehman Hardware and Appliances, Inc.
P. O. Box 41
4779 Kidron Road
Kidron, OH 4463
216-857-5441
@@

##A 05 8772 478
##T COUNTRY STORE CATALOGS
COUNTRY STORE CATALOGS

@@
The Vermont Country Store  
Catalog free from:

The Vermont Country Store
Mail Order Office
P. O. Box 3000
Manchester Center, VT 05255
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##A 05 78838 483
##T Vintage Clothing Newsletter
Vintage Clothing Newsletter

@@

A newsletter of support, inspiration, and resources for vintage clothing enthusiasts.

                                                Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
@@

##A 05 80646 484
##T Vintage Clothing Newsletter
Vintage Clothing Newsletter

@@
Terry McCormick, Editor
$12/year (6 issues) 
Sample copy $2
from:

Vintage Clothing Newsletter
P. O. Box 1422
Corvallis, OR 97339
@@

##A 05 166083 486
##T ConsumerÕs Guide to Vintage Clothing
ConsumerÕs Guide to Vintage Clothing

@@
Years of experience as the editor of the Vintage Clothing Newsletter (see previous review) has enabled the author of this book to claim expert status. She takes you along through the various stylistic periods (alas, without illustrations) in a chatty, humourous way, encouraging you to be imaginative. Materials, 
accessories, care and renovation, imitation and even how to start your own vintage clothing shop are discussed . This is the sort of information that takes years to develop. ItÕs yours for the reading. 

                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin


Ù Sewing
@@

##A 05 170416 487
##T ConsumerÕs Guide to Vintage Clothing
ConsumerÕs Guide to Vintage Clothing

@@
Terry McCormick
1987; 248 pp.
ISBN 0934878919
$11.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Vintage Clothing Newsletter
P.O. Box 1422
Corvallis, OR 97339
503-752-7456
@@

##A 05 140003 490
##T Loompanics Unlimited
Loompanics Unlimited

@@
ÒWe are the lunatic fringe of the libertarian movement,Ó announces the introduction to this remarkable catalog. ÒWe donÕt care about anything except your right to find out anything you want to know.Ó ÒAnythingÓ includes various heresy, instruction ranging from practical to nefarious, (some of the books are illegal in Canada), libertarian philosophy, tactics  and strategy for living outside Mainstream America, hardware recommendations, and a host of other information of interest to survivalists and those with a strong individualistic bent. ThereÕs an overtone of paranoia in the eclectic mixture, and why not? DonÕt you worry, just a little, about what youÕd do if the Bomb dropped or Big Brother got a bit too big? Be warned that just about anyone will find something offensive or otherwise controversial in this catalog, and that
@@

##A 05 140170 492
##T Loompanics Unlimited
Loompanics Unlimited

@@
Catalog $3 from:

Loompanics Unlimited
P. O. Box 1197
Port Townsend, WA 98368
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##A 05 140493 496
##T U.S. Cavalry
U.S. Cavalry


@@
These folks stock a variety of genuine, not-surplus, military and law enforcement equipment. You probably wonÕt be interested in official United States Army dress uniforms, but the field uniforms, packs, and boots may be just what you want if youÕre looking for brute function to government specs.         
                                                                    Ñ J. Baldwin

One of the more fascinating catalogs you can get. ItÕs designed for people in, around, and after the tanks part of the U.S. Army  Ñ  a bizarre mix of wonderful military boots and clothing, grotesque military memorabilia and decorations, kidÕs stuff, and oddments findable nowhere else.                                
                                                                    Ñ Stewart Brand
Ù Intelligence Magazines
@@

##A 05 140658 497
##T U.S. Cavalry
U.S. Cavalry


@@
Catalog $3 from:

U.S. Cavalry
2855 Centennial Ave.
Radcliff, KY 40160-9002
800-626-6171
@@

##A 05 6934 499
##T SI Outdoor Food and Equipment
SI Outdoor Food and Equipment

@@

A good place to get military and other long-term-storage rations. They have lots of other survival gear too. You might just need a
food stash someday (perish the thought).                           

                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 7420 500
##T SI Outdoor Food and Equipment
SI Outdoor Food and Equipment

@@
Catalog $1 from:

SI Equipment Ltd.
P.O. Box 3796
Gardena, CA 90247
800-533-7415
213-324-8855 (CA)
@@

##A 05 193601 502
##T Survival Guns
Survival Guns

@@
I have about a yard of various gun books on my book shelves and this one unquestionably gives the reader more reliable information for less money than any others that I have seen.

The emphasis of the book is on the practical selection and use of all types of firearms for both defense and securing food.  The information is intended for the person who has either a ÒretreatÓ or a homestead.

Of equal value are the sections which cover the related fields of accessories, ammunition, maintenance, and non-firearm weapons.  Whether for mundane items such as lubricants or exotic volume
@@

##A 05 194162 504
##T Survival Guns
Survival Guns

@@
Mel Tappan
1987; 458 pp.
ISBN 0916172007
$14.95 ($16.45 postpaid)
from:

The Janus Press
P.O. Box 1050
Rogue River, OR 97537
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##A 05 160661 507
##T Chi Pants
Chi Pants

@@
Chi pants are amazingly comfortable. What makes Chi pants different is that they have a gusset, a panel of fabric that goes across the crotch instead of a seam going up and down the crotch.

This makes a couple of differences. For people like me who sit a long time it means the seam doesnÕt ride tight on your genitals and hurt. For active people, it means you can do things like squatting and karate kicking with no danger of ripping out your pants. For everyone it means a lot more looseness around the loins.

For me Chi pants make the same kind of difference my first pair of running shoes didÑa whole new category of comfort. The kind I have look like jeansÑthe design difference doesnÕt show.
@@

##A 05 161259 509
##T Chi Pants
Chi Pants

@@
$20-$40 (approx.)
Catalog free
from:

Chi Pants
120-W Pearl Alley
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
800-331-2681
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##A 05 163005 511
##T Gohn Brothers
Gohn Brothers

@@
Gohn Brothers supplies chiefly the stricter Mennonite orders and the various orders of the Amish Mennonite people all over the country. Since the Amish have managed communal living successfully for about 350 years, I figure at least some of their practices must be valid. Their clothing in particular is comfortable, durable and of low price. I can recommend from experience their broadfall work pants (no fly: broad button flap like lederhosen in front), overshirts (plain jacket with two roomy pockets on the inside) and overcoats (heavy dark wool, with
cape). Many hard-to-find practical items listed, as well as a broad selection of rather plain yard goods. Service is fast and courteous. 
                                                               
                                                              Ñ Peter R. Hoover
Ù Amish Society
@@

##A 05 163253 512
##T Gohn Brothers
Gohn Brothers

@@
Catalog free from:

Gohn Brothers
Box 111
105 South Main
Middlebury, IN 46540-0111
219-825-2400
@@

##A 05 161887 515
##T Wear-Guard Work Clothes
Wear-Guard Work Clothes

@@

You need a shop apron? Coveralls with Chester, Vince, or, say, Lisa embroidered on the pocket in script? Or how about Industrial rainwear? PostmanÕs shoes? HereÕs where a lot of such items come from.                                                            

                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 162237 516
##T Wear-Guard Work Clothes
Wear-Guard Work Clothes

@@
Catalog free from:

Wear-Guard Work Clothes
P. O. Box 400
Hingham, MA 02043
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##A 05 167943 518
##T Filson Outdoor Clothes
Filson Outdoor Clothes

@@
Cars are tinny, silverware is stainless steel, and fiberboard boxes are palmed off as houses. Contemporary economics seem designed to diminish standards of excellence. Even the durability and construction of clothing has deteriorated: LeviÕs will not stand four months of normal work; ÒCanÕt-bust-emsÓ have disappeared, and except for Ben DavisÕ polyester gorillas, thereÕs hardly a tough, trim line of clothing available at all, especially in natural fibers.

Hardly, but the C. C. Filson Co, of Seattle is an exceptional line of clothing and outerwear for loggers, game wardens and outdoor workers. Filson is to work clothes what White is to workboots        (see review). Their all-wool shipcords will survive four or five LeviÕs. Filson canvas or ÒtinÓ pants and coats are waterproof and
@@

##A 05 168203 520
##T Filson Outdoor Clothes
Filson Outdoor Clothes

@@
Catalog free from:

C. C. Filson Co.
P. O. Box 34020
Seattle, WA 98124
206-624-4437
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##A 05 165107 522
##T David Morgan
David Morgan

@@

This unusual catalog is hard to pin down: it carries the traditional English waxed cotton rainwear (Britton brand), Welsh woolens, Pacific Northwest Indian style jewelry (I have some; itÕs nice), Australian Akubra hats, and kangaroo hide bullwhips. A strange combination. IÕve had good service from these people.        

                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 165189 523
##T David Morgan
David Morgan

@@
Catalog free from:

David Morgan
11812 Northcreek Parkway North
Suite 103
Bothell, WA 98011
206-485-2132
@@

##A 05 81647 526
##T Deva
Deva

@@

Deva, a cottage industry, sells mail order clothes crafted of the finest natural fibers that allow the body to move more freely. Beautiful fabrics and colors.  Wonderful clothes.

                                                      Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
@@

##A 05 83555 527
##T Deva
Deva

@@
Catalog $1 (includes fabric swatches) 
from:

Deva
Box FF
Burkittsville, MD 21718
301-663-4900
@@

##A 05 168985 530
##T New Fashion Japan
New Fashion Japan

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A Kimono: three kinds of fabric sewn together, two rectangles overlapping, a simple covering of the human form. Then she lifts her arms. An open square appears under eachÑwindows into another dimension.  Japanese design has always taken paradox into its folds, combining blue cotton fabric with ornate embroidery, or many different fabrics into a basic work garment: simple yet complex.

The designers in this exquisite book of photography and brief quotes on Japanese fashion speak like fashion monksÑwith deep understanding and respect for their thousands of years of fashion heritage. For them, fashion isnÕt something you put on in the
@@

##A 05 169313 532
##T New Fashion Japan
New Fashion Japan

@@
Leonard Koren
1984; 173 pp.
ISBN 0870116762
$24.95 ($25.95 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row Publishers
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
@@

##A 05 172129 536
##T Klader!
Klader!

@@

Fun, fun, fun! Everything in this colorful book of fashion draws from the imagination. Try designing and making clothing for yourself that youÕve never seen before. Design your own image. Some pattern instructions are included to get you started on transferring your ideas into cloth Ñ youÕll need knowledge of sewing. But Klader! wonÕt dissuade you from trying anything.

                                                              Ñ Jerri Linn
@@

##A 05 172386 537
##T Klader!
Klader!

@@
Nina Ericson
1983; 175 pp.
ISBN 0937274135
$17.95 ($19.20 postpaid)
from:

Lark Books
50 College Street
Asheville, NC 28801
@@

##A 05 195055 539
##T Charmian WatkinsÕ Clothes Book
Charmian WatkinsÕ Clothes Book

@@

For experienced home sewers who havenÕt yet taken the step to pattern design, here is a fun, inspiring introduction to an intermediate stage: pattern making.  This book takes you from making your own pattern following the templates included, to putting the finishing touches on your garment.   
                                                                    
                                                                  ÑCandida Kutz
@@

##A 05 195389 540
##T Charmian WatkinsÕ Clothes Book
Charmian WatkinsÕ Clothes Book

@@
Charmian Watkins
1984; 160 pp.
ISBN 0345318706
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Ballantine Books
Random House, Inc.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 05 62461 543
##T ConsumersÕ Union
ConsumersÕ Union

@@
No advertisements sully the pages of Consumer Reports;
consequently no bias sullies their tests and analyses of consumer goods and services. CU (as they refer to themselves) best gathers information thatÕs outright impossible to gather yourself, such as the opinions of 250,000 auto owners as to which cars are most reliable and which are awful. CU is less convincing when being more subjective about such matters as the taste of tomato soup, but somewhere in each report is what you want and need to know. CU sums up the yearÕs work in their annual Buying Guide Issue printed (so typically) in pocket size so you can take it shopping with you. ItÕs free with a subscription. Twice each month ConsumersÕ Union News Digest brings you the latest consumer information as it breaks. Peerless.            
                                                                      Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 62532 544
##T ConsumersÕ Union
ConsumersÕ Union

@@
Consumer Reports
Irwin Landau, Editorial Director
ISSN 00107174
$18/year (11 issues plus the Buying Guide issue) 
from:

Consumer Reports
P. O. Box 2886
Boulder, CO 80322
@@

##A 05 196230 545
##T ConsumersÕ Union
ConsumersÕ Union

@@
Consumer Reports Buying Guide
Consumers Union Staff, Editors
1988; 397 pp.
ISSN 00107174
$5.95 postpaid
from:

Consumer Reports
P. O. Box 2886
Boulder, CO 80322
@@

##A 05 40053 546
##T ConsumersÕ Union
ConsumersÕ Union

@@
ConsumersÕ Union News Digest
Consumer Reports Magazine Library Staff
ISSN 02795353
$48/year(24 issues)
from:

Consumers Union
256 Washington Street
Mount Vernon, NY 10553
@@

##A 05 28279 547
##T ConsumersÕ Index
ConsumersÕ Index

@@

Wanna read up on a product or service? This index tells you all the magazine articles that have appeared on the subject this year.

                                                                   Ñ J. Baldwin






Ù Research Tools
@@

##A 05 28954 548
##T ConsumersÕ Index
ConsumersÕ Index

@@
C. Edward Wall, Editor
ISSN 00940534
$98/year (4 issues)
from:

ConsumersÕ Index
PO Box 1808
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
@@

##A 05 80947 549
##T ENERGY-EFFICIENT APPLIANCES
ENERGY-EFFICIENT APPLIANCES

@@

Buying lights or devices that feed upon electricity? Better read Saving Energy and Money with Home Appliances. Which ones to buy are listed in The Most Energy-Efficient Appliances. ItÕs updated semiannually. Energy efficient appliances may cost a bit more, but in many cases youÕll not only save the extra cost in the long run,
youÕll save the entire cost of the item !

                                                                   Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 81192 550
##T ENERGY-EFFICIENT APPLIANCES
ENERGY-EFFICIENT APPLIANCES

@@
Saving Energy and Money with Home Appliances
Steven Nadel and Howard Geller
1985; 34 pp.
$2 postpaid from:

American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
1001 Connecticut Ave. NW
Suite 535 
Washington DC 20036
202-429-8873
@@

##A 05 156138 551
##T ENERGY-EFFICIENT APPLIANCES
ENERGY-EFFICIENT APPLIANCES

@@
The Most Energy-Efficient Appliances
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
1986; 18 pp. $2 postpaid.

From:

ACEEE
100 Connecticut Ave. NW 
Washington DC 20036
@@

##A 05 64669 553
##T Satisfaction Guaranteed
Satisfaction Guaranteed

@@

Ever feel like youÕve been had? How to prevent that sorry state and what to do if itÕs too late is the subject of this breezy book. Tactics are laid out move by move, but youÕll have to supply the chutzpah. If youÕre willing to do that, you have reason to expect a happy ending. The authorÕs expertise is wider than seems possible for one lifetime, but apparently heÕs successfully dealt with doctors, lawyers, mechanics, brokers, realtors and mail order companies. IÕd hate to be on his wrong side; his motto must be 
Òreasonable but deadly.Ó                                           

                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 64800 554
##T Satisfaction Guaranteed
Satisfaction Guaranteed

@@
The Ultimate Guide to Consumer Self-Defense
Ralph Charell
1986; 272 pp.
ISBN 0671498045
$14.95 ($16.45 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
800-223-2336
@@

##A 05 65647 556
##T The Consumer Protection Manual
The Consumer Protection Manual

@@

Stand up for your rights! The whole complex mess of consumer protection laws is presented here along with operating
instructions  Ñ  fully (but dully).

                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 05 65934 557
##T The Consumer Protection Manual
The Consumer Protection Manual

@@
Andrew Eiler
1984; 658 pp.
ISBN 0871963108
$35 postpaid from:

Facts On File Publications
460 Park Avenue South 
New York, NY 10016
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##A 05 6197 559
##T The Nature Company
The Nature Company

@@

Lots of good quality stuff that encourages an interest and
appreciation of nature: telescopes, toys, maps, T-shirts, all manner of eco-chic doodads, plus a nifty selection of books (many of which are reviewed on this disc). I Christmas shop here a lot, if I can get in the door of the store. You can do it more easily by mail from this handsome catalog. 

                                                           Ñ J. Baldwin



Ù Nasco Science
@@

##A 05 10938 560
##T The Nature Company
The Nature Company

@@
Catalog free from:

The Nature Company
P.O. Box 2310
Berkeley, CA 94702
415-644-1337
@@

##A 05 93063 562
##T Amazing Reprints
Amazing Reprints

@@
This catalog offers 300 booklets of reprinted how-to information that first appeared in 1910-1948. Some are useful: Human-Powered Tools & Machinery. Some are a trifle strange: plans for a tiny real airplane, the Santos-Dumont ÒDemoiselleÓ of 1910. All are interesting. If youÕre one of those folks whose idea of whatÕs
ÒtraditionalÓ and desirable refers to this time period, youÕll find lots to love. A bit oÕ the past is still with us. 

                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin



Ù A. BrillÕs Bible of Building Plans
@@

##A 05 93262 563
##T Amazing Reprints
Amazing Reprints

@@
For catalog send two first class stamps to:

S & S Press
P. O. Box 5931 
Austin, TX 78763
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##A 05 71897 565
##T Archie McPhee & Company
Archie McPhee & Company

@@

This is where you get those pink plastic flamingos and other bizarre, often awful, amusing items, sometimes referred to as 
Ònovelties.Ó  Much fun!                                            

                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 05 71955 566
##T Archie McPhee & Company
Archie McPhee & Company

@@
Catalog free from:

Archie McPhee & Company
P. O. Box 30852 
Seattle, WA 98103
206-547-2467
@@

##A 05 158653 569
##T The American Historical Supply Catalog
The American Historical Supply Catalog

@@

Good old stuff, some of it great old stuff from all manner of mail order suppliers. Nineteenth-century furniture, clothing, kitchenware, building fixtures, clocks, stoves, tools, food, books, musical instruments, nautical instruments, toys, bathroom items, and even tours. A nice selection sumptuously illustrated. God, what a relief from the like of ÒThe Sharper ImageÓ and other purveyors of ephemeral high-tech glitz.                                  

                                                             Ñ Stewart Brand


Ù Renovation
@@

##A 05 158917 570
##T The American Historical Supply Catalog
The American Historical Supply Catalog

@@
Alan Wellikoff
1984; 240 pp.
ISBN 0805207759
$16.95 ($17.95 postpaid)
from:

Schocken Books
Random House, Inc.
400 Hahn Rd.
Westminster, MD 21157
@@

##A 05 72919 572
##T LefthanderÕs Catalog
LefthanderÕs Catalog

@@

A modest selection here of household gadgets and tools designed for southpaws, including a few for the ambidextrous. Ever try 
to use righthanded scissors with your left hand?
                                                                 
                                                               Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 05 73044 573
##T LefthanderÕs Catalog
LefthanderÕs Catalog

@@
Catalog $2 from:

Lefthanders International
P. O. Box 8249
Topeka, KS 66608
913-234-2177
@@

##A 05 173559 575
##T Abbeon
Abbeon

@@
If you can get through this big, fat 448-page catalog without reaching for the order blank, you are made of very stern stuff indeed.  A mind-boggling array of goodies that spans from the electronic lab to the homestead.  Run by a self-confessed 
Ògarrulous old man,Ó the outfit reeks of integrity.  Service on my smallish order was very good.  The price of the catalog is refundable with your first order.
          
                                                          Ñ Gerald E. Meyers

This is one of the most eclectic assortments IÕve ever seen.  Scalpels; clocksÕ wheels (make your own wagon); lab, graphic, optical, and measuring supplies; you-name-it, etc., plus a few, are
@@

##A 05 173762 577
##T Abbeon
Abbeon

@@
Catalog $4.50 from:

Abbeon Cal, Inc.
123 Gray Avenue
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
805-966-0810
@@

##A 05 174534 579
##T MAIL-ORDER DISCOUNT SHOPPING
MAIL-ORDER DISCOUNT SHOPPING

@@

These catalogs ainÕt much to look at, but they sure are a lot to send for. ThereÕs little duplication between these rivals, and IÕd say they are about equal as Pied Pipers of the Pocketbook. The variety is more than we have room to list here. Some of the items in our Catalog came from these catalogs of catalogs.      

                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin

(Remember, donÕt order from the samples here Ñ get the catalog first and order from that.)
@@

##A 05 174688 580
##T MAIL-ORDER DISCOUNT SHOPPING
MAIL-ORDER DISCOUNT SHOPPING

@@
The 3rd Underground Shopper
Sue Goldstein
1985; 375 pp.
ISBN 0836279379
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Andrews and McMeel Inc.
4900 Main Street
Kansas City, MO 64112
@@

##A 05 176148 581
##T MAIL-ORDER DISCOUNT SHOPPING
MAIL-ORDER DISCOUNT SHOPPING

@@
The Wholesale by Mail Catalog
The Print Project
1988; 464 pp.
ISBN 0312015321
$10.95 ($12.45 postpaid)
from:

St. MartinÕs Press
Cash Sales
175 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10010
@@

##A 12 17724 5
##T The Whole Earth Catalog
The Whole Earth Catalog

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The classic handbook of the Òsmall is beautifulÓ revolution and the grand-daddy of do-it-yourself publishing. 

Started in 1968, the Whole Earth Catalog was the first general publication to review personal computers, leading up to the Whole 
Earth Software Catalog in 1984. 

For our latest advice, use the most recent version, the portable Essential Whole Earth Catalog (Doubleday, 1986).

                                                              Ñ Kevin Kelly
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PURPOSE

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We are as gods and might as well get good at it. So far remotely done power and glory  Ñ  as via government, big business, formal education, church Ñ  has succeeded to the point where gross defects obscure actual gains. In response to this dilemma and to these gains, a realm of intimate, personal power is developing  Ñ  the power of individuals to conduct their own education, find their own inspiration, shape their own environment, and share the adventure with whoever is interested. Tools that aid this process are sought and promoted by the Whole Earth Catalogs.
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##T FUNCTION
FUNCTION

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The Electronic Whole Earth Catalog is an evaluation and access device. It can help a user discover what is worth getting and how to get it. WeÕre here to point, not to sell. Text and graphics excerpted here are provided for the reader to aid in evaluating whatÕs being reviewed. We have no financial obligation or connection to any of the suppliers listed. We only review stuff we think is great. Why waste your time with anything else?

An item is listed in this Catalog if it is deemed:
     1. Useful as a tool,
     2. Relevant to independent education,
     3. High quality or low cost,
     4. Easily available by mail.
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ORDERING INFORMATION

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Order items from the Electronic Whole Earth Catalog directly from the supplier or publisher. Do not order from us. We sell nothing but information.

Consider these points of mail order etiquette; theyÕll make shopping by mail more pleasant for you and for the companies you are dealing with.

1. Write legibly. Say what you want on the outside of the envelope. Writing Òmail orderÓ or Òsubscription orderÓ will speed your transaction. You can usually request free information with an inexpensive postcard.

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##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES
ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES

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by Stewart Brand 

The Whole Earth Catalog got started in a plane over Nebraska in March 1968. I was on the way back to California from burying my father in my hometown in Illinois Ñ a man who loved shopping in mail order catalogs. The sun had set ahead of the plane while I sat reading Spaceship Earth by Barbara Ward. Between chapters, I gazed out the window into dark nothing and slipped into a reverie about how I could help my friends who were starting their own civilization hither and yon with communes in the sticks. The L.L. Bean Catalog of outdoor stuff came to mind, and I pondered upon Mr. BeanÕs service to humanity over the years. So many of the problems I could identify came down to a matter of access: where
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##T STAFF
STAFF

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Senior Editor:
   J. Baldwin               

Editors:
   Jeanne Carstensen
   Jonathan Evelegh
   Richard Kadrey
   Candida Kutz
   Richard Nilsen

Production Editors:
   Keith Jordan
   Candida Kutz
   Hank Roberts
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##T THANK YOUS
THANK YOUS

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Thanks to Br¿derbund Software:
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   Richard Whittaker
   Harry Wilker

And thanks to the folks from Apple:
   Steve Cisler
   Fabrice Florin
   Ted Kaehler
   Carol Kaehler
   Alan Kay
   Sioux Lacey
   and especially to Bill Atkinson
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BUSINESS

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This product is the joint project of three organizations: Point Foundation, Br¿derbund Software, and Apple Computer. The content, that is all the words, pictures, and sounds on this compact disk, is the responsibility of Point Foundation.

Point Foundation is a nonprofit organization mandated to encourage educational innovation, and to conjure up cultural inventions. PointUs primary activities are community-based electronic journalism (The WELL), and consumer-driven publishing 
(The Whole Earth Catalogs and Review). Revealing the process of how things happen, including how our own projects happen, is part of our educational program.

To further its goal of making process transparent, Point regularly 
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FURTHER

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The large volume of useful news in this disc is a result of our on-going publishing efforts. Beside this hi-density CD-ROM, we also publish a quarterly magazine, occasional books, a weekly newspaper column, and operate a 24-hour electronic meeting house, called the WELL (Whole Earth ÕLectronic Link).

Our magazine, the Whole Earth Review, is 144 pages of unusual news, personal recommendations, unorthodox technical reports, and hard-to-find information. Much of what appears on your screen surfaced first in WER. Much of what will appear in future issues will come from people like you. We are a reader supported magazine: we carry no display advertising, and so are beholden to no one except our readers. We pay for anything we publish,
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##A 12 26630 54
##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC
GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC

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This section will explain how to get around in the Electronic Whole Earth Catalog. DonÕt be afraid to play around with the different buttons and explore Ñ thereÕs no way to harm the contents of the disc.

If at any time you feel completely lost just click on the WHOLE EARTH                    button and you will be returned to the TABLE OF                        CONTENTS              at the beginning of the disc. Think of it as your                escape                   hatch.
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##T CONTENTS AND INDEX
CONTENTS AND INDEX

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From the Table of Contents another way to get into the disc is to click on the picture next to a Domain name. This will take you directly to a card with an outline listing of the contents of that Domain.
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##T QUICK SEARCH
QUICK SEARCH

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The fourth way to get into the disc is by using the Quick Search feature from the Table of Contents. It is also an option available from the Pull-Down Menu which is explained later in this section.
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##T PICTURES AND SOUND
PICTURES AND SOUND

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There are over 4000 digitized pictures in the Electronic Whole Earth Catalog and over 500 Sound buttons.

Here are a few things about these cards and buttons that you should know.
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##A 12 51937 86
##T THE PULL DOWN MENU
THE PULL DOWN MENU

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All cards below the domain level have a PULL-
DOWN MENU presenting you with many options.
Click on ÒMenuÓ to see the Pull-Down Menu; then 
choose the function you need and release the 
mouse. (Any greyed-out functions arenÕt 
available for the particular card you have on 
screen.)
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##A 12 17998 96
##T MORE ABOUT QUICK SEARCH
MORE ABOUT QUICK SEARCH

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With Quick Search you can find any single word in the entire text of the catalog and go to the particular card that contains it.

To Use:
Go to the Quick Search stack by clicking on ÒQuick SearchÓ from the Whole Earth Table of Contents, or selecting ÒQuick SearchÓ from the Pull-Down Menu.

The Search Card:
Type the word you want to find in the ÒSearch For:Ó window, then press the ÒFind FirstÓ button.  If Quick Search finds your word, it then goes to the Occurrence Card of Quick Search and shows the first occurrence.
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##T FIRST PRACTICE ARTICLE
FIRST PRACTICE ARTICLE

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This is the first article within the practice Cluster.  There are three cards here, all of which are Review cards.  Use the Page Turners to move through them.  Notice how it wraps around from card 1 to card 3 when going forward, and from card 3 to card 1 when going backward.
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##T SECOND PRACTICE ARTICLE
SECOND PRACTICE ARTICLE

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This Article has four cards, one of each standard type. This is the Review card.
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##T SECOND PRACTICE ARTICLE
SECOND PRACTICE ARTICLE

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This is an Access card. It normally follows the Review card(s).
It has information on how to order the book or product reviewed and usually a picture of it.
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##A 06 194372 5
##T The Amazing Newborn
The Amazing Newborn

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Become immersed in the world of the newborn. All the photographs in this book are of babies less than ten days old and illustrate well Òeach of the special and often newly discovered capacities with which human beings begin life.Ó

I am troubled by the idea of experimentation with newborns and some of the text is based on it. But this is mostly overshadowed by observations of infant behavior in real life. The Amazing Newborn is sensitive, revealing, inspirational, and transforming in adding appreciation and understanding of the newborn as real humans.

                                                          Ñ Peggy OÕMara McMahon
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##A 06 31795 6
##T The Amazing Newborn
The Amazing Newborn

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Marshall H. Klaus, M. D., and 
Phyllis H. Klaus, M. Ed., C. S. W.
1985; 145 pp.
ISBN 0201116723
$10.95 ($12.45 postpaid)
from:

Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
1 Jacob Way
Reading, MA 01867
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##A 06 119369 9
##T The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

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We have La Leche League International to thank for reversing the trend away from breastfeeding that was prevalent 25 years ago; today over 50 percent of women choose breastfeeding (90 percent in some areas). Thirteen years ago, when I was pregnant with my first child, I kept this book in the bathroom and read it over and over again and again to gain the confidence to breastfeed. The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding reassures you that everyone can breastfeed and tells you everything you need to know for success. A traditional view of mothering is emphasized because the authors  Ñ  seven founding mothers of La Leche League  Ñ  have found that many traditional values help insure the physical closeness and contact necessary for breastfeeding.
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##A 06 119770 11
##T The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

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La Leche League¨ International
1983; 384 pp.
ISBN 0452259738
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

New American Library
Box 120 
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600 (NJ)
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##A 06 195740 14
##T Crying Baby, Sleepless Nights
Crying Baby, Sleepless Nights

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One of the adjustments of new parenthood is the reality of nighttime parenting. New babies donÕt know about day and night right away, and they need frequent feedings and close contact. Sandy Jones gives you many suggestions on how to determine if babyÕs night waking is normal night waking, or if there really is something you can do about it. Mothers with babies with colic will love this book and be reassured by it. ItÕs also good for expectant parents wanting to know what to expect from a new baby. The book includes 100 tips for the Òless-than-perfectÓ mother, a directory of support groups for parents, and information on finding the right pediatrician.

                                                              Ñ Peggy OÕMara McMahon
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##A 06 196021 15
##T Crying Baby, Sleepless Nights
Crying Baby, Sleepless Nights

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Sandy Jones
1983; 293 pp.
ISBN 0446382612
$7.95 ($8.95 postpaid)
from:

Warner Books/Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 06 184403 17
##T The Affordable Baby
The Affordable Baby

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Having a baby costs money. Some expenses are inevitable (like diapers). Others are optional. What you spend depends on knowing what your choices are and how to shop around. Bundy provides a complete consumer guide to costs and comparisons for parents-to-be, from health care (what does yours cover?) to writing a will. She also tells you the advantages and disadvantages of various options (disposable diapers are convenient but costly; cloth are economical but time-consuming) that allow you to make decisions based on your own values, needs, and lifestyle. A good book to get if youÕre even thinking about having a baby.

                                                                      Ñ Cindy Craig
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##A 06 184609 18
##T The Affordable Baby
The Affordable Baby

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Darcie Bundy
1985; 289 pp.
ISBN 0060912634
$6.95 ($8.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper and Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
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##A 06 196748 20
##T Birth & Life Bookstore
Birth & Life Bookstore

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Hundreds, no thousands, of in-print books on children, birthing, adoption, toilet training, and so on. They stock nine books alone on the topic of twins. Longish, detailed reviews fill the front of their newsletter/catalog evaluating the latest mothering/fathering/babying books. They are far more up to date than we could ever be. 
                                                                   
                                                                         Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 197022 21
##T Birth & Life Bookstore
Birth & Life Bookstore

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Review newsletter/catalog free 
from:

Birth & Life Bookstore
7001 Alonzo Avenue NW
P. O. Box 70625
Seattle, WA 98107-0625
206-789-4444
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##A 06 182765 23
##T BABY SUPPLIES
BABY SUPPLIES

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You really donÕt need as much paraphernalia for a new baby as some would make you think. Here are the only things I have found really necessary with four babies: ¥ Four or five dozen 100 percent cotton diapers. Can be found easily at local department stores. Prefolded Curity diapers are my favorite. Disposable diapers are expensive, ecologically unsound, and rough and uncomfortable on babyÕs skin; ¥ natural fiber cotton or wool diaper covers (3 or 4 pair). TheyÕre cool and breathable for babyÕs skin. Try Happy Baby Bunz; babies love 100 percent cotton, versatile, long-wearing clothing. Check used clothing stores and catalogs, but Hanna Andersson and Biobottoms are a sure bet; ¥ a Snugli. My second child needed a lot of physical contact and he practically lived in his Snugli baby carrier for his first six months.
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##A 06 183056 25
##T BABY SUPPLIES
BABY SUPPLIES

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Nikky Diaper Covers 

$5.75-$12  
Information free 
from:

Baby Bunz & Co.
P. O. Box 1717
Sebastopol, CA 95473
707-829-5347
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##A 06 21232 26
##T BABY SUPPLIES
BABY SUPPLIES

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Hanna Andersson 
Catalog $2 from:

Hanna Andersson
1010 NW Flanders
Dept WER
Portland, OR 97209.
800-222-0544
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##A 06 24994 27
##T BABY SUPPLIES
BABY SUPPLIES

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Biobottoms 
Catalog free from:

Biobottoms
P. O. Box 6009
Petaluma, CA 94953
707-778-7945
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##A 06 26203 28
##T Baby Supplies
Baby Supplies


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Snugli Baby Carrier 
$22-60  
Brochure and dealer list free from:

Snugli, Inc.
12980 West Cedar Drive
Lakewood, CO 80228-1903.
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##A 06 197702 32
##T Whole Child, Whole Parent
Whole Child, Whole Parent

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I read the original version of this classic spiritual and practical guide to parenting during a panic period when my first child was one year old. It helped me regain the larger purpose of my mothering and gave me practical ways for putting my ideals into practice. IÕve been dipping into it ever since. I especially love the book suggestions; this book alone helped me choose books for my first child.
                                   
                                                       Ñ Peggy OÕMara McMahon
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##A 06 198037 33
##T Whole Child, Whole Parent
Whole Child, Whole Parent

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Polly Berrien Berends
1983; 360 pp.
ISBN 0060909498
$10.95 ($12.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
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##A 06 198841 35
##T Creative Parenting
Creative Parenting

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I usually donÕt recommend comprehensive Òbaby booksÓ because reading the book can imply a tacit agreement that the author is the expert and the parent is not. Since I believe that the parents are the experts, it is good to have the welcome voice of Dr. Sears, who is a father of five and brings his personal experience to the ideas he discusses in the book. Topics covered are thorough: pregnancy, birth, early time of parenting, the newborn, father feelings, infant feeding and nutrition, fussy baby, sleep habits, mother-baby separation, developmental stages, common childhood illnesses, child safety and first aid, and special situations. Creative Parenting will help you regain your perspective as parents with wisdom and practicality.     
                                                              Ñ Peggy OÕMara McMahon
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##A 06 199017 36
##T Creative Parenting
Creative Parenting

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William Sears, M. D.
1982; 512 pp.
ISBN 0396082645
$10.95 ($12.45 postpaid)
from:

Dodd, Mead & Co.
6 Ram Ridge Road
Spring Valley, NY 10977
800-237-3255
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##A 06 199997 39
##T How To Talk So Kids Will Listen . . .
How To Talk So Kids Will Listen . . .


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Reading Adele Faber and Elaine MazlishÕs first book (Liberated Parents/Liberated Children) changed my life. It was the first time I read about accepting and speaking from feelings. It took the idea of personal responsibility and translated it into action. How to Talk makes the information about accepting feelings, talking about feelings, engaging cooperation, alternatives to punishment, encouraging autonomy, praise, and freeing children from playing roles accessible through its liberal use of cartoons, and realistic dialogue. All of these ideas do much to help our children attain a positive self-image and to reduce disharmony in the home. This is tangible stuff you can read and use.
 
                                                           Ñ Peggy OÕMara McMahon
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##A 06 200276 40
##T How To Talk So Kids Will Listen . . .
How To Talk So Kids Will Listen . . .


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How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
1980; 242 pp.
ISBN 0380570009
$5.95 ($6.95 postpaid)
from:

Avon Books
P. O. Box 767
Dresden, TN 38225
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##A 06 201126 42
##T Mothering
Mothering


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IÕve watched Mothering evolve from a warm, visually attractive, down-home and relatively unsophisticated new publication to a warm, visually attractive, down-home, broader and more professional alternative ÒfamilyÓ magazine. While the mechanical quality has improved, Mothering has retained a special feeling of intimate communication with and between its readers. Mothering is a quarterly publication about the Òart of nurturing.Ó Regular feature sections include: The Art of Mothering, Family Health, A ChildÕs World, Pregnancy and Birth, Midwifery, Choices in Education, and Family Living. Each issue also offers articles on home cooking, fathering, breastfeeding and family centered 
business, as well as an ongoing dialogue between readers,
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##A 06 201423 44
##T Mothering
Mothering


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Peggy OÕMara McMahon,
ISSN 07333013
$15/year(4 issues)
from:

Mothering
P. O. Box 1690
Santa Fe, NM 87504
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##A 06 201810 46
##T Taking Care of Your Child
Taking Care of Your Child

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A companion volume to Vickery and FriesÕ Take Care of Yourself:
A ConsumerÕs Guide to Medical Care, (see review by clicking on rabbit below). Taking Care of Your Child includes decision charts  Ñ  clinical algorithms  Ñ  for the 96 most common childhood medical problems. Additional brief, solid chapters on pregnancy, birth, physical and psychological development, school problems, and immunizations. Includes a log for recording your childÕs immunization records.

The best available home medical guide for parents.
                                                           
                                                         Ñ Tom Ferguson, M.D.

Ù Take Care of Yourself
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##A 06 202447 47
##T Taking Care of Your Child
Taking Care of Your Child

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Robert H. Pantell, M. D., James F. Fries, M. D. and Donald M. Vickery, M. D.
Revised Edition 1984; 444 pp.
ISBN 0201082780
$12.95 ($14.95 postpaid)
from:

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
1 Jacob Way
Reading, MA 01867
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##A 06 161100 52
##T Parents Without Partners Sourcebook
Parents Without Partners Sourcebook

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A good place to begin when you are still picking up the pieces. Covers everything from holidays and school conferences to gay parents, starting to date, and recovering as a widow or widower. The book offers an appendix of referral sources for specific needs, and bibliographies under several subjects. 

                                                             Ñ Sallie Tisdale
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##A 06 161409 53
##T Parents Without Partners Sourcebook
Parents Without Partners Sourcebook

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Stephen L. Atlas
1984; 192 pp.
ISBN 0894712691
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Running Press Book Publishers
125 South 22nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
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##A 06 162517 57
##T The Difficult Child
The Difficult Child

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I wish IÕd had this book five years ago; I might have been able to spare both my son and me many painful arguments. Turecki, a child psychiatrist, asserts that more than 10 percent of children are born ÒdifficultÓ by temperament: highly sensitive, poorly adaptable, negative in mood, or disorganized. Such children can be extremely frustrating to rear. Turecki speaks from experience; he began the research that led to this book after years of trouble with one of his own children. This is a straight-forward, practical approach to understanding your child and regaining your authority as a parent, free of guilt.

                                                                 - Sallie Tisdale
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##A 06 162720 58
##T The Difficult Child
The Difficult Child

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Stanley Turecki, M. D.
and Leslie Tonner
1987; 240 pp.
ISBN 0553344463
$15.95 ($17.45 postpaid)
from:

Bantam Books
414 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
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##A 06 163485 60
##T On Being Father
On Being Father


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At last, an unapologetic, middle-of-the-road male perspective on divorce and giving up custody of the children. Ferrara freely shares not only his own experiences, mistakes, and solutions, but the residual anger he still struggles to control. He makes no attempt to be a Ònew ageÓ man or father  Ñ  Ferrara settles for being a good man and father. The book covers living arrangements, visits, changes in parent-child relationships as the child grows, and issues of sex and remarriage. 

                                                                      Ñ Sallie Tisdale
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##A 06 163612 61
##T On Being Father
On Being Father


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(A Divorced Man Talks About Sharing the Responsibilities of Parenthood)
Frank Ferrara
1985; 175 pp.
ISBN 0385191286
$7.95 postpaid 
from:

Doubleday and Company
Direct Mail Order
501 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
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##A 06 203295 64
##T Festivals, Family and Food
Festivals, Family and Food

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We can spend so much time thinking about our children and our parenting. This book helps us find new and meaningful ways to be with our children and our loved ones. Festivals, Family and Food contains poems, inspirational sayings, recipes, activities, and historical perspective for celebrating lots of new holidays and adding meaning to the Òregulars.Ó The authors of the book are British and the holidays mentioned reflect this, and some recipes will have to be adapted by those using whole wheat flour and minimizing sweeteners, and only Christian holidays are included. But used  intelligently, we can begin to create new, vibrant and personal traditions in our families.                       

                                                     Ñ Peggy OÕMara McMahon
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##A 06 69020 65
##T Festivals, Family and Food
Festivals, Family and Food

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Diana Carey and Judy Large
1982; 216 pp.
ISBN 095070623X
$13.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Hearthsong
P. O. Box B
Sebastopol, CA 95473
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##A 06 140577 68
##T ChaseÕs Annual Events
ChaseÕs Annual Events

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This rather strange reference book includes birthdays of famous people, all sorts of anniversaries (the anniversary of the invention of pizza, for instance), and a remarkably enticing listing of annual
events such as the Albuquerque International Balloon Festival. Sounds like a great place to work up a vacation schedule. Lists 
events worldwide, though most comprehensively in the U.S. (A new
version appears annually, though they donÕt say on what date. Readers are invited to submit items).                        

                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin  
                                   


 Ù Americas
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##A 06 418264 69
##T ChaseÕs Annual Events
ChaseÕs Annual Events

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William D. Chase 
and Helen M. Chase
Annual; 224 pp.
ISBN 0809246678
$24.95 postpaid  
from:

Contemporary Books
180 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60601
312-782-9181
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##A 06 185513 72
##T The Family Bed
The Family Bed

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Just mention the family bed concept and you encourage heated discussion. Even in a society such as ours where co-family sleeping is discouraged strongly, large numbers of people find that it beautifully fulfills their parenting needs. Tine Thevenin contends that babies need to sleep with their parents, that this arrangement assures the type of physical closeness so crucial to bonding and human development. As a veteran of twelve years of various arrangements of co-family sleeping, I have suggested this book to many new parents and every one has thanked me profusely. 

Even if you have not contemplated the family bed, or you fear it will ruin your sex life, spoil your children, and scandalize your
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##A 06 185978 74
##T The Family Bed
The Family Bed

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Tine Thevenin
Updated Edition 1987; 201 pp.
ISBN 0895293579
$7.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Avery Publishing Group
350 Thorens Avenue
Garden City, NY 11040
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##A 06 170839 78
##T Creative Publications
Creative Publications


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This catalog is intended for math and science teachers, but is a fantastic resource for home-schoolers and a really interesting catalog for others, too. They have a unique selection of books, workbooks, software, and materials  Ñ  all of very high quality. 
IÕve used their materials with my own children and also in a month-long exhibit at a childrenÕs museum where over 1,200 children played with them. The children loved everything we ordered from Creative Publications, notably the Pattern Blocks and the Rubber Stamps. The nicest thing is that they believe that children (yes, even children) deserve nice graphics, beautiful photographs, and quality materials. This catalog is a treat.

                                                                       Ñ Jeanne Finan
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##A 06 171105 79
##T Creative Publications
Creative Publications


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Catalog free from:

Creative Publications
788 Palomar Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
800-624-0822
800-435-5843 (IL)
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##A 06 171959 81
##T Child Life Play Specialties
Child Life Play Specialties

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Beautiful, institutional-quality outdoor play equipment for
children! The whole gamut from baby swings to a fantastic
Òsuper chiefÓ swing set with enough stuff on it to be a playground in itself. They have a 60-day return policy and a good warranty. Spare parts and hardware are available. The stuff isnÕt cheap, but it looks like you get what you pay for. 

                                                               Ñ Andrea Sharp
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##A 06 172100 82
##T Child Life Play Specialties
Child Life Play Specialties

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Catalog free from:

Child Life Play Specialties, 
Inc.
55 Whitney Street
P. O. Box 527
Holliston, MA 01746
800-462-4445
508-429-4639 (MA)
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##A 06 172919 85
##T Community Playthings
Community Playthings

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Solid, long-lasting, great-looking toys  Ñ  quality goods. The catalog includes a variety of furniture and toys for disabled kids. Everything has a one-year warranty. These toys are the products and income of the Rifton, New York, Bruderhof Community. It shows.                                                   

                                                    Ñ Stewart Brand



Ù LehmanÕs
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##A 06 173094 86
##T Community Playthings
Community Playthings

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Catalog $1 from:

Community Playthings
Route 213
Rifton, NY 12471
914-658-3141
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##A 06 173915 88
##T Constructive Playthings
Constructive Playthings

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Lotsa toys, nursery gear, and learning stuff for younger children. Especially handy for home teaching  or stocking a neighborhood day  care center.                                   

                                                      Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 174197 89
##T Constructive Playthings
Constructive Playthings

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Catalog $3 from:

Constructive Playthings
1227 East 119th Street
Grandview, MO 64030
800-255-6124
816-761-5900(MO)
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##A 06 175068 91
##T Educational Teaching Aids
Educational Teaching Aids

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Fat catalog of institutional-strength classroom materials. Impressive range of self-directed and Montessori-type learning aids. IÕd go here if I was outfitting a primary school.

                                                                    Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 175335 92
##T Educational Teaching Aids
Educational Teaching Aids

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Catalog $1 from:

ETA
199 West Carpenter Avenue
Wheeling, IL 60090
312-520-2500
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##A 06 186740 95
##T Games Magazine
Games Magazine

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By games they mean brain games  Ñ  puzzles and pencil games and board games that require cogitation. Some of the magazine is about games  Ñ  a report on the Fourth National Wargaming Convention and a play-by-play analysis of a championship Scrabble game. But mostly it is games  Ñ  good games that you can play alone or with others. A crossword puzzle with two sets of 
clues  Ñ  very hard and very easy, non-math logic puzzles, a 554-
dot connect the dot puzzle, endless mindboggling word games and on and on. Also reader participation contests that make the ones in other magazines seem tame, and detailed reviews of new board games. 

The super slick, super graphic presentation seems appropriate in
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##A 06 186946 97
##T Games Magazine
Games Magazine

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R. Wayne Schmittberger, Editor
ISSN 01999788
$11.97/year (6 issues)
from:

Games Magazine
P. O. Box 10147
Des Moines, IA 50340
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##A 06 188064 99
##T ChildrenÕs Games in Street and Playground
ChildrenÕs Games in Street and Playground

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Suppose you were trying to replace war. Would you be interested in Ògames in which children may deliberately scare each other, ritually hurt each other, take foolish risks, promote fights, play ten against one, and yet in which they consistently observe their own sense of fair playÓ (dust jacket blurb)? The games are not learned from adults but passed on through the generations of children. This study comes from England, which looks to have a much richer game cycle than American kids usually experience. A product of ten yearsÕ research, the book thoroughly describes the rules of play and the popularity of more than a thousand fascinating games.                                  

                                                        Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 188393 100
##T ChildrenÕs Games in Street and Playground
ChildrenÕs Games in Street and Playground

@@
Iona and Peter Opie
1969; 371 pp.
ISBN 0192814893
$9.95 postpaid
from:

Oxford University Press
16-00 Pollitt Drive
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
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##A 06 189031 102
##T Games
Games

@@

Some fun old games (and some new) that work well for groups playing inside in a gymnasium-sized room. YouÕre It! 
                                                   
                                                             Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 189323 103
##T Games
Games

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Frank W. Harris
1982; 84 pp.
ISBN 0961045809
$6.95 ($8.20 postpaid)
from:

Frank W. Harris
2129 Rose Street
Berkeley, CA 94709
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##A 06 191192 105
##T New Games
New Games

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The ideas of New Games, back when we were involved in starting them at the First New Games Tournament in 1973, was to encourage the meta-game of always inventing new and more interesting rules, livelier and more interesting games. The New Games Foundation carried on that scheme through innumerable workshops, crystalizing into these two books. Together they describe 126 wild and wooly new contact sports  Ñ  Hunker Hawser, Slaughter, Earthball, The Mating Game, Prui, Snake-in-the-Grass, etc. The reader-player is given encouragement and guidance to invent further. 

Another part of the original idea was to help get people so used to improving rules all the time that changing the rules of war to
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##A 06 191483 107
##T New Games
New Games

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Andrew Fluegelman, Editor
1976; 193 pp.
ISBN 038512516X
 $7.95 postpaid from:

Doubleday and Company
Direct Mail Order
501 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530

More New Games
1981; 190 pp. 
ISBN 0385175140
$7.95 postpaid
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##A 06 193458 110
##T Playfair
Playfair

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Two rules: no competition and no equipment. When you get a crowd of people involved in these imaginative body routines,  EVERYBODY has fun. (Try Octopus Massage or Amoeba Tag.) Because the goal is to laugh and holler your way to cooperation, theyÕre great for warming up a large group project  Ñ  or a memorable party. Blows grumpiness and boredom right out of the water. Never fails.
                                                               
                                                             Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 193669 111
##T Playfair
Playfair

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Matt Weinstein and Joel Goodman
1980; 249 pp.
ISBN 091516650X
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

Impact Publishers
P. O. Box 1094
San Luis Obispo, CA 93406
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##A 06 89971 114
##T Serious Games
Serious Games

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Serious games are games designed to teach a skill, or to accomplish a complicated goal. Military war games are serious games. So are the management games played in university business schools. Serious games can be fun.

At the same time, games designed entirely for fun can be used for serious purposes, such as helping kids learn how to survive and thrive in real life. Games are often the best way to teach them strategy, cooperation, and intellectual skills. For the past ten years I have been devising new games that really work in schools.

Serious Games is a classic book about games which simulate lifeÕs complex rules. The author was inspired by games as a doctoral
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##A 06 91570 116
##T Serious Games
Serious Games

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Clark C. Abt
1970, 1987; 176 pp.
ISBN 0819161489
$19.95 ($11.20 postpaid)
from:

University Press of America, Inc.
4720 Boston Way
Lanham, MD 20706
301-459-3366
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##A 06 102344 118
##T Homo Ludens
Homo Ludens


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Huizinga contends that civilization owes its existence to the play elementÑto special rituals apart from the daily grind which are joyful, contained in time, space, and rule structure, uncertain in outcome, requiring of fair play, participated in by all. To the roster of convivial tools that Ivan Illich fosters I would add widespread renewal of convivial gamingÑplay rituals at every level from family to planet. The more frivolous, the more essential to homo ludens.
                                                                     Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 255204 119
##T Homo Ludens
Homo Ludens

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(A Study of the Play Element in Culture)
Johan Huizinga
1950; 220 pp.
ISBN 0807046817
$4.95 postpaid 
from:

Beacon Press
Harper and Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA  18512
800-242-7737
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##A 06 17160 122
##T PLAY-BY-MAIL GAMES INTRODUCTION
PLAY-BY-MAIL GAMES INTRODUCTION

@@

These were my instructions:

ÒYou are a religious fanatic. Your purpose is to convert the entire galaxy to your particular point of view. Each of your converts has a 10-percent chance of converting the whole of that planet. Other players may win back your converts by unloading consumer goods on them.Ó There were 200 other characters battling for the same worlds I was, and I had to have my next move in the mail, postmarked by tomorrow.

Play-by-mail games are widespread, but hidden by the privacy of
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##A 06 113963 133
##T Feudal Lords
Feudal Lords

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Feudal Lords is a game of economic development, diplomatic intrigue, and military adventuring set in a medieval society, England in A.D. 801. You begin as a Baron of one of 46 fiefdoms and as one of 15 players. The computer controls the other 31 fiefs. Your job is to build up your fief and acquire control over other fiefs. Each fiefdom has basic economic resources consisting of gold, food, peasants, and townsmen, and you may invest in other economic activities such as agriculture, livestock, forestry, mining, fishing, and foreign trade. You must carefully develop your economy while building your military and political strength. 

Diplomacy is essential if you want to survive and thrive in this excellent simulation of a feudal society. Cost: rules $2.50. Setup
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##A 06 117247 135
##T Feudal Lords
Feudal Lords

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Information free from:

Graaf Simulations
27530 Harper
St. Clair Shores, MI  48081
313-775-5210
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##A 06 119195 136
##T Heroic Fantasy
Heroic Fantasy

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Design a team of adventurers and send them into the labyrinth. Guide them as they explore, overcome adversity, contend with the labyrinthian guardians, search for fame, glory, and treasure, treasure, treasure. HF has a little of the flavor of a Òkill and lootÓ role-playing game, but without the social interaction. Turn frequency every two weeks, once a month, or once a week 
(electronic mail).

                                                              Ñ Bob Albrecht
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##A 06 121681 137
##T Heroic Fantasy
Heroic Fantasy

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Rules $2.50. Set up $5. 
Turn fee $2.50.


Flying Buffalo, Inc.
P. O. Box 1467
Scottsdale, AZ  85252-1467
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##A 06 55106 138
##T StarWeb
StarWeb

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This is the classic play-by-mail game. StarWeb is a strategic space game in a network of 255 star systems. You begin knowing only one, build spaceship fleets, explore connecting systems, capture worlds, locate other players and negotiate with them. Try a slow game and you will probably meet people worldwide.  Turn frequency every three weeks, once a month (slow game), or once a week (electronic mail).
 
                                                                Ñ Bob Albrecht
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##A 06 55451 139
##T StarWeb
StarWeb

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Rules $2. Set up $5. Deposit $5. Turn fee $4.

Flying Buffalo, Inc.
P. O. Box 1467
Scottsdale, AZ  85252-1467
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##A 06 54170 142
##T Play-By-Mail Association 
Play-By-Mail Association 

@@

Play-by-mail game masters come and go with great irregularity. For a list of reliable companies, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Play-By-Mail Association (PBMA).

                                                             Ñ Bob Albrecht
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##A 06 54276 143
##T Play-By-Mail Association 
Play-By-Mail Association 

@@
Information free from:

Play-By-Mail Association
8149 E. Thomas Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85252

Be sure to send a stamped, self-addressed envelope when requesting information.
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##A 06 57013 145
##T DIPLOMACY BY MAIL
DIPLOMACY BY MAIL

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I am in the midst of a play-by-mail Diplomacy game; in fact I just got my current update today. Diplomacy is an old board game; itÕs been around since 1953. ItÕs a recreation of pre-World War I Europe. Each player leads one of seven different countries competing for control of most of the continent Ñ England, France, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Turkey, and Germany. Everyone starts out in their home country and tries to expand and acquire other stuff. This is a very difficult game to play, because you have to continually negotiate with your neighbors for peace while attempting to stab somebody in the back to gain your footholds elsewhere. Every month of play time corresponds to a three-month 
season in which a move takes place. ThereÕs often a lot of telephone conversations and negotiations with other players
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##A 06 88155 147
##T DIPLOMACY BY MAIL
DIPLOMACY BY MAIL

@@
Diplomacy
(the game): $22 postpaid 
from:

Avalon Hill Game Company
4517 Hartford Road
Baltimore, MD 21214
301-254-5300
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##A 06 139208 148
##T DIPLOMACY BY MAIL
DIPLOMACY BY MAIL

@@
The GamerÕs Guide to Diplomacy
(has all the tactics)
$5.50 postpaid from:

Avalon Hill Game Company
4517 Hartford Road
Baltimore, MD 21214
301-254-5300
@@

##A 06 89341 149
##T DIPLOMACY BY MAIL
DIPLOMACY BY MAIL

@@
Diplomacy World Magazine
$15/year (4 issues) 
from:

Diplomacy World Magazine
P. O. Box 8416
San Diego, CA 92102
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##A 06 192387 151
##T Boffers
Boffers

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You can hit each other endlessly with Boffers and it never hurts, but it does make a very loud, cracking sound (known as a boff). ItÕs a safe way to vent your hostility, with shades of Errol Flynn.

Sword-play games, from Three Musketeers to Star Wars, are what Boffers are all about. They are not for clubbing, but for dueling and also swatting (as in Swat Tag).

Boffers are white styrofoam swords. They come in a set containing two swords and two eye-and-ear guards.
                                                       
                                               Ñ New Games Foundation
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##A 06 192708 152
##T Boffers
Boffers

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Information free
$20 postpaid from:

Grand Dance Boffer Company
P. O. Box 02301
Portland, OR 97202
503-235-2572
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##A 06 176610 154
##T World Wide Games
World Wide Games

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This small woodworking company makes and sells games: mostly wooden; some expensive ones (up to $465.); mostly inexpensive ($5 to $35). About half of their games are American (old and new); the others originated overseas. For the games they make, they sell replacement parts. The woodworking is clean, smooth, and solid.
Our family has been buying these inexpensive games for several years. Their mail-order service is fast. Their catalog is free.

                                                          Ñ R. W. Radl


Ù Animal Town Game Company
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##A 06 176690 155
##T World Wide Games
World Wide Games

@@
Catalog free from:

World Wide Games
Norwich Avenue
Colchester, CT 06415
614-369-9631
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##A 06 189999 157
##T According to Hoyle
According to Hoyle

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The Hoyle that folks want everything to be according to is this official rule book for most card, dice and other gambling games 
(e.g., Mah Jongg); board games such as Chess and Backgammon; plus a selection of parlor games. No more arguments. 

                                                                         Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 06 190306 158
##T According to Hoyle
According to Hoyle

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Richard L. Frey
Revised Edition 1978; 285 pp.
ISBN 0449236528
$3.50 ($4.50 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 06 180558 160
##T The ModelmakerÕs Handbook 
The ModelmakerÕs Handbook 

@@
An inspiring book that revels in those added touches of finesse  Ñ  the highlighted rivet, the shadowed canopy, the flattened wheel with realistic bulge. The authors have obviously dribbled enough glue to not let it mar their realistic weathered finishes. They are able to pass on their persnickety ways in a clear, well-drawn manner.                                                
                                                            Ñ David Wills
                                                           
There are utilitarian applications here (making a model of a landscape youÕre designing, for instance), but the real purpose of this craft is love of country  Ñ  the imaginary miniature country you give life to with these methods. Also covers ships, planes, trains, and cars.                                
                                                            Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 06 180939 161
##T The ModelmakerÕs Handbook 
The ModelmakerÕs Handbook 

@@
Albert Jackson and David Day
1981; 352 pp.
ISBN 0394507886
$21.95 ($22.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 06 256949 163
##T Micro Mark
Micro Mark

@@

One of the best suppliers of modelerÕs tools is Micro Mark.
                                                             
                                                                  Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 175746 164
##T Micro Mark
Micro Mark

@@
catalog free
from:

Micro Mark
Box 5112-215-24
24 East Main Street
Clinton,  NJ 08809
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##A 06 73126 167
##T The Complete Dollmaker
The Complete Dollmaker

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Though by no means complete, these instructions will get you going on a variety of homemade dolls, both stuffed ones (soft) and the sculptured kind (hard, as in porcelain or wax).

                                                               Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 73475 168
##T The Complete Dollmaker
The Complete Dollmaker

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Alice D. Weiner
1985; 192 pp.
ISBN 0806962240
$12.95 ($14.45 postpaid)
from:

Sterling Publishing Co.
2 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016
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##A 06 169757 170
##T Making Things
Making Things

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A few ideas on how to turn odds and ends into instructive toys. Perfect if you need to mind a gang of youngÕuns and youÕve forgotten what you did at that age.

                                                                      Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 170197 171
##T Making Things
Making Things

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(The Hand Book of Creative Discovery)
Ann Wiseman
1973; 164 pp.
ISBN 0316948497
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

Little, Brown & Company
Order Dept.
200 West Street
Waltham, MA 02254
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##A 06 167485 173
##T Steve CaneyÕs Toy Book
Steve CaneyÕs Toy Book

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Want to make a waterscope and magnifier, or a hexaflexagon, or a rope machine (that makes real rope)? HereÕs simple instructions for these and 48 other toys and games, with plenty of photos and diagrams. Make your own discovery toys, pretending toys, games, building toys, action toys and design toys without spending much 
(if any) money. All the toys were designed and tested on a whole herd of children by a professional designer and toy consultant who helped design the Boston ChildrenÕs Museum. For kids age 1 through 11 and parents of all descriptions. 

                                                                 Ñ Sylvia Jacobs
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##A 06 167801 174
##T Steve CaneyÕs Toy Book
Steve CaneyÕs Toy Book

@@
Steven Caney
1972; 175 pp.
ISBN 0911104178
$6.95 ($8.95 postpaid)
from:

Workman Publishing
1 West 39th Street
New York, NY 10018
800-722-7202
212-398-9160
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##A 06 168597 176
##T Cherry Tree Toys
Cherry Tree Toys

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Old-timey hardwood parts  for making wooden toys and wind-powered whirligigs. Plans and kits too.
                                                       
                                                                 Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 168901 177
##T Cherry Tree Toys
Cherry Tree Toys

@@
Catalog $1 from:

Cherry Tree Toys
P. O. Box 369
408 South Jefferson
Belmont, OH 43718
614-484-4363
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##A 06 166564 179
##T Woodworking with Kids
Woodworking with Kids

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I havenÕt found a more inspiring book about teaching kids in general or about learning woodworking in particular. That it does both well is a surprise, but no accident. It is clear, inventive, and extremely wise.  A book like this in sewing, cooking, and all the sciences would make a school that worked. 

                                                                       Ñ Kevin Kelly




Ù WOODWORKING
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##A 06 166821 180
##T Woodworking with Kids
Woodworking with Kids

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Richard Starr
1982; 205 pp.
ISBN 0918804140
 $19.95 postpaid from:

W.W. Norton
500 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10110
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##A 06 165551 184
##T Animal Town Game Company
Animal Town Game Company

@@

Friendly, organic, educational, enjoyable board games about small farms, whales, bees, beavers, chickens, etc.  Cooperation wins. 
                                                             
                                                          Ñ Stewart Brand





Ù World Wide Games
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##A 06 165822 185
##T Animal Town Game Company
Animal Town Game Company

@@
Catalog free from:

Animal Town Game Company
P. O. Box 2002
Santa Barbara, CA 93120
805-962-8368
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##A 06 177648 187
##T The Johnson Smith Catalog
The Johnson Smith Catalog


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If you were ever a kid, you remember Johnson Smith. But you may have forgotten just how relevant Johnson Smith could be to your present happiness, not to mention your spiritual development.

TheyÕve been around for 72 years. Remember the lists you used to make of all the things you wanted? Well, surprise! YouÕll still want the same things: secret agent pen radio, juggling kits, X-ray Spex, Magic Money Maker, joy buzzers and, of course, VENTRILO 
(ÒBOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Learn Ventriloquism and Apparently THROW YOUR VOICE! Into a trunk, under the bed, under a table, back of the door, into a desk at school, or anywhereÓ). Yes, Johnson Smith is alive and well, and unchanged. But what about you? Get with it, kids!                                                       Ñ Robert Goldman
Ù Archie McPhee & Company
@@

##A 06 177725 188
##T The Johnson Smith Catalog
The Johnson Smith Catalog


@@
Catalog free from:

Johnson Smith
4514 19th Court East
Bradenton, FL 34203-3794
813-747-9754
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##A 06 178583 191
##T MAIL-ORDER FIREWORKS
MAIL-ORDER FIREWORKS

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For those of us who like to celebrate year-round events like birthdays, New YearÕs Eve, or the end of a wonderful day with fireworks, here are three mail-order sources offering some really great Chinese- and U.S.-made fireworks. Blue Angel is generally the cheapest, though Neptune and Olde Glory undersell them on particular items. Olde Glory has a small selection, but theyÕre geared toward smaller lots on individual items. Shop around  Ñ  the full-color catalogs are nearly as dazzling as silver sparklers.

                                                                  Ñ Ted Schultz

Note: It is illegal to send fireworks to California and several other
states. You wonÕt get the catalogs in California either.  Ñ CK
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##A 06 178797 192
##T MAIL-ORDER FIREWORKS
MAIL-ORDER FIREWORKS

@@
Blue Angel Fireworks 
Catalog free from:

Blue Angel Co.
P. O. Box 26
12900 Canfield Road
Columbiana, OH 44408
800-321-9071
800-362-1034 (OH)
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##A 06 60696 193
##T MAIL-ORDER FIREWORKS
MAIL-ORDER FIREWORKS

@@
Neptune Fireworks 
Catalog free from:

Neptune Fireworks Co.
P. O. Box 398
Stirling Road #3A
Dania, FL 33004
800-835-5236
305-920-6770 (FL)
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##A 06 61243 194
##T MAIL-ORDER FIREWORKS
MAIL-ORDER FIREWORKS

@@
Olde Glory Fireworks 
Catalog free from:

Olde Glory Fireworks
P. O. Box 2863
Rapid City, SD 57709
800-843-8758
605-348-7558(SD)
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##A 06 179691 196
##T AmericaÕs Hobby Center
AmericaÕs Hobby Center

@@

A legendary outfit. They have to publish a separate catalog for each type of ware they stock (model trains, planes, boats, and 
cars), because their inventory is overwhelmingly huge. Making models can involve the same kind of destiny-controlling creativity as writing a good story.  My own obsession once was model trains; now I cry out with nostalgia and sheer covetousness when I look through their train catalog.  Prices are low, sale prices are amazingly low, and service is always good. 
                                                               
                                                                   Ñ Art Kleiner
@@

##A 06 179875 197
##T AmericaÕs Hobby Center
AmericaÕs Hobby Center

@@
Model Airplanes Catalog
$2.50 from:

AmericaÕs Hobby Center
146 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
@@

##A 06 276601 198
##T AmericaÕs Hobby Center
AmericaÕs Hobby Center

@@
HO and N Gauge Model Railroads Catalog
Catalog $2 from:

AmericaÕs Hobby Center
146 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
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##A 06 277245 199
##T AmericaÕs Hobby Center
AmericaÕs Hobby Center

@@
Model Wood and Plastic Ships Catalog
Catalog $1.50 from:

AmericaÕs Hobby Center
146 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
@@

##A 06 277354 200
##T AmericaÕs Hobby Center
AmericaÕs Hobby Center

@@
Model Cars Catalog
Catalog $1.50 from:

AmericaÕs Hobby Center
146 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
@@

##A 06 211014 202
##T Boomerang
Boomerang

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Undocumented observation confirms that there is a little latent boomeranger in all of us, but it wonÕt be latent long if this book crosses your path; being a closet boomeranger just isnÕt practical. Boomerang tells you how to throw and catch, gives a bit of history of the sport, and presents very good plans for making your own, which you donÕt have to do because an excellent boomerang is included with the book.

                                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 06 211396 203
##T Boomerang
Boomerang

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(How to Throw, Catch and Make It)
Benjamin Ruhe and Eric Darnell
1985; 95 pp.
ISBN 0894809350
$9.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Workman Publishing
1 West 39th Street
New York, NY 10018
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##A 06 212379 206
##T Many Happy Returns
Many Happy Returns

@@

Boomerangers keep up with things in Many Happy Returns,
the newsletter that comes with membership in the U. S. Boomerang Association.  Interest in Õrangs is spreading fast; thereÕs probably a competition near you soon.                                        

                                                                    Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 06 212530 207
##T Many Happy Returns
Many Happy Returns

@@
$10/year (4 issues, membership included)
from:

U. S. Boomerang Association
P. O. Box 182
Delaware, OH 43015
614-363-8332
804-233-6207
@@

##A 06 213448 208
##T The Penguin Book of Kites
The Penguin Book of Kites

@@
When somebody says go fly a kite, ask Òwhat kind?Ó and whip out this total kite book. There are plans for more than 100 different kites from all over the world, complete with very detailed construction instruction. Perhaps more interesting is the historical section (kites go back 2500 years) showing an astounding variety of designs: passenger carrying models from Alexander Graham Bell and Buffalo Bill, Japanese kite club monsters 48 x 36 feet, and a host of other models amazing and bizarre.

                                                                    Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 06 213735 209
##T The Penguin Book of Kites
The Penguin Book of Kites

@@
David Pelham
1976; 224 pp.
ISBN 0140041176
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600 (NJ)
@@

##A 06 214381 211
##T KiteLines
KiteLines

@@

The nicely produced Kitelines magazine will keep you up with the
latest ideas, contest dates, and purveyors of kitish products.
                                            
                                                                 Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 06 214641 212
##T KiteLines
KiteLines

@@
Valerie Govig, Editor
ISSN 01923439
$12/year(4 issues)
from:

KiteLines
P. O. Box 466
Randallstown, MD 21133
301-484-6287
@@

##A 06 215389 214
##T Paper Flight
Paper Flight

@@
Take one sheet of paper and make your choice of 48 different designs of aircraft, flying saucers, helicopters, reproductions of real aircraft, birds, and insects.

My favorites are the flies and the French Mirage. Flypaper at its best!

Note to libraries: The plans are shown in a way that does not invite tearing out the pages. 

                                                                 Ñ Joe Eddy Brown
@@

##A 06 215763 215
##T Paper Flight
Paper Flight

@@
(Forty-Eight Models Ready for Take-off)
Jack Botermans. Translated by Deborah Ogle
1984; 120 pp.
ISBN 0030705061
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Henry Holt & Co.
521 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10175
212-599-7600
@@

##A 06 257784 217
##T The Flying Apparatus Klutz Catalogue
The Flying Apparatus Klutz Catalogue

@@

This slim catalog may be a limited selection but itÕs a good one. Lots of juggling stuff, HackySacks, boomerangs. Live with unrelated items such as a fine book on how to play the harmonica. Yummy yum. 

                                             Ñ J. Baldwin



Ù Playthings
@@

##A 06 31323 221
##T Dube Juggling Equipment
Dube Juggling Equipment

@@

Most jugglers recommend Dube. Their ÒairfliteÓ clubs are the classic affordable, high-quality clubs. Unicycles, top hats, balls, rings, torches, etc.

                                                           Ñ  Jeanne Carstensen
@@

##A 06 36690 222
##T Dube Juggling Equipment
Dube Juggling Equipment

@@
Catalog free from:

Brian Dube, Inc.
25 Park Place
New York, NY 10007
212-619-2182
@@

##A 06 235550 224
##T Clown for Circus & Stage 
Clown for Circus & Stage 

@@
This is the most accessible book IÕve found for the closet clown. It has sections on make-up, movements, and prop building, and sequence photos of six (count Õem) six classic routines that even a kid can comprehend. Time-tested at Camp Winna Rainbow. Yes, you too can learn to slap, take, slow burn, blow off and add a little laughter to this sometimes weary world.

                                                                Ñ Wavy Gravy 




Ù Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College
@@

##A 06 235958 225
##T Clown for Circus & Stage 
Clown for Circus & Stage 

@@
Mark Stolzenberg
1981; 160 pp.
ISBN 0806970340
$18.95 ($20.45 postpaid)
from:

Sterling Publishing
2 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016
800-367-9692
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##A 06 236859 228
##T TANNENÕS MAGIC
TANNENÕS MAGIC

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Louis Tannen has the biggest magic catalog around, with all manner of tricks, equipment, and work plans for larger gear. 
Tannen also publishes  a bimonthly magazine: TannenÕs Magic
Manuscript . It keeps you up to date with the latest tricks, events 
and apparatus.
                                                             
                                                         Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 237174 229
##T TANNENÕS MAGIC
TANNENÕS MAGIC

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Louis TannenÕs Catalog of Magic
1985; 828 pp.
$8 postpaid  from:

Louis Tannen, Inc.
6 West 32nd Street
4th Floor
New York, NY 10001
212-239-8383
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##A 06 289864 230
##T TANNENÕS MAGIC
TANNENÕS MAGIC

@@
TannenÕs Magic Manuscript
Jennifer Spina, Editor
ISSN 07464800
$18/year (6 issues)
Single copy $3.50
from:

Louis Tannen Inc.
6 West 32nd Street
4th Floor
New York, NY 10001
212-239-8383
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##A 06 237855 232
##T Hank LeeÕs Catalog of Magic
Hank LeeÕs Catalog of Magic

@@

Hank Lee has nice stuff (and lots of it) for young magicians and parties.
                                                           
                                                      Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 238197 233
##T Hank LeeÕs Catalog of Magic
Hank LeeÕs Catalog of Magic

@@
Catalog $6 from:

Hank LeeÕs Magic Factory
125 Lincoln Street
P. O. Box 1359
Boston, MA 02205
800-874-7400
617-482-8749 (MA)
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##A 06 316250 235
##T A. BrillÕs Bible of Building Plans
A. BrillÕs Bible of Building Plans

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Amuse your cows with a 43-whistle circus calliope? Join a carnival as a knife thrower or Òshake-em-upÓ ride owner?

What A.K. Brill sells is methods of making fantasy less
improbable. His Bible is part book, part catalog. The catalog offers for sale all the plans and info required to entirely recreate the midway of a sleazy county fair: scary rides, fair games of skill, and curious concessions.

The building plans he sells are uncommon. They convey the old builderÕs art of scrounging up the parts needed from whatÕs lying around. ItÕs kind of like hunkering down with the old builder and
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##A 06 316724 237
##T A. BrillÕs Bible of Building Plans
A. BrillÕs Bible of Building Plans

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Catalog $3 from:

A. B. Enterprises
P. O. Box 856 
Peoria, IL 61601
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##A 06 153965 240
##T Outward Bound
Outward Bound

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Now 25 years old, Outward Bound continues to offer challenging courses in such skills as rock climbing and whitewater running. If youÕre a chickenheart (or think you are), the instruction is just what you need  Ñ  emphasis is on building self-confidence and leadership. Special courses are arranged for executives, folks with substance-abuse problems, cancer patients unwilling to give up, and victims of domestic violence (and even the perpetrators thereof!). I personally know a number of people who returned from Outward Bound courses noticeably changed for the better. 

                                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 06 154257 241
##T Outward Bound
Outward Bound

@@
Courses $500-$3000
Information free 
from:

Outward Bound USA
348 Field Point Road
Greenwich, CT 06830
800-243-8520
203-661-0797 (CT)
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##A 06 156185 245
##T The National Outdoor Leadership School
The National Outdoor Leadership School


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In simple terms, the NOLS goal is this: to teach you the skills necessary to survive in the wilderness  Ñ  whether itÕs kayaking in Alaska, mountain climbing in the Rockies, or backpacking in Africa  Ñ  and to pass through that wilderness without leaving any trace of your having been there. Unlike Outward Bound, (previous item) NOLS is not into character development or proving yourself, except
perhaps for encouraging useful leadership qualities. Instead, it teaches only those skills directly related to the wilderness experience and cooperative group effort.

Both styles have their merits. The fundamental difference, I think, is between self-command and harmony. Me, IÕll take harmony.
                                                                           
                                                                           Ñ Joe Kane
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##A 06 156603 246
##T The National Outdoor Leadership School
The National Outdoor Leadership School


@@
Courses $1400-$4700
Catalog free from:

National Outdoor Leadership School
P. O. Box AA, Dept. W. E.
Lander, WY 82520
307-332-6973
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##A 06 155121 250
##T Directory of Sail Training Ships and Programs
Directory of Sail Training Ships and Programs


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For anyone who yearns for the sailing life, for the romance and adventure of Òa tall ship and a star to steer her by,Ó this is a directory full of photos and statistics about a number of ships still sailing in the traditional way. WhatÕs traditional? you may ask. When the captain shouts ÒAll hands on deck!Ó and youÕre asked to go aloft, up the ratlines in the rigging to the yards to furl the topsails, and youÕre balanced up there 50 feet high, hung out over the yard gathering in sail  Ñ  thatÕs traditional. (Working aloft is not mandatory, however.) Traditional sailing is also an attitude about the sea and the tall ships who grace her waters. It is an understanding of the natural ways of travelling through the water; the combination of wind, waves, and manpower that keep a ship moving.
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##A 06 155560 252
##T Directory of Sail Training Ships and Programs
Directory of Sail Training Ships and Programs


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Catalog $8 from:

American Sail  Training Association
365 Thames Street
Newport, RI 02840
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##A 06 220889 254
##T National Audubon Society Expedition Institute
National Audubon Society Expedition Institute

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One of the more tempting education opportunities around is this school-bus load of students that travels all around the country each year from September through May. The bus stops at such diverse locations as wilderness areas, Native American communities, and my own turf until recently, The New Alchemy Institute. Students donÕt stay in the bus, either. They hike, ski, bike, boat, and participate in the action of the areas they study, for graduate, undergraduate or even high school credit. Praise for this school is high and I can see why: ThereÕs that indefinable feeling of reality that is missing from so much classroom instruction. They have scholarships, summer expeditions, and a degree program through Lesley College.
                                                                          Ñ J. Baldwin     
Ù New Alchemy Institute                                                                            Ñ
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##A 06 221418 255
##T National Audubon Society Expedition Institute
National Audubon Society Expedition Institute

@@
Audubon Expedition School
Information free 
$6800/year (Sept.-May)
from:

National Audubon Society Expedition Institute
Northeast Audubon Center
Route 4
Sharon, CT 06069
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##A 06 278490 256
##T National Audubon Society Expedition Institute
National Audubon Society Expedition Institute

@@
Lesley College 
Catalog free from:

Lesley College
National Audubon Society
Attn.: Outreach
29 Everett Street
Cambridge, MA 02238
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##A 06 252540 257
##T Helping Out in the Outdoors
Helping Out in the Outdoors


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When people volunteer everybody is winning. Needed jobs get done 
(cheerfully!), and the volunteers go home with more than they gave. Like to partake? Our parks could use your help. Wanted are fire lookouts, craft instructors, trail crews, campground hosts, surveyors, and tree planters. Experience accepted, willingness preferred. Some jobs pay no money, others furnish groceries or lodging or gas money, or work clothes, and some even pay meagerly. Look over this quarterly directory, decide who to give your love to, and write to them early.                    

                                                          Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 269032 258
##T Helping Out in the Outdoors
Helping Out in the Outdoors


@@
(A Volunteer Directory to American Parks & Forests)
ISSN 8756310X
$3/issue or
$12/2 years (4 issues)
from:

American Hiking Society
1015 31st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007
703-385-3252

Published in February and August
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##A 06 71457 261
##T Getting Skilled 
Getting Skilled 

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One of the encouraging signs I see in our society these days is that there are many young people NOT going to college, nor planning to. Having made that decision, many just diddle around waiting for something to happen, which it often doesnÕt. There is a hunger to be good at something. A so-called Òtrade-schoolÓ can be a good answer, and it fortunately is an answer that is rapidly losing a second-best reputation. OK. How do you find out about trade schools? Getting Skilled is the best IÕve seen on the subject by far. If you counsel students it will help you a lot. It also lists many schools in a huge appendix. The authors are well in tune with coming trends, too; this isnÕt a rehashed 1938 text. 

                                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin

...
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##A 06 61564 262
##T Getting Skilled 
Getting Skilled 

@@
(A Guide to Private Trade and Technical Schools)
Tom Hebert and John Coyne
2nd Edition 1982; 145 pp.
ISBN 0942426002
$1.50 postpaid
from:

NATTS
2251 Wisconsin Avenue NW
Room 200
Washington, DC 20007
202-333-1021
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##A 06 72051 264
##T Handbook of Trade and Technical Careers
Handbook of Trade and Technical Careers

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A very useful Handbook of Trade and Technical Careers and Training indicates the range of skills that trade schools teach, which schools, and how to reach them. NATTS (National Association of Trade and Technical Schools) has other career training booklets too. The price is right: free.

                                                                 Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 72229 265
##T Handbook of Trade and Technical Careers
Handbook of Trade and Technical Careers

@@
Handbook of Trade and Technical Careers and Training
National Assoc. of Trade and Technical Schools (NATTS)
1988; 80 pp.
Free from:

NATTS
2251 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Room 200
Washington, DC 20007
202-333-1021
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##A 06 207768 269
##T Apprenticeship in Craft
Apprenticeship in Craft

@@
Both craftspeople considering taking on apprentices and those thinking of apprenticing themselves to a master craftsperson to learn a craft should read this thoughtful book before taking another step. It will give you a sense of all that is involved in the apprentice-master relationship. Detailed information is given on the pros and cons of apprenticeships as well as on contracts, payments, work arrangements, evaluation, termination, and other facets of apprenticeships. The book is a series of musings by 45 craftspeople, administrators, and educators who have been personally involved in apprenticeships. It sounds like the truth. 
                                                                
                                                                 Ñ Marilyn Green
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##A 06 207881 270
##T Apprenticeship in Craft
Apprenticeship in Craft

@@
Gerry Williams, Editor
1981; 215 pp.
ISBN 0930640020
 $9.50 postpaid
from:

Studio Potter Books
Box 70
Goffstown, NH 03045
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##A 06 208684 273
##T The Tracker
The Tracker

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Tom Brown, Jr., grew up in the desolate New Jersey Pine Barrens. He was schooled mercilessly but compassionately in woodlore and survival by his best-friendÕs father, a Navajo tracker named Stalking Wolf. With a consummate storytellerÕs skill (perhaps that of his coauthor) he entices the rest of us by telling how he exchanged his small-town-boyÕs self-centeredness for the cunning, observant care, and sheer goodheartedness of a tracker. The result is a masterpiece of lore about how to see and how to learn.  The Tracker was his first book.  The Search is its sequel. It includes the thoughts that led to the founding of The Tracker School. The school emphasizes the increasing of your sensitivity to whatÕs going on around you. It is claimed that an apt student will be able to sneak up to deer close enough to touch one. From what weÕve
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##A 06 209351 275
##T The Tracker
The Tracker

@@
The Tracker School
Courses $515-$565
Catalog free from:

The Tracker, Inc.
P. O. Box 173
Ashbury, NJ 08802
201-479-4681
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##A 06 210264 276
##T The Tracker 
The Tracker 

@@
The Tracker 
Tom Brown, Jr. as told to William Jon Watkins
1978; 229 pp.
ISBN 0425101339
$3.95  ($4.95 postpaid)
from:

Berkley Publishing Group
Order Dept.
P. O. Box 506
East Rutherford, NJ 07073
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##A 06 56539 277
##T The Tracker 
The Tracker 

@@
The Search 
Tom Brown, Jr. with William Owen
1980; 219 pp.
ISBN 0425102513
$7.95 ($8.95 postpaid)
from:

Berkley Publishing Group
Order Dept.
P. O. Box 506
East Rutherford, NJ 07073
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##A 06 341282 278
##T The Tracker 
The Tracker 

@@
The Vision
Tom Brown, Jr.
1988; 241 pp.
ISBN 0425107035
$7.95 ($8.95 postpaid)
from:

Berkley Publishing Group
Order Dept.
P. O. Box 506
East Rutherford, NJ 07073
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##A 06 290898 281
##T WoodenBoat School
WoodenBoat School

@@
If messing about in boats is good for the soul, think of the salutary effects of making a boat, from wood, yourself, from scratch. Boatbuilding is a bit different from other crafts in that the penalty for unskilled or even uninspired praxis tends to include unintended swimming. Nature as art critic. There are a number of woodenboat-making schools. This one has a good reputation with people we know well. For other equally worthy schools, see the advertisements in WoodenBoat magazine (see review in Craft section by clicking below).

                                                                          Ñ J. Baldwin
Ù WoodenBoat magazine
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##A 06 291302 282
##T WoodenBoat School
WoodenBoat School

@@
Information free from:

WoodenBoat School
P. O. Box 78
Brooklin, ME 04616
207-359-4651
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##A 06 38892 284
##T Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College

@@

Run away and join the circus. No kidding. Free tuition; you pay for room, board, and makeup.  (The makeup runs about $600, but you
get to keep it. Some financial help is available.)  Nine-week course runs August-October; applications have to be in by July 15. You
have to be at least 17.  Experience not necessary .

                                                         Ñ Stewart Brand




Ù Clown
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##A 06 39385 285
##T Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College

@@
Information free from:

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College
P.O. Box 1528
Venice, FL 34284-1528
813-484-9511
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##A 06 70405 288
##T LIFELONG LEARNING INTRODUCTION
LIFELONG LEARNING INTRODUCTION

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FORMULA for an interesting life: acquire skills and use them. The more skills, the more interesting.

                                                            Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 66202 289
##T The Lifelong Learner
The Lifelong Learner

@@
I went to school for 18 years, which was at least four years too many. Ronald Gross has written a book I could have used in about 1972 that says the way to learn things is to pick something youÕre interested in and follow it where it takes you Ñ to libraries, free universities, art centers, churches, groups of people interested in the same thing, wise people in your neighborhood, and even, sometimes, school.

The best part is the stories of particular lifelong learners like Ted Marchi, who learned to build roads because his part of Nebraska needed some; Helen Baker, who became a leading expert on juvenile rights with persistence and without a law degree or college education; and Malcolm X, who taught himself a lot of what he
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##A 06 97974 291
##T The Lifelong Learner
The Lifelong Learner

@@
Ronald Gross
1977; 190 pp.
ISBN 0671249487
OUT OF PRINT

Simon & Schuster

Get this book back in print!
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##A 06 206729 293
##T The Naropa Institute
The Naropa Institute

@@

In Boulder, Colorado, a robust and innovative school has grown up around Chogyam Trungpa. Theater, music, dance, science, martial arts, poetry, calligraphy, and psychology are some of the courses. Leading artists, philosophers, and spiritual teachers regularly hold forth. Impressive operation.                   

                                                     Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 206861 294
##T The Naropa Institute
The Naropa Institute

@@
Catalog $4 donation 
from:

The Naropa Institute
2130 Arapahoe Avenue
Boulder, CO 80302
303-444-0202
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##A 06 205618 295
##T The Esalen Catalog
The Esalen Catalog

@@
Though you canÕt get a seminar at the Esalen Institute hot springs on the California Big Sur coast through the mail, you can get their catalog, survey the offerings along several dimensions of humanistic psychology, and go to Big Sur for one hell of a weekend. Since 1962 Esalen has been the stage where new acts and new actors try out the Human Potential big time. 

                                                              Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 205895 296
##T The Esalen Catalog
The Esalen Catalog

@@
Catalog free
Subscription $12
(3 issues plus other mailings) 
from:

Esalen Institute
Big Sur, CA 93920
408-667-3005
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##A 06 33370 298
##T Wishcraft
Wishcraft

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The obstacles which held up my life always seemed to be mysterious, invisible things  Ñ  ghosts. The spell for release is in two parts: 1) The wish. Trying to change yourself and trying to deny yourself are equally futile. The only power that will ever make you really go comes from your own deep wishes, interests, and desires. 2) The craft. If you donÕt have practical techniques: for problem-solving, planning, getting your hands on information and contacts; for coping with human feelings that arenÕt going to go away; for getting the emotional support risk-taking requires; and for figuring out what your wishes really are, your desires will dissipate like steam without an engine. So, with the lessons of Wishcraft, no more ghosts. Real wishes. Real problems. Real solutions. Real changes.              Ñ David Finacom
Ù The Independent ScholarÕs Handbook
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##A 06 33752 299
##T Wishcraft
Wishcraft

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(How to Get What You Really Want)
Barbara Sher with Anne Gottlieb
1979; 278 pp.
ISBN 0670776084
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

New American Library
Box 120 
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600 (NJ)
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##A 06 349777 302
##T Transitions Abroad
Transitions Abroad

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A guide to independent and educational travel that consists almost entirely of articles and travel tips sent in by its
traveling readers. ItÕs usually about 60 pages long, printed on newsprint. The format and the writing are generally unpolished, but the articles are interesting, informative, and very timely. There are lots of specific addresses to help the traveller find work, classes, or any number of other situations all over the world. A number of inexpensive charter flights and other groups providing cheap transportation also advertise regularly. TransitionsÕ articles are often about Africa, Asia, and a lot of the less-touristed parts of the world as well as Europe and the more popular tourist spots.                    
                                                         Ñ Steve Dunnington
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##A 06 350065 303
##T Transitions Abroad
Transitions Abroad

@@
(The Magazine of Overseas Opportunities)
Clayton A. Hubbs, Editor
ISSN 02764717
$15/year(5 issues) from:

Transitions Abroad
P. O. Box 344
Amherst, MA 01004

They also publish TravelerÕs Directory, an annual issue of information sources on work, study and socially responsible international travel.
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##A 06 349182 307
##T Culturgram
Culturgram

@@
ÒCulturgrams are briefings to aid understanding of, feeling for, and communication with other people.Ó They succeed admirably.

Each Culturgram contains much of the sort of information usually left out of guidebooks: how to act when invited into someoneÕs home, how to avoid being unintentionally obnoxious or frightening.

The price is right: $1.25 postpaid, for each four-page,
 8 x 11 inch pamphlet. There are currently 90 Culturgrams
 available. Other publications to encourage international communications are also available.

                                                       Ñ Walt Noiseux
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##A 06 349281 308
##T Culturgram
Culturgram

@@
1988 edition
For information and sample Culturgram send SASE. 
$23 postpaid for complete set of 90. Single copies also available.
from:

Brigham Young University
KCIS Publications
280 HRCB
Provo, UT 84602
801-378-6528
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##A 06 347855 310
##T Living in the U.S.A.
Living in the U.S.A.

@@
An astonishing book. Though itÕs written for foreigners planning to travel or work in the U.S.  Ñ  and serves that purpose splendidly  Ñ  I would recommend it most strongly to Americans who are planning to travel elsewhere or are expecting to deal routinely with foreign visitors. Americans are very odd. Everybody else is expending considerable effort to treat us as if we were human beings. It is well to know the details of what they are putting up with and, by implication, what is normal for the rest of humanity.
 
                                                          Ñ Stewart Brand


Ù TRAVEL INTRODUCTION
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##A 06 347970 311
##T Living in the U.S.A.
Living in the U.S.A.

@@
Alison R. Lanier
4th Edition 1988; 230 pp.
ISBN 0933662696
$10.95 ($12.45 postpaid)
from:

Intercultural Press
P. O. Box 768
Yarmouth, ME 04096
207-846-5168
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##A 06 346624 314
##T International Workcamps
International Workcamps

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For more than 70 years, since WWI ended, International Workcamps have provided a way for people to think globally and act locally. Last summer there were more than 2,000 of these two-to-four week camps in Europe alone, not counting those in the Soviet Union, Turkey and Nicaragua. In fact, the catalog says they are the Òonly sizable medium of citizen exchange across the Iron Curtain.Ó The camps run in the summer only and do good-works type projects  Ñ  youÕll exercise your muscles a lot. The rules are: you donate your labor, pay for your own travel, and you donÕt have to speak a foreign language. They take care of everything else.

                                                                Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 06 346921 315
##T International Workcamps
International Workcamps

@@
Annual membership 
$10/year 
(includes current Directory); Newsletter free (ISSN 0945617003)
from:

Volunteers For Peace
43 Tiffany Road
Belmont, VT 05730
802-259-2759
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##A 06 336884 317
##T Kibbutz Aliya Desk
Kibbutz Aliya Desk


@@

If youÕre between the ages of 15 and 35, this outfit can arrange an involvement with a kibbutz. You should be Jewish and ready for hard work. Some programs require that you study Hebrew while at the kibbutz. There are programs for temporary workers, summer stays, University semesters, and even permanent residence. I know several people who have participated in this sort of thing, and they say itÕs a combination of inspiring and disillusioning. Real, in other words, and very much worth the time and money.
                                                       
                                                               - J. Baldwin
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##A 06 341523 318
##T Kibbutz Aliya Desk
Kibbutz Aliya Desk


@@
Information and Kibbutz Journal free from:

Kibbutz Aliya Desk
27 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011
212-255-1338
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##A 06 327056 320
##T International Youth Exchange
International Youth Exchange

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You go there and stay with a family, or they come here and stay with a host family. Our government is encouraging (with grants) the many private organizations that carry out such programs. This booklet tells you how to be student or host, and provides a list of the organizations involved  Ñ  plus a bit of chat that will enable you to make a good choice. Looks like the bureaucrats have done it right this time. 
                                                      
                                                 - J. Baldwin
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##A 06 330126 321
##T International Youth Exchange
International Youth Exchange

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Catalog free 
from:

International Youth Exchange
Pueblo, CO 81009
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##A 06 293236 324
##T Experiment in International Living
Experiment in International Living

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Over 100,000 young people have participated in the programs of the Experiment in International Living since the action commenced in 1932. ÒHomestayÓ  Ñ  living with a family and engaging in whatever it is that they do in normal life  Ñ  is the backbone of this enterprise. ItÕs probably the best way to learn about folks different than yourself. There are adult programs, too.

School For International Training is their academic division,
offering coursework in subjects chosen to enhance intercultural relationships. Credit can usually be arranged at your base college or university. When you hear people say Òmy semester abroad,Ó itÕs often this program.
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##A 06 320864 326
##T Experiment in International Living
Experiment in International Living

@@
Information free from:

Experiment in International Living
Kipling Road
Brattleboro, VT 05301-0676
800-451-4465 ext. 6

The school awards both bachelorÕs and masterÕs degrees; both programs offer international internships.
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##A 06 289705 328
##T Home Exchanging
Home Exchanging

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Home exchanging can be a great idea for traveling if you donÕt want to be a tourist.  You trade residences on an even-swap basis, getting to live in a home belonging to someone who, at the same time, gets to live in your house.  If youÕre looking for something different than staying in expensive hotels that brand you as a 
ÒtouristÓ and tend to separate you from the majority of people who live in another state or country, or perhaps for an economically feasible way to make an extended stay away from home, this book is a good place to start your research.  Lots of details on all variations of house swapping, from straight exchanges between two parties, to multiple exchanges involving more than two residences, to simple hospitality exchanges in which a person or group stays with a family and agrees to put them up at their home at a later date.  Plenty of nuts and bolts


******** New review needed ? Is this replacing international home exchanges (which follows this review?) *********
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##A 06 175976 330
##T Home Exchanging
Home Exchanging

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James Dearing
1986; 192 pp.
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

Globe Pequot Press
Box Q
Chester, CT 06412
800/243-0495
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##A 06 7143 334
##T The Independent ScholarÕs Handbook
The Independent ScholarÕs Handbook

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Ever talk about Plato at four in the morning in a doughnut shop with a well-read blue-collar stranger? ThatÕs the feeling this book evokes. The author doesnÕt describe the ways to get accreditation, academic legitimacy, or even intellectual power. He tells how to find out the things that would change your life if you took the trouble to learn them, how to tell other people about them, and how to support yourself meanwhile. The methods include reporting and cultivating experts, but mainly forming the kind of relationship with libraries that master chefs have with their food suppliers. The book is full of anecdotes about independent researchers like Eric Hoffer that make you want to follow up everything they ever wrote; but more important, itÕs full of solid advice, the kind that will be news even to people who have
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##A 06 70307 336
##T The Independent ScholarÕs Handbook
The Independent ScholarÕs Handbook

@@
Ronald Gross
1982; 261 pp.
ISBN 0201105152
OUT OF PRINT

Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
1 Jacob Way
Reading, MA 01867
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##A 06 135716 339
##T BearÕs Guide to Finding Money For College
BearÕs Guide to Finding Money For College

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We have two major self-esteem rites-of-passage in our culture, and a good book for each. What the indispensable What Color Is Your Parachute (see review) does for landing a job, this does for landing an education.

ItÕs about how to approach the financing of your learning as creatively as you choose what to learn. The book wisely counsels not paying so much in the first place (even Ivy League schools will bargain on tuition if you donÕt call it that), and provides excellent, clever, unconventional means of digging up what money you do need. Use these strategies for any kind of degree.  

                                                                    Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 136202 340
##T BearÕs Guide to Finding Money For College
BearÕs Guide to Finding Money For College

@@
John Bear, Ph. D.
1984; 168 pp.
ISBN 0898151260
$5.95 ($6.95 postpaid)
from:

Ten Speed Press
P. O. Box 7123
Berkeley, CA 94707
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##A 06 157698 342
##T BearÕs Guide to Earning Non-Traditional College Degrees
BearÕs Guide to Earning Non-Traditional College Degrees

@@
Education and accreditation have parted ways. For job opportunity, get some easy degrees. For an interesting life, get some hard education. I can see good argument for getting them separately  Ñ  you donÕt cross your purposes or narrow your possibilities so much. This intelligent, practical book will tutor you in the non-traditional course.

                                                                       Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 158142 343
##T BearÕs Guide to Earning Non-Traditional College Degrees
BearÕs Guide to Earning Non-Traditional College Degrees

@@
John Bear, Ph. D.
10th Edition 1985; 272 pp.
ISBN 0898152488
$11.95 ($12.95 postpaid)
from:

Ten Speed Press
P. O. Box 7123
Berkeley, CA 94707
@@

##A 06 34472 346
##T Young PersonÕs Guide To Military Service
Young PersonÕs Guide To Military Service

@@

Historically, a stint in the military has held fascination for brute and poet alike. To serve or not isnÕt an easy question and never has been. This book wonÕt help you much with the moral aspects, but it does a fair job of helping you decide which service branch to join and what life will be like there. ItÕs not like in the movies.   

                                                                      Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 06 34680 347
##T Young PersonÕs Guide To Military Service
Young PersonÕs Guide To Military Service

@@
Jeff Bradley
1983; 175 pp.
ISBN 0916782832
$9.95 ($11.20 postpaid)
from:

Harvard Common Press
c/o Kampmann & Co.
9 East 40th Street
New York, NY 10016
@@

##A 06 89397 350
##T Liberated Parents, Liberated Children
Liberated Parents, Liberated Children

@@
This book has become something of a classic for harried parents
who canÕt understand why their best efforts at child rearing go
awry. Worse, the kids arenÕt happy either. Lots of all too familiar
situations are portrayed here, with solutions that might just help.
I must admit that I wish my parents had had this book. (The book
I needed for my parenting hasnÕt been written yet.)

                                                                  Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 06 89707 351
##T Liberated Parents, Liberated Children
Liberated Parents, Liberated Children

@@
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
1974; 237 pp.
ISBN 0380004666
$3.95 ($4.95 postpaid)
from:

Avon Books
P. O. Box 767
Dresden, TN 38225
@@

##A 06 97263 354
##T How Children Fail ¥ How Children Learn
How Children Fail ¥ How Children Learn

@@
What makes John HoltÕs contributions to learning and educational reform so useful is that his whole approach was grounded in humility.  He was a keen observer  Ñ  always watching the action on at least two levels  Ñ  and he constantly experimented and learned from his failures. But it was humility that allowed him to see that small children learn naturally and that teaching that talks down to them will inevitably make them stupid.

These two books have been changing educators since they appeared in the 1960s. Each was significantly expanded in a revised edition in the 1980s. The additions are set off in indented type and provide a gloss on the original text that amplifies and deepens the insights.                                    
                                                                 Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 06 97495 355
##T How Children Fail ¥ How Children Learn
How Children Fail ¥ How Children Learn

@@
How Children Fail 
John Holt
Revised Edition 1982; 298 pp.
ISBN 0385284233
$7.95 ($8.95 postpaid)
from:

Dell Publishing Co.
501 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
@@

##A 06 75074 356
##T How Children Fail ¥ How Children Learn
How Children Fail ¥ How Children Learn

@@
How Children Learn 
John Holt
Revised Edition 1986; 192  pp.
ISBN 038528425X
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Dell Publishing Co.
501 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
@@

##A 06 99199 358
##T The Paideia Proposal
The Paideia Proposal

@@
This is a brief and serious attempt to make the big American educational system actually work. Not abolish it, not home schooling, not start our own school, but how to change public schooling so that the system of universal education produces citizens capable of maintaining democracy. 

                                                                  Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 06 99353 359
##T The Paideia Proposal
The Paideia Proposal

@@
Mortimer J. Adler
1982; 96 pp.
ISBN 0020641001
$3.25 postpaid 
from:

MacMillan Publishing Co.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
@@

##A 06 94681 362
##T The New Big Book of Home Learning
The New Big Book of Home Learning

@@
Kids will learn wherever they are.

Teaching at home means: be prepared to learn at home, quicker than your kids. To stay ahead, I recommend this enormous treasurehouse of tools for home learners and home teachers. It evaluates home-style curricula, goes deep into computer software, considers graduate testing, points to ongoing home school magazines, recommends books, and closes with advice for starting up your own minischool. It deserves kudos for honorable work. This big book supersedes the four others we were going to recommend.                                    

                                                           Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 06 94763 363
##T The New Big Book of Home Learning
The New Big Book of Home Learning

@@
Mary Pride
Revised Edition 1988; 382 pp.
ISBN 0891074562
$17.50 ($18.50 postpaid)
from:

Good News Publishers
9825 West Roosevelt Road
Westchester, IL 60153
@@

##A 06 98190 366
##T Deschooling Society
Deschooling Society

@@
Illich gives a devastating analysis of the ways in which educational institutions act to minimize learning and maximize conformity and social stratification. Are his solutions practical, or in fact real, given the current state of education? Deschooling Society clarifies many of the problems, but if readers are anxiously looking for ready answers, they should look elsewhere.
 
                                                       Ñ Diane and Eddie Grayson
@@

##A 06 98542 367
##T Deschooling Society
Deschooling Society

@@
Deschooling Society
Ivan Illich
1971, 1983; 192 pp.
ISBN 0060910461
$6.95 ($8.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737

Mr. Illich discusses his ideas in the audio cassette ÒDeschooled SocietyÓ; card 4 contains a sound clip and access info.
@@

##A 06 180374 369
##T Deschooling Society
Deschooling Society

@@
Deschooled Society 
Ivan Illich
33 min.
$10.95 ($12.95 postpaid)
from:

Audio Forum
Suite PD81
96 Broad Street
Guilford, CT  06437
800-243-1234
(CT 1-453-9794)

This is a discussion by Mr. Illich of the ideas presented in his book, rather than a reading of it.
@@

##A 06 96074 370
##T Better Than School
Better Than School

@@
After watching their lively, intelligent son wither in the class-
room for over a year, Nancy and Bob Wallace took him out of school to teach him at home. Better Than School is one familyÕs experience with home schooling. It is as much a tale about bureaucratic oppression as it is a chronicle of constant experimentation, excitement, mistakes, and triumphs as the entire family is caught up in the adventure of learning. 

This is not an instruction manual for home teaching, but a book of inspiration and encouragement to parents wishing to educate their children  Ñ  and themselves  Ñ  in their own unique ways.

For educators and other Òexperts,Ó it offers a rare glimpse of the
@@

##A 06 96508 372
##T Better Than School
Better Than School

@@
(One FamilyÕs Declaration of Independence)
Nancy Wallace
1983; 256 pp.
ISBN 0943914051
$10.95 ($12.45 postpaid)
from:

Larson Publications
4936 Route 414
Burdett, NY 14818
@@

##A 06 92495 374
##T Growing Without Schooling 
Growing Without Schooling 

@@

Growing Without Schooling is a newsletter begun by John Holt about not sending children to school. Letters from people who are doing it, advice about what to do and not do with kids at home, the latest legal news, and a directory of unschoolers. 
                                                                
                                                            Ñ Anne Herbert
@@

##A 06 92823 375
##T Growing Without Schooling 
Growing Without Schooling 

@@
Susannah Sheffer, Editor
ISSN 07455305
$20/year
(6 issues)
from:

Growing Without Schooling
729 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
@@

##A 06 93466 377
##T John HoltÕs Book and Music Store 
John HoltÕs Book and Music Store 

@@

The Book and Music Store is a mail order catalog of books and tools for younger and older children, parents, and educators.
 
                                                                   Ñ Anne Herbert
@@

##A 06 93734 378
##T John HoltÕs Book and Music Store 
John HoltÕs Book and Music Store 

@@
Catalog free with SASE
from:

John HoltÕs Book and Music Store
729 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
617-437-1550
@@

##A 06 111819 383
##T GREAT REFERENCE BOOKS INTRODUCTION
GREAT REFERENCE BOOKS INTRODUCTION

@@
RESEARCH NEED NOT BE DULL. Any of these reference books is grist for hours of dreamy browsingÑand they can provide surprisingly simple shortcuts to answering tough questions.  You probably need not buy themÑeven small libraries have most of them.
 
                                                   Ñ  Art Kleiner and Steve Cisler
@@

##A 06 132108 384
##T The World Almanac
The World Almanac

@@
When I was ten I remember being given two thick paperbacks: the Johnson Smith Novelty Catalog (see review) and the 1952 World Almanac. I spent a long time leafing through each of them, but the World Almanac had more staying power. Now, as a librarian, I find it one of the most useful reference works available. The print is a bit small, and the maps are just so-so. Published each November, current through October. Use the detailed index in the front, or the one-page Quick Reference index in the back.

                                                                          Ñ Steve Cisler


Ù The Johnson Smith Catalog
@@

##A 06 132419 385
##T The World Almanac
The World Almanac

@@
(and Book of Facts)
Mark S. Hoffman, Editor
ISBN 0886873347
$6.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:

Pharos Books
c/o World Almanac Education
1278 West Ninth Street
Cleveland, OH 44113
216-621-7300
@@

##A 06 116328 388
##T World Book Encyclopedia
World Book Encyclopedia

@@
As a librarian, I am frequently asked ÒWhich encyclopedia should I buy?Ó by parents who want to ensure that their children will do well in school. (Like computers, many encyclopedias are bought by anxious parents for kids who end up not using them.) If you need an encyclopedia, I recommend The World Book. It has the kinds of questions kids ask, the price is fair, the indexing is simple, and at our library we could not live without it. I use it way more than any other set. Even reference librarians reluctantly agree that it is more useful than academic encyclopedias, especially as a starting point. As one librarian said, ÒHereÕs where you find the answers for real questions that real people ask!Ó 

                                                                        Ñ Steve Cisler
@@

##A 06 120246 389
##T World Book Encyclopedia
World Book Encyclopedia

@@
A. Richard Harmet, Executive Editor
Annual; 14,000 pp.
ISBN 0716600889
$549-$799 
($578-$828 postpaid)
from:

World Book, Inc.
Customer Service
Merchandise Mart Plaza
Chicago, IL 60654
800-621-8202
@@

##A 06 122226 390
##T The Oxford-Duden Pictorial English Dictionary
The Oxford-Duden Pictorial English Dictionary


@@
A useful book that proceeds from the premise that you may 
not know the name of something but you can certainly know what 
it looks like. If you are wondering what to call those pointy
shoes Renaissance men wore, you look up a page illustrating
costumes and find that the name is crackowes. That a hat
with brim turned up to form three sides is a tricorn. That an
aglet is the plastic tip of a shoelace.

                                                                 Ñ Joseph Hold
@@

##A 06 122584 391
##T The Oxford-Duden Pictorial English Dictionary
The Oxford-Duden Pictorial English Dictionary


@@
John Pheby, Editor
Revised Edition 1984; 824 pp.
ISBN 0198641559
 $12.95 postpaid
from:

Oxford University Press
16-00 Pollitt Drive
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
@@

##A 06 258650 393
##T WhatÕs What ¥ Facts on File Visual Dictionary
WhatÕs What ¥ Facts on File Visual Dictionary

@@

In 1981, the Oxford-Duden Pictorial English Dictionary created a new type of reference book. If you couldnÕt think of the name of a commonplace or technical object, but knew what it looked like, you could look up its picture and get its name Ñ sort of like a field guide to modern life. Now there are two superior predators in this literary niche. Where the original Oxford-Duden uses an unwieldy numbering system to link its words and pictures, these two, Facts on File and WhatÕs What, use direct pointer-type labels.

Which to get? Facts on File is the most inviting overall, with a great index and broad range (about 800 pages that cover science
@@

##A 06 259100 395
##T WhatÕs What ¥ Facts on File Visual Dictionary
WhatÕs What ¥ Facts on File Visual Dictionary

@@
WhatÕs What
Reginald Bragonier, Jr. 
and David Fisher
1981; 565 pp.
ISBN 0345303024
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 06 260888 396
##T WhatÕs What ¥ Facts on File Visual Dictionary
WhatÕs What ¥ Facts on File Visual Dictionary

@@
Facts on File Visual Dictionary
Jean-Claude Corbeil
1986; 797 pp.
ISBN 0816015449
$29.95 ($31.45 postpaid)
from:

Facts on File
460 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
212-683-2244
@@

##A 06 261973 399
##T CITATION INDEXING
CITATION INDEXING

@@
by Kevin Kelly

Just as footnotes and a bibliography trace an ideaÕs ancestors, citation indexing traces an ideaÕs offspring. 

Where did an idea come from? By weaving back through a chain of footnotes, one can get a pretty good notion of all the sources that were the origin of a particular idea. Citation indexing answers a converse question: What are the ideas afterward that this particular idea influenced? As an example, with traditional references you can track all the influences on Richard DawkinÕs writings about Òmemes.Ó Citation indexing would allow you to
@@

##A 06 262526 404
##T CITATION INDEXING
CITATION INDEXING

@@
Citation Indexing
Eugene Garfield
1979;  274pp.
ISBN 0894950258
$18.95 ($20.95 postpaid)
from:

Institute for Scientific Information
3501 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA  19104
800-523-1850
@@

##A 06 262854 405
##T CITATION INDEXING
CITATION INDEXING

@@
Journal Citation Reports
Information free
from:

Institute for Scientific Information
3501 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA  19104
800-523-1850

Check your local research library.
@@

##A 06 137511 408
##T Encyclopedia of Associations
Encyclopedia of Associations

@@

First stop for finding any organization or group. These are, by and large, accessible groups willing to help you research thousands of fast-moving topics that books canÕt keep up with. Plus hilariously obscure pursuits like barbed wire collecting.

                                                  Ñ Art Kleiner and Steve Cisler
@@

##A 06 137968 409
##T Encyclopedia of Associations
Encyclopedia of Associations

@@
(National Organizations 
of the United States, Vol. I)
Karin Koek & Susan Boyles Martin, Editors
Annual (Vol. I is in three books); 2,632 pp.
ISBN 0810326906
$230  postpaid 
from:

Gale Research, Inc.
Penobscot Building
Detroit, MI 48226
@@

##A 06 138708 410
##T Statistical Abstract of the United States
Statistical Abstract of the United States

@@

Tells how many of whoÕs doing what where this year. How many unemployed teachers, National Park visitors, or new housing projects.  Exhaustive and inexpensive.

                                           Ñ Art Kleiner and Steve Cisler
@@

##A 06 138753 411
##T Statistical Abstract of the United States
Statistical Abstract of the United States

@@
(National Data Book and Guide to Sources)
Annual; 1,019 pp.
$25 postpaid 
from:

Superintendent of Documents
U.S. Government Printing Office
Washington, D.C. 20402
202-783-3238

 (Stock #003-024-067072))
@@

##A 06 139731 412
##T StatesmanÕs Year-Book
StatesmanÕs Year-Book

@@

Descriptions and great bibliography about every country on the planet. Compiled in Britain.

                                           Ñ Art Kleiner and Steve Cisler
@@

##A 06 139826 413
##T StatesmanÕs Year-Book
StatesmanÕs Year-Book

@@
John Paxton, Editor
Annual; 1,749 pp.
ISBN 031276099X
$55 ($56.50 postpaid )
from:

St. MartinÕs Press
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
800-221-7945
@@

##A 06 194042 418
##T Current Biography Yearbook
Current Biography Yearbook

@@

They rewrite news stories into biographical sketches of anyone whoÕs been important in the news. Especially good for historical biographies, back to 1940.

                                                               Ñ Art Kleiner
@@

##A 06 198508 419
##T Current Biography Yearbook
Current Biography Yearbook

@@


Use at your local public library.
@@

##A 06 265129 420
##T Personal Name Index
Personal Name Index

@@
In two volumes, hereÕs the easiest way to begin a search for contemporary accounts of a notable person. The listings will lead you to every New York TimesÕ mention of a person, grouped into a single entry under that personÕs name, instead of under multiple entries for every year. Note that the listings refer to references in the NYT Index, and not to the pages of the paper itself, so you need to use this in conjunction with the NYT Index. Nonetheless, it beats hunting through a whole century of indices to find references to a by-gone person of note.
 
                                                                 Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 06 265315 421
##T Personal Name Index
Personal Name Index

@@
Personal Name Index (to the New York Times Index)
Volume 1 (1851-1974)
Volume 2 (1975-1984, but is completed only up to the EÕs)


DonÕt buy these; use at a library.
@@

##A 06 143659 423
##T Whole Again Resource Guide
Whole Again Resource Guide

@@
Listings and descriptions of the vast alternative press. Includes independent newsletters and magazines you wonÕt see in most mainstream directories. The selection is generally thought of as
Wholistic or New Age, but the 3200 entries are tough to pin down
with one word. ÒNo effort has been made to cover fiction, poetry,
or dogmatic politics.Ó

                                                       Ñ Art Kleiner
@@

##A 06 143937 424
##T Whole Again Resource Guide
Whole Again Resource Guide

@@
Tim Ryan
1986/7; 360 pp.
ISBN 091505101X
$26.95 postpaid 
from:

Sourcenet
Box 6767
Santa Barbara, CA 93160

Use this at your library.
@@

##A 06 144815 426
##T National Five-Digit Zip Code and Post Office Directory
National Five-Digit Zip Code and Post Office Directory


@@

Tells how to get in touch with that corporation that you know is 
Òsomewhere in the Midwest . . .Ó

                                           Ñ Art Kleiner and Steve Cisler
@@

##A 06 144919 427
##T National Five-Digit Zip Code and Post Office Directory
National Five-Digit Zip Code and Post Office Directory


@@
United States Postal Service
Annual; 2,310 pp.
$13 postpaid 
from:

Superintendent of Documents
U.S. Government Printing Office
Washington, DC 20402-1575

Stock # 039000002744
@@

##A 06 266143 428
##T National Directory of Addresses & Telephone Nos.
National Directory of Addresses & Telephone Nos.

@@

The only one-volume, inexpensive, handy desktop directory of national addresses and phone numbers I know of. ItÕs for those daily small hassles like when you want to look up the address for the Quaker Oats Company and you have no idea where they are headquartered. Or you need the department of tourism in New Mexico, and donÕt know what city itÕs in. TheyÕre all here with 150,000 other significant address numbers. If you research by phone a lot youÕll save its price in directory assistance charges.
                                                               
                                                                   Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 06 266350 429
##T National Directory of Addresses & Telephone Nos.
National Directory of Addresses & Telephone Nos.

@@
Geri Hardy, Editor
1988
$45 ($49.50 postpaid)
from:

General Information
401 Park Place
Kirkland, WA 98033
800-722-3244
@@

##A 06 136580 430
##T Yellow Pages
Yellow Pages

@@
No reference book matches the practical currency of the 
Yellow Pages in your local telephone directory. On any
subject you can browse, call, inquire, ask who else would
have information, and proceed to the heart of the matter.
                                                     
                                                                   Ñ Stewart Brand

Once a year I check out a Manhattan Yellow Pages (now available
in two flavors: Business-to-Business, or Consumer) from the
local university library. They contain whole categories not 
found in local Yellow Pages. 
              
                                                                  Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 06 136929 432
##T Yellow Pages
Yellow Pages

@@
Manhattan Consumer Yellow Pages

$11.60 postpaid


Order by phone from
your local telephone
company business office.
@@

##A 06 317045 433
##T Yellow Pages
Yellow Pages

@@
New York County Business-to-Business Directory
$12.95 postpaid


Order by phone from
your local telephone
company business office.
@@

##A 06 317351 434
##T Yellow Pages
Yellow Pages

@@
International Yellow Pages


At large metropolitan libraries
@@

##A 06 267976 435
##T ThomasÕ Register of American Manufacturers
ThomasÕ Register of American Manufacturers

@@

Who manufactures those odd things (like watch springs, egg packers, or cement burial vaults) you never see for sale in the Sears catalog, and where do you get the parts and equipment to make them? ThomasÕ tells you where to locate any and all. Twenty-one volumes, 30,000 pages of fine print, zillions of products and tools, itÕs the great American catalog of everyday technology and production.

                                                                Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 06 269366 436
##T ThomasÕ Register of American Manufacturers
ThomasÕ Register of American Manufacturers

@@


Use at your local public library
@@

##A 06 145719 437
##T CITATION INDICES
CITATION INDICES

@@
WhoÕs influencing whom in science and academia. If youÕve ever been published, find the articles that footnoted you. Trace the path of an idea down its paper trail of citations. In Kevin KellyÕs words: 
ÒInformation is a communicable disease.Ó

                                           Ñ Art Kleiner and Steve Cisler





Ù Citation Indexing
@@

##A 06 146029 438
##T CITATION INDICES
CITATION INDICES

@@
Social Science Citation Index 
Information free from:

Institute for Scientific Information/Fulfillment Services
3501 Market Street 
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Use at your local library.
@@

##A 06 67458 439
##T CITATION INDICES
CITATION INDICES

@@
Science Citation Index
Information free from:

Institute for Scientific Information/Fulfillment Services
3501 Market Street 
Philadelphia, PA 19104
@@

##A 06 146928 440
##T Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups


@@

Where we all came from and how we got here. Erudite, fascinating, candid. Includes some surprising enclaves, like the Kalmyks  Ñ  Mongolian Buddhists in Pennsylvania.

                                                                   Ñ Art Kleiner
@@

##A 06 147000 441
##T Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups


@@
Stephan Thernstrom, Editor
1980; 1,102 pp.
ISBN 0674375122
$72 postpaid 
from:

Harvard University Press
79 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
@@

##A 06 270360 444
##T Word Finder: Phonic Key to the Dictionary
Word Finder: Phonic Key to the Dictionary

@@

Forever solves the problem ÒHow can I look it up when I donÕt know how to spell it?Ó An ingenious book, well-conceived and executed. Arranged phonetically, and easy to use with a little getting used to.  Great for writers and those with literacy problems.
                                                           
                                                               Ñ Cliff Martin

Also forever solves the maddeningly persistent problem of deciphering other peopleÕs personalized license plates.
                                                          
                                                               Ñ Sarah Satterlee
@@

##A 06 270676 445
##T Word Finder: Phonic Key to the Dictionary
Word Finder: Phonic Key to the Dictionary

@@
Marvin Morrison
1987; 408 pp.
ISBN 0960837612
$11.95 ($13.45 postpaid)
from:

Pilot Light
P.O. Box 305
 Stone Mountain, GA  30086-0305
404-296-3294
@@

##A 06 3465 446
##T American Heritage Dictionary
American Heritage Dictionary


@@
Eight years ago, Stewart Brand researched dictionaries with the help of a meta-dictionary called the Dictionary BuyerÕs Guide. His conclusion: American Heritage is, Òthe most interesting and usable English dictionary in print.Ó We still agree, only more so. Perhaps best known for its inviting line-drawn illustrations in the margins, the American Heritage dictionary is complete and intelligent enough to impress even librarians, whoÕd say  ÒWebsterÕs has a place in our hearts.Ó

Dictionaries may well be the most essential books in this whole Catalog; they make all the other books accessible.
                                                         
                                                                         Ñ Art Kleiner
@@

##A 06 3699 447
##T American Heritage Dictionary
American Heritage Dictionary
of the English Language

@@
1983; 896 pp.
ISBN 0440100682
$9.95 ($10.70 postpaid)
from:

Dell Books
P. O. Box 1000
Pinebrook, NJ 07058-1000
@@

##A 06 115440 449
##T BrewerÕs Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
BrewerÕs Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

@@
A dangerously seductive encyclopedic reference to the maddeningly obscure phrase, the curiously opaque line, and the abstruse story. BrewerÕs is a necessity for reading books your grandfather read, explaining the vernacular that was part of his language but is, alas, lost to us poor solemn birds. This book, taken with an infusion of Bret HarteÕs and Damon RunyonÕs filigreed stories, is guaranteed to bring color to your language and whimsy to your correspondence.                      

                                                                  Ñ Jan Adkins


Ù NatÕl Assoc. for the Preservation and Perpetuation of               Storytelling
@@

##A 06 115570 450
##T BrewerÕs Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
BrewerÕs Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

@@
Ivor H. Evans, Editor
1981; 1,248 pp.
ISBN 0060149035
$26.45 ($27.95 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
@@

##A 06 123202 452
##T Scott, Foresman Beginning Dictionary
Scott, Foresman Beginning Dictionary


@@

This childrenÕs dictionary stands out for its conceptual grace, graphic liveliness, and wit.                       

                                                             Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 06 123613 453
##T Scott, Foresman Beginning Dictionary
Scott, Foresman Beginning Dictionary


@@
E. L. Thorndike and Clarence L. Barnhart, Editors
1988; 718 pp.
ISBN 0673123804
$22 ($24 postpaid)
from:

Scott, Foresman & Co.
1900 East Lake Avenue
Glenview, IL 60025
312-729-3000
@@

##A 06 120858 456
##T BartlettÕs Familiar Quotations
BartlettÕs Familiar Quotations

@@
Endlessly and instantly entertaining. Its chronological format gives it an order of contemporaries, and its brief entries remind a writer of the power in the short, terse statement. It has a truly useful index and the best cast of characters in publishing.
                                                         
                                                                      Ñ Jan Adkins
@@

##A 06 121126 457
##T BartlettÕs Familiar Quotations
BartlettÕs Familiar Quotations

@@
John Bartlett
15th Edition 1980; 1,540 pp.
ISBN 0316082759
$29.45 ($30.95 postpaid)
from:

Little, Brown and Company
200 West Street
Waltham, MA 02154
@@

##A 06 125524 459
##T The Synonym Finder
The Synonym Finder

@@
The word you have in your head is usually not the word you need on the page. A thesaurus takes you from here to there. Ideally every dictionary would incorporate a thesaurus, but since they donÕt, the best weÕve seen (thousands of entries, 1.5 million synonyms, organized alphabetically, easiest to use) is not RogetÕs, not WebsterÕs, not even Random HouseÕs, but RodaleÕs.
                                                     
                                                           Ñ Art Kleiner
@@

##A 06 125934 460
##T The Synonym Finder
The Synonym Finder

@@
J. I. Rodale 
Revised by Laurence Urdang 
and Nancy LaRoche
1978; 1,361 pp.
ISBN 0878577114
 $21.95 postpaid from:

Rodale Press, Inc.
33 East Minor Street
Emmaus, PA 18098
@@

##A 06 126574 462
##T Origins
Origins

@@

This classic dictionary of word origins is so standard a text among professional and amateur wordcrafters that it is usually referred to personally  Ñ  ÒPartridge.Ó        

                                                              Ñ Stewart Brand





Ù They Have A Word for It
@@

##A 06 126772 463
##T Origins
Origins

@@
(A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English)
Eric Partridge
1977; 972 pp.
ISBN 0517414252
$45 postpaid from:

Crown Publishers, Inc.
225 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10003
800-526-4264
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##A 06 147938 466
##T MAGAZINE SCANNING
MAGAZINE SCANNING

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by J. Baldwin

SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR, I reserve an entire day to peruse the stock of a large magazine store. I snoop into everything from Modern Hair Styles to Supermarket ManagerÕs Monthly, Battles of World War II, CB, Kung-fu, Jack & Jill, People, Motor Trend, Four Wheel Drive, Orchid Raising, Consumer Reports, Playboy and Playgirl, WomanÕs Day, Art News, Modern Camera, Ski, Vogue Patterns, Field & Stream, Dogs, Cats, Horses . . . egad!  Snoop-reading gives me a cross-section of what is going on in this vast country.  Perhaps 
itÕs a bizarre idea, but I have found over the years that the habit really does seem to reveal trends. I usually make peace with the magazine store by buying one now and then as the day progresses. I am limited, finally, by curvature of the spine, clatter from the
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##A 06 149301 469
##T Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal

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The only daily NEWSpaper. Perhaps because itÕs harnessed to real events (namely price changes, the relatively uncontrollable democracy of the market), The Wall Street Journal has an honesty. Having an honesty it has an originality (maybe those qualities are not separable). I know that if I were restricted to two periodicals for all my news, I would take Science and The Wall Street Journal.                    

                                                        Ñ Stewart Brand




Ù Science Magazine
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##A 06 149577 470
##T Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal

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Robert Bartley, Editor
$119/year(260 issues)
from:

Wall Street Journal
200 Burnett Road
Chicopee, MA 01020
800-841-8000
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##A 06 150566 473
##T Utne Reader
Utne Reader


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Handy idea, handy result. A magazine offering ÒThe best of the alternative pressÓ  Ñ  A ReaderÕs Digest for New Age types. The press represented varies in its alternativity from Esquire, Savvy, and HarperÕs, to In These Times, ChurchWorld, The Progressive 
(some good stuff, makes me want to check out the source publication), The Guardian, and Dissent. (Those and more are in one issue.) ThereÕre full articles, edited articles, glosses, and magazine reviews by subject area (a bunch on renewable energy, a bunch on American Indians).

By and large any issue is bound to stop scanners and force them to read two to six times  Ñ  thatÕs better than Esquire or New Age 
Journal are managing these days. If youÕre cutting back on your
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##A 06 151269 475
##T Utne Reader
Utne Reader


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Eric Utne, Editor
ISSN 87500256
$18/year(6 issues)
from:

Utne Reader
P. O. Box 1974
Marion, OH 43305
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##A 06 263618 477
##T Pacific News Service
Pacific News Service

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This international news service reported about El Salvador four or five months before any American news people. Their reporters were the only Americans to ask Iranian students why they were rioting. They consistently asked the brutal questions about topical issues like the Miami riots, housing shortages, low quality in public schools, effects of microelectronics on the workplace Ñ issues that normal news services like AP/UPI cover in People magazine style or not at all.

When I was a typesetter at a community newspaper, we used to fight over who got to do the PNS stories. As a freelance science writer I was treated by PNS with an editorial grace IÕve experienced nowhere else (low pay, though; theyÕre struggling). Now theyÕre making their weekly reports (about six stories a week)
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##A 06 263807 479
##T Pacific News Service
Pacific News Service

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Sandy Close, Editor
$100/year (52 packets)
from:

Pacific News Service
604 Mission Street
Suite 800
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-986-5690
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##A 06 352150 481
##T Manas
Manas

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An anonymously produced philosophical humanist journal. A weekly thoughtful delight, these are the good thoughts that lead to and emerge from good actions. ItÕs also one of the few places you hear about old books used in renewed ways  Ñ  Gandhi, Ortega y Gasset, Tolstoy  Ñ  and new and promising activities and publications.
                                                                    
                                                                Ñ Stewart Brand




Ù Phenomenon of Man
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##A 06 352312 482
##T Manas
Manas

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ISSN 00251976
$10/year(41 issues)
from:

Manas Publishing Company
P. O. Box 32112
El Sereno Station
Los Angeles, CA 90032
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##A 06 20359 484
##T The Sun
The Sun

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The Sun tries to print the truth. Not the news or the latest, but the truth, Mr. Truth, the Queen of All Our Dreams.

And it does. Not, for me, with every word or every story, but in every issue my mind is truly boggled by something in a way it was hungry for. The means used are interviews with people poetic and spiritual, stories about the mundane and exhilarating details of trying to live a good (not hedonisticÑgood) life, and the best quotations page IÕve ever seen.                    

                                                                      Ñ Anne Herbert
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##A 06 76911 485
##T The Sun
The Sun

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Sy Safransky, Editor
ISSN 07449666
$28/year(12 issues)
from:

The Sun
412 West Rosemary Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
919-942-5282
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##A 06 151955 488
##T Whole Earth Review
Whole Earth Review

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Much of what you see in this Electronic Catalog has been taken from our magazine, Whole Earth Review. WeÕre one of the few magazines that doesnÕt carry advertising. Consequently, we can freely examine and report on cultural and technical phenomena that interest us, without having to pull our punches to satisfy advertisersÕ prejudices and fears. We invite reader contributions 
and comments. Have at us!

                                      Ñ J. Baldwin and the Whole Earth crew
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##A 06 152158 489
##T Whole Earth Review
Whole Earth Review

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Kevin Kelly, Editor
ISSN 07495056
$20/year (4 issues)
from:

Whole Earth Review
27 Gate 5 Road
Sausalito, CA 94965
415-332-1716
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##A 06 128929 494
##T Finding Facts Fast
Finding Facts Fast

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A basic handbook for laypeople. It has beautiful two-and three-page descriptions of how to treat hundreds of problems in research from very elemental to very advanced levels. From
Òfinding the right libraryÓ to Ògovernment as an information sourceÓ to Òoral history collectionsÓ and Òobtaining out-of-print books.Ó Every time I get lost in the world of information I use Todd to ground me.  
                                                                Ñ Richard Green

Yup. Still unsurpassed after 14 years. This is where you learn research common sense. 
                                                                Ñ Art Kleiner

Ù The Independent ScholarÕs Handbook
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##A 06 129276 495
##T Finding Facts Fast
Finding Facts Fast

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Alden Todd
1979; 160 pp.
ISBN 0898150124
$3.95 ($4.95 postpaid)
from:

Ten Speed Press
P. O. Box 7123
Berkeley, CA 94707
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##A 06 264167 497
##T Knowing  Where To Look
Knowing  Where To Look

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Information is everywhereÑin public libraries, universities, government organizations, the memories of experts, historical societies, museums, computer databases, churches, etc., etc. The problem is knowing how to access the specific information you need. ThatÕs called research, and hereÕs a well-organized manual for conducting all kinds of information searches, written by Lois Horowitz, a University of California/San Diego reference librarian and newspaper columnist. She points us wisely to a wide range of reference tools, well-known and obscure directories, indexes, bibliographies, microfilm subject sets, and registers. And she introduces research strategies.
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##A 06 264388 499
##T Knowing  Where To Look
Knowing  Where To Look

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(The Ultimate Guide to Research)
Lois Horowitz
1984, 1988; 440 pp.
ISBN 0898791596
$19.95 ($22.45 postpaid)
from:

WriterÕs Digest Books
1507 Dana Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45207
513-531-2222
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##A 06 271528 501
##T Prompt
Prompt

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(Predicasts Overview of Markets and Technology)

Beneath the feathery glamor of newsstand magazines and newspapers there is a larger substrata world of dreary, factual industry and trade journals. They form the bulk of all magazines printed, but are ignored by anyone outside their specialty (and are difficult to find). Prompt tracks thousands of these technical journals, presenting the news of industry and commerce in digestible abstracts, indexed by field, and referenced to original sources. And what sources! ThereÕs no other way I would run into: Armor: the Magazine of Mobile Warfare; American Dyestuff Reporter; Yugoslavian Electric Power Systems; Drug Store News;
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##A 06 98990 503
##T PRESS CLIPPINGS
PRESS CLIPPINGS

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by Richard Kadrey 

Press clipping services have been around for almost as long as the press itself, and like the press, theyÕve had to change with the times. Luce and BurrelleÕs, two of the biggest and oldest services, still call themselves Òpress clippingÓ companies, but both offer far more than that. As basic services, they use topics or key words that you provide to pull clips from thousands of daily newspapers, magazines, the Dow Jones News Service, AP, UPI, and Reuters wire services. The cost of these services isnÕt cheap. Both companies work on three month-minimum contracts, with Luce starting at $179 a month, and BurrelleÕs at $181 (BurrelleÕs does have a special one-month contract available for $260). Besides the price of the service, each clip will cost you between 95 and 97 cents.
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##A 06 179998 506
##T PRESS CLIPPINGS
PRESS CLIPPINGS

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Luce Press Clippings
Information free from:

Luce Press Clippings
420 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10170
800-528-8226
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##A 06 181112 507
##T PRESS CLIPPINGS
PRESS CLIPPINGS

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BurrelleÕs Press Clippings
Information free from:

BurrelleÕs Press Clippings
75 East Northfield Road
Livingston, NJ 07039
201-992-6600
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##A 06 133158 508
##T NewsNet
NewsNet

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Imagine over 300 full-text newsletters combined with three hard news wire services delivered to your door step every day and     youÕve got a good image of NewsNet.  This is an information   junkieÕs paradise.

This is not the place to log on and while away a few hours; itÕs the place you go to for up-to-the-minute information on several hundred topics.  The specialized newsletters often carry news stories well before the newspapers.  

The specialized Ònews clippingÓ service allows you to define 10 sets of ÒkeywordsÓ of particular interest to you; a kind of personalized electronic research assistant.  For example, you can
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##A 06 133560 511
##T NewsNet
NewsNet

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Rates start at $24/hour (8 A.M. to 8 P.M. Eastern time) 300 bps
from:

News Net, Inc.
945 Haverford Road
Bryn Mawr, PA 19019
800-345-1301
215-527-8030 (PA)
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##A 06 181340 512
##T Executive News Service
Executive News Service

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If you use CompuServe a minimum of $10 per month you can sign up for their ENS, Executive News Service. It allows you to have 
Òfile foldersÓ with key words. You then have your choice of news services to do the search from. I get news all the time about the Grateful Dead and their members culled from local, state and national news services, keyed to their names, the Dead, etc. ItÕs a neat way to just have your key words, check in a few times a week and download all the info. Very case specific. For instance, I have
ÒJerry GarciaÓ as one of my key words. I got back a listing of high school all-state football players in some state in the Northeast, one of which was Jerry Garcia.
                                                         
                                                               Ñ Bernie Bildman
Ù CompuServe ¥ The Source ¥ GEnie
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##A 06 181637 513
##T Executive News Service
Executive News Service

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Information free from:

CompuServe Information Service
5000 Arlington Centre Boulevard
Columbus, OH 43220
800-848-8990
614-457-8650 (OH)
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##A 06 183507 514
##T Automatic Subject Citation Alert
Automatic Subject Citation Alert

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The company behind the Science Citation Index and Current Contents service, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), uses citations to provide personal information filtering. LetÕs say you have an ongoing research project. You provide ISI with a list of specific papers you have already found to be invaluable, along with names of authors whose work is generally useful to you, as well as key words you are always on the lookout for. They will construct an Òinformation profileÓ which they apply across the ceaseless river of scientific information surging through their computers. Each week they mail you the abstracts or titles of what they caught. You can go hunt for the full article in a research library, or if youÕre far from one, you can check off the papers you 

Ù Citation Indices
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##A 06 185261 516
##T Automatic Subject Citation Alert
Automatic Subject Citation Alert

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Information free from:

ISI
3501 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
800-523-1850 ext. 1585

Customized service about $225 per year. Less expensive ($195/year) are one of the 300 pre-modeled filters that will deliver that weekÕs absolute latest scientific abstracts.

90-day free trial
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##A 06 274220 517
##T Research Centers Directory
Research Centers Directory

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In your quest for information you are not alone. A hundred to one, whatever you are looking for has a specialist dedicated to it or its domain. Here are contacts to 9700 university-related and non-profit centers that conduct on-going research programs on nearly everything under the sun. By and large, they have excellent specialized libraries and information specialists on hand. Without exception, I have found these experts anxious to share their fascination and love of subject.

                                                                  Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 274867 518
##T Research Centers Directory
Research Centers Directory

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Peter D. Dresser, Editor
1988; 1741 pp.
ISBN 0810304724
$365 ($379.60 postpaid)
from:

Gale Research
Book Tower
Department 77748
Detroit, MI 48227-0748
313-961-2242

(2 Volume Set)
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##A 06 185712 520
##T Online ¥ Database
Online ¥ Database

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Unlike the other publications about information brokering [in this section], this pair of professional journals tells you how and where to find information. Online is the more general, discussing developments in hardware and on-line information services. Database delves into the minute particulars of specific databanks. Both are the stomping grounds for the new breed of electronic librarians.
                                              
                                                              Ñ Kevin Kelly



Ù Notable Networks
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##A 06 186281 521
##T Online ¥ Database
Online ¥ Database

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Online
Helen Gordon, Editor
$85/year (6 issues)
from:

Online, Inc.
11 Tannery Lane 
Weston, CT 06883
203-227-8466
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##A 06 111520 522
##T Online ¥ Database
Online ¥ Database

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Database 
Nancy Garman, Editor
ISSN 01624105
$85/year(6 issues)

from:
Online, Inc.
11 Tannery Lane 
Weston, CT 06883
203-227-8466
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##A 06 91391 524
##T How To Look It Up Online
How To Look It Up Online

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ThereÕs a slippery ocean of online information services out there. We recommend that you hire Sir Alfred, the wisest old salt sailing on the sea of information, to guide you to fruit-laden islands. He knows all the shortcuts for navigating through the invisible realm of databases, what youÕll find when you land, how to set your course, and how to unravel the knotty question of how much it costs. He has earned his medals (previous books of his weÕve recommended: How to Buy Software, The Complete Handbook of Personal Computer Communications), and is uncommonly trustworthy.                                           

                                                              Ñ Kevin Kelly

Ù How to Buy Software
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##A 06 113642 525
##T How To Look It Up Online
How To Look It Up Online

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(Get the Information Edge With Your Personal Computeer)
Alfred Glossbrenner
1987; 486 pp.
ISBN 0312001320
$14.95 ($16.45 postpaid)
from:

St. MartinÕs Press
Cash Sales Dept.
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
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##A 06 189456 529
##T GOVERNMENT DATABASES
GOVERNMENT DATABASES

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The Congressional Record is probably the single most useful tool for monitoring CongressÕ activities. With only a few daysÕ lag, it provides the full text of bills and amendments, transcripts of floor debates, tabulations of votes, conference reports, notice of
committee and subcommittee meetings, and the upcoming legislative calendar. Congressmembers can also add Òextensions of remarksÓ Ñ things they want on the public record even though they werenÕt said in Congress. While often pretty trivial, there are some surprising gems in those pages. The Record also regularly lists the office addresses and phone numbers of all Senators and Representatives, as well as their current committee assignments.
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##A 06 190581 535
##T GOVERNMENT DATABASES
GOVERNMENT DATABASES

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Congressional Record
Published each day either House or Senate is in session. $1.50 per issue at US Government Bookstores. $225/year 
($112.50/six months) on paper or $118/year on microfiche
from:

Superintendent of Documents
Government Printing Office
Washington, DC 20402
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##A 06 190910 536
##T GOVERNMENT DATABASES
GOVERNMENT DATABASES

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Federal Register
$1.50 per issue at US Government Bookstores. Subscriptions $340/year ($170/six months) on paper or $188/year or ($94/six months) on microfiche
from:

Superintendent of Documents
Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.

Published Monday-Friday (except Federal holidays).
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##A 06 192980 537
##T GOVERNMENT DATABASES
GOVERNMENT DATABASES

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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
 $1.75 per issue at US Government Bookstores. Subscriptions $64/year domestic 
($105/year by first-class mail) or $80/year foreign 
from:

Superintendent of Documents
Government Printing Office 
Washington, DC 20402

Published each Monday.
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##A 06 194303 538
##T GOVERNMENT DATABASES
GOVERNMENT DATABASES

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Federal Database Finder
(A Directory of Free & Fee-Based Databases & Files Available from the Federal Government)
$125 postpaid from:

Information USA
P.O. Box 15700
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
301-657-01200
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##A 06 110264 540
##T LIBRARIES INTRODUCTION
LIBRARIES INTRODUCTION

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ÒLibraries will get you through times of no money better 
than money will get you through times of no libraries.Ó 
                                                            Ñ Anne Herbert

Just as churches can be sanctuaries for live human bodies, libraries should be revered as sanctuaries for live human thoughts and feelings. Libraries also provide a free way to read any book in this CatalogÑif it isnÕt in that branch, most libraries have excellent inter-library loan methods for finding just about anything (given enough time). As Anne Herbert wrote, ÒIÕve known people who would call 17 bookstores to find a book and never go down the street to the library. At the library, it doesnÕt matter if the books are out of print. TheyÕre there, and the price is right.Ó
...
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##A 06 277608 542
##T HOW TO USE YOUR LIBRARY
HOW TO USE YOUR LIBRARY

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by Steve Cisler, Librarian

Your local library is your main link to a tax-paid information network. HereÕs what you should do when you visit or call the library. First, ask if there is a reference desk. The people working in this area have great experience dealing with complex questions. A librarian can especially help you when you are not sure what information you need, or even what questions to ask. Librarians are professionals at clarifying unsure questions. 

Assuming that there are not five or six people waiting to be helped, you will be asked a number of questions about your request. If you have thought about these beforehand, let the librarian know the
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##A 06 134366 547
##T Magazine Index (on Microfilm)
Magazine Index (on Microfilm)

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By far the best index for finding magazine articles is this self-contained microfilm display available for use in most libraries.
ItÕs the size of a regular microfiche reader but with only one filmstrip roll, which the libraries update monthly or bimonthly. Unlike the ReaderÕs Guide to Periodical Literature, itÕs a one-stop magazine index  Ñ  you donÕt have to keep going from volume to volume. It indexes 400 magazines back six years, with supplements on fiche going back to 1977.

                                                                        Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 134434 548
##T Magazine Index (on Microfilm)
Magazine Index (on Microfilm)

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Information free from:

Information Access Co.
362 Lakeside Drive
Foster City, CA 94404
415-378-5000

DonÕt buy this; use at local library.
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##A 06 279882 549
##T Directory of Special Libraries . . .
Directory of Special Libraries . . .

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YouÕll find this two-volume work in larger public and academic libraries. It serves as a guide to more than 18,500 Òspecial libraries, research libraries, information centers, archives, and data centers maintained by government agencies, business, industry, newspapers, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and societiesÓ in various fields. Of particular interest to information junkies is the 80-page subject index which  lists 6 sources for fairytale research; 7 sites that house information on propaganda; 6 libraries on terrorism. Each entry lists the name, address, phone, chief librarian, and information about the staff, subjects, size of collection, the actual holdings, the number of subscriptions, and any special services such as reference service for the publicÑwhich the U.S. National Oceanic &
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##A 06 282662 551
##T Directory of Special Libraries . . .
Directory of Special Libraries . . .

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Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers
Brigitte T. Darnay, Editor
1988
11th Edition; 1974 pp.
ISBN 0810302586
$350 postpaid from:

Gale Research Company
Book Tower
Department 77748
Detroit,  MI 48277-0748
800-223-4253

(2 Volume Set)
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##A 06 129910 552
##T Library Journal
Library Journal

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Simply the best periodical for books in America. Best reviews, widest coverage, least nonsense. To stay current in any field IÕd call it essential.                                              

                                                          Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 130139 553
##T Library Journal
Library Journal

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John N. Berry III, Editor
ISSN 03630277
$69/year(20 issues)
from:

R. R. Bowker Company
Subscription Department
P. O. Box 762
New York, NY 10011
800-431-1713
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##A 06 130965 555
##T Current Contents
Current Contents


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For keeping up with the flow of scientific verbiage. Current Contents is, in Kevin KellyÕs words, ÒNothing more than the reproduced tables of contents from the several thousand best scientific journals. The scientists I know use it for connecting with the 200 papers that will do them any good, while weeding out the thousands of redundant ones and the other million or so that have nothing to do with them.Ó
                                       
                                                            Ñ Art Kleiner
                                       


Ù Citation Indices
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##A 06 131303 556
##T Current Contents
Current Contents


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Beverly Bartolomeo, Editor
ISSN 00113409
$272/year (52 issues)
from:

Institute for Scientific Information
3501 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-386-0100
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##A 06 62618 557
##T Science Books & Films 
Science Books & Films 



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Science Books & Films, from the publishers of Science (see 
review), reviews new science-oriented books and films, right on down to a kindergarten age level, with high standards and gritty detail.
                                                                     Ñ Art Kleiner
                                       






Ù Science
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##A 06 64937 558
##T Science Books & Films 
Science Books & Films 


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Kathleen S. Johnston, Editor
ISSN 0098342X
$28/year(5 issues)
from:

American Association for the Advancement of Science
P. O. Box 465
Hanover, PA 17331
202-326-6464
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##A 06 37482 562
##T Daedalus Books
Daedalus Books

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A catalog of the best remaindered books at discount prices.

                                                       Ñ Art Kleiner


ÒWe hope that the quality of remainders in this catalog  demonstrates that they are not Ôbooks that didnÕt sell,Õ but
books (whether best-seller, classic, or disappointment)
whose remaining stock at publishersÕ warehouses was larger
than the projected future sale.Ó
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##A 06 38058 563
##T Daedalus Books
Daedalus Books

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Catalog free from:

Daedalus Books
P. O. Box 9132
Hyattsville, MD 20781-9132
301-779-4224
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##A 06 2115 567
##T Oblique Strategies
Oblique Strategies

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The philosopher P.D. Ouspensky once referred to the Tarot as a 
Òphilosophical machine,Ó meaning that the power of the deck has nothing to do with predicting the future and everything to do with stimulating higher thought processes. Brian Eno and Peter 
SchmidtÕs Oblique Strategies is a Tarot deck for creativity, an oracle waiting to kick you loose from old thinking patterns. Zeroing straight in on your unconscious, the seat of the imagination, the cards offer you advice applicable to any creative act, from washing your car to making love to writing a book.
                                                                           
                                                                   Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 06 110887 568
##T Oblique Strategies
Oblique Strategies

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Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt
$18 postpaid from:

Opal Information
Box 141
Leigh-On-Sea
Essex
ENGLAND
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##A 06 194690 586
##T A Whack on the Side of the Head
A Whack on the Side of the Head

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What I liked most about this book was that it was peppered with anecdotes, puzzles, fascinating facts, silliness, and science.  Its premise: ÒHereÕs this mental lock; now hereÕs how to unlock it.Ó Its method: a whole raft of pinpricks, seductions, strategies, and whacks ranging from the minute to the mystic to engage your mind and set it on any course other than its usual one. ItÕs aimed at men in suits and ties, judging from the illustrations, but what it teaches Ñ to think something different than you would ordinarily and take advantage of that new thinking Ñ is a boon to anyone.

                                                       Ñ Sarah Satterlee
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##A 06 194899 587
##T A Whack on the Side of the Head
A Whack on the Side of the Head

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(How to Unlock Your Mind
for Innovation)
Roger von Oech, Ph. D.
1983; 141 pp.
ISBN 0446382752
$10.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House, Inc.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD  21157
800-638-6460
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##A 06 195119 590
##T Playful Perception
Playful Perception

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Here are the tools youÕll need to see in new waysÑthe essence of creative thinking. No more dead time waiting for water to boil, the bus to come, Godot to show up. Instead, make your mind a kaleidoscope, jar loose your mental constructs, and shift around the patterns of reality. Perceptual play changes routine into adventure.

The photographs poked me visually and the exercises (ugly word) pushed my mind down an infinite progression of new possibilities Ñ into channels, tunnels, streams, corridors IÕd never explored before. The old mind-set will never be the same.

                                                         Ñ Corinne Cullen Hawkins
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##A 06 195478 591
##T Playful Perception
Playful Perception

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(Choosing How to Experience Your World)
Herbert L. Leff, Ph. D.
1984; 161 pp.
ISBN 091452500X
$9.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Waterfront Books
98 Brookes Avenue
Burlington, VT  05401
800-456-7500
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##A 06 4618 593
##T The Act of Creation
The Act of Creation

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Koestler takes his notion of ÒbisociationÓ to be the root of humor, discovery, and art. I take it to be one of the roots of learning, subject to applications of method (on yourself or whomever).

Koestler is a scientist of some reputation by now. HeÕs made contributions beyond the work of others that heÕs generalized from. This is the bookÑon how discovery of every kind really occurs in the mindÑthat gave him the reputation. His most lasting contribution.
                                                             
                                                               Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 197510 594
##T The Act of Creation
The Act of Creation

@@
Arthur Koestler
1964; 750 pp.
OUT OF PRINT

MacMillan Publishing Co.

Get this book back in print!!!
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##A 06 288215 598
##T BOOKS ON CASSETTE INTRODUCTION
BOOKS ON CASSETTE INTRODUCTION

@@
BOOKS RECORDED ON TAPE are a kind of jiu-jitsu. In one swift motion they flip a wasted half-hour car commute over into an eagerly awaited 30 minutes with a great novelist, thinker, or storyteller. Cheap Walkman-like gadgets bestow the same powers to bus and train commuters. Mowing the front lawn, doing piecework on an assembly line, or jogging all become somewhat bearable while listening to Ray Bradbury read his science fiction classic The Martian Chronicles, or while immersed in 70 hours of War and Peace. An unexpected bonus is that books heard are often remembered far more vividly than books read. Generally cassettes are rented for 30 days. But you shouldnÕt have to buy or rent these; demand that your local public library stock a shelf-full (many do already).                                                 
                                                                   Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 286896 599
##T Books on Tape
Books on Tape

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The pioneer source is Books on Tape, now sporting over 1,000 titles. They issue 20 new ones a month. Their wide, pleasing selection is particularly strong in biographies, sea adventures, journals of early travelers, mysteries, contemporary nonfiction, and those acclaimed, long historical works by the likes of Churchill, Theodore White, etc. that you always wanted to get to. These books are read in their full length by trained, easy-to-hear narrators. For rent or sale.                            

                                                                      Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 287000 600
##T Books on Tape
Books on Tape

@@
Catalog $5 from:

Books on Tape
P. O. Box 7900
Newport Beach, CA 92660
800-626-3333
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##A 06 273225 614
##T Listen for Pleasure
Listen for Pleasure

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About 100 popular (mostly recent) books read by famous British and American actors, some reading stories that became movies they starred in: for instance Tom Courtenay narrating The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. A couple of tapes feature famous authors reading their own: John le Carre retelling his SmileyÕs People, which is outstanding. Every book is abridged ReaderÕs Digest style to fit onto two cassettesÑtwo to three hours listening time. The voices are vigorous and of superb quality. For sale only ($14 each).               

                                                                  Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 274538 615
##T Listen for Pleasure
Listen for Pleasure

@@
Catalog free from:

Listen for Pleasure
1 Columba Drive
Niagara Falls, NY 14305
800-843-8404
800-252-1144  (NY)
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##A 06 264911 619
##T Recorded Books
Recorded Books

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Slim but well-chosen collection of old favorites, new non-fiction, and (thank you) some overlooked minor classics. These are word-for-word recordings by expert narrators.  For rent or sale. 
                                                                    
                                                                 Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 270047 620
##T Recorded Books
Recorded Books

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Catalog free from:

Recorded Books
P. O. Box 409
Charlotte Hall, MD 20622
800-638-1304
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##A 06 382130 625
##T Brilliance Corporation
Brilliance Corporation

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Brilliance have a selection of classier action and mystery  novels with several exciting Ken Follett and Mario Puzo titles.  They also have Erica Jong reading her own ÒSerenissimaÓ and all three titles of Jean M. AuelÕs EarthÕs Children series, ÒThe Clan Of The Cave Bear,Ó ÒThe Valley Of The Horses,Ó and ÒThe Mammoth Hunters.Ó  Many of their titles are multivoiced, which really adds to the atmosphere in a dramatic scene.  All books are complete, no condensations.  The catalog is rounded out with the HealthTalk series which deals with  all sorts of health topics, among them aging, depression, diabetes, drug abuse, headaches, high blood pressure, sex, and childcare.  For sale only.
                                             
                                                                    Ñ Jonathan Evelegh
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##A 06 382361 626
##T Brilliance Corporation
Brilliance Corporation

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Catalog free from:

Brilliance Corporation
235 Fulton
Suite 207
P.O. Box 114
Grand Haven, MI  49417
800-222-3225
616-846-5256 (MI)
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##A 06 384827 628
##T Caedmon
Caedmon

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The fountainhead of poetry on tape. Originally founded 30 years ago to record modern poets on 78-RPM records.

An illustrious pantheon of great poets and novelists perform their own masterpieces, or those of their mentors. Other great and fascinating literature is memorably recorded by spoken-word artists.

Unfortunately most of the offerings are selections and abridgements. Tape quality varies due to the age of some of the recordings. For sale only.           
                           
                                                                         Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 241300 629
##T Caedmon
Caedmon

@@
Catalog free from:

Caedmon
c/o Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park 
Scranton, PA 18512
800-638-6460
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##A 06 178294 635
##T The MindÕs Eye
The MindÕs Eye

@@
This audience is children, all ears, wide-eyed. Some 150 fairy tales, ghost stories, vintage Dickens, and books your mother read to you on her lap. The stories are frisky, hearty dramatizations with sound effects and a cast of hundreds when needed. All this commotion is crammed onto one or two cassettes each (with exceptions: the breathless Lord of the Rings on twelve tapes). For sale only.                                                             

                                                                 Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 223949 636
##T The MindÕs Eye
The MindÕs Eye

@@
Catalog free from:

The MindÕs Eye
P. O. Box 6727
San Francisco, CA 94101
800-227-2020
415-883-7701 (CA, AK & HI)
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##A 06 301433 640
##T The Audio Press
The Audio Press

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The Audio Press specializes in books and works of literature on tape from Colorado and surrounding states.  Why books-on-tape? 
ÒIn Colorado, it is almost always a long way from here to there. More and more people are trying to better utilize this travel time. Books-on-tape are one way to accomplish that.Ó  Authors Edward Abbey and Lee Wulff read from their books of outdoors adventures. Ernest Schwiebert reads classic trout fishing stories. There are several tapes of regional literature for young people. A natural history series is in the works. The objective is to present stories and essays about the principle asset in the West, the land, with the authors reading their own works when possible. They also distribute a couple of music tapes.
                                                      
                                                         Ñ Jonathan Evelegh
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##A 06 301780 641
##T The Audio Press
The Audio Press

@@
Catalog free from:

The Audio Press
930 Sherman Street
Suite 101
Denver, CO 80203
303-839-1121
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##A 06 293575 644
##T American Audio Prose Library
American Audio Prose Library

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Since 1980 the American Audio Prose Library has been dedicated to recording contemporary American prose artists reading and discussing their own works. Their current catalog lists over 400 tapes, and reads like a WhoÕs Who of contemporary American literature.  Whether your interest runs to Vladimir Nabokov reading excerpts from Lolita or Toni Morrison reading and answering questions about Tar Baby, youÕre sure to find something surprising and exciting here.  
                                                            
                                                                Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 06 293660 645
##T American Audio Prose Library
American Audio Prose Library

@@
Catalog free from:

American Audio Prose Library
1015 East Broadway
Columbia, MO 65205
314-443-0361
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##A 06 287546 652
##T Audio Forum
Audio Forum

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Audio Forum is the largest tape producer in the country, and was one of the pioneers in the mid-seventies.  They are perhaps best known for their wide range of language tapes. Many different learning levels are catered to, and they offer some fairly esoteric languages.  However, they also have many self-help, cultural, religious and philosophical tapes in quite a variety of categories from many well known names, Alan Watts, Idries Shah, Doris Lessing, and Laurens Van Der Post on one page alone.  You can get the Bible from them in eleven languages.  They are also the US agents for the BBC archive series.  If you are looking for serious audio presentation of ideas and theories, this is the place to look.

                                                            Ñ Jonathan Evelegh
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##A 06 379271 653
##T Audio Forum
Audio Forum

@@
Catalog free from:

Audio Forum
96 Broad Street
Suite PD 81
Guilford, CT  06437
800-243-1234
203-453-9794 (CT)
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##A 06 275061 664
##T On Cassette
On Cassette

@@

Bingo! What a gold mine! This handy reference lists every non-music audio cassette known to be around (about 11,500 of them). In it you can find out if that wonderful book you wish they had on tape is made or not. ItÕll tell you its price and who to order it from. You can look it up by title, author, or subject. It covers plays and poetry, too. And interviews, radio shows, seminars, speeches, and language instruction. IÕd be flabbergasted if you had trouble convincing your library to buy this book. 

                                                                        Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 384309 665
##T On Cassette
On Cassette

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(A Comprehensive Bibliography of Spoken Word Audio Cassettes)
Ernest Lee, Editor
1987; 750 pp.
ISBN 0835223833
$85 postpaid 
from:

R. R. Bowker
Order Dept.
P. O. Box 762
New York, NY 10011
800-521-8110
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##A 06 77266 667
##T Super-Learning
Super-Learning

@@
A gee-whiz tour through some of the most innovative methods for accelerated learning becoming available, including suggestology. The data supports the authorÕs contention that it is possible for normal people to learn mental and physical skills five to ten times faster, with better retention and with less effort using the techniques described.

Lots of exercises, lots of cheery confidence. Feels like one of the steps to overcoming our determination to maintain an educational system geared to work as slowly as possible. Read it and upgrade the schools in your town.

                                                              Ñ Jim Fadiman
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##A 06 77328 668
##T Super-Learning
Super-Learning

@@
Super-Learning
Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder with Nancy Ostrander
1985; 342 pp.
ISBN 0440384249
$4.50 ($5.25 postpaid)
from:

Dell Publishing Co.
501 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530

Audio version also available; page forward for access info and sound clip.
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##A 06 390555 670
##T Super-Learning
Super-Learning

@@
Super-Learning Tape Version
ISBN 0394298241
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD  21157
800-638-6460

This tape is not a reading of the book, but a presentation of some of its techniques.
@@

##A 06 290768 671
##T Mind Food and Smart Pills
Mind Food and Smart Pills


@@

Could be another crackpot vitamin book, but looks to me like there is enough intriguing studies cited here to be worth a glance. Subtitled ÒNutrients and Drugs that Increase Intelligence and Prevent Brain Aging,Ó it parallels the information presented by 
R. U. Sirius in Reality Hackers. Needless to say, this is outlaw territory.

                                                                 Ñ Kevin Kelly



Ù Reality Hackers
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##A 06 291721 672
##T Mind Food and Smart Pills
Mind Food and Smart Pills


@@
Ross Pelton, R. Ph., Ph. D.
1986; 207 pp.
ISBN 0936809000
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

T & R Publishers
12922 Cree Drive
Poway, CA 92064
800-255-2665
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##A 06 40783 677
##T The Memory Book
The Memory Book


@@
I almost forgot to mention this compact paperback which concisely outlines methods to improve your recall. They truly work. My dad taught me these when I was a kid and I still rely on them. At first the methods seem to be gimmicky, but soon become habit. One of the authors is the guy who memorizes phone book listings as a stunt on late night talk shows. The techniques are well proven (a couple are thousands of years old) and will benefit anyone. Imagine how much more efficient youÕd be if your memory was just five percent better, and how much easier your life would be if everyone elseÕs improved.                           

                                                                     Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 41141 678
##T The Memory Book
The Memory Book


@@
Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas
1986; 206 pp.
ISBN 0345337581
$3.95 ($4.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 06 202816 681
##T The Mind of a Mnemonist
The Mind of a Mnemonist

@@
In pre-Revolutionary Russia there lived a boy with an ability that made him unique among his peers: he had a perfect memory. As he grew up, he found that he couldnÕt forget anythingÑany conversation, any experience Ñ unless he made a conscious effort to erase it from his mind. 

But his gift was also a curse. Since he remembered everything as concrete, visual images, it was difficult for him to comprehend abstractions, such as the meaning of a Pasternak poem. Unable to hold down his job as a journalist, he became a professional mnemonist, amazing audiences with feats of memory.
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##A 06 204310 683
##T The Mind of a Mnemonist
The Mind of a Mnemonist

@@
(A Little Book About A Vast Memory)
A. R. Luria
1986, 1987; 160 pp.
ISBN 0674576225
$7.95 ($9.45 postpaid)
from:

Harvard University Press
79 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-2600
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##A 06 78281 688
##T Rules of Thumb
Rules of Thumb

@@
Accumulated knowledge, dehydrated for storage.  Author-
editor-illustrator Tom Parker collected this bunch from his readers. ItÕs a varied lot, presented in no particular order, but indexed by subject. In an earlier day, many of these would have been part of an oral tradition passed down by elders and storytellers.                                                   

                                                      
                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 06 78460 689
##T Rules of Thumb
Rules of Thumb

@@
Rules of Thumb
Tom Parker
1983; 148 pp.
ISBN 0395046428
$6.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
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##A 06 202001 690
##T Rules of Thumb
Rules of Thumb

@@
Rules of Thumb 2
Tom Parker
1987; 160 pp.
ISBN 0395429552
$6.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
@@

##A 06 15405 693
##T URBAN LEGENDS
URBAN LEGENDS

@@
This lady came in from the rain, and her miniature poodle was wet and shivering. So she put him into the microwave to dry him off. He exploded. She was so horrified she had a heart attack and died.

IÕve told that one. I thought it was true. It is, but a different kind of true. ItÕs a modern urban legend, a gripping, bizarre, often moralistic tale that goes the rounds as a factual accountÑ ÒIt happened to a friend of a friend of mineÓ;  ÒI read it in the newspaper.Ó Hundreds are in circulation at any time, and many do get picked up in newspapers. Vanishingly few have factual origins.

But they are wonderful stories, living for decades and often reappearing after centuries in new guises.
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##A 06 16273 696
##T URBAN LEGENDS
URBAN LEGENDS

@@
The Vanishing Hitchhiker
(American Urban Legends and their Meanings)
Jan Harold Brunvand
1981; 208 pp.
ISBN 0393951693
$6.95 ($7.65 postpaid)
from:

W. W. Norton
500 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10110
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##A 06 283063 697
##T URBAN LEGENDS
URBAN LEGENDS

@@
The Choking Doberman
(and Other ÒNewÓ Urban Legends)
Jan Harold Brunvand
1984; 240 pp.
ISBN 039301844X
$13.95 ($14.95 postpaid)
from:

W. W. Norton
500 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10110
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##A 06 283467 698
##T URBAN LEGENDS
URBAN LEGENDS

@@
The Mexican Pet
(More ÒNewÓ Urban Legends and Some Old Favorites)
Jan Harold Brunvand
ISBN 0393023249
$13.95 ($14.05 postpaid)
from:

W. W. Norton
500 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10110
@@

##A 06 294431 702
##T Rumor!
Rumor!

@@

For a somewhat more trivial perspective Ñ ÒHereÕs a popular wild story; is it true or false?Ó Ñ  Rumor! is an enjoyable exercise. Did Roy Rogers really stuff his horse, Trigger? (Yes.) Do green M & Ms really make you horny? (No.) Is the stuff in the middle of golf balls really explosive (No.) Was President ClevelandÕs upper jaw secretly removed while he was in office? (Yes.) With details. Fun, brief.
                                                             Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 295672 703
##T Rumor!
Rumor!

@@
Hal Morgan and Kerry Tucker
1984; 159 pp.
ISBN 0140100296
$3.50 ($4.50 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120 
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600(NJ)
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##A 06 13822 708
##T Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

@@
This series of books offers attractively designed and illustrated collections of folktales, myths, and fairytales from around the world. African, Irish, Norse, Italian, Russian, Chinese tales, and more, provide insights into different cultures and genuine entertainment.

                                                              Ñ Jay Kinney




Ù The World Treasury of ChildrenÕs Literature
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##A 06 13935 709
##T Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

@@
Catalog free from:

Pantheon Books/
Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460

See next card for list of titles.
@@

##A 06 27962 715
##T Paddle-to-the-Sea
Paddle-to-the-Sea

@@

Holling Clancy Holling has written many adventure stories laced with nature lore and anthropology. TheyÕve been hard to put down since 1941. Paddle-to-the-Sea Ñ the voyage of a tiny handcarved canoe Ñ is my favorite.                                        

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin




Ù Man In Nature
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##A 06 28353 716
##T Paddle-to-the-Sea
Paddle-to-the-Sea

@@
Holling Clancy Holling
1969; 58 pp.
ISBN 0395292034
$5.70 ($6.40 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Company
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
800-225-3362
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##A 06 355306 719
##T Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling
Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling

@@
The best single resource for storytellers. Yearly $25 dues include subscriptions to the National Storytelling Journal, a quarterly magazine dealing with issues in the story-telling movement, and the Yarnspinner, a monthly national calendar of storytelling performances, workshops and festivals. You also get a national Directory of Storytelling which gives access to storytellers across the country, and a free Catalog of Storytelling which offers books, recordings, and videos. They also sponsor a festival, a conference, and an ongoing school of storytelling.
 
                                                                   Ñ Robin Moore


Ù Folk-Legacy Records
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##A 06 355505 720
##T Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling
Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling

@@
National Assoc. for the Preservation and Perpetuation . . .
National Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling (NAPPS)
Membership $25/year       
(includes 4 issues of The National Storytelling Journal);
Information free
from:

National Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling
P. O. Box 309
Jonesborough, TN 37659
615-753-2171
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##A 06 265675 721
##T Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling
Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling

@@
The National Storytelling Journal
Greta Talton, Editor
ISSN 07431104
Subscription included as part of  NAPPS membership dues of $25 yearly (4 issues). Single copy $4.00.
from:

National Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling
P. O. Box 309
Jonesborough, TN 37659
615-753-2171
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##A 06 357748 727
##T World Tales
World Tales


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This is a rare and magical book, beautiful to look at and impossible to put down. Each story is more wondrous than the last, embellished  Ñ  adorned, really  Ñ  with extravagant pictures by a variety of artists in the tradition of the illustrated book or illuminated manuscript. Idries ShahÕs tales about each tale, showing where and when each story has unaccountably occurred in widely diverse cultures over vast reaches of time, are as mysterious and wonderful as the tales themselves. 
                                                            
                                                           Ñ Carol Van Strum


Ù Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
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##A 06 357934 728
##T World Tales
World Tales


@@
Collected by Idries Shah
OUT OF PRINT


Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch
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##A 06 359348 732
##T The World Treasury of ChildrenÕs Literature
The World Treasury of ChildrenÕs Literature

@@
Now in his early eighties, Clifton Fadiman adds a nice turn to a distinguished career and considers childrenÕs literature. 
ÒGrandparents and grandchildren, the enders and the beginners, are not rivals but natural friends,Ó says he. Volumes I and II are for kids aged four to eight and are in fact one book divided in two to give small hands a better chance at holding on. Volume III is for ages nine through fourteen, but with FadimanÕs interesting commentaries and catholic taste it makes little sense to put age brackets on these selections. He is also careful to refer young readers to the full length versions of the books he chooses from. Here are Jonathan Swift, A.A. Milne and Maurice Sendak, but also Sylvia Plath, Lennon-McCartney and Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

                                                                    Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 06 359524 733
##T The World Treasury of ChildrenÕs Literature
The World Treasury of ChildrenÕs Literature

@@
Clifton Fadiman, Editor
1985; 1,263  pp.
ISBN 0316273023
$40 ($42 postpaid)
from:

Little, Brown & Company
Attn.: Order Dept.
200 West Street
Waltham, MA 02254
800-343-9204

2 Volume set.
@@

##A 06 368017 735
##T Lord of the Rings, etc.
Lord of the Rings, etc.

@@
I think no other fictional world matches the depth of TolkienÕs.  This childrenÕs tale (The Hobbit) seized the Oxford mythologist and ancient languages scholar Tolkien and hurled him and us into a saga so vast that he never did encompass it all.  The three-volumed Lord of the Rings is the central masterpieceÑthe journey of the hobbits, men and elves, and wizard Gandalf to destroy the Ring of Power of the dark Lord Sauron.  It is a tale of surprising invention, subtlety, and insight.
                                                               Ñ Stewart Brand

ItÕs worth remembering that Tolkien told these tales orally to his children before writing them down.
                                                              Ñ Jonathan Evelegh
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##A 06 368522 736
##T Lord of the Rings, etc.
Lord of the Rings, etc.

@@
The Hobbit  
J.R.R. Tolkien
1937, 1966
ISBN 0345339681
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Ballantine Books/
Random House
400 Hahn
Westminster, MD  21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 06 252980 737
##T Lord of the Rings, etc.
Lord of the Rings, etc.

@@
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
1955
ISBN 0317124986
$13.75 from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA  01803

3 Volume paperback boxed set.
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##A 06 277964 738
##T Lord of the Rings, etc.
Lord of the Rings, etc.

@@
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN 0395282632
$24.95 ($28.45 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA  01803

4 volume paperback boxed set.
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##A 06 279467 739
##T Lord of the Rings, etc.
Lord of the Rings, etc.

@@
Lord of the Rings Tape Version
12 1-hour cassettes
$59.95 ($66.45 postpaid)
from:

MindÕs Eye
Box 6727
San Francisco, CA  94101
800-227-2020
415-883-7701 CA,HI,AK
@@

##A 06 301102 740
##T Lord of the Rings, etc.
Lord of the Rings, etc.

@@
The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring Tape Version
J.R.R Tolkien, Performer
ISBN 0898452228
$9.95 
To order add your state tax plus $1.50 s/h
from:

Caedmon
1995 Broadway
New York, NY  10023
800-223-0420


Selection from ÒThe HobbitÓ
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##A 06 383888 741
##T Lord of the Rings, etc.
Lord of the Rings, etc.

@@
The Hobbit Tape Version
6 cassettes
$29.95 ($34.95 postpaid)
from:

The MindÕs Eye
Box 6727
San Francisco, CA  94101
800-227-2020
415-883-7701 CA,HI,AK
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##A 06 360065 745
##T The Horn Book Magazine
The Horn Book Magazine


@@

This is where librarians learn whatÕs new, and particularly whatÕs good in the world of childrenÕs literature. It is also where publishers advertise their childrenÕs books. Although articles are included in this very literate journal, the heart of each issue is the dozens of detailed reviews of new childrenÕs books.
                                                                 
                                                                 Ñ Richard Nilsen



Ù Library Journal
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##A 06 360404 746
##T The Horn Book Magazine
The Horn Book Magazine


@@
Anita Silvey, Editor
ISSN 00185078
$32/year (6 issues)
 Single copy $5.50
from:

The Horn Book, Inc.
Park Square Building
31 St. James Avenue
Boston, MA 02116-4167
617-482-5198
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##A 06 296917 748
##T Family Storytelling Handbook
Family Storytelling Handbook

@@
For years IÕve wanted a book about family storytelling to recommend to my storytelling audiences and classes. Now itÕs here and the right person has written it. Anne Pellowski knows a heap about storytelling around the world, and she also had lots of little nieces and nephews with big ears. She goes beyond bedtime to talk about storytelling for holidays, birthdays, family reunions, car trips. She gives hints for adapting folktales to particular kids and suggestions for holding interest with stories about family incidents, traditions, names, places. The stories included involve little tricks or props that work particularly well with intimate audiences. She ends with lists of books, stories, festivals, and even contacts for finding storytelling in England, France, Denmark, Australia, and Japan. A wise and useful book.    
                                                                 Ñ Nancy Schimmel
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##A 06 297603 749
##T Family Storytelling Handbook
Family Storytelling Handbook

@@
Anne Pellowski
1987; 150 pp.
ISBN 0027706109
$15.95 postpaid 
from:

Macmillan Publishing Co.
Mail Order Department
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, N.J.  08075

or Whole Earth Access
800-257-5755
@@

##A 06 299846 752
##T Just Enough to Make a Story
Just Enough to Make a Story

@@
This slim volume offers much more than sources, although there are these Ñ story and song books; storytellers on record, book, and film; books about folklore and fairy tales. My favorite resource lists are the index to Òactive heroinesÓ and Òstories in service to peace.Ó

Even more valuable is the insightful, experience-derived advice Schimmel offers. Never preachy, she speaks to the value of storytelling Ñ motivating kids to read Ñ with warmth and sagacious enthusiasm, and helps you choose, learn, and tell a story gratifying to teller and told.

                                                               Ñ Sarah Satterlee
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##A 06 300690 753
##T Just Enough to Make a Story
Just Enough to Make a Story

@@
Nancy Schimmel
2nd Edition 1982; 56 pp.
ISBN 0932164021
$9.75 ($10.75 postpaid)
from:

SistersÕ  Choice Press
1450 Sixth Street
Berkeley, CA  94710
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##A 06 42121 756
##T News from Lake Wobegon
News from Lake Wobegon

@@

Many consider Garrison Keillor to be the state-of-the-art contemporary storyteller. ÒA Prairie Home Companion,Ó his weekly radio show, airs on some 260 PBS affiliate stations nationwide. 
                                                                     Ñ Robin Moore

Since the review above was written, Mr. Keillor saddened  many loyal listeners by performing his last live broadcast of ÒA Prairie Home CompanionÓ on June 13,1987.  Fortunately, itÕs in
ÒrerunsÓ now on many  PBS stations Ñ check your local listings.  Or buy some of the ÒA Prairie Home CompanionÓ tapes available from Wireless, such as the popular four-cassette set, ÒNews from Lake Wobegon.Ó               
                                                                    Ñ Candida Kutz
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##A 06 42342 757
##T News from Lake Wobegon
News from Lake Wobegon

@@
Garrison Keillor
$30.00 ($33.75 postpaid)
from:

Wireless
Minnesota Public Radio
274 Fillmore Avenue East
Dept. 405
St. Paul, MN 55101
800-328-5252 ext. 405

Ask for a free catalog from Wireless at the address above; catalog includes information on other Prairie Home Companion cassettes produced by Minnesota Public Radio.
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##A 06 17646 760
##T Parabola
Parabola

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Underground rivers of juice flow in this magazine of myth. The major players in the subject play here, with a graphic excitement never seen in academic publications.

                                                              Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 17863 761
##T Parabola
Parabola

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Rob Baker, Editor
ISSN 03621596
$18/year (4 issues)
from:

Parabola
656 Broadway
New York, NY 10012
212-505-6200
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##A 06 18481 764
##T Primal Myths
Primal Myths

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Any extensive exploration of mythology will reveal how incredibly heterogeneous human culture is. I know of no book that shows this better than Barbara C. SproulÕs Primal Myths. Sproul has collected the creation myths of every corner of the world. From the Yao of northern Mozambique we learn how Ò. . .the gods were driven off the face of the earth by the cruelty of man.Ó The Jains and Buddhists of India give us rarified discussions of why there are no creators at all. The Maidu of California tell us that the world was created from the dirt under turtlesÕ fingernails.

Rich with plot and character, they can be read as beguiling stories, 
or pondered as philosophical verities.
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##A 06 19854 766
##T Primal Myths
Primal Myths

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(Creating the World)
Barbara C. Sproul
1979; 352 pp.
ISBN 0060675012
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
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##A 06 284228 769
##T Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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I think there is no more remarkable autobiography in this century. Dream power and intellectual power collided in JungÕs life, merged finally, and carried him pilot-and-passenger on a psychic Gulf Stream, far and strange. He took 20th Century science with him.

                                                                 Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 284564 770
##T Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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C.G. Jung
1963; 430 pp.
ISBN 0394702689
$6.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 06 259659 773
##T C.G. Jung: Word and Image
C.G. Jung: Word and Image


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If not nothing, then Jung is surely image. This collection by an old collaborator of his takes his lifelong caterpillar-crawl of thought and gives it colorful flight and new life. JungÕs biography is visible, as well as the things he saw that moved him, the archetypal images he recognized, and his own bizarre beautiful paintings, carvings, buildings. He lived with beautiful care. The book is bright and clear and not the slightest bit slick. 

                                                               Ñ Stewart Brand


Ù At a Journal Workshop
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##A 06 259949 774
##T C.G. Jung: Word and Image
C.G. Jung: Word and Image


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Aniela Jaffe, Editor
1979; 238 pp.
ISBN 0691018472
$16.50 postpaid 
from:

Princeton University Press
3175 Princeton Pike
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
609-896-1344
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##A 06 253617 777
##T Symbols of Transformation in Dreams
Symbols of Transformation in Dreams

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The best short, nontechnical account of Jungian ideas about dream symbols as harbingers of psychological and spiritual transformation. Jung saw dreams as snapshots of the psyches, and he and his followers have combined knowledge from the worldÕs collection of mystical symbology (such as alchemical texts) with the experiences of thousands of analysands, and have shown how those people who donÕt have gurus or who arenÕt initiates of one spiritual tradition or another can use their dreams as a guide to inner growth.

                                                    Ñ Howard Rheingold
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##A 06 254134 778
##T Symbols of Transformation in Dreams
Symbols of Transformation in Dreams

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Jean Dalby Clift
and Wallace B. Clift
1986; 159 pp.
ISBN 0824507274
$9.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Crossroad Publishing Co.
P.O. Box 1535
Hagerstown, MD  21741
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##A 06 315301 781
##T Dreams, Visions of the Night
Dreams, Visions of the Night

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Besides containing marvelous information about the ancient and esoteric history of oneirology, this book has marvelous illustrations, gathered from the art of every culture, illustrating key points about dreams.
                                                 
                                                            Ñ Howard Rheingold
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##A 06 315469 782
##T Dreams, Visions of the Night
Dreams, Visions of the Night

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David Coxhead and Susan Hiller
1976; 96 pp.
ISBN 0824500695
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial PArk
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
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##A 06 314051 784
##T Dreams, Illusion and Other Realities
Dreams, Illusion and Other Realities

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A thick book, quite readable, about the central role of dreams in the mythology, epistemology, and theology of the Hindu and Buddhist religions.  Since both the Hindu and Buddhist doctrines contend that the waking conscious state is an illusion, and that the goal of life is to awaken from the illusion, the idea of learning to control your dreams has particular importance in these spiritual disciplines.

                                                        Ñ Howard Rheingold
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##A 06 314540 785
##T Dreams, Illusion and Other Realities
Dreams, Illusion and Other Realities

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Wendy Doniger OÕFlaherty
1984; 382 pp.
ISBN 0226618552
$13.95 ($15.20 postpaid)
from:

University of Chicago Press
11030 South Langley Avenue
Chicago, IL  60628
312-702-7740
@@

##A 06 101921 788
##T Dreams and Spiritual Growth
Dreams and Spiritual Growth

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The authors take a Christian approach to dreamwork, but the book is a resource for anyone who is interested in the spiritual aspects of dreamwork. One of the nice ecumenical aspects of dreamwork is the fact that you can find it endorsed by the scriptures of the Jewish, Christian, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist, Pagan, and Animist religions! The authors include 37 dreamwork techniques for spiritual growth.
                                              
                                                            Ñ Howard Rheingold
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##A 06 102590 789
##T Dreams and Spiritual Growth
Dreams and Spiritual Growth

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(A Christian Approach to Dreamwork)
Louis M. Savary, Patricia H. Berne and Strephon Kaplan Williams
1984; 252 pp.
ISBN 080912629X
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Paulist Press
997 MacArthur Blvd. 
Mahwah, NJ 07430
201-825-7300
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##A 06 280102 791
##T The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Hero with a Thousand Faces

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Myths and manÕs dreamworld have, for the past fifty years or so, been the objects of various alchemical attempts at synthesis. The hero with a thousand faces is one of those syntheses. ItÕs about the mono-myth. Campbell traces his hero right out into the void. 

                                                                              Ñ J.D. Smith





Ù The Way of the Animal Powers
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##A 06 280524 792
##T The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Hero with a Thousand Faces

@@
Joseph Campbell
Revised Edition 1968; 416 pp.
ISBN 0691017840
$9.95 postpaid 
from:

Princeton University Press
3175 Princeton Pike
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
609-896-1344
@@

##A 06 76195 798
##T HOW TO LEARN THINGS:  A HANDY TIP
HOW TO LEARN THINGS:  A HANDY TIP

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by Anne Herbert

If youÕre starting to learn about a field that you know nothing about, go to the childrenÕs library and get some fifth, sixth, seventh grade books about it before you go into grownup books. Basic books for grownups tend to be aimed at college freshmen taking required coursesÑand everybody knows that theyÕre supposed to suffer, including the people who write the books. Basic books for kids are aimed at kids browsing in libraries who donÕt have to be there and could leave anytime. The books have colors and pictures and a will to sell the subject; the good ones assume you know nothing without being condescending. You can get some vocabulary and feel for the shape of the subject before you
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##A 06 80281 800
##T Foxfire
Foxfire

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Foxfire is a quarterly publication concerned with researching, recording and preserving Appalachian folk art, crafts and traditions. A typical issue contains articles on quilting, chairmaking, soap making, home remedies, mountain recipes, feather beds and home-made hominy, plus regional poetry and book reviews. One issue was devoted entirely to log cabin building. These are not superficial ÒfeatureÓ articles, but definitive, detailed treatments of traditional skills and crafts that have come close to dying out of our culture.

Foxfire would be a credit to a group of professional folklorists. But when you consider that it is edited and published by high school kids at the Rabun County High School in Clayton, Georgia, it
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##A 06 80964 803
##T Foxfire
Foxfire

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Foxfire-the magazine
$8/year (4 issues) 
from:

The Foxfire Fund, Inc.
P. O. Box B
Rabun Gap, GA 30568

Page forward to card 6 for listing of titles available as of this writing.
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##A 06 376611 804
##T Foxfire
Foxfire

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Sometimes A Shining Moment
(The Foxfire Experiment)
Eliot Wigginton
1985; 438 pp.
ISBN 0385133596
$10.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Anchor Press
Doubleday & Co.
501 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY  11530
800-223-6834
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##A 06 24493 808
##T Golden Guides
Golden Guides

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Competence, color, intelligent editing, and a reasonable price make any one of the Golden Guide series a good  Ñ  perhaps the best  Ñ  place to start. Handy pocket size makes them easy to tote along on your explorations. The variety is commendable. 
 
                                                                    Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 06 24820 809
##T Golden Guides
Golden Guides

@@
$3.95 each ($4.95 postpaid)
from:

Western Publishing Co.
Attn: Dept. M
1220 Mound Avenue
Racine, WI 53404

Series of 23 books. See next card for list of all available titles.
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##A 06 303268 813
##T Family Guide to Educational Software
Family Guide to Educational Software

@@

A complete (80 pages), illustrated, informative, wholesome, up-to-date mail order catalog for games and learning programs.  Updated quarterly.
                                                               Ñ Art Kleiner






Ù Software Access
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##A 06 303810 814
##T Family Guide to Educational Software
Family Guide to Educational Software

@@
$5/year(2 issues)
from:

Garvinghouse
P. O. Box 1717
Middletown, CT 06457
800-235-5700
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##A 06 112320 815
##T Drawing With Children
Drawing With Children

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My mother, a lifelong art teacher (now a childrenÕs docent at San FranciscoÕs Museum of Modern Art: Hi Mom!) heartily endorses Drawing With Children: A Creative Teaching and Learning Method That Works for Adults, Too. SheÕs been reading it and playing with my three-year-old daughter Mamie, and they are both having a high old time. It isnÕt one of those books on how to turn your infant into a genius. Just a lot of fun with a system for helping you notice things. The before-and-after drawings in black and white and color do a great job of showing the reader exactly what the book is talking about: after as little as an hour of exercises taken from the book, children as young as four create compositions of astonishing sophistication. 
                                                            Ñ Howard Rheingold
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##A 06 112928 816
##T Drawing With Children
Drawing With Children

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Mona Brookes
1986; 211 pp.
ISBN 0874773962
$10.95  ($12.20 postpaid)
from:

St. MartinÕs Press
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
800-221-7945
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##A 06 112619 820
##T Visual Thinking
Visual Thinking

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Rudolf ArnheimÕs classic used examples from art and psychology to demonstrate that we derive our ideas and language itself from our perceptual responses.  Then new knowledge about the mindÕs use of visual thinking emerged from the work with interhemispheric differences in the brain Ñ the Òright-brain/left-brainÓ dichotomy weÕve heard too much about.  Despite the hype and hoopla about Òright-brainedÓ this and that, it does appear to be true that all of use several different modes of thinking in our daily tasks, depending on what task we are tackling, and which part of the task we are involved in.

                                                      Ñ Howard Rheingold
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##A 06 112797 821
##T Visual Thinking
Visual Thinking

@@
Rudolf Arnheim
ISBN 0520018710
$12.95 ($14.45 postpaid)
from:

University of California Press
Order Dept.
2120 Berkeley Way 
Berkeley, CA 94720
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##A 06 353382 823
##T Exhibits for the Small Museum
Exhibits for the Small Museum


@@

I used to work in exhibit design and can affirm that this is a right handy little book for the friendly task of making stuff visible, interesting, understandable, and protected. Great primer for a first-time museum. (DonÕt tear down that old building. Do this book to it.)                                     

                                                       Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 353758 824
##T Exhibits for the Small Museum
Exhibits for the Small Museum


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Arminta Neal
1976; 169 pp.
ISBN 0910050236
$13.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

American Association
for State and Local History
172 Second Avenue N
Suite 102
Nashville, TN 37201
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##A 06 25478 828
##T Sharing Nature with Children
Sharing Nature with Children


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Smelling, feeling, listening, watching, guessingÑimagining
yourself to be a part of nature. Taking joy in it. ThatÕs what this extraordinary book is about. ItÕs a far cry from the obedient line of kids marching along to the chirping of a bored teacher on a Ònature walk.Ó This is absolutely the best awareness-of-nature book IÕve ever seen. It works for adults, too.                     
                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin

The 40 activities in this book are easy to useÑfor family or class outings. Kids actually like them. Sharing Nature with Children was the most helpful book I found when doing research for a bioregional curriculum guide  Ñ  Joseph Cornell knows how to talk about nature to kids without talking down to them. 
                                                           Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 06 25757 829
##T Sharing Nature with Children
Sharing Nature with Children


@@
Joseph Bharat Cornell
1979; 143 pp.
ISBN 0916124142
$6.95 ($8.95 postpaid)
from:

Ananda Publications
14618 Tyler Foote Road
Nevada City, CA 95959
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##A 06 26401 831
##T RANGER RICK & ASSOC. WILDLIFE MAGAZINES
RANGER RICK & ASSOC. WILDLIFE MAGAZINES

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Gorgeous pictures of animals, good articles on wildlife and ecology, good magazine for parents and teachers and kids to have around. Aimed at people 6 to 12 years old  Ñ  direct without being condescending. 
                                                
                                                            Ñ Anne Herbert
                                               
The same publishers also present an ultra-basic magazine for
little kids:  Your Big Backyard, and two for adults: National
Wildlife, and International Wildlife. All very fine. 

                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 06 26835 832
##T RANGER RICK & ASSOC. WILDLIFE MAGAZINES
RANGER RICK & ASSOC. WILDLIFE MAGAZINES

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Ranger Rick
Trudy Farrand, Editor
ISSN 07386656
$14/year(12 issues)
$22 foreign 
from:

National Wildlife Federation
1412 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-2266
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##A 06 321840 833
##T RANGER RICK & ASSOC. WILDLIFE MAGAZINES
RANGER RICK & ASSOC. WILDLIFE MAGAZINES

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Your Big Backyard
Leah Bendavid-Val, Editor
$10/year(12 issues)
$18 foreign
from:

National Wildlife Federation
1412 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-2266
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##A 06 321334 834
##T RANGER RICK & ASSOC. WILDLIFE MAGAZINES
RANGER RICK & ASSOC. WILDLIFE MAGAZINES

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International Wildlife 
John Strohm, Editor
ISBN 00209112
$15/year(6 issues)
$19 foreign
from:

National Wildlife Federation
1412 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-2266

Both National and International Wildlife Magazines, 12  issues in all, $20 a year/$28 foreign.
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##A 06 322114 835
##T RANGER RICK & ASSOC. WILDLIFE MAGAZINES
RANGER RICK & ASSOC. WILDLIFE MAGAZINES

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National Wildlife
John Strohm, Editor
ISBN 00209112
$15/year (6 issues)
$19 foreign
from:

National Wildlife Federation
1412 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-2266

Both National and International Wildlife Magazines, 12  issues in all, $20 a year/$28 foreign.
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##A 06 67065 839
##T Zoobooks
Zoobooks


@@

Zoobooks are aimed at an audience a little more sophisticated than Ranger RickÕs (see previous review); itÕs all super photographs and easy reading but without cute stories for the little kids. Hard to
say which of these two magazines is best Ñ but IÕll bet your kids
can decide easily .

                                                       Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 06 67101 840
##T Zoobooks
Zoobooks


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John  Bonnett Wexo, Editor
$14/year (10 issues) 
Single issue $1.95
from:

Wildlife Education, Ltd.
930 West Washington Street
San Diego, CA 92103
619-299-5034
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##A 06 23504 842
##T Care of the Wild Feathered and Furred
Care of the Wild Feathered and Furred

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A good way to graduate from bunny love to rabbit understanding is to take care of one that is injured. It takes more than a good heart and regard for GodÕs creatures; it takes knowledge and skill.
HereÕs where to get plenty of both; how to feed Õem, house Õem and make repairs.                                                              

                                                         Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 06 23643 843
##T Care of the Wild Feathered and Furred
Care of the Wild Feathered and Furred

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Mae Hickman and Maxine Guy
Revised Edition1978; 160 pp.
ISBN 093557607X
$10.95 ($12.95 postpaid)
from:

Michael Kesend Publishing, Ltd.
1025 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028
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##A 06 30088 846
##T Nature at Work
Nature at Work


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The subtle connections, cycles, and energy flows of ecology are wonderfully elucidated in this superior primer. Students and teachers will revel in it.

                                                                          Ñ J. Baldwin






Ù Ecology
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##A 06 30337 847
##T Nature at Work
Nature at Work


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1978; 84 pp.
ISBN 052129469X
$9.95 postpaid 
from:

Cambridge University Press
Attn: Order Dept.
510 North Avenue
New Rochelle, NY 10801
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##A 06 29129 849
##T Man In Nature
Man In Nature


@@

This book is exactly as subtitled: ÒAmerica Before the Days of the White Man,Ó and ÒA First Book on Geography.Ó No other book (for kids or adults) spells out North American bioregional life like Man in Nature. It creates ÒlocaleÓ like Thoreau or John Muir. Read it to a child for your own pleasure.                    

                                                               Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 06 29401 850
##T Man In Nature
Man In Nature


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(America Before the Days of the White Man)
Carl Sauer
1975; 285 pp.
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Turtle Island Foundation
2845 Buena Vista Way
Berkeley, CA 94708
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##A 06 65818 854
##T PHYSICS INTRODUCTION
PHYSICS INTRODUCTION

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To have no understanding of basic physics in an industrial society is to be ignorant in a debilitating way; even if you donÕt like science and technology, thereÕs no point in being blind. But learning physics is tough if you arenÕt adept at calculus. Until now. The following three books, Conceptual Physics, Thinking Physics, Relativity Visualized, are marvels of clarity  Ñ  entirely free of author ego-brandishing that so often clouds explanatory writing.                                                                              
                                                                 
Conceptual Physics is the whole bit right up to a nibble at quantum physics. Thinking Physics is a set of fun and maddening questions that force you to use your noodle (and what youÕve learned in the first book). Relativity Visualized is just that, and a good job of it, too. 
                                                                         Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 06 276772 855
##T PHYSICS INTRODUCTION
PHYSICS INTRODUCTION

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Conceptual Physics
Paul G. Hewitt
5th Edition 1985; 650 pp.
ISBN 0673395413
$32.80 ($34.30  postpaid)
from:

Little, Brown & Co.
Order Dept.
200 West Street
Waltham, MA 02254

TeacherÕs manual also available.
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##A 06 75463 856
##T PHYSICS INTRODUCTION
PHYSICS INTRODUCTION

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Thinking Physics
Thinking Physics is Gedanken Physics
Lewis C. Epstein
1987; 565 pp.
ISBN 0935218068
$17.95 ($19.95 postpaid)
from:

Insight Press
614 Vermont Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
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##A 06 384024 857
##T PHYSICS INTRODUCTION
PHYSICS INTRODUCTION

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Relativity Visualized
Lewis Carroll Epstein
1987; 210 pp.
ISBN 093521805X
$15.95 ($16.95 postpaid)
from:

Insight Press
614 Vermont Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
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##A 06 218494 864
##T The Exploratorium
The Exploratorium

@@
In San Francisco, you donÕt say, ÒLetÕs go to the science museum,Ó you say, ÒLetÕs spend the day at the Exploratorium.Ó ItÕs a place of discovery where you learn about light and sound and physics and biology and computers and whatever is being shown at the time of your visit, and whatever is being built for future shows (the workshop is visible so you can watch exhibits being made). Visitors are encouraged to poke, grab, and wiggle as they explore the amazing variety of fascinating stuff in the enormous space. 
ItÕs what a ÒmuseumÓ should be. Even the store is wonderful. And you can book parties there if youÕre a member!

The Exploratorium publishes nifty items too: Posters, exhibit catalogs, WhatÕs Going On newsletter, and The Exploratorium
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##A 06 297394 866
##T The Exploratorium
The Exploratorium

@@
Exploratorium Membership
$30/year
Publications list free
from:

The Exploratorium
3601 Lyon Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
415-563-7337
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##A 06 107972 867
##T The Exploratorium
The Exploratorium

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Exploratorium Cookbook I
1980; 254 pp. 
$70

from:
The Exploratorium
3601 Lyon Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
415-563-7337
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##A 06 109753 868
##T The Exploratorium
The Exploratorium

@@
Exploratorium Cookbook II 
1980; 180 pp. $60
from:

The Exploratorium
3601 Lyon Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
415-563-7337
@@

##A 06 366336 869
##T The Exploratorium
The Exploratorium

@@
Exploratorium Cookbook III
1988; 316 pp.
$70
from:

The Exploratorium
3601 Lyon Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
415-563-7337
@@

##A 06 367082 870
##T The Exploratorium
The Exploratorium

@@
Individual Exploratorium Cookbook Recipes
$2.00
from:

The Exploratorium
3601 Lyon Street
San Francisco, CA  94123
415-563-7337
@@

##A 06 367132 871
##T The Exploratorium
The Exploratorium

@@
Exploratorium Quarterly
Pat Murphy, Editor
$12/year(4 issues)
$18 institutions; $25 foreign
from:

The Exploratorium
3601 Lyon Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
415-563-7337
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##A 06 298199 876
##T Mathematics  A Human Endeavor
Mathematics  A Human Endeavor


@@

Is numberwork your nemesis? Mathematics A Human Endeavor is an utterly crap-free and glittery-clear math textbook that makes the work fun and interesting. Not a stamp or coin problem in sight. 

This book requires discipline, but at least it isnÕt boring or creepy.                                                          

                                                                   Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 06 298255 877
##T Mathematics  A Human Endeavor
Mathematics  A Human Endeavor


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Harold R. Jacobs
2nd Edition 1982; 649 pp.
ISBN 0716713268
$23.95 ($25.95 postpaid)
from:

W. H. Freeman & Co.
4419 West 1980 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84104
801-973-4660
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##A 06 307689 879
##T Survival Mathematics
Survival Mathematics

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Somebody you know might need some help in basic arithmetic. Have them try this exercise book which employs figures from everyday life for practicing math. Adding up a bill, determining if youÕre gonna save money on a sale, calculating what kind of insurance costs less. Just as the title says: survival mathematics.
                
                                                                         Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 308367 880
##T Survival Mathematics
Survival Mathematics

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(Basic Math to Help You Cope)
Edward Williams
1983; 364 pp.
ISBN 081202012X
$9.95 ($11.55 postpaid)
from:

BarronÕs Educational Series
250 Wireless Boulevard
Hauppauge, NY 11788
800-645-3476
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##A 06 299250 882
##T HereÕs Looking at Euclid
HereÕs Looking at Euclid

@@
HereÕs Looking at Euclid does a great job of explaining geometry, particularly the spherical kind that has been the downfall of so many of us. ItÕs in comic book form, and it does the deedÑeven geodesics are served in a way that should present no problem for a 12-year-old, let alone an adult. 

                                                                 Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 06 299398 883
##T HereÕs Looking at Euclid
HereÕs Looking at Euclid

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(and Not Looking at Euclid)
Jean-Pierre Petit, translated by Ian Stewart
1985; 63 pp.
ISBN 0865760926
$7.95 ($9.45 postpaid)
from:

William Kaufmann, Inc.
95 First Street
Los Altos, CA 94022
415-965-4081
@@

##A 06 300076 885
##T Prof. E. McSquaredÕs Calculus Primer
Prof. E. McSquaredÕs Calculus Primer

@@

Uses comics to teach calculus. If the intricacies of that subject
have eluded you or filled you with paralyzing hatred, you might give this sugar-coated text a look.         

                                                         Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 06 300363 886
##T Prof. E. McSquaredÕs Calculus Primer
Prof. E. McSquaredÕs Calculus Primer

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Howard Swann and John Johnson
1977; 214 pp.
ISBN 0913232475
$12.50 ($14 postpaid)
from:

William Kaufmann, Inc.
95 First Street
Los Altos, CA 94022
415-965-4081
@@

##A 06 309102 888
##T Understanding Calculator Math
Understanding Calculator Math

@@
This book explains the basic keys and then takes you through some common business, home and scientific problems that make you itchy to work out your own problems. ItÕs the only good introduction to calculator use weÕve seen. Though originally published by electronics manufacturer Texas Instruments, you can use it with anybodyÕs calculator. T.I. published a whole series of such books, on the sly premise that if you give people well-crafted, enthusiastic introductory manuals to calculator/computer/communications technology, theyÕll get hooked.

                                                          Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 06 309771 889
##T Understanding Calculator Math
Understanding Calculator Math

@@
Texas Instruments Learning Center
1976, 1978; 224 pp.
ISBN 089512016X
$4.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:

Texas Instruments
Attn: Accessories Department
P.O. Box 53
Lubbock, TX 79408

or Whole Earth Access
800-747-1882
@@

##A 06 310631 891
##T Math Aids
Math Aids

@@

Looking through this catalog of books and sundries, you would  
think that mathematics was something that anyone could enjoy.
  
                                                           Ñ Kevin Kelly






Ù Edmund Scientific
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##A 06 310859 892
##T Math Aids
Math Aids

@@
Catalog free from:

Math Aids
P. O. Box 64
San Carlos, CA 94070
415-593-2839
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##A 06 181904 895
##T The Science Book
The Science Book

@@
Lots of interesting, various science experiments that invite willing participation by avoiding the sappy condescension usually found in books of this sort. The examples are taken from everyday life, making it all much more real than lab simulations do. 

                                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 06 182340 896
##T The Science Book
The Science Book

@@
Sara Stein
1980; 288 pp.
ISBN 0894801201
$7.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Workman Publishing Co.
1 West 39th Street
New York, NY 10018
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##A 06 82123 898
##T The Brown Paper School Books
The Brown Paper School Books

@@

Appealing exploration of omnipresent subjects  Ñ  body, weather, thinking, games, stars, local history. There is approximately no way to read these books and just sit there. Try this, notice that, well what about the other.

                                                                  Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 82329 899
##T The Brown Paper School Books
The Brown Paper School Books

@@
$7.95 each ($8.55 postpaid)
from:

Little, Brown & Co.
200 West Street
Waltham, MA 02254

See next card for a list of available titles.
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##A 06 311609 905
##T Cartoon Guide to Genetics
Cartoon Guide to Genetics

@@
The stickiest, most wrenching paradoxes we have known are being handed to us by the science of genetics (itÕs now possible to have five parents).

ThereÕs no better way to quickly come to grips with things like recombinant DNA than to chortle your way through this cartoon book. It makes genetics hilariously simple. Starts out uncovering the basic territory of chromosomes and hybrids, and ends up in the most current research on protein folding and genetic surgery. Dumb jokes and brilliant cartooning make it easy all the way Ñ MAD magazine style.
                                                                Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 312055 906
##T Cartoon Guide to Genetics
Cartoon Guide to Genetics

@@
Larry Gonick and Mark Wheelis
1983; 214 pp.
ISBN 0064604160
$6.95 ($7.30 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
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##A 06 295134 908
##T Edmund Scientific
Edmund Scientific

@@
Wondrous goodies abound in this catalog. EdmundÕs, fully recovered from an unseemly dalliance with New Age gadgets, is back to their best thing: optical stuff (including a great selection of lasers) and a huge selection of equipment and hardware aimed at the intelligent amateur, including kids. (Their bargain basement is an associated company, Jerryco; see review in Crafts by clicking below). IÕve had very good service from these folks, including free product-selecting advice given over the phone. 

                                                                      Ñ J. Baldwin


Ù Jerryco
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##A 06 295370 909
##T Edmund Scientific
Edmund Scientific

@@
Catalog $5 from:

Edmund Scientific
101 East Gloucester Pike
Barrington, NJ 08007-1380
609-547-3488
609-573-6250
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##A 06 296064 912
##T Nasco Science
Nasco Science

@@
Nasco is a professional lab supply company. To get their extensive
catalog  of science teaching aids, you may need to use a school letterhead. (As with many professional supply houses, Nasco will do business with individuals, but only serious ones).  ThatÕs easily arranged, and well worth the trouble. They stock everything from pig embryos to solar energy experiments, and the books and charts to go with it all. Nasco is probably where your school got their science stuff. 
                                                                     Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 06 296233 913
##T Nasco Science
Nasco Science

@@
Catalog free from:

Nasco Science
Fort Atkinson, WI 53538
800-558-9595;
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##A 06 56644 916
##T Scientific American
Scientific American

@@

The patriarch of science magazines is more into explanation
and less into news. Article difficulty is about max for a nonprofessional reader in whatever subject (almost anything!) is being discussed. Book reviews and drawings are exceptional. 

                                                                    Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 06 57268 917
##T Scientific American
Scientific American

@@
Jonathan Piel, Editor
ISSN 00368733
$24/year (12 issues)
from:

Scientific American
P. O. Box 5919
New York, NY 10164-0411
212-754-0550
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##A 06 57909 919
##T New Scientist
New Scientist

@@

My primary source of scientific and technical information is the wide-ranging reporting in this weekly. ItÕs very British: droll wit abounds, and the criticism (some of it rather nasty) spares nobody, including the U.S.A., giving an unusual political aspect not found in other science magazines. You should have heard the shrieks around this office when it was suggested we cut our subscription as an economy measure. 

                                                                     Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 06 58158 920
##T New Scientist
New Scientist

@@
Michael Kenward, Editor
$99/year (52 issues)
from:

New Scientist
Publications Expediting, Inc.
200 Meacham Avenue
Elmont, NY 11003
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##A 06 58962 923
##T Science News
Science News

@@

A highly palatable digest of current top stories in science. The least demanding in terms of technical background, itÕs a quick read  Ñonly about ten pages of editorial material per issue, with adequate pictures. Sometimes it has by far the best coverage of fast-breaking stories.

                                                          Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 59995 924
##T Science News
Science News

@@
Patrick Young, Editor
ISSN 00368423
$34.50/year (52 issues)
from:

Science News
231 West Center Street
Marion, OH 43305
614-383-3141
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##A 06 68597 929
##T Science 
Science 

@@
Top of the line. Possibly the best science magazine in the world
(the major challenge would be from EnglandÕs Nature). This is where you can really watch news taking shape. Often pretty technical, but itÕs the real goods.

                                                              Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 68698 930
##T Science 
Science 

@@
Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., Editor
ISSN 00368075
$70/year (51 issues)
from:

AAAS
1333 H Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
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##A 06 85791 935
##T The Don Juan Books of Carlos Castaneda
The Don Juan Books of Carlos Castaneda

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Astounding books exploring the mindÕs perception of reality using the methods of a Mexican Indian sorcerer, Òdon Juan.Ó Harsh, humorous, told with shocking adroitness, the truths here have been confirmed by others who have worked with native shamans or explored the nether reaches of sundry mystical paths.

Unfortunately CastanedaÕs later books (there are now 6 total), though they are interesting, fictionalize ever farther away from his extraordinary field experience in the mountains of Mexico. The ideas in these two books have entered the American language to stay.                                                      
                                                          
                                                         Ñ Stewart Brand
Ù The Way of the Animal Powers
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##A 06 86206 936
##T The Don Juan Books of Carlos Castaneda
The Don Juan Books of Carlos Castaneda

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The Teachings of Don Juan
(A Yaqui Way of Knowledge)
Carlos Castaneda
1968; 196 pp.
ISBN 0520022580
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

University of California Press
2120 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
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##A 06 87762 937
##T The Don Juan Books of Carlos Castaneda
The Don Juan Books of Carlos Castaneda

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A Separate Reality 
Carlos Castaneda
1971; 263 pp.
ISBN 0671831321
$4.95 postpaid from:

Simon & Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 06 2445 943
##T Wizard of the Upper Amazon
Wizard of the Upper Amazon

@@
This is one of the best books I have encountered while reviewing for Whole Earth. It is far superior to anything Castaneda has attempted. The Huni Kui have pleasant and important communal visions much more astounding and connected-to-life than the individualistic ÒfearfulÓ visions of Castaneda.   
                                                                       
Plunged into the middle of a jungle foodweb, only visions, plant narcotics, hunting skills, and an incredible intimacy with the natural world sustain the wizard Cordova-Rios. In no other book have I felt the mixing of human and animal and dream worlds to be so clear and direct.                                                             

                                                               Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 06 56216 944
##T Wizard of the Upper Amazon
Wizard of the Upper Amazon

@@
(The Story of Manuel C—rdova-Rios)
F. Bruce Lamb
1974; 295 pp.
ISBN 0938190806
$10.95 postpaid from:

North Atlantic Books
2320 Blake Street
Berkeley, CA  94704
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##A 06 62788 946
##T Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance


@@

Philosophical practicality. Practical philosophy. Harsh realism. Lofty aspiring. With Pirsig on the motorcycle road with his disturbed son Chris, the apparent contradictions kick each other into robust life. A kickstart of a book for anyone.  

                                                                   Ñ Stewart Brand





 Ù Meditation in Action
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##A 06 63006 947
##T Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance


@@
Robert M. Pirsig
1974, 1979; 412 pp.
ISBN 0688052304
$8.95 ($9.45 postpaid)
from:

William Morrow Publishing Co.
Wilmor Warehouse
39 Plymouth Street
Fairfield, NJ 07006
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##A 06 312592 953
##T Phenomenon of Man
Phenomenon of Man

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Written in 1955 by a mystical Catholic priest and noted amateur anthropologist (who also perpetrated a serious anthropological hoax) this is the primeval ÒcosmicÓ book.

Teilhard de Chardin provides a metaphysical understanding to the ascending global communications network and the modern expansion of information. He views human culture as the evolutionary advancement from non-life to the Òdeployment of the noosphereÓ ÑTeilhardÕs coinage for the materialization of a human thought membrane around the earth. His is the ontogeny of a planetary circuit, now in progress.
                                                         
                                                              Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 313115 954
##T Phenomenon of Man
Phenomenon of Man

@@
Teilhard de Chardin
1955; 352 pp.
ISBN 0006248365
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

J.B. Lippincott
Route 3, Box 20B
Hagerstown, MD  21740
800-638-3030
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##A 06 65127 956
##T PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

@@
Against Method ¥ The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

These two books arenÕt new, but they remain among the best papers examining what constitutes scientific Òtruth.Ó  Mr. Feyerabend argues that science is but one ideology out of many, and that truth is most likely to be found in an intellectual environment that encourages the proliferation of many theories and ideologies.

Fortunately, both books are easily read, though youÕll probably have to stop and ponder now and then as your logic base is assailed. 
                                                                        Ñ J. Baldwin
Ù CYBERNETICS
@@

##A 06 65289 957
##T PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

@@
Against Method  
Paul Feyerabend
OUT OF PRINT

Schocken Books, Inc.
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##A 06 45395 958
##T PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

@@
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions  
Thomas S. Kuhn
1970; 210 pp.
$6.95 ($7.45 postpaid)
from:

University of Chicago Press
11030 South Langley
Chicago, IL 60628
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##A 06 275233 963
##T Science and the Paranormal
Science and the Paranormal

@@
If you just wanted to read one book skeptical of the paranormal, this would have to be it. Twenty experts, most of them scientists, take the time to study the evidence for various paranormal claims within their areas of expertise. Botanist Arthur Galston discusses the failures to replicate Òplant consciousnessÓ research published in the sensationalistic Secret Life of Plants. Astronomer Carl Sagan examines the Biblically-inspired catastrophist reinterpretation of solar system history proposed in Immanuel VelikovskyÕs Worlds in Collision. Surgeon William Nolen reports on his extensive investigation of psychic healing. The magician James ÒThe AmazingÓ Randi demonstrates his duplications of psychic 
Òmiracles.Ó The lyrical closing chapter by M.I.T. physicist Philip Morrison redirects the reader to the genuine fountains  of wonder
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##A 06 275962 965
##T Science and the Paranormal
Science and the Paranormal

@@
George O. Abell and Barry Singer, Editors
1981, 1986; 432 pp.
ISBN 0684178206
$12.95 postpaid 
from:

Macmillan Publishing Co.
Order Dept.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
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##A 06 182186 968
##T The Skeptical Inquirer
The Skeptical Inquirer


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For years paranormalists complained: ÒWhy donÕt scientists investigate this?Ó Scientists do, and their reports regularly take up the challenge in the pages of the Skeptical Inquirer. For a decade, this journal of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal has been a lone voice in a sea of irrationality. High-quality articles with plenty of references thoroughly survey and analyze all kinds of paranormal claims. Sure, thereÕs plenty of debunkingÑusually right on target. Anyone who reads from the extensive literature of the paranormal has to read the Skeptical Inquirer, if only for balance. I recently purchased a complete set of back issues; you canÕt get this information anywhere else.                       
                                                                Ñ Ted Schultz
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##A 06 204010 969
##T The Skeptical Inquirer
The Skeptical Inquirer


@@
Kendrick Frazier, Editor
ISSN 01946730
$22.50/year (4 issues)
from:

The Skeptical Inquirer
Box 229
Buffalo, NY 14215-0229
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##A 06 267023 972
##T Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science

@@
Martin Gardner is a well-known science writer who for years authored the ÒMathematical GamesÓ column in Scientific American. First published in 1952, this volume is THE classic of skeptical literature. Gardner displays some of the best qualities of a skeptical author: good writing, good research in an area fraught with obscurity, and genuine fascination for pseudoscience and crankery of all kinds. His book is a parade of eccentric people and eccentric theories: hollow and flat Earth, bizarre physics, Lysenkoism, the Bates vision-correction system, ReichÕs orgonomy, general semantics, parapsychology, medical quackery (always a fertile field). YouÕd have to spend years haunting libraries and 
writing away for pamphlets to assemble half of the histories and 
biographies that Gardner presents here in a thoroughly sane, good-humored style.                                     Ñ Ted Schultz
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##A 06 267513 973
##T Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science

@@
Martin Gardner
Revised Edition 1957; 363 pp.
ISBN 0486203948
$6.50 ($7.35 postpaid)
from:

Dover Publications
31 East Second Street
Mineola, NY 11501
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##A 06 268065 976
##T Fortean Times
Fortean Times

@@
This quarterly exudes a delightful sense of humor and a healthy excitement for all things strange and wonderful.  It carries on in the tradition of Charles Fort, an eccentric American writer who in the Õ20s and Õ30s produced four books of mysterious occurrences combined with whimsical cosmic philosophy. Highlighted by entertaining editorial commentary, FT features mind-boggling surveys of weird events culled from the newspapers of the world, in categories like rains of frogs, sea serpents, strange fires, religious miracles, out-of-place animals, ice meteors, phantom cats, etc. In addition, FT offers eccentric columnists, odd comic strips, and elegant shoestring design. Great fun to read, and a continuing testament to the strangeness of our world. 
                                                                        
                                                                Ñ Ted Schultz
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##A 06 268293 977
##T Fortean Times
Fortean Times

@@
Richard J. M. Rickard 
and Paul R. A. de G.Sieveking, Editors
ISSN 03035899
$14/year (4 issues)
from:

BM-Fortean Times
96 Mansfield Road
London NW3 2HX
ENGLAND
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##A 06 271871 979
##T Mysteries of the Unexplained
Mysteries of the Unexplained


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Thank God not everything in the universe is explained. The wonder of not knowing for sure is what is celebrated in this ReaderÕs Digest compendium of curious and spooky marvels. ItÕs given me the dubious pleasure of being perplexed by mysteries I wasnÕt even aware of, like spontaneous human combustion (a human bursts into flames unaccountably and consumes itself by its own heat), or stigmata (an affliction that causes people to bleed in the manner of ChristÕs wounds on certain holy days). Not to mention UFOs and ball lightning and the oddities of everyday life. 

                                                                         Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 272337 981
##T Mysteries of the Unexplained
Mysteries of the Unexplained


@@
The Editors of ReaderÕs Digest
1982; 320 pp.
ISBN 0895771462
$22.95 ($23.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 06 114431 985
##T The Sourcebook Project
The Sourcebook Project

@@
The Sourcebooks are the ÒEncyclopedia BritannicaÓ of the unexplained. For over 13 years, physicist and science writer William R. Corliss has systematically searched the pages of a centuryÕs backlog of scientific journals, extracting every report of the bizarre or inexplicable in an exhaustive effort to Òcatalog what is not known.Ó His ever-expanding database currently encompasses over 30,000 items, some of which heÕs managed to catalog in his 13-volume Sourcebook series; over 20 more volumes are planned. The volumes bear titles like Rare Halos, Mirages, Anomalous Rainbows, and Related Electromagnetic Phenomena; Tornados, Dark Days, Anomalous Precipitation, and Related Weather Phenomena; and The Sun and Solar System Debris. The
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##A 06 114537 987
##T The Sourcebook Project
The Sourcebook Project

@@
William R. Corliss, Editor
Information free 
$11.95- $18.95  postpaid
from:

The Sourcebook Project
P. O. Box 107
Glen Arm, MD 21057
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##A 06 12500 992
##T The Way of the Animal Powers
The Way of the Animal Powers

@@
This formidable work of art and scholarship concerns the myths of the first peoplesÑthe hunter-gatherers of our ancestry and of today. Their images, their beliefs, are deeply sophisticated and as troubling and inspiring as the reader will let them be. The medium, arch-mythologist Joseph Campbell, is welcoming you to a long nightÕs journey. This is Volume I of an Historical Atlas of World Mythology. Maps abound, along with some of the best reproductions yet of mythic creatures both famous and heretofore little known.

                                                              Ñ Stewart Brand


Ù The Hero with a Thousand Faces
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##A 06 12745 993
##T The Way of the Animal Powers
The Way of the Animal Powers

@@
(Historical Atlas of World Mythology)
Joseph Campbell
1983; 304 pp.
ISBN 0912383003
$75 ($78 postpaid)
from:

Alfred Van Der Marck Editions
Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
@@

##A 06 224099 997
##T Drawing Down the Moon
Drawing Down the Moon

@@

Drawing Down the Moon is an intelligent, sensitive, well-researched, thorough, critical study of the modern witchcraft scene. It does an excellent job of dealing with subjects which are often misunderstood and misrepresented.      

                                                               Ñ Martha Burning
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##A 06 224454 998
##T Drawing Down the Moon
Drawing Down the Moon

@@
(Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today)
Margot Adler
1986; 608 pp.
ISBN 0807032530
$14.95 ($16.95 postpaid)
from:

Beacon Press
Attn: Order Dept.
25 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
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##A 06 225157 1001
##T Circle Network News
Circle Network News

@@

There is a new generation of practicing pagans attempting to identify a spiritual tradition linked to their continuing personal and social concerns. Circle is the best way to contact them.

                                                                 Ñ Martha Burning
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##A 06 225446 1002
##T Circle Network News
Circle Network News

@@
Dennis Carpenter, Editor
$9/year (4 issues)
from:

Circle
P. O. Box 219
Mount Horeb, WI 53572
608-924-2216
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##A 06 19691 1005
##T BOOKS ON BUDDHISM INTRODUCTION 
BOOKS ON BUDDHISM INTRODUCTION 

@@
Buddhism is a nontheistic world view and meditative endeavor which has helped millions of individuals and dozens of societies live in clarity and peacefulness. According to Nancy Wilson Ross, nearly one-fourth of the people on earth are followers of this way of life and thought.

The main teachings of Buddhism are interdependence, that nothing exists separate of everything else; nonduality, that correct perception requires becoming one with the object; nonviolence, which springs from this empathetic understanding; and joy, which arises from maintaining awareness of what is actually happening, even as it changes. The root ÒbuddhÓ means to be awake, or aware,
and the most important practice in Buddhism is awareness of
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##A 06 33261 1009
##T ZEN MIND
ZEN MIND

@@

The three books I recommend most highly are The Miracle of Mindfulness, by Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Mind, BeginnerÕs Mind, by Shunryu Suzuki, and Meditation in Action, by Chogyam Trungpa. They all speak clearly, simply, and directly about Buddhist understanding from within the tradition.       

                                                        Ñ  Arnold Kotler
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##A 06 39721 1010
##T ZEN MIND
ZEN MIND

@@
Meditation in Action
Chšgyam Trungpa
1969; 74 pp.
ISBN 0394730259
$4.95 ($6.95 postpaid)
from:

Shambhala Publications
P. O. Box 308
Boston, MA 02117
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##A 06 88566 1011
##T ZEN MIND
ZEN MIND

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Zen Mind, BeginnerÕs Mind
(Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice)
Shunryu Suzuki
1970; 138 pp.
ISBN 0834800799
$5.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:

Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc.
28 South Main Street
Rutland, VT 05701
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##A 06 408900 1012
##T ZEN MIND
ZEN MIND

@@
The Miracle of Mindfulness
Thich Nhat Hanh
2nd Edition 1988; 140 pp.
ISBN 0807012017
$7.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Beacon Press Order Dept.
25 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
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##A 06 43448 1017
##T International Buddhist Directory
International Buddhist Directory

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For further information or meditation instruction, contact one of the centers listed in the International Buddhist Directory. 
                                                 
                                                      Ñ Arnold Kotler
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##A 06 43664 1018
##T International Buddhist Directory
International Buddhist Directory

@@
Compiled by Tushita Meditation Centre
1985; 120 pp.
ISBN 0861710258
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

Snow Lion Publications
P. O. Box 6483
Ithaca, NY 14850
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##A 06 62073 1019
##T NONACADEMIC BUDDHISM
NONACADEMIC BUDDHISM

@@

Buddhism: A Way of Life and Thought, by Nancy Wilson Ross, and What the Buddha Taught, by Walpole Rahula, elucidate Buddhist philosophy and history in clear, nonacademic terms.

                                                            Ñ Arnold Kotler
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##A 06 62317 1020
##T NONACADEMIC BUDDHISM
NONACADEMIC BUDDHISM

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What the Buddha Taught
Walpola Rahula
Revised Edition 1987; 151 pp.
ISBN 0802130313
$8.95
postpaid ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 06 67652 1021
##T NONACADEMIC BUDDHISM
NONACADEMIC BUDDHISM

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Buddhism: A Way of Life and Thought
Nancy Wilson Ross
1981; 208 pp.
ISBN 00394747542
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 06 69748 1024
##T Taking the Path of Zen
Taking the Path of Zen

@@

Taking the Path of Zen, by Robert Aitken, provides an excellent how-to manual for someone entering Zen practice.
                                                  
                                                            Ñ Arnold Kotler
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##A 06 85240 1025
##T Taking the Path of Zen
Taking the Path of Zen

@@
Robert Aitken
1982; 149 pp.
ISBN 0865470804
$9.50 ($11 postpaid)
from:

North Point Press
850 Talbot Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94706
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##A 06 9755 1028
##T YOGA INTRODUCTION
YOGA INTRODUCTION

@@
Ask someone what yoga is all about and the most likely response will have to do with headstands and other physical stuff. ItÕs an interesting case of the tail wagging the dog, for way back when it all began the physical postures, or asanas, were only a small part of the main affair. Some two millennia ago Patanjali, whose work marks the first clear beginning of what is known today as yoga, produced the yogic sutras, a series of short aphorisms which formulate ashtanga, or eight limbed yoga. The asanas, or hatha yoga, are just one limb, and not one that received much of the founderÕs attention. 

PatanjaliÕs sparse aphorisms were intended to be memorized and handed down verbally by teachers who would then amplify with
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##A 06 38616 1031
##T How to Know God
How to Know God

@@

This is the most available volume of aphorisms (with a commentary), and itÕs a good introduction to what yoga is all about, which is much more than headstands.

                                                              Ñ Dick Fugett
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##A 06 4538 1032
##T How to Know God
How to Know God

@@
(The Yoga Aphorisms
of Patanjali)
Swami Prabhavananda 
and Christopher Isherwood, Translators
1981; 224 pp.
ISBN 0874810418
$7.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Vedanta Press
1946 Vedanta Place
Hollywood, CA 90068-3996
213-465-7114
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##A 06 11358 1035
##T Yoga Journal
Yoga Journal

@@
Yoga Journal began 14 years ago as a small, regional magazine devoted completely to hatha yoga, but its growth and diversification have made it the best known voice of the movement. YJ still emphasizes hatha, but articles can range from body work and acupuncture to nutrition and martial arts.

There are also good interviews with people making the news, book reviews, and event announcementsÑwhich are interesting for anyone looking for new directions.  

                                                              Ñ Dick Fugett
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##A 06 11709 1036
##T Yoga Journal
Yoga Journal

@@
Stephan Bodian, Editor
ISSN 01910965
$15/year (6 issues) 
from:

Yoga Journal
2054 University Avenue #604
Berkeley, CA 94704
415-841-9200
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##A 06 8175 1039
##T Integral Yoga Hatha
Integral Yoga Hatha


@@
The practice of hatha yoga acquaints us with our bodies in a slow, precise manner that no sport can offer. Diligent pursuit will reward us with a new physical well-being, a clearer mind, and most importantly, an inner calm unknown before. Hatha is an invaluable tool for developing ourselves, one that we can take with us wherever we go, like meditation.

Because it can become more than just an exploration of the physical package, a teacher, especially at the beginning, can give insights that the purely self-taught person may miss. A few classes or a retreat can produce rewards that more than justify the money spent.
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##A 06 8727 1041
##T Integral Yoga Hatha
Integral Yoga Hatha


@@
Yogiraj Sri Swami Satchidananda
1970; 189 pp.
ISBN 0030850894
$9.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Henry Holt & Co.
115 West 18th Street
New York, NY 10011
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##A 06 8569 1044
##T Light on Yoga
Light on Yoga


@@
If youÕve reached advanced levels and enjoy new challenge (Beware of EgofeedÑhey look, I did a Lotus!) then check out Light on Yoga. Iyengar is a master of the art, and the pictures in the book illustrate his talent. They could also be discouraging for the beginner, so donÕt worry about whether youÕll ever be that loose, just appreciate the incredible possibilities inherent in the human structure, and wonder why the rest of us donÕt develop them. The book also has a superior introduction to the entire yogic philosophy. 
                                     
                                                        Ñ Dick Fugett
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##A 06 9098 1045
##T Light on Yoga
Light on Yoga


@@
B. K. S. Iyengar
1976; 544 pp.
ISBN 0805206108
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Schocken Books
c/o Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
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##A 06 101514 1048
##T KORAN INTRODUCTION
KORAN INTRODUCTION

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The QurÕan is The Book revealed from Allah (God) through His prophet Muhammad (on whom be blessings and peace!) over a period of 23 years. Unlike the Torah, the Psalms, or the Gospels, it has been handed down unchanged since the time of its revelation. Consequently, its text has not been Òimproved,Ó ÒclarifiedÓ or 
Òinterpreted.Ó It remains exactly what Muhammad (who was illiterate) recited to the early Muslims.

As the QurÕan itself states, it is a book of guidance Òto those who guard against evil, who believe in the UnseenÓ and like any book of guidance, it must be approached with respect and openness. This
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##A 06 102847 1051
##T The Holy QurÕan
The Holy QurÕan

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The Holy QurÕan, translated by A. Yusuf Ali, a Pakistani Muslim, has language which tends to be stilted, flowery, and archaic. However, it also includes extensive footnotes and commentary which are quite helpful and insightful.
                              
                               Ñ Latifa and Micha ÕAbd al-Hayy Weinman
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##A 06 103153 1052
##T The Holy Qur'an
The Holy Qur'an

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Abdullah Yusuf Ali
1983; 1,862 pp.
ISBN 0866851674
$20 ($21 postpaid)
from:

International Book Centre
P. O. Box 295
Troy, MI 48099
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##A 06 100298 1055
##T Back to the Sources
Back to the Sources

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This book is an ambitious introduction and guide to the process of Jewish study. There are sections in this 448-page anthology covering Bible narratives and Bible law, Rabbinic folklore and Rabbinic law, medieval philosophy and mysticism, the teachings of the Hasidic Masters and the Hebrew prayerbook itself. Through it all is a sense of tradition as something organic and growing, an art which invites us to participate and make our own contribution once we have grasped the fundamentals.

Back to the Sources comes out of an informal ÒschoolÓ of people who have been privately involved for years in Jewish spiritual renewal, but professionally have been part of the university community.
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##A 06 100776 1057
##T Back to the Sources
Back to the Sources

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(Reading the Classic Jewish Texts)
Barry W. Holtz, Editor
1984; 448 pp.
ISBN 0671454676
$19.95 ($21.45 postpaid )
from:

Simon and Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 06 103909 1059
##T The Koran Interpreted
The Koran Interpreted

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The Koran Interpreted comes from Arthur J. Arberry, a great Orientalist, but not  Ñ  at least publicly  Ñ  a Muslim. This translation has several shortcomings, including a puny index and no footnotes, yet Arberry conveys some of the poetry, cadence and grandeur of the Arabic. He has captured something ineffable from the original that no other translation has even touched.
 
                                 Ñ Latifa and Micha ÕAbd al-Hayy Weinman
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##A 06 103980 1060
##T The Koran Interpreted
The Koran Interpreted

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Arthur J. Arberry
1955, 1964; 358 pp.
ISBN 0020832605
$13.95 postpaid 
from:

MacMillan Publishing Co.
Order Dept.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
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##A 06 104732 1064
##T Ideals and Realities of Islam
Ideals and Realities of Islam

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A very clear presentation of the doctrines and beliefs of Islam by one of the most distinguished Muslim thinkers in the West. Includes a glossary and listings of additional readings the reader can investigate.

                                                        Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 06 105106 1065
##T Ideals and Realities of Islam
Ideals and Realities of Islam

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
1988; 192 pp.
ISBN 0042970490
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Unwin Hyman, Inc.
8 Winchester Place
Winchester, MA 01890
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##A 06 231562 1069
##T The Other Bible
The Other Bible

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For my money this is the most significant sourcebook for exploring an alternative Western spirituality since the English translations of the gnostic Nag Hammadi Library were published. The ancient texts presented hereÑselections from the Dead Sea Scrolls, apocryphal scriptures, kabbalistic and hermetic texts, and some of the Nag Hammadi scriptures themselvesÑhave been previously scattered in at least a dozen books of varying degrees of availability. In collecting these together and writing short introductions for each of the 88 subsections of material, editor Willis Barnstone has made it immeasurably easier to obtain an overview of the diverse spiritual currents at play in the days before orthodox Christianity took hold in the West.
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##A 06 232007 1071
##T The Other Bible
The Other Bible

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Willis Barnstone, Editor
1984; 742 pp.
ISBN 0062500309
$14.95 ($16.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
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##A 06 234329 1073
##T The Classics of Western Spirituality
The Classics of Western Spirituality

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I canÕt praise this series of books too highly. In an ecumenical move transcending that of any other religious publisher I can think of, Paulist Press has committed itself to publish the most important writings of the key figures of western religion. TheyÕve made it an ongoing series that will ultimately comprise as many as eighty volumes. These classics include both the famous and the relatively obscure, not only in Christian spirituality, but in Jewish, Islamic, and Native spiritualities as well. The authorsÕ writings are each preceded by a knowledgeable introduction giving some biographical information and placing the texts in the context of the writersÕ times and other works.

As might be expected with an encyclopedic project such as this,
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##A 06 234769 1075
##T The Classics of Western Spirituality
The Classics of Western Spirituality

@@
John Farina, Editor-in-Chief
$11.95 average
($13.45 postpaid)
from:

Paulist Press
997 MacArthur Blvd.
Malwah, NJ 07430

59 volumes
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##A 06 232785 1077
##T Gnosis
Gnosis

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Gnosis is the kind of knowledge you get when you meet God. Truth. Western spiritual traditions are full of mystics who sought this gnosis, this direct experience of the divine. But their teachingsÑ  Alchemy, Gnosticism, the Kabbalah, Mysticism, Magic, Sufism, to name but a fewÑarenÕt widely known due to frequent persecution by orthodox religious authorities. What is known tends to make these traditions seem like strange, primitive islands.

Former Whole Earth Review editor Jay Kinney has founded a magazine called Gnosis to help bring western inner traditions back into the light. Westerners in search of spiritual growth and 
illumination need not borrow the path from other cultures; we can look in our own back yard. Each issue of Gnosis roots expertly
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##A 06 233426 1079
##T Gnosis
Gnosis

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(A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions)
Jay Kinney, Editor
ISSN 08946159
$15/year (4 issues) 
from:

Gnosis Magazine
P. O. Box 14217
San Francisco, CA 94114
415-255-0400
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##A 06 106841 1083
##T Good News Bible
Good News Bible

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The Bible doesnÕt say what you think it says no matter what you think. ItÕs older, stranger, and longer than will fit into anyoneÕs second hand summariesÑand thatÕs all most of us have of it since most editions preserve 16th century book design as well as language and are very hard for modern eyes to read. 

This edition of the Bible is actually easy to read so you can get right to the strangeness of the stories. The things it has that most Bibles donÕt have are a clear typeface, well-placed white space, lots of headings to tell you when a new story starts, lots of pictures integrated into the text, readable maps, and an easy-to-use index (done by page number, not chapter and verse).
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##A 06 107433 1085
##T Good News Bible
Good News Bible

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American Bible Society
1976; 1,452  pp.
$4 ($4.50 postpaid)
from:

American Bible Society
P. O. Box 5656
Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10164
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##A 06 105958 1087
##T Mere Christianity
Mere Christianity

@@

Read this book for an idea of the intellectual arguments in
favor of Christianity. ItÕs written for the modern skeptic by
the Cambridge don of Middle English who also wrote the
classic Chronicles of Narnia.  In presenting the case for
Christianity, C. S. Lewis avoids religious jargon. He deserves
sainthood for that.

                                                              Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 105999 1088
##T Mere Christianity
Mere Christianity

@@
Mere Christianity
C. S. Lewis
1952, 1986; 180 pp.
ISBN 0020869401
$4.95 postpaid 
from:

Macmillan Publishing Co.
Order Department
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075

Audio version also available; page forward to card 4 for access info and sound clip.
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##A 06 416629 1090
##T Mere Christianity
Mere Christianity

@@
Mere Christianity Tape Version
Michael York, Reader
8 1-hr. cassettes
$64.00 (CA residents add 6% sales tax; $5.00 1st class delivery, $3.50 4th class) 
Rental $16.50 from:

Books on Tape
P.O. Box 7900
Newport Beach, CA  92658
800-626-3333
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##A 06 108269 1091
##T The Living Testament
The Living Testament

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Christianity as we know it is much more than just the Bible and millions of believers. It is also the product of several dozen key theologians, saints, and renegades who exerted unusual influence on both their own and subsequent generations. The Living Testament gathers together the writings of many of these church leaders, such as St. Jerome, St. Bernard, St. Augustine, Martin Luther, John Wesley, Mother Teresa, and even Billy Graham in one big compendium. John BunyanÕs PilgrimÕs Progress is here as is Jonathan EdwardsÕ seminal ÒSinners in the Hands of an Angry God.Ó ThereÕs plenty in this book to both inspire and horrify anyone.

                                                              Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 06 108360 1092
##T The Living Testament
The Living Testament

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(The Essential Writings of Christianity Since the Bible)
M. Basil Pennington, Alan Jones and Mark Booth
1985; 382 pp.
ISBN 0060664983
$14.95 ($16.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
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##A 06 109154 1094
##T Sojourners
Sojourners

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One of the surprises about the peace movement of the Õ80s has been the presence (and central organizing significance) of evangelical ChristiansÑa category usually pigeonholed as diehard conservative. One of the most influential such groups has been the Sojourners Fellowship, a Washington, D.C., religious community which is active in peace actions and publishes Sojourners magazine monthly. This is a handsome, intelligent journal whose coverage extends from the sanctuary movement to Christian feminism to South Africa. Sojourners is decidedly ecumenical, drawing upon a multi-denominational pool of contributors, including Catholic priest Henri Nouwen, writer Gary Wills, and even economist Gar Alperovitz. This is a vital representation of Christianity active in the Òreal world.Ó         
                                                                       Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 06 109441 1095
##T Sojourners
Sojourners

@@
Jim Wallis, Editor
ISSN 03642097
$21/year (11 issues)
from:

Sojourners
Subscription Manager
P. O. Box 29272
Washington, DC 20017
202-636-3637
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##A 06 221900 1098
##T Mysticism
Mysticism

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The mystical event is to occupy ONE. Every time it happens it is a life enhancer and a history enhancer. Evelyn Underhill wrote this classic to gather and map the full range of Western mystical experienceÑGreek, Catholic, ProtestantÑand yours if you care to follow the steps. Each of those ONEs is unique. Each is the same. That seems pat, but this book approximately proves it. 

                                                             Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 222013 1099
##T Mysticism
Mysticism

@@
Evelyn Underhill
1911, 1983; 519 pp.
ISBN 0452008409
$12.95 ($14.45 postpaid)
from:

New American Library
Box 120 
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600 (NJ)
@@

##A 06 222918 1101
##T Breakthrough
Breakthrough


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At first glance Meister Eckhart, the great Dominican mystic of the thirteenth century, seems an unlikely resource for anyone immersed in current struggles for social justice. The sermons of Eckhart which have survived the centuries are absolutely giddy with a sense of unity with the divine; moreover, itÕs a contagious giddiness that can leave the reader swooning. But behind that ecstasy was a disciplined mind which had some important points to make.

With these new translations of 37 sermons and accompanying commentaries, Dominican author Matthew Fox does a yeomanÕs job of making Eckhart accessible. Fox makes clear EckhartÕs love for
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##A 06 223255 1103
##T Breakthrough
Breakthrough


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(Meister EckhartÕs Creation Spirituality in New Translation)
Matthew Fox
1980; 579 pp.
ISBN 0385170343
$9.95 postpaid 
from:

Doubleday and Company
Direct Mail Order
501 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
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##A 06 90571 1105
##T The Light Beyond
The Light Beyond

@@
Truth is qualitative but proving something requires numbers.  The author has investigated the experience of over 1000 people who clinically died and then recovered. They all had a similar experience, and none had further fears of death. That may be sufficient proof for you to relax now about dying. Or you can wait for the truth. (This book is the updated version of the famous,
1975  Life After Life  by the same author.)
            
                                                    Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 06 90816 1106
##T The Light Beyond
The Light Beyond

@@
Raymond A. Moody, Jr., M. D.  with Paul Perry
1988; 187 pp.
ISBN 0553052853
$15.95 ($17.95 postpaid)
from:

Bantam Books
414 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
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##A 06 255481 1110
##T The I Ching
The I Ching

@@
Gregory Bateson remarked once to his secretary, Judy Van Slooten, ÒI am going to build a church some day. It will have a holy of holies and a holy of holies of holies, and in that ultimate box will be a random number table.Ó Check BatesonÕs Mind and Nature 
(see review by clicking rabbit on next card). All originality, he says, whether in evolution or in human learning, comes from 
Òraids on the random.Ó

The ancient Chinese Taoists who made this oracle may have had a similar idea, or they may have stumbled on it or coevolved into it, but obviously it served them. And it serves us. It profoundly served the generation that emitted the original Whole Earth 
Catalog. Ending [the print version of the Catalog] with this review is a piece of homage to that time and those people, both passing
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##A 06 255805 1112
##T The I Ching
The I Ching

@@
(or Book of Changes)
Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Baynes, Translators
1977; 740 pp.
ISBN 069109750X
$17.50 postpaid 
from:

Princeton University Press
3175 Princeton Pike
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
609-896-1344
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##A 07 40560 5
##T LIVELIHOOD INTRODUCTION
LIVELIHOOD INTRODUCTION

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The biological parallel of ÒlivelihoodÓ is niche  Ñ  the position by which an organism, or a community of organisms, supports itself. Livelihood is about managing the position of survival, about doing useful work. All the talk about money on the following pages is meant to impart the lesson that money, like sunlight, is free, but that managing, storing, and passing money on costs something. Those who handle this efficiently flourish in their main purpose.

Another way of saying that is:  Livelihood success, whether of an individual or nation, depends on ignoring the pursuit of wealth, and paying horrific attention to the mighty details of moneyÕs pattern. These tools are for that.
                                                                  Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 07 7230 6
##T The Zero-Sum Society
The Zero-Sum Society

@@
ÒZero-SumÓ is a crack at the no-free-lunch dilemma America finds itself in after three decades of tumultuous prosperity. Whatever we do, whatever we want, whomever we listen to economically, there are real and unavoidable trade-offs. But rather than simply analyzing the downside, Thurow provides a long and articulate series of proposals to get us off dead center. He points out that itÕs not for the lack of solutions that we stand aside from true economic change  Ñ  itÕs due to the fact that few of us will tolerate the possibility of redistributing our nationÕs wealth. Read Thurow for lack of cant and for richness and originality of thought.                               

                                                                Ñ Paul Hawken

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##A 07 46025 7
##T The Zero-Sum Society
The Zero-Sum Society

@@
Lester C. Thurow
1980; 230 pp.
ISBN 0140058079
$6.95 ($8.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Order Dept.
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275

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##A 07 41673 10
##T The Next Economy
The Next Economy


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Economic civilization is going around a corner the like of which 
itÕs never seen before. This is the only guidebook so far. Customers and citizens and adaptive businesses are leading the way. Governments and major corporations are following. Where we come out is better. The now waning Mass Economy amassed fabulous wealth. The emerging Information Economy may not be so opulent, but it presents greater opportunity for wholeness and happiness.

Because Hawken is a businessman  Ñ  the only economist who is        (Smith and Hawken tools, see review Ù)  Ñ  his writing has a street savvy you find nowhere else (except Peter Drucker). His economics is rooted in the individual. It speaks clearly to individual understanding and gives good counsel for individual
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##A 07 42216 12
##T The Next Economy
The Next Economy


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Paul Hawken
1983; 215 pp.
ISBN 0345313925
$3.95 ($4.19 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 07 39423 18
##T Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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There is an entrepreneurial zest and ferment  now unlike any in history, and itÕs being built into the society. The old-time master of management, Peter Drucker, has written his handbook of entrepreneurial Òpractice and principles.Ó ThereÕs a lot of such books these days. He blows them away.

                                                             Ñ Stewart Brand





Ù The Effective Executive (also by Peter Drucker)
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##A 07 39614 19
##T Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Peter F. Drucker
1985; 277 pp
ISBN 0060154284
$19.45 ($20.95 postpaid)
from:

Harper and Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
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##A 07 43296 23
##T Small is Beautiful
Small is Beautiful

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I doubt if Americans have been so influenced by printed eloquence since Thomas PaineÕs Common Sense helped focus our founding independence. Schumacher is fighting a similar oppression, only this time we colonized ourselves, as he reveals by sub-titling his book ÒEconomics as if People Mattered.Ó

The wonder of SchumacherÕs work is his eminent practicality, based on his years with the British Coal Board.

With good sense and a mature spirituality, Schumacher comes on like John Henry against the mega-machine, sure that he will win, and he is.
                                                         Ñ Stewart Brand
Ù Intermediate Technology Development Group
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##A 07 43753 24
##T Small is Beautiful
Small is Beautiful

@@
E.F. Schumacher
1975; 305 pp.
ISBN 060803525
$4.95 ($6.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper and Row Publishers
Keystone Industrial  Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
@@

##A 07 15479 28
##T THE FOUR ILLUSIONS OF MONEY
THE FOUR ILLUSIONS OF MONEY

@@
by Michael Phillips, Salli Rasberry, and Andorra Freeman

               (Condensed from the book Honest Business Ù)


Why do people work at jobs they donÕt like?  Why do they say their goal in life is to Òmake a lot of money?Ó

ÒA lot of money will let me be free to do what I want.Ó

ÒPeople with a lot of money command more respect from others.Ó

ÒI need more money for my family.Ó
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##A 07 44637 40
##T Walden
Walden

@@
The prime document of AmericaÕs 3rd Revolution, now in progress. This edition is the one, I believe, that Thoreau would have bought.
            
                                                          Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 07 45001 41
##T Walden
Walden

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Walden
Walden and ÒCivil DisobedienceÓ
Henry David Thoreau
1983; 255 pp.
ISBN 0140390448
$2.95 ($3.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Order Dept., Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275

There are at least three different tape versions available; see last three cards of this review for access info and to compare sound excerpts.
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##A 07 24593 44
##T Walden
Walden

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Walden - Tape Version 1

Henry David Thoreau
8 - 1 1/2 hour cassettes
ISBN 0140390448
RentalÑ$15.50     
PurchaseÑ$64.00  ($66.50 postpaid)
from:

Books on Tape
P. O. Box 7900
Newport Beach, CA 92660
800-626-3333

Catalog number 1023
Read by Dan Lazar
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##A 07 48257 45
##T Walden
Walden

@@
Walden - Tape Version 2

Henry David Thoreau
1 cassette
ISBN 0140390448
$12.95 ($14.45 postpaid)
from:

Caedmon
c/o Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park 
Scranton, PA 18512
800-638-6460

Performance by Archibald MacLeish
Catalog number: SWC 1261
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##A 07 48643 46
##T Walden
Walden

@@
Walden - Tape Version 3

Henry David Thoreau
8 cassettes/12 hours
ISBN 0140390448
Purchase: $39.95;
30-day rental: $14.50 (Purchase: $43.20 postpaid; 30-day rental: $17.75 postpaid)
from:
Recorded Books
P. O. Box 409
Charlotte Hall, MD 20622
800-638-1304

Unabridged narration by James Hamilton
Catalog number 81300
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##A 07 7004 47
##T The Seven Laws of Money
The Seven Laws of Money


@@
The great hippie money book. Written in 1973 (and full of Whole Earth lore from that time), it taught a lot of people about how to live with money without letting it take over their lives. The advice still resonates.

                                                        Ñ Art Kleiner

This wise and original book has made a lot of people cheeky enough to try stuff, and itÕs helped them get away with it. 

                                                        Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 07 49564 48
##T The Seven Laws of Money
The Seven Laws of Money


@@
Michael Phillips
1974; 194 pp.
ISBN 0394706862
$5 ($6 postpaid)
from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 07 61118 52
##T The Grass Roots Fundraising Book
The Grass Roots Fundraising Book

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Joan Flanagan tells how to put some power in your organizationÕs purse, without worrying about strings that may be attached to government or foundation grants. The book methodically outlines the planning process for fundraising events of all sizes, from a neighborhood book sale to a $50-a-plate dinner; and it offers suggestions for year-round fundraising, like membership dues or setting your group up in business. As treasurer of an organization struggling to meet a $55,000-a-year budget, I referred to
FlanaganÕs book for both inspiration and nuts-and-bolts advice.           
                                                                  
                                                                Ñ Nancy E. Dunn
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##A 07 61575 53
##T The Grass Roots Fundraising Book
The Grass Roots Fundraising Book

@@
Joan Flanagan for The Youth Project
1982; 219 pp.
ISBN 0809257467
$11.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Contemporary Books
180 North  Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60601
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##A 07 88648 56
##T Grassroots Fundraising Journal
Grassroots Fundraising Journal

@@
The journal follows in the footsteps of The Grass Roots 
Fundraising Book (see separate review Ù), giving concrete examples  and always relating them back to the basic issues: your supporters are the best source of funds, and they need to know what youÕre doing and that you have a role for them that is interesting and useful.  Details to carry this out range from good mailing-list maintenance to imaginative events and persistence.
                                                                     
                                                            Ñ Michael Phillips
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##A 07 88951 57
##T Grassroots Fundraising Journal
Grassroots Fundraising Journal

@@
Kim Klein and Lisa Honig, Editors
ISSN 07404832
$20/year(6 issues)
from:

Grassroots Fundraising Journal
517 Union Avenue #206
Knoxville, TN 37902
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##A 07 89780 59
##T The Foundation Directory
The Foundation Directory

@@
The method that works for 95 percent of all successful grant applications is to apply to an appropriate agency every year for three years. Why three years? They donÕt trust you until they know youÕre established. This reference book, along with the National Directory of Corporate Charity (see separate review Ù) will tell you how to find the right agencies for your project.

                                                        Ñ Michael Phillips
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##A 07 89867 60
##T The Foundation Directory
The Foundation Directory

@@
Loren Renz, Editor
11th Edition 1987; 1001 pp.
ISBN 0879541997
$65 ($67 postpaid)
from:

Foundation Center
79 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10003
800-424-9836
212-620-4230
@@

##A 07 10398 62
##T National Directory of Corporate Charity
National Directory of Corporate Charity


@@

This reference book, along with The Foundation Directory (see separate review Ù), will tell you how to find the right agencies for your project.

                                                           Ñ Michael Phillips
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##A 07 29431 63
##T National Directory of Corporate Charity
National Directory of Corporate Charity


@@
Sam Sternberg
1984; 613 pp.
ISBN 0960619828
$80 ($82 postpaid)
from:

Foundation Center
79 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10003
800-424-9836
212-620-4230
@@

##A 07 90717 64
##T How to Read a Financial Report
How to Read a Financial Report


@@
This is not an accounting book. It is a hard-nosed and clear analysis of what accounting information can tell you about your business, or any business. This understanding is vital when considering your needs for a loan or new capital, when selling a business or buying one, or when trying to cope with business problems. This is the best book on this subject, and the only book aimed at intelligent people with no academic accounting background.

                                                       Ñ Michael Phillips
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##A 07 91008 65
##T How to Read a Financial Report
How to Read a Financial Report


@@
John A. Tracy
1983; 161 pp.
ISBN 0471834467
$9.95 postpaid 
from:

John Wiley & Sons
Order Department
1 Wiley Drive
Somerset, NJ 08873
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##A 07 61857 68
##T Sylvia PorterÕs New Money Book for the 80Õs
Sylvia PorterÕs New Money Book for the 80Õs

@@

Sylvia Porter is not kidding. This is about money, not so much how to make it, but how to keep, save, and judiciously spend it. There is advice and information on every purchasing decision, and it is usually good advice.                                   

                                                               Ñ Paul Hawken
@@

##A 07 62134 69
##T Sylvia PorterÕs New Money Book for the 80Õs
Sylvia PorterÕs New Money Book for the 80Õs

@@
1979; 1305 pp.

$10.95
($11.95 postpaid) from:

Avon Books
P. O. Box 767
Dresden, TN 38225

or Whole Earth Access
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##A 07 64485 72
##T The Only Investment Guide YouÕll Ever Need
The Only Investment Guide YouÕll Ever Need

@@
There are a lot of problems with personal investing that donÕt meet the greedy eye but can clutter up your life. Andrew Tobias cuts through all of that. This book is a brisk, cheery compendium of highly sophisticated common sense. The most efficient way to make money, he reminds right at the start, is not to spend it. As for investing itself, he preaches a bare-bones, conservative line  Ñ  discount brokers, no-load mutual funds, a healthy IRA account, and very little action. HeÕs got good detailed tricks and tips (save money in your childrenÕs names and itÕll mount tax free), but the basic strategy is simple, slow, wise  Ñ  freeing.

                                                           Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 07 64517 73
##T The Only Investment Guide YouÕll Ever Need
The Only Investment Guide YouÕll Ever Need

@@
Andrew Tobias
1983; 192 pp.
ISBN 0553262513
$4.50 ($6.50 postpaid)
from:

Bantam Books
414 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
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##A 07 67736 76
##T Catalyst
Catalyst

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Resources for giving away or investing your money to good end. Catalyst is three good newsletters in one, devoted to three purposes: 

1. helping socially-conscious investors; 
2. helping progressive organizations and businesses that need                              loans or investors; 
3. linking 1 and 2.
                                                                        
                                                              Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 07 67944 77
##T Catalyst
Catalyst

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Investing in Social Change
Susan Meeker-Lowry, Editor
ISSN 07426534
$20/year (4 issues)
from:

Catalyst
64 Main Street, 2nd Floor
Montpelier, VT 05602
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##A 07 19254 81
##T LEGAL INTRODUCTION
LEGAL INTRODUCTION

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Supposedly, lawyers hate and fear self-help law books because they encroach on our sacred turf. But as a lawyer myself, I think self-help law books are a wonderful idea.

Why? Think of a toothbrush. Think of dental floss. Does your dentist scoff at them? Imagine what your teeth would look like to the dentist if you never brushed or flossed. That is typically how a lawyer finds the legal affairs of a client who has never practiced simple legal self-care. With awareness and thoughtful action, you can avoid major legal disasters that can be as costly and as painful as a root canal.

Caution: Just as you would not attempt to wire your childÕs braces,
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##A 07 65555 83
##T WillMaker
WillMaker

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A fertile hybrid that I expect to see more of: can-do software that lives inside a how-to book. In this case, the book itself is one of the better ones on preparing your own will. The will-making procedures have been made precisely methodical in order to please the vaguely dumb logic of the computer. At the same time, the software has an articulate book to introduce and speak for it. ItÕs quick enough to think differently depending on what state you say you live in. The combination makes it quite painless to write or update a will.

                                                             Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 07 65817 84
##T WillMaker
WillMaker

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1988; 202 pp.
Book and software: Apple, IBM compatible & Mac $59.95;
Commodore $39.95 (Software: Apple, IBM compatible & Mac $62.45 postpaid;
Commodore $42.45 postpaid)
from:
Nolo Press
950 Parker Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
800-992-NOLO
800-445-NOLO (CA)
(specify software for Apple, IBM compatible [5.25 inch or 3.5 inch diskettes], Macintosh or Commodore)
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##A 07 27720 85
##T Redress for Success
Redress for Success

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In order to know Òhow-to-do-itÓ you sometimes have to know what has gone before. I have never read a more complete overview of the current state of the legal rights of women. Complete and completely fascinating reading. If youÕre a woman you need this book.

                                                           Ñ Donna Hall
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##A 07 27935 86
##T Redress for Success
Redress for Success

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Using the Law to Enforce Your Rights as a Woman
Dana Shilling
1985; 325 pp.
ISBN 0140084193
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Order Dept.
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
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##A 07 25125 89
##T Legal Research
Legal Research

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This is the simplest, most comprehensive book I have found on legal research. It tells you everything except how to find the county law library. Take it there with you. Research skills come in handy whenever you have a problem that involves finding out about a particular law  Ñ  problems ranging from fighting a ticket to figuring out how to get the neighborhood bird lover to refrain from feeding pigeons on top of your new car. 

                                                            Ñ Donna Hall
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##A 07 25346 90
##T Legal Research
Legal Research

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Steven Elias
2nd Edition 1988; 262 pp.
ISBN 0873370201
$14.95 ($17.45 postpaid)
from:

Nolo Press
950 Parker Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
800-992-NOLO
800-445-NOLO (CA)
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##A 07 22242 93
##T Nolo Press
Nolo Press

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Nolo has been producing high quality self-help law books since 1971 and has set the standard for understandable and comprehensive volumes. They are to law what ChiltonÕs is to automotive repair.  All of NoloÕs books are updated as the law changes.  As their newsletter, Nolo News, remarks, out of date equals dangerous!  To ensure that your volume is up to date they print a number you can call in each book, and they give substantial discounts to individuals who want to update older editions.

                                                                Ñ Donna Hall
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##A 07 22375 94
##T Nolo Press
Nolo Press

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$7/year(4 issues)
Publications list free
from:

Nolo Press
950 Parker Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
800-992-NOLO
800-445-NOLO (CA)
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##A 07 23190 98
##T ACLU Handbooks
ACLU Handbooks

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As Andrew Fluegelman wrote when we first reviewed this series many years ago, ÒKnowing what your rights are wonÕt keep you from having them violated, but youÕll stand a much better chance of protecting yourself when someone tries.Ó These essential handbooks, published by the American Civil Liberties Union, are, deplorably, going out of print; but we still heartily recommend the ones remaining. 

                                                             Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 07 23430 99
##T ACLU Handbooks
ACLU Handbooks

@@
Publications price list
free from:

ACLU Books
Literature Department
132  West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
212-944-9800
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##A 07 24179 102
##T Americans for Legal Reform
Americans for Legal Reform

@@

This magazine is a good way to follow developments in legal reform.
                                                 
                                                         Ñ Donna Hall
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##A 07 24431 103
##T Americans for Legal Reform
Americans for Legal Reform

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Richard Hebert, Editor
ISSN 07396813
$15/year (4 issues) including membership 
from:

HALT  Ñ  An Organization of Americans for Legal Reform
1319 F Street N.W.
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20004
202-347-9600
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##A 07 20540 107
##T EverybodyÕs Guide to Small Claims Court
EverybodyÕs Guide to Small Claims Court

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This is a superb book, flawless!  No small business should be without it. If you like to sue other people and businesses, then 
youÕll also find it helpful. 

                                                       Ñ Michael Phillips
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##A 07 20824 108
##T EverybodyÕs Guide to Small Claims Court
EverybodyÕs Guide to Small Claims Court

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Ralph Warner
3rd Edition 1988; 263 pp.
ISBN 0873370074
$14.95 ($17.45 postpaid)
from:

Nolo Press
950 Parker Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
800-992-NOLO
800-445-NOLO (CA)
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##A 07 26498 113
##T Media Law
Media Law

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Whenever you write you are exposing yourself to lawsuits and possible jail sentences. GalvinÕs book helps writers do their job without legal troubles.

                                                              Ñ Donna Hall
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##A 07 26866 114
##T Media Law
Media Law

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Katherine M. Galvin
1984; 224 pp.
ISBN 0917316754
OUT OF PRINT 

Nolo Press
800-992-NOLO
800-445-NOLO (CA)
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##A 07 57953 117
##T PROTECTING IDEAS
PROTECTING IDEAS

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For amateur lawyer types. Succinct expositions of the current law in compact books. ItÕs helpful to have the Intellectual Property Law Dictionary at your side while burrowing into Intellectual Property.

                                                            Ñ Kevin Kelly





Ù see also two reviews of books on copyrights
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##A 07 86809 118
##T PROTECTING IDEAS
PROTECTING IDEAS

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Intellectual Property
(Patents, Trademarks, and 
Copyright in a Nutshell)
Arthur R. Miller
and Michael H. Davis
1983; 428 pp.
ISBN 0314745246
$8.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

West Publishing
Telemarketing Department
P.O. Box 64833
St. Paul, MN 55164-1804
612-228-2500
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##A 07 109068 119
##T PROTECTING IDEAS
PROTECTING IDEAS

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Intellectual Property Law Dictionary
1988; 222 pp.
$17.95 ($20.45 postpaid)
from:

Nolo Press
950 Parker Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
800-992-NOLO
800-445-NOLO (CA)
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##A 07 64239 124
##T Intellectual Property Rights
Intellectual Property Rights

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A prime document of the revolution now in progress. What is property and  therefore due government protection? This report tips the balance of the arguments toward the commonwealth side by virtue that the report itself, a GPO publication, is copyright free. 

(It is published by that rare entity, a government agency that works: the noble Office of Technology Assessment. Check out their other remarkably well-researched reports too.)

                                                              Ñ Kevin Kelly


Ù How To Copyright Software
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##A 07 67387 125
##T Intellectual Property Rights
Intellectual Property Rights

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(In an Age of Electronics and Information)
1986; 299 pp.
$32.95 ($35.95 postpaid)
from:

NTIS
5285 Port Royal Road
Springfield, VA 22161
703-487-4600

NTIS Stock #PB87-100301
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##A 07 61281 129
##T The Damn Good Resume Guide
The Damn Good Resume Guide


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This useful book advocates a short, precisely tailored resume as the best aid in a job search. Yana Parker developed her resume models based on her own years working for a state employment office, her more recent experiences running a resume service, and extensive feedback from employers. ItÕs all summed up here in 60 highly readable pages which include 14 sample resumes illustrating how different individuals with varied skills put their best feet forward. At least one person I know got her present job by using this book. Recommended.
 
                                                              Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 07 68781 130
##T The Damn Good Resume Guide
The Damn Good Resume Guide


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Yana Parker
1986; 80 pp.
ISBN 0898151120
$5.95 ($6.95 postpaid)
from:

Ten Speed Press
P. O. Box 7123
Berkeley, CA 94707
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##A 07 18281 132
##T What Color Is Your Parachute?
What Color Is Your Parachute?

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In a domain positively viscous with lame books, this perennially best-selling guide to job-seeking has no competition. It is updated annually (thatÕs impressive), it is cheery for a reader who could probably use some cheer, and it has sound, detailed advice for an all-important task that is well-served with a bit of skill.
 
                                                          Ñ  Stewart Brand
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##A 07 18622 133
##T The 1988 What Color Is Your Parachute?
The 1988 What Color Is Your Parachute?

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Richard Nelson Bolles
Revised Edition 1988; 364 pp.
ISBN 0898151570
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Ten Speed Press
P. O. Box 7123
Berkeley, CA 94707
415-845-8414
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##A 07 69430 136
##T The American Almanac of Jobs and Salaries
The American Almanac of Jobs and Salaries

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An amazingly complete and comprehensive survey of what people do for work here in America and what they get paid for it. Useful if you want to find out what is ahead of you in your job, or if you are surveying different professions, or if you just want to learn something about the social fabric as it applies to power, prestige, and money in the workplace.                     

                                                         Ñ Bruce E. Coughran
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##A 07 69758 137
##T The American Almanac of Jobs and Salaries
The American Almanac of Jobs and Salaries

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John W. Wright
Revised Edition 1984; 779 pp.
ISBN 0380856883
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Avon Books
P. O. Box 767
Dresden, TN 38225
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##A 07 70830 140
##T The Rights of Employees
The Rights of Employees

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Surprise:  American employees donÕt have many rights. This book from the American Civil Liberties Union explains the murkiness of labor law in a relatively clear question-and-answer format. It includes discrimination, occupational safety, privacy on the job, sexual harassment, pensions, overtime, and unions. If you earn wages, you probably need it  Ñ  even if you donÕt realize why until after you read it.                                       

                                                                  Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 07 71108 141
##T The Rights of Employees
The Rights of Employees

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Wayne N. Outten with Noah A. Kinigstein
1983; 369 pp.
ISBN 0553236563
$3.95 ($4.95 postpaid)
from:

American Civil  Liberties Union
Literature Dept.
132 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
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##A 07 71908 142
##T The 100 Best Companies To Work For In America
The 100 Best Companies To Work For In America


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This is the best book on management for working managers. It has one clear lesson. Among these 100 companies, of all sizes and in a wide range of businesses, there are at least 50 different management styles. They all lead to profitability and satisfied employees. ItÕs a great antidote for fads that continually sweep management theory, and itÕs reassuring for the innovative manager who wants to try something new.
 
                                                           Ñ Michael Phillips
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##A 07 72085 143
##T The 100 Best Companies To Work For In America
The 100 Best Companies To Work For In America


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Robert Levering, Milton Moskowitz and Michael Katz
1985; 396 pp.
ISBN 0452256577
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

New American Library
Order Dept.
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
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##A 07 74203 147
##T Intrapreneuring
Intrapreneuring

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This book is aimed at the corporation that wants to keep its entrepreneurs happy and creative, and at those entrepreneurs who need strategy for being effective within a corporation. Both sides of the coin are explored with many examples of people who developed significant new products within the confines of corporate life.

                                                       Ñ Michael Phillips
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##A 07 74483 148
##T Intrapreneuring
Intrapreneuring

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Gifford Pinchot III
1985; 368 pp.
ISBN 0060913355
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper and Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
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##A 07 72868 151
##T Further Up the Organization
Further Up the Organization


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This book has an amazing amount of truth, some of it pretty radical truth, about how to run an enterprise.

                                                        Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 07 73194 152
##T Further Up the Organization
Further Up the Organization


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Further Up the Organization
Robert Townsend
1984; 254 pp.
ISBN 0394535782
$15.95 ($16.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157

There is a tape version available, see last card of this review for access info and to play an excerpted sound.
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##A 07 11802 155
##T Further Up the Organization
Further Up the Organization


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Further Up the Organization - Tape Version
Robert Townsend
Write for free catalog
from:

Brilliance Corporation
235 Fulton
Suite 207
P.O. Box 114
Grand Haven, MI  49417
800-222-3225; 616-846-5256(MI)

Single voice, 4 hours.
Adult Nonfiction     Cat. #35-01
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##A 07 37853 156
##T Games Mother Never Taught You
Games Mother Never Taught You

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Corporations are modelled after the military and women must understand this model to function in any large business. Betty Garragan explains the jargon and system of the corporate world. Why didnÕt we have this book fifteen years ago? It would have saved me and my women business colleagues from reinventing the wheel. Read it now, and youÕll have the opportunity to invent a new game or at least succeed at the old one.

                                                            - Anne Kent Rush
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##A 07 75580 157
##T Games Mother Never Taught You
Games Mother Never Taught You

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Betty Lehan Harragan
1977; 399 pp.
ISBN 0446936855
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 07 54298 161
##T WORKING AT HOME INTRODUCTION
WORKING AT HOME INTRODUCTION

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Why One-Person Businesses?

The one-person business is the most rapidly growing form of new business in the U.S. They have the potential for great efficiency, as we have found in the hundreds we have consulted as clients. Five well-run one-person businesses can produce more for the same amount of money than one business with eight employees  Ñ  and they can do the same amount of work for two-thirds the cost    (as long as real overhead costs are calculated for the employees). Every one-person businessperson should have two books:

1. Ù How to Get Control of Your Time and Life, and
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##A 07 55493 163
##T Working From Home
Working From Home

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Best of the books weÕve seen on this subject, but thereÕs not enough detail. For instance, the authors mention health insurance, a major knot to untangle, but donÕt really point you toward sources. But the table of contents lists almost everything that you need to think about if you are going to work from home. 

                                                             Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 07 55804 164
##T Working From Home
Working From Home

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Paul and Sarah Edwards
1985; 420 pp.
ISBN 0874772400
$11.95 ($13.20 postpaid)
from:

St. MartinÕs Press
Cash Sales
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
800-221-7945
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##A 07 59188 167
##T Home Business Advisor
Home Business Advisor

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The quote on the front page says it all: ÒHelping parents work at home.Ó Each issue has helpful articles on how to arrange your schedule and workspace with a toddler around, how to deal with the stress of being a work-at-home parent, and the good and bad points of bringing children along on business trips. Good general articles on selecting a computer and establishing small business networks makes this a valuable tool for anyone thinking about starting a home business.
 
                                                         Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 07 92242 168
##T Home Business Advisor
Home Business Advisor

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Charlie & Jan Fletcher, Editors
$16/year (6 issues)
from:

NextStep Publications
P.O. Box 41108
Fayetteville, NC 28309
919-867-2128
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##A 07 56810 170
##T Entrepreneurial Mothers
Entrepreneurial Mothers

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A rare book in that it skillfully combines Òyou can do itÓ inspiration with common sense. Mothers looking to start a business have more considerations and obstacles to deal with 
(kids, family, lack of encouragement) and these issues permeate the text. But anyone starting a home business  Ñ  woman or man  Ñ  will benefit from the well-chosen advice. 

                                                          Ñ Bernard Kamoroff

The book also offers what amounts to a course in bargaining techniques  Ñ  some of the best advice IÕve seen.

                                                          Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 07 57021 171
##T Entrepreneurial Mothers
Entrepreneurial Mothers

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Phyllis Gillis
1984; 374 pp.
ISBN 0892562560
$9.95 postpaid 
from:

Macmillan Publishing Co.
Order Dept.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
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##A 07 91901 175
##T SMALL BUSINESS INTRODUCTION
SMALL BUSINESS INTRODUCTION

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Do you wanna start your own small business? A half-million people do just that every year, and a hefty majority of those people go bankrupt within a year. Why? For businesses started by novices, the Number One reason is probably lack of foresight. The people just donÕt think their ideas through very well. They donÕt do any Òmarket research,Ó which is just a fancy term for Òlook before you leap.Ó

ItÕs a real shame, too, because a few nights reading with these few well-chosen books would save a lot of these failed businesses.
  
                                                        Ñ Bernard Kamoroff
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##A 07 108276 176
##T Growing a Business
Growing a Business

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IÕve changed our business practices at Whole Earth since reading this book (and seeing the accompanying public-TV shows based on it). Paul HawkenÕs central theme is that businesses are extensions of people, and that ÒsuccessfulÓ ones, like successful people, are valued by what they ARE, not by what they do, and certainly not by how much money they have in the bank. If you ARE a good company, youÕll BE a good person: helpful, interesting, honest, rewarded, and probably unstoppable. ThatÕs success.

Hawken champions an economy powered by Service. His advice and anecdotes lead you to a means of imaginatively serving both customers and employees. ItÕs an inspirational tour of how good
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##A 07 108784 178
##T Growing a Business
Growing a Business

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Paul Hawken
1987; 251 pp.
ISBN 0671644572
$16.95 ($18.45 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 07 92681 182
##T Small-Time Operator
Small-Time Operator

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Small-Time Operator is most of the financial record-keeping information you need for a small business, plus the lined paper for one year with excellent instructions on how to use it, along with good advice on key issues (such as when the IRS is likely to consider someone your employee).

Kamoroff (the author) lives the advice in the book. You can order a copy directly from him in Laytonville. He will package and ship it to you after he feeds the chickens and tends the garden.

                                                          Ñ Michael Phillips
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##A 07 93099 183
##T Small-Time Operator
Small-Time Operator

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Bernard Kamoroff
Revised Edition 1988; 190 pp.
ISBN 0917510062
$10.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Bell Springs Publishing Co.
Box 640
Bell Springs Road
Laytonville, CA 95454
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##A 07 8343 186
##T The Partnership Book
The Partnership Book

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The second most commonly needed book in small business (after bookkeeping) is a book to help people understand partnerships and set up a partnership agreement. This book is perfect, complete, wise, and miraculous. If potential partners can write an agreement themselves using this book, they have a 70 percent greater chance of succeeding than if they use a lawyer, and a 300 percent greater chance than if they have no written agreement.
             
                                                            Ñ  Michael Phillips
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##A 07 8656 187
##T The Partnership Book
The Partnership Book

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Denis Clifford and Ralph Warner
3rd Edition 1987; 221 pp.
ISBN 0873370414
$18.95 ($21.45 postpaid)
from:

Nolo Press
950 Parker Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
800-992-NOLO
800-445-NOLO (CA)
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##A 07 3123 191
##T Honest Business
Honest Business

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Innovative and practical are not contradictory, merely seldom met with together. The reason this book is full of small business advice which is both innovative and practical is that it is primarily reporting  Ñ  anecdotal material from the Briarpatch, an entrepreneurial network in the San Francisco Bay area with a wealth of gentle success behind it. Michael Phillips has been in the thick of it since the beginning in the early 70s. Here is the full body of what he has learned and been teaching.
                                                                    Ñ Stewart Brand

Honest Business is unique in its combination of simple truths and business moxie.                                          Ñ Bernard Kamoroff

Ù The Four Illusions of Money (excerpted from Honest Business)
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##A 07 4375 192
##T Honest Business
Honest Business

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Michael Phillips
and Salli Rasberry
1981; 209 pp.
ISBN 0394748301
OUT OF PRINT 

Random House
800-638-6460
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##A 07 79394 195
##T We Own It
We Own It

@@

Nitty-gritty how-to for starting and running employee-owned 
(collective) businesses  Ñ  plus purchasing co-ops (like food 
co-ops) and cooperatives to market your wares together.
                                                       
                                                           Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 07 79805 196
##T We Own It
We Own It

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(Starting and Managing Coops, Collectives, & Employee-Owned Ventures)
Peter Jan Honigsberg, Bernard Kamoroff and Jim Beatty
1982; 165 pp.
ISBN 0917510038
$9 ($10 postpaid)
from:

Bell Springs Publishing
Box 640
Bell Springs Road
Laytonville, CA 95454
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##A 07 10089 198
##T In Business
In Business

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The most essential magazine a small business can get is the main trade journal for that particular type of business. Inquire of other business owners, or consult GaleÕs Small Business Sourcebook
(see separate review Ù) for the best one.

The most helpful general business magazine IÕve found for the small-time operator is In Business, a friendly, low-key bimonthly. It runs feature articles about unusual success stories: it recently featured a family-run dairy, a short-line railroad, and a backwoods bed and breakfast. The magazine has regular how-to 
advice on advertising, marketing and the like. I find it a bit too tame, reluctant to be blunt or controversial, but itÕs valuable.

                                                                  - Bernard Kamoroff
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##A 07 12400 199
##T In Business
In Business

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Jerome Goldstein, Editor
ISSN 01902458
$21/year(6 issues);
$36/2 years
from:

The JG Press
P. O. Box 323
18 South Seventh Street
Emmaus, PA 18049
215-967-4135
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##A 07 97577 204
##T OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFFICE SUPPLIES

@@
Good cheap office gear  Ñ  cardboard filing drawers, inexpensive business forms, address labels, and discounted prices on tape, pens, etc. We used to use Quill. They are fast, and easy to work with. Now we use Reliable because their prices are often a tad cheaper. Nicely serving all one-person-one-computer businesses is NEBS, supplier of every conceivable kind of tractor-fed stationery and microcomputer need (daisy wheels, ribbons, disks and so on). All three provide excellent quick service and allow you to order by phone, toll free.

                                                              Ñ Kevin Kelly

Ù Minnesota Western, Inc.
@@

##A 07 2615 205
##T OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFFICE SUPPLIES

@@
NEBS Computer Forms and NEBS Business Forms
Catalog free from:

NEBS
500 Main Street
Groton, MA 01471
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##A 07 107000 206
##T OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFFICE SUPPLIES

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The Reliable Corporation 
Catalog free from:

The Reliable Corporation
1001 West Van Buren Street
Chicago, IL 60607
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##A 07 107215 207
##T OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFFICE SUPPLIES

@@
Quill
Catalog free 
from:

Quill
P. O. Box 4700
Lincolnshire, IL 60197-4700
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##A 07 94712 209
##T Starting on a Shoestring
Starting on a Shoestring

@@
IÕve known for a long time that starting a business with little or no money is not only possible, it happens all the time. I started two businesses that way; and many of my tax clients are small businesses whose start-up capital borders on zero. This book spells out how itÕs done better than any other IÕve seen, and is equally useful for people who have a lot of money to start with. Business success really has little to do with how much money you do or donÕt have; it has more to do with common sense.

                                                          Ñ Bernard Kamoroff
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##A 07 94791 210
##T Starting on a Shoestring
Starting on a Shoestring

@@
Arnold S. Goldstein
1984; 286 pp.
ISBN 0471884391
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

John Wiley & Sons
Order Department
1 Wiley Drive
Somerset, NJ 08873
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##A 07 9582 213
##T Franchise Investigation and Contract Negotiation
Franchise Investigation and Contract Negotiation

@@
Personally, I would discourage anybody from buying a franchise business. You pay someone else money  Ñ  sometimes a large sum of money  Ñ  to use their business name, to do business according to their rules, and to sell what they tell you to sell. After a while you begin to wonder whether you are starting a business or paying a whole lot of money to be ordered around. Obviously, franchises are profitable Ñ there are more McDonalds than there are slugs after a spring rain. But franchises can be trouble, too, especially if you hook up with an unsound or unstable company. You will need quality professional help.

This is an important little book on the subject. If its 40-some 
pages donÕt scare you away from franchises, probably nothing will. DonÕt do anything until you read it.               Ñ Bernard Kamoroff
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##A 07 9895 214
##T Franchise Investigation and Contract Negotiation
Franchise Investigation and Contract Negotiation

@@
Harry Gross and Robert S. Levy
1985; 48 pp.
ISBN 0875761186
$3.95 ($4.95 postpaid)
from:

Pilot Books
103 Cooper Street
Babylon, NY 11702
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##A 07 51551 216
##T Patent It Yourself
Patent It Yourself

@@
Other patent-it-yourself books seem like mere abstracts compared to this detailed gem of a book. Every step of the patent process is presented in order, complete with official forms to practice upon. The language is free of legalese except where readers are trained to sling a bit of it themselves for effect. The book is especially helpful in making tough tactical decisions, such as whether or not to patent at all. The copyright process is covered too.
                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 07 51862 217
##T Patent It Yourself
Patent It Yourself

@@
David Pressman
1985; 421 pp.
ISBN 0917316940
$29.95 ($32.45 postpaid)
from:

Nolo Press
950 Parker Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
800-992-NOLO
800-445-NOLO (CA)
@@

##A 07 52559 220
##T A Handbook for Inventors
A Handbook for Inventors

@@
So you have a good idea. What next? For 90% of the folks with a good idea for a product, whatÕs next is failure - usually attributable to ineptitude. (I can vouch from sad experience that the sharks are many.) This savvy book is a useful guide for those who dare to bring their brainchild to market.  The author concentrates on the strategies and tactics necessary for dealing with the realities of business, not rah-rah success stories that donÕt tell you what the protagonists really DID. 

                                                              - J.  Baldwin
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##A 07 8006 221
##T A Handbook for Inventors
A Handbook for Inventors

@@
Calvin D. MacCracken
1983; 211 pp.
ISBN 0684179067
$18.95 postpaid 
from:

Macmillan Publishing Co.
Order Dept.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
@@

##A 07 10619 227
##T The Effective Executive
The Effective Executive

@@
Wherever thereÕs a bunch of people doing something, somebody is bearing executive relation to the group, usually badly, therefore unhappily for everyone, and nothing much is going on besides frustration. But some leaders are good, and with them a lot happens and everybody feels good. This book takes a deep look into how ÒgoodÓ executives behave in common. The generalizations that emerge are useful to anybody with responsibility, from the honcho of a commune to the Pope.

                                                          Ñ Stewart Brand


Ù Innovation and Entrepreneurship (also by Peter Drucker)
@@

##A 07 10992 228
##T The Effective Executive
The Effective Executive

@@
Peter F. Drucker
1985; 192 pp.
ISBN 0060318252
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper and Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
@@

##A 07 28626 232
##T The Small Business Sourcebook
The Small Business Sourcebook

@@
An amazingly comprehensive listing of thousands of resources for small business.  Want to know the names, addresses and details about the trade associations, trade journals, trade shows, sources of supply, education programs, and statistical studies for dry cleaning businesses?  Or hobby shops? Or jewelry stores? Or a hundred other businesses?  ItÕs all here.  I know of no other single source with so much small business information.  ItÕs very expensive Ñ check your library. 

                                                          Ñ Bernard Kamoroff
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##A 07 30698 233
##T The Small Business Sourcebook
The Small Business Sourcebook

@@
John Ganly, Diane Sciattara, 
and Andrea Pedolsky, Editors
2nd Edition 1986; 1837 pp. 
(2 volumes)
ISBN 0810315971
$185/set postpaid 
from:

Gale Research Inc.
Penobscot Bldg.
Detroit, MI 48226.
@@

##A 07 32207 235
##T Meetings, Bloody Meetings
Meetings, Bloody Meetings

@@
And another bloody meeting. Except this meeting is to watch a life-changing twenty minute video by John Cleese, of wacky Monty Python fame. Funny, clever, sobering, and above all, supremely effective, this video will leave you with the indelible five fundamental principles of running a productive meeting. Cleese plays a harried manager who is put on trial in a dream for his crimes of wasting othersÕ time with his ineffective staff meetings. The court is run by his own haphazard rules to hilarious and memorable results. Send your whole organization through this video (and its equally worthwhile follow up, More Bloody Meetings), and come out liberated from congregation incompetence.

                                                                 ÑÊKevin Kelly
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##A 07 32370 236
##T Meetings, Bloody Meetings
Meetings, Bloody Meetings

@@
Meetings; More Bloody Meetings

Each $155/3-day rental; 
$200/4-to-7-day rental.
Both $260/3-day rental; 
$340/4-to-7-day rental 
from:

Video Arts, Inc.
Northbrook Tech Center
4088 Commercial Avenue
Northbrook, IL  60062
800-553-0091
@@

##A 07 115360 237
##T PC-File Plus
PC-File Plus

@@
YouÕre not still keeping that mailing list on filing cards, are you? PC-File Plus is database software for keeping mailing lists and for many other uses. This long-available software champion is inexpensive and it WORKS (when I was first learning my way around an IBM-PC, this was the one program I easily learned how to use). Once you have PC-File Plus keeping your list up to date  youÕll think of many other uses for it. It can easily handle thousands and thousands of names, making such things as conference invitations, workshop announcements, membership newsletters, or other mailings a relatively sane job. And when you start to push the programÕs limits, youÕll be glad for ButtonwareÕs efficient phone support.

                                                                        Ñ Keith Jordan
@@

##A 07 115457 238
##T PC-File Plus
PC-File Plus

@@
$69.95 ($74.95 postpaid)
from:

ButtonWare, Inc.
P..O. Box 96058
Bellevue, WA 98009-4469
800-454-0479

Shareware; IBM-PC, 384 Mb RAM.
@@

##A 07 116416 239
##T Project Management Using Microcomputers
Project Management Using Microcomputers

@@
Staging a large happening means keeping all the different parts of the projects alive without letting them eat each other. As ringmaster, you need to herd the competing schedules through the center of a Òcritical pathÓ Ñ the specific series of events that forms the backbone upon which the other events hang. Get the critical path done and the project happens. 

Project management software assists sorting out this fluid ecology of needs. A sophisticated package will handle the side currents of a large eventÕs sub-projects, and will calculate the metabolism of the parts Ñ the man-hours needed or available, or the rate of other critical resources. The benefit of this kind of tool is felt most on on-going or repeating projects. ItÕs probably
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##A 07 117262 242
##T Project Management Using Microcomputers
Project Management Using Microcomputers

@@
Harvey Levine
1986; 416 pp.
ISBN 0078812216
$21.95 postpaid 
from:

McGraw-Hill
Princeton Road
Hightstown, NJ  08520
800-262-4729
@@

##A 07 96625 244
##T P.R.
P.R.

@@
What people havenÕt heard about they canÕt take action about. Uncommunicated issues DONÕT EXIST. For local promotion on the quick and dirty and cheap, hereÕs a quick, dirty, and cheap pamphlet of how-to.

                                                            Ñ Stewart Brand


This was written for community organizations but the tricks work for community businesses as well.

                                                            Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 07 96902 245
##T P.R.
P.R.

@@
A Guide to Low Cost Use of Media for Community Organizations
Michelle Cauble
1986; 22 pp.
$1.50
Publications list free ($3.50 postpaid)
from:

Do It Now Publications
P.O. Box 21126
Phoenix, AZ 85036
602-257-0797
@@

##A 07 110217 248
##T Marketing Without Advertising
Marketing Without Advertising

@@
The first two chapters of this startling book argue convincingly, and with documented proof, that almost all advertising is totally ineffective and an utter waste of money; and that most business owners, including top executives of large corporations, have been successfully duped into believing advertising is both necessary and productive in spite of obvious evidence to the contrary. The evidence presented Ñ the at-times hilarious ads themselves, the statistics, the quotes from advertising executives, the Wall Street Journal articles Ñ will actually make you laugh, or if youÕre a buyer of advertising, maybe make you cry. Next time you see or hear an advertisement, think about it a minute. Would you buy what theyÕre trying to sell you? When was the last time an ad convinced you to buy anything? If you run a business, how successful have
@@

##A 07 114462 250
##T Marketing Without Advertising
Marketing Without Advertising

@@
Michael Phillips & Salli Rasberry
1986; 200 pp.
ISBN 0873370198
$14 ($16.50 postpaid)
from:

Nolo Press
950 Parker Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
800-992-NOLO
800-445-NOLO (CA)
@@

##A 07 94074 253
##T Guerrilla Marketing
Guerrilla Marketing

@@
ItÕs a rare business that will survive without successful, ongoing marketing. Marketing means promotion, and Guerrilla Marketing offers up a couple dozen creative, inexpensive promotion ideas. IÕm still not sure what ÒguerrillaÓ means except that it is a good example of whatÕs in the book:  the title is a marketing device itself  Ñ  it catches your eye, makes you a little curious about it, costs nothing. The bulk of the book deals with advertising, which I view with great skepticism since reading Marketing Without Advertising (see separate review Ù). But I personally got several good ideas from the book, a couple of very good ideas, and one business-saving idea. What more could you want for nine dollars?

                                                        Ñ Bernard Kamoroff
@@

##A 07 94395 254
##T Guerrilla Marketing
Guerrilla Marketing

@@
Jay Conrad Levinson
1985; 226 pp.
ISBN 0395383145
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
@@

##A 07 119663 257
##T Positioning (The Battle for Your Mind)
Positioning (The Battle for Your Mind)

@@
Howls from the wolves of the marketplace.

ÒPositioningÓ caught on about 13 years ago as a marketing trend. To make your (probably undistinguished) product seem more distinct and unique, you aim at your competitor, not at your public. The classic positioning campaign was from Avis: ÒWeÕre only #2, we try harder.Ó But that campaign had substance Ñ it forced Avis to shape up its service. More often, positioning is an image game in which the business competitors seek the chinks in each otherÕs armor, while the public is the turf they trample on. In mainstream advertising, the positioning trend seems about to decline, but not before it influenced the methods of all types of business Ñ and the way business is seen. You could accuse Smith and Hawken of
positioning, for instance; by importing a small line of garden tools,
@@

##A 07 119888 259
##T Positioning (The Battle for Your Mind)
Positioning (The Battle for Your Mind)

@@
Al Ries & Jack Trout
1981; 213 pp.
ISBN 0446328979
$4.95 ($6.45 postpaid)
from:

Warner Books/Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 07 86177 261
##T YouÕre Gonna Love It!
YouÕre Gonna Love It!

@@
How to be effective at selling while remaining a (mostly) decent 
human being. 
                                                     Ñ Art Kleiner
@@

##A 07 86323 262
##T YouÕre Gonna Love It!
YouÕre Gonna Love It!

@@
Chuck Lewis
1985; 190 pp
ISBN 0898151422
$7.95 ($8.95 postpaid)
from:

Ten Speed Press
P. O. Box 7123,
Berkeley, CA 94707
@@

##A 07 76294 266
##T How to Start and Operate a Mail-Order Business
How to Start and Operate a Mail-Order Business

@@
If you want to start a mail-order business, donÕt do anything until you read this 553-page book. ItÕs been selling steadily for years. It is a thorough, in-depth study of mail-order. It is, in my opinion, the best book on the subject, period.

                                                         Ñ Bernard Kamoroff


I started a successful (still growing) mail order business using this book as my text. ItÕs the wisest investment of $30 a mail-order hopeful could make.

                                                          Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 07 76551 267
##T How to Start and Operate a Mail-Order Business
How to Start and Operate a Mail-Order Business

@@
Julian L. Simon
4th Edition 1987; 576 pp.
ISBN 0070575312
$34.95 ($36.95 postpaid)
from:

McGraw-Hill
Order Dept.
Princeton Road
Hightstown, NJ 08520
@@

##A 07 84112 269
##T How to Open Your Own Shop or Gallery
How to Open Your Own Shop or Gallery

@@

A good, detailed book on retail business, with step-by-step examples. The advice is based on experience; the motives are very American. 

                                                       Ñ Michael Phillips
@@

##A 07 84404 270
##T How to Open Your Own Shop or Gallery
How to Open Your Own Shop or Gallery

@@
Leta W. Clark
1980; 229 pp.
ISBN 0140464093
$6.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Order Dept.
Box 120 
Bergenfield, NJ  07621-0120
800-526-0275
@@

##A 07 81599 273
##T So . . . You Want to Be an Innkeeper
So . . . You Want to Be an Innkeeper

@@
I have owned and operated a bed and breakfast inn for nearly three years now. I wish this book would have been available when I started. Fortunately, my inn has accomplished all the suggestions and tips listed in the book, but not without a lot of trial and error. This book is by far the best on the market.

                                                          Ñ Hugh A. Daniels
@@

##A 07 81827 274
##T So . . . You Want to Be an Innkeeper
So . . . You Want to Be an Innkeeper

@@
Mary E. Davies, Pat Hardy, JoAnn M. Bell and Susan Brown
1985; 218 pp.
ISBN 0892862521
$10.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

MacMillan Publishing Company
Order Dept.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
800-257-5755
@@

##A 07 87072 278
##T Landlording
Landlording

@@

The advice is clear, concise, and based on experience in Berkeley, California  Ñ  a tough town for landlords.
 
                                                          Ñ Michael Phillips
@@

##A 07 87298 279
##T Landlording
Landlording

@@
Leigh Robinson
5th Edition 1988; 366pp.
ISBN 0932956114
$19.95 ($21.95 postpaid)
from:

Express Publications
P. O. Box 1639,
El Cerrito, CA 
94530-4639
415-236-5496
@@

##A 07 80512 282
##T Word Processing Profits at Home
Word Processing Profits at Home


@@

You can do what typists do faster with a word processor. This book tells you how to make a business out of it  Ñ  from your home or nearby office. 
                                                   
                                                        Ñ Jeanne Carstensen





Ù Paths to Computer Purchases
@@

##A 07 80850 283
##T Word Processing Profits at Home
Word Processing Profits at Home


@@
Peggy Glenn
1984; 213 pp.
ISBN 0936930845
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Aames-Allen Publishing Co.
1106 Main Street
Huntington Beach, CA 92648
@@

##A 07 47067 286
##T The Secrets of Consulting
The Secrets of Consulting

@@

If Machiavelli were alive today, he would be a consultant. This is the book heÕd write.

                                                           Ñ Art Kleiner
@@

##A 07 70286 287
##T The Secrets of Consulting
The Secrets of Consulting

@@
The Secrets of Consulting
(A Guide to Giving & Getting Advice Successfuly)
Gerald M. Weinberg
1985; 228 pp.
ISBN 0932633013
$25 ($26.50 postpaid)
from:
Dorset House Publishing
353 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10014
800-342-6657
212-620-4053 (NY)

There is a tape version available, see card last card of this review for access info and to play an excerpted sound.
@@

##A 07 23923 292
##T The Secrets of Consulting
The Secrets of Consulting

@@
The Secrets of Consulting - Tape Version
(A Guide to Giving & Getting Advice Successfuly)
Gerald M. Weinberg
8 - 1 hour cassettes
ISBN 0932633013
RentalÑ$14.50     
PurchaseÑ$64.00 ($66.50 postpaid) from:

Books on Tape
P. O. Box 7900
Newport Beach, CA 92660
800-626-3333

Catalog number 2161
Read by Paul Shay
@@

##A 07 82704 293
##T Starting a Small Restaurant
Starting a Small Restaurant

@@

A tough hands-on guide for people who think their own cooking is great and that they should do it in their own restaurant. 
                                                   
                                                         Ñ Michael Phillips
@@

##A 07 83042 294
##T Starting a Small Restaurant
Starting a Small Restaurant

@@
Daniel Miller
1983; 224 pp.
ISBN 0916782379
$9.95 ($12.95 postpaid)
from:

The Harvard Common Press
535 Albany Street
Boston, MA 02118
@@

##A 07 78525 296
##T Freelance Foodcrafting
Freelance Foodcrafting

@@

Covers every possible way to make money from food except starting a restaurant.

                                                       Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 07 78793 297
##T Freelance Foodcrafting
Freelance Foodcrafting

@@
How to Become Profitably Self-Employed in Your Own Creative Cooking Business
Janet Shown
1983; 172 pp.
ISBN 0911781005
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Liberty Publishing Company, Inc.
440 South Federal Highway
Suite B-3
Deerfield Beach, FL 33441
@@

##A 07 60076 300
##T A Conference and Workshop PlannerÕs Manual
A Conference and Workshop PlannerÕs Manual

@@

The best conferences are on new subjects by new people. The worst conferences are by new people who donÕt know what
theyÕre doing. This straightforward text  Ñ  itÕs basically a 
well-experienced checklist  Ñ  can make the difference.

                                                       Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 07 104911 301
##T A Conference and Workshop PlannerÕs Manual
A Conference and Workshop PlannerÕs Manual

@@
Lois B. Hart and Gordon Scheicher
1979; 150 pp.
ISBN 0911777113
$16.95 postpaid 
from:

Leadership Dynamics
3775 Iris Avenue, Suite 3B
Boulder CO  80301
303-440-0909
@@

##A 07 29755 304
##T PUTTING ON LARGE MEETINGS
PUTTING ON LARGE MEETINGS

@@
WeÕre talking Serious Meeting here, generally big ones in rented spaces, where logistics are at least as important as content. The larger the meeting, the more harrowing the logistics, the greater the need for careful preparation. Nothing will prevent burst water pipes, a no-show speaker, or bomb scare, but these books will spare you the catastrophes and embarrassment of poor planning.

How to Plan and Book Meetings and Seminars is a good introduction to planning tactics, from booking hotel rooms to scheduling coffee breaks. The Book of Meeting Checklists is just that Ñ items addressing every conceivable contingency are included, many of which youÕll probably never need, many more you never would have thought of and are glad theyÕre listed here.
@@

##A 07 85619 306
##T PUTTING ON LARGE MEETINGS
PUTTING ON LARGE MEETINGS

@@
How to Plan and Book Meetings and Seminars
Judy Williams
1987; 146 pp.
ISBN 0894960040
$7.95 ($8.95 postpaid)
from:

Ross Books
P.O. Box 4340
Berkeley, CA 94704
800-367-0930
800-537-3338 (CA)
@@

##A 07 31044 307
##T PUTTING ON LARGE MEETINGS
PUTTING ON LARGE MEETINGS

@@
The Book of Meeting Checklists
Helen Adam
1985; 37 pp.
ISBN 0934707016
$9.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Helen Adam & Associates, Inc.
Benjamin Fox Pavilion
Jenkintown, PA  19046
@@

##A 07 110436 309
##T Minnesota Western, Inc.
Minnesota Western, Inc.

@@
If you want what you say to stick, donÕt just say it Ñ display it. As retention rates are five times greater for verbal information accompanied by visual reinforcement, anything important enough to convene a meeting for calls for spiffy presentation technique and products. Generous dollops of both are contained in this audio-visual catalog:  staples (overhead projectors, chalkboards) and 
high-tech innovations (computer projectors, electronic copyboards) are backed up by a 30-page section on how to hold an effective meeting. Good solid advice applicable to workshops and conferences as well, and yours for a toll-free phone call.

                                                           Ñ Sarah Satterlee

Ù Office Supplies
@@

##A 07 110907 310
##T Minnesota Western, Inc.
Minnesota Western, Inc.

@@
(Visual Presentation Systems)

Free catalog from:
800-635-8600
800-682-2424 in southern CA
@@

##A 07 112593 312
##T Organizing . . . Profitable Workshop Classes
Organizing . . . Profitable Workshop Classes

@@

ItÕs sort of shocking that ALL you need to know to turn your skill into a class can be compressed into so small and blithe a booklet. 

                                                                 Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 07 112688 313
##T Organizing . . . Profitable Workshop Classes
Organizing . . . Profitable Workshop Classes

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Organizing and Operating Profitable Workshop Classes
Janet Ruhe-Schoen
1981; 31 pp.
ISBN 0875760929
$2.50 ($3.50 postpaid)
from:

Pilot Books
103 Cooper Street
Babylon, NY 11702
516-422-2225
@@

##A 07 113719 316
##T Workshops & Seminars
Workshops & Seminars

@@

YouÕve done one seminar as a favor, and the attendees kept asking for more. It feels great. HereÕs how to proceed to hone your workshop-running skills and join the podium circuit. 

                                                       Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 07 114039 317
##T Workshops & Seminars
Workshops & Seminars

@@
(Planning, Promoting, Producing, Profiting)
Pat Roessle Materka
1986; 167 pp.
$10.95 ($12.05 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ  07675
800-223-2348
@@

##A 07 32824 321
##T CRAFT BUSINESS INTRODUCTION
CRAFT BUSINESS INTRODUCTION

@@
Money is not contradictory to craftwork. Your main inspiration for starting a business may have been your love of your craft rather than money, but to succeed with your crafts business youÕll need to make both well. Once you do, it will seem like the best of all possible worlds  Ñ  doing what you love and getting paid for it. 
 
                                                               Ñ David Jouris
@@

##A 07 34847 322
##T The Crafts Business Encyclopedia
The Crafts Business Encyclopedia

@@
Its big advantage over the other crafts business guides is that entries are organized in convenient dictionary form. ItÕs a good general reference guide which will either tell you what you want to know about the crafts business or, if not, where to find out.
                                                                                                                                                    
                                                            Ñ  Marilyn Green
@@

##A 07 35122 323
##T The Crafts Business Encyclopedia
The Crafts Business Encyclopedia

@@
Michael Scott
1977; 286 pp.
ISBN 0156227258
$5.95 ($6.95 postpaid)
from:

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1250 6th Avenue, 4th floor
San Diego, CA 92101
800-543-1918
@@

##A 07 36261 326
##T Health Hazards Manual for Artists
Health Hazards Manual for Artists

@@
Who would expect to be poisoned by sawing a red cedar board?        (The sawdust causes severe asthma.)  Back when we didnÕt know any better such things were common, and many folks, including nonartists, are still needlessly hurt.  No excuse though  Ñ  this book briefly discusses known hazards by specific art or craft. ThereÕs an especially good chapter on protecting children. Wintergreen-flavored library paste isnÕt mentioned. I suppose if it were toxic weÕd have lost an entire generation.
 
                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin

Ù REMEDIES
@@

##A 07 36533 327
##T Health Hazards Manual for Artists
Health Hazards Manual for Artists

@@
Michael McCann, Ph.d.
1985; 100 pp.
ISBN 094113006
OUT OF PRINT 

Foundation for the Community of Artists
280 Broadway, Suite 412
New York, NY 10007
@@

##A 07 33136 329
##T CRAFT BUSINESS MAGAZINES
CRAFT BUSINESS MAGAZINES

@@
Two magazines for craft business news.  American Craft comes with membership in the American Craft Council.

                                                           Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 07 36042 330
##T Craft Business Magazines
Craft Business Magazines

@@
American Craft
Lois Moran, Editor
ISSN 01948008
$40/year(6 issues)
$46/year foreign
includes membership
from:

American Craft Council
Membership Dept.
P.O. Box 1308-CL
Fort Lee, NJ 07024-9990
@@

##A 07 37131 331
##T Craft Business Magazines
Craft Business Magazines

@@
The Crafts Report
Michael Scott, Editor
ISSN 01607650
$17.50/year (11 issues) 
from:

The Crafts Report Publishing Co., Inc.
700 Orange Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
302-656-2209
@@

##A 08 43292 5
##T Technologies of Freedom
Technologies of Freedom

@@
This book sums up a lifetime of reflection on the impact of electronic media. Until his death, author Pool was head of the MIT Program on Communications Policy Research. The focus of this book is easy to state: our tradition of free speech and free press has not been fully extended to electronic media for a variety of reasons, some still convincing, others not. As the center of cultural ÒgravityÓ shifts toward electronic publishing and electronic speech, will we lose that pre-electronic First Amendment tradition?

Pool answers the question by media: broadcasting publishing, mail, cable television, telephony, etc. For each he reviews its evolution from the perspective of conflicts between freedom of expression 
and regulation of access and use. The language is simple, clear and
@@

##A 08 70194 7
##T Technologies of Freedom
Technologies of Freedom

@@
Ithiel de Sola Pool
1983; 299 pp.
ISBN 0674872339
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)

from:
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press
79 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-2600
@@

##A 08 3984 10
##T Understanding Media
Understanding Media


@@
That media are extensions of our senses  Ñ  telephones for ears, computers for mind  Ñ  and that these new media are forces in themselves, the main event, regardless of what they bother to say 
(Òthe medium is the messageÓ), are insights originating from McLuhan. That the media immediately engulfed McLuhanÕs ideas, and made them at once obvious and degrees more consequential, is part of his message.                             Ñ Kevin Kelly

Everybody talks about McLuhan, and everybody does something about him, and that makes it subjectively harder to get at him.
HeÕs got other insights than what you hear about, so itÕs worth the trouble to track him down. The primest McLuhan is Understanding Media.                                                   Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 08 7989 11
##T Understanding Media
Understanding Media


@@
Marshall McLuhan
1964; 320 pp.
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)

from:
New American Library
Box 120 
Bergenfield, NJ 07621
800-526-0275;
201-387-0600(NJ)
@@

##A 08 98429 14
##T TuringÕs Man
TuringÕs Man

@@
Bolter is a professor of classics and his book is about how technology effects the way people think about themselves and their society. He notes that the Greeks lived with a technology based on craft and they likened man to a clay vessel. The advent of mechanical clocks brought in the idea of the mind as a clock work and the body as an engine. This is beginning to be supplanted by the idea of human beings as computers. We talk blithely about burn out, about information overload, and about the system crashing as ways that our minds and bodies work. His subject is therefore not artificial machine intelligence but artificialized humans. The book is a little uneven and to my mind doesnÕt go far enough in its exploration of the modern metaphors. For example he makes no note that the metaphors of the computer are largely drawn from
@@

##A 08 109665 16
##T TuringÕs Man
TuringÕs Man

@@
(Western Culture in 
the Computer Age)

J. David Bolter
1984; 264 pp.
ISBN 0807841080
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)

from:
The University of 
North Carolina Press
P.O. Box 2288
Chapel Hill, NC  27514
919-966-3561
@@

##A 08 9185 19
##T Culture Is Our Business
Culture Is Our Business


@@
McLuhanÕs best format. Each pair of pages has a reprint of an ad on the right, and fresh McLuhan aphorisms, quotes, and misquotes on the left. The resulting energy across the spread is economic and multi-directional  Ñ  i.e., you make it.

This book should be restored to print. His news stays news.

                                                      Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 08 9239 20
##T Culture Is Our Business
Culture Is Our Business


@@
Marshall McLuhan
ISBN 007045437X
OUT OF PRINT 
McGraw Hill Book Co.
@@

##A 08 82186 23
##T The Media Monopoly
The Media Monopoly

@@
Why is local news coverage so poor? Because itÕs expensive 
(especially for chain newspapers), because advertisers prefer the lifestyle-type coverage thatÕs taken over most papers, and because many newspapers have monopolies and donÕt need local reporting to hook readers. Living with a lousy newspaper is like sleeping in a room with a cat litter box; after a while you donÕt notice. This book tells how newspapers got so bad, and why magazines take so few chances. Like other professional gadflies, Ben Bagdikian oversimplifies his case somewhat, but the stories he tells are themselves fascinating. ItÕs not a book to read unless you care passionately about periodicals, in which case it may spur you to create your own. ThereÕs no other remedy in most places. Good luck.                                                     
                                                                     Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 08 111923 24
##T The Media Monopoly
The Media Monopoly

@@
Ben H. Bagdikian
1983; 282 pp.
ISBN 0807061638
$10.95 ($11.83 postpaid)

from:
Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
@@

##A 08 10009 28
##T No Sense of Place
No Sense of Place


@@
TV, telephones, and movies explode. The Earth shrinks. Social behavior alters. Childhood, a recent invention, disappears again. All heroes die. Places become events. The rest of this show, hinted at early by McLuhan, is rehearsed here in this analytical book. The news is not new; the comprehensible and comprehensive evidence is.
  
                                                             Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 10267 29
##T No Sense of Place
No Sense of Place


@@
(The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior)

Joshua Meyrowitz
1986; 512 pp.
ISBN 019504231X
$9.95 ($11.95 postpaid)

from:
Oxford University Press
16-00 Pollitt Drive
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
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##A 08 113818 32
##T The Geopolitics of Information
The Geopolitics of Information

@@
News stories about Africa, Asia, or South America rarely match what filters back through friends and acquaintances who have been there. ItÕs not so much deliberate censorship as it is the Western way of noticing and reporting, which makes non-Western cultures seem to disappear Ñ even to themselves. The already slim chance for a developing nation to evolve its own identity in media is further complicated by new computer and broadcast technologies which by their nature ignore national and cultural boundaries. Even getting trained in programming or radio production usually means going to a developed country and picking up methods which clash with many of the worldÕs diverse communication customs. HereÕs a well-written book of political analysis, spurred by recent U.N. debates about ownership and control of the world airwaves and data links. While tackling the problems of the Third World in the
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##A 08 115953 34
##T The Geopolitics of Information
The Geopolitics of Information

@@
Anthony Smith
1980; 192 pp.
$7.95 ($9.45 postpaid)

from:
Oxford University Press
16-00 Pollitt Drive
Fairlawn, NJ 07410
800-451-7556
@@

##A 08 11278 38
##T Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

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Former adman Jerry Mander denounces the inherent dangers of a system where information is controlled by commercial interests and distorts our perception of reality. Food for thought if youÕre trying to kick the TV habit.               

                                                                     Ñ Fabrice Florin
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##A 08 11661 39
##T Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

@@
Jerry Mander
1978; 371 pp.
ISBN 0988082742
$7.95 ($9.45 postpaid)

from:
William Morrow Publishing Co.
6 Henderson Drive
West Caldwell, NJ 07006
201/227-7200
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##A 08 19587 48
##T The Media Lab
The Media Lab

@@
As we speak, the once-separate galaxies of computers, publishing, and broadcasting are melding into each other with a great deal of muttering, armwaving, and hustling of new hardware. At the confluence is MITÕs radical technology department, the Media Lab, which is betting multimillions that it can steer the collision into a cohesive whole: perhaps a mega-combo of telephone/video/
audio/simulation/newspaper that is uniquely tailored to each individual. The goal, as the Media Lab sees it, is to let the audience take over. At stake is the major source of wealth in the future Ñ entertainment/news. 

Sounds like an exciting place to visit. Trouble is, the Media LabÕs work is spread vexingly thin since its range is so wide. When I
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##A 08 31798 50
##T The Media Lab
The Media Lab

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(Inventing the Future at MIT)

Stewart Brand
1987; 285 pp.
ISBN 0670814423
$20 ($22 postpaid)

from:
Viking Penguin Books
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275;
201-387-0600(NJ)
@@

##A 08 86167 57
##T Reality Hackers
Reality Hackers

@@
Hacking as in: life extension, cryogenics, hallucinogenics, biofeedback, new age consciousness, artificial intelligence and anything else on the brink of understanding. This is the most electrifying periodical I read. Funky, home-brewed, refreshingly unpredictable in content and format, theyÕll try out anything.                                                  
                                                                   
                                                                  Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 88035 58
##T Reality Hackers
Reality Hackers

@@
(Information Technologies & Entertainment for Those on the Brink)

R. U. Sirius, Editor-in-Chief
$30/year (10 issues)
Single issue $5 postpaid

from:
Haile Unlikely Communications
P. O. Box 40271
Berkeley, CA 94704
415-995-2606
@@

##A 08 160942 63
##T In the Age of the Smart Machine
In the Age of the Smart Machine

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This book is a truly comprehensive look at the emergence of the information economy, from its origins in the 19th Century to its infiltration of modern American industry. Shoshana Zuboff, a Harvard Business School professor and industry consultant, focuses on several computerized firms Ñ pulp mills, a telecommunications company, a pharmaceutical business, a bank Ñ for a preview of the problems and solutions that are likely to arise in this next economy.
          
                                          Ñ Sarah Vandershaf
                                          [Suggested by Howard Rheingold]
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##A 08 161264 64
##T In the Age of the Smart Machine
In the Age of the Smart Machine

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(The Future of Work and Power)

Shoshana Zuboff
1988; 468 pp.
ISBN 0465032125
$19.45 ($20.43 postpaid)

from:
Basic Books/Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
@@

##A 08 162385 68
##T The Second Self
The Second Self

@@
Get this book back in print!

As a psychologist who has taught at MIT since 1976, Sherry Turkle was well-placed to do the extensive field work that produced The Second Self. And what field work! Six years of it Ñ interviews with hundreds of children, video game addicts, college students, hackers, personal computer hackers, and the cream of Artificial Intelligence academia. To her credit, the result of all this is not a droning statistical regurgitation of her encounters, but a well-reasoned treatise centered around her contention that the computer offers us humans a new and powerful way to see ourselves. Turkle calls it a Rorschach.

She starts by showing us that the computer stimulates little kids
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##A 08 162723 70
##T The Second Self
The Second Self

@@
(Computers and the Human Spirit)

Sherry Turkle
ISBN 0671606026
OUT OF PRINT
Simon & Schuster
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##A 08 163222 74
##T Smart Cards
Smart Cards

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Automated teller machine cards are only a first step. Combine those with card-sized calculators and computer network connections, and you get Ñ what? At the very least, electronic i.d. cards that pay your bills, punch your time clocks, and keep track of your daily progress through the world. At the most, pocket-sized windows for you to know about the world Ñ and the world to know about you.

The author, apparently an electronics engineer, considers smart cards A) a good thing and B) inevitable. I look at this book as you might look at a new power-plant proposal for your city. ItÕs a necessary document, but what we need to see Ñ before these 
things are instituted, please Ñ is an independent environmental impact report.                                        Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 08 164296 75
##T Smart Cards
Smart Cards

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(The Ultimate Personal Computer)

Jerome Svigals
1985; 204 pp.
ISBN 0029489008
$24.95 postpaid 

from:
Macmillan Publishing Company
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
800-257-5755
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##A 08 354744 80
##T Crow
Crow

@@
At first glance, Crow looks like just another expensive magazine devoted to artsy too-hip-to-live media critiques and self-conscious cynicism. But look again Ñ Crow isnÕt just another posture rag; it is, in fact, the real thing: a thoughtful, irreverent, and thoroughly subversive journal of media culture. CrowÕs strongest points are its movie and book reviews. Not only are these interesting and informative, but they dare to betray a critical point of view. The downside of this is that sometimes you feel mugged by certain critics obsessions. CrowÕs music reviews are their weakest point, falling into the obvious trap of praising their current underground idols while slandering everyone thatÕs ever cracked the Top 100. Still, at its weakest, Crow beats 90% of whatÕs on the newsstand today. 
                                                                  Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 369880 81
##T Crow
Crow

@@
Bill Dale, Editor
ISSN 01937782
$19.95/year (6 issues)

from:
Crow Magazine
P. O. Box A 
Wharton, NJ 07885
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##A 08 167164 88
##T Privacy Journal
Privacy Journal

@@
From Washington, DC, the Privacy Journal tracks issues like confidentiality of records, lie detector testing, electronic surveillance, inaccurate credit reporting, invasion of privacy suits, and suppression of free speech. This is the only newsletter on privacy issues, and itÕs as thoughtful and comprehensive as a newsletter can be. There is a question column, too; if you feel 
youÕve been harassed or spied on, you can raise your case. The only drawback is its absurdly high price, annoying in any newsletter but downright distressing here since Smith is a champion of privacy rights for the poor. Maybe a local college library would go for it.  
                                                                  
                                                                    Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 08 167173 89
##T Privacy Journal
Privacy Journal

@@
(An Independent Monthly on Privacy in a Computer Age)

Robert Ellis Smith, Editor
$98/year (12 issues) 

from:
Privacy Journal
P. O. Box 15300
Washington, D.C. 20003
202-547-2865
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##A 08 168163 91
##T The Rise of the Computer State
The Rise of the Computer State

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New York Times reporter David Burnham has written a very scary book about the surveillance potentials of a computerized society. Computers make possible what the author says is likely, in fact, already underway: a very high degree of Orwellian tracking of each of us. Justified as effective for fighting criminals and terrorists, the FBI, CIA, NSA, local police and private security agencies have already created vast interlocked computer networks. You and your organization are probably to be found somewhere in them. WhatÕs more, these networks are only half a step (and one or two remaining laws) from being able to interlock their data with your social security file, your telephone, your zip code, your IRS records, your employer, your bank accounts, your insurance 
company, your charge cards and someday, perhaps, your own dear
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##A 08 168574 93
##T The Rise of the Computer State
The Rise of the Computer State

@@
David Burnham
1984; 282 pp.
ISBN 0394723759
$6.95 ($7.95 postpaid)

from:
Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 08 190927 96
##T DEFENDING SECRETS
DEFENDING SECRETS

@@
Privacy is a more important issue than ever as computers take over data storage for the government. By linking databases, it would be possible to trace virtually all of the movements of anybody in the country. These two books, written in a clear, non-technical style, give you the governmentÕs own words on topics such as the vulnerability of communications systems, federal interpretations of the Privacy Act of 1974, as well as trends in policy relating to data protection. If youÕre interested in how the government views information, these books are a good place to start.
                                                 Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 214987 97
##T DEFENDING SECRETS
DEFENDING SECRETS

@@
Defending Secrets, Sharing Data 
(New Locks and Keys 
for Electronic Information)

Charles K. Wilk, Project Director
1987; 187 pp.
$8.50 postpaid

from:
Superintendent of Documents, 
Government Printing Office,
Washington, D.C. 20402-9325
202/783-3238
@@

##A 08 84092 98
##T DEFENDING SECRETS
DEFENDING SECRETS

@@
Electronic Record Systems and Individual Privacy 
Fred B. Wood, Project Director
1986; 152 pp.
$7.50 postpaid

from:
Superintendent of Documents
Government Printing Office
Washington, D.C. 20402-9325
202/783-3238
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##A 08 168971 99
##T Processed World
Processed World

@@
Sick & tired of living a life of quiet desperation? Try some noisy desperation instead Ñ from Processed World, the unofficial mouthpiece of disgruntled and alienated employees everywhere! Each issue contains devilishly entertaining articles on ways low-level white-collar workers can jazz up their work life Ñ for instance, by diverting corporate information channels to their own use. Stuffing envelopes today? Add copies of radical leaflets 
(preferably xeroxed at the bossÕ expense) to the mailings! Emulating such manoeuvres is sure to get you fired eventually Ñ but if you share Processed WorldÕs opinion of wage slavery, youÕll be glad to shuck that crummy job, anyway.

                                                                   Ñ Sarah Vandershaf
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##A 08 169718 100
##T Processed World
Processed World

@@
ISSN 07359381
$10/year
(4 issues)

from:
Processed World
41 Sutter Street #1829
San Francisco, CA 94104
415-495-6823
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##A 08 170150 105
##T ADVERTISING DOESNÕT WORK
ADVERTISING DOESNÕT WORK

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by Salli Raspberry

Advertising is offensive, expensive, and takes advantage of the vulnerable members of our society. Advertising in America is more intrusive than in any other industrialized country. Yet, in spite of the fact that most Americans are exposed to an estimated 1,000 advertising messages every day, the majority of us are hardly influenced, at least not in the sense that it induces us to buy anything.

Advertising as a means to sell a product or service is simply not effective. People know that advertising is propaganda and donÕt trust it, nor do they remember it. According to market research
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##A 08 172764 109
##T Advertising Pure and Simple
Advertising Pure and Simple

@@
First, read ÒAdvertising DoesnÕt Work.Ó Then, if you decide you still must write ads for your own small business, start here. Written by Òone of the few ad men who enjoys helping young people get started in advertising,Ó this is also recommended for people seeking jobs as copywriters. Author Hank Seiden began his ad career before television, and implies that advertising should have stayed there. That print-oriented approach makes this a good book for learning how to persuade in writing with taste and skill. Seiden pretty much leaves the ethical dilemmas for you to resolve for yourself, except for two: he says cigarette and liquor companies should be allowed to advertise on television, but political candidates should not.
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##A 08 172934 111
##T Advertising Pure and Simple
Advertising Pure and Simple

@@
Hank Seiden
1976; 197 pp.
ISBN 0814475108
$9.95 postpaid 

from:
American Management Association
P.O. Box 1026
Saranac Lake, NY 12983
518-891-1500
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##A 08 173512 113
##T Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion
Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion

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Many people passionately hate advertising and marketing, without really knowing why. They should read Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion. It subtly debunks all the foofaraw about advertisers as conspiratorial manipulators of the public Ñ and then it tells whatÕs really going on: ÒAdvertising is capitalismÕs way of saying 
ÔI love youÕ to itself.Ó No wonder advertising feels so icky to those of us who arenÕt similarly infatuated.

                                                             Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 08 173867 114
##T Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion
Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion

@@
(Its Dubious Impact 
on American Society)

Michael Schudson
1984, 1986; 288 pp.
ISBN 0465000797
$8.95 ($10.95 postpaid)

from:
Basic Books/Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
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##A 08 71009 116
##T Advertising Age
Advertising Age

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Is it any wonder that advertisingÕs biggest news weekly looks like a cross between a glossy beer commercial and a personals ad? These are advertisingÕs insiders talking to themselves and to each other. Like the best trade magazines, Advertising Age is the place to find out how the biz really works Ñ a place where the participants can kick off those Gucci loafers and communicate with the initiated. Read this magazine for a quick education in the buying and selling of the American brain.

                                                                   Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 75723 117
##T Advertising Age
Advertising Age

@@
ISSN 00018899
$64/year (50 issues); 
Single copy $2 

from:
Advertising Age
Circulation Dept.
965 East Jefferson
Detroit, MI 48207
800-992-9970
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##A 08 174625 124
##T Mirrorshades
Mirrorshades

@@
Cyberpunk is a form of science fiction steeped in the philosophy of the Information Age, the age of the global village, the personal computer, Chernobyl, and SDI. Cyberpunk is important because it accepts the technological changes of the last quarter-century and attempts to put them into some kind of perspective. Cyberpunk 
isnÕt interested in predicting the future; itÕs an attempt to find out how we can live there. And the stories in Mirrorshades offer a few fine examples of what living there might be like.

                                                               Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 174999 125
##T Mirrorshades
Mirrorshades

@@
(The Cyberpunk Anthology)

Bruce Sterling, Editor
ISBN 0441533825
$3.50 ($4.50 postpaid)

from:
Ace Books
Berkeley Publishing Group
200 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212-686-9820
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##A 08 175458 128
##T CYBERPUNK 101
CYBERPUNK 101

@@
by Pat Murphy

For a quick intro to cyberpunk, read the Mirrorshades anthology 
(reviewed in this cluster). If youÕre willing to invest more time, check the novels listed here. Cyberpunk, like most successful art movements, has spawned a second generation of practitioners. This list includes many of the folks who helped create and define the movement, as well as some relative newcomers.
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##A 08 175866 154
##T CYBERPUNK 101
CYBERPUNK 101

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Neuromancer 
William Gibson
1984; 271 pp.
ISBN 0441569595
$2.95 ($3.95 postpaid)

from:
Ace Books
Berkley Publishing Group
200 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
@@

##A 08 179044 155
##T CYBERPUNK 101
CYBERPUNK 101

@@
Count Zero 
William Gibson
1984; 246 pp.
$2.95 ($3.95)

from:
Ace Books
Berkley Publishing Group
200 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
@@

##A 08 179266 156
##T CYBERPUNK 101
CYBERPUNK 101

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Mona Lisa Overdrive 
William Gibson
1988; 260 pp.
$18.95 ($20.95 postpaid)

from:
Bantam Books
414 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
800/223-6834
@@

##A 08 179561 157
##T CYBERPUNK 101
CYBERPUNK 101

@@
Mindplayers 
Pat Cadigan
1987; 288 pp.
ISBN 0553265857
 $3.50 

from:
Bantam Books
501 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
800-223-6834
@@

##A 08 179887 158
##T CYBERPUNK 101
CYBERPUNK 101

@@
When Gravity Fails 
George Alec Effinger
1987; 290 pp.
$2.95 ($3.95 postpaid)

from:
Ace Books
Berkley Publishing Group
200 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
@@

##A 08 180070 159
##T CYBERPUNK 101
CYBERPUNK 101

@@
Metrophage 
Richard Kadrey
1988; 240 pp.
ISBN 0441528139
$2.95 ($3.95 postpaid)

from:
Ace Books
Berkley Publishing Group
200 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
@@

##A 08 180259 160
##T CYBERPUNK 101
CYBERPUNK 101

@@
Wetware
Rudy Rucker
1988; 183 pp.
ISBN 0380701782
$2.95 ($3.95 postpaid)

from:
Avon Books
P. O. Box 767
Dresden, TN 38225
800-223-0690
@@

##A 08 180605 161
##T CYBERPUNK 101
CYBERPUNK 101

@@
Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, Total Eclipse
John Shirley
1988
$2.95 each

from:
Warner Books
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##A 08 180800 162
##T CYBERPUNK 101
CYBERPUNK 101

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Islands in the Net 
Bruce Sterling
1988; 352 pp.
ISBN 0877959528
$17.95 

from:
Arbor House/
William Morrow & Co.
Wilmor Warehouse
39 Plymouth Street
Fairfield, NJ 07006
@@

##A 08 181059 163
##T SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES
SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES

@@
Science fiction is changing fast in the Eighties. The following publications will keep you up on all thatÕs interesting and important in the field. Science Fiction Eye is the best of the bunch, specializing in fine feature articles and exhaustive interviews with authors; Locus gives you the latest publishing news from New York; and Science Fiction Guide provides an outlet for authors and editors to critique the field themselves. 

                                                                    Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 181341 164
##T SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES
SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES

@@
Science Fiction Eye 
Stephen P. Brown & Daniel J. Steffan, Editors
$7/year (3 issues)

from:
Science Fiction Eye
P.O. Box 43244
Washington, D.C. 20010-9244
202-745-2693; 
301-946-2106
@@

##A 08 182388 165
##T SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES
SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES

@@
Science Fiction Guide 
Charles Platt, Editor
$6/year (4 issues)

from:
Science Fiction Guide
594 Broadway, Rm. 1208
New York, NY 10012
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##A 08 182258 166
##T SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES
SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES

@@
Locus 
Charles Brown, Editor
ISSN 00474959
$28/year (12 issues)

from:
Locus Publications
P. O. Box 13305
Oakland, CA 94661
415-339-9196
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##A 08 176531 168
##T Mark V. Ziesing, Bookseller
Mark V. Ziesing, Bookseller

@@
All of the books mentioned in Cyberpunk 101, plus many other science fiction, fantasy, art, and small press books are available by mail order from this excellent company. 

                                                            Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 176866 169
##T Mark V. Ziesing, Bookseller
Mark V. Ziesing, Bookseller

@@
Catalog free 

from:
Mark V. Ziesing
P. O. Box 806
762 Main Street (2nd Level)
Willimantic, CT 06226
203-423-5836
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##A 08 12560 172
##T The World of Satellite Television
The World of Satellite Television

@@
The big dummyÕs guide to installing, operating and maintaining a backyard satellite dish. A basic, sensible, essential initiation to a precision tool.

                                                                         Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 13026 173
##T The World of Satellite Television
The World of Satellite Television

@@
Mark Long & Jeffrey Keating
1983; 224 pp.
ISBN 0913990469
$10.95 ($12.95 postpaid)

from:
Quantum Publishing, Inc.
P. O. Box 310
Mendocino, CA 95460
707/937-4488
@@

##A 08 182917 176
##T The Hidden Signals on Satellite TV
The Hidden Signals on Satellite TV

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With more satellite-relayed TV programs being scrambled, backyard satellite dish promoters are starting to publicize the fact that your dish enables you to monitor other types of satellite-relayed signals, too. This book tells most of what you need to know to monitor long-distance phone calls, news agency teletype, stock and commodity prices, corporate data communications, audio services, etc. IÕm not recommending you use your satellite dish that way; the importance of this book is in showing that itÕs relatively easy to do, using off-the-shelf equipment. 

The book has lots of pictures and charts, but is badly copy-edited with many typos. Spelling errors can be seen and discounted at a glance; numerical typos are much harder to pick out, and this book
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##A 08 183095 178
##T The Hidden Signals on Satellite TV
The Hidden Signals on Satellite TV

@@
Thomas P. Harrington
1984; 179 pp.
ISBN 0916661040
$14.95 ($16.70 postpaid)

from:
Universal Electronics, Inc.
4555 Groves Road, Suite 3
Columbus, OH 43232
614/866-4605
@@

##A 08 183623 182
##T The Spaceage Electronics Corp.
The Spaceage Electronics Corp.

@@
Simply the lowest prices on satellite dishes and receivers. Depending on where you live, their hours arenÕt the most convenient for calling: Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM Central time, but you can get a complete system package for between $1200 and $1800. The usual mail-order trade-off is in effect Ñ some bargains, some risk. We have no experience with them. It looks dangerous if you have no idea what to buy. 

                                         Ñ Kevin Kelly & Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 183895 183
##T The Spaceage Electronics Corp.
The Spaceage Electronics Corp.

@@
Catalog free   

from:
The Spaceage Electronics Corp.
P. O. Box 15730
New Orleans, LA 70175
800/624-6599; 
504-891-7210 (LA)
@@

##A 08 14717 184
##T Home Satellite TV
Home Satellite TV

@@
ThereÕs more of a sense of honest revolution here than in the other dozen home-satellite periodicals in print. Sign up and get involved with grassroots crankiness (kidnapping commercial satellites) and hands-on inventiveness that pushes the technological limits of back-yard dishes.                      

                                                            Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 14870 185
##T Home Satellite TV
Home Satellite TV

@@
Bob Wolenik, Editor
$12/year (6 issues)
from:
Miller Magazines
2660 East Main Street
Ventura, CA 93003
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##A 08 15792 188
##T Satellite TV Week
Satellite TV Week

@@
Decidedly the best listings for figuring out which program to watch when there are 18 satellites, each delivering three channels on average, in four time zones, beaming down 24 hours a day. Many other contendersÕ listings are muddled and unwieldy (they come out monthly or fortnightly; this arrives weekly). It has the neatest movie index, which notes every place and every time a particular movie will show. CanÕt miss it.

                                                    Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 16038 189
##T Satellite TV Week
Satellite TV Week

@@
Richard Acello, Editor
ISSN 07447841
$48/year (52 issues)

from:
Satellite TV Week
P. O. Box 308
Fortuna, CA 95540
800/345-8876
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##A 08 255258 193
##T LOW-POWERED TELEVISION
LOW-POWERED TELEVISION

@@
by Lorenzo W. Milam

In 1980, the FCC opened the door for Òlow powerÓ television station (LPTV) applications. The rules permitted new television stations in most markets. The Commission was deluged with applications, and has only recently cleared away most of them. Periodically, they open doors Ñ called, naturally, ÒwindowsÓ Ñ for further applications. These are announced in the trade magazines like Broadcasting (which is too expensive to subscribe to, but which you can find at your local public or university library).

Channel 2-13 (VHF) LPTV is really low power (ten watts maximum, which might not carry more than half a mile). For UHF (Channels
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##A 08 255581 199
##T LOW-POWERED TELEVISION
LOW-POWERED TELEVISION

@@
BerryÕs Best

from:
BerryÕs Best
1705 DeSales Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
202/293-4964
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##A 08 185144 200
##T Lo-Power Community TV
Lo-Power Community TV

@@
Editor Harlan Jacobsen appears to be a sort of populist hero in 
low-power TV circles. His no-frills magazine is a good source of detailed, practical advice on running a low-power TV station. Sample copies are $5.

                                                            Ñ Sarah Vandershaf
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##A 08 185389 201
##T Lo-Power Community TV
Lo-Power Community TV

@@
Harlan L. Jacobsen, Editor
$50/year (12 issues)

from:
Lo-Power Community Television Publishing
7432 West Diamond
Scottsdale, AZ 85257
602-945-6746
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##A 08 186093 203
##T The LPTV Report
The LPTV Report

@@
Slicker than Lo-Power Community TV, this magazine, Òthe official information channel of the Community Broadcasters Association,Ó will give you the legal and business angles on low-power TV, as well as some technical insights.

                                                              Ñ Sarah Vandershaf
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##A 08 186276 204
##T The LPTV Report
The LPTV Report

@@
Jacquelyn Biel, Editor
ISSN 08925585
$25/year (12 issues)

from:
LPTV Report
P.O. Box 25510
Milwaukee, WI 53225-0510
414/781-0188
@@

##A 08 89011 208
##T Deep Dish TV
Deep Dish TV

@@
These folks are the first to coordinate distribution of public-access television via satellite, and their excellent Deep Dish Directory is the best resource guide available for grassroots television producers, programmers, and activists. The listings of access centers, cable systems, and producers can be xeroxed directly onto mailing labels and are in zip-code order; if youÕve ever worked for a small nonprofit organization you know what a practical gift that is.

You can see Deep Dish programming by tuning in to Satcom 3R-Tr.7 for their broadcasts of independent videos on provocative topics like AIDS, housing, Central America, aging, labor, and war. Their first 18-week series was distributed in 350 television systems around the country and theyÕre planning expanded programming to
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##A 08 89574 210
##T Deep Dish TV
Deep Dish TV

@@
Paper Tiger Television and the Boston Film & Video Foundation
1986; 96 pp.
$5 postpaid  

from:
DDTV
339 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10012
212/420-9045
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##A 08 47217 214
##T INTRODUCTION: SHORTWAVE RADIO
INTRODUCTION: SHORTWAVE RADIO

@@
A short-wave radio receiver gives you direct access to broadcasts from around the world: news and opinion, musics too diverse to catalog, a front-row-center seat on international affairs. Channels in this band can be noisy and variable in loudness, so you have to concentrate (earphones really help), but the content of short-wave transmissions amply rewards the extra effort.                                
 
                                                               Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 08 13205 215
##T Icom IC-R71A
Icom IC-R71A

@@
The Icom is for the serious explorer, someone who wants to hear as many different stations as he can. Its tuning system is wonderfully flexible: you can use the digital keypad, if you know the frequency you want to listen to; the rotary knob, if you want to browse; or the 32-channel programmable memory, if youÕve entered the sought frequency ahead of time. A variable pass-band filter, as well as impulse and notch filters, clean away noise, and the overall sound quality (through headphones) is superior. The Icom is compact enough to carry around, though it isnÕt a true portable.                                                    

                                                             Ñ  Robert Horvitz
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##A 08 14256 216
##T Icom IC-R71A
Icom IC-R71A

@@
$999;
Information free

from:
Icom America
2380 116th Avenue NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
206-454-8155
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##A 08 132322 218
##T The Sony ICF-SW1
The Sony ICF-SW1

@@
During the past 10 years, Sony has revolutionized shortwave radio design, putting superior performance into ever-smaller and easier-to-use packages. Considering how much circuitry is needed to pluck weak signals out of the overcrowded bands for international broadcasting, their latest entry, the ICF-SW1, seems almost miraculous.

About the size of an audio cassette, it has a digital frequency display, keypad tuning, 10 programmable channel pre-selects and a 24-hour clock/timer. In addition to shortwave, the SW1 offers AM, stereo FM, and longwave coverage (longwave is used for broadcasting in Europe). ThereÕs a built-in speaker, but the ear pieces supplied with the set provide better sound. An ÒactiveÓ 
(amplifying) antenna comes with the SW1, as does a power-supply
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##A 08 37109 221
##T The Sony ICF-SW1
The Sony ICF-SW1

@@

from:
Sony Corp

Call 800/222-7669 
for dealer nearest you
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##A 08 141654 223
##T Monitoring Times
Monitoring Times

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This monthly, aimed at shortwave listeners, scanner enthusiasts, ham operators and satellite dish owners, tells how to tune in virtually any radio signal in the air. (Since no help is needed with local AM and FM broadcasts, those are ignored in favor of more exotic fare.)
 
MTÕs core is a current worldwide schedule of English-language shortwave broadcasts. Reviews of new receivers and radio publications, interviews with on-air personalities, and simple do-it-yourself projects fill most of the rest of the page-space. Even if you donÕt own the kinds of receivers that enable you to tune in hurricane-hunting aircraft, Mississippi barges, or Radio Havana, a subscription to Monitoring Times is a cheap way to preview whatÕs
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##A 08 142962 225
##T Monitoring Times
Monitoring Times

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Larry Miller, Editor
ISSN 08895341
$18/year (12 issues)  

from:
Monitoring Times
P. O. Box 98
Brasstown, NC  28902
704/837-9200
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##A 08 16656 228
##T The ARRL 1989 Handbook
The ARRL 1989 Handbook

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The largest and oldest national organization of ham radio operators, the American Radio Relay League, publishes a wide variety of excellent books, learning aids, and how-to guides, designed to serve absolute beginners as well as advanced experimenters. Their annual Handbook is a comprehensive reference, finely honed over the years to explain radio theory and practice in the clearest, most accurate, hands-on terms. Includes many construction projects. DonÕt order it without asking about their other goodies.                                

                                                           Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 08 16952 229
##T The ARRL 1989 Handbook
The ARRL 1989 Handbook

@@
Mark Wilson, Editor
1989; 1,170 pp.
$18 postpaid 

from:
American Radio Relay League
225 Main Street
Newington, CT 06111
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##A 08 138542 232
##T SHORTWAVE EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS
SHORTWAVE EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS

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Although radio equipment is more widely available than it used to be, you may not have a store nearby that carries a good selection. Mail order is still a convenient way to shop, and the prices are generally less than youÕd pay in a store. These are some of the leading mail order suppliers of short-wave equipment.

                                                                 Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 08 160363 233
##T SHORTWAVE EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS
SHORTWAVE EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS

@@
EGE
Catalog $1 

from:
EGE
14803 Build America Drive, Building B
Woodbridge, VA  22191
703/494-8750 
or 800/444-4799 
(catalog orders only)
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##A 08 165829 234
##T SHORTWAVE EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS
SHORTWAVE EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS

@@
Universal Shortwave Radio
Catalog $1  

from:
Universal Shortwave Radio
1280 Aida Drive
Reynoldsburg, OH  43068
800-431-3939; 
614-866-4392
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##A 08 165570 235
##T SHORTWAVE EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS
SHORTWAVE EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS

@@
Electronic Equipment Bank
Catalog free

from:
Electronic Equipment Bank
516 Mill Street, NE
Vienna, VA  22180
703/938-3350 
or 800/368-3270 
(catalog orders only)
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##A 08 165350 236
##T SHORTWAVE EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS
SHORTWAVE EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS

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Grove Enterprises
Catalog free

from:
Grove Enterprises
P.O. Box 98
140 Dog Branch Road
Brasstown, NC  28902
704/837-9200 
or 800/438-8155 
(catalog orders only)
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##A 08 256258 239
##T The Original Sex and Broadcasting
The Original Sex and Broadcasting

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Some people go to church. Others work in ramshackle community radio stations. Lorenzo Milam is of the latter persuasion. His 1974 book, Sex and Broadcasting, recently reissued but not updated, is LorenzoÕs great Book, his manual of airwave passion. By now, most of the how-to information is totally obsolete (itÕs pointed out in the introduction that Òa lot of it never worked all that well anywayÓ), but its call to bizarre and creative radio programming reverberates louder than ever through the present drone of 1988 commercial radio. 

Besides the invaluable inspiration to broadcast your wildest dreams (in any medium, really), Sex and Broadcasting is crammed full of interesting anecdotes. Through LorenzoÕs well-written and always irreverent essays; station correspondence from the FCC,
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##A 08 256761 241
##T The Original Sex and Broadcasting
The Original Sex and Broadcasting

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(A Handbook on Starting a Radio Station for the Community)

Lorenzo Wilson Milam
1988; 348 pp.
ISBN 0917320018
$12.95 ($14.45 postpaid)

from:
Mho & Mho Works
P. O. Box 33135
San Diego, CA 92103
619/488-4991
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##A 08 75232 245
##T The Radio Papers
The Radio Papers

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A collection of reflective essays taken mostly from his fertile years of station-spawning, The Radio Papers expresses Lorenzo MilamÕs worship of ÒThe Great Aether God,Ó the alchemical, disembodied medium which holds him Ñ and us Ñ in its thrall. By turns bemused, polemical, and absurdist, the essays are at root the prayers of an idealist who sought not only to revolutionize broadcasting but also to awaken a culture from its brutalizing sleep. That he didnÕt completely succeed explains the exhaustion and bittersweetness of the last few pieces; but by reissuing these musings, Milam seems to be proclaiming anew his faith in the idea that human-centered electronic media is not only worth doing, but doable.                                   
                                                                     Ñ Phil Catalfo
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##A 08 81944 246
##T The Radio Papers
The Radio Papers

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(From KRAB to KCHU: Essays on the Art and Practice of Radio Transmission)

Lorenzo Wilson Milam
1986; 166 pp.
ISBN 0917320190
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)

from:
Mho & Mho Works
P. O. Box 33135
San Diego, CA 92103
619/488-4991
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##A 08 26168 249
##T AudioCraft
AudioCraft


@@
Last winter I began producing occasional news features for Radio NetherlandsÕ Media Network program. This book has been a tremendous help. Clearly written and presuming no technical expertise, it gives good basic advice on how to do broadcast-quality audio production on a limited budget, without putting a lot of you-canÕt-do-that cramps on your creativity. Covers situations relevant to newsgathering, concert Òremotes,Ó radio dramas, interviews, documentaries, recording sessions, promotional 
Òspots,Ó etc. Intended primarily for community radio stations and sound artists, it should also benefit film- and video-makers
(author Thom won an Oscar for his sound work on The Right Stuff).
                                                               
                                                               Ñ Robert Horvitz
Ù Sound Archives
@@

##A 08 26376 250
##T AudioCraft
AudioCraft


@@
Randy Thom
1982; 183 pp.
ISBN 0941209008
$15 ($17 postpaid)

from:
National Federation of Community Broadcasters
1314 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
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##A 08 92682 255
##T Go Public!
Go Public!

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The most comprehensive, informative, downright useful guide to noncommercial radio in the U.S. IÕve seen. Author McClendon profiles more than 1,100 stations that are Ònon-commercial, controlled by nonprofit organizations or government agencies, and are funded by the public, either through taxes, direct listener donations, or private donations.Ó (She excludes religious non-commercial stations.) Spiral-bound for handy glove-compartment stashing, and organized by geographical regions, Go Public! details each stationÕs frequency, wattage, signal radius, format (by daypart), and even indexes many of the most nationally popular programs, such as ÒAll Things Considered,Ó ÒMonitoRadio,Ó and 
ÒNew Dimensions.Ó Perhaps most useful is the plotting of each stationÕs signal area on state maps.
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##A 08 93277 257
##T Go Public!
Go Public!

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(The TravelerÕs Guide to Non-Commercial Radio)

Natalie McClendon
1987; 219 pp.
ISBN 0961798904
$12.95 includes free annual updates ($14.95 postpaid)

from:
Wakerobin Communications
611 North 26th Street
Lincoln, NE 68503
402/435-0963
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##A 08 89834 261
##T The Complete Manual of Pirate Radio
The Complete Manual of Pirate Radio

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A cynic once said that freedom of the press belongs to those who are rich enough to own one. The author of this booklet, who goes by the nomme dÕaire of Zeke Teflon, feels the same way about freedom of broadcast and the transmitters required for the operation. His refreshingly anarchistic attitude is that the air belongs to everyone, and he gives us a formula for reclaiming it from the media conglomerates.

The fact that most of ZekeÕs schemes are illegal and could land you in the pokey must be kept in mind, but that very risk adds to ZekeÕs zest for the venture. He gives us an overview of the possibilities Ñ AM, FM, shortwave, availability of used equipment, 
antenna needs, the pros and cons of fixed, remote and mobile
@@

##A 08 90184 263
##T The Complete Manual of Pirate Radio
The Complete Manual of Pirate Radio

@@
Zeke Teflon
25 pp.
$2.25 postpaid  

from:
Bound Together  Book Collective
1369 Haight Street 
San Francisco, CA 94117
415/431-8355
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##A 08 161636 267
##T A*C*E
A*C*E

@@
The Association of Clandestine radio Enthusiasts (A*C*E) is for people interested in pirate and clandestine broadcasting.

ÒClandestineÓ in this context means unlicensed stations trying to undermine the political order in a target area. Most are covertly sponsored by governments, or overtly identified with insurgent groups. Radio Venceremos, Òofficial voice of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front,Ó is a well-known example in Central America. A less well-known example, closer to home, is ÒLa Voz de Alpha 66,Ó an anti-Castro station based in or near Miami that broadcasts three nights a week in Spanish to Cuba. A*C*EÕs monthly newsletter publishes reports about such stations, though the primary focus is on Òpirates.Ó
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##A 08 166027 270
##T A*C*E
A*C*E

@@
Keith J. Thibodeaux, Editor
$12/year (12 issues) 

from:
A*C*E
P.O. Box 1744
Wilmington, DE  19899
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##A 08 21192 274
##T International Listening Guide
International Listening Guide

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A short-wave radio without schedule and frequency information is sort of like a computer without software: a waste of capability. With thousands of stations on the air, and channel assignments changing seasonally, the International Listening Guide, issued four times a year, is indispensable for anyone interested in English-language programming. Over 800 broadcasts beamed to all parts of the globe are listed by time and frequency. At-a-glance inserts focus on news programs in English, schedules of the major Òworld servicesÓ (BBC, VOA, Radio Moscow, Radio Australia), and where to find ÒDXÓ programs that give additional tuning guidance. 
                                                 
                                                                  Ñ  Robert Horvitz
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##A 08 21358 275
##T International Listening Guide
International Listening Guide

@@
Bernd Friedewald, Editor
ISSN 01789287
$20/year (4 issues) 
or $35 (8 issues)  

from:
International Listening Guide
P. O. Box 1112
D-3588 Homberg
West Germany
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##A 08 22066 277
##T World Radio TV Handbook 
World Radio TV Handbook 

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The World Radio TV Handbook is an annual directory of broadcasting stations worldwide. Loaded with technical details, maps, addresses, callsigns and format notes, serious short-wave listeners find it very useful.                     
                                                                   
                                                                Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 08 22472 278
##T World Radio TV Handbook 
World Radio TV Handbook 

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Jens M. Frost, Editor
1988; 607 pp.
ISBN 0823059197
$21.95 postpaid  

from:
Watson-Guptill Publishers
1695 Oak Street
Lakewood, NJ 08701
800/526-3641
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##A 08 23284 281
##T Association of North American Radio Clubs
Association of North American Radio Clubs

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Radio club newsletters are one of the best Ñ and cheapest Ñ ways to get current information about shortwave schedules and frequencies, reviews of new products, tutorials on how to improve reception, and share the fun of probing the radio spectrum. If you want to meet others who share that interest, save money buying used equipment, or get help in identifying a mysterious station or noise-source, thatÕs exactly what clubs are for.

The Association of North American Radio Clubs (ANARC) is the umbrella organization for groups whose radio activities donÕt require a license (as distinguished from ham radio, which does require a license). Some ANARC clubs specialize in shortwave listening, others in scanners, AM, FM, catching TV broadcasts
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##A 08 23339 283
##T Association of North American Radio Clubs
Association of North American Radio Clubs

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ANARC Club Listing
Information free with 
legal-size SASE

from:
ANARC Publications
P. O. Box 462
Northfield, MN 55057
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##A 08 184990 284
##T Association of North American Radio Clubs
Association of North American Radio Clubs

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ANARC Newsletter
Robert Horvitz, Editor
$7.50/year (12 issues)

from:
ANARC Publications
P.O. Box 462
Northfield, MN 55057
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##A 08 81488 285
##T QST
QST

@@
News, technical data, product reviews, and broadcast listings for the dedicated amateur radio operator.

                                                                 Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 81877 286
##T QST
QST

@@
Paul L. Rinaldo, Editor
$25/year (12 issues)  

from:
American Radio Relay League
225 Main Street
Newington, CT 06111
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##A 08 93475 292
##T CASSETTE ACTIVISM
CASSETTE ACTIVISM

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Electronic music, acoustic music, industrial noise, poetry, audio plays, religious and political propaganda, found sounds, and strange unclassifiable combinations of the above: itÕs all hearable by mail order on independently produced cassettes.

The best survey we found on this cassette underground came from John Pareles, writer for the not-so-underground New York Times. We reprint it in Whole Earth Review #57. But for the story on ordering tapes, we went to insider David Ciaffardini, editor of the independent music magazine Sound Choice.

Here come the sounds.                    
 
                                                              Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 08 50792 303
##T CASSETTE ACTIVISM
CASSETTE ACTIVISM

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Sound of Pig 
from:
c/o Al Margolis
28 Bellingham Lane
Great Neck, NY 11023

Send SASE for Òcontact listÓ Ñ catalog describing each cassette distributed and how to order
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##A 08 51914 304
##T CASSETTE ACTIVISM
CASSETTE ACTIVISM

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Ladd-Frith
from:
Ladd-Frith
P. O. Box 967
Eureka, CA 95502

Send SASE for Òcontact listÓ Ñ catalog describing each cassette distributed and how to order
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##A 08 52189 305
##T CASSETTE ACTIVISM
CASSETTE ACTIVISM

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The Subelecktrick Institute
from:
Subelecktrick Institute
475 21st Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94121

Send SASE for Òcontact listÓ Ñ catalog describing each cassette distributed and how to order
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##A 08 52326 306
##T CASSETTE ACTIVISM
CASSETTE ACTIVISM

@@
Tellus
from:
c/o the Harvest Works
596 Broadway 609
New York, NY 10012

Send SASE for Òcontact listÓ Ñ catalog describing each cassette distributed and how to order
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##A 08 52604 307
##T CASSETTE ACTIVISM
CASSETTE ACTIVISM

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Radio Art Foundation
from:
Radio Art Foundation
Alexander Boersstraat 30
Amsterdam
Holland
telephone [0]20 792 620

Send SASE for Òcontact listÓ Ñ catalog describing each cassette distributed and how to order
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##A 08 73533 308
##T CASSETTE ACTIVISM
CASSETTE ACTIVISM

@@
Catastrophe Theory 
from:
Catastrophe Theory
7 Jackes Avenue, #102
Toronto
Canada M4T 1E3

Send SASE for Òcontact listÓ Ñ catalog describing each cassette distributed and how to order
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##A 08 74143 309
##T CASSETTE ACTIVISM
CASSETTE ACTIVISM

@@
M&M Music 
from:
M&M Music
Route 1, Box 55
Cove, OR 97824

Send SASE for Òcontact listÓ Ñ catalog describing each cassette distributed and how to order
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##A 08 77194 310
##T CASSETTE ACTIVISM
CASSETTE ACTIVISM

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Presence Sound Productions   
from:
Presence Sound Productions
228 Bleecker Street, Box 8
New York, NY 10014

Send SASE for Òcontact listÓ Ñ catalog describing each cassette distributed and how to order
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##A 08 104481 311
##T CASSETTE ACTIVISM
CASSETTE ACTIVISM

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Radio Stigmata 
from:
Bondage & Sabotage, Ent.
1325 Lincoln Way, Suite #6
San Francisco, CA 94122

Send SASE for Òcontact listÓ Ñ catalog describing each cassette distributed and how to order
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##A 08 111634 312
##T CASSETTE ACTIVISM
CASSETTE ACTIVISM

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Underwhich Editions 
from:
Underwhich Editions
P. O. Box 262
Adelaide Street Station
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5C 2J4

Send SASE for Òcontact listÓ Ñ catalog describing each cassette distributed and how to order
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##A 08 94897 313
##T CASSETTE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS
CASSETTE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS

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Anti-Isolation
Mail art and cassette culture embrace warmly in this high-spirited quarterly networking primer guided by the love-it-and-live-it dynamic duo of Liz Was and Miekel And.

Cassette Mythos Audio Digest
Robin James guides this international cassette networking project, which will eventually produce an encyclopedic book on cassette culture called Cassette Mythos. In the meantime, there is the Audio Digest, an irregularly published postal handshake welcoming your further involvement with the book and many other aspects of 
the cassette lifestyle, networking and progressive, peace-loving uses for the cassette.
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##A 08 53815 318
##T CASSETTE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS
CASSETTE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS

@@
Anti-Isolation
from:
Xexoxial Editions
1341 Williamson Street
Madison, WI 53703

Send SASE for information
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##A 08 54138 319
##T CASSETTE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS
CASSETTE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS

@@
Cassette Mythos Audio Digest 
Catalog free

from:
Cassette Mythos Audio Digest
P. O. Box 2391
Olympia, WA 98507
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##A 08 54713 320
##T CASSETTE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS
CASSETTE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS

@@
CLEM 
Alex Douglas

from:
c/o Alex Douglas
P. O. Box 86010
North Vancouver, BC 
Canada V7L 4J5

Send SASE for information
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##A 08 56220 321
##T CASSETTE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS
CASSETTE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS

@@
Funhouse
Lang Thompson

from:
c/o Lang Thompson
2111 University Blvd. East, 
Apt. 33
Tuscaloosa, AL 35404

Send SASE for information
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##A 08 56595 322
##T CASSETTE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS
CASSETTE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS

@@
Uddersounds
Richard Franecki

from:
c/o Richard Franecki
P. O. Box 27421
Milwaukee, WI 53227

Send SASE for information
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##A 08 73119 323
##T CASSETTE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS
CASSETTE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS

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Musicworks 
(The Canadian Journal of Sound Exploration)

Tina Pearson, Managing Editor
ISSN 0225686X
$14/year (4 issues)

from:
Music Gallery
1087 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H3
CANADA
416/533-0192
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##A 08 249800 324
##T CASSETTE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS
CASSETTE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS

@@
Electrogenesis 
from:
Electrogenesis
1940 Ginjer Street, Suite 40
Oxnard, CA 93030

Send SASE for information
@@

##A 08 96812 326
##T New Dimensions Radio
New Dimensions Radio

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New Dimensions Radio bounces its programs off a satellite to 140 stations in 30 states, and features excellent interviews with everyone from Bucky Fuller and Paul Hawken to Wendell Berry and Ram Dass. For a counter-culture first, theyÕve begun  broadcasting on short-wave to the entire danged hemisphere via a transmitter in Costa Rica. A postcard will bring you programming info as well as a catalog of 1,000 cassettes that are available. For $35 a year you can become a member of the foundation and receive their bi-monthly magazine, Network News, full of stories about New Dimensions  projects and upcoming events, as well as a 15% discount on all New Dimensions cassettes. 
                                                                        
                                                                    Ñ Dick Fugett
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##A 08 97030 327
##T New Dimensions Radio
New Dimensions Radio

@@
Justine Toms, Editor
$35/year (4 issues)
Sample issue/catalog free

from:
New Dimensions Foundation
P. O. Box 410510
San Francisco, CA 94141
415/563-8899
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##A 08 193264 331
##T National Public Radio Cassettes
National Public Radio Cassettes

@@
National Public Radio makes more than 800 of its shows available on cassette tape.  Their catalog includes comedy shows, a wide range of music, storytelling, the ÒVisit New Grimson, AnywayÓ series, famous people talking to groups expounding on their lives and ideas, and a special series on family life. Gift certificates are available if you want to give but donÕt know what.

                                                            Ñ Jonathan Evelegh
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##A 08 192314 332
##T National Public Radio Cassettes
National Public Radio Cassettes

@@
Catalog free

from:
National Public Radio Cassette Publishing
2025 M Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
800/253-0808
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##A 08 97427 337
##T Pacifica Radio Archive
Pacifica Radio Archive

@@
Pacifica radio, a community-sponsored radio network based in Los Angeles, brings us programs weÕd never hear on commercial radio. Poetry, international issues, voices of minorities and live history confront us over the airwaves. If you missed the original broadcast, Pacifica National Archive probably has it on cassette. The current catalog lists over 300 recordings that date back to 1949. (A complete listing of material is available on microfiche, as well.)

Their recent affiliation with the National Federation of Community Broadcasters has swelled their collection to 30,000 recordings. You can call or write Pacifica yourself to request a 
tape on a specific topic, and you can have them make custom 
cassettes from almost anything in their archives. So if youÕre
@@

##A 08 97674 339
##T Pacifica Radio Archive
Pacifica Radio Archive

@@
Catalog free
Microfiche $26 postpaid

from:
Pacifica Radio Archive Educational Service
5316 Venice Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90019
213/931-1625
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##A 08 193882 343
##T Sound Idea Sound Effects Library
Sound Idea Sound Effects Library

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Rocking chair creaks. Dentist drilling. Bottle smashes. Whooshes. Giggles. Children screaming. Windshield wipers. Booms, barrack bugles, and butcher knives sharpening. Harps, applause, and my favorite: Dog, terrier Ñ  sneezing. Three thousand human-life-on-earth sounds trapped into a tidy set of 28 compact discs (or 22 discs in digital).

To find a sound, you look it up in the accompanying 431 page catalog. For instance: Ò207-21-01 Weather, TV Broadcast Ñ Generic Summer Forecast, Wet.Ó The set is expensive, complete, and the ultimate sound effects source. Perfect for a musicianÕs or filmmakerÕs co-op.
                                                                     Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 194250 344
##T Sound Idea Sound Effects Library
Sound Idea Sound Effects Library

@@
Series 1000 Library
$1250

from:
Sound Ideas
86 McGill Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5B 1H2
CANADA
800/387-3030; 
416/977-0512 (Canada)
@@

##A 08 194519 345
##T Sound Idea Sound Effects Library
Sound Idea Sound Effects Library

@@
Series 2000 Library 
$975 

from:
Sound Ideas
86 McGill Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5B 1H2
CANADA
800/387-3030; 
416/977-0512 (Canada)
@@

##A 08 194731 347
##T The New CBS ÒAudio-FileÓ Sound Effects Library
The New CBS ÒAudio-FileÓ Sound Effects Library

@@
Killer noise for the sound effects fan on a budget. Volume I contains 90 separate sounds on three discs; Volume II holds another 90, from airport lobbies to artillery fire, tropical birds to a NASA countdown. These are all analog recordings and the quality of the individual sounds varies greatly. Many sounds you can pull straight off the discs, but some youÕre going to have to modify with a graphic equalizer. Still, for the money, these sets canÕt be beat.

                                                                Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 194940 348
##T The New CBS ÒAudio-FileÓ Sound Effects Library
The New CBS ÒAudio-FileÓ Sound Effects Library

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Volume I  
$18.98 postpaid  

from:
Collectors Series
51 West 52nd Street, 
Room 861
New York, NY 10019
212/975-5073
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##A 08 484160 349
##T The New CBS ÒAudio-FileÓ Sound Effects Library
The New CBS ÒAudio-FileÓ Sound Effects Library

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Volume II  
$18.98 postpaid  

from:
Collectors Series
51 West 52nd Street, 
Room 861
New York, NY 10019
212/975-5073
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##A 08 56427 354
##T INTERACTIVE VIDEO
INTERACTIVE VIDEO

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by Fabrice Florin

Interactive video will give you a good reason to turn your TV back on. Rather than watching passively, slumped in an armchair, you drive this video software like a computer program. At the touch of buttons you scan through a storehouse of images and sounds much as you would flip through the pages of a book. With the help of a microcomputer you can rearrange the display of sound and images in a new order, or have it branch in alternative paths for guided tours, lessons or games. Like a good book, it encourages multiple viewings.

The heart of the new machine is a videodisc, the same glimmering
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##A 08 76885 356
##T CREATING YOUR OWN VIDEODISC
CREATING YOUR OWN VIDEODISC

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by Fabrice Florin

Producing an interactive videodisc is easier than it sounds. A disc is essentially a half-hour video program containing short clips and still images arranged so that users can find them quickly. Pressing a disc requires special equipment, but itÕs a pretty straightforward operation. With programs like HyperCard, the cost of making your videodisc interactive is mainly a function of how much of your own time you want to invest in creating the links. The most common method involves editing a re-master videotape of up to 30 minutes that will contain both clips and stills.

You edit the clips as you would any other video or TV program, using a 3/4" or 1" videotape editing system. Although professional
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##A 08 126940 360
##T CREATING YOUR OWN VIDEODISC
CREATING YOUR OWN VIDEODISC

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Crawford Communications
from:
Crawford Communications
506 Plasters Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30324
404/876-8722

Instant Òcheck discsÓ Ñ 48-hour turn-around.
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##A 08 189031 361
##T CREATING YOUR OWN VIDEODISC
CREATING YOUR OWN VIDEODISC

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American Technology Resources
Catalog free 

from:
American Technology Resources
1245 Providence Road
Media, PA 19063
215/565-6434

Discount Videodisc Players
Although this dealer specializes in industrial videodisc equipment, consumers can find some pretty good deals on reconditioned players or brand new models at wholesale prices. Ask for referrals if they donÕt have what you need.
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##A 08 188747 362
##T CREATING YOUR OWN VIDEODISC
CREATING YOUR OWN VIDEODISC

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Image Pre-Mastering
from:
Image Pre-Mastering
1781 Prior Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55113
612/644-7802

Transfer 35mm slides directly to 1" tape.
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##A 08 188548 363
##T CREATING YOUR OWN VIDEODISC
CREATING YOUR OWN VIDEODISC

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Panasonic Industrial Corp.
from:
Panasonic Industrial Corp.
2 Panasonic Way
Secaucus, NJ 07094
201/392-4603

Write-once disc recorders.
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##A 08 188338 364
##T CREATING YOUR OWN VIDEODISC
CREATING YOUR OWN VIDEODISC

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Pioneer Communications
from:
Pioneer Communications
600 East Crescent Avenue
Upper River, NJ 07458
201/327-6400

Leading manufacturer of consumer and industrial videodisc players.
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##A 08 187905 365
##T CREATING YOUR OWN VIDEODISC
CREATING YOUR OWN VIDEODISC

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Stokes
from:
Stokes
7000 Cameron Road
Austin, TX 78752
512/458-2201

Transfer 35mm slides to 35mm film, then film to 1" tape.
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##A 08 187690 366
##T CREATING YOUR OWN VIDEODISC
CREATING YOUR OWN VIDEODISC

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3M
from:
Optical Recording Department
223-5S 3M Center
St. Paul, MN 55144
612/733-2142

Leading videodisc pressing facility.
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##A 08 174359 367
##T Voyager Company
Voyager Company

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Publisher of the Criterion Collection, including such cinematic milestones as King Kong and Citizen Kane, and other videodiscs, reproduced from the finest prints, with production stills, storyboards and rare outtakes, as well as informative text and audio commentaries. Hypercard stacks also available.

                                                              Ñ Fabrice Florin
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##A 08 186675 368
##T Voyager Company
Voyager Company

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Catalog free

from:
Voyager Company
2139 Manning Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90025
213/475-3524
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##A 08 189607 370
##T Optical Data Corporation
Optical Data Corporation

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Publisher of videodiscs such as Space Archives (NASA Space 
Discs): Highlights of the Apollo and Space Shuttle missions, with breathtaking spacewalks, spectacular lunar landscapes and some really gorgeous pictures of the Earth from outer space. Half a dozen different discs are available. $45 each postpaid. Optical Data also offers outstanding videodiscs on HyperCard stacks also available for educational applications.

                                                              Ñ Fabrice Florin
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##A 08 189807 371
##T Optical Data Corporation
Optical Data Corporation

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Catalog free 

from:
Optical Data Corporation
66 Hanover Road
Box 97
Florham Park, NJ 07932
201/377-0302
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##A 08 28153 374
##T NASA Space Discs from Optical Data Corporation
NASA Space Discs from Optical Data Corporation

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NASA Space Discs: Highlights of the Apollo and Space Shuttle missions, with breathtaking spacewalks, spectacular lunar landscapes and some really gorgeous pictures of the Earth from outer space. Half a dozen different discs are available. 

                                                                  Ñ Fabrice Florin
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##A 08 28355 375
##T NASA Space Discs from Optical Data Corporation
NASA Space Discs from Optical Data Corporation

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$45.50 each postpaid  

from:
Optical Data Corporation
66 Hanover Road
P. O. Box 97
Florham Park, NJ 07932-0097
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##A 08 50647 376
##T DISCOUNT VIDEODISCS
DISCOUNT VIDEODISCS

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A fine laserdisc mail-order house, with thousands of movie titles in stock, as well as dozens of interactive video programs, many at discount prices. Be sure to ask for their useful quarterly newsletter The Laser Beam and catalog. 
                                                                    
                                                               Ñ Fabrice Florin
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##A 08 51365 377
##T DISCOUNT VIDEODISCS
DISCOUNT VIDEODISCS

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The Laser Beam 
Newsletter and catalog free

from:
Starship Industries
605 Utterback Store Rd. Great Falls, VA 22066
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##A 08 69031 380
##T U. S. Video Source
U. S. Video Source

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HereÕs a mail supply for video laser discs. Like the commotion in video tapes, there is a pell-mell rush of new titles released each month. They have an 800 phone number.
                                                                       
                                                             Ñ Fabrice Florin
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##A 08 69205 381
##T U. S. Video Source
U. S. Video Source

@@
Catalog free  

from:
U. S. Video Source
50 Leyland Drive
Leonia, NJ 07605
800/USA-DISC
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##A 08 62785 385
##T The Home Video Handbook
The Home Video Handbook

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An excellent overview of consumer cameras and recorders (VHS and Beta), how to hook them up and how to use them to shoot your own home videos. Well illustrated, as up-to-date as can be, and full of useful tips for beginners.              

                                                               Ñ Fabrice Florin
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##A 08 63174 386
##T The Home Video Handbook
The Home Video Handbook

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Charles Bensinger
3rd Edition 1982; 392 pp.
ISBN 0672220520
$13.95 ($16.45 postpaid)

from:
Howard W. Sams & Co.
Department DM
4300 West 62nd Street
Indianapolis, IN 46268
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##A 08 32151 391
##T The Video Production Guide
The Video Production Guide

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If youÕre serious about getting involved in the technical side of video production, here is the most up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the field from the people who brought you the more consumer-oriented Video Guide. This thorough overview of the production process gets down to the nuts and bolts of planning, shooting, and editing a videotape or television program. The book outlines most of what you need to know about video, from how professional equipment works to how to get a job. A definitive textbook of the video craft.

                                                                Ñ Fabrice Florin
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##A 08 32364 392
##T The Video Production Guide
The Video Production Guide

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Lon McQuillin
1983; 382 pp.
ISBN 0672220539
$28.95 ($31.45 postpaid)

from:
Howard W. Sams & Co.
4300 West 62nd Street
Indianapolis, IN 46268
800/428-3602
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##A 08 98667 396
##T The Bare Bones Camera Course ¥ Video Goals
The Bare Bones Camera Course ¥ Video Goals

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Oh simplicity. Tom SchroeppelÕs two clearly written and clearly illustrated books tell you everything you need to know to get started. No fat. Just like a good video.
                                                 
                                                            Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 08 99295 397
##T The Bare Bones Camera Course ¥ Video Goals
The Bare Bones Camera Course ¥ Video Goals

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The Bare Bones Camera Course  
(For Film and Video)

Tom Schroeppel
1982; 89 pp.
$6.95 ($7.70 postpaid)

from:
Tom Schroeppel
4705 Bayview Avenue
Tampa, FL 33611
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##A 08 112982 398
##T The Bare Bones Camera Course ¥ Video Goals
The Bare Bones Camera Course ¥ Video Goals

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Video Goals
(Getting Results with Pictures and Sound)

Tom Schroeppel
1987; 116 pp.
$6.95 ($7.70 postpaid)

from:
Tom Schroeppel
4705 Bayview Avenue
Tampa, FL 33611
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##A 08 99774 400
##T Working With Video
Working With Video

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ÒThe illusion is total,Ó the authors say. ÒWe confuse the realism of the image with reality.Ó And so begins a book-length lesson on the century-old language of moving pictures.

All the important aspects of video production are covered Ñ planning, equipment, actors, budget, shooting and lighting techniques, editing, promotion and distribution Ñ always through principles designed to help you understand the medium, not rigid rules. This guide to visual literacy will help you make better videos, and also understand the visual language of our culture.

A superb beginnerÕs manual.                        

                                                               Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 08 99943 401
##T Working With Video
Working With Video

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Brian Winston & Julia Keydel
1986; 256 pp.
ISBN 0817464344
$19.95 ($21.95 postpaid)

from:
Watson-Guptil Publications
P. O. Box 2013
Lakewood, NJ 08701
212/764-7300
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##A 08 101189 407
##T Television Production Handbook
Television Production Handbook

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THE textbook on professional television production since 1961 has been completely revised to reflect advances in broadcast equipment. Still the best comprehensive technical guide available. With 900 illustrations.                                     

                                                                     Ñ Fabrice Florin
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##A 08 101581 408
##T Television Production Handbook
Television Production Handbook

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Herbert Zettl
4th Edition 1984; 614 pp.
ISBN 053401464X
 $46.75 postpaid

from:
Wadsworth, Inc.
Attn: Order Dept.
7625 Empire Drive
Florence, KY 41042
803/354-9706
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##A 08 190987 411
##T CNN News Hound
CNN News Hound

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An amateur photographer once won the Pulitzer Prize for a photograph taken with a Brownie camera. The photographer just happened to be at the scene of an accident when it happened. Right place plus right time equals instant fame.

Amateur videomakers who run across a breaking news story can parlay their luck into a little cash via Cable News NetworkÕs 
ÒNews HoundÓ program. Call their toll-free number to submit your video of any newsworthy event Ñ rocket explosions, assassinations, acts of war Ñ in your neighborhood or in your travels. Good luck and good shooting!

                                                           Ñ Sarah Vandershaf
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##A 08 191469 412
##T CNN News Hound
CNN News Hound

@@
from:
Cable News Network
800/544-NEWS

Cable News Network pays $25-$125 for news footage
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##A 08 191533 413
##T Videomaker
Videomaker

@@
A slick yet friendly how-to magazine for amateur videomakers. Tells you what to buy and how to use it. Camcorders, VCRs, home editing units, plus some access to programming sources.

                                                            Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 08 191798 414
##T Videomaker
Videomaker

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Bradley Kent, Editor
ISSN 08894973
$15/year (6 issues)

from:
Videomaker
P. O. Box 4591
Chico, CA 95927
916/891-8410
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##A 08 193585 419
##T Discount Video Tapes
Discount Video Tapes

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If youÕre looking for a novelty video, youÕre likely to find it here. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Assassin of Youth, (1935 killer weed propaganda flick), and The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler 
(including rare footage from der FuhrerÕs personal film library) are all here, along with hundreds of classics from the golden age of television, dozens of Saturday matinee serials, and every grade B western you can think of. Better yet, Discount Video Tapes has an amazing collection of films from the short-lived black filmmaking industry of the 30Õs and 40Õs. A real find. Sale prices range from $20 to $60; rentals cost $35 for five titles for two weeks. This includes shipping to you. Return shipping is at your own expense. Tapes are formatted in both VHS and Beta.
                                                           
                                                       Ñ Corinne Cullen Hawkins
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##A 08 200988 420
##T Discount Video Tapes
Discount Video Tapes

@@
Catalog free
from:

Discount Video Tapes, Inc.
P.O. Box 7122
Burbank, CA 91510
818/843-3366
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##A 08 3134 423
##T The Knowledge Collection
The Knowledge Collection

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How-to books, even the best, only guide you so far. At some point a how-to video tape, even a mediocre one, will open up better visual understanding (oh, so thatÕs how it goes!) so that the skill moves from your head to your hand quicker. The Knowledge Collection has rounded up 1,500 of the best how-to video tapes into a fat mail order catalog. They seem to include everything, poor to fair to excellent: sports coaching, health care material, dancing lessons, and the brightest of the Saturday morning TV do-it-yourself instruction. Self-education rewinds.
                                                                
                                                                      Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 4589 424
##T The Knowledge Collection
The Knowledge Collection

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Catalog $8.95 

from:
Video Schoolhouse
167 Central Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
800/345-1441; 
408/375-4474 (AK & HI)
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##A 08 201425 426
##T Facets
Facets

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Hop into a foreign filmmakerÕs mind Ñ see the world in a new way. Seventeen countries are represented in this catalog of 3000 videos, which has a hefty section on independent and classic U.S. films as well. I looked for every off-beat and art film I could think of Ñ and found them all here. This is the catalog for film buffs and anyone else who enjoys films of substance, artistry, and peculiarity of vision. Prices range from $19.95 to $79.95. Both VHS and Beta are for sale; rentals are VHS only and cost $10 per tape.

                                                           Ñ Corinne Cullen Hawkins
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##A 08 201663 427
##T Facets
Facets

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Catalog $4 

from:
Facets Multimedia Center
1517 West Fullerton Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614
800/331-6197
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##A 08 101966 430
##T Target Video
Target Video

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Founded by award-winning video artist and director Joe Rees, Target Video is a great source for video recordings of punk bands and underground artists. One of TargetÕs most recent assaults on what it calls Ògibbering disco complacencyÓ is a stunning and violently beautiful video documentary of five machine performances by Survival Research Laboratories called Virtues of Negative Fascination. Other Target recordings include shows by Diamanda Galas, Iggy Pop, Throbbing Gristle, the Sex Pistols, Black Flag, Joanna Went, and the Dead Kennedys, some taped live in TargetÕs own performance space. Many of the tapes in TargetÕs catalog are intercut by Rees with existing documentary and industrial footage to create images that are as funny and brutal as they are politically charged. In all, Target has some five hundred hours of video tapes to choose from.          Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 102607 431
##T Target Video
Target Video

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Catalog $2

from:
Target Video
678 South Van Ness
San Francisco, CA 94110
415/863-0118
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##A 08 257303 433
##T ParentsÕ Guide to ChildrenÕs Videos
ParentsÕ Guide to ChildrenÕs Videos


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The premiere edition of this magazine is a valuable resource for parents Ñ a buyerÕs guide to childrenÕs videos. ItÕs the most inclusive listing of quality kidvid IÕve seen. It includes little-known educational and religious videos, shorts (both foreign and domestic), as well as feature films. I disagreed with some of the reviews Ñ you probably will too Ñ but they are informative and detailed. 

This issue sets a high standard. If later issues live up to it the magazine will provide an important service: helping parents monitor and guide their childrenÕs media absorption. I hope it succeeds.                                                   
    
                                                   Ñ Corinne Cullen Hawkins
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##A 08 257652 434
##T ParentsÕ Guide to ChildrenÕs Videos
ParentsÕ Guide to ChildrenÕs Videos


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Martha Dewing, Editor-in- Chief
$14.97/year (6 issues)

from:
ChildrenÕs Video
389 Fourth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
800/972-5858
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##A 08 201954 437
##T Video Review
Video Review

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Where can the home viewer go for insight into the video market? Well, you might try Video Review. A combo trade journal and 
criticÕs corner, this magazine covers both new product technology and new movie releases with the same wry sensibility.

                                                            Ñ Sarah Vandershaf
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##A 08 202014 438
##T Video Review
Video Review

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Meigs, James B., Editor
ISSN 01968793
$12/year (12 issues)

from:
Video Review
P.O. Box 919
Farmingdale, NY 11737-0001
800/525-0643
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##A 08 109036 441
##T The Complete Guide to Videocassette Movies
The Complete Guide to Videocassette Movies

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IÕve rented my share of video dogs Ñ predictable suspense, flat comedies, fizzled action movies. Video rental store catalogs hype all their movies equally Ñ no help there in deciding what movie to take your chances on. And with the staggering array of videos to choose from, a good videocassette guide will save you money and disappointment.

In a survey of six videocassette guides, I found this one to be the definitive consumer guide. The others either gave long, in-depth, witty and wonderful reviews of only a few movies or short, dull or unimaginative reviews of thousands of films.

This guide, with over 5000 reviews, includes every theatrical and
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##A 08 258576 443
##T The Complete Guide to Videocassette Movies
The Complete Guide to Videocassette Movies

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Steven H. Scheuer, Editor
1987; 671 pp.
ISBN 0805001107
$19.95 ($22.95 postpaid)

from:
Henry Holt & Co.
521 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10175
212/886-9200
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##A 08 102688 447
##T Sony Camcorders
Sony Camcorders

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Continuing the trend to close the gap between professional and hobbyist tools, we now have technology for home-made TV. High-quality, low-cost videos can be taped with a camcorder, a combination of CAMera and video cassette reCORDER bundled into a lightweight unit small enough to wield with one hand. It uses new 8mm cassettes (which, by the way, can also record 24 hours of digital music). The model we have been using is the Sony Pro 8 
CCD-V110, not the cheapest one on the shelf, but one with all the features (autofocus, mike options, built-in rechargeable battery) that youÕd need to make a respectable documentary or art video. 

I found the quality of resolution startling. Like Kodachrome film, it seems to enhance the vibrancy of colors. There were very few
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##A 08 103987 450
##T Sony Camcorders
Sony Camcorders

@@
Sony Pro 8 Camcorder (CCD-V110)
List price $1995; 
street price approx. $1395

from:
Sony

Full-featured professional model. 

Sony dealers are everywhere, and prices vary considerably. Check the Yellow Pages.
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##A 08 143182 451
##T Sony Camcorders
Sony Camcorders

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Sony Auto Handycam (CCD-V3)
List price $1500; 
street price approx. $799

from:
Sony

Low-end version; more compact, with fewer features. 

Sony dealers are everywhere, and prices vary considerably. Check the Yellow Pages.
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##A 08 67858 452
##T Universal Video
Universal Video

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This impressive catalog of video accessories, supplies, and equipment offers a whole range of useful products, from cable adaptors to VCR cleaning kits.  Professionals and amateurs alike will find some nifty gizmos that would be hard to get in a store.
 
                                                                  Ñ Fabrice Florin
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##A 08 68255 453
##T Universal Video
Universal Video

@@
Catalog free 

from:
Universal Video
195 Bonhomme Street
P. O. Box 488
Hackensack, NJ 07602
800/631-0867; 
201/487-6340 (NJ)
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##A 08 443479 458
##T The PhotographerÕs Handbook
The PhotographerÕs Handbook


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I was a photogger before I was a catalogger, and long IÕve deplored the dearth of practical/comprehensive books on photography. The one book I long relied on, FeiningerÕs Total Picture Control, has now been surpassed by this beautiful, newly revised book. ItÕs quite wonderful to use, rewarding the browser as well as the photographer who has a special problem. I went to sleep on the subject of photography years ago. This book makes me think about waking up and trying some of its myriad ideas and techniques.

The book replaces about eight others I might have reviewed.

                                                                       Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 08 443865 459
##T The Photographer's Handbook
The Photographer's Handbook


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John Hedgecoe
2nd Edition 1984; 352 pp.
ISBN 0394527399
$19.95 ($21.45 postpaid)

from:
Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800/638-6460
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##A 08 202371 462
##T Photography
Photography

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The old Life magazine wrote the book on the experience called photography. Every week it conjured up new possibilities of using the silver eye. The editors of Life have taken a half century of this talent, put it into a 15-volume set last decade, and recently distilled the whole spirit down to an hearty, eye-popping, mind-stuffing single tome.  

ItÕs an education in one volume, the text-book of choice in most college photography courses. I learned easily three-quarters of my technical skills as a professional photographer from the step-by-step pictures outlined here.

                                                                         Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 203087 463
##T Photography
Photography

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Barbara London Upton 
with John Upton
3rd Edition 1985; 426 pp.
ISBN 0316887528
$25.95 ($26.95 postpaid)

from:
Little, Brown & Co.
200 West Street
Waltham, MA 02254
800/343-9204
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##A 08 203509 466
##T Photo Art Processes
Photo Art Processes

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How to put an image made with light on pumpkins, t-shirts, glass, old wood, decals, pottery, paper-mache, wallpaper, painted over with colors, pasted into collages, mixed with other media, on anything other than a boring square piece of white paper.

                                                                  Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 204061 467
##T Photo Art Processes
Photo Art Processes

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Nancy Howell-Koehler
1980; 127 pp.
ISBN 0871921170
$18.95 postpaid

from:
Davis Publications
50 Portland Street
Worcester, MA 01608
800/533-2847
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##A 08 439482 471
##T The New Zone System Manual
The New Zone System Manual


@@
The manual for highest quality black and white photos, with details in the black and in the white areas. The key is previsuali-zation, which is looking at reality through an accurately imagined photographic print, then knowing how to make the calculations and mechanical and chemical adjustments so the print has what you saw, plus any divine grace that happened by.
                                                                
                                                                  Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 08 439566 472
##T The New Zone System Manual
The New Zone System Manual


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Minor White, Richard D. Zakin & Peter Lorenz
Revised Edition 1987; 140 pp.
$18.95 ($20.95 postpaid)

from:
Morgan & Morgan, Inc.
145 Palisade Street
Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
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##A 08 204468 475
##T Photography for Student Publications
Photography for Student Publications

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The essential foundations of conveying an editorial message through photographs. Put together to cure the dreadful look of most high school yearbooks, this friendly book is also the best introduction there is for anyone shooting, printing, or selecting photographs for publication. Unintimidating straight-talk about how to inform the reader with a camera. 

                                                            Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 205487 476
##T Photography for Student Publications
Photography for Student Publications

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Carl Vandermeulen
1979; 159 pp.
ISBN 093194001X
$12.95 postpaid 

from:
Middleburg Press
Box 166
Orange City, IA 51041
712/737-4198
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##A 08 438215 479
##T Pinhole Journal
Pinhole Journal

@@
Photography minus equipment. Looks like fun.
                                                               
                                                           Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 08 438336 480
##T Pinhole Journal
Pinhole Journal

@@
Eric Renner, Editor
ISSN 08851476
$32.50/year (3 issues)

from:
Pinhole Resource
Star Route 15
Box 1655
San Lorenzo, NM  88057
505/536-9942
@@

##A 08 436379 483
##T The Hole Thing 
The Hole Thing 

@@

A manual of Pinhole Photography tools and techniques Ñ photographs made with the simplest methods.

                                                              Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 08 436551 484
##T The Hole Thing 
The Hole Thing 

@@
(A Manual of Pinhole Fotografy)

Jim Shull
1974; 64 pp.
ISBN 0871000474
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)

from:
Morgan & Morgan
145 Palisade Street
Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
@@

##A 08 441328 487
##T American Photographer
American Photographer

@@
A photography magazine that doesnÕt pander to the unquenchable greed for bright, ever-new gadgets with ever-more-amazing bells and whistles. Rather, it focuses on developing practical techniques for dedicated amateurs and creative professionals. It generously gives lots of full-page space to inspirational photo essays. I find that itÕs the only photo mag that teaches me something with each issue.
 
                                                                       Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 08 441466 488
##T American Photographer
American Photographer

@@
Sean Callahan, Editor
ISSN 01616854
$17.90/year (12 issues)

from:
American Photographer
P. O. Box 51033
Boulder, CO 80321-1033
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##A 08 206854 491
##T Zoom
Zoom

@@
Zoom calls itself ÒThe Image Magazine,Ó and easily lives up to that claim. Printed in an oversized format with an interior design that is simultaneously functional and flashy, it features an enormous variety of black & white and color photos, ranging from nudes to portraits, fashion layouts to photojournalism, archival material to travel shots. Produced in France, the magazine has the semi-familiar feel of many European cities, where people and places seem ordinary, but are just different enough that youÕre forced to pay attention to things you might have overlooked before. Zoom is a loud magazine, and not always subtle, but its contents are a constant reminder of why good photography is so exciting.
                                                                    
                                                                  Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 207335 492
##T Zoom
Zoom

@@
Joel Laroche, Editor
ISSN 
$35/year (5 issues)

from:
Charles Treves
European Publishers
P. O. Box 2000
Long Island City, NY 11101
718/937-4606
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##A 08 207467 494
##T Visual Symphony
Visual Symphony

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For me, this is the best photo book in over 20 years. I havenÕt been so excited by a collection of photographs since 1960Õs This Is the American Earth, which launched Sierra ClubÕs exhibit-format series of books that became an engine of the ecology movement. 

Bruce BarnbaumÕs photos imprint themselves instantly on your mind and become part of your memory, and yet they reward constant return and reinspection. The book is organized into four 
ÒmovementsÓ Ñ following a musical metaphor that works throughout the volume Ñ The Landscape; The Cathedrals of England; Urban Geometrics; The Slit Canyons. The slit canyons are little-known geological marvels of the American west, sometimes only an armÕs length wide; Barnbaum now owns them photographically.
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##A 08 207986 496
##T Visual Symphony
Visual Symphony

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(A Visual Photographic Work in Four Movements)

Bruce Barnbaum
1986; 128 pp.
ISBN 0912383305
$50 ($52.50 postpaid)

from:
Alfred van der Marck  Editions
1133 Broadway
Suite 1301
New York, NY 10010
800/999-BOOK
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##A 08 259520 501
##T Second View
Second View


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A book that justifies having a coffee table, a book that will grow in value with the decades. The subject is time. The method is 
ÒrephotographyÓ Ñ the exact reshooting of historic photographs with modern research and camera work. The effect: you learn to feel and observe like a mountainside.

At first I was disappointed that the modern photographers chose 120 government survey photographs of the 1870s and 1880s to work with Ñ Timothy OÕSullivan, William Henry Jackson, etc. Ñ since their images were so dominantly, and magnificently, geological. I thought more ephemeral subjects would be more revealing Ñ cityscapes, farmland, and such. But in a century obsessed with change, it is lovely to see change put in its place.
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##A 08 260024 503
##T Second View
Second View


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(The Rephotographic 
Survey Project)

Mark Klett et al
1984; 221 pp.
ISBN 0826307515
$65 ($66.50 postpaid)

from:
University of New Mexico Press
220 Journalism Building
Albuquerque, NM 87131
505/277-4810
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##A 08 208236 508
##T DIGITAL RETOUCHING
DIGITAL RETOUCHING

@@
by Stewart Brand

Time magazine does it. USA Today does it. National Geographic does it and has caught some flak about it. Very soon nearly everyone will do it, and the culture will be different as a result.

They all use high-tech page makeup processes that involve turning photographs into computer data, where it is so easy to fiddle with the images that the temptation is overwhelming. This new capability comes from the merging of laser technology, used to scan the original photographs and convert them into digital data, and computer technology, whose increasing power at decreasing cost allows sophisticated manipulation of the no-longer-
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##A 08 210932 514
##T HANDS-ON DIGITAL RETOUCHING
HANDS-ON DIGITAL RETOUCHING

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by Barbara Robertson

In 1985, AT&TÕs EPICenter (Electronic Picture and Imaging Center) introduced the first graphics board in its price range for a microcomputer that 1) captures and digitizes video images in real time; 2) displays images with enough colors to simulate a video picture in video resolution; 3) generates a standard NTSC video signal (which means TARGA pictures can be transferred to videotape and broadcast on American television); and 4) allows an incoming analog signal to be mixed onscreen with the digital picture (genlock).

AT&T also sells a painting package, TIPS, developed by Island 
Graphics specifically for ths board. Although other software
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##A 08 211091 517
##T HANDS-ON DIGITAL RETOUCHING
HANDS-ON DIGITAL RETOUCHING

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Targa 16
512 x 512 resolution, 32,768 simultaneous colors, frame grabber and buffer, captures video in 1/60th second, NTSC and Analog RGB output, $1995

from:
AT&TÕs EPICenter
2002 Wellesley Boulevard 
Indianapolis, IN 46219
800/858-8783
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##A 08 209068 518
##T HANDS-ON DIGITAL RETOUCHING
HANDS-ON DIGITAL RETOUCHING

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TIPS software

$795. Requires IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible; TV set, composite video or analog RGB monitor; TIPS requires Summagraphic digitizing tablet, MS-DOS 2.0 or higher

from:
AT&TÕs EPICenter
2002 Wellesley Boulevard 
Indianapolis, IN 46219
800/858-8783
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##A 08 432847 521
##T Cinefex
Cinefex

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It is evidence of filmÕs magic that what happens behind the scenes has always been as entertaining as the show up front, and sometimes more.

When monsters slobber and spaceships hurtle across the screen, I believe it. But when the scene is flipped and IÕm shown how the most convincing special effects are done, I find it unbelievable, yet altogether spellbinding. Hundreds of people work years to construct incredibly elaborate illusions out of latex, tiny models and winking computers  Ñ  each a secret of fine craftsmanship waiting to be told. This amazing magazine (scads of color pictures, no advertising) is what some folks around here sneak off to a corner with and read for hours.                    
                                                                    Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 433142 522
##T Cinefex
Cinefex

@@
Don Shay, Editor
ISSN 01981056
$17/year (4 issues)

from:
Cinefex
P. O. Box 20027
Riverside, CA 92516
714/242-9704
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##A 08 431031 527
##T The Dark Side of Genius
The Dark Side of Genius

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There are plenty of powerful directors whose lives and work are documented and worth studying: Huston, Ford, Kurosawa, Truffaut. The advantages of examining Hitchcock are that so much is known about him; that most of his films are available for rental on video cassette, and that his methods are rather obvious. ItÕs no detraction from his genius to observe that Hitchcock was only a few steps ahead of the state of the art; consequently, the world was ready for his innovations and took to them immediately. When you look at one of his films now (try watching it two or three times to get past being taken in by the story), itÕs like a textbook demonstration of how to create suspense, develop a story, reveal a characterÕs inner thoughts, etc. 
                    
Dark as some of his themes were, and much of his life, the man
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##A 08 431581 529
##T The Dark Side of Genius
The Dark Side of Genius

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(The Life of Alfred Hitchcock)

Donald Spoto
1984; 665 pp.
ISBN 034531462X
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)

from:
Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800/638-6460
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##A 08 429686 532
##T When the Shooting Stops . . . the Cutting Begins
When the Shooting Stops . . . the Cutting Begins

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Here is an engaging history of film editing told by Ralph Rosenblum, an editor who seems to have been in many historically important editing rooms. He started in the forties, assisting Helen Van Dongen, the stoic cutter who (this book reveals) took director Robert FlahertyÕs stream-of-consciousness cinematography and carved it into cogent films like The Louisiana Story.

The tale is spiced by eavesdropping on privileged conversations. Behind the editing room door famous directors confess their secret insecurities. In exchange for this confidence, the editor/father/analyst accepts an unspoken contract: No matter how much 
the footage is reworked and Òsaved in the editing room,Ó all the credit will remain with the director.
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##A 08 430258 534
##T When the Shooting Stops . . . the Cutting Begins
When the Shooting Stops . . . the Cutting Begins

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Ralph Rosenblum & Robert Karen
1988; 310 pp.
ISBN 0306802724
$10.95 ($12.45 postpaid)

from:
Da Capo Press
233 Spring Street
New York, NY 10003
800/221-9369
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##A 08 429013 537
##T Leonard MaltinÕs TV Movies
Leonard MaltinÕs TV Movies


@@
The boom in home video has spawned its own guidebook industry. Everyone from Pauline Kael to Roger Ebert has a book of reviews designed to help the viewer find his way through the video marketplace. The standby in my house has always been Leonard MaltinÕs TV Movies. This $5 volume lists over 16,000 films, making it the most comprehensive guide available. Videophiles, late-night TV addicts, 8mm and 16mm collectors, and those lucky enough to have a neighborhood repertory house will find MaltinÕs capsule reviews and 4-star rating system right on target.

                                                                         Ñ David Burnor
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##A 08 429496 538
##T Leonard MaltinÕs TV Movies
Leonard MaltinÕs TV Movies


@@
Leonard Maltin
1988
ISBN 0451150228
$5.95 ($7.45 postpaid)

from:
Viking Penguin Books
Order Dept.
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800/526-0275; 
201/387-0600 (NJ)
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##A 08 426852 539
##T Canyon Cinema
Canyon Cinema

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I can think of no better antidote for another season of Jaws IV and Rambo XVII than the independent movie fare offered by Canyon Cinema. Their selection of over 2,000 movies is as diverse and unorthodox as most Hollywood blockbusters are formulaic and commercial.

Any filmmaker can list films with Canyon Cinema; filmmakers write their own film descriptions, set the rental price, and receive 65 percent of the rental fees (Canyon only gets 35 
percent). Not only is their catalog reeling with filmmakers youÕve never heard of, but the more well-known (such as Les Blank and James Broughton) seem to list all the films theyÕve ever made. ItÕs a virtual textbook of the history of independent film, written by the filmmakers themselves.
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##A 08 427519 541
##T Canyon Cinema
Canyon Cinema

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Catalog $13 (donation)

from:
Canyon Cinema
2325 Third Street
Suite 338
San Francisco, CA 94107
415/626-2255
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##A 08 46783 544
##T The Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection

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Laser discs have a number of advantages over video tape. Discs generally have better picture and sound quality, and digital storage on a disc leaves room for lots of extra information. The Criterion Collection makes good use of the laser discÕs storage properties by including along with their full-screen and sound versions of classic films, bonuses like production stills and story boards. Many of their releases also contain a second audio track with a discussion about the filmÕs production. You can listen to this separate soundtrack while watching the film, and gain new insight into how some the worldÕs greatest movies were made.

                                                                Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 47488 545
##T The Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection

@@
from:
Voyager Company
2139 Manning Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90025
800/446-2001; 
800/443-2001 (CA)
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##A 08 212427 548
##T Premiere
Premiere

@@
YouÕll have to wade through gossipy movie star profiles and graphic design that looks like it wandered off the pages of Cosmo to get to the good stuff Ñ unflinching reviews of new film releases and articles that give an insiders-eye-view of the eternally fascinating (if occasionally repellent) Hollywood movie machine.

                                                              Ñ Sarah Vandershaf
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##A 08 212880 549
##T Premiere
Premiere

@@
Susan Lyne, Editor
$18/year (12 issues)

from:
Premiere
P.O. Box 11395
Des Moines, IA 50347
212/725-7926
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##A 08 260848 552
##T Seeing the Light
Seeing the Light

@@
I wish everyone would do a book like this, made of the things they say to themselves to keep themselves doing what they do well. Embarrassing stuff Ñ bombastic, personal, and wholly invaluable to anyone else trying to do something well. The relevant here is avant-garde filmmaker James Broughton.

                                                                     Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 08 260897 553
##T Seeing the Light
Seeing the Light

@@
James Broughton
1977; 80 pp.
$3.50 ($5 postpaid)

from:
City Lights Books
261 Columbus
San Francisco, CA  94133
415/362-8193
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##A 08 424804 556
##T Independent Filmmaking
Independent Filmmaking


@@
My quick survey of film schools shows LiptonÕs book still the favorite how-to. After more than ten years in print and some 110,000 copies sold, itÕs become a kind of institution. Video freaks may find LiptonÕs views condescending, but he has added a useful section called ÒVideo for the Filmmaker.Ó This book remains technically astute and entertaining to read.
                                                            
                                                                 Ñ Tom Schneider
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##A 08 425159 557
##T Independent Filmmaking
Independent Filmmaking


@@
Lenny Lipton
Updated Edition 1983; 445 pp.
ISBN 067146258X
$9.95 postpaid 

from:
Simon & Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 08 422577 561
##T Directing for Film and Television
Directing for Film and Television

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You canÕt learn directing from a book. The author makes this clear from the start, then goes on to bring a remarkable amount of his considerable experience into nearly proving himself wrong. This is not just for beginners. Open the book anywhere and find a generous serving of truth from a working director who has passion, wit, and a rare talent for teaching.

Put this on your shelf next to When the Shooting Stops . . . youÕll have the core of a very good library on film craft.
                                                                       
                                                                      Ñ Tom Schneider
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##A 08 422672 562
##T Directing for Film and Television
Directing for Film and Television

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Christopher Lukas
1985; 193 pp.
$11.95 postpaid 

from:
Doubleday & Company
Direct Mail Order
501 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
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##A 08 420273 566
##T American Cinematographer
American Cinematographer

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You can be an insider for the price of a subscription. American Cinematographer is where youÕll find out how itÕs done when you can hire ten experts and all the equipment you need to produce three perfect minutes on screen. Cinematographer has taken more interest lately in the history of American filmmaking, besides front-line reports on the latest marriages of film and video.
                                                           
                                                                 Ñ Tom Schneider
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##A 08 420599 567
##T American Cinematographer
American Cinematographer

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George Turner, Editor
ISSN 00027928
$22/year (12 issues)

from:
ASC
1782 North Orange Drive
Hollywood, CA 90028
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##A 08 418981 572
##T Millimeter
Millimeter

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Millimeter, ÒThe Magazine of the Motion Picture and Television Production Industries,Ó is the journal thatÕs making the marriage work. Its attitude is letÕs get on with it: Film or tape, television or cinema, whatÕs the difference, as long as thereÕs money to be made. Sometimes itÕs hard to tell the ads from the editorial material, but to take the pulse of the film industry, East Coast, West Coast, and in between, this is the one.
                                                                
                                                                Ñ Tom Schneider
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##A 08 419245 573
##T Millimeter
Millimeter

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Alison Johns, Editor
ISSN 01649655
$45/year (12 issues);
Single copy $7

from:
Millimeter
826 Broadway
New York, NY 10003
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##A 08 24406 576
##T Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices
Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices

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A painfully honest autobiographical account of the art and emotional adventure of putting out low-budget feature films for about $6000. Surviving his fourth film, author Rick Schmidt eagerly reels off his sobering, trench-hardened advice for the naive hopeful. ItÕs a path for a warrior.

                                                                     Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 129716 577
##T Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices
Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices

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Rick Schmidt
1988; 256 pp.
ISBN 0140105255
$8.95 ($11.95 postpaid)

from:
Viking Penguin Books
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800/526-0275; 
201/387-0600 (NJ)
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##A 08 417582 580
##T Off-Hollywood
Off-Hollywood

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Nearly everyone who read the original script for El Norte said the film could not be made. After two years of unsuccessful fundraising, filmmakers Anna Thomas and Greg Nava became totally discouraged and decided their project would never be completed. Weeks later American Playhouse producers opted to back the film. El Norte went on to be the most successful foreign-language film produced and directed by American filmmakers, grossing $5.5 million.

Off-Hollywood tells the stories behind the making of eleven American independent features, with an emphasis on distribution and marketing. Compiled by the Sundance Institute and the Independent Feature Project, itÕs designed to increase filmmakersÕ savvy in promoting their films.
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##A 08 418189 582
##T Off-Hollywood
Off-Hollywood

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David Rosen
1987; 298 pp.
$30 postpaid 

from:
Independent Feature Project
21 W. 86th Street
New York, NY 10024
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##A 08 415311 585
##T Competitive Camera
Competitive Camera

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The best discount mail order prices on the full spectrum of photo and related gear that weÕve been able to find. Far surpasses prices at your local camera shop. Usually, but not always, beats the discount competition (which you should check anyway: 47th Street Photo, Catalog $2, 36 East 19th St., NY, NY 10003).
 
                                                                      Ñ Stewart Brand

YouÕll find the absolute rock-bottomest prices for extremely popular 35mm cameras in crowded ads in photo magazines. Shop at Competitive Camera for a far greater range of goods: top quality low-cost cameras, lenses, tape recorders, binoculars, projectors, tripods, flash gear, darkroom supplies, etc.
                                                                       Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 415815 586
##T Competitive Camera
Competitive Camera

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Catalog free 

from:
Competitive Camera
363 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10001
800/544-5442
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##A 08 414038 589
##T Light Impressions
Light Impressions

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One company with two excellent catalogs. Light Impressions book catalog is one of the best photo book sources around. Surveys of famous photographersÕ works, technical books on studio and printing techniques, photo criticism, graphic design, etc. Their supply catalog lists a full-line of mounting and preserving materials for people who want to store/display their prints and slides in the best possible conditions.

                                                                Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 414440 590
##T Light Impressions
Light Impressions

@@
Catalog free 

from:
Light Impressions
439 Monroe Avenue 
P. O. Box 940
Rochester, NY 14603-0940
800/828-6216; 
716/271-8960 (NY)
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##A 08 213257 592
##T MAIL ORDER PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIERS
MAIL ORDER PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIERS

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by Kevin Kelly

My experience in ordering photo equipment by mail leans toward satisfaction. The favored procedure: Know exactly what you want, down to the minutiae of model numbers; know what you donÕt want; call in on the 800 number; confirm that they have it in stock right then; and order with a credit card (do NOT pay by check). IÕve tried other ways, but this one is the most successful.
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##A 08 213534 598
##T MAIL ORDER PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIERS
MAIL ORDER PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIERS

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Spiratone
Catalog $1.50

from:
Spiratone, Inc.
135-06 Northern Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11354-4063
800/221-9695
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##A 08 217728 599
##T MAIL ORDER PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIERS
MAIL ORDER PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIERS

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Maine Photographic Resource 
Catalog free

from:
Maine Photographic Resource
2 Central Street
Rockport, ME 04856
800/227-1541
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##A 08 217532 600
##T MAIL ORDER PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIERS
MAIL ORDER PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIERS

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Zone VI  
Catalog free

from:
Zone VI Studios, Inc.
Newfane, VT 05345-0219
802/257-5161
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##A 08 217224 601
##T MAIL ORDER PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIERS
MAIL ORDER PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIERS

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Calumet 
Catalog $5

from:
Calumet
890 Supreme Drive
Bensenville, IL 60106
800/225-8638
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##A 08 216817 602
##T MAIL ORDER PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIERS
MAIL ORDER PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIERS

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Shutterbug 
Christi Ashby, Editor
ISSN 0895321X
$15/year (12 issues) 

from:
Shutterbug
5211 South Washington Avenue
P.O. Box F
Titusville, FL 32781
305/269-1663
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##A 08 412345 604
##T Holography Handbook
Holography Handbook


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How to make holograms in your basement. YouÕll need a basement to hold the one-ton plywood sandbox that serves as a vibration-free table. ItÕs got to be dark, too. The sand allows you to stick in and adjust optical components glued to sharpened plastic pipes. About as low-rent high-tech as youÕll ever see. Making holograms is modern alchemy. Use the formulas in this great, masterful book.
                                                                        
                                                                         Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 412615 605
##T Holography Handbook
Holography Handbook


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Fred Unterseher, 
Jeannene Hansen, 
and Bob Schlesinger
1982; 408 pp.
$16.95 ($17.95 postpaid)

from:
Ross Books
P. O. Box 4340
Berkeley, CA 94704
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##A 08 213799 608
##T Laser Holography
Laser Holography

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Written originally for students (junior high through college level) this slim booklet tells you, with a minimum of technical language, how to make 7 types of holograms. Helpful diagrams and a 
straight-forward writing style make this an excellent book for the beginning holographer.

                                                                  Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 219960 609
##T Laser Holography
Laser Holography

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(Experiments You Can Do . . . From Edison)

Tung H. Jeong , Ph. D. 
& Albert EB Dick
1987; 32 pp.
$2 postpaid 

from:
Thomas Alva Edison Foundation
21000 West Ten Mile Road
Southfield, MI 48075
313/354-3003
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##A 08 220652 613
##T The Holo-Gram
The Holo-Gram

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The Holo-Gram is a free quarterly with the no-frills look and energy of the best fanzines. It features news on the international holo scene, as well as information on books and magazines that write about and use holograms. 

                                                                      Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 221009 614
##T The Holo-Gram
The Holo-Gram

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Frank DeFreitas, Publisher
ISSN 0890152X
Free 

from:
The Holo-Gram
P. O. Box 9035
Allentown, PA 18105
215/434-8236
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##A 08 221781 617
##T L.A.S.E.R. News
L.A.S.E.R. News

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Published by the non-profit Laser Arts Society for Education & Research, L.A.S.E.R. News is more of a hands-on journal than The Holo-Gram (Ù see separate review in this cluster), featuring articles on hologram-making and interviews with holographers. Whether youÕre an experienced laser jock or just getting started, both of these magazines will have something to excite you.

                                                                        Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 222074 618
##T L.A.S.E.R. News
L.A.S.E.R. News

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Louis M. Brill, Editor
$15/year (4 issues)

from:
L.A.S.E.R. News
P. O. Box 42083
San Francisco, CA 94101
415/664-0694
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##A 08 222934 621
##T The Holography Information Center
The Holography Information Center

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For general information on sources and prices for holographic film, plates, chemicals and how-to instructions, send the Holography Information Center a self-addressed stamped envelope. 

                                                                   Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 08 223061 622
##T The Holography Information Center
The Holography Information Center

@@
from:
Holography Information Center
P. O. Box 586
Lake Forest, IL 60045
312/234-4244
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##A 08 19918 625
##T Small Press
Small Press

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New York is not publishing. Small presses are. Most of the hundreds of thousands of books published each year are put out by thriving small-time publishers, not by Madison Avenue. Most of these folks are new and specialized. They produce technical books, how-to manuals, slim volumes of poetry, large gorgeous handmade tomes, corporate reports, or regional guides and cookbooks. Small Press is for them. Done with the graphic care a fine book would be, this magazine profiles successful small presses, and it stresses both fine bookmaking and fine bookkeeping  Ñ  the technical details of publishing as a small business and craft. Computers make small-time publishing sensible and powerful, and this journal wisely tracks that gigantic revolution.     
                                                                           
                                                                         Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 37491 626
##T Small Press
Small Press

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(The Magazine & Book Review of Independent Publishing)

Michael Coffey, Editor
ISSN 00000485
$29.95/year (6 issues) 

from:
Meckler Publishing
11 Ferry Lane West
Westport, CT 06880
203/226-6967
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##A 08 118561 628
##T The Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize


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Printing good (and bad) writing is easy and cheap these days, but getting it to where people can buy it is still complicated and expensive. That hurts small, worthy presses, and it also hurts 
you since youÕre missing a lot, no matter how many bookstores 
you go to.

Here is a way to miss less of whatÕs being published by groups smaller than Time, Inc. and Mother Jones. The Pushcart Prize is a collection of good writing nominated annually from hundreds of small press publications. Strange good things by people you 
wouldnÕt otherwise see. And it lists where the pieces were originally published so you can use it as a guide to small magazines you might be interested in.                                  
                                                                      Ñ Anne Herbert
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##A 08 122337 629
##T The Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize


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Pushcart Prize XII: Best of the Small Presses

Bill Henderson, Editor
1987; 559 pp.
ISBN 0916366456
$28 ($29.60 postpaid)

from:
W. W. Norton
500 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10110
800/223-2584
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##A 08 225511 634
##T University Press of America, Inc.
University Press of America, Inc.

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Several months ago I received the letter that many authors recognize: ÒDue to shitty sales, we ainÕt gonna publish your book anymore.Ó Mine was a textbook and it had a long run and two editions so I canÕt complain. Yesterday, I received this letter from an outfit called University Press of America:

ÒIt has come to our attention that your book, Life Styles, will no longer be available from Little, Brown and Company. If you are interested in having your book reprinted, we would encourage you to send us a copy for our consideration according to the following scale:
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##A 08 225536 638
##T University Press of America, Inc.
University Press of America, Inc.

@@
University Press of America, Inc.
4720 Boston Way
Lanham, MD  20706
301/459-3366
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##A 08 225987 639
##T How to Get Happily Published
How to Get Happily Published

@@
The most human and truthful book on the good, bad and ugly of being commercially published. Written by a couple of ÒinsidersÓ 
(who now run a very successful New York marketing firm). The sections on working with an editor (and its effect on the success of your published book) are outstanding, as are the Ògetting yoursÓ portionÑcontractual obligations, full royalty disclosures, etc. Recently revised and updated.

                                                               Ñ Cliff Martin
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##A 08 226231 640
##T How to Get Happily Published
How to Get Happily Published

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Judith Applebaum & Nancy Evans
Revised Edition 1982; 271 pp.
ISBN 0452261252
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)

from:
New American Library
P.O. Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ  07621
800/526-0275; 
201/387-0600 (NJ)
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##A 08 411262 644
##T WriterÕs Market
WriterÕs Market

@@
When I was beginning a career as a free-lancer, I thumbed
the hell out of WriterÕs Market. It has the addresses, editorsÕ names, story requirements, and payment fees for almost anywhere youÕd want to sell your work, and a lot of places you wouldnÕt care to. DonÕt make the mistake, though, of using it as an exclusive reference  Ñ  before you send anything out, you must get hold of the actual publication to see if itÕs right for your idea. But for addresses alone, itÕs worth its price.

                                                                        Ñ Steven Levy
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##A 08 411658 645
##T WriterÕs Market
WriterÕs Market

@@
Glenda Tennant Neff, Editor
1989; 1,056 pp.
ISBN 089879330
$22.95 ($24.95 postpaid)

from:
WriterÕs Digest Books
1507 Dana Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45207
800/543-4644; 
513/531-2222 (OH)
@@

##A 08 410376 647
##T IntÕl Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses
IntÕl Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses

@@
The International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses, covering the small press world, does an even better job than WriterÕs Market. A great resource for placing fiction and poetry, 
itÕs also a spiritual road map of the independent publishing movement. And since it clues you in on thousands of fascinating publications you never heard of, itÕs almost as valuable for readers as it is for writers.                          

                                                                              Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 410850 648
##T IntÕl Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses
IntÕl Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses

@@
International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses

Len Fulton, Editor
23rd Edition 1987; 800 pp.
ISBN 091668525X
$22.95; 
$72/4 year subscription 
($26.95 postpaid)

from:
Dustbooks
P.O. Box 100
Paradise, CA 95969
916/877-6110
@@

##A 08 304422 649
##T Complete Guide to Self-Publishing
Complete Guide to Self-Publishing

@@
For once the title doesnÕt lie. This one will stand long after a dozen other books have come and gone. The hard-won experience 
(including failures) of their own self-publishing comes through in this practical and intelligent book. Holds no secrets about the full-time job it becomes (mail clerk, accountant, collection agency, shipping department, editor, and janitor). Helps make the self-publishing process profitable and fun.

                                                                          Ñ Cliff Martin
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##A 08 304643 650
##T Complete Guide to Self-Publishing
Complete Guide to Self-Publishing

@@
(Everything You Need to Know to Write, Publish, Promote, and Sell Your Own Book)

Tom & Marilyn Ross
1985; 399 pp.
ISBN 08898791677
$19.95 ($21.95 postpaid)

from:
WriterÕs Digest Books
1507 Dana Avenue
Cincinnati, OH  45207
800/543-4644; 
800/551-0884 (OH)
@@

##A 08 38151 653
##T The Self-Publishing Manual
The Self-Publishing Manual

@@
No other book tells you how to print, copyright and sell your own book with as much practical experience as this one. Heed what it says. Heed what it does as well  Ñ  it is profitably self-published, along with another ten books, by the author.

                                                                      Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 38641 654
##T The Self-Publishing Manual
The Self-Publishing Manual

@@
(How to Write, Print & Sell Your Own Book)

Dan Poynter
Revised Edition 1986;  352 pp.
ISBN 0915516373
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid)

from:
Para Publishing
P.O. Box 4232
Santa Barbara, CA  93140-4232
805/968-7277
@@

##A 08 227585 659
##T How To Be Your Own Literary Agent
How To Be Your Own Literary Agent

@@
A goldmine of information and mostly inside advice (from a successful literary agent) on the structure of publisherÕs contracts.

                                                                      Ñ Cliff Martin
@@

##A 08 228029 660
##T How To Be Your Own Literary Agent
How To Be Your Own Literary Agent

@@
(The Business of Getting Your Book Published)

Richard Curtis
Expanded Edition 1984; 257 pp.
ISBN 0395361427
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)

from:
Houghton Mifflin Company
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA  01803
800/225-3362
@@

##A 08 228573 664
##T Literary Agents of North America
Literary Agents of North America

@@
Much more comprehensive than the listing in Literary Market Place and more meaty entries. Wonderful cross-indexes by subject specialty, policies, size of agency, geographic listing and listing by names. Not seen at many libraries. Please recommend that they own a copy!

                                                                         Ñ Cliff Martin
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##A 08 228689 665
##T Literary Agents of North America
Literary Agents of North America

@@
Author Aid/Research Associates
International
3rd Edition 1988; 204 pp.
ISBN 0911085041
$19.95 ($22.45 postpaid)

from:
Author Aid/Research Associates
340 East 52nd Street
New York, NY  10022
212/758-4213
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##A 08 229101 669
##T Book Marketing Made Easier
Book Marketing Made Easier

@@
A do-it-yourself kit for new publishers. Biggest selling points are its excellent planning formsÑhow to figure a budget for book production, promotion, marketing. Plus great sample letters, forms, charts and a whole host of other goodies. I particularly like the ÒPublisherÕs Marketing TimetableÓ Ñ a well thought out and invaluable checklist from the manuscript stage to post-publication sales. Essential.

                                                                         Ñ Cliff Martin
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##A 08 229269 670
##T Book Marketing Made Easier
Book Marketing Made Easier

@@
John Kremer
1986; 156 pp.
ISBN 0912411112
$14.95 ($16.95 postpaid)

from:
Ad-Lib Publications
P.O. Box 1102
Fairfield, IA  52556-1102
800/724-5893
@@

##A 08 229704 674
##T 101 Ways to Market Your Books
101 Ways to Market Your Books

@@
I have personally worn out two copies of this superlative book! I wish this was required reading for any small publisher Ñ it would put the big New York publishers out of business. Insights into the obvious markets (libraries, bookstores, reviews) plus great advice on the weird markets (premium sales, mail order catalogs, foreign markets, spinoffs for more income) Ñ the list is endless.

                                                                       Ñ Cliff Martin

Some of the specifics are outdated Ñ for instance, Armed Forces Radio Network no longer interviews interesting authors over the phone, the ÒfreeÓ listing in Broadcast Interview Source is now $135, there have been some personnel and phone number changes Ñ
but there are still more valuable suggestions per square inch of
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##A 08 230062 676
##T 101 Ways to Market Your Books
101 Ways to Market Your Books

@@
101 Ways to Market Your Books
(For Publishers and Authors)

John Kremer
1986; 303 pp.
ISBN 0912411090
$14.95 ($16.95 postpaid)

from:
Ad-Lib Publications
P. O. Box 1102
Fairfield, IA  52556-1102
800/624-5893; 
515/472-6617 (IA)
@@

##A 08 230931 677
##T 101 Ways to Market Your Books
101 Ways to Market Your Books

@@
Book Marketing Update 
John Kremer, Editor
ISSN 08918813
$48/year (6 issues)

from:
Ad-Lib Publications
P.O. Box 1102
Fairfield, IA  52556-1102
800/624-5893
@@

##A 08 230686 679
##T Book Marketing Opportunities Database
Book Marketing Opportunities Database

@@
Easy-to-use database program with thousands of marketing and media contacts: wholesalers, chains, specialty booksellers, syndicated columnists, editors and reviewers, etc.; updated every 3 months; does labels, customized reports; interfaces with word processors to create personalized form letters; includes a promotional cycle database to help you keep track of who you sent what about which. IÕve only played with the demo disk and it looks like an an incredibly useful tool for the self- or small publisher.

                                                                    Ñ Sarah Satterlee
@@

##A 08 231707 680
##T Book Marketing Opportunities Database
Book Marketing Opportunities Database

@@
Book Marketing Opportunities Database Full Database
$249

from:
Ad-Lib Publications
P.O. Box 1102
Fairfield IA  52556-1102
800/624-5893

Specify IBM PC or Macintosh
@@

##A 08 232694 681
##T Book Marketing Opportunities Database
Book Marketing Opportunities Database

@@
Book Marketing Opportunities Database PR-Flash
$150

from:
Ad-Lib Publications
P.O. Box 1102
Fairfield IA  52556-1102
800/624-5893

Specify IBM PC or Macintosh
@@

##A 08 232792 682
##T Book Marketing Opportunities Database
Book Marketing Opportunities Database

@@
Book Marketing Opportunities Database Demo Disk
$10

from:
Ad-Lib Publications
P.O. Box 1102
Fairfield IA  52556-1102
800/624-5893

Specify IBM PC or Macintosh
@@

##A 08 40255 684
##T How to Produce a Small Newspaper
How to Produce a Small Newspaper

@@
I canÕt imagine why anyone would dream of starting a small restaurant or a small bookstore when itÕs possible to start or take over or work for a small newspaper. As art and news media go, nothing else can give you as much freedom, creativity, responsibility, effectiveness, contact, and home-town audience.
                                                               
                                                                 Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 08 40536 685
##T How to Produce a Small Newspaper
How to Produce a Small Newspaper

@@
(A Guide for Independent Journalists)

Editors of the Harvard Post
1984; 158 pp.
ISBN 0916782395
$9.95 ($11.20 postpaid)

from:
Harvard Common Press
c/o Kampmann and Company
9 East 40th Street
New York, NY 10016
800/526-7626
@@

##A 08 41455 688
##T How to Do Leaflets, Newsletters and Newspapers
How to Do Leaflets, Newsletters and Newspapers

@@
ThereÕs no leverage like local publishing  Ñ  itÕs cheap, fast, relatively easy, and outrageously effective if done well. In this manual are all the instructions you need to do it well. 
(Technically, at least; the rest is character.) The book is its own best demonstration. I wish IÕd had it when we started. 

                                                             Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 08 41681 689
##T How to Do Leaflets, Newsletters and Newspapers
How to Do Leaflets, Newsletters and Newspapers

@@
Nancy Brigham with Ann Raszmann & Dick Cluster
1982; 144 pp.
ISBN 0803830629
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid)

from:
Hastings House
c/o Kampmann and Company
9 East 40th Street
New York, NY  10016
@@

##A 08 233356 694
##T The Newsletter on Newsletters
The Newsletter on Newsletters

@@
The hard-nose approach to making a high-priced high value newsletter your livelihood. Delivered to you in a high-priced newsletter format, of course. As Ivan Levison, a newsletter producer himself, said, ÒIn a world of broadcasting, newsletters represent the victory of narrow-casting.Ó Yep.

                                                            Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 08 233504 695
##T The Newsletter on Newsletters
The Newsletter on Newsletters

@@
$96/year (bi-weekly)

from:
Newsletter on Newsletters
44 West Market Street
P.O. Box 311
Rhinebeck, NY  12572
914/876-2081
@@

##A 08 233831 696
##T Editing Your Newsletter
Editing Your Newsletter

@@
Now in its third, revised edition, this book has no competitors. Beach is a perfectionist, and his recommendations are contagious. Major selling points: its visual approach Ñ short on preaching, 
long on actual examples; a superb glossary; forms that can be photocopied and used; wonderful examples of photo processes and how they compare.

                                                                          Ñ Cliff Martin
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##A 08 234146 697
##T Editing Your Newsletter
Editing Your Newsletter

@@
(How to Produce an Effective Publication Using Traditional
Tools and Computers)

Mark Beach
1988; 169 pp.
ISBN 0943381010
$18.50 ($20.50 postpaid)

from:
Coast to Coast Books
2934 NE 16th Avenue
Portland, OR  97212
503/282-5891
@@

##A 08 234423 699
##T Publishing Newsletters
Publishing Newsletters

@@
The best book to cover the whole business of starting, managing, and succeeding at newsletter publishing. From a legend in the newsletter world (founder of the Newsletter Association and publisher of the ÒNewsletter on NewslettersÓ). Best selling point is his effort to show how hard it is to succeed at newsletter publishing, to get renewals and keep costs to a minimum. No one should think about doing a newsletter without consulting this book!

                                                                  Ñ Cliff Martin
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##A 08 234810 700
##T Publishing Newsletters
Publishing Newsletters

@@
Howard Hudson
Revised Edition 1988; 224 pp.
ISBN 0684189542
$12.95 ($14.45 postpaid)

from:
Macmillan Publishing Co.
Order Department
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, N.J.  08075
800/257-5755
@@

##A 08 46290 705
##T Fine Print
Fine Print

@@
ItÕs probably a sign of advancing age, but I am coming to honor the well made book. If youÕre a similar anachronism, this precise publication on Òthe Arts of the BookÓ will hone your intolerance fine.                                                 

                                                            Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 08 46455 706
##T Fine Print
Fine Print

@@
Sandra Kirshenbaum, Editor
ISSN 03613881
$48/year (4 issues);
$58 institutions

from:
Fine Print
P. O. Box 3394
San Francisco, CA 94119
415/543-4455
@@

##A 08 31012 708
##T Pocket Pal
Pocket Pal

@@
This tasty book has been around since 1934 and has been continually revised as the printing biz evolved. Pocket Pal will teach you the language you need to know to keep your local printer from bullshitting you overmuch. You will also learn a healthy respect for his art and the myriad events which transpire in a complicated printing job.                    

                                                                 Ñ E. Todd Ellison
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##A 08 31240 709
##T Pocket Pal
Pocket Pal

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(A Graphic Arts Production Handbook)

International Paper
13th Edition 1988; 216 pp.
$4.25 postpaid 

from:
International Paper Co.
6400 Poplar Avenue
Memphis, TN 38197
212/431-5222
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##A 08 233047 712
##T Getting It Printed
Getting It Printed

@@
Hard to imagine we ever got by for so long without this book! A landmark both in content and design, a great combination of a nice book to look at, plus every page has useful information. From the 
ÒidiotÓ stage to fairly advanced technical printing information. Like getting a $300 course for thirty bucks! A must for any book publisher.

                                                                       Ñ Cliff Martin
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##A 08 235291 713
##T Getting It Printed
Getting It Printed

@@
(How to Work with Printers and Graphic Arts Services to Assure
Quality, Stay on Schedule, 
and Control Costs)

Mark Beach, Steve Shepro 
& Ken Russon
1986; 236 pp.
ISBN 096026647X
$29.50 ($31.50 postpaid)

from:
Coast to Coast Books
2934 NE 16th Avenue
Portland, OR  97212
503/282-5891
@@

##A 08 236006 716
##T Perma-Bound Binding
Perma-Bound Binding

@@
A library bindery, this company will ÒPerma-BoundÓ your paperbacks for as little as $3.00 apiece ($25 minimum order). After removing the original paper cover, they reinforce the binding and then rebind, sandwiching the paper cover between binder board and clear polyester film. Voila! Cheaper than hardbound (Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor is $17.95 in hard cover, $4.95 in paper, and $8.40 Perma-Bound), more durable than paperback, and a great way to save that treasured book whose pages are beginning to fall out and whose cover is getting ratty. (If too ratty, the pages can still be rebound but with a solid-color cover imprinted with title and author.) Your favorite might be bound already Ñ call for their catalog of over 6,000 titles.   
                                           
                                                               Ñ Sarah Satterlee
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##A 08 236601 717
##T Perma-Bound Binding
Perma-Bound Binding

@@
information free

from:
Hertzberg-New Method, Inc.
Vandalia Road
Jacksonville, IL 62650
800/637-6581; 
217/243-5451 (IL)
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##A 08 39280 719
##T Editing by Design
Editing by Design

@@
Outstanding book on design  Ñ  using the image and images of the page to carry a message with pure clarity. This one book, heeded, could cure the rotten design of most amateur publishing.
                                                   
                                                                    Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 08 39601 720
##T Editing by Design
Editing by Design

@@
Jan V. White
1982; 248 pp.
ISBN 0835215083
$34.95 ($38.45 postpaid)

from:
R.R. Bowker Company
Order Department
P. O. Box 762
New York, NY  10011
800/521-8110
@@

##A 08 261637 725
##T The Alternative Printing Handbook
The Alternative Printing Handbook

@@
This book is not for lovers of the printing craft, but for Òpeople with something to sayÓ Ñ which is anyone involved in community projects that need flyers for telephone poles, a brief newsletter for organization members, or invitations to a fundraiser. Learn when and how to use stencil duplicating, screen printing, and offset-litho printing, the three methods the authors consider best for non-commercial groups. And being activists themselves, the authors also include all-important tips on distribution.

There are two big drawbacks to this book, however. ItÕs from England and it was published in 1983. The authors try and explain the processes in American and English printing terms, but it still
@@

##A 08 262001 727
##T The Alternative Printing Handbook
The Alternative Printing Handbook

@@
Chris Treweek
1983; 110 pp.
 £7 (about $13) postpaid

from:
Islington Bus Co.
Palmer Place
London N7 8DH
ENGLAND
@@

##A 08 237011 731
##T Designing with Type
Designing with Type

@@
Whether itÕs a poster or a book, designers have to work with words. Letters come in all shapes and sizes, each with its own personality and charm. But they all have the same purpose Ñ transferring ideas and information.

Legibility and impact are not accidental. Starting with alphabetical history, families of type and units of measurements, and finishing up with leading and copy fitting, the clear examples in this book will add new meaning to the words you see.

                                                               Ñ Kathleen OÕNeill
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##A 08 237228 732
##T Designing with Type
Designing with Type

@@
(A Basic Course in Typography)

James Craig
1971, 1980; 175 pp.
ISBN 0823013200
$24.95 ($26.95 postpaid)

from:
Watson-Guptill Publications
1695 Oak Street
Lakewood, NJ  08701
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##A 08 237467 735
##T Twentieth Century Type Designers
Twentieth Century Type Designers

@@
Typography is as invisible to most readers as molecules are in daily life. Yet itÕs subtly crucial to the underlying structure of anything we read. As a writer, typesetter, magazine editor, design dabbler, and (recently) desktop publishing aficionado, I sought to understand typography for years: why did the same page change so much just from changing between Century, say, and Helvetica? Why did Palatino feel so regal, and Souvenir so clunky? I leafed through dozens of dreary type spec books in vain, never finding the soul of this intensely personal craft form. Finally, Sebastian CarterÕs tribal history educated me Ñ partly about letterforms, partly about the dedicated madmen who designed them, and mostly about the sense of civilization which letterforms evoke.
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##A 08 237741 737
##T Twentieth Century Type Designers
Twentieth Century Type Designers

@@
Sebastian Carter
1987; 168 pp.
$24.95 ($26.20 postpaid)

from:
Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc.
132 West 32nd Street
New York, NY  10011
212/741-0801
@@

##A 08 237939 738
##T PosterMaker Plus
PosterMaker Plus

@@
For bending type as if it were rubber, this neat program for the Macintosh canÕt be passed over. You can enlarge the text to any size when you print it on a Laserwriter, which means that it can later be reduced for reproduction with impeccable resolution. And you can print out both type and graphics in sheets to assemble it as a gigantic poster. 

                                                                        Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 08 239689 739
##T PosterMaker Plus
PosterMaker Plus

@@
$59.95 ($63.45 postpaid)

from:
Br¿derbund Software
P.O. Box 12947
San Rafael, CA 94913
800/527-6263

Version 2.5, not copy-protected, Macintosh.
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##A 08 239995 742
##T Postscript Type Sampler
Postscript Type Sampler

@@
ÒGood reference tool for desktop typesetters,Ó says Kathleen        OÕNeill, Whole EarthÕs design mogul. Catalog of over 800 type samples from 17 manufacturers of Postscript fonts.

                                                                    Ñ Sarah Satterlee
@@

##A 08 240208 743
##T Postscript Type Sampler
Postscript Type Sampler

@@
1988; 300+ pp. 
(more as new fonts added)
$49.95 ($53.95 postpaid)

from:
MacTography
702 Twinbrook Parkway
Rockville, MD  20851
301/424-3942
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##A 08 42436 746
##T DESKTOP PUBLISHING INTRODUCTION
DESKTOP PUBLISHING INTRODUCTION

@@
DESKTOP PUBLISHING  Ñ  using a personal computer to write, typeset, design and publish a newsletter, magazine, or book  Ñ  represents a tremendous advance for small publishers. Tasks that used to take a handful of specialists days have been compressed into page-makeup programs that enable a jack-of-all trades publisher to directly control the whole process. For the megalomaniacs among us this is indeed good news. However, it is a mixed blessing for everyone else. For example, desktop publishing plays havoc with clearcut job descriptions. Once you have a single software program that lets you specify page layout formats, choose typefaces and point sizes, Òpour inÓ word processed copy, and manipulate illustrations in quick succession, you have a program which practically begs for a new breed of multi-talented publishing workers. Where does this leave the editor who canÕt
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##A 08 43773 748
##T PageMaker
PageMaker

@@
This software program used in conjunction with a Macintosh has my vote for the best hardware/software combo for desktop publishing. While there are several other competing programs available (some geared for the IBM PC), there are none with the intuitive design and ease of use that PageMaker provides. If you are considering publishing you should investigate PageMaker.
                                                                         Ñ Jay Kinney

The current version of PageMaker is available both for Macintosh and 80286-based DOS systems, with provision for transferring files between them.  A hard disk is all but essential. 
                                                                          Ñ Hank Roberts
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##A 08 44026 749
##T PageMaker
PageMaker

@@
$595
Information free

from:
Aldus Corporation
411 First Avenue
Suite 200
Seattle, WA 98104

Version 3.0. Not copy-protected. Macintosh external disk drive required; hard disk recommended.
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##A 08 241640 751
##T CHEAP(ER) DESKTOP PUBLISHING ON THE IBM
CHEAP(ER) DESKTOP PUBLISHING ON THE IBM

@@
by Ted Nace

Using cheap IBM clones as the starting point, tens of thousands of people have set up desktop publishing systems that cost about half as much and in many ways outperform their Macintosh counterparts.

The overall hardware and software budget for such a system runs to about $4000 (about the same as a good used car). The bare hardware essentials are an AT clone with a hard disk (around $1200 in late 1988), an HP LaserJet II printer (around $1650), a mouse, and software. Software means PageMaker (easiest to 
learn), or Xerox Ventura Publisher (faster than PageMaker and
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##A 08 241895 754
##T CHEAP(ER) DESKTOP PUBLISHING ON THE IBM
CHEAP(ER) DESKTOP PUBLISHING ON THE IBM

@@
LaserJet Unlimited, Edition II 
Ted Nace & Michael Gardner
1988; 212 pp.
ISBN 0938151002
$24.95 ($28.45 postpaid)

from:
Peachpit Press
1085 Keith Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94708
415/527-8555
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##A 08 243123 755
##T CHEAP(ER) DESKTOP PUBLISHING ON THE IBM
CHEAP(ER) DESKTOP PUBLISHING ON THE IBM

@@
Ventura Tips and Tricks 
Ted Nace
2nd Edition, 1988; 286 pp.
ISBN 0938151010
$26.45 postpaid

from:
Peachpit Press
1085 Keith Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94708
415-527-8555
@@

##A 08 242114 758
##T DESKTOP PUBLISHING MAGAZINES
DESKTOP PUBLISHING MAGAZINES

@@
Having published many issues of a 48-page professional magazine that was produced entirely on a Macintosh computer, I can state with assurance that it can be done and it can even be fun. But it is also a staggering task that dumps the work of three individuals into the lap of one overworked person. Sometimes empowerment is hard to distinguish from embattlement. Two magazines keep things in perspective. 

Personal Publishing is the better of the two, devoted to helping low-end do-it-yourselfers. ItÕs put out by three people in a Chicago suburb, and is itself a Macintosh and Laserwriter 
production Ñ one of the better-looking such publications IÕve seen. ItÕs geared to those who are just starting out in personal
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##A 08 242179 760
##T DESKTOP PUBLISHING MAGAZINES
DESKTOP PUBLISHING MAGAZINES

@@
Personal Publishing
Terry Ulick, Publisher
ISSN 0884951X
$24/year (12 issues)

from:
Hitchcock Publishing Company
25W550 Geneva Road
Wheaton, IL 60188-2292
312/665-1000
@@

##A 08 244439 761
##T DESKTOP PUBLISHING MAGAZINES
DESKTOP PUBLISHING MAGAZINES

@@
Publish! 
David Bunnell, Editor-in -Chief
ISSN 08976007
$39.39/year (12 issues)

from:
Publish!
Subscriber Services
P. O. Box 55400
Boulder, Co 80322
800/222-2990
@@

##A 08 244658 763
##T Illustrated Hndbk of Desktop Pub & Typesetting
Illustrated Hndbk of Desktop Pub & Typesetting

@@
What is erroneously called desktop publishing is actually desktop typesetting. Much of traditional publishing has always been done at a desk, and much of the rest still can not be. The only new aspect of publishing now taking place at table height is the job of formatting text into tiny hard-edged letters. ItÕs an ancient craft with timeless principles. For that reason an old-fashioned encyclopedic tome like this one continues to be useful in a field that outdates books so fast that normally anything this big and heavy would be a dinosaur the day it was printed. ThereÕs probably more here than the average reader wants to know. 

IÕd guess the bookÕs niche is as a library reference for the typesetting regular who needs to know how to encapsulate
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##A 08 244813 765
##T Illustrated Hndbk of Desktop Pub & Typesetting
Illustrated Hndbk of Desktop Pub & Typesetting

@@
Michael L. Kleper
1987; 770 pp.
ISBN 0830627006
$29.95 ($33.95 postpaid)

from:
Graphic Dimensions
134 Caversham Woods
Pittsford, NY 14534-2834
716/381-3428
@@

##A 08 245026 768
##T OUT-OF-PRINT BOOK SOURCES
OUT-OF-PRINT BOOK SOURCES

@@
by Kevin Kelly

The average lifespan of a book these days is about 18 months, and decreasing yearly. Because of a new tax law, publishers are penalized for keeping books in stock, and so they donÕt print more than they think will sell in a year or so. After the second year most books, even truly great ones, go out of print, which means that you or your bookstore cannot order it from the publisher. 

Where can you buy a book thatÕs gone out of print? (If all you want to do is borrow it, you need go no further than your library.) Your local used-book bookstore can usually list the book you are searching for in the professional journal of book collectors,
@@

##A 08 245767 772
##T OUT-OF-PRINT BOOK SOURCES
OUT-OF-PRINT BOOK SOURCES

@@
Out-of-State Book Service
Out of State Book Service
Box 3253
San Clemente, CA 92672-1053
714/492-2976
@@

##A 08 248705 773
##T OUT-OF-PRINT BOOK SOURCES
OUT-OF-PRINT BOOK SOURCES

@@
CulpinÕs Booksearch
CulpinÕs Booksearch
3827 West 32nd Avenue
Denver, CO 80211
800/545-2665
@@

##A 08 248518 774
##T OUT-OF-PRINT BOOK SOURCES
OUT-OF-PRINT BOOK SOURCES

@@
Avonlea Books
Avonlea Books
Box 74 Main Station
White Plains, NY 10602
914/946-5923
@@

##A 08 248197 775
##T OUT-OF-PRINT BOOK SOURCES
OUT-OF-PRINT BOOK SOURCES

@@
Greenmantle
Greenmantle
Box 1178A
Culpepper, VA 22701-7324
@@

##A 08 248003 776
##T OUT-OF-PRINT BOOK SOURCES
OUT-OF-PRINT BOOK SOURCES

@@
Continental Book Service
Continental Book Service
Box 1163-B
New York, NY 10009
@@

##A 08 248868 777
##T The Buckley-Little Book Catalogue
The Buckley-Little Book Catalogue

@@
However you feel about William F. Buckley, Jr.Õs opinions, you gotta admit he had a good idea when he and Stuart Little formed a company to distribute those out-of-print books that authors hoard in their basements, attics, and garages. Although many of the titles are now stored in a central warehouse, some books are still available directly from authors, who often will autograph copies before sending them out.

The catalogÕs standards are more egalitarian than you might expect Ñ for $50, any author with Òa serious commitment to authorshipÓ can list any OOP title, giving any description he or 
she likes. But what the catalog may lack in objectivity it more
than makes up in offering books, from the famous to the obscure, that you canÕt get anyplace else.                  Ñ Sarah Vandershaf
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##A 08 249195 778
##T The Buckley-Little Book Catalogue
The Buckley-Little Book Catalogue

@@
1987; 87 pp.
ISBN 0916667049
Catalog $15 

from:
Buckley-Little Book 
Catalogue Co., Inc.
Kraus Building
Route 100
Millwood, NY 10546
914/762-2200
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##A 08 250172 782
##T UMI Author Guide to Out-of-Print Books
UMI Author Guide to Out-of-Print Books

@@
I once spent several frustrating hours searching for a copy of The Realm of the Nebul¾, astronomer Edwin HubbleÕs 1924 proof that galaxies exist beyond our own. I finally found the thing after collaring a librarian to help me. And that was at the Library of Congress! Imagine the difficulty of finding such important-but-obscure historical works at your local library.

If you are in this position and are willing to buy the book, the UMI Guide might be able to help. Over 100,000 out-of-print books and dissertations Ñ including the elusive Nebul¾ Ñ are indexed on 12 microfiche slides. UMI reprints the books on order and delivers them within 30 days. Out-of-print books cost 26¢ per page, with a minimum price of $20 per book and a maximum of $150;
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##A 08 250549 784
##T UMI Author Guide to Out-of-Print Books
UMI Author Guide to Out-of-Print Books

@@
Catalog on microfiche free 

from:
Univ Microfilms Inc
P.O. Box 1467
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
800/521-0600
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##A 08 251426 785
##T SPECIALIZED AMERICAN BOOKDEALERS
SPECIALIZED AMERICAN BOOKDEALERS

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Both these reference volumes list stores and dealers who sell out-of-print books. Total sources, Specialized: 3000; Buy Books Where: 2100. But gross body count isnÕt a fair comparison, since each volume includes sources the other doesnÕt. Between the two, you stand a good chance of finding someone who sells the book youÕre looking for.

                                                                  Ñ Sarah Vandershaf
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##A 08 251741 786
##T SPECIALIZED AMERICAN BOOKDEALERS
SPECIALIZED AMERICAN BOOKDEALERS

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Directory of Specialized American Bookdealers 
The Staff of American Book Collector
1987; 520 pp.
$47.50 ($49.50 postpaid)

from:
Moretus Press, Inc.
P.O. Box 1080
Ossining, NY 10562
914/941-0409
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##A 08 252640 787
##T SPECIALIZED AMERICAN BOOKDEALERS
SPECIALIZED AMERICAN BOOKDEALERS

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Buy Books Where, Sell Books Where 
(A Directory of Out of Print 
Booksellers and their 
Author-Subject Specialties)

Ruth E. Robinson 
& Daryush Farudi
6th Edition 1988; 274 pp.
ISBN 0960355677
 $29.75 postpaid

from:
Ruth E. Robinson Books
Route 7
P.O. Box 162A
Morgantown, WV 26505
304/594-3140
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##A 08 252835 790
##T Daedalus Books
Daedalus Books

@@
HereÕs a new and welcome twist on ÒremainderedÓ books (the heavily discounted hardbacks often found at bookstores). As DaedalusÕ owners point out, Òremainders are not books that donÕt sell, but simply books (whether bestseller, classic, or disappointment) whose remaining stock at publishersÕ warehouses is larger than their projected sales.Ó That often happens to good books.

Daedalus selects what it considers the best of the lot, with an eye towards literary bargains, then sells them via mail order at tremendous savings. Prices average $3 Ñ $5 a book, which means you can buy a hardcover that is cheaper than the paperback.
                                                                               
                                                                               Ñ Joe Kane
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##A 08 253017 791
##T Daedalus Books
Daedalus Books

@@
Catalog free

from:
Daedalus Books
2260 25th Place, NE
Washington, D.C. 20018
202/526-0564
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##A 08 253285 793
##T The Copyright Book
The Copyright Book

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Not a mere legalistic regurgitation of rules and regulations, this is the best book on copyright principles for my money. With clear insight, imaginative examples, and hardly a Latin word in sight, the author pierces the thicket of riddles we call copyright. HeÕs the only one IÕve read willing to tackle thorny issues like parody, private copying, and ÒlibraryingÓ Ñ archiving copies for research. 

                                                                        Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 253556 794
##T The Copyright Book
The Copyright Book

@@
William S. Strong
2nd Edition 1984; 223 pp.
ISBN 0262691043
$6.95 ($9.45 postpaid)

from:
MIT Press
28 Carleton Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
617/253-5251
@@

##A 08 254082 797
##T How to Register A Copyright
How to Register A Copyright

@@
Which hoops to jump through in the great paperchase. All the forms are covered, steps one, two, three, four. . . . 

                                                                  Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 254465 798
##T How to Register A Copyright
How to Register A Copyright

@@
Robert B. Chickering 
& Susan Hartman
Updated Edition 1987; 230 pp.
ISBN 0684188783
$10.95 postpaid 

from:
Macmillan Publishing Co.
Mail Order Department
Front & Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
800/257-5755
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##A 08 53073 802
##T INTRODUCTION: TELEPHONES
INTRODUCTION: TELEPHONES

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     BEGINNING 100 YEARS AGO, the telephone industry changed a nation of remote outposts into a vast interwoven network of sense, nonsense, business, motion, and emotion. The 1982 divestiture decision prompted a flood of change in telephones and telephone services. When the waters subside, the entire infrastructure of our culture will be new.
     Meanwhile: Answering machines have revamped our habits of courtesy. New models let you retrieve messages from any faraway touchtone phone, or even forward messages to another phone. The consumer electronics catalogs (see reviews) carry them. Panasonic is the most consistently reliable brand. Cellular phones
(Òcar phonesÓ) are revamping the morning commute. They vary so much locally that you should shop locally  Ñ  donÕt rely on national gossip sources.                                                      Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 08 55269 803
##T Installing Your Own Telephones
Installing Your Own Telephones


@@
If you want a phone extension  Ñ  for home or business  Ñ  you should probably install it yourself. This how-to guide is excellent  Ñ  full of diagrams, written clearly, and organized for scanning.
                                                                 
                                                                  Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 08 55423 804
##T Installing Your Own Telephones
Installing Your Own Telephones


@@
Master Publishing, Inc.
2nd Edition 1986; 170 pp.
ISBN 0835932923
$9.95 postpaid

from:
Simon & Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 08 66831 808
##T Teleconnect ¥ Which Phone System Should I Buy?
Teleconnect ¥ Which Phone System Should I Buy?


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One of the most viciously smart and unpretentious trade magazines around Ñ covering telephones and the telephone industry. They also publish books. If you run a small business, their bi-annual Which Phone System Should I Buy? answers exactly that question. No one else will, not even high-priced consultants. 
                                                                        
                                                                     Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 08 67076 809
##T Teleconnect ¥ Which Phone System Should I Buy?
Teleconnect ¥ Which Phone System Should I Buy?


@@
Teleconnect 
Andy Moore, Editor
$15/year (12 issues)

from:
Teleconnect
12 West 21st Street
New York, NY 10010
800/542-7279
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##A 08 190031 810
##T Teleconnect ¥ Which Phone System Should I Buy?
Teleconnect ¥ Which Phone System Should I Buy?


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Which Phone System Should I Buy?
1987; 316 pp.
$39.95 ($43.95 postpaid)

from:
Telecom Library, Inc.
12 West 21st Street
New York, NY 10010
800/542-7279
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##A 08 195149 814
##T CELLULAR TELEPHONE GUIDES
CELLULAR TELEPHONE GUIDES

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Neither of these two books are definitive, but thereÕs not much else reliable. Cellular Telephones introduces nicely with lots of diagrams. It will help you determine if you need one. Cellular Mobile figures youÕre already sold on the idea but need to demonstrate the cost/benefit ratio to feel good about it. It then helps you choose one to actually install in your car (all cellular radio is car-bound so far). I doubt that anything can save you from the sharks selling the gear.

                                                                      Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 195515 815
##T CELLULAR TELEPHONE GUIDES
CELLULAR TELEPHONE GUIDES

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Cellular Telephones 
(A LaymanÕs Guide)

Stuart Crump, Jr.
1985; 146 pp.
ISBN 0830619658
$9.95 postpaid 

from:
TAB Books, Inc.
Blue Ridge Summit, PA 
17294-0550
800/233-1128
@@

##A 08 196252 816
##T CELLULAR TELEPHONE GUIDES
CELLULAR TELEPHONE GUIDES

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Cellular Mobile Telephone Guide 
Andrew M. Seybold 
& Mel A. Samples
1986; 202 pp.
ISBN 067222416X
$9.95 ($13.45 postpaid)

from:
Howard Sams & Co.
4300 West 62nd Street
Indianapolis, IN  46268
800/428-7267
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##A 08 30179 819
##T The Complete Guide to Lower Phone Costs
The Complete Guide to Lower Phone Costs

@@
Most of us will be victims, not consumers, of long-distance phone companies (AT&T, Allnet, MCI, etc.)  Ñ  the options are too complex and change too rapidly. For $10 - $75, depending on your monthly bill, ConsumerÕs Checkbook will computer-analyze your phone bill and suggest the best long-distance carriers. A great service  Ñ  priced low enough to save you back its cost in a couple of months. You can also get their more general, masterful Complete Guide which evaluates in print amenities like sound quality, as well as rates.                                

                                                                   Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 08 60392 820
##T The Complete Guide to Lower Phone Costs
The Complete Guide to Lower Phone Costs

@@
Robert Krughoff
1985; 71 pp.
$6.95 postpaid

from:
ConsumerÕs Checkbook
806 15th Street, NW
Suite 925
Washington, DC 20005

ConsumerÕs Checkbook Long-Distance Cost Comparison
$10 - $75; Info. free
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##A 08 196413 823
##T Hello Direct
Hello Direct

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A complete business phone catalog. Everything from padded phone rests ($5.95) to call forwarding devices ($335) to portable teleconferencing systems ($1565). Hello Direct says that ÒWe ship over 90% of our orders in 24 hours or less.Ó They offer a 30 day exchange or refund on their equipment, and all their products are guaranteed for one year, parts and labor. We havenÕt purchased anything from them ourselves, so we canÕt confirm their claims, but if youÕre in the market for phone equipment, youÕd have to look a long time to find this much quality stuff in one place.

                                                                      Ñ Richard Kadrey
@@

##A 08 196780 824
##T Hello Direct
Hello Direct

@@
Catalog free 

from:
Hello Direct
2346 Bering Drive
San Jose, CA 95131-1121
800/444-3556
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##A 08 197825 828
##T FAX INTRODUCTION
FAX INTRODUCTION

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Fax (facsimile machines) send copies of documents across town, or around the world, the same way you would make a regular phone call. Because they send a copy of whatever is on the page 
(including text, graphics, and signatures), fax machines have replaced much of the worldwide Telex and some of the overnight express traffic. Fax has become increasingly common and is now a reasonable product for most businesses (large and small) to consider.

To meet this need, several manufacturers are making desktop fax machines for under $2000 which include telephones, autodialers, and auto-answer features. These machines are capable of sending a page in 20 seconds to a compatible machine on the other end.
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##A 08 197889 832
##T FAX INTRODUCTION
FAX INTRODUCTION

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Northwestern Bell Fax 
$1399, plus UPS shipping

from:
Northwestern Bell Fax
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##A 08 200011 833
##T FAX INTRODUCTION
FAX INTRODUCTION

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Panasonic Fax
$1699, plus UPS shipping 

from:
Panasonic Co.
One Panasonic Way
Secaucus, NJ 07094
201/348-7000
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##A 08 148996 835
##T FREEDOM TO FAX
FREEDOM TO FAX

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by Rob Horn
Recent events in Panama have shown that facsimile equipment 
(fax) has become an important part of the free press. When the Panamanian government closed the opposition press, the local and international business community organized an independent free press. Overseas offices will fax important news clippings to a list of Panamanian businesses.  The overseas offices are coordinated to avoid duplication so that within minutes dozens of Panamanian offices get each article. The local offices then use office copiers and distribute the news locally. The estimated equivalent print run is somewhere between 30,000 and 50,000 issues. 

The government cannot disable facsimile equipment and copiers 
without effectively severing their ties to the Western economy.
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##A 08 30289 837
##T Toshiba 30100 Phone/Copier/Fax Machine
Toshiba 30100 Phone/Copier/Fax Machine

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An amazing bit of hardware for any large or small business. The Toshiba 30100 is not only a fully-decked business phone featuring a 50 telephone number memory (with 10 single-touch numbers), last number redial, on-hook dialing, and message receiving capability, but a fax machine (with a separate 50 number fax memory) and copier as well. A liquid crystal display shows you the time and date, the name and number youÕre calling, the feature activated, the length of your call, and a warning if it detects a error in your fax transmission. 

This phone is the way of the future Ñ each employee can now be his or her own mini-data center and not have to depend on other departments getting information to them.        
                                                                  Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 104236 838
##T Toshiba 30100 Phone/Copier/Fax Machine
Toshiba 30100 Phone/Copier/Fax Machine

@@
Information free from your local Toshiba copier dealer; 
$1,795 (retail)

from:
Toshiba America
9740 Irvine Boulevard
Irvine, CA 92718
714/583-3700
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##A 08 200326 840
##T Public Fax Directory
Public Fax Directory

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Fax for plain folks. Like copy machines before them, fax machines are now flourishing in quick-print shops, mailbox rental outlets, and other such places. When you want to send a document, and either you or the receiver doesnÕt have access to a fax machine, this quarterly directory will tell you the location of the public fax nearest to you. 

                                                                 Ñ Sarah Vandershaf
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##A 08 200614 841
##T Public Fax Directory
Public Fax Directory

@@
$40/year (4 issues) 

from:
Public Fax
2811 East Katella Avenue,
Suite 200
Orange, CA 92667
714/532-5330
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##A 08 206737 843
##T The Practical Guide to Voice Mail
The Practical Guide to Voice Mail

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Voice mail begins as a glorified answering machine. The message you hear on your machine is, in a sense, a Òvoice letterÓ sent to a particular phone address. The Òletter boxÓ for this audio mail quickly developed into the interactive recording you get when you call hot-lines: ÒIf you would like more information, dial a 2, if 
you would like....Ó Your voice is ÒmailedÓ to the right department.

Voice mail is now exemplified by the marriage of keyboard to phone. In one kind of system, youÕll see the titles of messages left for you displayed on a screen which you select visually, and then hear audibly. In another you can make a copy of your phone message to forward onto a colleague, or save in a file, or command that acknowledgement of receipt be announced next time the sender
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##A 08 214453 845
##T The Practical Guide to Voice Mail
The Practical Guide to Voice Mail

@@
Martin F. Parker
1987; 306 pp.
ISBN 0078812437
$24.95 ($25.95 postpaid)

from:
McGraw Hill, Inc.
13955 Manchester Road
Manchester, MO 63011
800/722-4726
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##A 08 239054 848
##T PAGERS
PAGERS

@@
by Blair Newman 

Over 6 million pagers (aka ÒbeepersÓ) are now in use, because 
theyÕre the cheapest and most convenient way of Òkeeping in 
touch.Ó

There are 4 different kinds of pagers, but all share a common characteristic: every pager is linked by radio to a unique telephone number.

Tone Only: These pagers simply beep or vibrate when someone dials their phone number. To get the message you have to call your office, answering service, or answering machine.
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##A 08 246273 852
##T PAGERS
PAGERS

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Metagram
To find out if Metagram is available in your area, call 
800/262-6382.
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##A 08 247232 854
##T Watson
Watson

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Watson is a board that fits into your IBM PC or PC-compatible computer and turns it into a flexible voice mail center. WatsonÕs basic function is to answer calls and record messages, but you can also program it to give messages to specific callers when they enter an ID code. If you want to deliver a series of messages to callers (for instance, a list of possible extensions they can dial) Watson can do it, and even change the sequence of messages in response to touch-tone signals from the caller. Watson also has the ability to make stock calls for you, dialing a pre-programmed series of numbers, delivering the message, and recording a voice or touch-tone response. If a number is busy, Watson will automatically call back later. Sort of like having a tiny phone operator in a box.                                         
                                                               Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 263839 855
##T Watson
Watson

@@
Version 6.2; $199

from:
Natural Microsystems
8 Erie Drive
Natick, MA 01760
617/655-0700
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##A 08 264013 857
##T BYPASSING THE PHONE COMPANIES
BYPASSING THE PHONE COMPANIES

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by Benn Kobb, KC5CW, and Howard Goldstein

Packet radio is a technique for distributing electronic mail and messages to specific terminals using radio channels. Its significance is that it offers computer users complete bypass of the wired telephone network and their high costs. You can therefore communicate long distances, dependably, without technical knowledge, for free.

The basic elements of a packet station are a cheap computer, a small radio transceiver, and a Òterminal node controller (TNC),Ó the packet equivalent of a modem. A $200 hand-held radio and a $100 Commodore 64 computer work as well as anything.
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##A 08 264267 862
##T BYPASSING THE PHONE COMPANIES
BYPASSING THE PHONE COMPANIES

@@
Gateway
Stan Horzepa, Editor
$6/25 issues

from:
ARRL
225 Main Street
Newington, CT  06111
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##A 08 266354 863
##T BYPASSING THE PHONE COMPANIES
BYPASSING THE PHONE COMPANIES

@@
CompuServeÕs HamNet SIG
CompuServe
P.O. Box 20212
Columbus, OH  43220
800/848-8199 or 
614/457-0802

Call or write for information on joining
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##A 08 264472 864
##T PACKET RADIO EQUIPMENT
PACKET RADIO EQUIPMENT

@@
Each of these companies sells packet radio equipment. Send for their catalogs.

                                             Ñ Benn Kobb and Howard Goldstein
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##A 08 264747 865
##T PACKET RADIO EQUIPMENT
PACKET RADIO EQUIPMENT

@@
Advanced Electronic Applications, Inc.
Catalog free

from:
Advanced Electronic Applications, Inc.
P.O.  Box C-2160
Lynwood, WA  98036
206/775-7373
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##A 08 267295 866
##T PACKET RADIO EQUIPMENT
PACKET RADIO EQUIPMENT

@@
Kantronics
Catalog free

from:
Kantronics
1202 E. 23rd Street
Lawrence, KS  66046
913/842-7745
@@

##A 08 267247 867
##T PACKET RADIO EQUIPMENT
PACKET RADIO EQUIPMENT

@@
Heath Company
Catalog free

from:
Heath Company
Benton Harbor, MI  49022
800/253-0570
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##A 08 266143 868
##T PACKET RADIO BOOKS
PACKET RADIO BOOKS

@@
Talk about dinosaurs! You still need to pass a Morse Code proficiency test to send radio messages via an amateur radio network. A few radio hackers have a better idea: cheap computers hooked up to their ham gear. Instead of a human radio operator laboriously transmitting a rapid series of dots and dashes into the scattered atmosphere to be deciphered by trained human listeners far away (if they can hear it), packet radio hams use computers to do all the coding and relaying. While they are at it, the computers also direct messages to particular areas of the globe depending on the destination address affixed to the message ÒpacketÓ, thus significantly increasing the range and usefulness of ham radio. With this system, shortwave radio messages (they must carry only personal and non-commercial content) become a sort of free 
radio mail.
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##A 08 266630 870
##T PACKET RADIO BOOKS
PACKET RADIO BOOKS

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The Packet Radio Handbook 
Jonathan L. Mayo, KR3T
1987; 217 pp.
ISBN 0830627227
$14.95 postpaid 

from:
TAB Books, Inc.
Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17294-0550
800/233-1128
@@

##A 08 268479 871
##T PACKET RADIO BOOKS
PACKET RADIO BOOKS

@@
Your Gateway to Packet Radio 
Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
1987; 239 pp.
ISBN 0872592030
$10 ($12.50 postpaid)

from:
American Radio Relay League
225 Main Street
Newington, CN  06111
203/666-1541
@@

##A 08 268973 874
##T HANDIE-TALKIES
HANDIE-TALKIES

@@
by Blair Newman

Amateur (ÒhamÓ) radio can be a low cost alternative to cellular phones. With a $250 Òhandie-talkieÓ you can make virtually unlimited local telephone calls at an annual cost of about $30.
 
There are, however, a few catches:
 
(1) You can only make outgoing calls, and not receive incoming ones.
 
(2) Only ÒpersonalÓ calls are legal. Business conversations, even ordering a pizza to go, are prohibited by FCC regulations.
@@

##A 08 269060 877
##T HANDIE-TALKIES
HANDIE-TALKIES

@@
Technician/General License Manual (ARRL)
$5

from:
Ham Radio Outlet
800/854-6064; 
415/342-5757  (CA)
@@

##A 08 270825 878
##T HANDIE-TALKIES
HANDIE-TALKIES

@@
21 day Novice Course (West)
$20

from:
Ham Radio Outlet
800/854-6064; 
415/342-5757  (CA)
@@

##A 08 270866 879
##T HANDIE-TALKIES
HANDIE-TALKIES

@@
Tune in the World (ARRL)
$20

from:
Ham Radio Outlet
800/854-6064; 
415/342-5757  (CA)
@@

##A 08 269479 880
##T THE GENERAL MOBILE RADIO SERVICE
THE GENERAL MOBILE RADIO SERVICE

@@
by Benn Kobb 

Instantaneous, two-way mobile voice communication can save a lot of time and trouble in daily life, and be very useful in managing group activities.
 
In the mid-1970s, when truck drivers set up rolling radio networks to warn of speed-traps and help each other find fuel during the oil embargo, Citizens Band (CB) radio boomed. Though still somewhat useful for monitoring traffic conditions and reporting emergencies, CB today is plagued by interference, technical shortcomings, and a subculture of recreational users. CB is not suitable for many personal communications needs.
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##A 08 269759 886
##T THE GENERAL MOBILE RADIO SERVICE
THE GENERAL MOBILE RADIO SERVICE

@@
Personal Radio Steering Group, Inc.
Personal Radio Steering Group
P.O. Box 2851
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
313/769-1616

Compuserve: 73016, 163
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##A 08 273319 887
##T THE GENERAL MOBILE RADIO SERVICE
THE GENERAL MOBILE RADIO SERVICE

@@
GMRS National Repeater Guide
62 pp.
$3

from:
Personal Radio Steering Group, Inc.
P.O. Box 2851
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
313/769-1616
@@

##A 08 273646 888
##T THE GENERAL MOBILE RADIO SERVICE
THE GENERAL MOBILE RADIO SERVICE

@@
ÒWhat is the GMRS?Ó
12 pp.
Free for 45-cent SASE

from:
Personal Radio Steering Group, Inc.
P.O. Box 2851
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
313/769-1616
@@

##A 08 273915 889
##T THE GENERAL MOBILE RADIO SERVICE
THE GENERAL MOBILE RADIO SERVICE

@@
Personal Radio Exchange
$20/year (12 issues)

from:
Personal Radio Steering Group, Inc.
P.O. Box 2851
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
313/769-1616
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##A 08 270464 891
##T How to Produce Your Own Videoconference
How to Produce Your Own Videoconference

@@
What a delicious treat a video-teleconference would be if it worked. But, so far it only kind of works.

What you want is two-way video and audio, that is, equal communication for any participant. What you get in practice is 
one-way video via satellite, and two-way voice via phone lines. That means one side sees nothing (in seminars that blind side is the speaker, and in TV news itÕs the person being interviewed 
live). Just as bad, both sides share the technical handicap of having one conversation split between a high road/low road transmission.

Despite these grim flaws, a videoconference can liberate a far-
@@

##A 08 271314 893
##T How to Produce Your Own Videoconference
How to Produce Your Own Videoconference

@@
Georgia A. Mathis
1987; 165 pp.
ISBN 0867292164
$36.95 ($39.95 postpaid)

from:
Knowledge Industry Publications, Inc.
701 Westchester Avenue
White Plains, NY 10604
800/248-5474
@@

##A 08 275003 897
##T WHERE TO HAVE YOUR VIDEO TELECONFERENCE
WHERE TO HAVE YOUR VIDEO TELECONFERENCE

@@
by Richard Kadrey

US SprintÕs ÒThe Meeting ChannelÓ provides video tele-conferencing facilities in over 300 locations in 25 countries 
(including mainland China), and the number of locations is growing all the time. When this kind of conferencing was introduced a few years ago, the first people to take advantage of it were big companies wanting to save on travel expenses Ñ Atlantic Richfield, Xerox, JC Penny, Citibank, etc.; they used corporate 
Òprivate roomsÓ hooked right into The Meeting ChannelsÕ fiber optic lines. Now, anyone can book time on The Meeting Channel using one of SprintÕs Òpublic rooms.Ó Depending on the quality of the transmission you need (e.g., the speed of the transmission
@@

##A 08 275289 902
##T WHERE TO HAVE YOUR VIDEO TELECONFERENCE
WHERE TO HAVE YOUR VIDEO TELECONFERENCE

@@
The Meeting Channel
Further information free

from:
The Meeting Channel
US Sprint
1815 Century Boulevard
Atlanta, GA 30345
800/241-8470.
@@

##A 08 277360 903
##T WHERE TO HAVE YOUR VIDEO TELECONFERENCE
WHERE TO HAVE YOUR VIDEO TELECONFERENCE

@@
Holiday Inn 
For Holiday Inn information, contact the location nearest you
@@

##A 08 275579 904
##T VIDEO TELECONFERENCING MAGAZINES
VIDEO TELECONFERENCING MAGAZINES

@@
Video teleconferencing is a new enough phenomenon that useful publications about it are still rare. And the ones that are useful tend to be expensive. The following short list of magazines will keep you up to date on whatÕs happening on the video teleconferencing front. Two of them are well over $150 a year, so you might try talking your company or local library (or a nearby business library) into stocking them.

                                                               Ñ Richard Kadrey
@@

##A 08 275843 905
##T VIDEO TELECONFERENCING MAGAZINES
VIDEO TELECONFERENCING MAGAZINES

@@
TeleSpan 
Shirley Singletany, Editor
$207/year (12 issues)

from:
TeleSpan, Inc.
50 West Palm Street
Altadena, CA 91001
818/797-5482
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##A 08 278511 906
##T VIDEO TELECONFERENCING MAGAZINES
VIDEO TELECONFERENCING MAGAZINES

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Telecommunications Policy 
Susan Hunter, Editor
$141/year (4 issues)

from:
Butterworth Publishers
80 Montvale Avenue
Stoneham, MA 02180
800/548-4001
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##A 08 278111 907
##T VIDEO TELECONFERENCING MAGAZINES
VIDEO TELECONFERENCING MAGAZINES

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Teleconference
Patty Portway, Editor
$60/year (6 issues)

from:
Applied Business Communications Inc.
P. O. Box 5106
San Ramon, CA 94583-0906
415/820-5563
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##A 08 57701 909
##T Handbook of Personal Computer Communications
Handbook of Personal Computer Communications

@@
Only book you need. All the lore on how to set up your computer for networking, find the particular networks you need, and connect your computer to someone elseÕs typesetting equipment or directly to another computer. Now in its extensively revised second edition, this book resounds with enthusiasm and clarity.

                                                                        Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 08 58084 910
##T Handbook of Personal Computer Communications
Handbook of Personal Computer Communications

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The Complete Handbook of Personal Computer Communications

Alfred Glossbrenner
1985; 512 pp.
ISBN 0312157606
$14.95 ($16.45 postpaid)

from:
St. MartinÕs Press
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
800/221-7945
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##A 08 60747 913
##T Link-Up
Link-Up


@@
A tabloid with personal writing that keeps track of new computer networks, information services, terminal software, and anything else you need to telecommunicate effectively via personal computer. Some articles pick a topic (investing, psychology, detective work, religion) and describe everything online thatÕs related. Link-Up is also beginning to cover some of the legal and social ramifications of the new telecom technology.

                                                                       Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 08 61063 914
##T Link-Up
Link-Up


@@
Joseph A. Webb, Editor
ISSN 0739988X
$22/year (11 issues)

from:
Learned Information, Inc.
143 Old Marlton Pike
Medford, NJ 08055
609/654-6266
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##A 08 105039 917
##T THE BULLETIN BOARD PROLETARIAT
THE BULLETIN BOARD PROLETARIAT

@@
by Kevin Kelly

A VOLUNTEER PROLETARIAT MAINTAINS ONE OF the most invisible communication undergrounds going. Linked by phone lines, a web of computer bulletin board systems (BBSs) work night-duty collating messages and electronic mail for free. Regulars patronize small-time BBSs because they can feast on immediate gossip about very specialized subjects. Name a topic and there is almost certainly a BBS dedicated to it somewhere.

To get onto a BBS, you dial a phone number with your computer, and after reading the welcome message, you follow a menu of choices until you arrive at a topic you like. You can then read
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##A 08 108447 924
##T THE BULLETIN BOARD PROLETARIAT
THE BULLETIN BOARD PROLETARIAT

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TBBS
$300 for single line
$895 for 8 line
$1495 for 16 line
$100 for FIDO mail

from:
eSoft
4100 South Parker Road,
Box 305
Aurora, CO 80014
303/699-6565

Version 2.0. For IBM and compatibles; needs 384K and hard disk for single line. Not copy-protected.
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##A 08 109266 925
##T THE BULLETIN BOARD PROLETARIAT
THE BULLETIN BOARD PROLETARIAT

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GBBS
$128 postpaid

from:
L & L Productions
P. O. Box 5354
Avada, CO 80005
303/420-3156

Version 1.3. For Apple family; needs two drives. 
Not copy-protected.
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##A 08 109318 926
##T THE BULLETIN BOARD PROLETARIAT
THE BULLETIN BOARD PROLETARIAT

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Red Ryder Host
$60 postpaid

from:
FreeSoft
150 Hickory Drive
Beaver Falls, PA 15010
412/846-2700

Red Ryder Host: Version 1.4A. 
For Macintosh, Mac Plus, and Macintosh SE; needs 512K. 
Not copy-protected.
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##A 08 278777 927
##T THE BULLETIN BOARD PROLETARIAT
THE BULLETIN BOARD PROLETARIAT

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PC Pursuit 
For information call

Telenet
800/336-0437
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##A 08 110090 928
##T Information Highways
Information Highways

@@
We know shamefully little about the nature of information. Try to buy a map that shows how information flows in all its varieties around the world. Bet you wonÕt find one.

One small corner has been done. Compiled by astute librarians in Oregon, this self-published monograph traces the regional information paths in the Pacific Northwest. The overlapping networks of electronic, transportation, and paper information delivery routes are collated into an atlas of communications. Wisely, the writers include airlines and overnight couriers as communication channels. Emphasis is given to the remarkable freeways of interlibrary loans. (Libraries pass books among themselves, so that patrons can borrow books that a small branch
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##A 08 111199 930
##T Information Highways
Information Highways

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Lawrence E. Murr, James B. Williams & Ruth-Ellen Miller
1985; 78 pp.
$25 postpaid 

from:
Hypermap
P. O. Box 23452
Portland, OR 97223
503/620-9424
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##A 08 278984 935
##T Minitel Report 
Minitel Report 

@@
by Robert Horvitz

When the French Government said it intended to set up an electronic text and graphical information system accessible nationwide through phonelines by giving a free terminal to anyone willing to do without a yearly paper phonebook, experts snickered. The French had a reputation for art, topless beaches, formal gardens, and poodles Ñ not for high-tech innovation. Attempts to mass-market such systems in more ÒadvancedÓ countries had all gone sour, and the data format France adopted was incompatible with those used elsewhere. It looked like a sure fiasco.

But now that Le Minitel has grown into the most successful
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##A 08 279053 939
##T Minitel Report 
Minitel Report 

@@
MinitelNet Service
For information on access from the US, call MinitelNet Service at 800/822-6638; from Canada, call 212/307-5510
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##A 08 279401 941
##T The Electronic Landscape
The Electronic Landscape

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by Brock N. Meeks 

With over 3,000 electronic services available to anyone with a modem, personal computer and telephone line, the question of 
Òwhich one do I use?Ó often narrows down to Òwhich service most appeals to me on a personal level?Ó

The rest of this cluster is a Òpersonality sketch,Ó if you will, of several different online services; the sketch is done with a broad brush rather than a detailed pen and ink rendering. YouÕll find some of these services resemble a large metropolitan city. Others can be likened to a country club atmosphere, and some are strictly business resources.
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##A 08 279642 942
##T CompuServe ¥ The Source ¥ GEnie
CompuServe ¥ The Source ¥ GEnie

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CompuServe
CompuServe is the biggest online service in the nation. With more than 500 different services and forums, and more than 250,000 subscribers, CompuServe is like New York City complete with its ethnic barrios, eclectic culture, and high brow tastes. It is Manhattan, the Bronx and Central Park all rolled into one, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Special Interest Groups (SIGs) draw like minded people together in an electronic meeting place to discuss their personal common denominator, be that Rock Music, Telecommunications, or Assembly Language programming. Each SIG contains a database 
with a wealth of information and computer programs focusing on the particular special interest.
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##A 08 281046 948
##T CompuServe ¥ The Source ¥ GEnie
CompuServe ¥ The Source ¥ GEnie

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CompuServe 
$6/hour (300 baud)

from:
CompuServe
Columbus, Ohio
614/457-8650
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##A 08 282887 949
##T CompuServe ¥ The Source ¥ GEnie
CompuServe ¥ The Source ¥ GEnie

@@
The Source 
$8.40/hour for SIGs
$10/month minimum

from:
The Source
McLean, Virginia
703/734-7500
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##A 08 283168 950
##T CompuServe ¥ The Source ¥ GEnie
CompuServe ¥ The Source ¥ GEnie

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GEnie
$5/hour 
6 P.M. - 8 A.M. Monday - Friday, weekends, and holidays
]
from:
GEnie
Rockville, Maryland
301/340-4494
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##A 08 281203 951
##T Delphi ¥ Byte Information Exchange ¥ Quantum Link
Delphi ¥ Byte Information Exchange ¥ Quantum Link

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Delphi
Delphi, for a long time, was the only ÒalternativeÓ online service for those disenchanted with both The Source and CompuServe; a kind of online refugeeÕs retreat. As a result, Delphi developed a very close and loyal following. You either love or hate Delphi, thereÕs not much middle ground. 

DelphiÕs user base has never grown much, topping out at less than 10,000. YouÕll find SIGs here, but because the user base is smaller, thereÕs definitely more of a Òhome townÓ feel to the system. 

Easy to use, easy to get used to. You wonÕt find an overwhelming 
list of services here; but you might just find your electronic home. 
                                                                     Ñ Brock N. Meeks
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##A 08 281459 955
##T Delphi ¥ Byte Information Exchange ¥ Quantum Link
Delphi ¥ Byte Information Exchange ¥ Quantum Link

@@
Delphi
$6.60/hour, 
direct dial-in after 6 P.M.

from:
Delphi
Cambridge, Massachusetts
617/491-3393
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##A 08 284346 956
##T Delphi ¥ Byte Information Exchange ¥ Quantum Link
Delphi ¥ Byte Information Exchange ¥ Quantum Link

@@
Byte Information Exchange 

$9/hour, 
direct dial-in after 6 P.M.

from:
Byte Information Exchange
Peterborough, New Hampshire
603/924-7323
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##A 08 284583 957
##T Delphi ¥ Byte Information Exchange ¥ Quantum Link
Delphi ¥ Byte Information Exchange ¥ Quantum Link

@@
Quantum Link
$9.95/month for basic services

from:
Quantum Link
Vienna, Virginia
703/448-8700
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##A 08 286214 958
##T WELL ¥ Chariot ¥ People/Link
WELL ¥ Chariot ¥ People/Link

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Whole Earth ÕLectronic Link
Established as an outgrowth of the Whole Earth Catalog, the WELL is a mirror image of the iconoclastic publication.

The WELLÕs personality is Òpeople first, technology a distant third or fourth.Ó Just how Òpeople-likeÓ is the WELL? A good example are the WELL parties held at regular intervals where members get together face-to-face and carry on the discussions and relationships cultivated online.

WELL users are affectionately referred to as ÒWellbeingsÓ; 
conference moderators are ÒFair Witnesses.Ó The system is 
heavily infused with intellect and compassion; ideology and idealism.
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##A 08 286616 964
##T WELL ¥ Chariot ¥ People/Link
WELL ¥ Chariot ¥ People/Link

@@
Whole Earth ÕLectronic Link 
$8/month membership, 
plus $3/hour connect charge

from:
Whole Earth ÕLectronic Link
Sausalito, California
415/332-4335
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##A 08 288578 965
##T WELL ¥ Chariot ¥ People/Link
WELL ¥ Chariot ¥ People/Link

@@
Chariot
Chariot
Old Colorado Springs, Colorado
Office 303/632-4848
Online 303/632-4111
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##A 08 288785 966
##T WELL ¥ Chariot ¥ People/Link
WELL ¥ Chariot ¥ People/Link

@@
People/Link
$4.95/hour 6 P.M. - 8 A.M. Monday - Friday, weekends, and holidays

from:
People/Link
Chicago, Illinois
312/670-2666
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##A 08 283670 967
##T The WELL
The WELL

@@
by John Coate

I work at the WELL, Whole EarthÕs online computer conferencing network. The WELL itself sits in an air-conditioned closet at the Whole Earth office. A bunch of phone lines come into the building. ThereÕs a modem for each phone line. These modems in turn are wired up to a Vax computer. The Vax is about the size of a large dishwasher. When you see the lights on the modems flickering you know that conversations are happening. Minds are meeting.

Personal computers are amazing communication tools. Put a computer together with a modem and you can converse simultaneously with several people, collaborate on writing projects, find work, gather and refine ideas, get technical updates,
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##A 08 289150 976
##T UNHURRIED COMMUNICATION
UNHURRIED COMMUNICATION

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A Conferencing System Without Computers
by Ann Weiser

Discussion groups that meet by mail are a cheap, accessible means of group communication. TheyÕre computer conferences without the computer, available for the price of a postage stamp. We call them many-to-manys (or M2Ms). The simple recipe goes like this: a many-to-many usually has from twenty to fifty members. One person is the ÒOrganizing Editor.Ó By a given deadline, each person writes a letter about the same topic and sends it to the editor. The editor adds his/her own letter and a cover page listing the members and setting the next deadline, copies the letters, and sends a set to each member.
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##A 08 289321 981
##T UNHURRIED COMMUNICATION
UNHURRIED COMMUNICATION

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Action Linkage
$5 for booklet listing letter groups

from:
Action Linkage
5825 Telegraph Ave. #45
Oakland, CA 94609
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##A 08 290382 982
##T UNHURRIED COMMUNICATION
UNHURRIED COMMUNICATION

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Letter Groups
Ann Weiser
booklet $5 postpaid 

from:
Action Linkage
5825 Telegraph Ave. #45
Oakland, CA 94609
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##A 08 290962 983
##T THE CIRCLE LETTER
THE CIRCLE LETTER

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by Rhoda Weber Mack

The circle letter is a traveling salon, a soft-tech conference session, a recall of a lost art form Ñ the well-written letter. It is useful for keeping community with scattered friends and colleagues, for keeping lives current, or for playing mental handball with ideas. We use this one for our eight-sibling family, to keep the common conversation intact, and to take the heat off the homeplace as bulletin board.

HereÕs the starter: write your own letter, and mail it with a list of mail stops to the next in line, who inserts his/her own letter along with yours, to the next stop. Etcetera all the way back to
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##A 08 291231 985
##T The Letter Exchange
The Letter Exchange

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by Jay Kinney

If you thought letter-writing was a dying art in these post-literate days of telephones, computer networks, and quickie postcards, hereÕs a charming little publication determined to prove you wrong. The Letter ExchangeÕs raison dÕetre is to encourage the honorable art of correspondence. It does this through a simple device: short listings are printed from people who want to correspond on specific subjects, such as classical music, Lionel TrillingÕs essays, androgyny, or freighter travel. Readers can initiate letter exchanges with any listing, though the respondentsÕ initial letters are forwarded through the directory to the listees, to protect the listeesÕ privacy. Once the listee replies directly, the correspondence is on its own. The cost of
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##A 08 291499 987
##T The Letter Exchange
The Letter Exchange

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Stephen Sikora, Editor
ISSN 08823804
$12/year (3 issues)

from:
The Letter Exchange
P.O. Box 6218
Albany, CA 94706
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##A 08 291653 991
##T Worldwide Telecomm. Guide for the Business Mgr.
Worldwide Telecomm. Guide for the Business Mgr.

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The wired planet. Expanding subject, shrinking comprehension. Start here for the important very small detail, very big picture. International corporations (not governments) are quickest to grasp this pulse, and therefore are the audience of this technical book. Anyone else plugging in?

                                                                        Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 292108 992
##T Worldwide Telecomm. Guide for the Business Mgr.
Worldwide Telecomm. Guide for the Business Mgr.

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Walter L. Vignault
1987; 417 pp.
ISBN 0471858285
$49.95 postpaid 

from:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Order Department
1 Wiley Drive
Somerset, N.J.  08875
800/225-5945
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##A 08 293512 996
##T DHL Worldwide Express
DHL Worldwide Express

@@
Mail is still the sleepy giant of communications Ñ wide but slow. When your package must absolutely positively get there quick, and  ÒthereÓ is Timbuktoo, Katmandu, the Congo, or any of those other far away places that are now manufacturing our goods, snail mail wonÕt do. You should know about DHL Worldwide Express. DHL has offices in 180 countries (more than the UN does) so it can deliver documents and packages door-to-door to most cities in the world. Sort of like a global Federal Express.

For instance, say you live in Blue Eyes, Arkansas. You can have DHL pick up the urgent small package at your door and theyÕll get it to your partner sweating it out in Moukoundo, Congo (or any of its other 34 large towns) within three days. ThatÕll cost $78 if its
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##A 08 293638 999
##T DHL Worldwide Express
DHL Worldwide Express

@@
Information free  

from:
DHL Worldwide Express
800/225-5345
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##A 08 149490 1003
##T BEST PROGRAMMING BOOKS
BEST PROGRAMMING BOOKS

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by Richard Kadrey

What follows is a list of computer language books that we think will help you in that eternal quest for tight code. WeÕve listed two books, one beginner and one advanced, for the most popular languages currently in use (and one book for QuickBASIC, a new, more powerful form of BASIC). This list is by no means comprehensive, but is just something to get you started. If you have questions about books we didnÕt list or languages we didnÕt mention, try calling your public library or Computer Literacy Bookshops (All of these books are available mail order from Computer Literacy Bookshops; Ù see separate review in this cluster); this list was put together with the help of Laurie Hahn from Computer LiteracyÕs San Jose store.
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##A 08 149802 1004
##T BEST PROGRAMMING BOOKS
BEST PROGRAMMING BOOKS

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Basic: Getting Started 
William S. Davis
1981; 69 pp.
$7.95 ($8.75 postpaid)

from:
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Jacob Way
Reading, MA 01867
800/447-2226
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##A 08 147866 1005
##T BEST PROGRAMMING BOOKS
BEST PROGRAMMING BOOKS

@@
Basic Handbook
(Encyclopedia of the BASIC Computer Language, 3rd edition)

David A. Lien
1986; 826 pp.
$24.95

from:
Compusoft
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##A 08 379578 1006
##T BEST PROGRAMMING BOOKS
BEST PROGRAMMING BOOKS

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Using QuickBASIC 
Don Inman and Bob Albrecht
1988; 436 pp.
$19.95 ($20.95 postpaid)

from:
McGraw-Hill
Princeton Road
Hightstown, NJ 08520
609/426-5254
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##A 08 380095 1007
##T BEST PROGRAMMING BOOKS
BEST PROGRAMMING BOOKS

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Proficient C
(The Microsoft Guide to Advanced C Programming)

Augie Hansen
1987; 512 pp.
$22.95 ($24.95 postpaid)

from:
Microsoft Press
10700 Northup Way
Box 97200
Bellevue, WA 98009

800/242-7737
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##A 08 380209 1008
##T BEST PROGRAMMING BOOKS
BEST PROGRAMMING BOOKS

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C Programming Language, Second Edition 
Brian W. Kernighan and 
Dennis M. Ritchie
1978; 272 pp.
$28.00 postpaid

from:
Prentice Hall
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
201/767-5937
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##A 08 380442 1009
##T BEST PROGRAMMING BOOKS
BEST PROGRAMMING BOOKS

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Oh! Pascal
Second Edition
1985; 607 pp.
$24.95 ($25.95 postpaid)

from:
W.W. Norton
500 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10110
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##A 08 380774 1010
##T BEST PROGRAMMING BOOKS
BEST PROGRAMMING BOOKS

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Mastering Turbo Pascal Files 
Tom Swan
1987; 327 pp.
$18.95 ($19.95 postpaid)

from:
W.W. Norton
500 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10110
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##A 08 148103 1011
##T Numerical Recipes
Numerical Recipes

@@
Numerical algorithms are the tools used for Ònumber-crunching.Ó Unfortunately, theyÕre under-utilized because they have an aura of magic to many programmers.

Numerical Recipes is a cookbook for when you want to get a job done, not wade through abstract discussions. When you need to find out how to do a Fast Fourier Transform for the job due yesterday, youÕll get a basic grounding in the topic, discussion of the alternative techniques, and best of all, tested source code you can adapt for your own use. The authorsÕ frequent opinions on when and where to use each technique are mostly right on the mark.

The original Numerical Recipes had examples in Fortran and Pascal,
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##A 08 148437 1013
##T Numerical Recipes
Numerical Recipes

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(The Art of Scientific Computing)

William Press et al.
1986; 700 pp.
$44.50 postpaid 

from:
Cambridge University Press
510 North Avenue
New Rochelle, NY 10801
800/872-7423
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##A 08 147042 1015
##T Programming Pearls & More Programming Pearls
Programming Pearls & More Programming Pearls

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Two of the keys to good programming are creativity and a playful approach to problem-solving. BentleyÕs collections of brief essays and magazine columns encourage these traits in a mildly mind-bending manner.

I expected to skim through these books, snag a few flashy new insights about programming, and be on my way. Bentley, however, draws you in like a fly fisherman. He proposes a simple problem, and encourages you to approach it in a workmanlike manner. When you return with your answer, he replies, ÒDid you consider this?Ó  No, you took the obvious approach, so you go back and work on it some more. Little that he says is profound by itself, but as you 
keep returning and being corrected, suddenly. . .  enlightenment!
                                                                    Ñ Bob Murphy
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##A 08 147417 1016
##T Programming Pearls & More Programming Pearls
Programming Pearls & More Programming Pearls

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Programming Pearls  
Jon Bentley
1986; 200 pp.
$16.25 ($17.88 postpaid)

from:
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
1 Jacob Way
Reading, MA 01867
800/447-2226
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##A 08 379019 1017
##T Programming Pearls & More Programming Pearls
Programming Pearls & More Programming Pearls

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More Programming Pearls 
Jon Bentley
1988; 200 pp.
$16.25 ($17.88 postpaid)

from:
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
1 Jacob Way
Reading, MA 01867
800/447-2226
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##A 08 145669 1019
##T Using Structured Techniques
Using Structured Techniques

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This book will help you build software that you wonÕt later regret. Structured program design, and the design of structured code, are taught in schools all over the world today. If youÕre unfamiliar with these concepts, this book is an invaluable introduction; if 
youÕve studied these in courses, this manual will show you how to actually put them into practice.

The author brings information modeling to life as we follow Alan, a young programmer at International Telewidgets Corporation through every step of a project from conception to maintenance. At each juncture, Alan applied the techniques from structured design, making clear thinking almost automatic.
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##A 08 146154 1021
##T Using Structured Techniques
Using Structured Techniques

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(A Case Study)

Audrey M. Weaver
1987; 247 pp.
$27 postpaid 

from:
Prentice Hall
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
201/767-5937
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##A 08 141441 1023
##T Elements of Programming Style
Elements of Programming Style

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For programmers, this is the one book to have if youÕre only having one. Like its namesake, Strunk and WhiteÕs Elements of Style, the book concentrates on the essential practical aspects of style by example.

Collected into chapters under such names as ÒExpression,Ó 
ÒControl Structure,Ó ÒCommon Blunders,Ó and ÒEfficiency and InstrumentationÓ are real programs, not toys made up to illustrate a point. These bad examples serve as springboards for incisive discussions of the best ways to write correct and readable programs. Sad to say, these programs come primarily from programming textbooks, where our next generation of programmers is turning for guidance. Each of the examples gets
rewritten, sometimes in more than one way, to illustrate the
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##A 08 144745 1026
##T Elements of Programming Style
Elements of Programming Style

@@
Brian W. Kernighan 
and Dennis Plauger
1978; 160 pp.
$22.50 postpaid  

from:
McGraw-Hill Book Company
Princeton Road
Hightstown, NJ 08520
609/426-5254
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##A 08 76039 1029
##T Mythical Man Month
Mythical Man Month

@@
Frederick Brooks is described just inside the front cover as the 
"father of the IBM System/360." Now the 360 is among the largest computers, and the software, known as OS/360, occupies a small library. Hardly what you would call a personal computer. And yet, Brooks comes across not as a paragon of gigantism, but as a perceptive analyst and an engaging writer. There is a sense of responsiveness to the larger context beyond the gates of industry and the walls of academia. For this reason this unified collection of essays has a utility independent of scale. This book explores the human aspects in the creation of artifacts. It is an argument for conceptual integrity, which is ultimately an argument for a sense of style. 
                                                                Ñ Marc Le Brun
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##A 08 76513 1030
##T Mythical Man Month
Mythical Man Month

@@
Frederick Brooks
1974; 188 pp.
$17.95 ($19.75 postpaid)

from:
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
Jacob Way
Reading, MA 01867
800/447-2226
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##A 08 87404 1033
##T Computer Literacy Bookshops, Inc.
Computer Literacy Bookshops, Inc.

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All of the computer and software publications mentioned in the Electronic Whole Earth Catalog are available through the Computer Literacy Bookshops. They carry just about every computer book currently in print (over 20,000 titles), as well as 150 different computer and computer-related magazines. If you arenÕt sure of the book or magazine you want, they can research the subject and suggest the one that might be best for you. And theyÕre willing to ship your merchandise anywhere in the world. Their quarterly newsletter is free. 

                                                             Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 08 30797 1034
##T Computer Literacy Bookshops, Inc.
Computer Literacy Bookshops, Inc.

@@
Quarterly newsletter free

from:
Computer Literacy Bookshops, Inc.
2590 North First Street
San Jose, CA 95131
408/435-1118
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##A 08 80804 1036
##T How to Get Free Software
How to Get Free Software

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No one we know of has a more comprehensive knowledge of software then Alfred Glossbrenner. His book, How to Get Free Software, has chapter and verse on the subject. The major problem with public domain programs is finding out about them and finding where to get them. He takes care of both. 

(The minor problems are dealing with the sheer volume of choices and working without manuals.)
                                                                   
                                                                 Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 08 80909 1037
##T How to Get Free Software
How to Get Free Software

@@
Alfred Glossbrenner
1984; 432 pp.
ISBN 0312395639
$16.20 postpaid 

from:
St. MartinÕs Press
Cash Sales
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
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##A 08 131370 1040
##T How to Buy Software
How to Buy Software

@@
GlossbrennerÕs amazing book has the best explanation IÕve seen anywhere of how personal computers work, put strictly in terms of a shopperÕs perspective. Dense with good information, the book is big and comprehensive but never heavy. Its rich sprinkling of tidbits and tips keeps you turning the pages looking for more. The book is divided into chapters on each kind of software. The shopping advice is sound enough and general enough that itÕs surprisingly up to date for an early 1984 book.

                                                                    Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 08 132397 1041
##T How to Buy Software
How to Buy Software

@@
Alfred Glossbrenner
1984; 648 pp.
ISBN 0312395515
$14.95 ($16.20 postpaid)

from:
St. MartinÕs Press
Attn: Cash Sales
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
800/221-7945
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##A 08 134312 1044
##T Software Digest
Software Digest

@@
The closest thing to Consumer Reports that exists for software. If you buy software at all professionally, itÕs certain to be worth the substantial price. Nobody does as thorough a job of comparing programs feature by feature, virtue by virtue, in painstaking fashion. Each major application program for MS-DOS (only) machines is tested by new users, bench-tested (for speed primarily), compared to its competition, and rated.

                                                             Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 08 135676 1045
##T Software Digest
Software Digest

@@
Michael D. Stern, Editor/Publisher
$295/year

from:
Software Digest
One Winding Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19131
800/223-7093
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##A 08 22989 1046
##T 800-SOFTWARE
800-SOFTWARE

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Substantial deals here. 800-SOFTWARE offers free help after the sale  Ñ  sometimes better than what you get from the software manufacturer. They have a crack team of advisors, and a really good newsletter. You pay a little more money for this.
                                                                   
                                                                Ñ Saul Feldman
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##A 08 44737 1047
##T 800-SOFTWARE
800-SOFTWARE

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800-225-9273
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##A 08 138069 1048
##T CP/M Times
CP/M Times

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CP/M may be Òdead,Ó but there are 2 million orphans out there, doggedly clinging to their Kaypros. One of the last sources of CP/M software (and hardware) is CP/M Times, a newsletter/catalog lifeline-by-mail.

                                                       Ñ Sarah Vandershaf
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##A 08 139026 1049
##T CP/M Times
CP/M Times

@@
Catalog $3

from:
Central Computer Products
330 Central Avenue
Fillmore, CA 93015
800/533-8049; 
800/624-5628 (CA)
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##A 08 51703 1055
##T LOGIC-SOFT
LOGIC-SOFT

@@
LOGIC-SOFT discounts software deeply  Ñ  they offer to beat any cheaper price you find by $10. I and others have had good luck with them. They ship every order over $100 by Purolator Courier, free.
                                                              
                                                                      Ñ Saul Feldman
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##A 08 53287 1056
##T LOGIC-SOFT
LOGIC-SOFT

@@
800/645-3491
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##A 08 140120 1057
##T The PC-SIG Library
The PC-SIG Library

@@
For years PC-SIG, largest shareware vendor in the known universe, has published The PC-SIG Library, a catalog of hundreds of IBM-PC programs to be had for free or for a Òsuggested donationÓ to the programÕs author. The 750 programs reviewed in the latest edition are available directly from PC-SIG, Inc. (order forms are printed in the back of the book). Or you can skip this step and get thousands of shareware and public domain programs on The PC-SIG Library on CD-ROM (Ù see separate review).

                                                          Ñ Sarah Vandershaf
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##A 08 140762 1058
##T The PC-SIG Library
The PC-SIG Library

@@
(Public Domain and User-Supported Software for the IBM-PC, PCjr, and Compatibles)

4th Edition 1987; 424 pp.
ISBN 0915835053
$12.95 ($16.95  postpaid)
from:

PC-SIG, Inc.
1030 East Duane Avenue
Suite D 
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
800/245-6717; 
800/222-2996 (CA)
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##A 08 71260 1062
##T Apple Programmers and Developers Association (APDA)
Apple Programmers and Developers Association (APDA)

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This is AppleÕs back door Ñ the way it distributes all those Macintosh and Apple II development tools and technical documents that your local dealer has never heard of and can barely pronounce.  The APDA was formed by the Apple Puget Sound Program Library Exchange with AppleÕs cooperation and, for a modest annual membership fee, gives cut rate mail-order access to essential and powerful tools such as the Mac ProgrammerÕs Workshop. APDA also distributes some Apple developerÕs kits and programmerÕs tools as works in progress. Be warned that this means exactly what it 
says Ñ ÒbetaÓ versions of documentation may arrive xeroxed and without figures, and pre-release software is prone to annoying and occasionally damaging bugs. But if you want or need to be up on the latest, this is the place.
                                                                          Ñ Tim Oren
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##A 08 124010 1063
##T Apple Programmers and Developers Association
Apple Programmers and Developers Association

@@
Membership $20/year
(includes quarterly newsletter APDAlog)

from:
APDA
290 SW 43rd Street
Renton, WA 98055
206/251-6548
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##A 08 154179 1065
##T CHEAP IBM CLONES
CHEAP IBM CLONES

@@
There is no need to buy a brand-name computer (IBM, Compaq, Commodore, Tandy, etc.) Ñ unless you get a good deal. The best approach is to find, by word of mouth, a local retailer who is trustworthy and offers good prices. Many of these shops are too small to advertise in the Yellow Pages; check ads in your local newspaper with the best computer section (in New York, that means the Tuesday New York Times; in California, it means two small tabloids called MicroTimes and Computer Currents, see separate reviews). To help you shop, the IBM-XT & IBM-AT Clone BuyerÕs Guides (Ù see reviews) are still invaluable.

Buy a PC clone locally if at all possible, so you benefit from local servicing on problems. If you need to shop by mail, one of the best
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##A 08 154802 1068
##T CHEAP IBM CLONES
CHEAP IBM CLONES

@@
Whole Earth Access Company Computers
$879 postpaid 

from:
Whole Earth Access Company
2950 Seventh Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
800/845-2000; 
415/845-3000 (CA)

Whole Earth Turbo XT-20: IBM compatible; 640K; 20MB hard disk plus single floppy disk drive; Amber monochrome monitor.
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##A 08 75462 1069
##T Apple Macintosh
Apple Macintosh

@@
AppleÕs Macintosh was the first popularly priced computer to meet human beings halfway. It engages us  Ñ  it presents a visual
ÒdesktopÓ on the screen, a mental landscape where you travel by moving an electronic ÒmouseÓ across the surface of your real desk. The MacÕs smaller Òstiff disksÓ have more capacity and durability than the IBM PC-compatible Òfloppy disks.Ó

Macintosh software usually feels intuitively correct, with images built into the fabric of nearly everything you see onscreen. And it 
all works together. You can draw pictures on your spreadsheet                     
image, or fit a piece of text into a Òwine cellarÓ drawing in  your graphic file cabinet. The Mac has been a magnet for creative designers; often the most interesting new software appears here first Ñ especially true for desktop publishing. Disadvantages: ItÕs
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##A 08 155590 1073
##T Apple Macintosh
Apple Macintosh

@@
for information call:
Apple Computer, Inc.
800/538-9696
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##A 08 84348 1074
##T Through the MicroMaze
Through the MicroMaze

@@
This is the introductory computer book IÕve been waiting for. Its subject is the setting up of your personal computer scene  Ñ  that two-week obstacle that keeps the almost-ready-to-jump from jumping. How to lay out your work area, how to hook everything up, how to get fluent in the fundamentals of your computerÕs operating system. With color pictures, clear diagrams, and really sensible advice, this book is a comfort and a blessing.
                                                               
                                                            Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 08 84505 1075
##T Through the MicroMaze
Through the MicroMaze

@@
(A Visual Guide to Telecommunications)

Patrick Kincaid 
with Marlin Ouverson
1985; 64 pp.2
ISBN 0912677554
$9.95 ($11.95 postpaid)

from:
Ashton-Tate/Publication Group
20101 Hamilton Avenue
Torrance, CA 90502
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##A 08 21737 1078
##T The IBM-XT & IBM-AT Clone BuyerÕs Guides
The IBM-XT & IBM-AT Clone BuyerÕs Guides

@@
The cheapest computers that you can buy which might help you get some work done are instruments known as IBM clones. They are manufactured by the largest corporations in the country and by some of the very smallest. The clones vary widely in reliability and cost. The cheapest method to find a clone that wonÕt become expensive in the long run is to immerse oneself in one of these remarkably clear, remarkably current self-published books. 

The XT is the minimum machine, the AT is the preferred muscle-bound workhorse, and the 386 is the coming "must have." These guidebooks have a similar layered structure. The AT book tells how 
to upgrade an XT clone, and the forthcoming 386 book ($33.45 postpaid, also from Modular Information Systems) shows how to
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##A 08 45470 1080
##T The IBM-XT & IBM-AT Clone BuyerÕs Guides
The IBM-XT & IBM-AT Clone BuyerÕs Guides

@@
IBM XT Clone BuyerÕs Guide and Handbook
Edwin Rutsch
1988; 79 pp.
$19.95 ($23.45 postpaid)

from:
Modular Information Systems
431 Ashbury Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
415/552-8648
@@

##A 08 150359 1081
##T The IBM-XT & IBM-AT Clone BuyerÕs Guides
The IBM-XT & IBM-AT Clone BuyerÕs Guides

@@
IBM AT Clone BuyerÕs Guide and Handbook  
Edwin Rutsch
1988; 406 pp.
ISBN 0939325187
$22.50 postpaid

from:
Modular Information Systems
431 Ashbury Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
415/552-8648
@@

##A 08 152624 1084
##T Build Your Own IBM Compatible 
Build Your Own IBM Compatible 

@@
You may be ready to save a bundle, but are you ready for an adventure? The scheme is to take cheap parts from Asian manufacturers which are advertised in the backs of computer magazines and assemble them into an IBM knockoff. A lot can go wrong in an instant. I recommend that you read this book first.
ItÕll either convince you that you donÕt have the needed electronic common sense, or else if you do, it will provide you the key tips for successful construction. Besides becoming the proud owner/builder of a cheap, versatile machine, youÕll probably use it more effectively since you know how it works. Your warranty, though, is your fix-it abilities.

An equally wise (though less exciting) choice is to consider the 
ever-blossoming varieties of already assembled clones for sale at
@@

##A 08 153313 1086
##T Build Your Own IBM Compatible 
Build Your Own IBM Compatible 

@@
Aubrey Pilgrim
1987; 224 pp.
ISBN 0830628312
$14.95 postpaid 

from:
TAB Books, Inc.
Blue Ridge Summit, PA 
17294-0684
800/233-1128; 
717/794-2191 (PA & AK)
@@

##A 08 105663 1090
##T ADVICE ON BUYING USED COMPUTERS
ADVICE ON BUYING USED COMPUTERS

@@
Computers donÕt wear out or break easily. They obsolesce. Thus, though it may not run the latest techno-status software, a used 1983 machine will still process your words fine and could be the best way to break into computering. After all, prices drop fast, and someone else has already gone through the grief of setting the thing up. Anyone buying a used computer will have three basic questions: What should I get? What should I avoid? Where do I look?
To answer the first two questions, read The Skeptical ConsumerÕs Guide. It walks you down the list of computer companies as if they were dealers on auto row and interprets each oneÕs carnival spiel for you. A beginner could avoid some serious errors here Ñ the CompuPro or the Workslate, for instance (for different reasons). 

This is that rare beast, a charming computer book, but it
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##A 08 105729 1092
##T ADVICE ON BUYING USED COMPUTERS
ADVICE ON BUYING USED COMPUTERS

@@
The Skeptical ConsumerÕs Guide to Used Computers 
Ed Kahn & Charles Seiter
1985; 200 pp.
ISBN 0898151414
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)

from:
Ten Speed Press
P. O. Box 7123
Berkeley, CA 94707
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##A 08 307426 1093
##T ADVICE ON BUYING USED COMPUTERS
ADVICE ON BUYING USED COMPUTERS

@@
Before You Buy a Used Computer 
Dona Z. Meilach
1985; 150 pp.
ISSN 0517555441
$10.95 ($12.95 postpaid)

from:
Crown Publishers
225 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10003
800/526-4264
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##A 08 86381 1098
##T Plain English Repair Guides for Home Computers
Plain English Repair Guides for Home Computers

@@
For fiddling with your hardware, get this cheerful, excellent guide. Detecting a problem in your mysterious computer and fixing it is a coming-of-age, a departure from helplessness. 

                                                          Ñ Stewart Brand

IBM PC-compatible owners should get the special edition targeted for them.                                                        
                                                         Ñ Art Kleiner
@@

##A 08 86624 1099
##T Plain English Repair Guides for Home Computers
Plain English Repair Guides for Home Computers

@@
Plain English Repair & Maintenance for Home Computers
Henry F. Beechhold
1984; 265 pp.
ISBN 0671492934
$14.95 postpaid 

from:
Simon & Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 08 374363 1100
##T Plain English Repair Guides for Home Computers
Plain English Repair Guides for Home Computers

@@
Plain English Maintenance & Repair Guide for IBM PCs
Henry F. Beechhold
1985; 258 pp.
ISBN 0671528645
$14.95 postpaid 

from:
Simon & Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 08 2340 1104
##T GodfatherÕs
GodfatherÕs

@@
Their name sounds like they should be selling pizzas, but really this outfit sells used IBM PCs and peripherals at (naturally) a price you canÕt refuse.

                                                              Ñ Sarah Vandershaf
@@

##A 08 103645 1105
##T GodfatherÕs
GodfatherÕs

@@
Catalog free

from:
GodfatherÕs Used Computers
P.O. Box 3037
851 West State Road 436, 
Suite 1015
Altamonte Springs, FL 32714
305/774-1111
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##A 08 106680 1107
##T PC Magazine
PC Magazine

@@
As always the place to turn for information on IBM and clones of IBMÑ see the past yearÕs issues which will cover, exhaustively, the whole gamut of available equipment. The reviews are laid out in vast charts comparing features, prices, and prospects. Each issue concentrates on a particular item Ñ printers, modems,
hard drives, tape drives, particular kinds of software.  The ads keep you apprised of what the manufacturers hope to have available by press time.                           

                                                               Ñ Hank Roberts
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##A 08 106760 1108
##T PC Magazine
PC Magazine

@@
Bill Machrone, Editor
ISSN 08888507
$39.97/year (22 issues)

from:
PC Magazine
P. O. Box 2445
Boulder, CO 80321
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##A 08 110734 1113
##T MacWorld
MacWorld

@@
The flagship of the Macintosh trade press, MacWorld is slick, colorful, and aimed at the end user market. Technical articles and product surveys and reviews are well written and thorough. Pay attention to positive recommendations, but donÕt rely on them for the bad news. MacWorld is not the place for technical depth or those clever tidbits of Mac programming lore, however. For that, take a look at MacUser or MacGuide (see reviews). 
                                         
                                               Ñ Hank Roberts and Tim Oren
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##A 08 110868 1114
##T MacWorld
MacWorld

@@
Jerry Borrell, Editor
ISSN 07418647
$18/year (12 issues)

from:
MacWorld
Subscription Dept.
P. O. Box 54515
Boulder, CO 80321
800/525-0643; 
303/447-9330 (CO)
@@

##A 08 107692 1118
##T MacUser
MacUser

@@
MacUser and MacWorld are the two essential magazines if you own or use a Macintosh. MacUser is a bit more willing to warn you of the inevitable little difficulties. As everywhere in the computer business, the writers may have some prior experience with whatever theyÕre reviewing, but they may not. If youÕre not already an experienced user, reading between the lines may be difficult.

But the basics are there, every month, repeated and updated often enough that catching up on the past year will let you wade into your first Mac and succeed in using it right off the mark. Look here for the handholding you will want, and the promises of soon-to-be-available improvements that will keep you dreaming.
                                                              
                                                                           Ñ Hank Roberts
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##A 08 107973 1119
##T MacUser
MacUser

@@
Frederic E. Davis, 
Editor-in-Chief
ISSN 08840997
$27/year (12 issues)

from:
MacUser
29 Haviland Street South
Norwalk, CT 06854
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##A 08 120172 1122
##T PC Week & MacWeek
PC Week & MacWeek

@@
Yeah, sure, you want to learn about personal computers, but everything changes so fast, how will you ever keep up? These two sources are free (as long as you fill in the proper qualification cards), up-to-date, and comprehensive Ñ  between them, you get a weekly education in whatÕs available in Personal Computing. PC WeekÕs extra bonus is corporate iconoclast Jim Seymour, probably the most cogent computer writer in print. 

I have found these far superior to their competitors Ñ  including InfoWorld and Macintosh Today.

                                                                            Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 08 123476 1123
##T PC Week & MacWeek
PC Week & MacWeek

@@
PC Week 
Sam Whitmore, Editor
$160/year or free to qualified 
subscribers (51 issues)

from:
PC Week
P.O. Box 5970 
Cherry Hill, NJ, 08034
609/428-5000
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##A 08 103824 1124
##T PC Week & MacWeek
PC Week & MacWeek

@@
MacWEEK 
Daniel J. Ruby, Editor
ISSN 08928118
$75/year
or free to qualified 
subscribers
(50 issues)

from:
MacWEEK
Circulation Department
5211 South Washington  Avenue
Titusville, FL 32780
305/269-2687
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##A 08 126227 1129
##T Personal Computing
Personal Computing

@@
Only a couple of years ago this was a contemptible piece of advertising-driven fluff. Now itÕs a reliable and (mirabile!) interestingly written general-interest computer magazine. The only one left, in fact, that covers Apple, IBM, and other computers together without getting lost in trivia, vagueness, or industry in-groupiness. To find that such a magazine could still exist after the Balkanization of computerdom was downright refreshing Ñ and I find myself WANTING to read Personal Computing more than any other computer magazine.

                                                                      Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 08 128827 1130
##T Personal Computing
Personal Computing

@@
Fred Abatemarco, Editor
ISSN 01925490
$18/year (12 issues)

from:
Hayden Publishing
10 Mulholland Drive
Hasbrouck Heights, NJ 07604
800/525-0643
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##A 08 79731 1135
##T Computer Currents
Computer Currents

@@
Computer Currents started as a Bay Area regional tabloid, written for the serious microcomputer user and hobbyist. It has branched out into several different editions, available now (or soon) in your nearest megalopolis. Computer Currents carries a wide range of topics usually passed over by the general computer press, such as CP/M, older Apple IIs, and telecommunications. An up-to-date (and reasonably accurate) gossip and news column and, of course, the local advertisements make Computer Currents the first read in the weekÕs pile of trade press.   

                                                                     Ñ Tim Oren
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##A 08 79882 1136
##T Computer Currents
Computer Currents

@@
David Needle, Editor
$24.95/year (25 issues)

from:
Computer Currents
Subscriptions
5720 Hollis Street 
Emeryville, CA 94608
415/547-6800
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##A 08 78747 1140
##T MicroTimes
MicroTimes

@@
From the WELL, in their own words:

Item 17 (Thu, Jan 28, 1988 (12:41)) MicroTimes (microx)
About MicroTimes and its conference 

MicroTimes is a free monthly tabloid which covers a broad range of microcomputer types and applications. Most of our coverage is
business-oriented and deals with UNIX and Macintosh; we also have columns on UNIX, Amiga, Atari, Apple II, and CP/M, as well as columns dedicated to  special interests like PC business systems and Telecommunications.
 
Subscriptions are $24 per year (US Ñ third class), $50 per year
@@

##A 08 78993 1143
##T MicroTimes
MicroTimes

@@
Dennis Erokan, Editor
$24/year (12 issues)

from:
BAM Publications, Inc.
5951 Canning Street
Oakland, CA 94609
415/652-3810
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##A 08 77505 1148
##T Computer Shopper
Computer Shopper


@@
Computer Shopper is like hunkering down at a computer swap meet  Ñ  gritty, technical, hacker-ish, and full of tiny ads. It lists all the known active user groups and computer bulletin boards in each 
state. ItÕs about the only place that talks about ÒorphanedÓ computers, discontinued models that are still being widely used.
                              
                                                                Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 08 77816 1149
##T Computer Shopper
Computer Shopper


@@
Stan Veit, Editor-in-Chief
ISSN 08860556
$21/year (12 issues)

from:
Patch Publishing Co., Inc.
P. O. Box F
Titusville, FL 32781-9990
305/269-3211
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##A 08 158178 1155
##T MacGuide
MacGuide

@@
WeÕre big on Macintoshes around here. Computer virgins love Õem because the Mac is gentle and understanding. Computer veterans love Õem because the Mac is ambitious and elegant. We use Õem because the Mac is a graphic beast and takes kindly to the tremendous visual component of our work. ItÕs become a chore to keep up with all the programs written for it, a chore blessedly relieved by this weighty directory. It catalogs all 3100 Macintosh programs and accessories together with specifications, ordering info, and in some cases, a Òreader ratingÓ from MacGuide Magazine for the more popular programs. We find it handy.

                                                                   Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 158212 1156
##T MacGuide
MacGuide

@@
Patricia Bensky, Editor
$14.85/year (4 issues)

from:
The Delta Group, Inc.
818 17th Street
Suite 210
Denver, CO 80202
303/825-8166
@@

##A 08 156959 1157
##T Shareware Magazine
Shareware Magazine

@@
This magazine reviews new shareware/public domain/user-supported programs and reports on the shareware industry. Use it to update The PC-SIG Library. 

                                                      Ñ Sarah Vandershaf
@@

##A 08 157378 1158
##T Shareware Magazine
Shareware Magazine

@@
M. Palmer Barnes, 
Editor-in-Chief
$20/year (6 issues)

from:
PC-SIG, Inc.
1030 East Duane Avenue
Suite D
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
800/245-6717; 800/222-2996 (CA)
@@

##A 08 155285 1163
##T MacTutor
MacTutor

@@
This journal is recommended for programmers interested in learning how to program for the Macintosh. ItÕs better than pretty good, especially for the intermediate programmer. As a professional Mac programmer, I still pick up some tips here. I enjoy the rumors and gossip that the magazine picks up from their bulletin board. For the best in Mac programming tips, get their Complete MacTutor, Volume II, which was published at the peak of their being the center for Macintosh information.

                                                        Ñ Mike Coffey
                                                        [Suggested by Bob Murphy]
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##A 08 155721 1164
##T MacTutor
MacTutor

@@
David E. Smith, Editor
$30/year (12 issues)

from:
MacTutor
P. O. Box 400
Placentia, CA 92670
714/630-3730
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##A 08 390465 1167
##T Dr. DobbÕs Journal
Dr. DobbÕs Journal

@@
Where InfoWorld is my meat and potatoes, I find Dr. DobbÕs Journal is my monthly visit to a trade show Òhospitality suite.Ó Some months it is chips and dip and a Coke while other months it is cracked crab, caviar, and champagne. 

Dr. DobbÕs is very much a ÒhackerÕsÓ magazine and makes no bones about it. Until recently contributors were not paid for their efforts. Even now submitted articles and programs are placed into the public domain.

Dr. DobbÕs seems to have its finger on the pulse of the proletariat of the computer world. This steady-handed approach in a computer magazine is welcome relief from the blowinÕ-in-the-wind feeling
@@

##A 08 152300 1169
##T Dr. DobbÕs Journal
Dr. DobbÕs Journal

@@
(of Software Tools for the 
Professional Programmer)

$25/year (12 issues)

from:
Dr. DobbÕs Journal
P. O. Box 27809
San Diego, CA 92128
415/424-0600
@@

##A 08 390987 1170
##T Release 1.0
Release 1.0

@@
The most literate and informed writing on the technology of thinking comes on the gray, typewritten pages of this very expensive newsletter. For many of its subscribers, itÕs an unbelievable bargain. Instead of tramping to the computer  industryÕs most tantalizing conferences, they can read Esther DysonÕs personable reports and soak up more than they would by being there. Dyson deciphers esoteric technical issues into          oh-I-get-it! language, further refined by an impenetrable filter against PR hype. Moreover, she has an unerring nose for the significant consequence. Talk a library into subscribing.

                                                                   Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 150912 1172
##T Release 1.0
Release 1.0

@@
Esther Dyson, Editor
$395/year (12 issues)

from:
EDventure Holdings, Inc.
375 Park Avenue
Suite 2503
New York, NY 10152
212/758-3434
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##A 08 68639 1175
##T Family and Home Office Computing
Family and Home Office Computing

@@
The best general computers-for-learning magazine. The tiredest question of the business is, ÒWhat use do computers have in the home?Ó Every month this magazine comes up with 80 pages of answers.

                                                                   Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 08 135970 1176
##T Family and Home Office Computing
Family and Home Office Computing

@@
Claudia Cohl, Editor
$19.97/year (12 issues)

from:
Family Computing
P. O. Box 2511
Boulder, CO 80302
800/525-0643
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##A 08 330365 1178
##T COMPUTERS AND NONPROFITS: EASING THE TRANSITION
COMPUTERS AND NONPROFITS: EASING THE TRANSITION

@@
by Steve Johnson

Five years ago fewer than 10 percent of nonprofit organizations owned computers; now it is estimated that over 50 percent of the organizations have access to small computers. Small computers have brought on a new era for nonprofit work in this country.

The computerization of the nonprofit sector has not come without some disappointments and disasters. People have learned the hard way that computer technology Ñ unlike the other office technology of typewriters and copier machines Ñ doesnÕt always come easy or cheap.

It is estimated that a $5,000 computer investment will, in five
@@

##A 08 400038 1180
##T COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS
COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS

@@
by  Steve Johnson

Computer Resource Guide for Nonprofits (Volume I: Software Directory; Volume II: Funding Source Directory). 
Volume I describes client-services software for tracking client costs, client demographics, client history, events software, food services, job matching, library management, public housing management, and survey software. Volume II describes computer related-giving programs of 200 corporations, foundations, and government agencies. There is extensive coverage of fund accounting and membership management software.

Computerization Needs Analysis
Provides the information one needs to conduct a needs analysis Ñ
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##A 08 329363 1184
##T COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS
COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS

@@
Computer Resource Guide for Nonprofits 
(Volume I: Software Directory; Volume II: Funding Source Directory). 
$95 each ($175/set)

from:
Public Management Institute
358 Brannan Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
415/896-1900
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##A 08 402187 1185
##T COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS
COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS

@@
Computerization Needs Analysis 
Elizabeth Mandell 
and Morgan Lyons
41 pp.
$10 postpaid 

from:
Southern California Center for Nonprofit Management
315 West 9th Street, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90015
213/623-7080
@@

##A 08 402573 1186
##T COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS
COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS

@@
The WomenÕs Computer Literacy Handbook  
Deborah L. Brecher
1985; 254 pp.
ISBN 0452255651
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)

from:
Plume/ New American Library
P. O. Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621
800/526-0275; 
201/387 0600 (NJ)
@@

##A 08 402735 1187
##T COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS
COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS

@@
Computer Use in Social Services Network Newsletter  
Dick Schoech
$10/year

from:
UTA
P. O. Box 19129
Arlington, TX 76019
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##A 08 403261 1188
##T COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS
COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS

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RE:SET 
$1/issue

from:
RE:SET
90 East 7th Street/ 3A
New York, NY 10009
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##A 08 403484 1189
##T COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS
COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS

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Managing With Computers
$24/year (6 issues)

from:
Lodestar Management/Research, Inc.
1052 West 6th Street, Suite 714
Los Angeles, CA 90017
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##A 08 403803 1190
##T COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS
COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS

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Communicating in the Õ80s
(New Options for the Nonprofit Community)

$3 postpaid

from:
The Benton Foundation
1776 K Street N.W., Suite 605
Washington, D.C. 20006
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##A 08 330548 1191
##T COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS
COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS

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Communicating Today
(Serving Nonprofit Needs with Technology)

$3 postpaid

from:
The Benton Foundation
1776 K Street, N.W., Suite 605, Washington, D.C. 20006
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##A 08 404130 1192
##T COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS
COMPUTER LITERACY FOR NONPROFITS

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Personal Computers for the Disabled  
Peter A. McWilliams
1984; 416 pp.
ISBN 0385196857
$9.95 ($11.95 postpaid)

from:
Doubleday
Cash Sales
P.O. Box 5071
Des Plaines, IL 60017-5071
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##A 08 328107 1195
##T COMPUTER TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS
COMPUTER TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS

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In 1983, nonprofit information technology resource centers began to appear in response to the education and technical assistance needs of nonprofits. Currently there are centers in Washington, 
D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Portland, Oregon, and New York City. Together they form the Technology Resources Consortium. Their primary services are education, a wide range of classes, and training opportunities; access, availability of a computer-lab environment for testing and using computer equipment; and technical assistance, providing inexpensive assistance for nonprofits in purchasing equipment or further developing their computer systems. Recently the TRC evaluated membership management software; the compiled reviews are available from 
the Public Interest Computer Association for $25.
                                                                           Ñ Steve Johnson
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##A 08 328377 1196
##T COMPUTER TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS
COMPUTER TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS

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Public Interest Computer Association 
Reviews $25

from:
Public Interest Computer Association
2001 O Street N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
202/775-1588
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##A 08 404286 1197
##T COMPUTER TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS
COMPUTER TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS

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Members of the Technology Resources Consortium
Southern California Center for Nonprofit Management
315 W. 9th Street, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90015
213/623-7080
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##A 08 404519 1198
##T COMPUTER TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS
COMPUTER TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS

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Information Technology Institute Ctr. for Urban Education 
Center for Urban Education
1135 S.E. Salmon
Portland, OR 97214
503/231-1285
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##A 08 404885 1199
##T COMPUTER TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS
COMPUTER TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS

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Information Technology Resource Center 
Information Technology Resource Center
57th Street and 
S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60637
312/684-1050
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##A 08 405023 1200
##T COMPUTER TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS
COMPUTER TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS

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Nonprofit Computer Exchange  
Nonprofit Computer Exchange
419 Park Avenue S., 16th Floor
New York, NY 10016
212/481-1799
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##A 08 405315 1201
##T COMPUTER TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS
COMPUTER TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS

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Technology Learning Center for Nonprofit Management
Center for Nonprofit Management
2820 Swiss Avenue
Dallas, TX 75204
214/826-3470
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##A 08 327019 1202
##T CORPORATE COMPUTER SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS
CORPORATE COMPUTER SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS

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Apple has done more than any other corporation to support the automation of nonprofit work, providing grants to nonprofit organizations with an emphasis on using computer communication to build networks; support to the nonprofit computer resource centers; computers to larger nonprofits to distribute to their constituencies; computer grants to schools and colleges; and assistance to the disabled and groups which support the disabled.
With the exception of Apple, the computer industry has not gone out of its way to provide assistance to nonprofit organizations. 

Kaypro has been fairly generous in its support of nonprofit organizations and has a strong interest in international development uses of computers.
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##A 08 327169 1204
##T CORPORATE COMPUTER SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS
CORPORATE COMPUTER SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS

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Apple Computer Co., Corporate Grants Program 
Apple Computer
20525 Mariani Avenue
Cupertino, CA 95014
408/973-4475
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##A 08 405577 1205
##T CORPORATE COMPUTER SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS
CORPORATE COMPUTER SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS

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Digital Equipment Corporation, Corporate Contributions 
Digital Equipment Corporation
111 Powdermill Road
Maynard, MA 01754
617/493-7161
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##A 08 405996 1206
##T CORPORATE COMPUTER SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS
CORPORATE COMPUTER SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS

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Kaypro, Dept. of Public Relations 
Kaypro
533 Stevens Avenue
Solana Beach, CA 92075
619/259-4509
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##A 08 406163 1207
##T CORPORATE COMPUTER SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS
CORPORATE COMPUTER SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS

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Lotus Corporation, The Philanthropic Committee 
Lotus Corporation
55 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA 02142
617/577-8500
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##A 08 307782 1208
##T SOFTWARE FOR NONPROFITS
SOFTWARE FOR NONPROFITS

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If you want to find out more about nonprofit software, contact the nonprofit computer resource center in your area, get hold of one of the periodicals or books reviewed in this section, or write to one of the following:

                                                              Ñ Steve Johnson
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##A 08 308978 1209
##T SOFTWARE FOR NONPROFITS
SOFTWARE FOR NONPROFITS

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Directory of Fund Accounting Software 
Donald Will
1984
$24.95 postpaid

from:
Center for Local and Community Research
P. O. Box 5309, Elmwood Station, Berkeley, CA 94705
415/654-9036
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##A 08 406663 1210
##T SOFTWARE FOR NONPROFITS
SOFTWARE FOR NONPROFITS

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Directory of Microcomputer Software in Human Services 
Joseph A. Doucette
$26.50 postpaid

from:
Computer Consulting and Programming Associates
7553 Canal Plaza
Portland, ME 04112
207/774-8242
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##A 08 406945 1211
##T SOFTWARE FOR NONPROFITS
SOFTWARE FOR NONPROFITS

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Donor & Membership Software Review
$25 postpaid

from:
Technology Resources Consortium
2001 O Street N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
202/775-1588
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##A 08 407169 1212
##T SOFTWARE FOR NONPROFITS
SOFTWARE FOR NONPROFITS

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Guide to Software for Nonprofits 
$79 postpaid

from:
NPO Resource Review
Box A-6 Cathedral Station
New York, NY 10025
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##A 08 407340 1213
##T SOFTWARE FOR NONPROFITS
SOFTWARE FOR NONPROFITS

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Fund Accounting Software Review 
Fund Accounting Software Review
1031 3rd Street
Santa Rosa, CA 95405
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##A 08 300185 1214
##T Communication Outlook
Communication Outlook

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Enabling the disabled must be a personal computerÕs proudest moment. Read this capable newsletter for reports on sophisticated and home-brewed experiments to extend the bodyÕs senses into hardware for the benefit of the disabled. The whole domain is more pragmatic and service oriented, and therefore more successful, than similar robotic research.

                                                                         Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 300514 1215
##T Communication Outlook
Communication Outlook

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(Focusing on Communication
Aids and Techniques)

Luis Wassman, Editor
ISSN 01614126
$15/year (4 issues) 

from:
Artificial Language Laboratory
Michigan State University
405 Computer Center
East Lansing, MI  48824-1042
517/353-0870
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##A 08 258990 1217
##T Closing the Gap
Closing the Gap

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For special education and rehabilitation professionals, a comprehensive newsletter offering evaluations of new products, listings of service organizations, synopses of pending legislation, and a calendar of conferences and events. This yearÕs resource directory focuses on microcomputer products that can assist people with disabilities.

When I asked two people, 2000 miles apart, for  their recommendations, they both said, ÒOf course, thereÕs Closing the Gap.Ó
                                                     Ñ Sarah Satterlee
                                                     [Suggested by Jim Vagnoni 
                                                     and Luis Wassman]
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##A 08 260279 1218
##T Closing the Gap
Closing the Gap

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Budd Hagen, Editor
$21/year (6 issues) 
(One of these issues is the
annual Resource Directory
available  separately for 
$14.95 postpaid)

from:
Closing the Gap
P.O. Box 68
Henderson, MN  56044
612/341-8299
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##A 08 377361 1220
##T Rehab/Education Technology ResourceBook Series
Rehab/Education Technology ResourceBook Series

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ResourceBook 1 Ñ Communication Aids. 
Services and equipment for vocally impaired people.

ResourceBook 2 Ñ Switches and Environmental Controls.
Also includes section on call, monitoring and memory systems. (I found this volume to be the most intriguing and informative of the scope of needs and abilities of disabled people.) 

ResourceBook 3 Ñ Hardware and Software.
Sources of hardware and software to make computers useful to disabled people.
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##A 08 159600 1223
##T Rehab/Education Technology ResourceBook Series
Rehab/Education Technology ResourceBook Series

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Communication Aids 
Sara Brandenburg & Gregg Vanderheiden, Editors
1987; 239 pp.
ISBN 0316896136
$24.50 postpaid

from:
University of Wisconsin
Trace R & D Center
Reprint Service
S-151 Waisman Center
1500 Highland Avenue
Madison, WS  53705-2280
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##A 08 371629 1224
##T Rehab/Education Technology ResourceBook Series
Rehab/Education Technology ResourceBook Series

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Switches and Environmental Controls
Sara Brandenburg & Gregg Vanderheiden, Editors
1987; 227 pp.
ISBN 0316896152
$24.50 postpaid

from:
University of Wisconsin
Trace R & D Center
Reprint Service
S-151 Waisman Center
1500 Highland Avenue
Madison, WS  53705-2280
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##A 08 376913 1225
##T Rehab/Education Technology ResourceBook Series
Rehab/Education Technology ResourceBook Series

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Hardware and Software 
Sara Brandenburg & Gregg Vanderheiden, Editors
1987; 491 pp.
ISBN 0316896144
$29.50 postpaid
Set of Communication Aids, Switches and Environmental Controls, and Hardware and Software:  $69.50 postpaid.

from:
University of Wisconsin
Trace R & D Center
Reprint Service
S-151 Waisman Center
1500 Highland Avenue
Madison, WS  53705-2280

Set of Communication Aids, Switches and Environmental Controls, and Hardware and Software:  $69.50 postpaid.
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##A 08 377143 1226
##T Rehab/Education Technology ResourceBook Series
Rehab/Education Technology ResourceBook Series

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Update  
Peter A. Borden, M. A. & Gregg C.  Vanderheiden, Ph. D., Editors
1988; 380 pp.
ISBN 0945459009
$18.50 postpaid

from:
University of Wisconsin
Trace R & D Center
Reprint Service
S-151 Waisman Center
1500 Highland Avenue
Madison, WS  53705-2280
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##A 08 83038 1231
##T Hackers
Hackers

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Steven Levy is to computer history what Barbara Tuchman is to the 14th Century. He tells how programming changes people, how programmers created a subculture, and how that subculture changed the whole culture.
                                                                  
                                                                  Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 08 83423 1232
##T Hackers
Hackers

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Steven Levy
1984; 448 pp.
ISBN 0440134056
$4.50 ($5.25 postpaid)

from:
Dell Books
P. O. Box 1000
Pinebrook, NJ 07058-1000
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##A 08 343612 1235
##T 2600
2600

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My favorite newsletter is 2600, which bills itself as Òthe hacker quarterly.Ó With concrete information and delightful detail, its editors explain the intricacies of the phone system, the VMS operating system, satellite jamming, and other subjects of interest to those who believe information should be free and flow without barrier. Some of the most interesting features are the news roundups whose descriptions are quite inspiring. If youÕre a phone phreak or a potential hacker, this newsletter is definitely for you. I love it.
                                                           
                                                           Ñ Matthew McClure
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##A 08 344814 1236
##T 2600
2600

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Emmanuel Goldstein, editor
$15/year (four issues)

from:
2600
Subscription Department
P.O. Box 752
Middle Island, NY 11953-0752
516/751-2600
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##A 08 335830 1241
##T USER GROUPS
USER GROUPS

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One of the best ways to get your hands on shareware is to find other people who use your type of computer. User groups often have shareware libraries for members to browse through. To find out about user groups in your area, you can call 800/538-9696 for Apple or Macintosh computers; 800/IBM-3333 for IBM PCs; and 408/745-2367 or 408/745-5759 if you have an Atari. 

Even if the nearest user group is too far away for regular visits, some groups offer shareware by mail. The Berkeley Macintosh User Group maintains a fine collection of Mac shareware for members near or far. Or you can join The Boston Computer Society, which has shareware compatible with many computer types Ñ Mac, Apple, 
IBM PC, Atari, Amiga, CP/M. Each shareware disk costs about $4-
$5.                                                     Ñ Sarah Vandershaf
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##A 08 335980 1242
##T USER GROUPS
USER GROUPS

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Berkeley Macintosh User Group
Membership $40/year

from:
BMUG
1442A Walnut Street, #62
Berkeley, CA 94709
415/849-BMUG
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##A 08 302816 1243
##T USER GROUPS
USER GROUPS

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The Boston Computer Society
Membership $35/year

from:
Boston Computer Society
One Center Plaza
Boston, MA 02108
617/367-8080
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##A 08 383710 1244
##T COMPUTER VIRUS VACCINES
COMPUTER VIRUS VACCINES

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by Corinne Cullen Hawkins

Computer viruses, like their biological counterparts, trick the host into reproducing copies of the invading organism. They spread from computer to computer through electronic bulletin boards, telecommunication systems, and shared floppy disks. Viruses are created by human programmers, for fun or malice, but once they begin to spread, they take on a life of their own, creating disruption, dismay, and paranoia in their wake. As viruses have proliferated, so have vaccines, disinfectants, and other remedies.  

Protec Ñ A system of programs that includes Vaccinate Ñ a virus, itself, which infects the host via the Syringe program. It warns the user if a virus infection has occurred. It also includes
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##A 08 334911 1249
##T COMPUTER VIRUS VACCINES
COMPUTER VIRUS VACCINES

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Protec
$195 

from:
Sophco. Inc.
P. O. Box 7430
Boulder, CO 80306-7430
800/922-3001
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##A 08 334730 1250
##T COMPUTER VIRUS VACCINES
COMPUTER VIRUS VACCINES

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Ferret 
Larry Nedry

Available from electronic bulletin boards such as CompuServe and MacNET
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##A 08 385464 1251
##T COMPUTER VIRUS VACCINES
COMPUTER VIRUS VACCINES

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Vaccine
Don Brown

from:
CE Software

Available on electronic bulletin boards
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##A 08 385674 1252
##T COMPUTER VIRUS VACCINES
COMPUTER VIRUS VACCINES

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Interferon
Robert Woodhead

Available on electronic bulletin boards
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##A 08 385828 1253
##T COMPUTER VIRUS VACCINES
COMPUTER VIRUS VACCINES

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Data Physician
$199 

from:
Digital Dispatch
1580 Rice Creek Road
Minneapolis, MN 55432
612/571-7400
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##A 08 386074 1254
##T COMPUTER VIRUS VACCINES
COMPUTER VIRUS VACCINES

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Disk Defender
$199 

from:
Director Technologies Inc
6557 N. Lincoln Avenue
Chicago, IL 60645
800/621-1269
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##A 08 386502 1255
##T COMPUTER VIRUS VACCINES
COMPUTER VIRUS VACCINES

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Virus RX
Available from Apple dealers, AppleLink, and through some users-group bulletin boards
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##A 08 333603 1256
##T Out of the Inner Circle
Out of the Inner Circle

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The intent of this book is to give an introduction to how crackers 
(hackers who crack into systems) work. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but since it is not a step-by-step tutorial, it left me wanting more details on nearly everything it covers. But if youÕre interested in what makes hackers crack, and want a very useful glimpse into the subculture that makes almost everyone in the Establishment nervous, Out of the Inner Circle is excellent.

Among the specific methods Landreth outlines are the Òhack-
hackÓ; the decoy; direct access to memory; rapid-fire attacking the computer to trick it into thinking you have legitimate access; becoming a remote sysop; using a trapdoor; the Trojan horse; logic bombs; and worm programs. Anyone with more than a passing
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##A 08 334039 1258
##T Out of the Inner Circle
Out of the Inner Circle

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(A HackerÕs Guide to 
Computer  Security)

Bill Landreth 
with Howard Rheingold
1985; 230 pp.
$9.95 ($11.95 postpaid)

from:
Microsoft Press
10700 Northup Way
Box 97200
Bellevue, WA 98009
800/242-7737
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##A 08 332758 1261
##T Programmers at Work
Programmers at Work

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One of the most impressive things about computer hackers is that, in their drive to get more out of their hardware, they exploit fresh ways of viewing problems. This outlook is frequently enlightening on subjects that have nothing to do with computers. So in a sense, each of the 19 interviews that Susan Lammers has conducted with some of the major pioneers in microcomputing is more than just a story of how code-hackers actually program. Each is like a kind of Crackerjack box Ñ the Utterly Disarming, Frequently Astonishing Insight is the prize. ThereÕs also a fascinating appendix where we see actual code, worksheets, etc. of these wizards.
                                                                     
                                                                         Ñ Steven Levy
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##A 08 332848 1262
##T Programmers at Work
Programmers at Work

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Susan Lammers
1986; 385 pp.
ISBN 0914845713
$14.95 ($16.95 postpaid)

from:
Microsoft Press
Attn: Consumer Sales
16011 NE 36th Way 
Box 97017
Redmond, WA 98073-9717
206/882-8080
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##A 08 25538 1269
##T How To Copyright Software
How To Copyright Software

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Laid out in the structured logic of a computer program, this expert how-to knowledge will unfailingly lead you through the current copyright maze, a hall of mirrors in large part created by the paradoxical nature of software (I can give away a thousand dollar item and still have it). With engineer precision it even covers an all too common error: ÒCorrecting a Defective Copyright Notice.Ó This manual is a smart investment.

                                                                    Ñ Kevin Kelly




Ù Copyright
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##A 08 30618 1270
##T How To Copyright Software
How To Copyright Software

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(Everything You Need To Know To Copyright All Types of Computer 
Programs and Output)

M. J. Salone
1984; 232 pp.
ISBN 0917316797
$24.95 ($27.45 postpaid)

from:
Nolo Press
950 Parker Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
415/549-1976
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##A 08 335329 1273
##T Computer Lib/Dream Machines
Computer Lib/Dream Machines

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Ted Nelson started the entire genre of mainstream computer books in 1974 with a Whole Earth Catalog-sized polemic called Computer Lib/Dream Machines. Like an Ace pulp science-fiction novel, it came in two halves, bound upside-down together. The ÒLibÓ side was a tourist guide to available computers and the corporate policies behind them; the ÒDreamÓ side showed up evanescent innovations that (Nelson knew) would reshape everyoneÕs lives. 
(One of these nascent innovations was ÒHypertextÓ Ñ in which text or pictures contain Òlinks,Ó or passages through which people can metaphorically leap to other information important to them. Nelson is the most prominent popularizer of this idea, which he has devoted much of his working life to developing, and which is now itself linked with various suddenly prominent programs like
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##A 08 331720 1275
##T Computer Lib/Dream Machines
Computer Lib/Dream Machines

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Ted Nelson
1987; 330 pp.
ISBN 0914845497
$18.95 ($20.95 postpaid)

from:
Microsoft Press
Attn: Consumer Sales
16011 36th Way
P.O. Box 97017
Redmond, WA 98073-9717
800/426-9400
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##A 08 358999 1281
##T HyperCard
HyperCard

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by Kevin Kelly

The model for HyperCard is the 3-by-5 card. A card is represented by a Macintosh screen. As you flip through screens (cards), you read them one after another, as if they were in a stack. Cards can hold any kind of information you want, in any format you designed, including pictures. Rather than rest inertly, as on a Rolodex, information on a HyperCard can be actively linked to any other point on any other card. Those linking spots can be a word, a bunch of words, or a picture. When your cursor touches that spot, it brings forth the card (screen) that it is linked to. The links form a thread through a ÒstackÓ of cards. You weave through a stack, jumping from card to card, idea to idea, choosing your own path by
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##A 08 360345 1285
##T Windoid/Open Stack
Windoid/Open Stack

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Two useful newsletters from Silicon Valley, both with roots in the Apple community and local user groups. Each carries essential information, hot tips, and chatty gossip about HyperCard mania. A courteous SASE will get you a copy of either. Windoid Numbers 1-5 are available in stack form with all the scripts implemented by Team Hackinslash. Amusing and well thought-out! Ask for BMUG Disk Hyper 32, $3 postpaid from BMUG, Inc. 1442A Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA 94709.
                
                                                       Ñ Ramon Sender Barayon
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##A 08 360692 1286
##T Windoid/Open Stack
Windoid/Open Stack

@@
Windoid/AHUG 
Daniel J. Ruby, Editor
Sample copy for SASE

from:
Apple Computer
M/S 27AQ
20525 Mariani Boulevard
Cupertino, CA 95014
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##A 08 361420 1287
##T Windoid/Open Stack
Windoid/Open Stack

@@
Open Stack 
Sample copy for SASE

from:
Walking Shadow Press
P.O. Box 2092
Saratoga, CA 95071
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##A 08 331446 1290
##T Complete HyperCard Handbook
Complete HyperCard Handbook

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Some software programs have all the luck. On the day HyperCard was released, an equally groundbreaking guidebook to it was published in tandem. Like HyperCard itself, it is thorough and deep. ItÕs a massive, hefty tome of 700 pages, completely fluff-free.

It exhaustively treats the mechanics of making cards; assembling them into Òstackware;Ó creating links; and writing instructions in HyperTalk. Even if you donÕt usually use paint programs, youÕll find yourself creating graphics in HyperCard regularly. The paint options are therefore covered in depth. As we worked on the Electronic Whole Earth Catalog, we picked up a number of tips from the Handbook we hadnÕt known about. Not a reference book per se, the Handbook does its best job illustrating the conceptual
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##A 08 359268 1292
##T Complete HyperCard Handbook
Complete HyperCard Handbook

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Danny Goodman
1987; 695 pp.
ISBN 0553343912
$29.95 ($31.95 postpaid)

from:
Bantam Books
414 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
800/223-6834
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##A 08 358105 1295
##T Heizer Software
Heizer Software

@@
There are two sources for low cost non-commercial stackware: informal regional Macintosh user groups and Heizer Software. The former have them for nearly free and in overwhelming quantity; the latter for modest cost with more selectivity and annotation of content. They deal by mail and have a sensible catalog. Also, their authors offer phone support during certain hours. 

                                                       Ñ Ramon Sender Barayon
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##A 08 358196 1296
##T Heizer Software
Heizer Software

@@

Catalog and sample disk $4 

from:
Heizer Software
1941 Oak Park Boulevard
Pleasant Hill, CA  94523
800/225-6755; 
415/943-7667 (CA)
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##A 08 211524 1300
##T HyperMedia
HyperMedia

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Hypermedia is still a young field of human endeavor.  We have yet to see much of it in place; most of what weÕve seen has been the large amounts of attention lavished upon it by various publications.  This publication addresses the two big questions: the theory of what is it going to look and feel like when we get it , and the practice of how are we going to produce it.  It ranges from the higher-end industrial workstations down to relatively straightforward Mac applications, such as HyperCard, without getting bogged down in any great detail or specific techniques.  ThereÕs interesting coverage of hypermedia projects around the world.  Obviously, a lot of decisions have already been made in the back rooms and media labs about the look and feel, but HyperMedia makes it clear that thereÕs still a lot of room for innovation. I particularly like their design of supplying definitions in the
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##A 08 309747 1302
##T HyperMedia
HyperMedia

@@
The Guide To Interactive Media Production
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##A 08 355900 1305
##T HyperAge
HyperAge

@@
I like this magazine because it avoids the creepy mystique and glamour that usually shrouds technical expertise. The premier issue (the only one weÕve seen) ran lots of good stuff by prominent innovators in the HyperCard field, such as a special feature on interactive sound and HyperCard by Tim Oren at Apple, who did the lionÕs share of the original programming design for this Electronic Whole Earth Catalog.

                                                         Ñ Ramon Sender Barayon




Ù Other Computer Magazines (also see HARDWARE MAGAZINES)
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##A 08 356235 1306
##T HyperAge
HyperAge

@@
Jan Lewis, Editor
$19.95/year (6 issues)

from:
HyperAge
5793 Tyndall Avenue
Riverdale, NY 10471
800/682-2000
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##A 08 367673 1310
##T AI Expert
AI Expert

@@
In current computer patois, an Òexpert systemÓ  is one that can perform complex tasks in a single-minded and efficient manner. All of the systemÕs actions are predictable because they have been pre-programmed; in other words, the systemÕs knowledge of any given task is deep, but its understanding of the task is shallow. ThatÕs why you need other expert systems that can perform other specific tasks. The current theory in AI circles is that if you hook up enough expert systems, you might be able to create something that is able to model human intelligence. 

AI Expert is not a magazine devoted to the theory of AI, but to its business and commercial applications. Mostly this takes the forms of various expert systems. While IÕm not a programmer and have
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##A 08 368034 1312
##T AI Expert
AI Expert

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(The Magazine of Artificial 
Intelligence in Practice)

Philip Chapnick, Editor
$37/year (12 issues)

from:
AI Expert
P.O. Box 11328
Des Moines, IA 50340-1328
800/341-SERV
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##A 08 366818 1313
##T AI Using C
AI Using C

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This could serve as a base for a home-brew expert system Ñ an AI system that mimics the complex knowledge of an expert. These simple programs, written in a very clear coding style, include such sophisticated features as heuristic search strategies, natural language processing, pattern recognition, backtracking, and machine learning. Schildt shows how to build the programs step-by-step, each part gradually adding to the techniques just developed.

If youÕre a programmer and wonder how people can implement uncertainty and Òfuzzy logicÓ in clean, tight C code, read this book. And order the diskette with the program listings. Not a bad way to learn C, either.                                          
                                                                Ñ Matthew McClure
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##A 08 367009 1314
##T AI Using C
AI Using C

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Herbert Schildt
1987; 360 pp.
$21.95 ($25.95 postpaid)

from:
McGraw Hill
13955 Manchester Road
Manchester, MO 63011
800/722-4726
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##A 08 407930 1315
##T Tomorrow Makers
Tomorrow Makers

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Deep robotics, deep shivers.

Fjermedal has done the formidable footwork of staying up countless nights working, scheming and speculating with most of the cutting-edge robot fanatics in the labs at Carnegie-Mellon, 
MIT, Stanford, Thinking Machines Corp., and on and on Ñ a fine comprehensive sweep. His report on work in Japan is a scoop and fittingly closes the book, since it proves that some of the wilder speculation he begins with is already stalking about in Japan, like some ominous, humorous Transformer toy, just barely still a plaything.

For grasping what technology is rapidly bringing by way of
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##A 08 365581 1317
##T Tomorrow Makers
Tomorrow Makers

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Grant Fjermedal
1986; 272 pp.
$8.95 ($11.45 postpaid)

from:
Microsoft Press
Attn.: Consumer Sales
16011 NE 36th Way,
Box 97017
Redmond, WA 98073-9717
206/882-8080
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##A 08 388957 1320
##T BEST CD-ROM BOOKS
BEST CD-ROM BOOKS

@@
Here comes privileged advance warning of new techniques for storing everything Ñ pictures, text, video, programs Ñ on the same kinds of compact discs (CDs) that have reshaped the audio industry during the last few years. YouÕll be able to fit a library into a shoebox and to summon any part of it instantly. Whether or not the world wants this new medium is uncertain, but it threatens to go ahead and reshape publishing and libraries anyway. These three high-quality anthologies tell how.
                                                                       Ñ Art Kleiner

The third volume in this series is the most revolutionary. Its goal is not merely to reshape how we store books, films, and music, but 
to reshape how we think of them. How do you scan a movie? What
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##A 08 364716 1322
##T BEST CD-ROM BOOKS
BEST CD-ROM BOOKS

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CD ROM: The New Papyrus (Vol. 1) 
Steve Lambert & Suzanne Ropiequet, Editors
1986; 619 pp.
ISBN 0914845748
$21.95 ($23.95 postpaid)

from:
Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800/242-7737
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##A 08 388291 1323
##T BEST CD-ROM BOOKS
BEST CD-ROM BOOKS

@@
Optical Publishing (Vol. 2) 
Suzanne Ropiequet with John Einberger & Bill Zoellick, Editors
1987; 358 pp.
ISBN 1556150008
$22.95 ($26.42 postpaid)

from:
Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800/242-7737
@@

##A 08 388492 1324
##T BEST CD-ROM BOOKS
BEST CD-ROM BOOKS

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Interactive Multimedia (Vol. 3) 
(Visions of Multimedia for Developers, Educators & Information Providers)

Sueann Ambron & Kristina Hooper, Editors
1988; 352 pp.
ISBN 1556151241
$24.95 ($28.42 postpaid)

from:
Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800/242-7737
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##A 08 363335 1330
##T CD-ROM Review
CD-ROM Review

@@
The most readable of the many technical trade journals surfacing to cover this hardware intensive business.                        

                                                            Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 363707 1331
##T CD-ROM Review
CD-ROM Review

@@
Roger Strukhoff, Editor
$34.97/year (12 issues)

from:
IDG Communications/Peterborough
80 Elm Street
Peterborough, NH 03458
603/924-9471
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##A 08 362354 1335
##T PC-SIG on CD-ROM
PC-SIG on CD-ROM

@@
For years PC-SIG, the largest shareware vendor in the known universe, has published The PC-SIG Library, a catalog of hundreds of IBM-PC programs to be had for free or for a Òsuggested donationÓ to the programÕs author. The 750 programs reviewed in the latest edition are available directly from PC-SIG, Inc. (order forms are printed in the back of the book). You can get thousands of shareware and public domain programs on The PC-SIG Library on CD-ROM.

                                                             Ñ Sarah Vandershaf



Ù The PC-SIG Library
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##A 08 362678 1336
##T PC-SIG on CD-ROM
PC-SIG on CD-ROM

@@
$295 ($300 postpaid)

from:
PC-SIG Inc.
1030 East Duane Avenue, Suite
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
408/730-9291

IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible computer and CD-ROM player with Microsoft MS-DOS extensions.
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##A 08 369369 1340
##T PATHS TO COMPUTER PURCHASES
PATHS TO COMPUTER PURCHASES

@@
by Art Kleiner

The news about personal computers begins with shopping news. For between $1,500 and $2,500, including software, you can buy an ÒXT CloneÓ or ÒAT CloneÓ Ñ imitations of IBM computers which provide many Ñ but far from all Ñ of the clerical, creative, and communicative tools that a personal computer can offer. You can use such a clone to automate the drudgery of routine clerical work; to manipulate the fine-grained grids of probabilities and statistics; to write in a facile, intuitively correct way; and to seek out computer-based information and textual conversations on a broad variety of topics through the phone lines. But you canÕt use this sort of clone without devoting a few months to learning its arcane peculiarities, and it canÕt (without difficulty) deal with
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##A 08 372642 1346
##T INDEPENDENT WORK PATH 1
INDEPENDENT WORK PATH 1

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For independent work (writing, small-scale organizing, tele-communicating, research, etc.) at minimum cost: XT Clone with hard disk.

The XT ÒcloneÓ is the Gallo wine of computers. Its major advantages: low cost and high adaptability. So many people own the things that thereÕs a wide range of available software and accessories that work together. (This is also true of the far-less-capable Apple II and Commodore 64 computers.) 

The cloneÕs main disadvantage is its operating system, MS-DOS; 
itÕs too hard to learn and use, much too hard to set up, too prone to crisis points where different programs donÕt work together and
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##A 08 395053 1349
##T INDEPENDENT WORK PATH 2
INDEPENDENT WORK PATH 2

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For independent work (writing, small-scale organizing, telecommunicating, research, etc.) without having to think too much about the computer, or for anyone who needs black-and-white graphics, at minimum cost: Macintosh SE with built-in hard disk and Imagewriter.

The Mac operating system employs a ÒdesktopÓ metaphor where every program and document is represented by a small image (an 
ÒiconÓ) superimposed on a rectangle (the ÒdeskÓ). You use the mouse (it comes with the Mac), to point at different parts of the screen, to click on different onscreen ÒbuttonsÓ with commands attached, and to grab hold of an onscreen image and move it somewhere else. To delete a file, for instance, you donÕt type
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##A 08 393110 1353
##T HIGH QUALITY TEXT PATH
HIGH QUALITY TEXT PATH

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Option 1: For independent work (particularly writing and number-shuffling) with high-quality printing: XT Clone with hard disk and HP-compatible laser printer.
 
Unlike the abominable Òtractor feedsÓ of regular printers, laser printers feed paper like photocopiers; you dunk a bunch of paper in a paper tray and the printer handles it. But the main difference is the text of your printed page. ItÕs as readable as the page of a book, far more readable than even the best typewriter.

This path contains everything in Independent Work Path 1 except the need for a superior word processor. Only a few writing programs can master the niceties of laser printing. Those that do
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##A 08 391567 1356
##T GRAPHICS AND PUBLISHING PATH
GRAPHICS AND PUBLISHING PATH

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Option 1: For desktop publishing and black-and-white graphics: Macintosh with Postscript compatible Laser Printer.

This path includes everything in Independent Work Path 2 plus page layout programs that take text from word processing programs, graphics from graphic programs, and additional graphic elements which you type in yourself, and arrange them all on the screen. Then the laser prints out a (more-or-less accurate) replica of your screen. 

Postscript-compatible laser printers cost $4,000 and up. For that price, you get images of 300 dots per inch Ñ not comparable to a professional typesetting shop, but fairly professional-looking to
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##A 08 393609 1358
##T SMALL BUSINESS PATH
SMALL BUSINESS PATH

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Heavy-duty bookkeeping and small-business use: an AT-compatible with extra memory and Lotus 1-2-3.

The AT-compatible is a minimum; you might be better off with a 386-based computer, because youÕll probably want to migrate to the Keeping Up With The Joneses Path later on, when your data bases overflow your current work. And if youÕre adapting a small business on personal computers, itÕs probably worthwhile to ask a reliable consultant about choosing software.

So many people have grown to use the spreadsheet Lotus 1-2-3 that it has, for some people, replaced the operating system. You can now buy writing, accounting, spelling, graph-making, and data
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##A 08 394084 1360
##T KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES PATH
KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES PATH

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Option 1: For keeping up with the Joneses: OS/2 machines and 386 machines. 
 
Released in December 1987, OS/2 is an infant operating system. It only runs MS-DOS software, so far. None of the new OS/2 software really exists yet, except for a few cobbled-together versions of existing programs. 

OS/2 has intriguing advantages over MS-DOS and even the Mac. Like the Mac, it uses the better 3 1/2Ó disks and permits virtually unlimited memory (meaning more complex programs and bigger documents). Like the Mac, it can run several programs at one time, switching back and forth between them. It also can run several
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##A 08 394742 1363
##T SIMPLE AND CHEAP PATH
SIMPLE AND CHEAP PATH

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The simplest, cheapest path: Apple IIe with Swyftcard or Canon Cat. 

If all the other paths seem unnecessarily expensive and Byzantinely overcomplicated to you, thereÕs at least one plain, inexpensive solution. Buy an Apple IIe, an otherwise antiquated and frustrating computer (in my opinion) and fit it with Swyftcard/Swyftdisk, a $39.95 writing, calculating, and telecommunications tool of unusual simplicity.

The Canon Cat is an extended adaptation of the Swyftcard, with a box and monitor. You can set up the Cat easily as a bulletin board for other people to call, but the Swyftcard has the advantage of
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##A 14 188142 5
##T Basic Concepts in Music
Basic Concepts in Music

@@

An interesting and useful programmed text designed to accommodate both the absolute ignoramus and the person with any degree of musical experience.  Covers basic components of music notation; notational components of rhythm and melody; harmonic structure of basic intervals and chords; major and minor scales, chords and keys; and the basic structure of music.  The child who can read can progress through the book at his own rate; the parent with a piano or penny-whistle and some sheet music at his disposal can learn much to pass on to the children.
                                                                      
                                                 Ñ Carol Van Strum
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##A 14 188380 6
##T Basic Concepts in Music
Basic Concepts in Music

@@
Gary M. Martin
2nd Edition 1980; 288 pp.
ISBN 0534007619
$24.50 postpaid 
from:

Wadsworth Publishing Co.
7625 Empire Drive
Florence, KY 41042
800-354-9706
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##A 14 184552 9
##T Introducing Music
Introducing Music

@@

Limpidly clear introduction to reading and understanding music.
                                                                 
                                                                         Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 14 184612 10
##T Introducing Music
Introducing Music

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Ott— K‡rolyi
1965; 175 pp.
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
(800) 526-0275; (201) 387-0600(NJ)
@@

##A 14 301297 13
##T Uncle VanÕs Chord Book
Uncle VanÕs Chord Book

@@

A beginnerÕs introduction to jazz chords on the guitar, ability to read music unnecessary.  In fact, thereÕs not a note on any page until you reach an appendix on theory.  After discussing particular chords demonstrated on normal guitar diagrams, chord names are listed above the words of a given song.  It might have made more sense to stay with the chord diagrams, but otherwise a good start-up book for anyone previously terrified by the guitar. 
                                             
                                            Ñ Ramon Sender Barayon
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##A 14 301632 14
##T Uncle VanÕs Chord Book
Uncle VanÕs Chord Book

@@
Van Rozay
1987; 46 pp.
$10.95 postpaid 
from:

Canyon Books
Room 200R
1000 Redwood Highway
Canyon, CA 94516
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##A 14 189120 16
##T Composing Music
Composing Music

@@

This takes a pragmatic approach to teaching composition.  It begins with no rules and few instructions, assumes you can read and write a tiny bit, and hands you a very simple composition assignment.  Gently, by chapters, it presents traditional composing concepts, including easy work on harmony, melody structure, use of motifs, and so on.  The beauty of this approach is that there is no right or wrong, no correct results  Ñ  it is for you to try your wings.

The second half of the book deals with writing for instruments available to you, with techniques in popular music, and with a
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##A 14 189413 18
##T Composing Music
Composing Music

@@
William Russo with Jeffrey Ainis
and David Stevenson
1983; 230 pp.
ISBN 0131647563
$12.95 postpaid 
from:

Prentice-Hall/Simon & Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 14 12213 22
##T Musical Applications of Microprocessors
Musical Applications of Microprocessors

@@

This technical tome explains how electronic music works.  In spite of its title, it includes information about all sorts of electronic music systems.  The 174-page ÒBackgroundÓ section gives the basics of acoustics and classifies the various electronic methods of producing and modifying sound.  The 190-page second section is dedicated to computer-controlled analog synthesis.  In it youÕll find a careful explanation of the world of analog synthesizers with lots of schematic diagrams and frequency response graphs.  The third section, 340 pages on digital synthesis and sound modification, is the real core of the book.  Here, Hal shows how sound can be converted into and out of digital form and how a computer can be programmed to analyze and synthesize musical
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##A 14 168311 24
##T Musical Applications of Microprocessors
Musical Applications of Microprocessors

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Hal Chamberlin
2nd Edition 1985; 802 pp.
ISBN 0810457687
$39.95 

from:

Hayden Books/Howard W. Sams & Co.
4300 West 62nd Street
Indianapolis, IN 46268
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##A 14 164385 29
##T The Art of Noises
The Art of Noises

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Noise as art.  Noise as music.  Music as the art of noises. 

From 1916 comes this essential work of modern music and sound theory, the first work that asks the question Òif music is sound, why not use all the sounds available?Ó  Italian Futurist, Luigi Russolo wanted to create music that would incorporate the full spectrum of the twentieth century soundscape Ñ cars, trains, animal sounds, industrial machinery, the roar of crowds.  His ideas, dismissed at the time, anticipated the work of composers such as John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Pierre Boulez by decades. Russolo was also active in designing some of the first musical
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##A 14 166797 31
##T The Art of Noises
The Art of Noises

@@
Luigi Russolo
1986; 87 pp.
ISBN 0918728576
$24 postpaid 
from:

Pendragon Press
R. R. 1, Box 159
Stuyvesant, NY 12173-9720
(518) 828-3008
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##A 14 6682 34
##T The Tuning of the World
The Tuning of the World

@@
One of the most remarkable books on sound around.  The
author charts the geography and history of our sonic environment  
Ñ  our soundscape.  No type of noise, roar, clatter, hiss, twang, vibration, or audible rhythm escapes his notice.  For instance, he discovered European towns hum at harmonies of G sharp (50 hertz power supply), while America drones at B natural (60 hertz).  He divides our surroundings into dominant tonal patterns, mapping out the evolution of sound on Earth.  Other topics discussed: Sacred sounds, the concert hall as a substitute for outdoor life, the intent of Muzak, sounds of water creatures, sound imperialism, ceremonies about silence, and taboo sounds.  A marvelous, awakening book.                                               

                                                                Ñ Charlie Bremer
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##A 14 115006 35
##T The Tuning of the World
The Tuning of the World

@@
(Toward a Theory of Soundscape Design)
R. Murray Schafer
1977; 301 pp.
ISBN 081221109X
OUT OF PRINT 

University of Pennsylvania Press
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##A 14 174577 39
##T New Sounds
New Sounds

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Not new as in this weekÕs Top Forty mega-single, but new as in new ideas, from Glenn BrancaÕs thrash guitar symphonies to Brian EnoÕs ÒAmbient Music;Ó from the pointillism of Philip Glass to the vocal experiments of Meredith Monk and David Hykes.  New Sounds also thoroughly explains the contributions of early sonic pioneers such as John Cage and Harry Partch, as well as providing excellent introductions to the traditional musics of the U.S., Europe, India, Indonesia and West Africa.  The extensive record and tape guides at the end of each chapter make navigating through this world of new sounds exciting and fun. 
                                                         
                                             Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 14 174657 40
##T New Sounds
New Sounds

@@
(A ListenerÕs Guide to New Music)
John Schaefer
1987; 296 pp.
ISBN 0060970812
$10.95 ($14.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
(800) 242-7737
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##A 14 307187 43
##T The Art of Electronic Music
The Art of Electronic Music

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Anyone who wants to get involved in electronic music should both research its roots, and locate the leading edge.  YouÕll get a brief history of the development of equipment in this book, and interviews with pioneer synthesizer designers (Moog and onward) and current major artists (Jan Hammer, Vangelis, Brian Eno, etc.).  The field is in such healthy ferment, itÕs good to hear how key performers actually do things.               

                                                Ñ Ramon Sender Barayon
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##A 14 307239 44
##T The Art of Electronic Music
The Art of Electronic Music

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Tom Darter & Greg Armbruster, Editors
1983; 315 pp.
ISBN 0688031064
$15.95 ($17.45 postpaid)
from:

QUILL/William Morrow
105 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
(800) 843-9389
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##A 14 185769 49
##T Musics of Many Cultures
Musics of Many Cultures

@@

As much as can be put down on paper, here is the music springing from human life on Earth.  This book speaks about structure, role in culture, and history of ethnic musics around the world, and gives a thoroughly handy film bibliography and album discography so you can dip to one corner of the world, get comfortable, and become lost in the stirring songs others make.  Comes with three floppy records to get you started.
                                                                    
                                                      Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 14 185980 50
##T Musics of Many Cultures
Musics of Many Cultures

@@
Elizabeth May, Editor
1980; 434 pp.
ISBN 0520047788
$19.95 ($21.45 postpaid)
from:

University of California Press
2120 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
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##A 14 181466 56
##T African Music Ñ A PeopleÕs Art
African Music Ñ A PeopleÕs Art

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Francis Bebey is a writer/musician from the Cameroon who worked as a musicologist for UNESCO.  This good translation (by Josephine Bennett) of his 1969 book on traditional African music is a gentle intro to the consciousness of African music as collective art, communal property, and spiritual medicine.  
BebeyÕs account of his field work and discussion of folk instruments lays a solid foundation for understanding where 
Afro-pop comes from.

                                  Ñ Stephen Davis
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##A 14 181600 57
##T African Music Ñ A PeopleÕs Art
African Music Ñ A PeopleÕs Art

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Francis Bebey. Translated by Josephine Bennett
1975; 184 pp.
ISBN 0882080504
 $10.95 postpaid
from:

Lawrence Hill & Co.
520 Riverside Avenue
Westport, CT 06880
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##A 14 176752 62
##T Black Music of Two Worlds
Black Music of Two Worlds

@@

John Storm RobertsÕ book is the principal work on trans-Atlantic black culture, detailing the African origins of American music and American influences on postwar African music.  Its last section, on the urban pop music of post-colonial Africa is the best overview of the subject.

                                      Ñ Stephen Davis
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##A 14 177105 63
##T Black Music of Two Worlds
Black Music of Two Worlds

@@
John Storm Roberts
1972; 282 pp.
ISBN 0688052789
 $7.05 postpaid
from:

Original Music
R. D. 1, Box 190
Lasher Road
Tivoli, NY 12583
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##A 14 180061 66
##T Da Capo Guide to Contemporary African Music
Da Capo Guide to Contemporary African Music

@@
This is THE book for the Africanphile vinyl addict.  Covering the huge range of musical styles, traditional and contemporary/modern/popular, from all of sub-Saharan Black Africa it is astonishingly complete.  Each countryÕs music is discussed by style in relation to the political, economic, and social history of the country, bringing to life the many non-musical considerations that influence the artistic expression and development.  The trade factors that affect the availability of the recordings here in the North/West are explained.  Individual major artistsÕ life stories are covered in reasonable depth, and many lesser-knowns are noted.  The discographies that follow make me squirm with the vinyl jones.  Comes complete with bibliography and index.

                                                                       Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 180453 67
##T Da Capo Guide to Contemporary African Music
Da Capo Guide to Contemporary African Music

@@
Ronnie Graham
1988; 315 pp.
ISBN 0306803259
$13.95 ($14.95 postpaid)
from:

Da Capo Press
233 Spring Street
New York, NY 10013
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##A 14 34945 73
##T Homespun Tapes
Homespun Tapes

@@

YouÕve had your fiddle long enough to play a few songs, but you really wonder how those Irish players get that certain sound.  Well, Irish fiddle master Kevin Burke might not be available for private lessons, but you can get the next best thing  Ñ  his lessons on tape. You choose the time and place, and you will never be embarrassed by not having practiced enough at your next lesson.

Six 60-minute tapes and accompanying sheet music take you from simple hornpipe tunes to elaborate reels with ornamenting grace notes and rolls.  The tapes play each song slowly, naming notes and repeating sections, so even if you donÕt read music you can follow along.
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##A 14 35191 75
##T Homespun Tapes
Homespun Tapes

@@
Catalog $1 from:

Homespun Tapes
PO Box 694
Woodstock, NY 12498
(800) 33-TAPES
(914) 679-7832(NY)
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##A 14 302561 83
##T Homegrown Music
Homegrown Music

@@

Music without computers.  This is the backwoods approach to music on the cheap.  Folksy directions for getting music out of odd things like bamboo-root oboes and wild-oat-straw shepherdÕs pipes.  I like their holy mission of rescuing instruments out of peopleÕs attics and garage sales.            

                                                    Ñ Ramon Sender Barayon
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##A 14 302959 84
##T Homegrown Music
Homegrown Music

@@
Marc Bristol
1982; 129 pp.
ISBN 0914842919
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Madrona Publishers, Inc.
PO Box 22667
Seattle, WA 98122
206-325-3973
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##A 14 190195 88
##T Traditional American Folk Songs
Traditional American Folk Songs

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For 40 years, starting in 1938, Anne and Frank Warner collected folk songs along the rural backroads of the Eastern Seaboard.  Frank was a folk singer himself and so was able to win the confidence of wary mountain folk like Frank Proffitt, who first sang them ÒTom Dooley.Ó  The Warners did angelic work.  For the 200 songs they transcribed in this bountiful book, they record the playersÕ own story of how they learnt the song and where they think it came from.  The Warners reprint personal, fascinating correspondence with the artists and often a snapshot of the scene. They clearly portray the songs they received as gifts from the makers to the listeners.  What we are given: music as community.
                                                                        
                                                                                 Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 14 190316 89
##T Traditional American Folk Songs
Traditional American Folk Songs

@@
(from the Anne & Frank Warner Collection)
Anne Warner
1984; 501 pp.
ISBN 0815601859
$25.95 ($27.95 postpaid)
from:

Syracuse University Press
1600 Jamesville Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13244-5160
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##A 14 172408 94
##T African Rhythm and African Sensibility
African Rhythm and African Sensibility

@@
J.M. Chernoff spent more than a decade as a drum student in West Africa.  This is his masterwork, part African adventure story, part sociological dissertation.  Its obsession with drumming as history and its passion for rhythm as style is credited with pushing Western pop musicians like Brian Eno and David Byrne to introduce Africanisms to Anglo-American pop (Talking Heads member Byrne claims to have read the thing twice).  As a writer, Chernoff is obsessed with getting every nuance on the page, and descriptions of polyrhythmic structures occasionally read like watchmaking manuals.  ItÕs that precise.  For an additional $15, a 90-minute cassette illustrating the various rhythms is also available, and very worthwhile.

                           Ñ Stephen Davis
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##A 14 172681 95
##T African Rhythm and African Sensibility
African Rhythm and African Sensibility

@@
John Miller Chernoff
1979; 261 pp.
ISBN 0226103455
$10.95 postpaid from:

University Of Chicago Press
11030 South Langley
Chicago, Il 60628
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##A 14 171204 101
##T The Complete Yamaha DX7II Book
The Complete Yamaha DX7II Book

@@

For those who want to get the most out of their Yamaha DX7II, Howard MasseyÕs book ÒThe Complete DX7IIÓ may be just the thing.   With 400 pages and three plastic soundsheets, it really lives up to itÕs name.  No knowledge of DX synthesizers is assumed, so the book is great for the beginner.  ItÕs a programmed text with a series of exercises which often involve recreating the sounds on the soundsheets.  If the text is followed methodically, cover to cover, you should be able to program your DX7II to produce whatever sound you have in mind quickly and easily.

                                                   Ñ Paul Blankinship

Ù Yamaha DX-7 II
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##A 14 171347 102
##T The Complete Yamaha DX7II Book
The Complete Yamaha DX7II Book

@@
Howard Massey
1987; 400pp.
ISBN 0825611199
$29.95 ($31.45 postpaid)
from:

Music Sales Corporation
Mail Order Music
PO  Box 572
Chester, NY 10918
800-431-7187
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##A 14 169395 110
##T DIGITAL SAMPLER BOOKS
DIGITAL SAMPLER BOOKS

@@

You should consider buying one of these books before investing in an expensive sampling keyboard.  The Sampling Book acquaints you with sampling techniques and demystifies arcane terminology.  If the manual that comes with the sampler scares you, this will ease your learning curve.  It helped me do some things I wanted to but couldnÕt figure out from the manual.  A final chapter on test driving a sampler could be useful when you are ready to make a purchase.

If your sampler (to be) is a Casio FZ-1 or FZ-10M (the rack-mount version of the FZ-1), then the second book has specific exercises  

Ù DIGITAL SAMPLERS
@@

##A 14 118145 112
##T DIGITAL SAMPLER BOOKS
DIGITAL SAMPLER BOOKS

@@
The Sampling Book 
Steve De Furia 
and Joe Scacciaferro
1987; 150 pp.
ISBN 0881889660
$17.95 ($19.95 postpaid)
from:

Hal Leonard Books
PO  Box 13810
Milwaukee, WI 53213
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##A 14 141818 113
##T DIGITAL SAMPLER BOOKS
DIGITAL SAMPLER BOOKS

@@
Casio FZ-1 & FZ-10M
(Digital Sampling Synthesizer)
Joe Scacciaferro 
and Steve De Furia
1988; 143 pp.
ISBN 0881889679
$14.95 ($16.95 postpaid)
from:

Hal Leonard Books
PO Box 13810
Milwaukee, WI 53213
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##A 14 204496 118
##T Mix Bookshelf
Mix Bookshelf

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Musicians at every level of expertise will find items of use to them in this mail-order catalog.  A wide range of books, music software, MIDI gear, audio and videocassette lessons, sound libraries (both samples and sound effects), and desktop video software are offered.  The descriptions of the products sold are fair and informative.  New catalogs come out about every six months, but newer products are available as they are released.  

                                                                              Ñ Jonathan E.
                                         (Suggested by Ramon Sender Barayon)


Ù Music Software
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##T Mix Bookshelf
Mix Bookshelf

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Catalog free  
from:

Mix Bookshelf
2608 Ninth Street, 
Berkeley,  CA 94710
800-233-9604
800-641-3349(CA)
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##A 14 234246 124
##T MUSIC BUSINESS INTRODUCTION
MUSIC BUSINESS INTRODUCTION

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THE MAINSTREAM MUSIC INDUSTRY is a modern-day Siren of dreams of wealth and fame. The rocky shores that will tear your musical vessel apart are the accountants, lawyers, and marketing directors who run the business and make their decisions based on market research.  TodayÕs Golden Fleece is the lowest common denominator of musical taste. Happily, you can keep your own dreams and make music by putting the music first and muzzling the desire for mass acclaim. These books will help you retain control over your fate and spread your music. You can be your own Orpheus. 
                                                            
                                                                Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 234813 125
##T This  Business Of Music
This  Business Of Music

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The legal nuts and bolts of the music industry.  ItÕs all the same whatever style of music youÕre into.  Nitty-gritty discussions of what seem like minutiae until you multiply out thousands of units tinkling their way into the worldÕs eardrums.  If youÕre serious about communicating on a wide scale with your, or anyone elseÕs, music, thereÕs no way around this book.  Not light reading but there is an index.
              
                 Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 241851 126
##T This  Business Of Music
This  Business Of Music

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Sidney Shemel and M. William Krasilovsky
5th Edition 1985; 640 pp.
ISBN 0823077543
$22.95 ($24.45 postpaid)
from:

Watson-Guptill Publications
1695 Oak Street
Lakewood, NJ 08701
800-526-3641
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##A 14 235551 130
##T Making Money Making Music
Making Money Making Music

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While you wait for that big break, donÕt forget that you can still earn a decent living as a musician working locally.  This book details a multitude of ways you can turn your talent into cash from performance gigs, teaching, studio work, renting your equipment, and selling your songs.  It also deals with other musicianly concerns such as who drives the van, how to manage drink, drugs, and smoky barrooms, and how to avoid being ripped off by shady business characters.  The chapters on how to organize and run a band explain how to deal with the personalities (youÕre going to have to do a lot of that), the finances, and the logistics.  If you want to reach for the stars, this book will help you build a solid launch pad. 
                           Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 235865 131
##T Making Money Making Music
Making Money Making Music

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(No Matter Where You Live)
James W. Dearing
1982; 305 pp.
ISBN 0898791014
$12.95 ($14.95 postpaid)
from:

WriterÕs Digest Books
1507 Dana Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45207
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##A 14 237081 134
##T How To Make And Sell Your Own Record
How To Make And Sell Your Own Record

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Still the indispensable guide for those who wish to go vinyl on their own behalf.  Gets in the groove of the independent recording business and stays there from early planning of promotion right through to tax returns.  The work sheets will help you stay in the financial groove, as well.  ThereÕs an appendix on cassette-only releases, a discussion of new technologies such as CD, and a bit on foreign licensing.  Read it before you book your studio time.                                                                                                               
                                                                             
                                                                        Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 237510 135
##T How To Make And Sell Your Own Record
How To Make And Sell Your Own Record

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Diane Sward Rapaport
3rd Edition 1988; 183 pp.
ISBN 0399514309
$14.95 ($17 postpaid)
from:

Jerome Headlands Press
PO Box N
Jerome, AZ 86331
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##A 14 239131 141
##T Making Music
Making Music

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All too often the sound of music is lost in the labyrinth of the music industry, where bank notes are as important as musical notes (IÕm being charitable).  Making Music strikes a balance between the business and the music by acting as a guide to how the industry is structured and operates and to how music is actually made.  Through interviews and articles by 65 industry insiders (with names most music fans will recognize) these successful individuals let you in on their secrets in a way that manages to integrate art and commerce, throwing light on both.
                                                                                                     
                                                                              Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 239421 142
##T Making Music
Making Music

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(The Guide to Writing, Performing & Recording)
George Martin, Editor
1983; 352 pp.
ISBN 0688014658
$12.95 ($14.45 postpaid)
from:

William Morrow Publishing Co.
Order Dept.
39 Plymouth Street
Fairfield, NJ 07006
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##A 14 39367 148
##T The LuthierÕs Mercantile
The LuthierÕs Mercantile

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Materials, tools, supplies, and advice for the lofty craft of building traditional stringed instruments.  Slightly more than a catalog, this publication also has articles on workshop tips and luthier tool techniques.                               

                                                       Ñ Doug Roomian
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##A 14 39470 149
##T The LuthierÕs Mercantile
The LuthierÕs Mercantile

@@
Catalog $3 from:

The LuthierÕs Mercantile
PO Box 774
412 Moore Lane
Healdsburg, CA 95448
707-433-1823
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##A 14 199122 152
##T Vibrations
Vibrations

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Subtitled Òmaking unorthodox musical instruments,Ó Vibrations clearly shows you how to make a variety of fun-to-play instruments from the cheapest and simplest materials.  There are a few more complicated-looking instruments for the ambitious or brave.  Many of these are not so unorthodox in the Third World, and some of the design details here might help you develop ideas that come to you while looking at Musical Instruments Of The World.

                                                                               Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 199257 153
##T Vibrations
Vibrations

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(Making Unorthodox Musical Instruments)
David Sawyer
1977; 102 pp.
ISBN 0521208122
$12.95 postpaid 
from:

Cambridge University Press
510 North Avenue
New Rochelle, NY 10801
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##A 14 41487 156
##T Sound Designs
Sound Designs

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ÒThatÕs not REAL music,Ó whispered an elderly woman to her companion as they watched my friend play exotic drums.  ÒHeÕs just making it up.Ó

Not only that, ladies, he made up the instruments.  They were slit drums  Ñ  oblong wooden boxes with slits on top that formed tuned bars.  YouÕll find slit drum designs, and other fanciful instruments, in this book.  Musical instruments can be created out of almost anything, and making them up is the most exemplary music education there is, especially for kids.  Many of the designs discussed here started out as simple folk instruments somewhere
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##A 14 42124 158
##T Sound Designs
Sound Designs

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(A Handbook of Musical Instrument Building)
Reinhold Banek & Jon Scoville
1980; 224 pp.
ISBN 0898150116
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Ten Speed Press
PO Box 7123
Berkeley, CA 94707
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##A 14 121037 163
##T Musical Instruments of the World
Musical Instruments of the World

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With sufficient cleverness I daresay you could cobble together some damned interesting instruments just by close attention to the illustrations, profuse (4,000) and detailed as they are, in this absorbing survey of the worldÕs sound-makers.   

                                                                          Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 14 121258 164
##T Musical Instruments of the World
Musical Instruments of the World

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(An Illustrated Encyclopedia)
The Diagram Group
1980; 320 pp.
ISBN 0816013098
$14.95 postpaid 
from:

Facts on File
460 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
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##A 14 31655 169
##T Elderly Instruments
Elderly Instruments

@@

Elderly Instruments have grown over the years to become a full-scale musical emporium.  They have expanded from their original acoustic stringed instrument base to offering musical instruments of every variety from all corners of the world, from Irish whistles to Indian hand percussion dholaks to Japanese drum machines and mixers.  In addition to complete new instruments, they also offer used instruments, spare parts, accessories, and a useful selection of books.  Their service is legendary and there are those who say that if they had to choose the only surviving music store it would have to be Elderly Instruments. 
                         
                                               Ñ Jonathan E.
                                                  (Suggested by Jim Stockford)
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##A 14 31897 170
##T Elderly Instruments
Elderly Instruments

@@
Instrument Catalog, Book Catalog, Record Catalog, & Electric Guitars and Accessories Catalog free. International requests $2 each.
from:

Elderly Instruments
1100 North Washington
PO Box 14210
Lansing, MI 48901
517-372-7880
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##A 14 123330 173
##T The Guitar OwnerÕs Manual
The Guitar OwnerÕs Manual

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This John Muir publication tells you what to look for and what to avoid when buying an acoustic guitar.  It then tells you how to maintain it when itÕs yours.  ThereÕs a chapter on various tuning methods.  Simple repairs and adjustments are also covered along with basic PA amplification.  Electric guitars are given a brief overview. 

Will Martin has pitched this book at the absolute beginner as well as those with some background.  His tone is sympathetic and relaxed and he assumes you may know nothing.  But as for himself, 
heÕs obviously seen, heard and touched a lot of guitars, inside and out, in his lifetime.
                                 Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 123410 174
##T The Guitar OwnerÕs Manual
The Guitar OwnerÕs Manual

@@
(Buying, Repairing & Maintaining an Acoustic Guitar)
Will Martin
1983; 107 pp.
ISBN 0912528303
$6.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:

W. W. Norton
500 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10110
(800) 223-4830
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##A 14 304163 179
##T CHEAPEST SYNTHESIZERS
CHEAPEST SYNTHESIZERS

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The standing rule of thumb in electronic music is that having many really cheap synthesizers is better than having a single expensive one.  Richness and diversity in sound comes by the different ways in which each synthesizer computes a signal.  Yamaha uses FM ÑFrequency Modulation Ñ for its synthesizing function.  Casio uses PD ÑPhase Distortion.  Others use an ÒadditiveÓ algorithm.  Take a multitude of sources, blend them together, and youÕll get sound textured in the way real-life sounds are Ñ impure, uneven, rich.

Combining sound generators, thereÕs no reason to have a keyboard on each, so the cheapest synthesizer module doesnÕt.  It is the multi-timbral Yamaha FB-01 (about $350), roughly the size of a hardback book. Some music stores that cater to electronic
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##A 14 304996 181
##T CHEAPEST SYNTHESIZERS
CHEAPEST SYNTHESIZERS

@@
Yamaha FB-01
Information free  
from:

Yamaha Music Corporation USA
Digital Musical Instrument Division
Orangethorpe Avenue 
Buena Park, CA 90620
 
714-522-9011

Prices quoted in review are approximate.
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##A 14 221359 182
##T CHEAPEST SYNTHESIZERS
CHEAPEST SYNTHESIZERS

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Casio Synthesizers
Information free 
from:

EMP Inc.
Casio Distribution 
2915 South 160th Street 
New Berlin, WI 53151
800-558-4331
414-784-8388(WI)

Prices quoted in review are approximate.
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##A 14 40698 184
##T Musical Saw
Musical Saw

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I play saw.  ItÕs the easiest instrument to learn except maybe for kazoo  Ñ  you can get into it in a week or two well enough to show off.  People generally eat it up: ÒHey look . . . heÕs playing a SAW!Ó What I like best is being able to sit in on some good bluegrass (the slow numbers).  Hank Williams tunes are just right.  You can get together with other saw-ers and do barbershop harmony too.  Yes, you can probably play the saw you have hanging in the garage, but even the best of them (Sandvik or Disston) will only give you an octave or so.  This professional saw gets a good two octaves and sounds fine wailing along as harmony with a fiddle.  No particular skill needed except you have to be able to carry a tune.    

                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 14 40940 185
##T Musical Saw
Musical Saw

@@
 Tenor Musical Saw
$38.45 postpaid;
Complete package
(includes Saw, Instructions, Mallet, Bows, Case, and Tape):
$63 postpaid
Information free
from:

Mussehl & Westphal
1537 Beech Drive
East Troy, WI 53120
414-642-3649
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##A 14 191685 187
##T The Stick
The Stick

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Imagine an electric guitar; now, lose the body; widen the neck to accommodate a set of bass strings, and stretch the whole thing out to 5 1/2 octaves.  What you have is The Stick, the brainchild of jazz musician and inventor Emmett Chapman.  You play the Stick by tapping the strings against the instrumentÕs neck, piano-style, to produce an amazing variety of tones and sound textures.  A great advantage of the StickÕs two-handed playing technique is that it gives you complete freedom to play both the melody and bass parts simultaneously.  ChapmanÕs most recent innovations are 2 MIDI-compatible versions of the Stick, a 5 MIDI string model, and a full 10 MIDI string version.  Older models can be retrofitted by Stick Enterprises with MIDI pick-ups. 
                                                   Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 14 191979 188
##T The Stick
The Stick

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Suggested retail $1041. 
The new hybrid system with 5 MIDI strings is $1891; 
10 MIDI string version $2491. Brochure free from:

Stick Enterprises
8320 Yucca Trail 
Los Angeles, CA 90046
213-656-6878
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##A 14 188476 191
##T Roland D-50
Roland D-50



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Roland must have asked musicians exactly what they wanted in a synthesizer because the D-50 just about has it all: the ability to create new and different sounds, the realism of a sampler, built-in effects like Chorus, EQ and reverb, and a responsive keyboard. The D-50 uses an innovative Linear Arithmetic (LA) synthesizer to produce warm, analog-like tones; the D-50 also carries 100 sampled sounds in its memory; you can combine these with your synthesized sounds, or use them to construct realistic-sounding samples.  The D-50 is also easy to use (although you might not know it from looking at the ownerÕs manual).  Unlike FM synthesis, as on YamahaÕs DX-7, the D-50Õs LA synthesis allows you to create
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##A 14 190650 193
##T Roland D-50
Roland D-50

@@
 Suggested retail $2095 
(but available for much less at many independent music stores)
Catalog free from:

Roland Corp US
7200 Dominion Circle 
Los Angeles, CA 90040
213-685-5141
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##A 14 183153 197
##T Yamaha DX-7 II
Yamaha DX-7 II

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The DX7II is YamahaÕs answer to its own immensely successful DX7.  The most successful synthesizer in history, the DX7 put high quality sounds into a user affordable package.  This high quality/low cost combination was made possible by the use of FM synthesis.  The DX7IIÕs sounds are produced in the same way, but with 6 operators and 32 algorithms.  The DX7II will play the Original DX7 sounds, as well as the richer, more complex 6 operator sounds.  It has a 16 note polyphonic output and single, dual and split keyboard modes.  With the addition of the cost and quality which made the original DX7 such a great keyboard to the DX7IIÕs new features and better sounds, Yamaha may have created another classic.
Ù The Complete Yamaha DX7II Book                 Ñ Paul Blankinship
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##A 14 183400 198
##T Yamaha DX-7 II
Yamaha DX-7 II

@@
Information free 
from:

Yamaha Music Corporation, USA
6600 Orangethorpe Avenue
Buena Park, CA 90620

Two models available:
DXÑ7II D and
DXÑ7II FD.
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##A 14 169031 203
##T DIGITAL SAMPLERS
DIGITAL SAMPLERS

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One of the most astonishing musical innovations in decades is the digital sampler.  A sampler records any sound Ñ say, a clang of pots, or a cough, or a guitar strum on an old 78 Ñ and lets you play that sound across a keyboard in several octaves.  You can walk around the house recording what you find, or take stuff off TV commercials.  You probably wouldnÕt want to, but itÕs possible to play Bach on the cough.  Other fun things you can do include looping the sound so it plays back continuously (until youÕre loopy yourself) or reversing it to make your own back-masked Satanic messages.  Depending on your sampler, you can tweak the sound in the usual ways synthesizers do, by adding harmonics, or distorting    
 
 Ù Music Software
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##A 14 306311 208
##T DIGITAL SAMPLERS
DIGITAL SAMPLERS

@@
Casio Digital Samplers
Information free 
from:

EMP Inc.
Casio Distribution 
2915 South 160th St. 
New Berlin, WI 53151
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##A 14 227721 212
##T MIDI INTRODUCTION
MIDI INTRODUCTION

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by Rob Griffith

Electronic technology has given musicians powerful tools: among them synthesizers, sound samplers (devices which store sounds as digital information), sequencers, and editors (devices which store sequences of sounds and give the musician the ability to delete or add notes or parts, to play passages at various speeds, to change the order of parts, and to write compositions in step time and then play them back in real time).  However, in the early years each manufacturer had a different standard.  A Yamaha sequencer, for example, might not work properly to sequence a part played on a Roland synthesizer.  In order to allow various musical instruments
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##A 14 193415 224
##T MIDI INTRODUCTION
MIDI INTRODUCTION

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The International MIDI Association

from:

The International MIDI Association
11857 Hartsook Street
North Hollywood, CA 91607
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##A 14 167327 225
##T MIDI for Musicians
MIDI for Musicians

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This is the first, and still one of the best general introductions to MIDI technology.  It gives a brief history of electronic music technology, and explains why MIDI was needed.  If you were stranded on a desert island with a complete MIDI studio and could only have one book, this one would be a good choice.  The author is one of the most respected gurus of music technology, is the editor of Electronic Musician, and has written numerous books.  His style is clear and informative without being condescending.

                                                              Ñ Rob Griffith
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##A 14 167879 226
##T MIDI for Musicians
MIDI for Musicians

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Craig Anderton
1986; 105 pp.
ISBN 082562214X
$14.95 ($16.45 postpaid)
from:

Music Sales Corp.
Distribution Center
PO Box 572
Chester, NY 10918
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##A 14 194364 230
##T The MIDI Book
The MIDI Book

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The thing that sets this introductory MIDI book apart from the other similar books is that it contains exercises so that you can learn  not just the theory, but also get some hands on experience.  As anyone whoÕs worked with computers or music technology knows, one of the stumbling blocks to learning how to use equipment is that the manuals and literature are often very difficult to translate into understandable English.  This book is user friendly.  There are lots of clear diagrams, and the print is large and easy to read.

                                    Ñ Rob Griffith
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##A 14 194627 231
##T The MIDI Book
The MIDI Book

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(Using MIDI and Related Interfaces)
Steve De Furia and Joe Scacciaferro
1986; 5 pp.
ISBN 081885142
$14.95 
from:

Hal Leonard Books
8112 West Bluemound Road
PO Box 13819
Milwaukee, WI 53213
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##A 14 200605 236
##T Computer Literacy for Musicians
Computer Literacy for Musicians

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When I bought my first computer and started to play with MIDI, I made a lot of mistakes and lost hours of work because I didnÕt understand certain things about computers.  I wish this book had been available back then.  It covers all the general topics of MIDI and also reviews products and contains information about well known musicians who use computers in music.

                                                  Ñ Rob Griffith
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##A 14 200827 237
##T Computer Literacy for Musicians
Computer Literacy for Musicians

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Fred T. Hofstetter
1988; 400 pp.
ISBN 0131644777
$32 postpaid
from:

Prentice Hall
200 Old Tappan Rd.
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 14 198777 238
##T Music Through MIDI
Music Through MIDI

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This excellent introduction gives detailed descriptions of various aspects of the MIDI standard and how to use it.  It is more text and less diagram oriented than some of the other books, although there are plenty of illustrations.  The book also reviews a variety of MIDI products including computer systems.

                                            Ñ Rob Griffith

This book covers more background and a wider range than the other books.  It also profiles the MIDI setups of four professionals: on stage, in the studio, at Mills College, and a relatively low cost home system.  ThereÕs a handy list of manufacturersÕ addresses and their products.
                                             Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 199443 239
##T Music Through MIDI
Music Through MIDI

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Michael Boom
1987; 320 pp.
ISBN 1556150261
$19.95  ($21.95 postpaid)
from:

Microsoft Press
16011 N.E. 36th
Box 97017
Redmond, WA 98073-9717
206-882-8080
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##A 14 196307 244
##T The MIDI Reference Series
The MIDI Reference Series

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MIDI is designed to connect different pieces of equipment together in a relatively straightforward manner.  However, once youÕre into complex systems itÕs not quite as simple as just sticking one end of the cable in the in port and the other in the out port.  This series presents technical information for advanced MIDI users.

The MIDI Resource Book is the core of the series, containing the MIDI 1.0 Specification, a general overview of MIDI technical considerations, sample dump standards, and manufacturerÕs system exclusive formats.  It also tells you how to use this information so you can push MIDI to the limits.                                   

Not all MIDI devices offer all the features offered in the MIDI Specification.  The MIDI Implementation Book shows how MIDI is
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##A 14 198515 246
##T The MIDI Reference Series
The MIDI Reference Series

@@
The MIDI Resource Book
Steve De Furia and Joe Scacciaferro
1987; 148 pp.
ISBN 0881885878
$17.95 ($19.95 postpaid) 
from:

Hal Leonard Books
8112 West Bluemound Road
PO Box 13819
Milwaukee, WI 53213
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##A 14 196419 247
##T The MIDI Reference Series
The MIDI Reference Series

@@
The MIDI Implementation Book
Steve De Furia & Joe Scacciaferro
1986; 216 pp.
ISBN 0881885584
$19.95 ($21.95 postpaid)
from:

Hal Leonard Books
8112 West Bluemound Road
PO Box 13819
Milwaukee, WI 53213
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##A 14 194088 248
##T The MIDI Reference Series
The MIDI Reference Series

@@
The MIDI System Exclusive Book 
Steve De Furia and Joe Scacciaferro
1986; 360 pp.
ISBN 088188586X
$29.95 ($31.95 postpaid)
from:

Hal Leonard Books
8112 West Bluemound Road
PO Box 13819
Milwaukee, WI 53213
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##A 14 313619 256
##T Modern Recording Techniques
Modern Recording Techniques

@@

Arcane technical knowledge is not easily accessible when you start out trying to record something in high fidelity.  You can wade through the wisdom in this manual and come out with a stretched understanding of recording principles.  The book helps you do live recordings, or set up a studio.  I learned how to correctly place mikes for a live recording, and how discs are ÒcutÓ and Òpressed.Ó 
                                                            
                                                              Ñ Ramon Sender Barayon

For those with a serious interest in professional studio techniques and equipment.  Much discussion of hardware.  Disc manufacturing is well covered.
                                                              Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 313962 257
##T Modern Recording Techniques
Modern Recording Techniques

@@
Robert E. Runstein
and David Miles Huber
1986; 362 pp.
ISBN 0672224518
$24.95 ($27.45 postpaid)
from:

Howard W. Sams & Co.
4300 West 62nd Street
Indianapolis, IN 46268
800-428-3602
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##A 14 315144 262
##T How To Build A Small Budget Recording Studio
How To Build A Small Budget Recording Studio

@@
Frequently a home-based composer forgets to consider the environmental impact of his art until the neighbors begin pounding on the walls.  If you need complete acoustical isolation, this detailed manual covers everything you need to construct a recording studio.  Good discussion of preferred acoustical characteristics, although the writing style is that of a stiff, elderly English gent.  Designs for a home studio, garage multitrack, control room servicing two studios, and many more.  Even if you live in a rented space, this information could prove useful for isolating your studio from the neighborsÕ ears.
                                  Ñ Ramon Sender Barayon                                            

Includes equations for acoustical calculations, and has strong coverage of materials.                                          Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 315424 263
##T How To Build A Small Budget Recording Studio
How To Build A Small Budget Recording Studio

@@
F. Alton Everest and Mike Shea
2nd Edition 1988; 310 pp.
ISBN 0830629661
$14.95 postpaid 
from:

Tab Books
PO Box 40
Blue Ridge Summit, PA 
17294-0684
800-233-1128
717-794-2191 (PA & AK)
@@

##A 14 225963 268
##T Fostex X-30
Fostex X-30

@@

The two big names in cassette 4-tracks, the Tascam Porta One and the Fostex X-30, are pretty close in reliability, ease of use, and overall sound quality.  Since both recorders are about the same price, the significant differences are that, one, on the Fostex you can only record two tracks at a time (the Tascam lets you record four), and two, the Tascam uses DBX noise reduction, while Fostex uses Dolby (the X-30 has both Dolby B and C).

Because of this noise reduction distinction, I prefer Fostex.  The gripes over loss of sound quality with Dolby have been wildly exaggerated.  The biggest advantage to Dolby is that it is nearly
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##A 14 203202 270
##T Fostex X-30
Fostex X-30

@@
Information free  
from:

Fostex
15431 Blackburn Avenue 
Norwalk , CA 90650
213-921-1112
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##A 14 316851 273
##T TEAC Tascam PortaOne
TEAC Tascam PortaOne

@@
The heart of home recording is an inexpensive mixing and editing  setup.  There is an increasing number of mixers for sale that are based on cassettes.  I recommend the TEAC Tascam Porta One (for $450 street price; $549 list). 

You can record 4-tracks at once onto one normal cassette tape.  Or by systematically sweeping and mixing tracks, you get a poor 
manÕs 10-track mix with only two generations of recording on any one track.  Perfect for adding orchestration to a one-person band. All micro-multitrack equipment is more awkward to operate than the large pro machines, but, hey, you can do it all with cassettes.
                                                 
                                                               Ñ Ramon Sender Barayon
                                                              (Suggested by Ethan Gold)
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##A 14 317109 274
##T TEAC Tascam PortaOne
TEAC Tascam PortaOne

@@
Information free 
from:

TEAC
7733 Telegraph Road
Montebello, CA 90640
213-726-0303
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##A 14 311365 277
##T CODA
CODA

@@
An extraordinarily comprehensive mail-order source for music software.  Every conceivable program, interface, or electronic music package IÕve heard of, they have.  DonÕt know about their service.  The catalog is a visual knockout Ñ coffee-table quality Ñ and a steal for the price.  Order two because you will give one away.                                                        
                                                            Ñ Ramon Sender Barayon

They say theyÕll beat any advertised price on any product they feature.  New releases that didnÕt make it into this annually produced catalog will be available as released.  Call their 800 number for details.
                                                             Ñ Jonathan E.
 Ù Mix Bookshelf
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##A 14 311760 278
##T CODA
CODA

@@
(The New Music
Software Catalog)
$4 from:

Wenger Corporation
Music Learning Division
PO Box 448
Owatonna, MN 55060
800-843-1337
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##A 14 206046 281
##T Listen!
Listen!

@@

One of the hardest things about learning to read and play music is to take ideas like ÒF SharpÓ or ÒFlatted FifthÓ and turn them into sounds in your head.  Listen! software is designed to help you do just that with a series of simple exercises that help you learn to recognize basic chords, intervals and melodies.  To keep from getting bored, you can change the level of difficulty on any of the exercises at any time.  Listen! will play through the sound chip built into your Macintosh, and since itÕs MIDI-compatible you can  use it to trigger an external sound-source to create a terrific music learning lab.
                                                           
                              Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 14 206165 282
##T Listen!
Listen!

@@
Version 2.0; copy-protected. 
$99  from:

Resonate
PO Box 996
Menlo Park, CA 94026
415-323-5022
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##A 14 312096 283
##T Jam Session ¥ Studio Session
Jam Session ¥ Studio Session

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I became a photographer because I was fascinated by painting yet never had the disciplined drawing skill that a good painter requires.  I discovered that photography gave me the technical means to do what painters do Ñ play around with compositions, moods, visual details, and paint with light.  I could do the same with a little black box.

Undisciplined fingers have kept me from mastering any musical instrument as well.  Yet recently, for the first time in my life, I played something that actually sounded like improvised music.  I owe my glory to Jam Session, a remarkable computer-assisted
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##A 14 313065 287
##T Jam Session ¥ Studio Session
Jam Session ¥ Studio Session

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Jam Session

Copyprotected; Macintosh
$49.95 from:

Br¿derbund
P.O. Box 12947
San Rafael, Ca 94913-2947
415-3500
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##A 14 246828 288
##T Jam Session ¥ Studio Session
Jam Session ¥ Studio Session

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Studio Session

Version 1.2U
Not copy-protected
Macintosh 512 K, Plus, Se
$89.95 from:

Bogas Productions
415-332-6427
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##A 14 308680 289
##T Professional Composer ¥ Performer
Professional Composer ¥ Performer

@@

WouldnÕt it be lovely to noodle around on a keyboard and, when you had a little tune you liked, capture it into a musical score which could be altered or printed out?  Or maybe do it the other way around.  Noodle around with notes on a score, and then have it played out in sound, perhaps with a full choir of instruments?

Two software pieces, working in tandem, make this a home job.

Composer lets you write out a score, modify it, store it, and print it out via your Macintosh.  You can also ÒmonitorÓ a piece you composed as the Mac will play a simplified version of the melody.
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##A 14 309017 291
##T Professional Composer ¥ Performer
Professional Composer ¥ Performer

@@
Professional Composer
Version 2.0
 copy-protected.
$495 from:

Mark of the Unicorn

(Call 617-576-2760 to find local dealer information)
@@

##A 14 166009 292
##T Professional Composer ¥ Performer
Professional Composer ¥ Performer

@@
Performer
Version 2;
 copy-protected.
$395 from:

Mark of the Unicorn

(Call 617-576-2760 to find local dealer information)
@@

##A 14 210068 293
##T Alchemy
Alchemy

@@
Alchemy allows your sampler to cut, copy, paste, insert, reverse, and mix samples and sample fragments, and its looping feature is more powerful and easier to use than any other piece of software 
IÕve worked with.  Alchemy also allows you to edit waveforms by reducing samples to their harmonic components.  Or you can start from scratch and synthesize a whole new sound by creating your own harmonic series.  If you have more than one sampler, Alchemy can act as a central library for samples and allow you to play all of your sounds on all of the supported samplers.  Another nice feature of this program is the ability to create stereo sound files, which may consist of either actual stereo sampled sounds, or hand-built stereo images.  AlchemyÕs power, combined with its fast and easy-to-use resynthesis features, makes it almost essential for anyone with a sampler and a Macintosh!           Ñ Paul Blankinship
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##A 14 210254 294
##T Alchemy
Alchemy

@@
Copy-protected 
Macintosh 512K, Plus, SE. 
$495  from:

Blank Software
1477 Folsom Street 
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-863-9224
@@

##A 14 122425 303
##T MacRecorder
MacRecorder

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Snag a fleeting sound and turn it into digits.  Handy Macintosh flavored digits.  The advantages of capturing sounds on the Mac is the ease with which they can be edited and shuffled into sound tracks.

MacRecorder is a little gizmo that lets you take a sound from a live or prerecorded source and put it into a Macintosh file to fiddle with.  The software part displays what youÕve captured as a soundgram.  You edit by manipulating the visual pattern, which is easy to learn, accurate to control, and tremendously satisfying to do.  WhatÕs hard to hear, you can see.  ItÕs one way to own your own digital sound archive.
                                                                  Ñ Kevin Kelly
Ù DIGITAL SAMPLERS
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##A 14 208156 304
##T MacRecorder
MacRecorder

@@
  
$199 retail at most computer software stores 
Information free from:

Farallon Computing, Inc.,
2150 Kittredge Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
415-849-2331
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##A 14 214388 307
##T New Musical Express
New Musical Express

@@

After all these years NME still rules as the essential weekly international guide to youth and pop culture.  Irreverent and world-weary coverage of music, music news, video, books, ideas, and politics alternates with blind enthusiasm for the latest thing just so long as it is the latest thing.  Gasbag letters and catty gossip bring up the rear.  DonÕt forget your hype detector, but thereÕs nothing else even close.

                                                                             Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 214684 308
##T New Musical Express
New Musical Express

@@
$97/year (52 issues)
from:

NME
Publications Expediting Inc.
200 Meacham Avenue
Elmont, NY 11003
800-233-6357
516-352-7300(NY)
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##A 14 14047 313
##T OPTION
OPTION





@@

No  longer funky, OPTIONÕs eclectic adventurousness in covering music from just about anywhere, alternative or mainstream, is stimulating.  A slight college radio rock bias is evident more in the ads than the editorial, which does a pretty good job of being color blind.  Beefy features and many mid-length reviews of both independent and major-label releases make OPTION the up-and-coming contender to be the successor to Rolling Stone.  As major labels buy more and more into the so-called alternative, this might yet be the wave of the future.  Deja vu, anyone?

                                   Ñ Jonathan E. & Richard Kadrey
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##A 14 16939 314
##T OPTION
OPTION


@@
Richie Unterberger, Editor
ISSN 0882178X
$15/year(6 issues)
from:

Sonic Options Network, Inc.
2345 Westwood Blvd.
Suite 2
Los Angeles, CA 90064
213- 474-2600
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##A 14 85270 318
##T Puncture
Puncture

@@

Puncture has about the most complete U.S. coverage of the Australian and New Zealand rock scenes, but also reports on interesting non-mainstream musical goings on up here in an intelligent, selective,  and distinctive way.  The coverage has lately expanded to include artistic endeavours beyond the field of music, such as photography and books (not just  music books).  There are still plenty of record and show reviews of the rock underground with a sprinkling of reggae and African.  I like the way it has managed to combine fanzine spirit with high production standards.  

                Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 85750 319
##T Puncture
Puncture

@@
Katherine Spielmann, Editor
$12/year (6 issues) 
from:

Puncture
1674 Filbert Street #3
San Francisco, CA 94123
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##A 14 78299 323
##T Maximum RockÕnÕRoll
Maximum RockÕnÕRoll

@@

Politically aware punk.  ThereÕs an enormous amount of energy in this magazine.  Their coverage of the punk scene is thorough and enthusiastic.  Most articles, reviews, and scene reports come direct from the readers.  The letters page is a forum for mass debate.  Topics of concern for the young and alienated, such as AIDS and police harrassment, are discussed in a no-holds-barred fashion.  Music coverage is pure punk with no tolerance for bands promoting racial hate or other social evils.  This magazine really lives and believes what it writes about.

                                                      Ñ Richard Kadrey  & Jonathan E.
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##A 14 78504 324
##T Maximum RockÕnÕRoll
Maximum RockÕnÕRoll

@@
$9 (6 issues) 
Single issue $1.50
from:

Maximum RockÕnÕRoll
PO Box 288
Berkeley, CA 94701
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##A 14 81196 326
##T Rock and Roll Confidential
Rock and Roll Confidential

@@

An eight-page newsletter somewhere between a trade and a consumer publication for those who believe that rock is the cultural climax of Western civilization.  Attempts to provide some social conscience for the mainstream rockÕnÕroll industry, and those who wish they were in it, but who are still calling themselves ÒalternativeÓ this year.  Spends a lot of time dealing with the race and the censorship issues in rock, with good grassroots information.  Comes complete with insider news, philosophical considerations of new technologies, brief reviews of selected current releases, reading tips, and (re)considerations of the careers of rockÕs greats.

                                              Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 81476 327
##T Rock and Roll Confidential
Rock and Roll Confidential

@@
Dave Marsh, Editor.
ISSN 08919372
$21/year (12 issues) 
from:

Rock and Roll Confidential
PO Box 1073
Maywood , NJ 07607
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##A 14 82276 330
##T Goldmine
Goldmine

@@

Not quite as packed with eye-straining ads as in previous years 
(the type is bigger!), Goldmine is still the place for serious vinyl collectors, record junkies, and rockÕnÕroll memorabilia hounds.  The editorial is beefed up with pieces on music greats and not-so-greats, vintage and contemporary.  There are reviews of some current releases and musical news.

                                   Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 82441 331
##T Goldmine
Goldmine

@@
Jeff Tamarkin, Editor
ISSN 87502577
$35/year (26 issues) 
from:

Krause Publications
700 East State Street
Iola, WI 54990
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##A 14 22588 334
##T Sound Choice
Sound Choice

@@
To quote from a readerÕs letter to the editor:  ÒKeep up your rantings, ravings and diatribes.  I like it.  A publication with balls and an editor to scratch Õem.  Only radicals (even if theyÕre marxist-oriented cassette-mongers) make a difference.Ó

Another letter:  ÒIf I havenÕt advertised in your magazine itÕs because I think youÕre not interested in even basic standards of writing and/or production.  I donÕt owe you a living.Ó

Sound Choice has reviews of independently produced cassettes and records in a wide range of genres from Vassar Clements thruÕ Creedence Clearwater Revival to Controlled Bleeding.
(Warning: their publication schedule is pretty erratic.)
                                                                 Ñ Jonathan E.
@@

##A 14 23587 335
##T Sound Choice
Sound Choice

@@
David Ciaffardini, Editor
ISSN 87568176
$10/year(4 issues)
from:

Audio Evolution Network
PO Box 1251
Ojai, CA 93023
805-646-6814
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##A 14 212528 341
##T Pulse!
Pulse!

@@

Anything megastore Tower sells, Pulse! will cover.  That means new releases in just about every genre, including country, opera, contemporary Christian, and schlock pop crooning Ñ even avant-garde and rockÕnÕroll.  Reviews tend to be informational rather than critical.  Also short news sections from towns and genres, and features on both well-established and up-and-coming artists. Good surveys of the best recordings in different genres from TowerÕs buyers.  The most entertaining part, however, is their on-going readersÕ letters describing their Desert Island Discs.  ItÕll teach you to be real careful about who you get stranded with.

                                                                           Ñ Jonathan E.
Ù Musical Culture
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##A 14 216170 342
##T Pulse!
Pulse!

@@
Mike Farrace, Editor
$29.95/year (12 issues)
$19.95/year for Third Class
from:

Tower RecordsÕ Pulse!
2500 Del Monte Street
Bldg. ÔCÕ
West Sacramento, CA 95691
916-373-2450
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##A 14 26356 346
##T Ear
Ear

@@

Nothing even comes close to covering the progressive New Music scene the way Ear does.  Whether itÕs the HubÕs musical computer interface or Nicholas CollinsÕ improvisational sabotage of found radio signals Ear is there.  Most issues have a focus such as World Beat, accordions, or revolutionary song.  Regular articles on New Music pioneers as well as varied record reviews round out this excellent magazine.  They also collaborate with The New Music Distribution Service to produce an annual review/catalog.

                                                               Ñ Richard Kadrey


Ù New Music Distribution Service
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##A 14 29138 347
##T Ear
Ear

@@
(Magazine of New Music)
Carol Tuynman, Editor and Publisher
ISSN 07342128
$20/year(10 issues)
$40 institutions and foreign.  
from:

Ear Magazine
325 Spring Street
Room 208
New York, NY 10013
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##A 14 67723 352
##T The Reggae and African Beat
The Reggae and African Beat

@@

Committed to the spirit behind the music as well as to the musical style.  Heavy on features and comment.  Their reviews have become much more reliable.  They have branched out to cover other forms of Afro-Caribbean music such as Zouk and Haitian, while Jimmy HoriÕs ÒLand Of A Thousand DancesÓ column stretches to hip-hop.  Their recent airing of the problems behind the scenes in reggae was a welcome and long-needed blast of truth in a genre often dominated by self-serving, hypocritical falsehoods.  In a field notorious for its low standards The Reggae And African Beat stands out as a constantly striving and improving leader.
                     
                                                                     Ñ Jonathan E.
Ù World Beat and Reggae
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##A 14 67968 353
##T The Reggae and African Beat
The Reggae and African Beat

@@
C. C. Smith, Editor
$9.95/year (6 issues) 
from:

Bongo Productions
PO Box 29820
Los Angeles, CA 90029
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##A 14 83284 358
##T JazzTimes
JazzTimes

@@

News and reviews from the jazz world.  This is a magazine with a nice grass-roots feel.  ItÕs clearly put together by people who know and love jazz.  Full of information from jazz scenes around the country.
            
                   Ñ Jonathan E.






Ù Blues and Jazz
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##A 14 83679 359
##T JazzTimes
JazzTimes

@@
David Zych, Editor
$10/year (12 issues) 
from:

JazzTimes Magazine
8055 13th Street
Suite 312
Silver Spring, MD 20910-4803
301-588-4114
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##A 14 79146 362
##T down beat
down beat

@@

Now in its 55th year, this jazz-based glossy covers an interesting  range of progressive and rootsy contemporary musics.  A good blend of well-established and up-and-coming artists.  Their full-length record reviews are detailed, knowledgeable, and include extensive player credits.  There are also many briefer reviews, some coverage of professional products, and a ÒBlindfold TestÓ column where a musician gets to pass comment on his peersÕ recordings.
            
                  Ñ Jonathan E.


Ù Black Music of Two Worlds
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##A 14 79400 363
##T down beat
down beat

@@
John Ephland, Managing Editor
ISSN 00125768
$18/year (12 issues) 
from:

down beat
180 West Park Avenue
Elmhurst, IL 60126
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##A 14 84263 367
##T Living Blues
Living Blues

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Strictly blues.  Lots of record reviews, interviews with blues survivors, and obituaries of bygone bluesmen.  This publication reflects an era when the bedrock of modern pop was laid down by  musicians and poets expressing the hard facts about black life.  A time when blacks moved from rural sharecropping poverty to industrial servitude in the factories of the North.  

Much of what we take for granted today in pop music has a basis in that major shift of population.  This shift is also responsible for many of the changes seen in American society over the past 25 years.  Living Blues shows the human faces behind these phenomena as well as providing current news on blues artists.                                                     

 Ù Blues and Jazz                                                 Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 84681 368
##T Living Blues
Living Blues

@@
Peter Lee, Editor
ISSN 00245232
$18/year (6 issues)
from:

Living Blues Magazine
University of Mississippi 
Center for the Study of Southern Culture University, MS 38677
601-232-5993
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##A 14 31174 371
##T Unsound
Unsound

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In their own words: ÒUnsound is focused onto the hard edge of experimental art and music Ñ the edge that most consider subversive.Ó  Unfortunately, this dangerous little magazine isnÕt published anymore, but you can get copies of individual back issues for from $1 to $3 each, or a complete set for $60.  Write for a list of available issues.

                                              Ñ Richard Kadrey




Ù CASSETTES
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##A 14 74636 372
##T Unsound
Unsound

@@
William Davenport, Editor
Back issues $1 and $3 
from:

Unsound
PO Box 883202
San Francisco, CA 94188-3202
415-626-5017
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##A 14 33775 378
##T Experimental Musical Instruments
Experimental Musical Instruments

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EMI is subtitled ÒNewsletter For The Design, Construction And Enjoyment Of New Sound SourcesÓ and that is exactly the ground it covers.  The emphasis is on acoustic and electro-acoustic musical instruments, including older unfamiliar musical devices as well as new creations, rather than sound synthesis or found-sound experimentation.  Every issue concentrates on several ingenious and fascinating instruments with close attention to construction details and the sounds produced.  So you can really get the idea, EMI annually produces a cassette tape featuring the instruments covered in the previous year.  The music is wildly diverse: 
Òraucous, peaceful, beautiful, ugly, weird & familiar by turns and sometimes all at once.Ó  
                                                    Ñ Jonathan E.
Ù Building Instruments                 (Suggested by Roger Hoffman)
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##A 14 33815 379
##T Experimental Musical Instruments
Experimental Musical Instruments

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Bart Hopkin, Editor
ISSN 08830754
$20/year(6 issues)
Tapes $6 each to subscribers, $8.50 to non-subscribers. 
from:

Experimental Musical Instruments
PO Box 784
Nicasio, CA 94946
415-663-1718
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##A 14 222826 382
##T Keyboard
Keyboard

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Keyboard is the most comprehensive magazine dealing with keyboards and music.  It contains tutorials in classical, jazz, rock and other piano and keyboard styles as well as articles about music technology, interviews with musicians and music technicians, and product reviews.  Every issue also has a 
ÒSoundpage,Ó a record of a virtuoso keyboardist with copious notes to help you analyze the performance.

                                                                  Ñ Rob Griffith

Of course, much MIDI coverage these days.

 Ù MIDI                                                     Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 223085 383
##T Keyboard
Keyboard

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Dominic Milano, Editor
ISSN 07300158
$23.95/year (12 issues)
from:

Keyboard Magazine
Subscription Dept.
20085 Stevens Creek
Cupertino, CA 95014-9967
408-446-1105
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##A 14 221492 388
##T Music Technology
Music Technology

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DonÕt let the famous faces on the cover of each issue fool you.  This is a magazine about the theory and technologies that helped to create the music the face on the cover is famous for, whether  itÕs Brian Eno talking about destablizing his DX7 or Steve Reich talking about his new-found respect for samplers.  Informative product reviews and a lively letters column round out this fine magazine.
               
                                                                          Ñ Richard Kadrey

Rather than focusing on music itself, this magazine is oriented towards the new technology that is being developed to create and
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##A 14 221899 390
##T Music Technology
Music Technology

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Bob OÕDonnell, Editor
ISSN 08962480
$34.50/year (12 issues) 
from:

Music Maker Publications, Inc.
22024 Lassen Street
Suite 118
Chatsworth, CA 91311
818-407-0744
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##A 14 219666 394
##T Electronic Musician
Electronic Musician

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You want to know what Prince wore to the Grammys?  Look somewhere else.  The emphasis here is on equipment.  WhatÕs new in MIDI.  WhatÕs good; whatÕs not.  Lots of useful information on recording, performing and instrument modifications for the working musician.
                           
                            Ñ Richard Kadrey

Like other magazines dedicated to electronic music, this magazine contains informative articles and hardware and software reviews, but the thing I especially like about it is the Do-It-Yourself 

Ù The Art of Electronic Music
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##A 14 220199 396
##T Electronic Musician
Electronic Musician

@@
Craig Anderton, Editor-in-Chief
ISSN 08844720
$22/year (12 issues)
from:

Electronic Musician
PO Box 3747
Escondido, CA 92025-9860
800-334-8152
800-255-3302 (CA)
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##A 14 218523 399
##T Home and Studio Recording
Home and Studio Recording

@@

Aimed squarely at the budget-minded home recordist, this magazine has a great approach to equipment reviews.  Honest opinions on quality, application and comparative value; not just a rehash of the manufacturerÕs press release.  They review the gear thatÕs roughly in my price range and always include the list price.

Realistic how-to articles including studio construction, recording techniques and equipment maintenance are also included.  A regular column gives technical and artistic reviews of readersÕ tapes, and there are features on the home studios of famous musicians and producers.

Ù RECORDING & COMPUTING
@@

##A 14 218647 401
##T Home and Studio Recording
Home and Studio Recording

@@
Amy Ziffer, Editor
ISSN 08967172
$35.40/year (12 issues)
from:

Music Maker Publications, Inc.
22024 Lassen Street
Suite 118
Chatsworth, CA 91311
818-407-0744
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##A 14 217265 404
##T Music, Computers and Software
Music, Computers and Software

@@

If youÕre interested in playing music with synthesizers or  samplers, but still think that MIDI is just an ugly dress from the 60Õs, then you need this magazine.  Music, Computers & Software is a glossy monthly (recently upgraded from their old bi-monthly schedule) devoted to exploring the interface of music and computers, concentrating on how Òmusicians have embraced technology and made it a very human thing.Ó 

Each issue of Music, Computers & Software contains practical information on using MIDI technology, as well as reviews of new electronic music software and hardware.  Recent issues have
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##A 14 217431 406
##T Music, Computers and Software
Music, Computers and Software

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Bill Stephen, Editor
ISSN 08866228
$21/year (12 issues) 
from:

Music, Computers & Software
PO  Box  625 
Northport, NY 11768
516-673-3241
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##A 14 309848 409
##T Computers & Music Quarterly
Computers & Music Quarterly

@@

Industry news and gossip in an ad-free, opinionated, desktop-published environment.  Detailed hints on software and hardware testing and purchasing followed by short, straight-forward reviews of new software for all major brands.  Use as a supplement to the other publications.
                                                    
                                                           Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 310196 410
##T Computers & Music Quarterly
Computers & Music Quarterly

@@
Joe West, Editor
$20/year(4 issues)
from:

Computers & Music
1989 Junipero Serra Blvd.
Daly City, CA 94014
415-994-2909
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##A 14 162969 413
##T Computer Music Journal
Computer Music Journal

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The international experts cover serious computer music in this quarterly.  Upcoming symposiums and scholarly dialogue on the latest systems and techniques.  Good reviews of the newest products and publications.  Sometimes includes a special soundsheet or flexi-disc with examples of some wonderful music. There is no more authoritative place to get information on the subject.
             
             Ñ Tim Ennis

This magazine takes the advanced and theoretical approach to computer music.
                          Ñ Rob Griffith
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##A 14 163081 414
##T Computer Music Journal
Computer Music Journal

@@
Curtis Roads, Editor
ISSN 01489267
$26/year(4 issues)
from:

MIT Press Journals Dept.
28 Carleton Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
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##A 14 484084 420
##T RECORDINGS BY MAIL INTRODUCTION
RECORDINGS BY MAIL INTRODUCTION

@@


            Ñ Taj Mahal.

We are living in an exciting age for musical listening pleasure.  The currents of contemporary cultural trade bring us a greater choice of music in recorded form than ever before; from all sorts of American roots-based music to newly created genres and hybrids to traditional and modern styles from virtually every corner of the world.  But only a tiny percentage of it can be found in your local neighborhood record store, or even in a large metropolitan mega-store.  Mail-order companies are, as usual, 
the solution.  There are record labels who sell only their own




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##A 14 41387 431
##T Down Home Music, Inc.
Down Home Music, Inc.

@@

Down Home present a wide range of records from just about all over the world; they are especially strong in vintage American music re-releases but wherever your home is they probably have something from there.

Their quarterly newsletter has an abundance of knowledgeable and honest reviews as well as short listings of new releases in these categories: Blues & Gospel; Rhythm & Blues, Soul & Doo-Wop; Vintage RockÕnÕRoll & Rockabilly; Country & Western; Bluegrass & Old Timey; American Folk Music; British, Irish & European Folk; Ethnic Music; Dance Bands, Vocalists & Personalities; and Jazz. Every issue has a number of well-chosen special offers that allow
@@

##A 14 42869 433
##T Down Home Music, Inc.
Down Home Music, Inc.

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$4 requested for 1 year
Blues & Gospel Catalog: $5
Vintage RockÕn Roll Catalog: $5
Country Music Catalog: $5
from:

Down Home Music
10341 San Pablo Avenue
El Cerrito , CA 94530
415-525-1494
@@

##A 14 330596 537
##T Ladyslipper
Ladyslipper

@@

The contributions women have made to music have often been shuffled aside or under-rated in the past.  The full range of their abilities has not been recognized.  To add to the insult the mainstream music industry has still not figured out how to promote and sell music made by women without all too often making them into sex-bimbos.  Ladyslipper have taken the situation in hand with their ear-opening service. 

There are Comedy, New Age, Holiday, Classical, Reggae, Calypso, Punk, New Wave, Rock, Girl Groups, Soul, R & B, Disco, Blues, Jazz, Gospel, Folk, Traditional,  African, Arabic, Middle Eastern, Asian, Pacific, European, Latin American, New Song, Native American,
@@

##A 14 331244 539
##T Ladyslipper
Ladyslipper

@@
Catalog free from:

Ladyslipper
PO Box 3130
Durham, NC 27705
800-634-6044
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##A 14 351217 562
##T Roundup Records
Roundup Records

@@

Rounder Records is one of the leading labels in the continuing availability and new release of roots-based musics.  However, they canÕt do the job on their own and so Roundup Records, their mail-order operation, makes other labels available.  The Roundup Records 1987 Artist Catalog and Supplement between them list over 16,000 titles from the full range of vernacular musics on over 350 independent labels, both domestic and imported. 

The Record Roundup, their bimonthly update contains lengthy, unflinching reviews and updates on new releases.  They also have a particularly good selection of cut-outs at attractive prices.

                                                                          Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 351333 563
##T Roundup Records
Roundup Records

@@
By Third Class Mail
Free to customers
$5/year for non-customers
By First Class Mail
$6/year to all

1987 Artist Catalog and Supplement $2

from:

Roundup Records
PO Box 154
North Cambridge, MA  02140
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##A 14 425963 602
##T Alcazar
Alcazar


@@

Alcazar is a ten-year-old company specializing in independent label recordings.  Folk is their prime emphasis, but they also carry Celtic, reggae, blues, Cajun, new age, gospel, international, and classical records.  They have an especially healthy childrenÕs selection, including videos.  Whilst they have a strong commitment to good old fashioned vinyl, they also recognize new developments such as CDs and have an extensive selection.  Books on folk music are a strong department.  Being from Vermont, thereÕs also a special Made In Vermont section.
                                                   
                                                    Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 425990 603
##T Alcazar
Alcazar


@@
Alcazar Review  
$8/year(12 issues) 
from:

Alcazar Records
PO Box 429
Dept. 418
Waterbury, VT 05676
802-244-8657
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##A 14 329521 607
##T Express Music Catalog
Express Music Catalog


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Quite simply Express offers everything in print in the U.S. in any format that is available.  You can order by mail, use their 800 number, use your television and touch-tone phone if you subscribe to Teleaction in the Chicago area, or order through CompuServe, Comp-U-Mall, or the Quantum Link Network.  Their catalog and monthly updates will help keep you up to date with reviews and listings of new releases, although they are not strong on non-mainstream coverage.  You can order new releases on the day of release.  They have lots of special offers and also carry videos, blank tapes, and playback equipment. 

                                                         Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 329837 608
##T Express Music Catalog
Express Music Catalog


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$6/year 
(refundable with first purchase) 
from:

Express Music Catalog
50 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
800-233-6357
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##A 14 339889 609
##T New Music Distribution Service
New Music Distribution Service

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ÒThe New Music Distribution Service distributes all independently produced recordings of new music regardless of commercial potential or personal taste.  A wealth of new music is being created in the areas of jazz, classical, and rock, as well as outside of any clearly delineated experimental categories.  Because of its generally uncommercial nature, this music has had minimal representation in the music industry.  Independent record production and distribution may be the only way for musicians to maintain artistic and economic control of their work.Ó  All true.  Their catalog is full of recordings from hundreds of independent labels, all with an informative description.  NMDS is an extremely important resource in the alternative world.

 Ù Ear                                                           Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 340215 610
##T New Music Distribution Service
New Music Distribution Service

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Catalog free from:

Jazz ComposerÕs Orchestra Association
500 Broadway
New York, NY 10012
212-925-2121
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##A 14 429079 666
##T Carthage Records
Carthage Records


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Carthage and its sister label, Hannibal, are two of the most adventurous and eclectic independent labels around. 

As well as re-releasing pretty much all the Fairport Convention and all their off-shootsÕ recordings, they have made forays into Jazz, African, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Legendary Greats, Gospel, Nick Drake, the Incredible String Band, Tex-Mex Punk, and whatever youÕd call the HitchhikerÕs Guide To The Galaxy. 

Their South African and Zimbabwean selection is particularly good. They also have naughty sounding childrenÕs records, probably the
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##A 14 429476 668
##T Carthage Records
Carthage Records


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Catalog free from:

Carthage Records
PO Box 667
Rocky Hill, NJ  08553
800-367-8699
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##A 14 441519 689
##T Folkways Records ¥ Smithsonian Institution
Folkways Records ¥ Smithsonian Institution

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Folkways was an American recording legend even while Moses Asch, the founder and owner, was alive.  He recorded virtually everything and everybody including Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly doing childrenÕs songs, a vast array of traditional ethnic musics from around the world, some modern ethnic musics, classical, language instruction, a science series, ragtime, electronic music, Americana, jazz, and high school bands.  He built a collection of 2,153 titles and never let any go out of print, however few they might have sold. 

The Smithsonian became responsible for Moses AschÕs archives after his death while the Birch Tree Group took over the
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##A 14 442040 691
##T Folkways Records ¥ Smithsonian Institution
Folkways Records ¥ Smithsonian Institution

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Catalog free 
from:

Folkways Records ¥ Smithsonian Institution
Division of Birch Tree Group Ltd.
180 Alexander Street
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-683-0090
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##A 14 402016 695
##T Gold Castle
Gold Castle

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Gold Castle release new recordings from musicians whose careers have been derailed by the mainstream industryÕs obsession with newer, younger, flashier stars, and their gotta-sell-20%-more-with-every-release money fever.  They have found an effective way to keep producing new music from such favorites as Peter, Paul & Mary and Joan Baez who still have plenty of musical mileage in them but donÕt play the Hollywood games required by the night crawlers of major labels.  New folk-rock artists such as The Washington Squares and Eliza Gilkyson, as well as the highly committed song-writer Bruce Cockburn, are also featured. 

                                                                       Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 402416 696
##T Gold Castle
Gold Castle

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Brochure free 
from:

Gold Castle Records
PO Box 2568N
Hollywood, CA  90078
213-850-3321
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##A 14 2612 704
##T Redwood Records
Redwood Records

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Redwood began life fifteen years ago as a mail-order distributor for Holly NearÕs records.  Over the years, it has become a much larger concern without ever losing sight of its important social, political, and cultural roles.  All of RedwoodÕs artists could be described as socially progressive, and many are explicitly feminist.  Their styles are quite varied, with particular strength in folk/rock and Central American styles.  Here is a record company that believes strongly that music should be used to effect positive change, both in the hearts of the listeners and in society at large.  

                                                              Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 119610 705
##T Redwood Records
Redwood Records

@@
Catalog free
from:

Redwood Records
6400 Hollis Street
Emeryville, CA 94608
415-428-9191
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##A 14 120724 711
##T Windham Hill Records
Windham Hill Records

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DonÕt call them NEW AGE!  They may have pioneered that genre, but they have continually developed in ways that make it unfair to pigeonhole them that way.  Their series of recordings and videos  for children are particularly adventurous with ingenious pairings of performers collaborating on childhood classics: Robin Williams with Ry Cooder, Cher with Patrick Ball, Jack Nicholson with Bobby McFerrin, Meryl Streep with George Winston, and others.  Jazz is an increasingly strong line for them, while their Dancing Cat series is an assorted collection of idiosyncratic recordings that defies easy categorization, ranging from Bola SeteÕs Brazilian flavorings to one of Professor LonghairÕs best records.  And you donÕt get more rockÕnÕroll than that!
                                                        Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 121438 712
##T Windham Hill Records
Windham Hill Records

@@
Newsletter and catalog free 
from:

Windham Hill Records
PO Box 9388 
Stanford, CA 94309
415-329-0647
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##A 14 124509 728
##T Educational Activities
Educational Activities

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Educational Activities produce their own materials, and carry a large range of childrenÕs recordings from other sources.  They have a special catalog for the early childhood years with plenty of records, cassettes, videos, filmstrips, books, and software designed to help children learn perceptual motor skills, how to deal with difficult social situations, such as being followed by a stranger, or how to recognize danger around the home from drugs or poisons left about.

                                 Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 124900 729
##T Educational Activities
Educational Activities

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Catalog free
from:

Educational Activities, Inc.
PO Box 87
Baldwin, NY 11510
800-645-3739
516-223-4666(NY)
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##A 14 185270 739
##T Educational Record Center
Educational Record Center

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On long car and plane trips with our kids, IÕve found nothing beats a pair of headphones and a cassette player loaded with tapes from a source like this.  The Educational Record Center covers the world of childrenÕs literature with records and cassettes, readalongs 
(book plus recordings), filmstrips and videos.

                                                                       Ñ Andrea Sharp
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##A 14 187001 740
##T Educational Record Center
Educational Record Center

@@
Catalog free 
from:

Educational Record Center, Inc.
Building 400, Suite 400
1575 Northside Dr., N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30318
404-352-8282
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##A 14 125739 744
##T Kimbo
Kimbo

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Kimbo have lots of recordings to help children learn movement, dance, and music, with special emphasis placed on other cultures and older forms like square and circle dances.  Some of these exercise albums are also suggested for seniors.  Much of their material is produced by themselves, but they also carry other educational and recreational childrenÕs recordings, including videos, filmstrips, and readalongs.

                                                      Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 126086 745
##T Kimbo
Kimbo

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Catalog free
from:

Kimbo Educational
PO Box 477F
Long Branch, NJ 07740
201-229-4949
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##A 14 416208 751
##T Global Pacific Records
Global Pacific Records

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Global Pacific releases varied New Age/Neo-Classical material, available directly from the label as well as through Backroads.  There is a double-length  sampler, The Fruits Of Our Labor, available on LP, cassette, or CD to help acquaint you at full musical length with the melody.

All LPs and cassettes $9.98 plus $1 P&H. CDs $15.98.

                                                               Ñ Jonathan E.



Ù Backroads Distributors
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##A 14 416280 752
##T Global Pacific Records
Global Pacific Records

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Catalog free 
from:

Global Pacific Records
80 East Napa Street
Sonoma, CA 95476
707-996-2748
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##A 14 397993 758
##T Eurock
Eurock

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Eurock offers a fascinating array of mostly European, mostly unfamiliar, and mostly (dread phrase) progressive rock.  There are interesting offerings in an advanced electronic vein from such unfamiliar places as Mexico and Chile.  Many of the names are not seen elsewhere, and they provide a refreshing and different view from the American one on such genres as New Age.  The magazine contains interviews with musicians as well as lots of reviews and trenchant political commentary.  Editor Archie Patterson manages to breathe life back into what had seemed a moribund musical field.  Everything is put together with style, personality and vision, and the magazine cover is graced with Dore woodcuts.
                                              
                                                                Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 398253 759
##T Eurock
Eurock

@@
Archie Patterson, Editor
$8/year (4 issues)
$12 foreign 
Information free
from:

Eurock
PO Box 13718
Portland, OR 97213
503-281-0247
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##A 14 421270 772
##T New Albion Records
New Albion Records


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On the new music side of the fence, New Albion has a small but impressive roster of releases.  John Adams, Daniel Lentz, and Morton Subotnik are their best known artists.  The music tends toward the slow and serious, but at least it has some depth instead of just a glistening sheen of shiny surfaces.  Their sampler, Portraits, is a good way to check out a half-dozen of their artists.
                    
                     Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 421548 773
##T New Albion Records
New Albion Records


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Brochure free 
from:

New Albion Records
584 Castro #463
San Francisco, CA 94114
415-621-5757
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##A 14 411570 781
##T Backroads Distributors
Backroads Distributors

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Backroads is one of the leaders in the New Age field and itÕs easy to see why from their well produced and informative catalog.  They took over the Hearts Of Space mail-order business and now offer that label as well as virtually all the other biggies in this field such as Global Pacific, Private Music, Living Music, Lifestyles, and, of course, Windham Hill.  The Environments and Solitudes series are also both carried for a total of 1700 titles.  It is obvious though that they have a special place in their hearts for Hearts Of Space.  Many of their titles are cassette only, and they also have over 400 on CD.  New Age videos are also offered. 
(All record reviews excerpted here are by Lloyd Barde.)
           
                                                                   Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 411659 782
##T Backroads Distributors
Backroads Distributors

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Catalog  $5.50/year 
(3 issues)
includes Hearts Of Space Information packet
from:

Backroads Distributors
200 Tamal Plaza
Corte Madera, CA 94925
800-825-4848
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##A 14 418407 799
##T The Moss Music Group, Inc.
The Moss Music Group, Inc.


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Moss Music Group is another of the leading distributors in the New Age genre.  Paul WinterÕs Living Music label is one of their most important lines, but they also carry the Golden Voyage and Solitudes series.  Classical and jazz recordings are also available. One of their most amusing items is The Complete Conductor Kit which comes complete with a cassette of baroque hits from Mouret, Pachelbel, Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi, a Paper Doll Symphony Orchestra and Big Band, and a MasterÕs Degree.  Of course thereÕs a baton.

                                    Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 418662 800
##T The Moss Music Group, Inc.
The Moss Music Group, Inc.


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Catalog free 
from:

The Moss Music Group, Inc.
Dept. WEA
200 Varick Street
New York, NY 10014
212-243-4800
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##A 14 423955 809
##T Syntonic Research, Inc.
Syntonic Research, Inc.


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Syntonic Research is the originator of the ambient, noise-masking, environmental sounds concept, and have taken the most scientific approach to their work.  Different sounds are recommended for different purposes such as stress reduction, concentration, social interaction, isolation, comfort of newborns, or lovemaking.  When youÕve found a sound that works for you, itÕs suggested that you consistently use that sound for that purpose.  Their catalog now offers 17 different environmental sounds on LPs, cassettes, and CDs.
       
                                                                        Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 424435 810
##T Syntonic Research, Inc.
Syntonic Research, Inc.


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Brochure free 
from:

Syntonic Research, Inc.
PO Box 18626
Austin, TX 78760
512-441-5322
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##A 14 440013 814
##T Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI)
Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI)


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CRI is a non-profit organization devoted exclusively to ÒseriousÓ compositions by twentieth century Americans.  Their reputation is to remain impartial in stylistic matters, and their catalog has works from conservative to radical names, from well known figures to the secrets of the cognoscenti.  And here is one of the difficulties with the catalog.  It consists solely of composer name, title of work, and performers Ñ no descriptive material.  If youÕre not one of the cognoscenti, good luck knowing what youÕre reading about.  Perhaps next time theyÕll see fit to send some samples for inclusion here, so we might all approach cognoscentiism.
                                       
                                                                     Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 440139 815
##T Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI)
Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI)


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Catalog free 
from:

Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI)
170 West 74th Street
New York, NY 10023
212-873-1250
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##A 14 132228 816
##T Heartsong Review
Heartsong Review

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Not a record company, not a distributor, but rather similar to the Whole Earth Catalog in its approach.  Heartsong Review has lots of reviews of Òrare & beautiful music,Ó and then gives the price and address of the supplier, usually the label.  The material covered ranges right across the new age spectrum.  The reviews are explicit about the artistic, spiritual, and technical aspects of the recording, and are written by quite a lot of people.  Seems like about the best avenue into the new age underground.

                                                            Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 132440 817
##T Heartsong Review
Heartsong Review

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$6/year(2 issues)
from:

Heartsong Review
PO Box 1084
Cottage Grove, OR 97424
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##A 14 427467 819
##T AndyÕs Front Hall
AndyÕs Front Hall


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AndyÕs Front Hall is the store, Front Hall Records is the label.  The store has all sorts of folk music necessities like tunebooks, songbooks, books on folk dancing, lots of different instruments like autoharps, banjos, bodhrans, bones, celtic harps, concertinas 
(Anglo and English), fiddles, guitars, harmonicas, hammered dulcimers, and many more.  Of course there are records too; domestic and imported, American and foreign folk musics, along with recommendations and reviews.  The Front Hall label concentrates on traditional music with about 35 releases.  There is also the Front Hall Back Porch series of books with cassettes, an instructional series on how to play some of the instruments found in the store.
                  
                             Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 427623 820
##T AndyÕs Front Hall
AndyÕs Front Hall


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Catalog $1 
from:

AndyÕs Front Hall
PO Box 307
Voorheesville, NY 12186
518-765-4193
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##A 14 436694 827
##T Green Linnet Music
Green Linnet Music


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A linnet is an Old World songbird having a brownish plumage, so it makes sense that Green Linnet concentrates on Irish singers and music.  They also delve into other Celtic folk musics, but the emphasis is definitely on traditional.  Accordions, fiddles and pipes predominate.  Their catalog is now approaching 100 releases, and there is quite a bit of variety within the tradition.  Some of their better known artists include Silly Wizard, the Bothy Band, and the Tannahill Weavers.  Tipped for international stardom singer, Mary Coughlan is also on Green Linnet.
                                                            
                                                                        Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 436838 828
##T Green Linnet Music
Green Linnet Music


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Catalog free 
from:

Green Linnet Music
70 Turner Hill Raod
New Canaan, CT  06840
203-966-0864
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##A 14 434167 839
##T Folk-Legacy Records
Folk-Legacy Records

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Folk-Legacy seem to be very serious about the tradition.  Certainly all the records IÕve heard from them have been well produced and serious expositions of various styles of traditional folk music .  This is not to say that they donÕt have a certain humor and life to them.  They do.  Being folk music, how could they not?  And, I suppose not surprisingly, quite a number of the songs seem to have something to do with drinking Ñ but they donÕt mess around with synthesizers.  They do, however, have some Traditional Tales and Yarns, as well as ChildrenÕs records, and a quiet obsession with dulcimers.
                
                 Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 434187 840
##T Folk-Legacy Records
Folk-Legacy Records

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Catalog free from:

Folk-Legacy Records
PO Box 1148
Sharon , CT 06069
203-364-5661
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##A 14 136231 848
##T Seven Arrows
Seven Arrows

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Seven Arrows has a large selection of Native American music in many different styles, traditional and contemporary.  Informative descriptions of varied recordings encourage and educate the neophyte.

               Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 136452 849
##T Seven Arrows
Seven Arrows

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Catalog free from:

Seven Arrows Music
PO Box 4904
Taos, NM 87571
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##A 14 445609 855
##T Lyrichord Discs, Inc.
Lyrichord Discs, Inc.


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Lyrichord has outstanding ethnic musics from all over the world with the obvious exception of Antarctica.  They are particularly strong in  Moroccan, Chinese, Indian, Tibetan, Nepalese, and Japanese selections.  All their albums have detailed notes about the music and culture featured.  Definitely one of the leaders in the field.
        
               Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 445706 856
##T Lyrichord Discs, Inc.
Lyrichord Discs, Inc.


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Catalog free from:

Lyrichord Discs, Inc.
141 Perry Street
New York, NY 10014
212-929-8234
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##A 14 443283 860
##T Global Village Music
Global Village Music

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Global Village has a strong selection of Klezmer and other Jewish musics, many of them vintage, but they also offer quite a range of black American music from the 20s and later, both in the gospel vein and the bluesier country secular sort.  In addition, they have several recordings of Italian musics from all over that country, a couple of oud outings, and various new and old, original and revival, Balkan, jazz, brass band, and Irish releases.  ThereÕs also one of historical recordings of carnival, circus, and medicine show pitchmen from the 40s and 50s.  And naturally Yiddish language instruction tapes.
                           
                             Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 443582 861
##T Global Village Music
Global Village Music

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Catalog free from:

Global Village Music
PO Box 2051
Cathedral Station
New York , NY 10025
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##A 14 447349 867
##T Musical Heritage Society
Musical Heritage Society


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The Musical Heritage Society is a subscription service offering over 3,000 recordings of a wide array of classical and some other musics, including jazz, spoken word, period instruments, and  ethnic.  They offer LPs, cassettes and, for many releases, CDs. Their 1988 Master Catalog is a fat book of composers, works, titles and musicians.  Membership will bring you a free subscription to the Musical Heritage Review.  Each issue offers several selections from the Master Catalog along with many brand new Society releases.
                                  
                                   Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 447558 868
##T Musical Heritage Society
Musical Heritage Society


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1988
Master Catalog $5 
from:

Musical Heritage Society
1710 Highway 35
Ocean, NJ 07712
212-227-4036
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##A 14 139063 872
##T International Book and Records
International Book and Records

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Mostly classical recordings, but IBR also carry quite a bit of imported jazz, nostalgia, Brazilian, and varied esoteric music at good prices.  Plenty of hard-to-find CDs are in their catalog.

                                                                          Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 139293 873
##T International Book and Records
International Book and Records

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Catalog free 
from:

International Book and Records
40-11 24th Street
Long Island City, NY 11101
800-435-7588
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##A 14 370773 876
##T Original Music
Original Music

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For devotees of world music, Original Music is the Holy Grail; a catalog of mouth-watering descriptions of hard-to-find music from all over.  And they take the word ÒoriginalÓ seriously.  They do not carry revivalist folk material, but equally no artificial lines are drawn between Òclassical,Ó Òpopular,Ó or ÒethnicÓ music. 

What they do carry is a staggering variety of styles from around the world: relatively familiar ones such as soukous, makossa, salsa, zouk, and soca; but they donÕt rest there.  John Storm Roberts, OriginalÕs co-owner and author of ÒBlack Music Of Two Worlds,Ó is a dedicated seeker-out of the varied styles to be found   

Ù Black Music of Two Worlds
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##A 14 371307 878
##T Original Music
Original Music

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Catalog free from:

Original Music
R. D. 1,  Box 190
Lasher Road
Tivoli, NY 12583
914-756-2767
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##A 14 390114 925
##T Shanachie Records
Shanachie Records

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As a label, Shanachie specializes in Celtic folk, reggae, and increasingly in African music.  They have also launched a World Beat/Ethno-Pop series to give exposure to the new styles of ethnically conscious but boogie-backed music popping up all over the globe. 

As a mail-order service, Shanachie specializes in the same styles, but they include releases from other labels.  They offer virtually all American released LPs in those genres plus some traditional ethnic recordings from labels such as Folkways. Their reviews are enthusiastic if positive but they also run rather tart ones, if the recording is on another label and not too well received.

Ù Folkways Records                                 Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 390249 926
##T Shanachie Records
Shanachie Records

@@
Catalog and newsletter free 
from:

Shanachie Records
37 East Clinton
Newton, NJ 07860
201-579-7763
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##A 14 396366 962
##T World Music Institute
World Music Institute

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This non-profit organization mostly presents live concerts of various ethnic musics in New York, but they also have a mail-order operation offering a wide selection of records from Ocora, Lyrichord, Green Linnet, Shanachie, and other labels specializing in recordings from around the world.  They have a good selection of CDs. 

Recently they have also begun issuing the Voices of the Americas Cassette Series of their 1986 live concerts in association with Music Of The World.  The series embraces a wide range of sacred and secular music from the New World.
                                                            
Ù Music of the World                           Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 396758 963
##T World Music Institute
World Music Institute

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Record listing free 
from:

World Music Institute
109 West 27th Street
Room 9C
New York, NY 10001
212-206-1050
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##A 14 382221 966
##T ras
ras


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The most dedicated supplier, both wholesale and mail-order, of reggae music in the U.S., and probably the most complete.  Their catalog is a virtual history of Jamaican music.  As well as LPs, they  handle 12"  and 7" singles, CDs, and cassettes, imported from Jamaica and England, and domestic releases.  They have frequent updates and new release sheets.  Many items are close to impossible to find anywhere else.  They also have a smattering of African and soca releases.

Their own label is one of the major contenders for prolific reggae releases. 
              
              Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 382491 967
##T ras
ras


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Catalog free 
from:

ras Records
PO Box 42517
Washington, D.C. 20015
301-564-1295
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##A 14 367629 986
##T Nighthawk Records
Nighthawk Records


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Nighthawk have a small but classy selection of releases primarily in two areas: blues collections of mostly lesser known artists, but with some big names in there too, and reggae records of the most roots-conscious artists.  All their records are of the highest production standards, especially given the often less than ideal original recording conditions, with good sleeve notes and attractive design.  Their reggae releases include several well done compilations of various artists as well as new recordings of less fashionable, but more meaningful, veterans.  Some are mini-albums with mini-prices to match.  They also have a catalog of
out-of-print collectorÔs items with collectorÔs prices.

                                                                 Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 367969 987
##T Nighthawk Records
Nighthawk Records


@@
Brochure free 
from:

Nighthawk Records
PO Box 15856
St. Louis, MO 63114
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##A 14 142591 993
##T SternÕs
SternÕs

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SternÕs are the best international source for the widest range of African records.  They offer wholesale service as well as mail order for individuals.  Take only what you can really afford to spend if you visit their store in London.

Their own label has released a steady stream of top quality records from all over Africa.  Many of the best of them have been licensed domestically by Rounder which helps to bring down the high cost of international trade.

                                                   Ñ Jonathan E.

Ù Roundup Records
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##A 14 142599 994
##T SternÕs
SternÕs

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For catalog send 
3 international reply coupons
from:

SternÕs
116 Whitfield Street
London, W1P 5RW
U.K.
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##A 14 143760 995
##T Bow Wow
Bow Wow

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Bow Wow have a nice color catalog and a well chosen selection of new and old classics, or at least contenders, in The World Beat And Allies Hall Of Fame:  Border Music, Cajun, Euro-Folk, Afro-Beat, and Miscela.  Prices are a touch high.  If we werenÕt so pressed for time, IÕd have taken some excerpts from their catalog.  They have many of the same titles as other suppliers in this neighborhood, so please, if you would just use your imagination.  Thanks.  Remember the catalog is in color.

                                                                  Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 143888 996
##T Bow Wow
Bow Wow

@@
Catalog free
from:

Bow Wow
3103 Central Ave. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
505-256-0987
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##A 14 358507 998
##T Alligator Records
Alligator Records


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Alligator continues to release the most vital modern blues, concentrating on the Chicago area, but expanding into musicians from Texas, Louisiana, and the Bay Area, playing a variety of blues styles.  Several excellent samplers help put the picture together.  They have also launched their Rockback series with important and much-needed rereleases from Dr. John, Lonnie Mack, and Delbert McClinton.  Their reggae catalog is small but impressive with several essential titles.  Many of their releases are now available as CDs.  They also offer T-shirts, posters, and videos.

                                                                Ñ Jonathan E.

Ù Living Blues
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##A 14 358671 999
##T Alligator Records
Alligator Records


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Catalog free 
from:

Alligator Records
PO Box 60234
Chicago, IL 60660
312-973-7736
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##A 14 146495 1017
##T Blind Pig Records
Blind Pig Records

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Modern blues with quite a range of styles represented from straight ahead Chicago blues boogie to country and rock flavorings.  Especially strong on bringing classic sidemen out into the spotlight with a solo album in their own right.

                                                    Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 146889 1018
##T Blind Pig Records
Blind Pig Records

@@
Catalog free
from:

Blind Pig Records
PO Box 2344
San Francisco, CA 94126
415-526-0373
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##A 14 147803 1023
##T Hightone Records
Hightone Records

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Hightone have had great success with Robert CrayÕs recognition as a blues superstar, but that is just the tip of the iceberg.  The rest of their catalog is a connoisseurÕs collection of contemporary  blues releases, along with some soul, gospel, rock, and country influenced albums.

                             Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 148084 1024
##T Hightone Records
Hightone Records

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Catalog free from:

Hightone Records
PO Box 326
Alameda, CA 94501
415-521-8357
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##A 14 363594 1028
##T Back Forty Records
Back Forty Records


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This catalog from Oxford, MS has an eclectic range of blues records from many different labels.  They also carry back issues of Living Blues, as well a small selection of Afro-Beat and Reggae.  There are a few reviews and recommendations, but mostly this catalog is simply artist, album title, and catalog number.

                                                                      Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 363829 1029
##T Back Forty Records
Back Forty Records


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Catalog free from:

Back Forty Records
Box 1745
Oxford, MS 38655
601-236-2918
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##A 14 149477 1030
##T Stash Records
Stash Records

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Stash have a large catalog of both reissued vintage blues, jazz, and swing and newly recorded jazz albums.  They have produced some well regarded specialty compilations on their Jass and Stash subsidiaries covering those two topics usually found at the beginning of that well-known phrase ending with Òand rock ÕnÕ roll.Ó  This is cultural archaeology that should enlighten those who thought that kind of fun began in the sixties.  However, they also have plenty of other titles that will not offend those with delicate ears and sensibilities, how about some Bobby Darin or Mel Torme?  Many of their titles are available on CD with extra tracks not found on the vinyl versions, and they also have an interesting selection of videos.  
                               Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 149749 1031
##T Stash Records
Stash Records

@@
Catalog free
from:

Stash Records
611 Broadway
Suite 411
New York, NY 10012
800-666-JASS
212- 477-6277(NY)
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##A 14 150963 1040
##T Caravan of Dreams
Caravan of Dreams

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Based around an innovative live performance center, Caravan Of Dreams release distinctive recordings from jazz artists of the caliber of Ornette Coleman and Ronald Shannon Jackson, as well 
as somewhat weird, sometimes wonderful, albums and films from the fringes of the jazz/poetry/gospel/African worlds.

                                                                 Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 151047 1041
##T Caravan of Dreams
Caravan of Dreams

@@
Information free
from:

Caravan of Dreams
312 Houston Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102
817- 877-3332
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##A 14 365680 1046
##T Jaybee Jazz
Jaybee Jazz

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This 17-year-old operation has a great selection of jazz classics at fantastically low prices.  There are many Japanese reissue imports of such labels as Verve, Mercury, Riverside, and Atlantic.  They also offer a lot of Prestige titles.  The only drawback is that the catalog consists only of catalog numbers, title, number and names of musicians, and tracks, so youÕd better know what you like.  However, at these prices you should be able to take a chance and discover something new and wonderfully jazzy!

                                                             Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 365955 1047
##T Jaybee Jazz
Jaybee Jazz

@@
Record listings free 
from:

Jaybee Jazz
PO Box 24504
Creve Coeur, MO 63141
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##A 14 406105 1049
##T Rhino Records
Rhino Records

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RhinoÕs main strength is their great ÒThe Best OfÓ series of just about every artist or group from the 50s and 60s who ever mattered, even for a minute, and even a few who maybe didnÕt.  If an artist doesnÕt have enough material for their own album, there are compilations of various genres, eras, and areas.  Rhino is also strong in novelty, picture, and shaped discs.  They are not totally wrapped up in the past, however, as they have released contemporary artists such as The Roches, Phranc, and The Runaways.  They also have an important and hard-hitting spoken word series.  Videos, CDs and a collection of 10-inch 78rpm records round out their catalog.
                                                   
                                                  Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 406335 1050
##T Rhino Records
Rhino Records

@@
Catalog free 
from:

Rhino Records
1201 Olympic Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90404
213-450-6323
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##A 14 408138 1055
##T SST 
SST 


@@

SST boasts an ever-increasing catalog of over 125 releases at the alternative rock end of the musical spectrum.  Within that category there is a wide variation of sounds and styles, from the early thrash and punk of Black Flag, Husker Du, and The Minutemen to their spiritual descendants such as Divine Horsemen and Firehose, who incorporate a larger sound palette into their music, to the anything-goes-with-the-kitchen-sink approach of bands like Sonic Youth, Blind Idiot God, and Paper Bag.  They have lots of sampler albums to help you get acquainted.  None of this is quiet background music.  ItÕs designed to blast your concept, or at least your eardrums!
                
                       Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 408529 1056
##T SST 
SST 


@@
Catalog free from:

SST
PO Box 1
Lawndale, CA 90260
213-835-4955
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##A 14 129642 1063
##T Enigma Mailorder
Enigma Mailorder

@@

Enigma are one of the most successful American indie labels, so successful that they now have major label distribution for many of their releases.  However, theyÕre well aware that a lot of their acts are too freaky fringe for the retail chains, and so they have developed a mail order catalog for all those fans of underground  rock who live in such places as Hattiesburg, Mississippi.  Grunge and metal form much of their catalog; the balance is a variety of college radio type rock, soundtracks to youth cult movies, and assorted musical misfits ranging from Wire to Maynard Ferguson, with a bit of an emphasis on musicians from Southern California.

                                                                                 Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 130294 1064
##T Enigma Mailorder
Enigma Mailorder

@@
Catalog free
from:

Enigma Mail Order
1750 East Holly Avenue
PO Box 2428
El Segundo, CA 90245-2428
213-322-3823
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##A 14 153071 1070
##T Subterranean Records
Subterranean Records

@@

Subterranean emerged from the maelstrom of San FranciscoÕs 1980 punk scene.  Over the years they have enlarged their focus to become a rather more adventurous label by releasing jazz, folk, industrial, electronic, and rock in a variety of mutations, permutations, and hyphenizations.  Throughout it all they have kept a low profile, but in fact their releases are the equal of any of those from concerns who trumpet their hipness more stridently.  As well as their own label releases they have a catalog of other labels toiling in the same veins of punk, experimental, industrial,  just plain disaffected from the mainstream, and even gamelan. Videos and publications too, and low prices on everything.

                                                                       Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 153297 1071
##T Subterranean Records
Subterranean Records

@@
Catalog free
from:

Subterranean Records
PO Box 2530
Berkeley, CA 94702
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##A 14 154278 1078
##T Alternative Tentacles
Alternative Tentacles

@@
Alternative Tentacles and their bands, such as the Dead Kennedys, the Looters, and the Beatnigs, have plenty to say about the hypocrisy of societyÕs powerful, and are pretty good at getting up the phariseesÕ noses.  The ParentsÕ Music Resource Center (PMRC) responded by attacking Alternative Tentacles, Mordam Records, their distributor, and their pressing plant in an outrageous and  blatant attempt to restrict freedom of speech and the press.  Luckily for us all the PMRC lost that battle and AT have survived, although the Dead Kennedys are no more.  It never has been easy being on the front line, and casualties are to be expected.  Let us hope that Alternative Tentacles keep up the fight.  I think they will. 
                                                                       Ñ Jonathan E.
Ù Mordam
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##A 14 155329 1079
##T Alternative Tentacles
Alternative Tentacles

@@
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from:

Alternative Tentacles Records
PO Box 11458
San Francisco, CA 94101
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##A 14 156676 1085
##T Mordam
Mordam

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Mordam have a catalog of modern rock records at the punky, politically committed end of the spectrum.  Not a large catalog, but if this stuff is your cuppa tea, Mordam have the goods.  Extra credit to them for living up to their principles and releasing the two benefit albums for Umkhonto we Sizwe.

                                                Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 157797 1086
##T Mordam
Mordam

@@
Catalog free
from:

Mordam Records Mail Order
PO Box 988
San Francisco, CA 94101
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##A 14 160730 1090
##T Blacklist Mailorder
Blacklist Mailorder

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Blacklist are a non-profit collective of volunteer fans whose aim is to provide better distribution for independent music and press.  They operate on a fixed 20% markup, which they hope to lower in the future.  Most of their stock is of the indy rock persuasion and includes both large and small labels, imports and domestic, much of it next-to-impossible to find anywhere else.  Seems to me that this is about the best single source for this stuff.  And isnÕt it nice to know that idealism is still alive and doing something in the music biz?  I wish Õem luck.

                                                   Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 160771 1091
##T Blacklist Mailorder
Blacklist Mailorder

@@
SASE for weekly updates.
from:

Blacklist Mailorder
181 Shipley St.
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-957-9390
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##A 14 404943 1098
##T Midnight Records
Midnight Records

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This catalog is heaven for the serious rock collector, but hell for the rock collectorÕs fiscally responsible spouse.  ItÕs packed with listings of thousands of records, new and old, obscure and famous, American and imports, original releases and reissues, in-print and out-of-print, fixed prices and auction.  There are also reviews, interviews, news, opinions, and critical reassessments of bygone artists.  Current underground rock is featured on their own label of LP and 45rpm releases (no CDs, yet, for these purists). They also operate a retail outlet at 255 W. 23rd St. in Manhattan, but itÕs suggested that you go elsewhere if youÕre looking for the new Lionel Ritchie or Phil Collins.  These people take their rock seriously and you might not get out alive if you asked for that 
pap. Imagine being ridiculed to death!
                                                    Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 405206 1099
##T Midnight Records
Midnight Records

@@
Catalog $1 
from:

Midnight Records
PO Box 390
Old Chelsea Station
New York, NY 10011
212-675-2768
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##A 14 449179 1101
##T CellulOid Records
CellulOid Records


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CellulOid have consistently explored the exciting edges of various musical worlds and have provided much needed re-releases of early works from important artists, such as Fela Kuti, The Last Poets, and KassavÕ.  They have been in the forefront of such movements as the early 80s rap/funk crossover into white society, the electro-African explosion of the mid Õ80s, and various other progressive multi-cultural musical experiments.  They have now begun to release Brazilian music in the U.S.

Their adventures are well chronicled in their ÒTrilogyÓ sampler; check ÒBrazil Is BackÓ for the Brazilian story.  At their best CellulOid are unchallenged for cutting edge musical combinations.
                                                                                   
                                                                                   Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 449374 1102
##T CellulOid Records
CellulOid Records


@@
Catalog free 
from:

CellulOid Records
330 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10013
212-741-8310
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##A 14 452436 1114
##T Crammed Discs US
Crammed Discs US

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Crammed is one of the most multi-ethnic experimental labels around.  Their specialty is the culture clash of two or more musicians from different parts of the world collaborating, or the musical mutation produced by strangers in even stranger lands.  Most recordings tend to be electronic and ethereal in flavor, but there are rockers in there too.  Their Made To Measure series caters for the ambient/classical/meditative/instrumental/experimental  elements of the cultural cocktail shaker.  Some observers have called it Òthe intelligent alternative to New Age.Ó  Their Cramboy subsidiary label is dedicated to releasing all of Tuxedo MoonÕs material.
               
                                     Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 452816 1115
##T Crammed Discs US
Crammed Discs US

@@
Brochure free 
from:

Crammed Discs US
PO Box 1702
Canal Street Station
New York, NY 10013
212-477-0547
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##A 14 457681 1122
##T Ralph Records
Ralph Records


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Ralph Records is the home of The Residents and assorted other musical wanderers and refugees from the outside world, mostly based somewhere between the West Coast and outer space.  The label definitely has an advanced, progressive, and mutant house style, even with the great diversity of their recordings.  Everything displays the highest levels of creativity and a complete disregard for commercial considerations.  That hasnÕt stopped many of the releases  becoming collectorÕs items and the catalog includes an auction section for those really rare items.  Of course they have videos, posters, T-shirts, and  CDs.
                                                       
                                                   Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 457840 1123
##T Ralph Records
Ralph Records


@@
Catalog free 
from:

Ralph Records
109 Minna Street  #391 
San Francisco, CA  94105
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##A 14 49448 1131
##T Reckless Records
Reckless Records

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Reckless is a new label with its roots in the English retail trade.  Their first series of releases is a promising collection of 
Òuncompromisingly esotericÓ music from cult heroes of the eccentric rock fringe.  A very reasonable price of $7.50 per LP includes postage and packing.  The Soft Machine CD is $15.

                                                                        Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 127689 1132
##T Reckless Records
Reckless Records

@@
Catalog free 
from:

Reckless Records
1401 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
415-431-8435
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##A 14 355660 1137
##T Nu-Tone Records
Nu-Tone Records

@@

On the afternoon of my last night to digitize from vinyl, my friends, Akal and Jim, came by with their first batch of three four-track EPs.  I admired their matching sleeves, but I never listen to peopleÕs music for the first time in front of them.  Well, what should I do?  Of course, I said IÕd put them in the ROM.  Really, I view their releases as representative of a much larger number of people across the land who are busy putting out their musical, and other artistic, self-expression on at least a semi-commercial basis.  OPTION has plenty more in its ads and reviews.  Realistically, theyÕre unlikely to ever grab the Western Hemisphere by its collective pop ear, but so what?  
                                                       
Ù OPTION                                          Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 356322 1138
##T Nu-Tone Records
Nu-Tone Records

@@
Information free
from:

Nu-Tone Records
208 Rose Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-863-3116
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##A 14 455033 1142
##T Giorno Poetry Systems
Giorno Poetry Systems

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Giorno Poetry Systems grew out of the Dial-A-Poem project.  Most of their releases are compilations of the avant-garde artists of New York, although out-of-towners like the Butthole Surfers, Einsturzende Neubaten, Husker Du, and Frank Zappa are also to be found.  David Johansen, now better known as Buster Poindexter, is on several.  Spoken word and music are combined.  The tone tends to be harsh, abrasive, and alienated; you know, aware, modern, and intelligent.  ThatÕs not to say theyÕre negative and uninvolved.  Many of the artists have given their royalties to organizations helping people with AIDS.  They also have videos, including  
ÒBurroughs Ñ The Movie.Ó
                
                                      Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 455379 1143
##T Giorno Poetry Systems
Giorno Poetry Systems

@@
Catalog free 
from:

Giorno Poetry Systems
222 Bowery
New York , NY 10012
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##A 14 462004 1147
##T Music of the World
Music of the World

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Music Of The World is a tape-only company with three types of releases: traditional world music, contemporary world music, and a series called Horizons: World-influenced Music.  Everything IÕve heard from them has been well produced, interesting, and distinctive.  The artists are among the best in their fields. 

Recently they have collaborated with the World Music Institute on the Voices Of The Americas series.  This is definitely a catalog to investigate if you have any interest in world music.  They may soon expand to releasing CDs.
                                     
                                              Ñ Jonathan E.
Ù World Beat and Reggae
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##A 14 462497 1148
##T Music of the World
Music of the World

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Catalog free 
from:

Music of the World
PO Box 258
Brooklyn, NY 11209-0005
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##A 14 162695 1157
##T ROM
ROM

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Actually ROM have at least one release on vinyl (Rotondi) and everything is also available on CD, but they first came to my attention as a tape outfit, and this is where they fit best.  Their first two All-Ears Reviews are wonderful compilations of music from independent labels; what so-called college or non-formatted radio stations would sound like if they lived up to their promises, instead of selling their souls to HollywoodÕs version of progress and prostituting themselves for the music directorÕs post-college career.  ROMÕs other releases are an interesting collection of high quality musical gems that are too distinctive for major label homogenization processing.

                                                     Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 163425 1158
##T ROM
ROM

@@

Catalog free
from:

ROM Records
PO Box 491212
Los Angeles, CA 90049
213-471-5000
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##A 14 469583 1164
##T ROIR
ROIR


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ROIR throws into relief much of the music of the past ten years with its impressive collection of cassettes.  There are compilations of otherwise long-lost punk singles, seminal live performances by important bands in the punk/New York world, some great reggae releases, especially strong in the dub department, and other curiosities of this subculture.  Because of the original recording conditions not all of them sound like they just came out of a digital 48 track studio, but the tape is of excellent quality and the production is top of the line.  All are at least full album length (35 to 96 minutes), the liner notes are by top critics, thereÕs four color graphics, colored cassette shells, and multi-panelled inserts chockfull of interesting information.  
                                                          
                                                                                 Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 469996 1165
##T ROIR
ROIR


@@
Catalog free 
from:

ROIR
611 Broadway
Suite 725
New York, NY 10012
212-477-0563
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##A 14 468069 1183
##T Off Centaur Inc.
Off Centaur Inc.


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Filk music is Òthe particular and peculiar music of science fiction fansÓ and that is what Off Centaur offers.  This is not spacey electronic stuff; almost all of it is acoustic guitar, maybe some wind instruments, and singers singing of the wonders of intergalactic travel.  Many of the artists are also science fiction writers.  Cassettes are all they release because the length limitations of vinyl LPs were too restrictive.  They also have some other items for sale such as bronze sculptures by Arlin Robins on science fiction themes, posters, songbooks, and a large selection of harp music.  They have a couple of interesting sampler tapes to ease neophytes into the field.
                                      
                                               Ñ Jonathan E.
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##A 14 468315 1184
##T Off Centaur Inc.
Off Centaur Inc.


@@
Catalog free 
from:

Off Centaur Inc.
PO Box 424
El Cerrito, CA 94530
415-528-3172
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##A 09 193673 5
##T TRAVEL INTRODUCTION
TRAVEL INTRODUCTION

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I canÕt think of anything more sure to change minds than traveling. Some advice about what to take: very little. Baggage is what you are supposed to leave behind. Take as little money as your wealth of time will let you afford. IÕve noticed that time-rich travelers come back more satisfied than money-rich travelers.

Ideal time to go: right now. Where: as far away as you can imagine
(hardly costs any more these days). How to prepare: I start with old National Geographics at the library, and then go hire out the new guidebooks on the shelf. I tell EVERYONE I meet what IÕm doing, save any addresses I collect, and then actually startle the hosts by showing up.
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##A 09 98879 7
##T Lonely Planet Update Newsletter
Lonely Planet Update Newsletter

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Inferior travel guides tend to dwell on architecture styles and the merits of larger hotels because these artifacts change slowly and information about them can be recycled with confidence. Not so with loose personal traveling. The former Tuesday open-air market is now on Friday. To keep alive and useful, the superior guidebooks published by Lonely Planet rely on mail from a legion of readers on the road to revamp each guide every other year.  One year, print information out. Next year, information floods in, revised by users/readers on site. Third year, information edited by staff goes out again. ThatÕs an uncommonly healthy respiration rate for a travel book. The result is a series of indispensable guides for remote and exotic places like Burma, Tibet, Papua New Guinea, Kashmir, Turkey, and Africa, to name a few.
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##A 09 99338 9
##T Lonely Planet Update Newsletter
Lonely Planet Update Newsletter

@@
Sue Tan, Editor
$12/year
(4 editions);$3.95 single issue. Catalog free from:

Lonely Planet Publications
112 Linden Street
Oakland, CA 94607
415-893-8555
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##A 09 102908 13
##T The New York Times Practical Traveler
The New York Times Practical Traveler

@@

When I have a travel question this is the expert I reach for. ItÕs a reference collection by the only decent newspaper travel columnist in the country, Paul Grimes at the New York Times. I use it when I want to find out how to charter a bus, or rent a car in Europe, or scare up some legitimate tricks for buying an around-the-world airline ticket. His conception of travel is admirably broad, and his facts well researched. To keep current you might check your local Sunday paper; his column is syndicated in many of them.  
                                                                                                                    
                                                                Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 09 103084 14
##T The New York Times Practical Traveler
The New York Times Practical Traveler

@@
Paul Grimes
1985; 412 pp.
ISBN 0812911520
$10.95 ($11.95 postpaid) from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 09 197795 17
##T Globe
Globe

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The drifters of Europe in the Õ60s invented a contemporary form of education: extended world travel. At about $3000 per year, all adventures included, it is still the cheapest college there is. As a guide to what is offered, Globe, the newsletter of the Globetrotters Club, is consistently the best tutor for long-term travel. Ramblers just back from around-the-world-tours file meaty debriefings on conditions and prices in, say, Timbuktu, or Norway. Globe prints them quickly before they decay. Unlike Lonely Planet Newsletter they also review books, supply a place to advertise for travel-mates, and cover tripping in Europe and the 
U.S. (exotic if you donÕt live here). With genuine club spirit, you can contact other members overseas for on-the-spot inquiries. Gather no moss (or ivy).                          Ñ Kevin Kelly
Ù Cultural Exchange
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##A 09 197931 18
##T Globe
Globe

@@
Barbara Macanas, Editor
$14/year
(6 issues) from:

The Globetrotters Club
BCM/Roving
London, WC1N 3XX UK
ENGLAND
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##A 09 168209 21
##T Multinewspapers
Multinewspapers

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Before leaving town on extended travel or moving to a new home, check out your destination by reading its local newspaper. Local newspapers fill in details like no other travel reading can, and you can get an idea of the most current prices for things from the ads. This service has great rates and a global selection. Their random selection service would be one way to spice up your mailbox.
                                                           
                                                                 Ñ Bud Spurgeon
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##A 09 168656 22
##T Multinewspapers
Multinewspapers

@@
Brochure free  from:

Multinewspapers
Box DE
Dana Point, CA 92629
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##A 09 2613 23
##T The Pocket Doctor
The Pocket Doctor


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Covering everything from jet lag to animal confrontations while on safari, Steven Bezruchka, an emergency room doctor and author of A Guide to Trekking in Nepal, has put together a nifty little handbook jammed with practical medical information for travellers.  At the price, this booklet should be as indispensible as your phrase books.
                                                                   
                                                                ÑCandida Kutz



Ù Where There Is No Doctor
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##A 09 6463 24
##T The Pocket Doctor
The Pocket Doctor


@@
(Your Ticket to Good Health While Traveling)
Stephen Bezruchka, M. D.
1988; 96 pp.
ISBN 0898861659
$2.95 postpaid
 from:

The Mountaineers
306 Second Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
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##A 09 155497 27
##T Easy Going
Easy Going

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Hard-to-find travel guides to offbeat places in the world.  Budget travel, exploring on your own, and going by various modesÑ  bicycle, foot, train.  Easy Going offers a supplemental catalog of travel maps.  Check with them for getting hold of maps of particularly obscure foreign locations.
 
                                                                 Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 09 155988 28
##T Easy Going
Easy Going

@@
Catalog $2 from:

Easy Going
Mail Order Dept.
1400 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94709
800-233-3533 
415-843-3533(CA)
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##A 09 119128 32
##T The Tropical Traveller
The Tropical Traveller

@@

For lack of a better book on traveling in the tropics, I suggest this one. ItÕs a little short on the effects of hot climate, equatorial terrain, and tropical disease, but itÕs long on the difficulties of zipping through materially poor societies, which, unfortunately, most tropical countries are these days. You get an honest picture of on-the-road life in an underdeveloped country.

                                                                 Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 09 119503 33
##T The Tropical Traveller
The Tropical Traveller

@@
John Hatt
Updated Edition 1985; 267 pp.
ISBN 0330288512
£2.95 ( £3.30 postpaid) from:

Pan Books, Ltd.
CS Department
P. O. Box 40
Basingstoke, Hants,
ENGLAND
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##A 09 35452 35
##T LetÕs Go: Europe
LetÕs Go: Europe

@@
Each summer a select band of Harvard students tramps Europe rewriting the next edition of this reliable classic. ItÕs a two-decade-old tradition that requires them to completely revise and dazzingly outdo the previous edition. Even if you are not intending to zoom around the entire continent, buy this rotund book and razor-blade out the sections you wonÕt get to, keeping what you need. 
YouÕll still have the most economical guide to economical hotels and eating places in Europe you can get. Lively and accurate. They did their homework well. A-plus job. The Harvard students have an expanding line of country-specific guides (Italy, Greece, etc.), equally dependable.
                                                             Ñ Kevin Kelly   

Ù Bicycle Touring
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##A 09 35589 36
##T LetÕs Go: Europe
LetÕs Go: Europe

@@
(The Budget Guide to Europe)
Harvard Student Agencies
1988; 841 pp.
ISBN 0312014554
$11.95 ($13.45 postpaid) from:

St. MartinÕs Press
175 Fifth Avenue
17th Floor
New York, NY 10010
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##A 09 144671 39
##T HITCH A YACHT
HITCH A YACHT

@@
by Peter Moree, at Sea (Mediterranean)

I live aboard my steel 36-foot ketch and sailed around the world of late, hence my story: ThereÕs an easy way to hitch rides on yachts from ocean to ocean.

Every year about 700 yachts sail from Europe to the Caribbean and approximately 300 sail from the U.S. west coast to Tahiti, etc. Generally these yachts go away for a year but a small percentage
continue around the world. About 60 to 80 yachts cross the Indian Ocean each year.

Yachts are almost always crewed by couples or men only and are
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##A 09 143672 43
##T HITCHHIKING, THE HOMILIES
HITCHHIKING, THE HOMILIES

@@
by Stewart Brand

Use a sign. 
Have a map.
Look like who you want to pick you up.
Wait where itÕs easy for drivers to see you and stop.
Be of use to the driver, or at least no bother.
DonÕt take it personally when they donÕt pick you up. See it 
    as their problem.
Stay on the curb, and off freeways. DonÕt rob or murder or 
   rape anybody; it makes it hard for the rest of us.
@@

##A 09 169350 44
##T Vagabonding in the USA
Vagabonding in the USA

@@

Without hyperbole, there is no country in the world better suited to vagabonding than the USA. We are, in a real sense, a nation of vagabonds, without roots. This book is a nonstop encyclopedia of vagabonding visions, methods and tips by a master gypsy. ItÕs about finding a shower along the way, hopping small airplanes, travelling back roads, being free, and looking at America like you never lived here before (and if you havenÕt, this book is perfect for foreign visitors). ItÕs about possibilities.

                                                          Ñ Kevin Kelly


Ù Living in the U.S.A.
@@

##A 09 169716 45
##T Vagabonding in the USA
Vagabonding in the USA

@@
Ed Buryn
Revised Edition 1983; 424 pp.
ISBN 091680402X
$10.95 ($12 postpaid) from:

Ed Buryn
P. O. Box 31123
San Francisco, CA 94131
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##A 09 172634 48
##T International Youth Hostels
International Youth Hostels

@@
A membership in the American Youth Hostels lets you stay at more than 200 inexpensive hostels in the U.S. and something like 5,000 more around the world. YouÕll meet all sorts of other travellers, exchange lies, make alliances, and perhaps modify your plans after hearing of some more interesting option from someone whoÕs just been there. The two international handbooks have some mediocre general tips on trip planning and travel; their main use will be the comprehensive listing and descriptions of all the hostels in each country and their associated customs. I can tell you from considerable experience that hosteling can be a good way to go, especially if itÕs your first time out. You only need to be young at heart; all ages are welcome. 
                                                                  Ñ J. Baldwin
Ù International Workcamps
@@

##A 09 172881 49
##T International Youth Hostels
International Youth Hostels

@@

Publications 
(listed on next card) available from:

American Youth Hostels/National Office
P. O. Box 37613
Washington, DC 20013
202-783-6161 or call your local AYH Council/Agency/Hostel
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##A 09 160319 51
##T FreighthopperÕs Manual
FreighthopperÕs Manual


@@

Making a big comeback with college age.  ÒYeah Ma, IÕll be home for Thanksgiving.  Uh, no I donÕt know when IÕll be getting in.Ó  Cheap travel, real adventures, often good company.  Some lines and yards are still too hot, but many a railroad is operated largely by aging hippies these days, who will help you.  A fine little book, all you need.
                                                                        
                                                              ÑStewart Brand
@@

##A 09 162091 52
##T FreighthopperÕs Manual
FreighthopperÕs Manual


@@
Daniel Leen
1981; 95 pp.
ISBN 0902743198
$6.95 ($7.95 postpaid) from:

Daniel Leen
P.O. Box 191
Seattle, WA 98111
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##A 09 175990 55
##T Work Your Way Around the World
Work Your Way Around the World


@@
This book should help you find work overseas if what you have in mind is odd jobs or seasonal work. The lucrative gigs are landed in Europe and North America. ThereÕs little that can be predicted about more exotic corners like Africa and Asia, but what is known has been rounded up here. What you really want to know, of course, is how much you can make. This is nicely covered together with
working conditions, seasons, and addresses when possible.
Usual employers that hire travelers are described in much detailÑ  all you need to know about picking apples in Australia, for instance. Honest first-hand accounts by other workers who have survived overseas employment keep the Ultimate Romance strapped into reality.                                           
                                                                     
                                                               Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 09 176265 56
##T Work Your Way Around the World
Work Your Way Around the World


@@
Susan Griffith
Third Edition 1987; 383 pp.
ISBN 090763897X
$10.95 ($12.95 postpaid) from:

WritersÕ Digest Books
1507 Dana Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45207
800-543-8677
513-531-2222(OH)
@@

##A 09 177030 58
##T International Employment Hotline
International Employment Hotline

@@
There are two ways to work your way around the world. One is to travel until you meet a job you like, then stick with it until 
youÕre rich enough to breeze across the border to the next one. 
(See Work Your Way Around the World.) The other, more sure, is to bank on a skill you have and sign yourself up before you leave. Inflexible employees picture overseas ÒassignmentsÓ as hardship; should you have an opposite view check out this newsletterÑa monthly summary of international opportunities. ItÕs an honest, up-to-date bulletin board of employers with specific needs for people or bunches of people. The jobs are real. You contact the potential boss yourself from the address and phone number printed in the newsletter. Any skill you have is needed somewhere, including the remarkable ability to speak English. Most overseas jobs of this
@@

##A 09 177547 60
##T International Employment Hotline
International Employment Hotline

@@
Will Cantrell, Editor
ISSN 07488890
$28/year
(12 issues) from:

International Employment Hotline
P. O. Box 6170
McLean, VA 22106
@@

##A 09 178577 63
##T How to Be an Importer and Pay for Your World Travel
How to Be an Importer and Pay for Your World Travel

@@

Just what the title says. The whole story is in this readable and wise book. 

                                                               Ñ Kevin Kelly






Ù SMALL BUSINESSES
@@

##A 09 178885 64
##T How to Be an Importer and Pay for Your World Travel
How to Be an Importer and Pay for Your World Travel

@@
Mary Green and Stanley Gillmar
1979; 192 pp.
ISBN 0898151805
$6.95 ($8.20 postpaid) from:

Ten Speed Press
P. O. Box 7123
Berkeley, CA 94707
@@

##A 09 118026 67
##T World Status Map
World Status Map

@@
ItÕs always been unwise (though often possible) for international travelers to ignore political and economic difficulties in countries they visit; nowadays, increasingly volatile situations suggest that a little extra pre-trip research may be in order. The World Status Map uses information from the State Department, World Health Organization, the National Center for Disease Control, and news services to produce a monthly report of travel advisories, warnings, war zones, and danger areas for travelers.  Included along with a war-zone map is updated information on passport, visa, health, and other requirements around the world, which has never before been available from a single source.

                                                               Ñ Steve Cohen
@@

##A 09 118374 68
##T World Status Map
World Status Map

@@
Earl May, Editor

Latest copy $4.50 from:

World Status Map
Box 466
Merrifield, VA 22116

Also available electronically.
@@

##A 09 138878 69
##T Earthwatch Research Expeditions
Earthwatch Research Expeditions

@@

Want to participate in a real scientific expedition? You can by joining one sponsored by this group. Yeah, you have to pay instead of them paying you, but many agree that the money is well spentÑ  youÕll learn a lot (including how to do an expedition). Looks interesting!  You have to be between 16 and 75 years old.
                                                  
                                                                        -  J. Baldwin




Ù Adventure Learning
@@

##A 09 139157 70
##T Earthwatch Research Expeditions
Earthwatch Research Expeditions

@@
Membership $25/year     
(includes 7 issues
of Earthwatch Magazine,
ISSN 87500183)

Information free from:

Earthwatch
680 Mount Auburn Street
P. O. Box 403
Watertown, MA 02272
@@

##A 09 139823 74
##T Mountain Travel
Mountain Travel

@@
An unusually wide range of trips and unusually inviting catalog distinguish Mountain Travel among the many new adventure-brokers. Their mouth-watering catalog has swelled into a fat informative book. You go on a couple of these organized trips and pretty soon youÕre organizing your own. 
                                                     
                                                          Ñ Stewart Brand

I study this thoroughly as I plan my own trips because I figure their leaders have scouted the area for the most interesting routes and if they can move a dozen desk-bound tourists with luggage along it, I can do it myself with a backpack. 
                                                    
                                                         Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 09 140335 75
##T Mountain Travel
Mountain Travel

@@
Catalog $5 from:

Mountain Travel
1398 Solano Avenue
Albany, CA 94706
800-227-2384
415-527-8100(CA)
@@

##A 09 142708 78
##T A ConnoisseurÕs Guide
A ConnoisseurÕs Guide

@@
Although IÕve never joined a hired adventure tour, I have many friends whoÕve gone to some of my favorite exotic places that way, and they had nearly as good a time as I did. The adventures you can buy are quite sophisticatedÑvery small groups, highly informed guides, experienced schedules, and lots of choices. To aid shopping among these choices, check out this paper database of 2,000 unusual trips led by pro guides. You select a journey by place, by mode (bicycle, canoe, hiking, etc.) and by the date it all happens. Say, for example, you dream of cruising in a four-wheel-drive through the Sahara in January. Well, youÕve got a couple of possibilities here. Though it needs updating , the information is
still enough to get you going.  
                                                                   
                                                                  ÑKevin Kelly
@@

##A 09 97421 79
##T A ConnoisseurÕs Guide
A ConnoisseurÕs Guide

@@
(Unusual Trips for the Discriminating Traveler)
Suzi Kobrin
1985; 325 pp.
ISBN 0934545502
$19.95 ($21.95 postpaid) from:

ZapoDel Inc.
P. O. Box 1049
Del Mar, CA 92014
619-481-7337
@@

##A 09 161713 81
##T The Hot Springs Gazette
The Hot Springs Gazette


@@
ÒStalking the Wild Hot SpringsÓ might be an appropriate subtitle for these funky periodic booklets. The game is to find out and get into one of the thousands of undeveloped wild hot springs that hide in yonder hinterlands (look for a plume of steam on the horizon). 
ItÕs not as easy as it sounds and that makes for good adventure.

These booklets are directories to known hot spots, complete with
reports from sundry hotspringers who have actually dipped in, on where the waters are, how to get there from your car, what the bottom is like, what the temperature is, is anybody around? 
ThereÕs also lots of questing stories and poolside yarns about stalking the Ultimate Wild Bath. Occasionally there are testimonies of soaks in extra-national hot springs but, in the
@@

##A 09 161823 83
##T The Hot Springs Gazette
The Hot Springs Gazette


@@
Roger Phillips, Editor
ISSN 09836507X
$15/year 
(4 issues) from:

The Hot Springs Gazette
12 South Benton Avenue
Helena, MT 59601
@@

##A 09 162600 85
##T The New Improved Good Book of Hot Springs
The New Improved Good Book of Hot Springs

@@

For rediscovering the many untamed hot springs not mentioned by other sources, youÕll need The Good Book, a geological listing of all known hot springs west of Kansas. The data was compiled by George Berry et al., and printed by the government. Not to be confused with an earlier, less comprehensive list by Gerald Ashley Waring, also printed by the government and warmly known as the Good Book, now out of print. BerryÕs list gives the map coordinates and topo map name where each spring is found (they are still remarkably arduous to locate). Many of the entries are merely boiling trickles.   
                         
                                                              Ñ Kevin Kelly
@@

##A 09 163067 86
##T The New Improved Good Book of Hot Springs
The New Improved Good Book of Hot Springs

@@
(or Thermal Springs List for the Western United States)
George W. Berry et al.
1984; 99 pp.
$4.95 ($5.70 postpaid) from:

The Doodly-Squat Press
P. O. Box 480740
Los Angeles, CA 90048
@@

##A 09 97685 88
##T The PeopleÕs Guide to Mexico
The PeopleÕs Guide to Mexico

@@
The best 360¡ coverage of traveling and short term living in Mexico going.  Reading the book is almost like being there and going through the problems, pleasures and wonders of dealing with a new environment, new people and new ways of doing things. But by golly, every page, every step of the way youÕre learning something.  Carl is candid, and leaves few, if any, questions unanswered in telling you how to handle just about everything: border crossing, driving in Mexico, public transportation, hitching, camping, indigenous living (living on the beach, building a hut, stove, digging a well, etc.) and scrounging for food, renting a house, legal hassles, communication services, car repairs, the language and customs, cantinas and whorehouses, buying things, and so forth.  A fantastic book and well written.                
                                                                       Ñ Al Perrin
@@

##A 09 98059 90
##T The PeopleÕs Guide to Mexico
The PeopleÕs Guide to Mexico

@@
Carl Franz
Revised Edition 1988; 656 pp.
ISBN 0912528990
$13.95 ($16.70 postpaid) from:

John Muir Publications
P. O. Box 613
Santa Fe, NM 87504
@@

##A 09 43735 92
##T The South American Handbook
The South American Handbook

@@
This small, hardbound, fine print book is absolutely packed with information on South and Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico. For each country there are maps, information on climate, geography, history, food, holidays, and best of all, city by city and town by townÑ how to get around, what to see, and where to stay and eat. Furthermore, the Handbook isnÕt just for ricos. It includes listings for good 50-cent meals and two-dollar-a-night hotels with hot water. For most of us, the Òhow to get aroundÓinformation is most valuable: what bus lines to take (and which to avoid), which border crossings are easiest, what to expect on long train rides (pack food), and which little airlines go where.              
                                                                 
                                                               Ñ Lynn Meisch
@@

##A 09 43941 93
##T The South American Handbook
The South American Handbook

@@
John Brooks, Editor
Sixty-fourth Edition 1988 13541pp.
ISBN 0900751266
$28.95 ($30.95 postpaid) from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan NJ 07675
800-223-2336
201-767-5937(NJ)
@@

##A 09 120139 96
##T Africa on a Shoestring
Africa on a Shoestring

@@

The best guides to Africa.  On a shoestring, on foot, and on wheels 
(by VW van) across the Sahara.
                                                           
                                                           Ñ Kevin Kelly







Ù Lonely Planet Update Newsletter
@@

##A 09 120775 97
##T Africa on a Shoestring
Africa on a Shoestring

@@
Geoff Crowther
1983; 368 pp.
ISBN 090808689X
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid) from:

Lonely Planet Publications
112 Linden Street
Oakland, CA 94607
@@

##A 09 33529 98
##T A Guide to Trekking in Nepal
A Guide to Trekking in Nepal

@@

You can hike in the Himalayas on your own, without porters, without a tent, without carrying food, for less than $5 per day with this book as your only guide. Wearing dumpy running shoes, I used it to walk to the base camp of Mt. Everest and beyond to rarely visited valleys, without getting lost.
 
                                                               Ñ Kevin Kelly



Ù By the same author: The Pocket Doctor
@@

##A 09 33787 99
##T A Guide to Trekking in Nepal
A Guide to Trekking in Nepal

@@
Stephen Bezruchka
Fifth Edition 1985; 352 pp.
ISBN 0898860946
$10.95 postpaid
 from:

The Mountaineers
306 Second Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
800-553-4453
@@

##A 09 38647 103
##T China
China

@@
Now that ChinaÕs leaders have adopted a new Òopen doorÓ policy towards the outside world, travel possibilities have loosened up in the PeopleÕs Republic. Individuals can simply go to Hong Kong, pick up their own visas, and slip across the border. The main problem involved with this kind of solo travel has been that without a guide it is often difficult to find oneÕs way around the country, since few people speak fluent English. HereÕs 800 pages of help for anyone who wants to know how to take buses, boats, and trains on their own, where to find inexpensive lodging, and how to get outside the deep ruts left by the juggernaut of tours now swamping China. The guideÕs two Australian authors have written a witty, up-to-date, and enormously informative guide for adventuresome people (like themselves) who want to travel about
@@

##A 09 39405 105
##T China
China

@@
(A Travel Survival Kit)
Alan Samagalski, Michael Buckley 
& Robert Strauss
Second Edition 1988; 819 pp.
ISBN 086442003X
$17.95 ($18.95 postpaid) from:

Lonely Planet Publications
112 Linden Street
Oakland, CA 94607
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##A 09 40742 108
##T South Pacific Handbook ¥ Indonesia Handbook
South Pacific Handbook ¥ Indonesia Handbook

@@
A sumptuous feast of detail. On one page, a map of the routes of Fiji passenger ships; on another, the stamps of the Solomon Islands; on another, the cost of the hot dogs in Honiara. Essentials, bonuses: all here, all extraordinarily accurate and up-to-date. In American Samoa, where I live, South Pacific Handbook has scooped even the most inventive island travelers. The best guidebook this road junkie has seen anywhere.

Even more than for its accuracy or its graphics, I value this book for its ethics. On the first page, Dalton and Stanley stress that theirs is a book for the traveler, not the tourist. They decry the tourism that debases, distorts, and leeches upon the traditional island cultures.
@@

##A 09 42662 110
##T South Pacific Handbook ¥ Indonesia Handbook
South Pacific Handbook ¥ Indonesia Handbook

@@
South Pacific Handbook 
David Stanley
1986; 578 pp.
ISBN 0918373050
$13.95 ($16.95 postpaid) from:

Moon Publications
722 Wall Street
Chico, CA 95928
@@

##A 09 73566 111
##T South Pacific Handbook ¥ Indonesia Handbook
South Pacific Handbook ¥ Indonesia Handbook

@@
Indonesia Handbook 
Bill Dalton
Fourth Edition 1988; 1,100 pp.
ISBN 0918373123
$14.95 ($16.45 postpaid) from:

Bookpeople
2929 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
800-227-1516 
415-549-3030(CA)
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##A 09 15965 116
##T BICYCLE INTRODUCTION
BICYCLE INTRODUCTION

@@

Long stagnated by a tradition of being traditional, bicycle designers and makers have awakened at last. The results are encouraging: new ideas are being tried, excellent steeds can now be had for a reasonable price, and bikes in general have become more competent. About time. 

                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 18384 117
##T Bicycling Science
Bicycling Science

@@

For 16 years this book has been the best place to learn the engineering principles of bicycle design. The information is solidly backed by extensive lab and field testing, yet is presented in a jargon-free, easily understood manner.  All aspects of the bicycle are covered, including the rider and bike/rider relationship (the 
ÒergonomicsÓ). If youÕre considering the construction of a bike or HPV( Human Powered Vehicle), or are just curious about your mount, this is lesson one. To keep up with bicycle technology, see Bike Tech (next item).

                                                              Ñ  J. Baldwin
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##A 09 18677 118
##T Bicycling Science
Bicycling Science

@@
Frank Rowland Whitt & David Gordon Wilson
Second Edition 1982; 364 pp.
ISBN 026273060X
$10.95 ($12.20 postpaid) from:

The MIT Press
Attn: Ordering Dept.
55 Hayward Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
@@

##A 09 20423 120
##T Bike Tech
Bike Tech

@@

Technical articles, innovation, and a vigorous reader response make this thin-but-lively magazine a good place to keep up with whatÕs coming next.
                                                               
                                                           - J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 20602 121
##T Bike Tech
Bike Tech

@@
Bruce Feldman, Managing Editor
ISSN 07345992
$17.97/year           
(6 issues) from:

Bike Tech
33 East Minor Street
Emmaus, PA 18098
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##A 09 19352 124
##T IHPVA
IHPVA

@@
Join the International Human Powered Vehicle Association, and you automatically get a subscription to two outstanding publications devoted to people-as-engines. HPV News covers the latest developments and competitions; the quarterly Human Power hits the technical aspects. These are lively journals with an air of pioneering about them. The people involved are trying everything imaginable in the search for more efficient transportation. Controversy abounds. Innovation abounds. Hot-blooded spirit abounds. Just what youÕd expect on a frontier. And itÕs not only bicycles; there are many boats and even a few aircraft. By the way, did you know that a human on a bicycle moves from place to place more efficiently than any other animal ?                                                               
                                                         
                                                                     - J. Baldwin
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##A 09 19645 125
##T IHPVA 
IHPVA 

@@
David Gordon Wilson, Editor
ISSN 08986908
Membership $18/year (US)
(includes 4 issues of HPV News and Human Power);$20 Canada and Mexico; $25 elsewhere. 
from:

International Human Powered Vehicle Association (IHPVA)
P.O. Box 51255
Indianapolis, IN 46251
317-876-9478
@@

##A 09 13769 128
##T The All New Complete Book of Bicycling
The All New Complete Book of Bicycling

@@

Well, itÕs not quite all new, but it is extensively updated from 
the previous (and good) editions. This isnÕt just a repair bookÑ  virtually everything likely to affect bike and rider is covered. 
It even gets into elementary frame straightening and painting. 
If youÕre going to have just one bike book around to help, this one 
is it. 
                                                                        
                                                             - J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 13949 129
##T The All New Complete Book of Bicycling
The All New Complete Book of Bicycling

@@
Eugene A. Sloane
Revised Edition 1988; 736 pp.
$14.95 ($16.40 postpaid) from:

Simon and Schuster
Order Dept.
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 09 213329 132
##T Bicycle Forum
Bicycle Forum

@@

John Williams, the editor of this little magazine has long been the loudest and most credible voice of bicycle safety in the U.S. He has a lot to say about the rights of cyclists in general, too. His ideas are not without controversy, but I note that over the years he has turned out to be right, and his proposals accepted. This is also where you get the (proven) instructions on how to set up a bike safety program in your  community.  Good , provocative necessary stuff, especially for planners. 

                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 213998 133
##T Bicycle Forum
Bicycle Forum

@@
John Williams, Editor
$14.95/year
(4 issues) from:

Bicycle Forum
P.O. Box 8308
Missoula, MT 59807
406-721-1776
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##A 09 21254 136
##T SutherlandÕs Handbook for Bicycle Mechanics
SutherlandÕs Handbook for Bicycle Mechanics


@@
If you have your bike shop do the work, you donÕt need SutherlandÕs. But they do. This is the only place where you can find out which parts will interchange with other brands, models, and years. Or what spoke length you need to build a particular wheel. Or how to deal with the innards of intricate mechanisms. Just what you need if youÕre working up a human-powered vehicle (HPV) or custom job. The book is a model of clarity. 
                                                               
                                                             - J. Baldwin


Ù AnybodyÕs Bike Book ¥ The Bike Bag Book
@@

##A 09 21536 137
##T SutherlandÕs Handbook for Bicycle Mechanics
SutherlandÕs Handbook for Bicycle Mechanics


@@
Howard Sutherland, et al.
Fourth Edition 1985; 308 pp.
ISBN 0914578065
 $49.50 postpaid from:

SutherlandÕs Bicycle Shop Aids, Inc.
P. O. Box 9061
Berkeley, CA 94709
@@

##A 09 214953 139
##T Third Hand Cycle Tools
Third Hand Cycle Tools

@@

If these folks donÕt have the bike tool you want, you probably donÕt need it. That includes all the fancy specialized stuff used by professional builders and repair shops. There are lots of books offered too. The nicely illustrated catalog is a rarityÑit explains the use of most items so you can decide what you need without bluffing. The Third Hand crew enjoys a reputation for humor and fast service. They have a Ski Tool catalog too, by the way . . .
                                                                                   
                                                                   Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 215256 140
##T Third Hand Cycle Tools
Third Hand Cycle Tools

@@
Catalog free from:

The Third Hand
P. O. Box 212
Mount Shasta, CA 96067
916-926-2600
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##A 09 17014 143
##T BIKES BY MAIL
BIKES BY MAIL

@@
by J. Baldwin                                                                                        

The best place to buy a bicycle is at your local dealer where a good fit can be assured. But if you know what you want, buying by mail can save you moneyÑsometimes lots.  Here are three outfitters 
weÕve come to trust:

Bike Nashbar and Performance Bicycle Shop both stock an astounding variety of bicycles and associated items, including clothing, but not necessarily the same brands. IÕd look at both catalogs. Our experience with their mail-order service has been good.
@@

##A 09 17519 145
##T BIKES BY MAIL
BIKES BY MAIL

@@
Bike Nashbar
Quarterly catalog $2 
from:

Bike Nashbar
4111 Simon Road
Youngstown, OH 44512
800-345-BIKE
@@

##A 09 200708 146
##T BIKES BY MAIL
BIKES BY MAIL

@@
Performance Bicycle Shop
Catalog free  from:

Performance Bicycle Shop
P.O. Box 2741
One Performance Way
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
800-727-2453
@@

##A 09 201314 147
##T BIKES BY MAIL
BIKES BY MAIL

@@
Mountain Bike Specialists
Catalog $3 from:

Mountain Bike Specialists
340  South Camino Del Rio
Durango, CO  81301
800-255-8377
800-538-9500(CO)
@@

##A 09 87302 149
##T Terry Precision Bicycles for Women
Terry Precision Bicycles for Women

@@

One reason you donÕt see more women on bicycles is that the typical menÕs bike doesnÕt fit the typical woman very wellÑmost
womenÕs bikes are derived from  menÕs-bike geometry. Georgena Terry to the rescue, with a line of nicely made machines appropriately proportioned for women of various sizes and shapes. 

                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 88697 150
##T Terry Precision Bicycles for Women
Terry Precision Bicycles for Women

@@
Catalog and dealer list
$2  from:

Terry Precision Bicycles for Women, Inc.
140 Despatch Drive, 
East Rochester, NY 14445.
716-385-6398
@@

##A 09 216295 151
##T Burley Lite Bicycle Trailer
Burley Lite Bicycle Trailer

@@

You can tow 100 pounds of kid or cargo in the Burley Lite bicycle trailer.  Axle hitch makes it more stable than others.
 
                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 218220 152
##T Burley Lite Bicycle Trailer
Burley Lite Bicycle Trailer

@@
Catalog free  from:

Burley Design Cooperative
4080 Stewart Road
Eugene, OR 97402
503-687-1644
@@

##A 09 23351 155
##T Freewheeling
Freewheeling

@@

Touring on the open road is different from going to the supermarket. This book will get you started just fine, both with advice and encouragement. The advice covers what youÕd expectÑ  equipment, weather, safety, and where to stay at night. The encouragement is enhanced by the bookÕs readability. ThereÕs not a trace of racing snobbery here. ItÕs just what you need to know.
                                                                     
                                                               - J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 23739 156
##T Freewheeling
Freewheeling

@@
(Bicycling the Open Road)
Gary Ferguson
1984; 204 pp.
ISBN 0898860474
$8.95 postpaid
 from:

The Mountaineers Books
306 Second Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
800-553-4453
@@

##A 09 24730 159
##T Bikecentennial
Bikecentennial

@@
Born ten years ago, Bikecentennial has become a sponsor of
organized bike tours, a lobbying force, and the best source of bicycle touring maps. ItÕs the maps that are special; theyÕre drawn with the biker in mind as they indicate the best routes through both country and urban tangle.                               

                                                             - J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 24971 160
##T Bikecentennial
Bikecentennial

@@
Catalog free from:

Bikecentennial
P. O. Box 8308
Missoula, MT 59807
406-721-8719
@@

##A 09 25685 162
##T AnybodyÕs Bike Book ¥ The Bike Bag Book
AnybodyÕs Bike Book ¥ The Bike Bag Book

@@

This friendly beginnerÕs fix-it book remains the best of its kind for the average nonmechanic rider. ItÕs like having a kindly uncle at your side urging you to be brave and clever. The Bike Bag Book is a physically smaller version you can take with you on the road.
                                                                                   
                                                                - J. Baldwin




Ù SutherlandÕs Handbook for Bicycle Mechanics
@@

##A 09 26088 163
##T AnybodyÕs Bike Book ¥ The Bike Bag Book
AnybodyÕs Bike Book ¥ The Bike Bag Book

@@
AnybodyÕs Bike Book
(An Original Manual of Bicycle Repairs)
Tom Cuthbertson
Third edition 1984; 215 pp.
ISBN 0898151244
$7.95 ($8.95 postpaid) from:

Ten Speed Press
P. O. Box 7123
Berkeley, CA 94707
800-841-2665; 415-845-8414(CA)
@@

##A 09 201556 164
##T AnybodyÕs Bike Book ¥ The Bike Bag Book
AnybodyÕs Bike Book ¥ The Bike Bag Book

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The Bike Bag Book 
(A Manual for Emergency  Roadside Bicycle Repair)
Tom Cuthbertson and Rick Morrall
1981; 129 pp.
ISBN 0898150396
$2.95 ($3.95 postpaid) from:

Ten Speed Press
P. O. Box 7123
Berkeley, CA 94707
800-841-2665; 415-845-8414(CA)
@@

##A 09 14738 167
##T Bicycle Guide
Bicycle Guide

@@

It has a masthead that reads like a WhoÕs Who of bicycling. It has articles covering a wide range of bicycling mattersÑnot just racing and body building.  The writing has a personal taste to it.
                                                                         
                                                          - J. Baldwin
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##A 09 14972 168
##T Bicycle Guide
Bicycle Guide

@@
Theodore Costantino, Editor
ISSN 0889289X
$14.90/year (9 issues)
 from:

Bicycle Guide
P. O. Box 55729
Boulder, CO 80322-5729
800-525-0643
303-447-9330(CO)
@@

##A 09 219349 173
##T Dahon Bicycles
Dahon Bicycles

@@
Why a folding bike? Two main reasons: they store compactly out of reach of thieves, and they can be with you under circumstances where a fullsize bike canÕt, such as in the trunk of a subcompact car, on a bus, airplane or yacht. IÕve taken mine (not a Dahon) canoeing downriver and ridden it back to get the car. Despite tiny wheels, good folders whiz right along just like a big bike. (Dahons have been successfully raced).  Dahon has grabbed the market for folding bikes, and deservedly so; it exemplifies the trend towards easy folding, good road manners, and cleverness. It folds smallest of any. ItÕs available in stainless steel for use around saltwater. The price is reasonable. IÕve only one gripe: the 30 lb. weight is a bit much.                                                                                                                                                                            
                                                                  
                                                                   Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 219857 174
##T Dahon Bicycles
Dahon Bicycles

@@
$190- $359; 
Information free
from:

DaHon California, Inc.
2949 Whipple Road
Union City, CA 94587
415-471-6330
@@

##A 09 52711 177
##T Alex Moulton Bicycles
Alex Moulton Bicycles

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Probably the state of the art in bicycles, the AM utilizes a supple suspension to enhance roadholding and ride comfort. Small wheels permit a low center of gravity for stable load carrying, and combine with a clever take-apart feature to give compact storage. Models available for touring, racing and commuting. One model has a wind-cheating fairing. You have to ride one to believe how good it is. 
                                                     
                                                               Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 52880 178
##T Alex Moulton Bicycles
Alex Moulton Bicycles

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Price range $1029- $1800 
from:

Alex Moulton Ltd.
Bradford on Avon
Wiltshire BA15 1AH
ENGLAND

U.S. dealer: 2-Wheel Transit Authority
401 Main Street
Huntington Beach, CA 92648                                       714-848-2004
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##A 09 54808 180
##T Worksman Cycles
Worksman Cycles

@@

Getcha Good Humor vending tricycle with cold-box here, folks! You can also find a wide range of other heavy-duty (heavy is the word)commercial trikes and bikes . Most of the ones you see on the job come from here. This company has made Õem like they used to since 1898.
                                                                         
                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 55172 181
##T Worksman Cycles
Worksman Cycles

@@
Catalog $2 
from:

Worksman Trading Corporation
94-15 100th Street
Ozone Park, NY 11416
718-322-2000
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##A 09 87557 185
##T CARS OF THE 80ÕS
CARS OF THE 80ÕS

@@
by J. Baldwin

Like it or not, most of us need a car. We rent, hire, borrow, ride in, or buy themÑnew and used.  A used car can be a good deal. A thorough overhaul typically costs less than the INTEREST on the payments of a new one. That goes for old, unfashionably fat jobs too. They can be had cheap, and will often cost less to own than new models that get better gasoline mileage. If youÕre on a budget, miles per dollar counts more than miles per gallon.

If a new car is what you need, I recommend a front-wheel-drive machine whose characteristics have been deemed desirable by Consumer Reports. If you need lots of room, a Dodge or Plymouth
@@

##A 09 90675 189
##T Drive It ÕTill It Drops
Drive It ÕTill It Drops

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If bottom-line costs are your main concern, then an older model makes a lot of sense; keeping the oldie going can often save you thousands of dollars. This chatty book is full of good information that remains true in principle despite being a bit out-of-date with prices. 

                                                                 - J. Baldwin
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##A 09 91029 190
##T Drive It ÕTill It Drops
Drive It ÕTill It Drops

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(How to Keep Your Car Running Forever)
Joe Troise
1980; 117 pp.
ISBN 0897080246
$6.95 postpaid
 from:

and books
702 South Michigan Street
South Bend, IN 46618
@@

##A 09 86644 194
##T The Car BuyerÕs Art
The Car BuyerÕs Art

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Would you be willing to work hard as an actor for $500 an hour? ThatÕs about what youÕll Òmake,ÕÕ tax free, if you follow the advice given here the next time you buy a car or other high-ticket item. This is definitely not just another boring How-To-Buy-A-Car effort. It is no less than a military manual on assault of a dealership. The instructions are very explicit, right down to a minute-by-minute script in some cases. When we bought a car recently, we used most of the strategies given here and took it for about $2,000 less than anyone else we know, so we can vouch that the suggestions work.  ItÕs rare to see insiderÕs information available in so useful a form and I recommend this book highly. It even has an exam at the back (with answers) so you can practice.
                                                                  
                                                                    - J. Baldwin
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##A 09 86955 195
##T The Car BuyerÕs Art
The Car BuyerÕs Art

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(...How to Beat the Salesman at His Own Game)
Darrell Parrish
Revised Edition 1985; 183 pp.
ISBN 096123220X
$7.95 postpaid  from:

Book Express
P. O. Box 1249
Bellflower, CA 90706

Companion audio tape free with book purchase from publisher.
@@

##A 09 221405 197
##T Consumer Reports Guide to Used Cars
Consumer Reports Guide to Used Cars

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There are several decent how-to-buy-a-used-car books on the market, but none can compare to this one. HereÕs why: Consumer
Reports polls thousands of readers to assess their real-life
experience with various car models and years. The result is a
trustable list of goodies and baddies, year by year, and what you should expect to pay. Brief road tests of recent models help you decide what you need.  ItÕs another truly useful service from  the unbiased (though tending to be a bit straight-laced) crew at Consumer Reports. Heed their advice, and your chances of getting a good deal are greatly increased. 

                                                                  Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 240917 198
##T Consumer Reports Guide to Used Cars
Consumer Reports Guide to Used Cars

@@
Editors of Consumer Reports Books with Alex Markovich
1988; 534 pp.
ISBN 0890432228
$8 ($11 postpaid) from:

Consumer Reports Books
540 Barnum Avenue
Bridgeport, CT 06608
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##A 09 51886 199
##T Hemmings Motor News
Hemmings Motor News

@@

This meaty monthly is one of the best places to buy or sell cars and parts from the past.  Everything from completely restored 
(expensive!) machines to unhappy piles of rusty artifacts is offered. Lots of books and parts stashes too, plus a calendar of auctions and shows. TodayÕs complex and unfixable cars have made working up an oldie more attractive.  HereÕs where you can get a good start. 

                                                                   Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 220571 200
##T Hemmings Motor News
Hemmings Motor News

@@
Dave Brownell, Editor
$19.95/yr  (12 issues) from:

Hemmings Motor News (HMN)
Subscriptions
Box 100
Bennington, VT 05201
@@

##A 09 100450 202
##T Classic Motorbooks
Classic Motorbooks

@@

You need a reprint of the factory shop manual for Õ57 Chevy pickups? Or would you like to find some decent books on converting your vehicles to alcohol? Or how about a place which carries Bentley, Haynes, Clymer, Chilton, and Autobook workshop manuals for popular models? All of this, and a lot more you never thought about, is available from Classic Motorbooks. They claim to have the worldÕs largest selection of automotive literature; if you donÕt believe it, take a look at their catalog. IÕve been doing business with Classic Motorbooks for quite a number of years now, and service has been excellent.
 
                                                                   Ñ Jim Baker
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##A 09 100729 203
##T Classic Motorbooks
Classic Motorbooks

@@
Catalog $2.95 postpaid 
from:

Classic Motorbooks
P. O. Box 1
Osceola, WI 54020
800-826-6600
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##A 09 89263 204
##T HIGHWAY DRIVING SCHOOLS
HIGHWAY DRIVING SCHOOLS

@@
No, this isnÕt the usual statistically ineffective DriverÕs Ed. This is what you really need to know when things go awry on the road. Under the watchful eye of a race driver, you learn skid prevention and control, controlled stops from high speed, and just plain control. Classes are held on a track and on a very slick Òskid padÕÕ where ineptitude is not punished as you gyrateÑthereÕs nothing to hit. I owe my life to this sort of training received nearly a million miles ago. ItÕs been better insurance than insurance. Give a course to one you love.

Here are three reputable schools. There may be others near you, usually at a race track. Classes cost about the same as a yearÕs insurance. 
                                                                     Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 89364 205
##T HIGHWAY DRIVING SCHOOLS
HIGHWAY DRIVING SCHOOLS

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Bertil Roos School of High Performance Driving 
Course $695 
Catalog free from:

Bertil Roos School of High Performance Driving
P. O. Box 221A 
Blakeslee, PA 18610
717-646-7227
@@

##A 09 89627 206
##T HIGHWAY DRIVING SCHOOLS
HIGHWAY DRIVING SCHOOLS

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Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving 

Courses $295 - $1800
Catalog free from:

Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving
c/o Sears Point International Raceway
Highways 37 & 121
Sonoma, CA 95476
@@

##A 09 89962 207
##T HIGHWAY DRIVING SCHOOLS
HIGHWAY DRIVING SCHOOLS

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Skip Barber Racing School  
Courses $400 -  $7900  
Catalog free from:

Skip Barber Racing School
Route 7
Canaan, CT 06018
203-824-0771
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##A 09 199706 209
##T How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive

@@

In the classic How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, the late John Muir advised mechanically naive VW owners to Òcome to kindly terms with your ass, for it bears you.Ó Unusually encouraging and free of jargon, this book has enabled countless fumblefingers to keep their Beetles buzzing. Lucky owners of Hondas, Datsun/Nissans and Rabbits can now partake of similar fare in more recent books by the same publisher.  Would that all repair manuals were like these!
                                                                  
                                                                - J. Baldwin

(Also available in German and Spanish editions. ÑCK)
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##A 09 200209 210
##T How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive

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John Muir
1986; 408 pp.
ISBN 0945465122
$17.95 ($20.70 postpaid) from:

John Muir Publications
P. O. Box 613
Santa Fe, NM 87504

See next card for list of
other automotive titles 
available from JMP.
@@

##A 09 164332 213
##T ChiltonÕs Easy Car Care
ChiltonÕs Easy Car Care

@@
Car maintenance is one place do-it-yourself really pays; taking care of your machine will probably take less time than it would take you to earn the mechanicÕs fee.  You also get the job done at your convenience and at high quality.  Assuming you know how.  With this weighty tome at your side, you can confidently take on virtually all maintenance and minor repair of any common car or small truck.  The book is written for the utterly naive: there are even illustrated instructions for pumping your own self-serve gas!
The information is pretty general, but surprisingly detailed and useful because itÕs supported by simple explanations of how basic auto systems work.  (There are specifics for a selection of common models, but for complex repairs youÕll need a shop manual for your particular car.)  A great book for beginners.
                                                                       Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 164552 214
##T ChiltonÕs Easy Car Care
ChiltonÕs Easy Car Care

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Chilton Book Company
Second Edition 1985; 567 pp.
ISBN 0801975530
$13.95 ($15.20 postpaid) from:

Chilton Book Co.
Chilton Way
Radnor, PA 19089
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##A 09 121115 217
##T SCOOTERS AND MOTORCYCLES
SCOOTERS AND MOTORCYCLES

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by J. Baldwin

They get you there, sweatless, faster than a bicycle. They cost far less to own and run than a car, are more agile, and park easily. Part machine and part animal, even the less inspired designs give an invigorating feeling of oneness with the mechanism. TheyÕre fun!

Statistically, two-wheeled transport, whether powered or not,
isnÕt encouragingly safe. But the statistics also show that most of the accidents happen to young, inexperienced riders during the first few months of ownership, and that the fault is usually rider error. Use good sense, resist challenging the laws of physics, wear your helmet, and donÕt ride when the roads are slick.
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##A 09 121620 219
##T SCOOTERS AND MOTORCYCLES
SCOOTERS AND MOTORCYCLES

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Honda Scooters 

$500 -$2,648
50-250cc 


Call 800-447-4700 
for your nearest dealer.
@@

##A 09 145911 220
##T SCOOTERS AND MOTORCYCLES
SCOOTERS AND MOTORCYCLES

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Honda Helix Scooter
Suggested retail price:
$2648 
250cc 


Information free from any Honda dealer.
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##A 09 123077 221
##T SCOOTERS AND MOTORCYCLES
SCOOTERS AND MOTORCYCLES

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Honda NX Series 

Suggested retail price for
250cc bike:  $2995



Honda calls these ÒStreet legal trail bikesÓ; info free from any Honda dealer.
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##A 09 94565 222
##T SCOOTERS AND MOTORCYCLES
SCOOTERS AND MOTORCYCLES

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Cycle Magazine 
Phil Schilling, Editor
ISSN 05748135
$15.94/year (12 issues) 
 from:

Cycle Magazine
P. O. Box 2886
Boulder, CO 80322-2886
800-525-0643
@@

##A 09 2372 223
##T SCOOTERS AND MOTORCYCLES
SCOOTERS AND MOTORCYCLES

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Cycle World
Paul Dean, Editor
ISSN 00114286
$15.94/year (12 issues) 
 from:

Cycle World
P. O. Box 2886
Boulder, CO 80322-2886
800-525-0643
@@

##A 09 122107 227
##T Home Is Where You Park It
Home Is Where You Park It

@@

Everything youÕll need to know if youÕre considering living in a trailer or RV.  From postal service and legal matters to sewerage, water and electricityÑall these things have been well worked out, through experience, by the author of this most useful book. Read this one and Survival of the Snowbirds, (next review), youÕll be glad you did.

                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 207526 228
##T Home Is Where You Park It
Home Is Where You Park It

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Kay Peterson
Revised Edition 1982; 199 pp.
ISBN 0910449007
$7.95 ($8.95 postpaid) from:

Roving Press Publications
Route 5, Box 310
Livingston, TX 77351
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##A 09 104126 232
##T Survival of the Snowbirds
Survival of the Snowbirds



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Me, live in a trailer or RV? As my permanent home? Well, yes. Matter of fact, IÕve done just that for about 13 years now in a small Airstream trailerÑthe ÒSilver Turd.Ó You can be a 
Òboomer,Ó following work as it becomes available. (ThatÕs pretty much what IÕve done.) Or you can be a Òsnowbird,Ó following the good weather. Thousands of people (some say millions) are doing this right now. But there are problems: how do you license your vehicle year after year? What about banking, taxes, medical care, postal service, insurance, and legal matters? Where do you park? What about electricity, sewage, and water?  My experience says the author of this book (and its companion, Home is Where You Park It, previous review) is right on the mark.                                           
                                                                
                                                                  - J. Baldwin
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##A 09 104347 233
##T Survival of the Snowbirds
Survival of the Snowbirds



@@
Kay Peterson
1982; 222 pp.
$7.95 ($8.95 postpaid) from:

Roving Press Publications
Route 5, Box 310
Livingston, TX 77351
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##A 09 5332 236
##T Encyclopedia for RVers
Encyclopedia for RVers

@@

Joe and Kay Peterson exemplify the sort of folks who live on the road.  Their previous books, Home Is Where You Park It and 
Survival of the Snowbirds are considered classics by RV nomads.  Those books attend to such things as can-you-do-it and whatÕs-it-like and what-are-the-tricks.  Read Õem and stash Õem on your bookshelf for later lending to beginners.  This book is the one you keep in the glovebox.  ItÕs replete with the latest information you need to keep your rig (and yourself) running well.  But mostly, itÕs a sort of Yellow Pages for hardware and information that youÕll need for a successful life without a home base.  Mail-order pharmacies, message services, parts dealers, museum locations,
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##A 09 6331 238
##T Encyclopedia for RVers
Encyclopedia for RVers

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Joe and Kay Peterson
1988; 192 pp.
ISBN 0910449061
$5.95 ($6.95 postpaid) from:

Roving Press Publications
Route 5, Box 310
Livingston, TX 77351
409-327-8873
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##A 09 105680 240
##T Fredson RV, Van, Truck & Boat Supplies
Fredson RV, Van, Truck & Boat Supplies


@@

This fat catalog is full-to-bustinÕ with equipment and supplies
that pertain to living in vehicles, boats, or any other minimal digs. ThereÕs lots of 12-volt stuff: appliances, lights, pumps, fans, and repair parts for them. There are propane refrigerators, RV toilets, tanks, vents, water heaters, stoves, aerials, awnings, jacks, mirrors, and just about anything else you can think of. ItÕs the biggest assortment IÕve ever seen. Prices are goodÑfar better than those of many RV stores that offer half the selection. 
                                                                           
                                                               - J. Baldwin
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##A 09 105929 241
##T Fredson RV, Van, Truck & Boat Supplies
Fredson RV, Van, Truck & Boat Supplies



@@

Catalog $3 from:

Fredson RV Supply
815 North Harbor Blvd.
Santa Ana, CA 92703
714-554-8000
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##A 09 106707 243
##T WoodallÕs Campground Directory
WoodallÕs Campground Directory


@@

More than 600 pages of campsitesÑwith maps, descriptions, and a brief description of what there is to do around there. Private campgrounds are rated by WoodallÕs staff, based on personal visits. Lots of other useful information is included, along with advertisements. A classic, as they say. IÕve found the information to be reasonably accurateÑitÕs updated annually. Mexico and Canada are included. Also available in Eastern and Western editions  and by some individual statesÑless cumbersome than the mighty all-in-one biggie.                                        

                                                                - J. Baldwin
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##A 09 106991 244
##T WoodallÕs Campground Directory
WoodallÕs Campground Directory


@@
(Complete Guide for New & Experienced RVers & Campers/ North American Edition)
Annual; 1,800 pp.
ISBN 0671647369
$13.95 ($15.30 postpaid) from:
Woodall Publishing Co.
100 Corporate North
Suite 100
Bannockburn, IL 60015

Also available:
Eastern Edition $8.95/$10.20 postpaid
Western Edition $8.95/$10.20 postpaid                 
State Editions $3.95/$5 postpaid
@@

##A 09 107613 246
##T Don WrightÕs Guide to Free Campgrounds USA
Don WrightÕs Guide to Free Campgrounds USA

@@

Six thousand of Õem no less, briefly described and located with reference to the nearest town. By states. DonÕt expect deluxe accommodations. Checking my own favorite locations, I find this listing to be trustable. 
 
                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 107792 247
##T Don WrightÕs Guide to Free Campgrounds USA
Don WrightÕs Guide to Free Campgrounds USA

@@
Don Wright
Fifth Edition 1988; 634 pp.
ISBN 0937877026
$14.95 ($16.95 postpaid) from:

Cottage Publications
24396 Pleasant View Drive
Elkhart, IN 46517
219-875-8618
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##A 09 93551 250
##T Escapees
Escapees

@@

ÒEscapeesÓ is a club serving the needs of those who live on the road. Membership includes free parking at a number of sites, and a useful newspaper. The club also operates the S-K-P Mail & Message Service, which gives you an official address and phoneÑ  both with forwarding capabilityÑfor about a dollar a week.

                                                            - J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 93826 251
##T Escapees
Escapees

@@
$40/year membership plus $5 enrollment fee 
(includes 6 newsletters, mail and message service, non profit co-op RV parks, and other membership  services)
 
from:

Escapees Club
Route 5, Box 310
Livingston, TX 77351
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##A 09 184414 254
##T The Complete Walker III
The Complete Walker III

@@
This venerable book has been around just about as long as the Whole Earth Catalogs, and like them, has been updated from time to time in order to keep current. The III version is a genuine revised edition; the editors claim itÕs 75 percent new. The latest in techno-twitics are considered in detail after being subjected to Mr. FletcherÕs traditional field testing. Material he has found worthy over the years remains intact, complete with a laconic humor sorely missing from most Deadly Serious Hiker writing. Usefulness is aided by a remarkable cross-referencing in the text that makes the overall logic of the authorÕs trail philosophy seem irrefutable without being dogmatic. ItÕs a good way to do a book of this sort; after 16 years, itÕs still the best around.
                                                                        
                                                                   Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 184614 255
##T The Complete Walker III
The Complete Walker III

@@
Colin Fletcher
Third Edition 1984; 668 pp.
ISBN 0394722647
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid) from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
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##A 09 185879 260
##T Land Navigation
Land Navigation


@@
WeÕve run reviews of many ÒWhere are we?Ó books over the years, but this one is easily the most clear and easy to use. Absolutely everything is explained in a way that does not subtly assume that you have a degree (so to speak) in advanced trigonometry. All those little symbols you see on maps are discussed, and after 25 years of trail experience I finally found out what those yellow square markers you see along trails are for. The author even gets into navigation with an altimeter!  And thereÕs a good chapter on finding your way by the starsÑincluding the Southern Hemisphere in case you end up in New Zealand. All this stuff is presented in a commendably relaxed way that makes it easy to remember without the book.

Ù REI for compasses
@@

##A 09 186119 262
##T Land Navigation
Land Navigation


@@
(The Sierra Club Guide to Map and Compass)
W. S. Kals
1983; 230 pp.
ISBN 0871563312
$8.95 ($11.95 postpaid) from:

Sierra Club Bookstore
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
415-776-2211
@@

##A 09 191337 264
##T Wilderness Search and Rescue
Wilderness Search and Rescue

@@

Walking through the woods hollering isnÕt the best way to find a lost kid. In fact, search turns out to be much more calculating than you might think. What to do when you find Õem can be even more complex. This professionalÕs textbook presents the state of the art. ItÕs a state thatÕs changing too. I worked as an Arctic-based rescuer 25 years ago, and I note with some alarm that nearly all the techniques we used have been supplanted by much more sophistication. Much higher rate of success too. This process isnÕt hidden by the author eitherÑhe boldly gives examples of failures in order to show the sense behind currently approved procedures. Thankfully, detailed shots of flat climbers are minimized as is the other evidence of macho-hero stuff that one sees all too often
@@

##A 09 191554 266
##T Wilderness Search and Rescue
Wilderness Search and Rescue

@@
Tim J. Setnicka
1980; 656 pp.
ISBN 0910146217
$19.95 ($21.95 postpaid) from:

Appalachian Mountain Club Books
5 Joy Street
Boston, MA 02108
@@

##A 09 151647 270
##T PackinÕ In On Mules and Horses
PackinÕ In On Mules and Horses

@@

Sometimes you can go farther, easier, using pack horses. HereÕs how. Those who will be hiring a guide service (which is
most of us probably) for pack trips can learn enough here to avoid
seeming laughably citified. ItÕs always smart to know what youÕre doing. Folks running pack trips might learn a  few tricks too.

                                                                - J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 152020 271
##T PackinÕ In On Mules and Horses
PackinÕ In On Mules and Horses

@@
Smoke Elser and Bill Brown
1980; 158 pp.
ISBN 0878421270
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid) from:

Mountain Press Publishing Co.
P. O. Box 2399 
Missoula, MT 59806
800-732-3669
@@

##A 09 102594 274
##T How to Get to the Wilderness Without a Car
How to Get to the Wilderness Without a Car

@@
Did it ever bother you to drive 700 miles so you could walk 20? It should. It bothered Lee Cooper enough that he did something about it. Found out where buses would come within three miles of a wilderness trail head, disembarked, and glided into the bush. Kept track of his travels, researched some others, and now offers a bookful. He shows you rough sketches of the connections, but no fares or time schedules because they change. HeÕs covered the popular parks of the West, leaving the part east of the Rockies undone for us to fill in on our own. This is the start of something awfully healthy.

                                                                     Ñ Kevin Kelly
Ù Traveling Light
@@

##A 09 129430 275
##T How to Get to the Wilderness Without a Car
How to Get to the Wilderness Without a Car

@@
Lee W. Cooper
Second Edition 1986; 213 pp.
ISBN 0960711619
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid) from:

Frosty Peak Books
P. O. Box 4073
Malibu, CA 90265-1373
213-477-6233
@@

##A 09 186985 277
##T Starting Small in the Wilderness
Starting Small in the Wilderness


@@
The grim possibility of having to drag a squalling brat down the trail to a rejected dinner and a soggy bed has kept many families from enjoying the beauties of wilderness adventure. Many unexpected problems can arise with the kiddies along, but with this long-needed book youÕll likely be able to handle things OK. Common problems such as where to get child-size equipment and what to do about picky eaters are discussed with a convincing knowledge that can only have been gained from the field experience of what must have been hundreds of families. The book deals with bike, canoe, and ski trips too. The tone is encouraging. The quality is high in the expected Sierra Club manner.                                                                                                                                                            

                                                               Ñ J. Baldwin
Ù Sharing Nature with Children
@@

##A 09 187177 278
##T Starting Small in the Wilderness
Starting Small in the Wilderness


@@
(The Sierra Club Outdoors Guide for Families)
Marilyn Doan
1979; 273 pp.
ISBN 0871562537
$8.95 ($11.95 postpaid) from:

Sierra Club Bookstore
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
@@

##A 09 105236 280
##T The Well-Fed Backpacker
The Well-Fed Backpacker

@@

A big sack of Twinkies will get you through an easy weekend hike, assuming the weather is mild and the altitude low. Otherwise 
youÕre going to need real food. The trail food found in camp supply stores is expensive and may not be to everyoneÕs taste.   What to do? This nifty book abounds in tasty recipes made up from
commonly available ingredients. ThereÕs a discussion of nutrition, advice on how to estimate how much to take with you, and a very useful chapter on the tricky business of winter cooking. IÕve used the book for many years. It works. 

                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 189393 281
##T The Well-Fed Backpacker
The Well-Fed Backpacker

@@
June Fleming
Revised Edition 1985; 181 pp.
ISBN 0394738047
$6.95 ($7.95 postpaid) from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 09 190247 284
##T Supermarket Backpacker
Supermarket Backpacker

@@

Choose recipes from this book.
Stock up on ingredients (by brand name) from local super.
Remix.
Repackage.
Eat well for cheap. 
                                                     - J. Baldwin

We lived on the Appalachian Trail using this method.

                                                     - Kevin Kelly
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##A 09 190616 285
##T Supermarket Backpacker
Supermarket Backpacker

@@
Harriett Barker
1977; 194 pp.
ISBN 0809273071
$10.95 ($12.95 postpaid) from:

Contemporary Books
180 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60601
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##A 09 77449 288
##T CAMPING GEAR INTRODUCTION
CAMPING GEAR INTRODUCTION

@@
How can you choose a parka, for instance, from an entirely excessive number of available models? You canÕt just ask, ÒWhatÕs the best parka?Ó You have to ask Òbest for my useÓ and be honest or you might end up with an expedition model suitable for your dream trip to Nepal instead of your shopping trip in Des Moines. The adage Òyou get what you pay forÓ doesnÕt apply unless you include stylishnessÑan increasingly important aspect of outdoor-wear marketing.

As usual, your best bet is to buy from a reputable dealer. We present a few of them here, but just a fewÑthere are many more good ones. The ones on these pages are folks weÕve learned to trust 
through good personal experience with their wares and service. 
                                                                    Ñ  J. Baldwin
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##A 09 209280 289
##T Lowe Packs 
Lowe Packs 

@@

Lowe packs arenÕt the only good ones around, but their unique suspension makes the usually maddening strap adjustments easy . LoweÕs traveler packs retract their harness to become chic luggage. Nice. Perhaps the most important feature of Lowe equipment is the corporate attitude that results in high quality stuff able to meet the most severe test. Must be because the brothers Lowe use their own wares.
                                              
                                                                   - J. Baldwin
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##A 09 209428 290
##T Lowe Packs 
Lowe Packs 

@@
Information free from:

Lowe Alpine Systems
P. O. Box 1449
Broomfield, CO 80020
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##A 09 78397 292
##T The North Face
The North Face

@@

The North Face is one of the biggest outfitters now, and still one of the best. Their dramatic catalog goes beyond mere description by offering a short course in how to choose and care for equipment (not necessarily theirs). 

                                                                - J. Baldwin
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##A 09 78602 293
##T The North Face
The North Face

@@
Catalog free  from:

The North Face
999 Harrison Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
415-527-9700
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##A 09 79377 295
##T REI
REI

@@

REI is the supermarketÑtheir catalog is huge and includes many brands besides their own, at several levels of quality. There is little explanation; you have to know what you need. Mail order service and warranty claims seem to be handled well. REI is a co-op offering members a dividend each December. IÕm a member.
                                                          
                                                                - J. Baldwin
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##A 09 79791 296
##T REI
REI

@@
Outdoor Gear and Clothing Catalog free  from:

Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI)
P. O. Box C-88126 
Seattle, WA 98188
206-395-3780
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##A 09 80554 299
##T StephensonÕs Warmlite
StephensonÕs Warmlite

@@

Engineer Jack StephensonÕs Warmlite designs are radical, controversial, and widely copied without credit. His catalog is a design treatise as radical as the equipment it shows. My Warmlite sleeping bag ( adjustable to an unusually wide temperature range) and tent(less than half the weight of most tents of similar size) have served me well for 18 years under a wide variety of conditions .
                                          
                                                              - J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 80864 300
##T StephensonÕs Warmlite
StephensonÕs Warmlite

@@
Catalog $3  from:

StephensonÕs Warmlite Equipment
R.F.D. 4 
Hook Road
Gilford, NH 03246
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##A 09 81627 302
##T L. L. Bean
L. L. Bean

@@

L. L. Bean continues as a bastion of traditional New England trail equipage, mixed now with more modern stuff as they cater a bit to current tastes. Their reputation is deservedly impeccable; their store  (open 24 hours) is a sight to behold if you can jam your way in. IÕve personally had very good service from BeanÕs for many years.
                                                                
                                                                - J. Baldwin
                                                       

Ù Clothing Supplies
@@

##A 09 81705 303
##T L. L. Bean
L. L. Bean

@@
Catalog free from:

L. L. Bean, Inc.
Freeport, ME 04033
800-221-4221
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##A 09 82678 305
##T Moss Tents
Moss Tents

@@

Bill MossÕs tents have ÒinspiredÕÕ nearly every other supplier of modern tents, but BillÕs are still the best in nearly every way.  They feature subtle shapes and colors that seem as natural as the landscape around them. I regularly use two Moss modelsÑboth superb.                                      
                        
                                                                  - J. Baldwin




Ù Moss Fabric Structures
@@

##A 09 82864 306
##T Moss Tents
Moss Tents

@@
Catalog free  from:

Moss Tents
P. O. Box 309
Camden, ME 04843
800-341-1557
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##A 09 83458 308
##T Patagonia
Patagonia

@@

First with pile garments that are notably warm under wet conditions, Patagonia continues to show competitors the way with their new Synchilla pile that resists pilling and Capilene polyester that doesnÕt hold body smells or lose its sweat-wicking ability. Add wild colors, snappy styling, and good workmanship, and, uh, what are the disadvantages? The only one I can see is that itÕs hard not to order one of each item. I regard PatagoniaÕs corporate attitude as especially fine; their products are just what is claimed. You see a lot of their stuff around our office.
                                                          
                                                            - J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 83758 309
##T Patagonia
Patagonia

@@
Catalog free from:

Patagonia
Mail Order
P.O. Box 86
Ventura, CA 93002
805-648-3386
@@

##A 09 60853 313
##T Brigade Quartermasters
Brigade Quartermasters

@@

Brigade Quartermasters have a military thrust to all they sell.  The Ramboness may or may not be to your taste, but the goods are military tough and free of stylistic fripperies.

                                                                  Ñ J. Baldwin






Ù U.S. Cavalry
@@

##A 09 222273 314
##T Brigade Quartermasters
Brigade Quartermasters

@@
Catalog $3 from:

Brigade Quartermasters, Inc.
1025 Cobb International Blvd.
Kennesaw, GA 30144-4349
800-228-7344
@@

##A 09 84724 318
##T CUSTOM BOOTS INTRODUCTION
CUSTOM BOOTS INTRODUCTION

@@

Custom boots are like having leather feet. No ready-made boots
can compare, especially if your feet are of unusual contour. My boots are Limmers (see review). TheyÕre still in good shape after 18 years of trail abuse. My feet are still in good shape after 18 years of trail abuse, too. Here are a few custom bootmakers weÕve learned to trust. The fit is guaranteed. No jogging shoe clones for these folks! 

                                                              - J. Baldwin
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##A 09 85086 319
##T Peter Limmer & Sons
Peter Limmer & Sons

@@

Peter Limmer & Sons make custom-fit, handcrafted hiking boots. TheyÕre distinctive enough to be recognizable; IÕve had many folks come up (wearing Limmers) and say, ÒHey, I see you got Limmers too!ÕÕ  These boots are unfashionably heavy duty these days,(about 5 lbs/pair) but IÕve yet to hear a complaint. You certainly wonÕt hear one from me, mine are among my most prized possessions.
                                                      
                                                                 - J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 85289 320
##T Peter Limmer & Sons
Peter Limmer & Sons

@@
Limmer Custom-Made Hiking Boots: $200 and up 
from:

Peter Limmer & Sons
P. O. Box 88
Intervale, NH 03845
803-356-5378

(11-12 month wait)
@@

##A 09 189116 322
##T Russell Moccasin Boots and Shoes
Russell Moccasin Boots and Shoes

@@

Russell is where you get real moccasins and moccasin boots. They have a bunch of styles. TheyÕll make Õem to fit, including your bunions. Tradition lives.                   

                                                                 - J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 198936 323
##T Russell Moccasin Boots and Shoes
Russell Moccasin Boots and Shoes

@@
Russell Moccasin Boots and Shoes: $65-$220.  Information free  from:

The W. C. Russell Moccasin Co.
285 SW Franklin
Berlin, WI 54923-0309
414-361-2252
@@

##A 09 157222 325
##T WhiteÕs Handmade Boots
WhiteÕs Handmade Boots

@@

WhiteÕs Handmade Boots come in a wide variety of styles sold
off-the-shelf, but theyÕll custom-fit you for an extra fifty bucks. You see their work adorning the feet of loggers, linemen, farmers and the like. Heaviest of the heavy-duty, they might outlast 
your feet.

                                                                - J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 157498 326
##T WhiteÕs Handmade Boots
WhiteÕs Handmade Boots

@@
$160-$300
Information free from:

WhiteÕs Boots
North 6116 Freya Street
Spokane, WA 99207
800-541-3786 
800-527-5430(WA)
@@

##A 09 39154 329
##T ROCK AND MOUNTAIN CLIMBING INTRODUCTION
ROCK AND MOUNTAIN CLIMBING INTRODUCTION

@@
You just gotta be right, is what it boils down to. No appeals prepared by your lawyer if you make a bad move. No excuses. Mind and body working together harmoniously (if not comfortably) in a way that canÕt be faked.  ThereÕs a scary ultimate reality to it all, a beauty that is hard to find in a protective and often posh society. Books and magazines just give an inkling.  Catalogs of esoteric and often expensive hardware tempt the beginner to think that you can buy your way into the game.  Nothing beats getting out there with a skilled teacherÑexcept getting out there by yourself when youÕve learned enough to be as safe as youÕre ever going to be. 
  
                                                                  Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 37918 330
##T Climbing
Climbing

@@

Bloodboiling (and bloodcurdling) stories, rousing controversy, and lots of awesome photographs elicit Wows from nonclimbers, and satisfied smirks from those who actually do such deeds. As is usual with this sort of magazine, the ads show the latest equipage more completely than do many catalogs.
                                                          
                                                               - J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 38306 331
##T Climbing
Climbing

@@
Michael Kennedy, Editor
ISSN 00457159
$18/year
(6 issues) from:

Climbing Magazine
P. O. Box E
Aspen, CO 81612
303-920-3802
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##A 09 36039 332
##T Ascent
Ascent

@@

ItÕs hard to tell fact from fiction in this collection of unusual mountain tales, but then aesthetics have always been an important part of climbing. The seventeen stories and two photo essays are sufficiently intense and clear-eyed to satisfy both ascender and ass-ender.
                                               
                                                            - J. Baldwin
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##A 09 36142 333
##T Ascent
Ascent

@@
(The Mountaineering Experience in Word and Image)
Steve Roper and Allen Steck, Editors
1984; 175 pp.
ISBN 0871568268
$25 ($28 postpaid) from:

Sierra Club Bookstore
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
@@

##A 09 36944 335
##T Mountaineering (The Freedom of the Hills)
Mountaineering (The Freedom of the Hills)

@@
By far the most sensitive and complete treatment of mountaineering available. Oriented around Pacific Northwest mountaineering, where trails often end miles before the peaks begin, it is particularly relevant to wilderness camping and travel. It is much more than a book on how to climb; it reflects several generations of a respectful relationship with mountains. If you move (or sit) where there are trees, rocks, snow and brush, it speaks to your terrain. 
                                   
                                                    Ñ Michael Templeton


Ù Camping Skills
@@

##A 09 37175 336
##T Mountaineering (The Freedom of the Hills)
Mountaineering (The Freedom of the Hills)

@@
Ed Peters, Editor
Fourth Edition 1982; 560 pp.
ISBN 0898860016
$17 postpaid  from:

The Mountaineers/Books
306 Second Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
800-553-4453
@@

##A 09 219445 338
##T Learning to Rock Climb
Learning to Rock Climb

@@
ItÕs a few years since I last climbed but this book makes me want to get a new pair of EBs and head for the cliffs.  The feel and exhilaration of climbing well are captured so faithfully as to almost overshadow the excellent photographs, diagrams, and descriptions of vital techniques.  Safety and use of equipment are covered in fine detail.  Climbing ethics are given the attention they deserve (prominent).  This book is for all climbers, not just learners.  I doubt it will be bettered for a long time, if ever.
                                                                   
                                                            Ñ Jonathan Evelegh
@@

##A 09 223843 339
##T Learning to Rock Climb
Learning to Rock Climb

@@
Michael Loughman
New Edition 1988; 192 pp.
ISBN 0871562812
$10.95 ($13.95 postpaid) from:

Sierra Club Books
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
@@

##A 09 3924 342
##T MOUNTAIN GEAR
MOUNTAIN GEAR

@@

Here are two purveyors of assorted mountaineering equipment. TheyÕve been highly recommended by climbers we know. There are many other stores. Choosing the stuff and the dealer who sells it is more a matter of experience and personal choice then is the case when you buy equipment for less demanding use. Your life depends on it.
                                      
                                                                 Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 18734 343
##T MOUNTAIN GEAR
MOUNTAIN GEAR

@@
International Mountain Equipment
Catalog free from:

International Mountain Equipment
P.O. Box 494
Main Street
North Conway, NH  03860
603-356-6316
@@

##A 09 124384 344
##T MOUNTAIN GEAR
MOUNTAIN GEAR

@@
Mountain Tools
Catalog free from:

Mountain Tools
P.O. Box 22788
Carmel, CA  93922
408-625-6222
@@

##A 09 40099 348
##T CAVING INTRODUCTION
CAVING INTRODUCTION

@@
Caving combines the sport of exploring caves with the science of speleology. Those who overcome claustrophobia and fear of the dark to master the skills of climbing, crawling, and finding oneÕs way underground are well rewarded.  Besides the sensual delight in rounded rock forms, in tiny hidden rooms and passage mazes far from the outside world, and in the discovery of secret places where few or no people have ever been before, cavers also find satisfaction in mapping caves and in learning about cave geology and biology.

                                                   Ñ Richard A. Watson
@@

##A 09 40983 349
##T Speleology
Speleology

@@

This is the only short introduction in English to the science of speleology. It shows that caving can be an intellectual activity of the highest rank. There are still many unsolved problems in cave science.                                      

                                                   - Richard A. Watson
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##A 09 41386 350
##T Speleology
Speleology

@@
(The Study of Caves)
George W. Moore and G. Nicholas Sullivan
1978; 150 pp.
ISBN 0914264222
$5.95 ($6.95 postpaid) from:

Cave Books
756 Harvard Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63130
@@

##A 09 42169 352
##T National Speleological Society
National Speleological Society

@@
You must be trained in safety techniques, and especially in conservation methods for the protection of caves, which
are relatively rare on Earth and which contain endangered
animal species and fragile rock formations. Anyone who wants to explore a cave should write for information to the only caving organization in the United States, The National Speleological Society.  NSS will get you in touch with cavers near you. 
                                                     
                                                     -  Richard A. Watson
@@

##A 09 42376 353
##T National Speleological Society
National Speleological Society

@@
Information free; Membership $25/year includes the monthly NSS News (available separately for $15; ISSN 00277010) and their biannual scientific journal, NSS Bulletin (ISSN 01469517; not available separately) 
From:

The National Speleological Society
Cave Avenue
Huntsville, AL 35810
205-852-1300
@@

##A 09 43143 354
##T Caving
Caving

@@

A good general guide to caving. When you are experienced you may disagree with the Larsons on some points, but they do provide an unambiguous standard for beginners. 
                                               
                                                     - Richard A. Watson
@@

##A 09 43481 355
##T Caving
Caving

@@
Lane and Peggy Larson
1982; 311 pp.

$10.95
($13.45 postpaid) from:

Sierra Club Bookstore
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109

or Whole Earth Access
@@

##A 09 44085 357
##T The Longest Cave
The Longest Cave

@@

This is the dramatic story of several generations of cavers whose exciting and dangerous explorations in KentuckyÕs limestone labyrinths culminated in the big connection between the Flint Ridge cave system and Mammoth Cave, forming the longest cave in the world (144 miles plus). Here is the romance and adventure of big time caving, told by two of the participants.

                                                           - Richard A. Watson
@@

##A 09 44497 358
##T The Longest Cave
The Longest Cave

@@
Roger W. Brucker and Richard A. Watson
1976, 1987; 316 pp.
ISBN 0809313227
$13.95 postpaid  from:

Southern Illinois University Press
P. O. Box 3697
Carbondale, IL 62901
618-453-2281
@@

##A 09 218530 361
##T Speleobooks
Speleobooks

@@

Cave books and maps may be had from this source.

                                                     Ñ Richard A. Watson
@@

##A 09 146360 362
##T Speleobooks
Speleobooks

@@
Catalog free from:

Speleobooks
P. O. Box 10
Schoharie, NY 12157
518-295-7978
@@

##A 09 76298 364
##T Teaching Children to Ski
Teaching Children to Ski

@@

Ever notice how there are a lot of kids skiing in pictures of Scandinavian ski slopes? For the most part, skiing there is still a low-glitz, family activity. If you want to start your youngÕuns early, read this book, which is based on the accumulated experience of its Scandinavian authors.
                                                 
                                                            - Richard Schauffler



Ù (teaching children about) Nature
@@

##A 09 76647 365
##T Teaching Children to Ski
Teaching Children to Ski

@@
Asbjšrn Flemmen and Olav Grosvold, translated by Michael Brady
1983; 176 pp.
ISBN 0880111658
 $9.95 ($10.70 postpaid ) from:

Leisure Press/Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc.
P. O. Box 5076
Champaign, IL 61820
@@

##A 09 65726 367
##T Cross-Country Skiing
Cross-Country Skiing

@@
This book accents technique and the learning thereof (kids are included too). The photographs are very fine; it must have been lots of work to get them all so clear. Most of the instruction is aimed at what backcountry skiers sometimes refer to as Òslot-carÓ skiingÑdoing your thing on prepared tracks and on groomed slopes. Nothing wrong with that though. ItÕs good to learn where there are fewer problems. ThatÕs where the racing action is too, another subject this book covers. 
                                                      
                                                               - J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 65853 368
##T Cross-Country Skiing
Cross-Country Skiing

@@
Ned Gillette and John Dostal
Second Edition 1984; 234 pp.
ISBN 0898860792
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid) from:

The Mountaineers Books
306 Second Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
800-553-4453
@@

##A 09 75270 371
##T Mountain Skiing
Mountain Skiing

@@
Another ski book. This one, however, concerns cross-country and Nordic skiing where the penalties tend to be more severe than on the groomed and patrolled slopes of Happy Valley.  Back in the boonies you need to know more than you are likely to get from a few hours with a handsome instructor. Lots of quite exceptional photographs show what you should look like out there, including detailed recovery from mistakes. The accompanying advice is the most experienced IÕve seenÑI wish IÕd been able to read it before spending time in Uncle SamÕs Ski Infantry. The point of view is state-of-the-art rather than traditional.  The attitude is friendly, jargon-free, and competent. The effect is to encourage you to greater things.
                                                                
                                                                 Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 75559 372
##T Mountain Skiing
Mountain Skiing

@@
Vic Bein
1982; 192 pp.
ISBN 0898860342
 $9.95 postpaid from:

The Mountaineers/Books
306 Second Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
800-553-4453
@@

##A 09 69928 375
##T ABC of Avalanche Safety
ABC of Avalanche Safety

@@
The best, clearest and most practical explanation of avalanches and avalanche safety IÕve read. Stresses understanding mountain weather, topography, and snow structure leading to avalanches so one can learn to avoid hazardous areas and travel safely on snow-covered mountains. It goes on to cover rescue and first aid procedures in detail and has a fine section on the use of avalanche rescue beacons. Dramatic photographs and excellent diagrams make this sometimes complex subject easy to understand. Frequent anecdotes make for interesting reading. Read it before heading out next winter; it could save your life.
                                                               
                                                            - Lance Alexander
@@

##A 09 70451 376
##T ABC of Avalanche Safety
ABC of Avalanche Safety

@@
E. R. La Chapelle
Second edition 1985; 112 pp.
ISBN 0898861039
 $3.95 postpaid from:

The Mountaineers
306 Second Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
@@

##A 09 64633 379
##T MovinÕ On
MovinÕ On

@@
When someone asks me to recommend a book on winter camping and hiking this is the one I tell Õem about. ItÕs the one I use. ItÕs a good memory-refresher for the experienced folks too. Be warned that winter camping is not easily fakedÑyou really need to know this stuff before you go.                                                                
                                                         
                                                               - J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 64824 380
##T MovinÕ On
MovinÕ On

@@
(Equipment & Techniques for Winter Hikers)
Harry Roberts
1977; 135 pp.
ISBN 0913276243
$8.95 ($10.95 postpaid) from:

Stone Wall Press, Inc.
1241 30th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20007
@@

##A 09 66650 382
##T Snowshoeing
Snowshoeing

@@
Bigfooting gracelessly along on snowshoes seems mighty slow at first, especially when compared to swoopy skiing.  Matter of fact, snowshoeing is even slower than dry-ground hiking. But then again youÕre unlikely to lose control on a steep slope, and you can plod your way through terrain and brush that would entangle or otherwise dismay a skier.  You can snowshoe right over tough stuff that would stop a summer hiker. You can stay afloat in all but the fluffiest deep snowÑsilently, privately, and inexorably. This compleat book tells you how. 

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 66881 383
##T Snowshoeing
Snowshoeing

@@
Gene Prater
Second Edition 1980; 176 pp.
ISBN 0916890988
$8.95 postpaid from:

The Mountaineers/Books
306 Second Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
800-553-4453
@@

##A 09 69118 385
##T Sherpa Snow-Claw Snowshoes
Sherpa Snow-Claw Snowshoes

@@
These designs in aluminum and neoprene may not look right if you love the traditional wood and rawhide, but they sure do work well. They work well in summer too: no rot, no porcupine damage, and no need to varnish. A built-in claw for slick conditions is a boon in the boondocks. The slim style and light weight reduces the dreaded mal dÕraquette, the severe pain caused by walking with legs a-spraddle. After a few miles, youÕll consider their looks as functional elegance.  

                                                          Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 69176 386
##T Sherpa Snow-Claw Snowshoes
Sherpa Snow-Claw Snowshoes

@@
$111-$149;
Information free
from:

Sherpa, Inc.
2222 Diversey
Chicago, IL 60647
@@

##A 09 67946 389
##T PORTABLE BOATS INTRODUCTION
PORTABLE BOATS INTRODUCTION

@@

Think of kayaking one of those pristine rivers you see in Alaska magazines. Nice, but how do you get a boat there? Or, more prosaically, wouldnÕt it be nice to have a boat with you on your vacation? Except you have to worry about it being stolen from your roof rack. The answer is a portable boat. They come in three basic types: skeleton-with-skin, sectional take-apart, and inflatable. I can tell you from happy experience that a portable will expand your horizons. TheyÕll store in a closet, too. The next five items are  examples of the breed.

                                                                     ÑJ. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 56057 390
##T Nimbus kayaks
Nimbus kayaks

@@

Certain conventional hard-shell models of the excellent Nimbus line of kayaks can be special ordered broken down into two, three, or more (as required) screw-together watertight sections. TheyÕre expensive (about $3000) but not nearly as expensive as other options if you need to airlift a boat. 
 
                                                               Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 56077 391
##T Nimbus kayaks
Nimbus kayaks

@@
Dealer list  free  from:

Nimbus Kayak Specialists
2330 Tyner Street, Unit 6
Port Coquitlam, BC
V3C 2Z1
CANADA
604-941-8138
@@

##A 09 56866 393
##T Klepper Aerius
Klepper Aerius

@@
Heavy-duty and tough enough for an Atlantic crossing (someone did it!), the Klepper nonetheless stows in a pair of dufflebags. Assembly of the elegantly crafted parts is easy, but it takes patience and discipline . The frame might well win a prize in a sculpture exhibit. You can sail and row Kleppers too. TheyÕre the
original, elegant, classic folding boat. 
                                                                 
                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 57201 394
##T Klepper Aerius
Klepper Aerius

@@
$2,000 (approx.)
Information free  from:

Klepper America
35 Union Square West
New York, NY 10003
212-243-3428
@@

##A 09 57954 396
##T Feathercraft
Feathercraft

@@
More bird than boat: the Feathercraft weighs less than 40 pounds, making it the lightest of its size available. The aluminum-tubing frame is shock-corded together in the manner often seen in backpacking tents.  The unassembled boat fits into one carrying bag equipped with padded shoulder straps. ThatÕs about as portable as you can get. 

                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 58168 397
##T Feathercraft
Feathercraft

@@
Information free 
$2,400-$3,798
 from:

Feathercraft Kayaks Ltd.
1244 Cartwright Street #4
Vancouver, BC
V6H 3R8
CANADA
604-681-8437
@@

##A 09 59000 399
##T Folbot
Folbot

@@
These well-proven domestic craft look a tad crude compared to a Klepper, but they work well enough. Most come in kit form, bringing the already low price within reach of just about anyone. The folding/unfolding procedure doesnÕt seem to be particularly finicky, but I notice that most Folbots IÕve seen are on roof racks, assembled.  
         
There are non-foldable Folbots too. 

                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 59257 400
##T Folbot
Folbot

@@
$400-$1150

Catalog $2 
from:

Folbot, Inc.
P. O. Box 70877
Charleston, SC 29415
800-528-9592
803-744-3483(SC)
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##A 09 48805 402
##T Metzeler Inflatables
Metzeler Inflatables

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These inflatables are more rigid than most others and are famous for taking a beating that would trash a folding kayak. Pull the plug, and they whup down to a 2'x2'x1' wad thatÕs tidy but no lighter than a kayak. Payloads can be as much as 900 pounds! Inflatables tend to be annoyingly or even impossibly skittish on windy, open water.                    

                                                           Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 61418 403
##T Metzeler Inflatables
Metzeler Inflatables

@@

$890-$4,695
Information free from:

Zodiac Group
6651 East 26th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90040
213-728-6081
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##A 09 47061 406
##T SEA KAYAKING INTRODUCTION
SEA KAYAKING INTRODUCTION

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After years of obscure cult status, sea kayaking is fast becoming mainstream (so to speak). With a sea Õyak you can go where no other boat dares ventureÑfjords, narrow inlets, tiny islands, or estuariesÑyet you can confidently scoot across open sea. The low windage and center of gravity make them far more seaworthy than more imposing craft. As with any relatively new sport, thereÕs an unruly variety of equipment available, accompanied by rousing controversy. Right now there are two basic types of sea kayak: pointy, English, high-performance designs that are fast and maneuverable but lacking in cargo space; and large volume, stable American designs that carry a lot and cope with conditions found along North American shores. Test-paddling before you buy is highly recommended. A firm grip on your wallet is also
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##A 09 48155 408
##T Guides to Sea Kayaking
Guides to Sea Kayaking

@@
Why note two books on the same subject? Both authors are among the most experienced sea kayakers in the world.  Both want you to join them, to gain the skills, to be safe, and to share the adventure. But they disagree on equipment and technique, sometimes taking opposing views (I was about to say opposite tacks) on critical matters such as self-rescue. Sea kayaking is a young sport. ItÕs hard to say who is rightÑperhaps both are. In any case, itÕs you who is going to be out there braving the elements. IÕd read everything available.

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 48420 409
##T Guides to Sea Kayaking
Guides to Sea Kayaking

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Derek C. HutchinsonÕs Guide to Sea Kayaking
Derek C. Hutchinson
1985; 122 pp.
ISBN 0931397006
$12.95 ($14.45 postpaid) from:

Pacific Search Press
222 Dexter Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98109
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##A 09 13329 410
##T Guides to Sea Kayaking
Guides to Sea Kayaking

@@
Sea Kayaking
(A Manual for Long-Distance Touring)
John Dowd
1983; 240 pp.
ISBN 0295966300
$9.95 $11.45 postpaid

from:
University of Washington Press
P.O. Box 50096
Seattle, WA  98145-5096
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##A 09 49454 412
##T Sea Kayaker
Sea Kayaker

@@

Equipment, adventures, latest techniques (usually discovered the hard way), safety, and the wonder of it all are well served in this quarterly. The magazine is unusually well done aesthetically, in keeping with the subjects attended. Even non-kayakers will find it intriguing.

                                                           Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 49780 413
##T Sea Kayaker
Sea Kayaker

@@
John Dowd, Editor
ISSN 08293279
$10/year
(4 issues) from:

Sea Kayaker
6327 Seaview Avenue NW
Seattle, WA 98107
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##A 09 50674 415
##T KAYAK DEALERS
KAYAK DEALERS

@@
By J. Baldwin

We used to list some dealers back when there were only a few. 
Now that sea kayaking and rowing is getting mainstream (so to
speak) there are many dealers all over this country and Canada. 
Look for them in Sea Kayaking magazine (see previous review), or your local Yellow Pages if you live near where the action  is.
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##A 09 34989 416
##T Yakima Roof Racks
Yakima Roof Racks

@@
Lemme see . . . an ideal rack would be sturdy, lockable, adaptable to any load (boats, bikes, skis, luggage,  plywood), and fit any car, including the new ones without rain gutters. You got it!  Note that this rackÕs round-tube design permits it to accommodate oddly
shaped rooflines better than most of its competition. Costs about the same as most Òfactory racksÓ  car dealers try to sell you, but is stronger and more versatile than nearly all of them.  And the Yakima can be removed when you donÕt need it, reducing wind drag and howl, and obstacles to the washrag. Flaws? Well, the parts can be awkward to store on board a small car, and the roof clamps can damage trim on some cars . NobodyÕs perfect. 

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
Ù BICYCLES
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##A 09 35326 417
##T Yakima Roof Racks
Yakima Roof Racks

@@
Catalog $1 
Brochure free from:

Yakima Racks
P. O. Drawer 4899
Arcata, CA 95521
707-822-2908
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##A 09 27346 420
##T CANOEING INTRODUCTION
CANOEING INTRODUCTION

@@
ItÕs just you and the water and a simple, silent, responsive craft. ThatÕs not news: people have been paddling for thousands of years. The news is imaginative designs made possible by modern materials. Kayaks weigh half what they did ten years ago. Same for canoes, and the better brandsÑMad River is a good oneÑhave adapted sophisticated shapes that have finally left the birchbark look behind. Whitewater canoes are now nearly indestructible; IÕve criminally abused my Blue Hole 16-footer for years and it still works fine.  Rowing boats used to be so fragile that only a few specially-trained people could use them. Now anyone can join the fun. WeÕre not showing a bunch of boats here, because there are
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##A 09 27751 422
##T CANOEING INTRODUCTION
CANOEING INTRODUCTION

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Mad River Canoes
Catalog $1 from:

Mad River Canoes
P. O. Box 610W,
Waitsfield, VT 05673.
802-496-3127
@@

##A 09 71268 423
##T CANOEING INTRODUCTION
CANOEING INTRODUCTION

@@
Blue Hole Canoes
Information free  from:

The Blue Hole Canoe Co.
Sunbright, TN 37872.
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##A 09 28658 424
##T Canoe
Canoe

@@
After a bit of struggle, this magazine now serves all canoers and kayakers, and quite nicely too. CanoeÕs December issue features a BuyerÕs Guide thatÕs the only place you can compare (on paper) all available brands. 

                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 28750 425
##T Canoe
Canoe

@@
Dave Harrison, Editor-in-Chief
ISSN 03607496f
$15/year
(6 issues) from:

Canoe
P. O. Box 3146
Kirkland, WA 98083
206-827-6363
@@

##A 09 29570 427
##T Canoeing Handbook
Canoeing Handbook

@@
Paddle power is what this book is about: canoes and kayaks of every sort used for touring, racing, and frolic. What makes the book special is the inclusion of lesser-known subjects such as sea and surf kayaks, sailing canoes, and instruction for disabled folks. If your arms work OK, you can probably go boating. Design, equipment choice, technique, and training are all discussed for the many kinds of boats and water conditions. ÒComprehensiveÓ would be a fair description here. The British viewpoint and word use is useful and not a hindrance. 

                                                           Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 29846 428
##T Canoeing Handbook
Canoeing Handbook

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Geoff Good, Editor
1983; 349 pp.
$18.75 postpaid from:

Sea Trek
Schoonmaker Point 
Foot of Spring Street
Sausalito, CA 94965
415-332-4457
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##A 09 32788 429
##T Small Craft Inc.
Small Craft Inc.

@@
Needlecraft are a far cry from the traditional seaworthy workboats that have graced our shores for centuries.  You can still get the older styles, some in modern materials.  But lately there has been a great surge of creativity in long, thin shells that practically fly over the water. Rowing is great aerobic training too, incomparably more aesthetic than (ugh) rowing machines. Small Craft carries a variety of equipment. Their expertise is boundless. 
                                                                
                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 33211 430
##T Small Craft Inc.
Small Craft Inc.

@@
Brochure free  from:

Small Craft Inc.
59 Brunswick Avenue
Moosup, CT 06354
203-564-2751
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##A 09 30661 431
##T The Entry-Level Guide to Canoeing & Kayaking
The Entry-Level Guide to Canoeing & Kayaking


@@
The editors of Canoe magazine publish this guide once a year. ItÕs especially good for helping you decide what equipment you need 
(the ads are pure catnip) and encouraging you to use it well. There are articles on elementary technique, renting, and places to learn. But itÕs the adventure stories, tantalizingly illustrated with calendar photographs, that are gonna getcha . . . 
                                                              
                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 30913 432
##T The Entry-Level Guide to Canoeing & Kayaking
The Entry-Level Guide to Canoeing & Kayaking


@@
Dave Harrison, Editor-in-Chief
ISSN 03607496
$3.95/year
(annual) from:

Canoe
P. O. Box 3146
Kirkland, WA 98083
206-827-6363
@@

##A 09 31992 434
##T Canoecraft
Canoecraft

@@
A person of modest means and skills can actually build one of these ÒstripperÓ canoes by following the extraordinarily complete procedures in this book. The authors lead you through the scary parts, never assuming you already know how to Òtrim the remaining tips flush with the inner stem.Ó ThereÕs none of the subtle snobbery found in so many boatbuilding books. Complete parts lists and sources are provided along with the advice. Who can resist the cover shot? Next winterÕs work awaits you . . . . 

                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin


Ù The WEST SYSTEMª
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##A 09 32021 435
##T Canoecraft
Canoecraft

@@
(A Harrowsmith Illustrated Guide to Fine Woodstrip Construction)
Ted Moores and Merilyn Mohr
1983; 145 pp.
ISBN 0920656242
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid) 
from:

Harrowsmith
The Creamery
Charlotte, VT 05445
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##A 09 33831 437
##T Canoe Poling
Canoe Poling

@@

Canoe UPstream for a change, even in whitewater. Edge your way down streams that would be impossible to paddle. Sneak along through mangrove swamps. ThatÕs what poling technique can make possible. This book is scruffily produced, but it has everything you need to know and is well illustrated. The same folks will sell you a fine aluminum pole. I have one and it works better than youÕd believe. 

                                                                 Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 34126 438
##T Canoe Poling
Canoe Poling

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Al, Syl and Frank Beletz
1974; 148 pp.
 $6.95 postpaid from:

A. C. Mackenzie River Press
P. O. Box 9301
Richmond Heights Station
Richmond Heights, MO 63117
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##A 09 131325 441
##T SAILING INTRODUCTION
SAILING INTRODUCTION

@@
Boats, IÕm abundantly convinced, are better for building competence and mental health than any other toyÑskis, airplanes, performance cars, or interactive graphic computers. It has something to do with operating on the wildly various interface between the two fluids, water and air. It takes balance 
Ñwhether youÕre in a kayak or a 75-foot sailboatÑand real or threatened dunkings drive the lessons of balance into your fibre.

And beyond that, if theyÕre lived with, boats teach aesthetics. They canÕt help it. 

                                                      Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 09 132187 442
##T The Handbook of Sailing
The Handbook of Sailing

@@
ÒThis is the hullÓ is where the instruction starts; utterly Level One. But you wonÕt stay there long, because it goes on to include the underlying logic of the moves, encouraging you to make them part of your thought process. Basic sailing technique is illustrated with small open boats (including catamarans) of the sort most often used by learners. The drawings and photographs are exceptionally good, detailed enough to show such fine points as preferred body English. More advanced technique is presented applied to ocean-going craft. Comprehensive and free of jargon, the information is easily available to the most lubberly of landlubbers. 
                                                          
                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 132491 443
##T The Handbook of Sailing
The Handbook of Sailing

@@
Bob Bond
1980; 352 pp.
ISBN 0394508386
$22.50 ($23.50 postpaid) from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
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##A 09 134356 445
##T Chapman Piloting
Chapman Piloting

@@

For reference on board stick by ÒChapmanÕs.Ó In print since 1922, now in its 58th edition, this is the only available one-volume complete introduction to running a boatÑfrom its excellent intro to nautical terminology through navigation, rules of the road, flag bloody etiquette, weather, electronics, boat trailering, the whole wet gamut. That it is not at all restricted to sailboats helps broaden and inform the otherwise narrow windblown mind.

                                                               Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 09 134635 446
##T Chapman Piloting
Chapman Piloting

@@
(Seamanship & Small Boat Handling)
Elbert S. Maloney
58th Edition 1987; 624 pp.
ISBN 0688058906
$25 ($27 postpaid) from:

William Morrow Publishing Company
6 Henderson Drive
West Caldwell, NJ 07006
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##A 09 154204 448
##T Celestial Navigation Step By Step
Celestial Navigation Step By Step

@@
There are scores of navigation books in print today. They can be divided into two neat categoriesÑthose that teach both theory and practice and those that try to simplify things by teaching practice alone. Being a person who believes that understanding the why is as important as understanding the how, I donÕt think much of the simplified books. What I do like are books that teach me to think my way through a problem. One that does that is Celestial Navigation Step By Step. ItÕs filled with examples and problems, with solutions, and is written with style, which is unusual for this type of book. 

                                                          Ñ Peter Spectre

Ù Land Navigation
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##A 09 154387 449
##T Celestial Navigation Step By Step
Celestial Navigation Step By Step

@@
Warren Norville
Second Edition 1984; 250 pp.
ISBN 0877421773
$22.50 ($25.50 postpaid) from:

International Marine Publishing Co.
Route 1
P.O. Box 220
Camden, ME 04843
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##A 09 142188 451
##T One Day Celestial Navigation
One Day Celestial Navigation

@@
What if you miss Hawaii? ItÕs just that sort of fear that drives folks to involve themselves with the traditional weighty volumes and complex worksheets that make Hegel seem simple by comparison. But you neednÕt fret. This skinny book gives you what you need to know to fetch Diamond Head, though you may have to do a bit of unprofessional dog-legging to do so. YouÕll be successful, which is more than you can be sure of using more complex techniques you donÕt fully understand. The methods shown here are simple enough, but you will have to make that Òone dayÓ a disciplined one. Two people learning together will help, and thatÕll give you the advantage of having more than one person aboard with navigation skillsÑa useful safety factor. The author also takes you through the steps for checking the accuracy of the shipÕs
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##A 09 150324 453
##T One Day Celestial Navigation
One Day Celestial Navigation

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(For Offshore Sailing)
Otis S. Brown
Fourth Edition 1988; 133 pp.
ISBN 0897091329
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid) from:

Liberty Publishing Company, Inc.
440 South Federal Highway
Suite B-3
Deerfield Beach, FL 33441
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##A 09 195542 456
##T Weather for the Mariner
Weather for the Mariner

@@

IÕve been watching weather books since I was an obsessive teen. This one surpasses all the others as far as IÕm concerned. ItÕs sufficiently and fascinatingly technical without interrupting the comprehensive clarity that makes it so unique. It is a working text for people who live or die by the weather. No reason to limit its use to mariners. 

                                                          Ñ Stewart Brand



Ù Weather
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##A 09 195820 457
##T Weather for the Mariner
Weather for the Mariner

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William J. Kotsch
Third Edition 1983; 315 pp.
ISBN 0870217569
$17.95 ($20.95 postpaid) from:

U. S. Naval Institute Press
Attn: Customer Service
2062 Generals Highway
Annapolis, MD 21401-6780
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##A 09 224335 461
##T Hornblower Saga
Hornblower Saga

@@
One of the all-time great nautical adventures is the Hornblower series depicting British Empire naval action at its best.  ThereÕs cutlasses and muskets aplenty, just as youÕd expect.  Less expected, but very welcome is a highly detailed account of life aboard ships-of-the-line, complete with the deck operations necessary for sailing the huge square riggers.  Hot-blooded!  Salty!  Avast there . . . .(The same author wrote the African Queen.)
                                                                      
                                                               Ñ J. Baldwin



Ù Reading
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##A 09 224638 462
##T Hornblower Saga
Hornblower Saga

@@
Hornblower Saga
C. S. Forester
1966-1978; 300 pp.
$7.95 each ($9.45 each postpaid) from:

Little, Brown & Co.
200 West Street
Waltham, MA 02254

Fourteen volumes.  Audio version of Commodore Hornblower available; go to last card of this review for access info and sound clip.
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##A 09 66071 466
##T Hornblower Saga
Hornblower Saga

@@
Commodore Hornblower Tape Version
C.S. Forester
Read by Richard Green
7 - 1 1/2 hr. cassettes
$56 ($60 postpaid; CA residents add 6% sales tax); Rental $15.50  from:

Books on Tape
P.O. Box 7900
Newport Beach, CA  92658
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##A 09 116214 467
##T The Essential Knot Book
The Essential Knot Book

@@

Just the knots youÕre likely to actually need; diagrammed,
photographed, and untangled. This is the knot book youÕll keep on board.

                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin





Ù Moving Heavy Things
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##A 09 116310 468
##T The Essential Knot Book
The Essential Knot Book

@@
Colin Jarman
1984; 85 pp.
ISBN 0877421919
$8.95 ($10.95 postpaid) from:

International Marine Publishing Company
Route 1
P.O. Box 220
Camden, ME 04843
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##A 09 223140 470
##T Ashley Book of Knots
Ashley Book of Knots

@@

Nearly four thousand knots are presented, complete with instructions, uses, diagrams and associated lore in this classic. Amazing!

                                                           Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 223498 471
##T Ashley Book of Knots
Ashley Book of Knots

@@
Clifford W. Ashley
1944; 620 pp.
ISBN 0385040253
$27.95 ($29.95 postpaid) from:

Doubleday & Co.
501 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
800-223-6834
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##A 09 114965 475
##T Boardsailing
Boardsailing

@@

Unlike other high-speed sports that intimately pit you against the laws of physics, boardsailing (windsurfing) carries little threat of death or maiming. But you still have to know what youÕre doing or no thrillsÑjust disconsolate swimming. The authors of this book remember what it feels like to be a beginner. The pictures and instructions are just what you need to get started. Figure on getting wet. 

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 115246 476
##T Boardsailing
Boardsailing

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(A BeginnerÕs Manual)
Charles Wand-Tetley and John Heath
1986; 48 pp.
ISBN 0877422192
$6.95 ($8.95 postpaid) from:

International Marine Publishing Company
Route 1
P.O. Box 220
Camden, ME 04843
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##A 09 91465 478
##T WindRider
WindRider


@@

Advanced technique, competition, product tests, interesting ads, and, oh MY, stunning color photographs of people doing exuberantly drastic maneuvers. YUM! 

                                                      Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 92309 479
##T WindRider
WindRider


@@
Terry Snow, Publisher
ISSN 02794659
$11.97/year (8 issues)
 from:

WindRider
P. O. Box 183
Mt. Morris, IL 61054
305-628-4802
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##A 09 136557 482
##T Bare-Boating
Bare-Boating

@@
Put your bathing suit back on; this is about how to go sailing without owning a boat (or having it own you). There are a lot of sailors whoÕd like to spend their once-a-year vacation at sea, but canÕt afford to keep a boat the rest of the time. Bare-boat charters are for them (us). At first, the prices asked seem outrageous, but theyÕre not if you are honest about what it really costs to keep a boat in the family. Moreover, if you have some friends (theyÕd better be good ones), you can share the costs down to a more reasonable size. This very complete book will help you decide what sort of boat you need, how to get it, how to get familiar with it, and where to sail it. Reading this is the first step to that Bahamas dream. 
                                                        
                                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 136803 483
##T Bare-Boating
Bare-Boating

@@
Brian M. Fagan
1985; 276 pp.
ISBN 0877421730
$17.95 ($20.95 postpaid) from:

International Marine Publishing Company
Route 1
P.O. Box 220
Camden, ME 04843
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##A 09 137688 485
##T Living Aboard
Living Aboard

@@

If you want to keep your simplicity voluntary, thereÕs nothing like a small mobile home on a large mobile environment to enforce it.  This is a dense practical guide to boat living, the best of its kind.
                                                                        
                                                            Ñ Stewart Brand






Ù Trailers and RVs
@@

##A 09 137763 486
##T Living Aboard
Living Aboard

@@
(The Cruising Sailboat as a Home)
Jan and Bill Moeller
1977; 305 pp.
ISBN 0877420793

OUT OF PRINT  

International Marine Publishing Company
21 Elm Street
Camden, ME 04843
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##A 09 135478 489
##T Cruising Under Sail
Cruising Under Sail

@@
The hardcore Whole Earth readership must chafe whenever they see a book called essential or Òmust reading,Ó but dammit you 
canÕt know too much about a boat at sea if youÕre going to be on one. Hiscock has spent his entire adult life on them (three boats of his own named Wanderer), sailed all seas, and kept his eyes, mind, and friendship open the whole while. His books are technically complete, redolent with examples, and filled with the blood of shared experiencesÑat least half his wisdom comes from the next boat over. Which is another thing: there is a kind of fifth world out there sailing, a populous, mobile society making the world its neighborhood and with the self-consciousness and gossip (from the German for GodÕs family) to cover it all.
                                                                      
                                                            Ñ George Putz
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##A 09 135876 490
##T Cruising Under Sail
Cruising Under Sail

@@
Eric Hiscock
1981; 551 pp.
ISBN 087742215X
$19.95 ($22.95 postpaid) from:

International Marine Publishing Company
Route 1
P.O. Box 220
Camden, ME 04843
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##A 09 133365 492
##T Sailing on a Micro-Budget
Sailing on a Micro-Budget

@@

Yachtsmen may blanch at the very title of this book, but statistics donÕt lie; there is a ratio between boat size and how often it gets usedÑthe bigger, the lesser. WhatÕs available in smaller (mostly trailerable) boats and what one may expect from them is examined here in sprightly fashionÑenough to make you think mad thoughts. If you canÕt sail that $300,000 dreamboat to Bora Bora, then perhaps you might consider a weekend at Lake Tehatchapoocoo? Indeed! Hold on a minute while I get my sneakers and suntan oil. 

                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 133525 493
##T Sailing on a Micro-Budget
Sailing on a Micro-Budget

@@
Larry Brown
1984; 163 pp.
ISBN 0915160803
$14.95 postpaid from:

Simon & Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 09 196547 497
##T WoodenBoat
WoodenBoat

@@

ItÕs easy to use the phrase Òlovingly craftedÓ when looking at a wooden boat in good shape. This magazine is done in the same spirit. It celebrates wooden-boat building and the mindwork that applies thereto. Technique, attitude, inspiration, humor (and occasionally lying) are all attended to in traditional-yet-not-stodgy articles adorned with classy photos and drawings. The advertisements are classy tooÑtheyÕre a great source of rare tools and materials.
                                                    
                                                           Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 09 196686 498
##T WoodenBoat
WoodenBoat

@@
Jonathan Wilson, Editor
ISSN 0095067X
$18/year
(6 issues) from:

WoodenBoat
P. O. Box 956
Farmingdale, NY 11737
800-227-7585
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##A 09 7031 500
##T Small Boat Journal
Small Boat Journal

@@

This pleasing magazine deals with all small craft and isnÕt fussy about what theyÕre made of.  The many how-to articles are well-researched and mercifully free of jargon and snobbery.  Product
tests appear to be done without suspicious adulations of major
advertisersÕ offerings. Adventure stories abound. Yum.
                                                             
                                                            Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 7262 501
##T Small Boat Journal
Small Boat Journal

@@
Thomas Baker, Editor
ISSN 01927396
$16.95/year (6 issues)
 from:

Small Boat Journal
P. O. Box 400
Bennington, VT 05201
802-442-3101
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##A 09 226005 503
##T International Marine Publishing Company
International Marine Publishing Company


@@

This outfit is the best place to find quality books concerning things boatish, be it history, nostalgia, humour, buying, fixing, restoring, or just reproductions of pretty nautical paintings. Everything really well done. This is a catalog you can trust.  

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 226359 504
##T International Marine Publishing Company
International Marine Publishing Company


@@
Catalog free from:

International Marine Publishing Co.
Route 1
P. O. Box 220
Camden, ME 04843
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##A 09 224897 505
##T MAIL-ORDER MARINE SUPPLIES
MAIL-ORDER MARINE SUPPLIES

@@
The arch-rivals of the mail-order marine supply houses are GoldbergsÕ and Defender. GoldbergsÕ has the fancier catalog and the largest variety if you count the clothing section. DefenderÕs more modest publication has few clothes but stocks extensive fiberglass supplies not found with its competitor. Prices and sales fluctuate; I shop both when I want something. 

Note that these catalogs are a lode of hardware not found in local stores or even Sears. With a bit of imagination, marine hardware can be adapted to uses undreamed of by the manufacturer. Lots of 12-volt stuff; lots of kerosene lamps; lots of nifty fittings, skylights, vents, and tools. I shop here often and I donÕt own a boat.                  
                                                                   Ñ J. Baldwin
Ù Hardware Suppliers
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##A 09 225462 506
##T MAIL-ORDER MARINE SUPPLIES
MAIL-ORDER MARINE SUPPLIES

@@
Defender Industries
Catalog $2 from:

Defender Industries, Inc.
P.O. Box 820
255 Main Street
New Rochelle, NY  10802-0820
914-632-3001
@@

##A 09 159701 507
##T MAIL-ORDER MARINE SUPPLIES
MAIL-ORDER MARINE SUPPLIES

@@
GoldbergsÕ Marine
Catalog $2 from:

GoldbergsÕ Marine
330 Oregon Avenue
P.O. Box 2597
Philadelphia, PA 19147-0597
800-BOATING
@@

##A 09 124818 511
##T BOATBUILDING INTRODUCTION
BOATBUILDING INTRODUCTION

@@

One of lifeÕs true pleasures is the moment when you first step aboard a boat youÕve made. As with most such victories, there is a price: an enervating time delay between start and launch, a worrisome drain on finances, and a statistically high probability that the project will take so much time that your friends and even your mate will turn to more interesting companionship. Nonetheless the temptation is hard to resist.
  
                                                                     Ñ J. Baldwin


Ù WOODWORKING
@@

##A 09 127846 512
##T Build the New Instant Boats ¥ Instant Boat Plans
Build the New Instant Boats ¥ Instant Boat Plans

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Boatbuilder ÒDynamiteÓ Payson and naval architect Philip BolgerÑ  a resourceful and clever cahoots if there ever was oneÑwould have us believe that you can make a perfectly good boat without lofting, jigs, or exotic technique, out of lumberyard wood, quickly. The actual time involved depends on how much experience you have and which of the 11 designs you choose, but several can reasonably be completed in one weekend. Cheap, too; a nifty little sailboat just right for beginners and kids can be had for about $50 and two daysÕ work. ThatÕs about as instant as you are likely to get. I can vouch that it can be done.  Mr. Payson sells plans, too.
                                                                        
                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 128116 513
##T Build the New Instant Boats ¥ Instant Boat Plans
Build the New Instant Boats ¥ Instant Boat Plans

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Build the New Instant Boats
Harold H. Payson
1984; 144 pp.
ISBN 0877421870
$19.95 ($22.95 postpaid) from:

International Marine Publishing Co.
Route 1
P. O. Box 220
Camden, ME 04843
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##A 09 94191 514
##T Build the New Instant Boats ¥ Instant Boat Plans
Build the New Instant Boats ¥ Instant Boat Plans

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Instant Boat Plans
Harold H. Payson

Catalog $3 from:

Harold H. Payson
Pleasant Beach Road
South Thomaston, ME 04858
207-594-7587
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##A 09 126973 518
##T Building Classic Small Craft
Building Classic Small Craft

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For those who wish to build in the smaller sizeÑrowing boats, small daysailers, utilitiesÑBuilding Classic Small Craft by John Gardner is the book. The author is an experienced builder with a solid reputation for skill and the ability to make all processes easy to understand. Though he favors boats of traditional design, he has the good sense to adapt todayÕs materials and techniques where applicable. One is able to have, with a clear conscience, 
oneÕs cake and eat it too. ThereÕs now a Volume 2; more of same. 
                                                 
                                                          Ñ Peter Spectre
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##A 09 127164 519
##T Building Classic Small Craft
Building Classic Small Craft

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John Gardner
1977 (vol. 1; 300 pp.)
1984 (vol. 2; 241 pp.)
ISBN 0877420653/1579

$30 (vol. 1;$34 postpaid); $35 
(vol. 2;$39 postpaid)  from:

International Marine Publishing Co.
Route 1
P. O. Box 220
Camden, ME 04843
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##A 09 125872 521
##T The Boat Repair Manual
The Boat Repair Manual

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Every imaginable sort of damage to every imaginable sort of boat
made from every imaginable sort of material is considered in this
intricately detailed book. Though the author and his consulting
experts assume that you have some experience with tools, the
book is not intimidating; most anyone with some sense can use it to advantage. Even if youÕre not into making your own repairs, 
youÕll want a copy along with you on a long voyage just in case. 
ItÕll  help you make good decisions at the boatyard too. This book is exceptionally well done in every respect, definitely the one to buy.

                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 126103 522
##T The Boat Repair Manual
The Boat Repair Manual

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George Buchanan
1984; 312 pp.
ISBN 0668061677
$29.95 ($31.45 postpaid) from:

Arco/Simon & Schuster
Order Dept. 
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 09 227261 525
##T Practical Yacht Joinery
Practical Yacht Joinery

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How to put that yacht together so it stays together and looks nice whilst doing so.  It is assumed that you are reasonably smart, and that you have some skill, and that you speak a bit of yacht-talk.  The whole yacht-builderÕs toolbox is discussed in great detail before getting to actual woodworking.  The woodworking is discussed in such detail that anyone, including a longtime professional, is likely to find many useful tricks of the trade.  Some of the details will be useful to landlubbing greenhouse builders who wish to delay Dreaded Rot by clever water-shedding joints, something not covered in carpentry books.  The text is terse and encourages one to appreciate the finer things in yacht-construction subtleties.  As youÕd expect, illustrations and photos make things easier to see.  Much more of this and pros will be a dime a dozen!                                                Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 227506 526
##T Practical Yacht Joinery
Practical Yacht Joinery

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(Tools, Techniques, Tips)
Fred P. Bingham
1983; 274 pp.
ISBN 0877421404
$35 ($39 postpaid) from:

International Marine Publishing Co.
Route 1
P.O. Box 220
Camden, ME 04843
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##A 09 166377 529
##T Glen-L Boat Plans
Glen-L Boat Plans

@@

Glen-L is a good source of plans for all sorts of boats, including ski and house. Patterns are full size like a gift from heaven.
                                                                 
                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 166494 530
##T Glen-L Boat Plans
Glen-L Boat Plans

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Catalog $3 from:

Glen-L Marine Designs
9152 Rosecrans
Bellflower, CA 90706
213-630-6258
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##A 09 167325 532
##T Luger Boat Kits
Luger Boat Kits

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Luger makes boat kitsÑby far the easiest way to build your own craft, and probably the cheapest if you are not experienced.
These kits are fiberglass-hulled, everything premolded for you.
Your job is assembling and finishing the various parts. How fancy
you get with the interior is up to you. If you do a good job and 
keep a cool head ordering goodies, youÕll save about 50% over the
cost of a factory finished boat. My experience around the water-   front suggests that just about anyone can execute a good kit boat
if they are realistic about the frustration and time involved;
working when you want to be sailing takes nerves of steel.

                                                                 Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 09 167573 533
##T Luger Boat Kits
Luger Boat Kits

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Catalog free  from:

Luger Boats, Inc.
P. O. Box 1398
St. Joseph, MO 64502
816-233-5116
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##A 09 110795 537
##T SCUBA INTRODUCTION
SCUBA INTRODUCTION

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AT FIRST GLANCE, a scuba diver must seem like some kind of masochist: swathed in neoprene; harnessed to a cylinder of compressed gases; festooned with hoses, regulators and gauges; 20-some-odd pounds of lead strapped around the waist, like middle-age spread gone wild.

Dip below the surface of the water, though, and that encumbrance melts into the background. Diving is as close as most of us will ever come to the weightlessness of space, in an environment as alien as can be found on this planet.

People today are diving in just about any body of water that happens to be handy: from the warm tropics to the frigid north, in
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##A 09 109648 539
##T Open Water Sport Diver Manual
Open Water Sport Diver Manual

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Of the courses available, IÕm most impressed with JeppesenÕs. It is currently taught by the YMCA, NAUI, SSI, PDIC, NASE, and many PADI instructors, and meets the requirements of all other diving certification agencies. They have a good manual that emphasizes the development of safe diving habits, a thorough understanding of diving principles, and a respect for the underwater environment. TheyÕre also on top of the latest research. Using the findings from recent ultrasound bubble detection tests, theyÕve revised their dive tables to show much more conservative no-decompression limits than the U.S. Navy tables in common use.

                                                                  Ñ David Burnor
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##A 09 109851 540
##T Open Water Sport Diver Manual
Open Water Sport Diver Manual

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Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc.
1984; 289 pp.
ISBN 0884871045
$10.35 postpaid from:

Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc.
55 Inverness Drive East
Englewood, CO 80112
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##A 09 112074 542
##T Undercurrent
Undercurrent

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There are a number of slick diving magazines available, but each month I look forward to a slim newsletter called Undercurrent. 
ItÕs like a Consumer Reports of the diving industry. With no paid ads, theyÕre not beholden to anyone. Like restaurant reviewers, their critics visit diving resorts anonymouslyÑgetting the same treatment that you willÑand present a full report, warts and all. Unbiased equipment evaluations, practical consumer advice, and sound safety tips round out each issue.

                                                          Ñ David Burnor
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##A 09 112265 543
##T Undercurrent
Undercurrent

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(The Private, Exclusive Guide for Serious Divers)
Ben Davison, Editor
ISSN 01920871
$45/year
(11 issues) from:

Undercurrent
Atcom Building
2312 Broadway
New York, NY 10024-4397
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##A 09 113132 545
##T DAN - DiversÕ Alert Network
DAN - DiversÕ Alert Network

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Given good instruction and equipment, and a clear head, diving is a safe sport. However, there are certain dangers not found on dry land. Air embolism and decompression sickness are the most severe problems and immediate recompression treatment may be necessary to prevent serious, permanent injury. DAN, the DiversÕ Alert Network, maintains a 24-hour emergency telephone line 
(919/684-8111) staffed by physicians trained in all aspects of diving medicine. They, and their network of regional coordinators, work with the injured diver and the physician on the scene to insure the proper diagnosis and treatment of dive-related problems. Their Alert Diver newsletter, available to members, reports on the latest findings in diving medicine and safety. 
ThereÕs an insurance program too.                                       
                                                           Ñ David Burnor
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##A 09 113292 546
##T DAN - Divers' Alert Network
DAN - Divers' Alert Network

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Regular membership $15/year      (Includes Safe Diver Information Kit containing  Underwater Diving Accident Manual, Alert Diver newsletter, and membership card and tank decals showing DAN emergency phone number)
from:
DAN - DiversÕ Alert Network
P. O. Box 3823
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC 27710
919-684-2948

DiversÕ Alert Network: 24-hour emergency help 
919-684-8111
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##A 09 3112 550
##T FLIGHT INTRODUCTION
FLIGHT INTRODUCTION

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FOR THOSE WHOÕVE NEVER TRIED IT, flying may seem one of those unreachables that only Òother peopleÓ do. Hogplop! The idea of learning to fly may seem bigger than your ability, but itÕs a self-imposed limitation. The truth is that most folks who drive a car could learn to fly a plane.

Learning to fly is an excellent opportunity to take charge of your own life and to acquire a skill thatÕs enjoyable and practical. From the air, the endless drudgery of highway driving changes to an amazing, mile-high view of NatureÕs creation. And you get to your destination in half the time.

AlthoÕ the sky, like the sea and the mountains, doesnÕt come easy,
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##A 09 129204 554
##T FLIGHT INTRODUCTION
FLIGHT INTRODUCTION

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The Student PilotÕs Flight Manual
William K. Kershner
Fifth Edition 1979; 281 pp.
ISBN 0813816106
$17.95 ($19.45 postpaid) from:

Iowa State University Press
2121 South State Avenue
Ames, IA 50010
515-292-0140

Best would-be pilotÕs book learning.
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##A 09 8345 555
##T The Aviation Consumer Used Aircraft Guide
The Aviation Consumer Used Aircraft Guide

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When I consider how much learning went into this book, not to mention parts and labor, IÕm staggered as well as gratified that it wasnÕt me who had to pay the bills for all the experience.

The amount of information is incredible, and far surpasses those glossy, surface-level summaries of factory specs and marketing department photos that are normally passed off as ÒThe Compleat Airplane Review.Ó Aviation Consumer tells that happy stuff, but also gets down to the guts of the matter and will as soon produce a scoop on Bonanza airframe failures as go into detail regarding Cessna Cardinal RG landing gear problems. Everything is culled from somebodyÕs real flying experience, and by the time youÕve finished reading the five-page rap on each of 47 airplanes, from
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##A 09 8944 557
##T The Aviation Consumer Used Aircraft Guide
The Aviation Consumer Used Aircraft Guide

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Richard B. Weeghman, Editor
1985; 279 pp.
ISBN 0961519657
$21.95 postpaid from:

The Aviation Consumer (Books)
1111 East Putnam Avenue
Riverside, CT 06878
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##A 09 82398 559
##T Trade-A-Plane
Trade-A-Plane

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This tabloid-sized newspaper has been around longer than most pilots.  Its fat, traditionally  yellow newsprint pages contain ads for thousands of used airplanes, everything from J-3 Cubs that need rebuilding to P-51 Mustangs going for a mere half million.  In addition there are invaluable listings of products and  services. 
      
If youÕre shopping for a plane itÕs an absolute necessity; if 
youÕre still in the dreaming stage itÕs good for hours of reading.

                                                                  -Dick Fugett
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##A 09 214242 560
##T Trade-A-Plane
Trade-A-Plane

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$14/6 months      
(18 issues) from:

Trade-A-Plane
Subscriptions
Box 929
Crossville, TN 38557
615-484-5137
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##A 09 9600 562
##T Aviation Consumer
Aviation Consumer

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There may come a time when one of those flying machines is yours, and when you finally own the sky youÕll meet many of the realities of flight. You wonÕt need help with the fun ones, but there are harsh realities too, based on the universal principle about free lunches. YouÕll run into them when that scratchy old radio packs up and dies, and the guy in the shop starts quoting replacement prices, or when your mechanic strokes his chin and calmly announces that itÕs time to major your engine, and you faint.

ThereÕs a relatively unknown magazine called The Aviation Consumer. It is to pilots what Consumer Reports is to the rest of the world. They evaluate products, conduct reader surveys to find out the ownersÕ opinions, and have used airplane guides that range
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##A 09 10375 564
##T Aviation Consumer
Aviation Consumer

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Richard B. Weeghman, Editor
ISSN 01479911
$39/year
(24 issues) from:

Aviation Consumer
P.O. Box 359007
Palm Coast, FL 32035
800-423-1780;
800-858-0095(FL)
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##A 09 71642 567
##T ULTRALIGHTS INTRODUCTION
ULTRALIGHTS INTRODUCTION

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ULTRALIGHTS WERE SPAWNED when a flatland, midwestern hang glider pilot, desperate for lack of launch sites, attached a snowmobile engine to his kite and took off under power. Being airborne without dependency on thermals was a delight, and as news of the feat spread, others began making similar devices. They were not always as airworthy as they were creative.

The FAA had watched hang gliding develop and found it to be a self-disciplined group that knew its place and presented no major menace to the public, so no seriously restrictive regulations were imposed.  Ultralights, at first indistinguishable from hang gliders, benefited from this freedom and rediscovered what had been lost
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##A 09 10175 570
##T Ultralight Flying
Ultralight Flying

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The shifting fortunes of the ultralight movement are best reflected in the oldest magazine, Ultralight Flying, known for years as Glider Rider.

                                                         Ñ Dick Fugett
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##A 09 215971 571
##T Ultralight Flying
Ultralight Flying

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Sharon Hill, Editor
ISSN 08837937
$36/year(12 issues) 
$3.45 postpaid for individual issues from:

Ultralight Flying!
P. O. Box 6009
Chattanooga, TN 37401
615-629-5375
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##A 09 216634 574
##T Ultralight Airmanship
Ultralight Airmanship

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Jack Lambie continually puts out the best books on ultralight flight, and his Ultralight Airmanship is worthwhile reading for any aviation enthusiast.                      
                   
                                                         Ñ Dick Fugett
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##A 09 216842 575
##T Ultralight Airmanship
Ultralight Airmanship

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(How to Master the Air in an Ultralight)
Jack Lambie
Revised Edition 1984; 144 pp.
ISBN 0938716026
$10.95 ($13.90 postpaid) from:

Ultralight Publications, Inc.
P.O. Box 234
Hummelstown, PA 17036
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##A 09 45224 579
##T HOMEBUILTS INTRODUCTION
HOMEBUILTS INTRODUCTION

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Although the general aviation manufacturers back in Wichita, Kansas (which is to airplane manufacturers what Detroit is to carmakers) are in danger of withering away, another segment of the flying population is quite robustÑthose who make their own machines. Initially, building your own plane might mean acquiring a $100 set of plans or thousands of dollars worth of boxes just unloaded in your workshop.

There are some 11,000 registered homebuilts now, and the boom is understandable: superior speed, better economy, and a lower price tag are hard to beat. Early homebuilts were constructed of either steel tubing and aluminum or of wood and fabric. But ever since Bert Rutan introduced his epochal EZ, composite construction
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##A 09 46068 582
##T HOMEBUILTS INTRODUCTION
HOMEBUILTS INTRODUCTION

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Sport Aviation
Jack Cox, Editor-in-Chief
ISSN 00387835
$30/year (12 issues) from:

Experimental Aircraft Association
Wittman Airfield
Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086
414-426-4800
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##A 09 74370 585
##T Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Company
Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Company

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When you get past the fantasy level and decide itÕs time for nuts and bolts (or epoxy and foam), then youÕll make acquaintances with AS & S; theyÕve been supplying home builders for nearly three decades. Their hefty catalog gives pictures, prices, and descriptions of everything from the materials and tools required to build a plane, to the instruments and engine youÕll have to buy before the project finally takes off.

What lifts this volume above the competition is the descriptive commentary. Window shopping changes into education, and what began as a simple catalog ends up as a reference book.
 
                                                                Ñ Dick Fugett
Ù Materials
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##A 09 74513 586
##T Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Company
Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Company

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Catalog $5 from:

Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Company
P. O. Box 424
Fullerton, CA 92632
800-824-1930
714-870-7551(CA)
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##A 09 228292 590
##T Airparts Catalog
Airparts Catalog

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Anyone who wants to build something with the same characteristics as an airplaneÑlight, strong, dependable, immune to vibration, roundÑshould check out AirpartsÕ catalog.

                                                           Ñ Dick Fugett
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##A 09 228677 591
##T Airparts Catalog
Airparts Catalog

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Catalog $1 from:

Airparts, Inc.
301 North Seventh Street
Kansas City, KS 66101
913-321-3280
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##A 09 11013 593
##T Hang Gliding
Hang Gliding

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They donÕt get you there as fast as powered flight, and the rush is a shade less than parachuting, but if you truly love the sky, then hang gliders do it best. The hang glider people gave birth to the ultralight movement, and have watched it self-destruct. Meanwhile, they keep concentrating on doing just what the hawks and eagles doÑcatching thermals.  Effective self-regulation has kept the FAA off their backs, the machines are debugged and certified now, and the gradual self-elimination of the crazies is producing a healthy sport. Training sites that offer one-day intros can be found, along with all the current happenings, in Hang Gliding magazine. 

                                                                Ñ Dick Fugett
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##A 09 11326 594
##T Hang Gliding
Hang Gliding

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Gil Dodgen, Editor
$29/year* 
(12 issues) 

*Full membership($39/year) in USHGA includes magazine.

from:

United States Hang Gliding Association, Inc.
P. O. Box 500
Pearblossom, CA 93553
805-944-5333
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##A 09 11556 596
##T Hang Gliding According to Pfeiffer
Hang Gliding According to Pfeiffer

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If youÕre getting serious, the most readable book is Hang Gliding According to Pfeiffer.

                                                          Ñ Dick Fugett
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##A 09 73843 597
##T Hang Gliding According to Pfeiffer
Hang Gliding According to Pfeiffer

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(Skills for the Advancing Pilot)
Rich Pfeiffer
1984; 238 pp.
ISBN 091358102X
$9.95 ($11.20 postpaid) from:

Publitec Editions
P. O. Box 4342
Laguna Beach, CA 92652
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##A 09 12329 599
##T Ballooning
Ballooning

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ThereÕs yet another way to get airborne. ItÕs big, fat, slow, and fragile, as well as the oldest form of human flight. AlthoÕ a gas balloon recently crossed the Pacific, the sample cruise youÕll have 
(for about $100) in a hot air balloon will be noticeably calmer. If the high-energy extremes of other forms of flight are a bit more than you need, consider meandering thru the skies with the clouds, your destination decided by the winds.

The traditional champagne bottle that awaits your landing dates back centuries to the earliest French flights; it was originally brought along to reassure potentially excitable peasants that the creatures from the sky were friendly. Or so say traditionalists.
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##A 09 12985 601
##T Ballooning
Ballooning

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Mary Woodhouse, Editor
$25/year
(BFA membership includes 4 issues) from:

Balloon Federation of America
P. O. Box 400
Indianola, IA 50125
602-867-2307
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##A 09 63321 603
##T SKYDIVING INTRODUCTION
SKYDIVING INTRODUCTION

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For maximum pucker factor thereÕs skydiving, which has undergone major changes in the last decade. No more heavy boots, bulky 50-pound gear, or even round canopies.  Jumpers now wear a compact harness and container, light shoes, and come down gently under a steerable, ram-air, square canopy thatÕs actually an airfoil. The old, ankle-busting, 16-foot-per-second descent rate is gone, along with the need for traditional, high jump boots of paratroop legend.

The latest advance, tandem skydiving, has opened the sport to those whoÕd prefer some experienced company while going out the door. The student and jumpmaster are basically wearing a single harness. After exiting, they freefall together under the 
jumpmasterÕs control until he opens the canopy, which the
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##A 09 200554 605
##T Parachutist
Parachutist


@@

For more information on skydiving and the location of your nearest jump center, try the United States Parachute AssociationÕs magazine, Parachutist. 

                                                                Ñ Jane Ferrell
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##A 09 63924 606
##T Parachutist
Parachutist


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Kevin Gibson, Editor
ISSN 00311588
$21.50/year (12 issues)
 from:

United States Parachute Association
1440 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-836-3495
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##A 09 62082 608
##T Sailplanes
Sailplanes

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You may question the serenity of sailplanes if the thermals are cooking and your pilot, after coring one with endless, tight 360s, asks if youÕre gonna barf. But thatÕs how it is with most rewarding, high-energy situationsÑthereÕs always a price.

To sample their silent flight all you need is a rural airport with a sign out by the highway that says ÒGLIDER RIDES.Ó  For roughly the same painful price youÕll pay for a one-day introduction to anything these days, you can sample the freedom of unpowered flight.

A glider rating can be added to a private pilotÕs license for maybe $500. If youÕve never flown at all, then legal flight could run four
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##A 09 62572 610
##T Sailplanes
Sailplanes

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Soaring
Mark Kennedy, Publications Manager
$35/year
(12 issues included in
SSoA membership) from:

Soaring Society of America
Box E
Hobbs, NM 88241-1308
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##A 09 218821 611
##T Sailplanes
Sailplanes

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The Joy of Soaring
(A Training Manual)
Carle Conway
1969; 134 pp.
ISBN 0911720545
$19.95 ($21.55 postpaid) from:

Aviation Book Company
1640 Victory Blvd.
Glendale, CA 91201
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##A 10 70287 5
##T Jungles
Jungles

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An extravagantly illustrated, yet solid introduction to the fastest disappearing bioregion of the planet.

                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 10 86261 6
##T Jungles
Jungles

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Edward S. Ayensu, Editor
1980; 200 pp.
ISBN 051754136X
OUT OF PRINT 

Crown Publishers
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##A 10 121789 9
##T The Forest People
The Forest People

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The Forest People is the most affectionate portrayal of peoples evolved into rainforest life.  A study of the BaMbuti Pygmies of the Congo, it is and will remain a classic of anthropology.

                                                               Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 10 121962 10
##T The Forest People
The Forest People

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Colin M. Turnbull
1961; 295 pp.
ISBN 0671640992
$9.95 postpaid 
from:

Simon & Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 10 165483 12
##T In the Rainforest
In the Rainforest

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This is a literate and concerned contemporary view of rainforest
destruction.

                                                              Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 10 165674 13
##T In the Rainforest
In the Rainforest

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Catherine Caufield
1985; 304 pp.
ISBN 0226097862
$11.95 ($12.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House Order Dept.
11030 South Langley
Chicago, IL 60628
800-638-6460
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##A 10 166945 16
##T The Mountain People
The Mountain People

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The Mountain People describes what happens during famine better than any book I know. The fabric rips and we see the Ik (a tribal people of northern Kenya) possessed by a dark humor and seemingly cruel betrayal of even their closest kin.

                                                         Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 10 167310 17
##T The Mountain People
The Mountain People

@@
Colin M. Turnbull
1987; 309 pp.
ISBN 0671640984
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid )
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 10 168433 22
##T BIOREGIONALISM INTRODUCTION
BIOREGIONALISM INTRODUCTION

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by Peter Warshall

Bioregionalism is a recent revisioning of North America. It passionately opposes the homogenization and pasteurization of regional culture and natural landscape. Bioregionalists despise the you-could-be-anywhere motel room, Muzak, fast food, and highway strip as both gross and harsh on the human spirit. They encourage our uprooted, super-mobile citizenry to stop and look and feel the bios  Ñ  the life of the natural and human world immediately surrounding them  Ñ  a life, so to speak, that needs to be walked and talked to be loved.

Bioregionalism places great emphasis on time-depth. Its vision of
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##A 10 165288 28
##T BIOREGIONAL QUIZ
BIOREGIONAL QUIZ

@@
1.   When you turn on your faucet, where does the water come 
      from? (Can you trace it back to local storm system?)
2.   When you flush the toilet, where does the water go? (not just
      the treatment plant, but the final river or lake).
3.   What soil series are you standing on?
4.   How long is the growing season?
5.   What are the major geological events that shaped your
      bioregion (faults, uplifts, downwarps, volcanics, sea floods,
      etc)? Does your community give them special attention . . . are
      they sacred, blessed, protected?
6.   How did the original inhabitants eat, clothe, and shelter
      themselves? How did they celebrate the seasonal changes in
      times before you?
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##A 10 172286 31
##T REINHABITATION
REINHABITATION

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Reinhabitation means learning to live-in-place in an area that has been disrupted and injured through past exploitation. It involves becoming native to a place through becoming aware of the particular ecological relationships that operate within and around it. It means understanding activities and evolving social behavior that will enrich the life of that place, restore its life-supporting systems, and establish an ecologically and socially sustainable pattern of existence within it. Simply stated, it involves becoming fully alive in and with a place. It involves applying for membership in a biotic community and ceasing to be its exploiter.

                               Ñ Peter Berg, Reinhabiting a Separate Country
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##A 10 173394 32
##T Planet Drum Foundation ¥ Raise the Stakes
Planet Drum Foundation ¥ Raise the Stakes

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The originators of Reinhabiting a Separate Country and of the term ÒreinhabitationÓ  (Ù for definition). A membership with Planet Drum gets you two yearly issues of their newsletter, Raise the Stakes. A back-issue provides access to the names and whereabouts of bioregional groups in North America. Raise the Stakes excels at integrating urban life and bioregional perspective. It comes from San Francisco (at the mouth of the great northern and central California watershed) and generally has the best reviews of regional art, music, and food. ItÕs also THE place to get bioregional news from around North America and Europe.

                                                            Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 10 173791 33
##T Planet Drum Foundation ¥ Raise the Stakes
Planet Drum Foundation ¥ Raise the Stakes

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Beryl Magilavy, Editor
ISBN 02787016
Membership $15/year
includes Raise the Stakes
(2 issues); Information free with SASE 
Issue #12, index of North American bio-regional
groups, $3;Reinhabiting a Separate Country (book) $8 
from:

Planet Drum Foundation
P. O. Box 31251
San Francisco, CA 94131
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##A 10 174738 35
##T BOREAL FORESTS INTRODUCTION
BOREAL FORESTS INTRODUCTION


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From polar bear to caribou, the far north is a land of wanderers. Sometimes seal, after fishing, wander onto ice floes and meet wandering bears. The frozen Arctic, at times like these, is hardly connected to the land. But a bit south of the permanent ice and snow, where maybe eight inches of soil thaw each year, the first lichens and mosses, then sedges and grasses beneficiently feed the caribou. This is the tundra. It always has permafrost, and when it freezes to the surface or gets covered in snow, the caribou head inland and south to the first scraggy trees (the taiga) and, in extreme years, to the thick forests (the boreal forest of spruce and hemlock). As they travel, the wolves go with them. When they reach their southern limit, they encounter their first close relative, the moose. Today, meat-eating remains; snowmobiles
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##A 10 177605 37
##T Arctic Dreams
Arctic Dreams

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Arctic Dreams is the first lyric, philosophical reflection on the far north and its history of human visions. It is a quest for essences in a frozen, beautiful land.

                                                Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 10 177914 38
##T Arctic Dreams
Arctic Dreams

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(Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape)
Barry Lopez
1986; 464 pp.
ISBN 055326396X
$4.95 ($6.95
postpaid) from:

Macmillan Publishing Co.
Order Dept.
414 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
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##A 10 178999 41
##T WESTERN FORESTS INTRODUCTION
WESTERN FORESTS INTRODUCTION

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It is difficult to encapsulate this immense bioregional province, which includes the northwest coastal (Oregonian) rain forest; the Sierra Nevada, Cascade, and Siskiyou Mountains; and a ribbon of oak-chaparral woodlands in the semi-arid regions below the needle-leaf forests. The cone-shaped pines, spruce, and firs shade the forest floor, filter the light, and scent the air. The water ouzels, mountain thrushes, tree squirrels, and warblers speak the chit-chat of these forest homes. In the higher elevations, a short growing season and the rise and fall of the snowline frame the rhythm of the year.

These western forests harbor the last significant virgin forests of the United States. They are pressured in a manner that John Muir
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##A 10 181578 43
##T Western Forests 
Western Forests 

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Stephen Whitney has the monopoly on good introductory books. Western Forests broadly sweeps through all the forests of this region.

                                                          Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 10 181897 44
##T Western Forests 
Western Forests 

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Stephen Whitney
1985; 672 pp.
ISBN 0394731271
$14.95 ($15.85 postpaid)
from:

Random House Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 10 183428 48
##T The Sierra Nevada
The Sierra Nevada

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Stephen Whitney has the monopoly on good introductory
books: The Sierra Nevada is a superb introduction to complex zonation and ecology in CaliforniaÕs largest mountain range.  

                                                            Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 10 183755 49
##T The Sierra Nevada
The Sierra Nevada

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Sierra Club NaturalistÕs Guide to the Sierra Nevada
Stephen Whitney
1979; 526 pp.
ISBN 0871562162
$10.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Sierra Club Bookstore
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
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##A 10 184819 52
##T A Field Guide to the Cascades and Olympics 
A Field Guide to the Cascades and Olympics 

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Stephen Whitney has the monopoly on good introductory books. A Field Guide to the Cascades and Olympics is a good bioregional overview, giving a feel for the similarities that all forest dwellers experience. It includes a good bibliography for going deeper.                            

                                                          Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 10 184983 53
##T A Field Guide to the Cascades and Olympics 
A Field Guide to the Cascades and Olympics 

@@
Stephen Whitney
1983; 288 pp.
ISBN 0898860776
$14.95 postpaid 
from:

The Mountaineers Books
306 Second Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
800-553-4453
@@

##A 10 186064 56
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: WESTERN FORESTS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: WESTERN FORESTS

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Tossed around by mountain uplifting and glaciation, pushed further and further from the benign influence of the sea, the northern needle-leaf forests diversified into a rich, highly mixed and complex series of ecological zones. Along the northern coasts, the redwoods, rain, fog, and soggy, mossy earth created North  AmericaÕs most luxuriant temperate rain forest, with its teller of tales, Ken Kesey. Inland and further south, the montane Sierra Nevadas and oak woodlands are drier, but have equally rooted a spare and bare rock poet, Gary Snyder. Still further south, the original mountain bard, John Muir, paced the grass-lined valleys to the Sierran timberline spewing forth elegant prose. Almost half-way across the continent, the Rockies, North AmericaÕs tectonic backbone, cornucopia of plains and Colorado River soils as well as
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##A 10 120447 58
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: WESTERN FORESTS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: WESTERN FORESTS

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Sometimes a Great Notion
Ken Kesey
1963; 1988; 628 pp.
ISBN 0140045295
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600 (NJ)
@@

##A 10 124513 59
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: WESTERN FORESTS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: WESTERN FORESTS

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Turtle Island
Gary Snyder
1974; 114 pp.
ISBN 0811205460
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

New Directions
80 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
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##A 10 130617 60
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: WESTERN FORESTS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: WESTERN FORESTS

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The Mountains of California
John Muir
1894, 1985; 264 pp.
ISBN 0140390383
$5.95 ($6.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600(NJ)
@@

##A 10 157734 61
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: WESTERN FORESTS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: WESTERN FORESTS

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A LadyÕs Life in the Rocky Mountains
Isabella Bird
1987; 256 pp.
ISBN 0891740252
$3.95 ($4.95 postpaid)
from:

Comstock Editions
3030 Bridgeway
Sausalito, CA 94965
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##A 10 158430 62
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: WESTERN FORESTS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: WESTERN FORESTS

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One Day at Teton Marsh
Sally Carrighar
1979; 239 pp.
ISBN 0803263023
$7.95 ($8.95 postpaid)
from:

University of Nebraska Press
901 North 17th Street
Lincoln, NE 68588
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##A 10 159058 63
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: WESTERN FORESTS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: WESTERN FORESTS

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Ring of Bone
(Collected Poems: 1950-1971)
Lew Welch
Revised Edition 1979; 233 pp.
ISBN 0912516038
$6 postpaid from:

Subterranean Co.
P.O. Box 10233
Eugene, OR 97440
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##A 10 159394 64
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: WESTERN FORESTS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: WESTERN FORESTS

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The Jaime De Angulo Reader
Jaime De Angulo
1979; 254 pp.

OUT OF PRINT
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##A 10 187580 74
##T EASTERN FORESTS INTRODUCTION
EASTERN FORESTS INTRODUCTION

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In winter, the leafless open forest, grey and dormant. In spring, pale green leafing and explosive flowering. In summer, through the five-layered canopy, a random spot of forest floor sunlight galvanizes the eye. In fall, colors peak red, orange, yellow; on a scale of one to ten, a ten. Oak, maple, beech or basswood are always present. The life/death/rebirth cycles are so dramatic that these forests have always magnetized poets, philosophers, and writers who exploit seasonal metaphor endlessly.

To me, the flowering dogwood establishes the sense of place.
 
                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 10 188811 75
##T Eastern Forests
Eastern Forests

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For a general pretty-photos field guide with a broadbrush overview of the leaf-sheddding, cold-resistant forests, read AudubonÕs Eastern Forests.

                                                      Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 10 189071 76
##T Eastern Forests
Eastern Forests

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Ann and Myron Sutton
1985; 638 pp.
ISBN 0394731263
$14.95 ($15.85 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road 
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 10 190131 80
##T The North Woods of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota
The North Woods of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota

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The North Woods Ñ the transition between boreal and deciduous forest Ñ is the land Hemingway cherished, harboring the EastÕs last great wolf sanctuary.  This guide is a must for citizens of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. 

                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 10 190399 81
##T The North Woods of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota
The North Woods of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota

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Glenda Daniel and Jerry Sullivan
1981; 408 pp.
ISBN 0871562774
$10.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Sierra Club Bookstore
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
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##A 10 191383 84
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: SOUTH
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: SOUTH

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The South was completely different from the North. The eco-culture of pine woods and hickory/beech, slavery, and hillbilly Caribe-French and Elizabethan roots graced the United States with its most popular bioregional music: the blues, bluegrass, country western, cajun zydeco, cross-over rock. (Ù See and listen to mail order music sources reviewed separately.) 

Perhaps because poetry is so close to music, the South generated fewer poets. Because of the intensity of the slave-based economy, human drama has overridden concern for the land; there is no more fertile ground for a poetic prose of humanized landscape. Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus), William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Flannery OÕConnor, and Carson McCullers are some of
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##A 10 191648 86
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: SOUTH
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: SOUTH

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A Good Man Is Hard to Find (and Other Stories)
Flannery OÕConnor
1953, 1977; 251 pp.
ISBN 0156364654
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1250 Sixth Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101
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##A 10 64024 87
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: SOUTH
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: SOUTH

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Collected Poems (1957-1982)
Wendell Berry
1984; 268 pp.
ISBN 0865471975
$8.50 ($10 postpaid)
from:

North Point Press
850 Talbot Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94706
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##A 10 192809 91
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: NORTH
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: NORTH

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Virgin forest is nearly impossible to find; the forests of the northeast have been settled longest, and with settlement has come a strong voice of love. ÒI have travelled a good deal in Concord . . .Ó is ThoreauÕs famous line, and it had many followers. Here God and Nature became inextricably tangled. In second growth forest, the Mind remained pioneer:  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Charles Olson, William Carlos Williams, Robert Creeley, Robert Frost. ItÕs a bioregion of beautifully crafted poetry and very moral prose (e.g. Hawthorne, Melville). ThoreauÕs Journals (Ù see also a separate review of Walden)  Ñ  part of the great quest to give transcendental truth to each act of Nature  Ñ  contain the most loving attention to seasonal change ever recorded in North America. Ernest
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##A 10 214614 93
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: NORTH
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: NORTH

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The Nick Adams Stories  
Ernest Hemingway
1927, 1972; 268 pp.
ISBN 0684169401
$8.95 postpaid from:

Macmillan Publishing Co.
Order Dept.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
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##A 10 238200 94
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: NORTH
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: NORTH

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The Journal of Henry D. Thoreau 
Bradford Torrey and F. H. Allen
1906; 1,804 pp.
ISBN 0486203123/31
$40 each ($41 each postpaid)
from:

Dover Publications, Inc.
31 East Second Street
Mineola, NY 11501

(14 volumes, bound as 2 volumes)
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##A 10 238342 95
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: NORTH
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: NORTH

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Selected Journals of Henry David Thoreau
Carl Bode, Editor
1967
ISBN 0452007496
$3.95 ($5.45 postpaid)
from:

New American Library
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600(NJ)
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##A 10 195587 101
##T GRASSLANDS INTRODUCTION
GRASSLANDS INTRODUCTION

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Divided East to West into the tall- and shortgrass prairies, the temperate grasslands have been the most productive and heavily used of all North AmericaÕs soils. Deep in the Great Prairie earth grew the ÒtotemicÓ grasses of the bioregion: bluestem, needle, and grama grasses. Here the pronghorn, prairie wolf and buffalo migrated. Badgers, prairie dogs, and prairie chicken were most at home. Fear struck in the north as ground blizzards; in the midriff as hail; and in the south as tornadoes. Fast moving fires blew everywhere. This is an inland bioregion with the heavens both battling and nurturing the earth. It is an earth in which roots go deep. It is where the dust bowl sat the longest and with most weight. It is the source of more human nutrition than any other area in North America. Corn, wheat, and soybeans replace the native grasses.                                     Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 10 198338 102
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: GRASSLANDS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: GRASSLANDS

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The land went so fast. The plains Indians had hardly created a new horse culture and the strongest spiritual vision quest in North America when the buffalo disappeared and the Indian people were scattered like the wolves. Singers of the grassland sing of the past. John MadsonÕs Where the Sky Began traces the prairieÕs bioregional history with rooted humor and obvious love. Willa Cather, tough romantic of sod and soil, is the first-rate bard of the plains. John C. EwerÕs The Horse in Blackfoot Culture and Mari SandozÕs Crazy Horse, The Strange Man of the Oglalas document the great flowering of plains Indian culture.
 
                                                            Ñ Peter Warshall

Ù Native American Life
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##A 10 198482 103
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: GRASSLANDS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: GRASSLANDS

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Where the Sky Began
John Madson
1982; 321 pp.
ISBN 0871568365
$8.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Sierra Club Bookstore
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
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##A 10 194210 104
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: GRASSLANDS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: GRASSLANDS

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My Antonia
Willa Cather
1973; 371 pp.
ISBN 0395083567
$5.95 ($6.95 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Company
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
800-225-3362

(or Whole Earth Access)
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##A 10 238746 105
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: GRASSLANDS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: GRASSLANDS

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The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture
John C. Ewers
1980; 374 pp.
ISBN 074744199P
$16.50 ($18.25 postpaid)
from:

Smithsonian Institution Press
Dept. 900
Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17294-0900
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##A 10 238979 106
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: GRASSLANDS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: GRASSLANDS

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Crazy Horse, The Strange Man of the Oglalas
Mari Sandoz
1961; 429 pp.
ISBN 0803251718
$6.95 ($7.45 postpaid)
from:

University of Nebraska Press
901 North 17th Street
327 Nebraska Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0520
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##A 10 200026 109
##T NATURAL HISTORY: GRASSLANDS
NATURAL HISTORY: GRASSLANDS

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For an overview of the continentÕs grasslands  Ñ  California,
intermountain, desert, tallgrass, mixed, and shortgrass  Ñ  get AudubonÕs Grasslands. 

Donald WorsterÕs Dust Bowl chronicles the 1930s devastation of the great plains with respect and awe for the region and condemnation of the ecological values taught by the capitalist ethos. 

Sacred Cows at the Public Trough by Denzel and Nancy Ferguson
bitterly reveals how livestock ruined the publicÕs open range.

                                                             Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 10 200254 110
##T NATURAL HISTORY: GRASSLANDS
NATURAL HISTORY: GRASSLANDS

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Grasslands
Lauren Brown
1985; 606 pp.
ISBN 0394731212
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460

or Whole Earth Access
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##A 10 198684 111
##T NATURAL HISTORY: GRASSLANDS
NATURAL HISTORY: GRASSLANDS

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Dust Bowl
Donald Worster
1979; 277 pp.
$9.95 postpaid
from:

Oxford University Press
16-00 Pollitt Drive
Fairlawn, NJ 07410
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##A 10 239296 112
##T NATURAL HISTORY: GRASSLANDS
NATURAL HISTORY: GRASSLANDS

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Sacred Cows At The Public Trough
Denzel and Nancy Ferguson
1983; 260 pp.
ISBN 0892880910
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Maverick Publications
Drawer 5007
Bend, OR 97708
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##A 10 200817 114
##T DESERTS INTRODUCTION
DESERTS INTRODUCTION

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This is a bioregion defined by what it lacks:  no blizzards, no fog, no tornados, no regular rainfall. What it has got is solar heat. The light is intense. The rare clouds become instantly sacred. Rain is loved like nowhere else. The visual arts flourish:  Pueblo pottery, Navajo weaving, outdoor ritual, Georgia OÕKeefe. A common pride in survival connects humans, sidewinders, road runners and cacti. This is the most diverse cultural region (not counting cities). Native peoples still speak their languages and practice their blessings. A regional sense of spirit has been slowly fused together from Native American, Spanish, and Anglo-European influences. Mormons, followers of a religion native to the U.S., flex much moral and financial muscle. Sunbelt cities eat up the desert 
and suck the once lush rivers dry. It was all foretold by Hopi
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##A 10 204806 116
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: DESERT
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: DESERT

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AudubonÕs Deserts is a broad natural history of the four major North American deserts: the cold Great Basin, the lush Sonoran, the winter-rain Mojave, and the summer-rain Chihuahuan. Van  DykeÕs The Desert is the most painterly prose and (still) the best on the Sonoran. The strongest celebration comes from the residents: Simon Ortiz of Acoma is the poet; Native Americans no longer have to depend on anglo interpretations, thanks to Larry EversÕ editing of The South Corner of Time; Rudolph AnayaÕs Bless Me, Ultima places desert powers in the heart of a great bruja. Norman Mailer confronts Great Basin Mormonism in The ExecutionerÕs Song.

                                                       Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 10 205213 117
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: DESERT
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: DESERT

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Deserts
James A. MacMahon
1985; 638 pp.
ISBN 0394731395
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, OH 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 10 28821 118
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: DESERT
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: DESERT

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The Desert
John C. Van Dyke
1980; 233 pp.
ISBN 087905073X
$4.95 postpaid
from:

Gibbs M. Smith
P. O. Box 667
Layton, UT 84041
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##A 10 129686 119
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: DESERT
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: DESERT

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The South Corner of Time
Larry Evers
1981; 240 pp.
ISBN 0816507317
$17.50 ($18.50 postpaid)
from:

University of Arizona Press
1230 North Park, #102
Tucson, AZ 85719
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##A 10 129864 120
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: DESERT
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: DESERT

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Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo A. Anaya
1972; 249 pp.
ISBN 0892290021
$12 ($13 postpaid)
from:

Tonatiuh-Quinto Sol International, Inc.
P. O. Box 9275
Berkeley, CA 94709

For a tape version, see next card of this review for access info and to play an excerpted sound.
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##A 10 7440 121
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: DESERT
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: DESERT

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Bless Me, Ultima Ñ Tape Version
Rudolfo A. Anaya
41 minutes
$21.95 ($22.45 postpaid)
from:

American Audio Prose Library
1015 East Broadway
Columbia, MO 65205
314-443-0361

The author reads BLESS ME ULTIMA and LA TORTUGA
(excerpts). 
ORDER #: 2011
Sound excerpt from ÒBless Me UltimaÓ
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##A 10 237117 122
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: DESERT
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: DESERT

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The ExecutionerÕs Song
Norman Mailer
1981
ISBN 04466345210
$5.95 ($6.95 postpaid)
from:

Little, Brown and Company
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 10 237512 123
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: DESERT
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: DESERT

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Georgia OÕKeefe
Georgia OÕKeefe
ISBN 0140046771
$29.95 ($31.45 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600(NJ)
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##A 10 237579 124
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: DESERT
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: DESERT

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A Good Journey
Simon Ortiz
1984; 165 pp.
ISBN 0816508836
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

University of Arizona Press
1230 North Park, #102
Tucson, AZ 85719
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##A 10 14385 130
##T Gathering the Desert
Gathering the Desert

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Not a guide, but a philosophical history, telling the stories of selected wild edibles once widely used as staples, now morassed in the confusion of supermarkets and the destroyed values of Indian cultures. The most readable and beautifully illustrated wild edibles book, sadly singing a world on the wane.

                                                          Ñ Peter Warshall





Ù Wild Edibles
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##A 10 14628 131
##T Gathering the Desert
Gathering the Desert

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Gary Paul Nabhan
1985; 240 pp.
ISBN 0816509352
$19.95 ($20.45 postpaid)
from:

University of Arizona Press
1615 East Speedway
Tucson, AZ 85716
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##A 10 4468 135
##T INLAND WATERS INTRODUCTION
INLAND WATERS INTRODUCTION

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Each bioregion has its own: cienaga, tanque, branch, creek, swamp, marsh, bog, glade, slough, swale, wallow, bottoms, bayou, oxbow, pool, pond, brook, run, kill. Wetlands define bioregion personality, create the intimacy with the local lore and the local pacing of nature. Sources and springs used to be held in the highest regard; a few hot springs still remain associated with healing and a few springs have been given a second lease on life by the bottled water business. But water is so precious to commodity production 
(irrigated crops, cattle forage, land-filling and channelization for real estate, cooling power plants, etc.) that wetlands are our number one endangered ecological and cultural region. Riverlife, duck hunting, trout fishing, swimming, boating Ñ many of the 
areas Americans use for escape are disappearing, just as the desire for open water floods our hearts.                - Peter Warshall
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##A 10 200644 136
##T RIVER PRESERVATION
RIVER PRESERVATION

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To help save rivers contact American Rivers and Friends of the River.

                                                           - Peter Warshall
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##A 10 239450 137
##T RIVER PRESERVATION
RIVER PRESERVATION

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American Rivers
Information free 
from:

American Rivers
801 Pennsylvania Avenue 
SE #303
Washington, DC 20003
202-547-6900
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##A 10 241176 138
##T RIVER PRESERVATION
RIVER PRESERVATION

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Friends of the River
Information free 
from:

Friends of the River
Fort Mason Center
Building C
San Francisco, CA 94123
415-771-0400
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##A 10 240342 139
##T Rolling Rivers
Rolling Rivers

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A pro-development but excellent basic river reference with river by river bibliography.

                                                           - Peter Warshall
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##A 10 240563 140
##T Rolling Rivers
Rolling Rivers

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An Encyclopedia of AmericaÕs Rivers
Richard Bartlett
1984; 298 pp.
ISBN 0070039100
$29.95 postpaid
from:

McGraw-Hill Inc.
Order Dept.
Princeton Road
Hightstown, NJ 08520
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##A 10 211205 144
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS

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AudubonÕs Wetlands is the best of the Audubon survey guides,
written by one of the finest ecologists to immerse himself in the subject.  Appropriately, there is no one fluvial bard, but many, each pouring forth the mysterious solution of water and words.  Here are some of my favorites.

                                                         Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 10 211496 145
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS

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Round River
From the Journals of Aldo Leopold
Luna B. Leopold
1953, 1972; 173 pp.
ISBN 0195015630
$3.95 postpaid
from:

Oxford University Press
16-00 Pollitt Drive
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
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##A 10 210116 146
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS

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Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
1961, 1985; 384 pp.
ISBN 0140390502
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

New American Library
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600(NJ)

For two tape versions, see next next two cards of this review for access info and to play excerpted sounds.
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##A 10 16982 147
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS

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Life on the Mississippi Ñ Tape Version 1
Mark Twain
8 - 1 1/2 hour cassettes
RentalÑ$13.50
PurchaseÑ$64.00 ($66.50 postpaid) from:

Books on Tape
P. O. Box 7900
Newport Beach, CA 92660
800-626-3333

Read by Michael Prichard
Catalog number 1069
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##A 10 260023 148
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS

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Life on the Mississippi Ñ Tape Version 2
Mark Twain
1 cassette
$12.95 ($14.45 postpaid)
from:

Caedmon
c/o Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park 
Scranton, PA 18512
800-638-6460

Selections performed by Ed Begley
Catalog number SWC 1234
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##A 10 239711 149
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS

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A River Runs Through It
Norman MacLean
1979; 217 pp.
ISBN 026500578
$7.95 postpaid
from:

University of Chicago
11030 South Langley
Chicago, IL 60628
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##A 10 239934 150
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS

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Wetlands
William A. Niering
1985; 638 pp.
ISBN 0394731476
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House/Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 10 212899 152
##T COASTAL EDGE INTRODUCTION
COASTAL EDGE INTRODUCTION


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Rocks, sand dunes, bays, marshes, and protected wharves  Ñ all lapped and slapped by the seas. More people live on coastal edges than anywhere else on the planet.

                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 10 214153 153
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: COASTAL EDGE
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: COASTAL EDGE

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Rachel Carson Ñ the woman who first traced the path of DDT from the sea to the soul, awakening the world to toxic karmic feedback Ñ loved the tangled ways of Nature.  She wrote a much imitated, never quite duplicated naturalist prose in which language and knowledge meld like foam, waves, and the patterns of a sandy beach.  The Edge of the Sea is this bioregionÕs bible.

North AmericaÕs grandest Atlantic and Pacific coast bays have their seaward scribes.  John SteinbeckÕs The Log from the Sea of Cortez is his journey with primo coastal naturalist Ed Ricketts.  It is one of his finest, widening works, as happens at the seaÕs edge.  Chesapeake Bay is a clamshell:  top lid is William WarnersÕs Beautiful Swimmers on crabs, men and estuaries; the bottom lid is
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##A 10 214355 155
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: COASTAL EDGE
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: COASTAL EDGE

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The Edge of the Sea
Rachel Carson
1955; 276 pp.
ISBN 039507505X
$7.95 postpaid
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
800-225-3362

(or Whole Earth Access)
@@

##A 10 205364 156
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: COASTAL EDGE
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: COASTAL EDGE

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The Log from the Sea of Cortez
John Steinbeck
1951, 1977; 336 pp.
ISBN 014004261X
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600(NJ)
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##A 10 205739 157
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: COASTAL EDGE
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: COASTAL EDGE

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Beautiful Swimmers
William W. Warner
1976, 1987; 304 pp.
ISBN 0140170049
$6.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600(NJ)
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##A 10 237965 158
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: COASTAL EDGE
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: COASTAL EDGE

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Life in the Chesapeake Bay
Alice J. Lippson and Robert L. Lippson
1984; 229 pp.
ISBN 0801830133
$12.95 ($14.95 postpaid)
from:

Johns Hopkins University Press
701 West 40th Street
Suite 275
Baltimore, MD 21211
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##A 10 215529 159
##T The Intertidal Wilderness
The Intertidal Wilderness

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Exquisite color photographs of life in the intertidal zone with clear text on the underlying ecological processes at work.

                                                       Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 10 215728 160
##T The Intertidal Wilderness
The Intertidal Wilderness

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Anne Wertheim
1984; 156 pp.
ISBN 0871568314
$14.95 ($17.95 postpaid)
from:

Sierra Club Bookstore
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
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##A 10 216714 162
##T The Underwater Naturalist
The Underwater Naturalist

@@

The best access to coastline protection and news.

                                                         Ñ Peter Warshall








Ù Environmental Action
@@

##A 10 217042 163
##T The Underwater Naturalist
The Underwater Naturalist

@@
D. W. Bennett, Editor
$20/year (4 issues)
$10 students, $25 libraries 
and institutions
from:

The American Littoral Society
Sandy Hook
Highlands, NJ 07732
201-291-0055
@@

##A 10 217885 166
##T NATURAL HISTORY: COASTAL EDGE
NATURAL HISTORY: COASTAL EDGE

@@
Once again, Audubon has put out the best overview of a diverse region.  Pacific Coast covers seashells, mammals, fish, seaweed, algae, invertebrates, and birds:  it suffers, however, from non-seasonal bird plumages and unuseable views of whales.  For a closer look I like this more detailed local guide:  Seashore Life of the Northern Pacific Coast.

The Atlantic coast equivalent to the above Audubon guide is PetersonÕs A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore.  For home reading and car travel, Sierra ClubÕs The North Atlantic Coast 
(Cape Cod to Newfoundland) and The Middle Atlantic Coast (Cape Hatteras to Cape Cod) serve as introductory ecology textbooks and great location guides for seeing the action.
                                                                      Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 10 218207 167
##T NATURAL HISTORY: COASTAL EDGE
NATURAL HISTORY: COASTAL EDGE

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Pacific Coast
Bayard H. and Evelyn McConnaughey
1985; 633 pp.
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 10 173020 168
##T NATURAL HISTORY: COASTAL EDGE
NATURAL HISTORY: COASTAL EDGE

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Seashore Life of the Northern Pacific Coast
Eugene N. Kozloff
1973, 1983; 370 pp.
$19.95 ($21.45 postpaid)
from:

University of Washington Press
P. O. Box 50096
Seattle, WA 98145
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##A 10 173132 169
##T NATURAL HISTORY: COASTAL EDGE
NATURAL HISTORY: COASTAL EDGE

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Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore
Kenneth L. Gosner
1982; 329 pp.
ISBN 0395318289
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803

(or Whole Earth Access)
@@

##A 10 202601 170
##T NATURAL HISTORY: COASTAL EDGE
NATURAL HISTORY: COASTAL EDGE

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The North Atlantic Coast
Michael and Deborah Berrill
1981; 464 pp.
$10.95 ($13.45 postpaid)

from:

Sierra Club Bookstore
730 Polk St.
San Francisco, CA 94109
(or Whole Earth Access)
@@

##A 10 213566 171
##T NATURAL HISTORY: COASTAL EDGE
NATURAL HISTORY: COASTAL EDGE

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The Middle Atlantic Coast
Sierra Club NaturalistÕs Guide to the Middle Atlantic Coast
Bill Perry
ISBN 0871568160
$9.95 ($12.45 postpaid)
from:

Sierra Club Bookstore
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
@@

##A 10 219311 173
##T Katœah
Katœah

@@

From the southern Appalachian Mountains (North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia). Folksy and informative articles on Native American traditions and American pioneer
know-how as important parts of the ongoing health of the region.

                                                            Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
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##A 10 13719 174
##T Katœah
Katœah

@@
Marnie Muller, David Wheeler, 
et al., Editors
$10/year (4 issues)  
from:

Katœah
P. O. Box 638
Leicester, NC
Katœah Province 28748
@@

##A 10 220543 176
##T High Country News
High Country News

@@

Intelligent and unique economic, political and bureaucratic 
(as in federal and state agencies) reporting for the Rocky 
Mountains, Great Basin,  Colorado Plateau and northern
Great Plains.

                                                         Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 10 221048 177
##T High Country News
High Country News

@@
Betsy Marston, Editor
ISSN 01915657
$20/year(24 issues) 
individuals;$28 institutions
from:

High Country News
Box 1090
Paonia, CO 81428
303-527-4898
@@

##A 10 221989 179
##T Akwesasne Notes
Akwesasne Notes

@@

The largest and most thorough American Indian newspaper, Akwesasne Notes is the best way to follow the ongoing Indian struggles over their sacred homelands. News from first peoples 
on other continents, as well.

                                                       Ñ Jeanne Carstensen
@@

##A 10 222272 180
##T Akwesasne Notes
Akwesasne Notes

@@
Douglas George, Editor
$15/year (6 issues)
from:

Mohawk Nation
P. O. Box 196
Rooseveltown, NY 
                13683-0196
613-932-9452
@@

##A 10 6939 185
##T Soil and Civilization
Soil and Civilization

@@
Edward Hyams writes the first and best Òwatershed historyÓ of ancient and present civilizations. Rather than focusing on the genius of Pericles or the naval talents of Themistocles, he focuses on the ultimate, long-term strength of Greece or any nation: its soil. He elegantly chronicles, for instance, how oak forest cutting led to topsoil erosion creating a subsoil economy (olives and vineyards) which made Athens dependent on naval trade to get topsoil crops (wheat). Includes the Euphrates and AmericaÕs dustbowl. If one book on history should be read by everyone, I would choose Soil and Civilization.                 
                                                                          
                                                            Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 10 50868 186
##T Soil and Civilization
Soil and Civilization

@@
Edward Hyams
1976; 312 pp.
ISBN 0060904585
$21.95 ($23 postpaid)
from:

State Mutual Books
521 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10017
@@

##A 10 122302 188
##T Soil Erosion
Soil Erosion

@@
No moralizing. No righteous insinuations that farmers or corporations are out to starve future generations by mining the nationÕs soils. Instead, the political nitty-gritty:  how terribly difficult it is to harmonize cash-flow problems (farm debt, land prices, fluctuating markets, federal subsidies, equipment purchases) and soil conservation practices.  Learn how ÒtargetingÓ erosion-control funds to the worst situations can slip into pork-barrel funding; how cross-compliance policies (e.g., the feds insure crops against weather disasters in exchange for farmersÕ following good erosion-control guidelines) lose control in times of high crop demand; how punishing farmers for sloppy land use
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##A 10 122643 190
##T Soil Erosion
Soil Erosion

@@
(Crisis in AmericaÕs Croplands?)
Sandra S. Batie
1983; 136 pp.
ISBN 0891640681
$8.50 ($10.50 postpaid)
from:

The Conservation Foundation
1250 24th Street NW
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20037
@@

##A 10 56552 193
##T LaMotte Soil Test Kits
LaMotte Soil Test Kits

@@

Some soils need fertilizer or minerals before theyÕll grow crops. A soil test kit can tell you if your soil needs help. LaMotteÕs Model EL Soil Test Kit is designed for home gardeners, and includes a 59 page Soil Handbook. If you need fancier kits for soil testing, or test equipment for hydroponics, plant tissue analysis, aquaculture, water quality and more, itÕs here.

                                                          Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 60292 194
##T LaMotte Soil Test Kits
LaMotte Soil Test Kits

@@
Information free 
from:

LaMotte Chemical Products Co.
P. O. Box 329
Chestertown, MD 21620
800-344-3100
301-778-3100(MD)
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##A 10 114213 197
##T Ecology of Compost
Ecology of Compost

@@

Backyard composting, brief and simple.  Whether you have a window box or a whole farm, the principle is the same  Ñ  take care of your soil and your soil will take care of you. Soils need 
to be fed just like people.
                                
                                                         Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 57177 198
##T Ecology of Compost
Ecology of Compost

@@
Daniel L. Dindal
1976; 12 pp.
25 cents postpaid
from:

State University of New York
College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Syracuse, NY 13210
@@

##A 10 73426 201
##T Seaweed in Agriculture and Horticulture
Seaweed in Agriculture and Horticulture


@@

Unlike most fertilizers, seaweed is a renewable resource. Either sprayed on the leaves of plants (foliar feeding) or added to the soil, it can often be a single solution to many soil deficiencies,  including trace elements. This British book has all the details. 
                                                                          
                                                             Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 114491 202
##T Seaweed in Agriculture and Horticulture
Seaweed in Agriculture and Horticulture


@@
W. A. Stephenson
ISBN 0854098488
$13 ($15 postpaid)
from:

The Rateavers
9049 Covina Street
San Diego, CA 92126
@@

##A 10 115250 206
##T The Unsettling of America
The Unsettling of America

@@

Our land is more undone by our agriculture than by any other mischief. Farmer, poet, essayist Wendell Berry speaks to the matter with plain speech  Ñ  it rasps the brain, leaves a memory of the thought.  DonÕt say it is no longer possible to do our 
farming right.  Berry is. 
                                   
                                                         Ñ Stewart Brand




Ù Also by Wendell Berry: Standing by Words
@@

##A 10 115499 207
##T The Unsettling of America
The Unsettling of America

@@
Wendell Berry
1986; 240 pp.
ISBN 0871567725
$7.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Sierra Club Bookstore
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
@@

##A 10 116237 209
##T The One-Straw Revolution
The One-Straw Revolution


@@

By changing one of the grasses in his rice fields to another variety, Fukuoka started a process that brought his part of the ecosystem into a natural balance. On his farm in Japan he gets yields comparable to traditional farmsÕ but without plowing; he lets nature do the work. He simply plants and harvests  Ñ  pretty revolutionary. The book describes his method.
                              
                                                     Ñ Rosemary Menninger
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##A 10 116692 210
##T The One-Straw Revolution
The One-Straw Revolution


@@
(An Introduction to Natural Farming)
Masanobu Fukuoka
1978; 181 pp.
ISBN 0878572201
$9.95 postpaid 
from:

Rodale Press
33 East Minor Street
Emmaus, PA 18098
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##A 10 117331 215
##T Meeting the Expectations of the Land
Meeting the Expectations of the Land

@@
The title of this collection of essays about sustainable agriculture conveys an apt reversal. A line from Robert Frost might help: ÒThe land was ours before we were the landÕs.Ó The ideas here are visionary in that they look both forward and backward in time, but lest you think the book advocates a retreat to agricultural animism, it is worth emphasizing that these ideas are also very practical. You wonÕt find them in use on most American farms today because there the emphasis has been on productivity and profits.

Profits? Even if your news from the farm comes via TV, you know the difficulty many farmers are having making ÒprofitsÓ  farming.  And productivity? Sure, thatÕs there, but it is too often the same
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##A 10 117803 217
##T Meeting the Expectations of the Land
Meeting the Expectations of the Land

@@
(Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship)
Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry 
and Bruce Colman, Editors
1985; 272 pp.
ISBN 086547172X
$12.50 ($14 postpaid)
from:

North Point Press
850 Talbot Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94706
415-527-6260
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##A 10 95018 219
##T The Farming Game
The Farming Game


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Farms and farmers have been disappearing in large numbers in America since the 1950s. The Farming Game explains the arithmetic that has greased this economic slide, and also suggests strategies for people interested in surviving this trend and farming in the 1990s. Bryan Jones has a style reminiscent of Will Rogers  Ñ  an ear for ironic humor, political savvy, and a simmering contempt for bureaucratic institutions (big banks, government, universities). His lectures on profit and advice on diversification are the perfect antidote for romantic agrarian notions. This is a book that any beginner will need and anyone with experience will nod at knowingly.
                  
                                                        Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 10 95277 220
##T The Farming Game
The Farming Game


@@
Bryan Jones
1982; 221 pp.
ISBN 0803225598
$17.95 ($19.45 postpaid)
from:

University of Nebraska Press
901 North 17th Street
318 Nebraska Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0520
@@

##A 10 93641 222
##T New Roots for Agriculture
New Roots for Agriculture

@@
This book takes conventional agricultural wisdom and stands it on its head. The problem is not organic versus chemical methods, but rather the plow versus sod:  plow and your soil will erode; leave the earthÕs vegetative skin undisturbed and the soil stays in place.

By way of illustration, Wes Jackson begins by describing a rainy Sunday drive through the Mennonite country of south-central Kansas. These are among the best ecological farmers in business  Ñ  land stewardship is even a basic tenet of their religion  Ñ  yet the streams run black with soil from their freshly seeded fields.  

ItÕs an image that percolates through the rest of the book, because if these are our ÒbestÓ farmers, then how much mud is in every-
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##A 10 94373 225
##T New Roots for Agriculture
New Roots for Agriculture

@@
Wes Jackson
New Edition 1985; 150 pp.
ISBN 0803275625
$6.95 ($8.45 postpaid)
from:

Univ. of Nebraska Press
901 North 17th Street
Lincoln, NE 68588
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##A 10 91445 227
##T The Land Report
The Land Report

@@

At the Land Institute outside Salina, Kansas, Wes Jackson and 
his wife Dana and staff are busy testing perennial native grasses. Follow their developments through The Land Report. From their tiny test plots may come grains for the future.   
                                                                         
                                                              Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 91693 228
##T The Land Report
The Land Report

@@
Dana Jackson, Editor
$5/year (3 issues) 
from:

The Land Institute
2440 East Water Road
Salina, KS 67401
913-823-5376
@@

##A 10 39598 229
##T The New Farm
The New Farm

@@

This magazine is Òdedicated to putting people, profit and biological permanence back into farming by giving farmers the information they need to take charge of their farms and their futures.Ó It is run by a non-profit organization and is the best single source for economically sound alternative techniques for commercial farmers.
                        
                                                            Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 10 73843 230
##T The New Farm
The New Farm

@@
George DeVault, Editor
ISSN 01630369
$15/year (7 issues)  
from:

Regenerative Agriculture Association
222 Main Street
Emmaus, PA 18098
@@

##A 10 23815 236
##T Gardening
Gardening

@@
Every vegetable has a cultural requirement or two that practiced gardeners know. Lettuce wants shade, moisture, and a thick mulch in summer. Bell peppers like it hot. Tomatoes are either determinate or indeterminate, and you canÕt really call yourself a tomato grower unless you know the difference. The non-profit National Gardening Association (Ù see separate review) has distilled, from its 250,000 members, knowledge about most of the important requirements of AmericaÕs favorite vegetables and fruits, and laid out superbly detailed instructions for growing them in this big, beautiful book. 

                                                               Ñ Jeff Cox
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##A 10 24219 237
##T Gardening
Gardening

@@
National Gardening Association
1986; 431 pp.
ISBN 0201108550
$19.95 ($22.45 postpaid)
from:

The National Gardening Association
180 Flynn Avenue
Burlington, VT 05401
802-863-1308
@@

##A 10 74796 240
##T Garden WayÕs Joy of Gardening
Garden WayÕs Joy of Gardening

@@
When I first thumbed through this fat, glossy paperback it
looked a little strange, or at least unorthodox.  The traditional 
garden-book format of dense pages and crowded layout was missing, all the illustrations were in color, there was white space to relieve  the eye, and it was so slick I wondered if maybe it was a sales brochure for Toyotas and the cabbages were just there for background.  Not to mention the huge, dramatic headings that introduced sections, like ÒMy 12-point system for fewer and fewer weeds each yearÓ or ÒCelery  Ñ  How I grow this challenging vegetable.Ó 

Was it a garden book or another self-improvement plan?
@@

##A 10 85301 243
##T Garden WayÕs Joy of Gardening
Garden WayÕs Joy of Gardening

@@
Dick Raymond
1983; 365 pp.
ISBN 0882663194
$17.95 ($19.95 postpaid)
from:

Garden Way Publishing
Storey Communications
Schoolhouse Road
Pownal, VT 05261
@@

##A 10 21793 247
##T Country Wisdom Bulletins
Country Wisdom Bulletins

@@

Garden Way Publishing has a series of 32-page booklets that are worth knowing about. There are nearly a hundred of them now, mostly on specific aspects of gardening, cooking, and householding. Sample titles include ÒWhat Every Gardener Should Know About Earthworms,Ó ÒGrow the Best Tomatoes,Ó ÒCuring Smoky Fire-places,Ó and ÒAttracting Birds.Ó They are great for people who like their information short and sweet, for kids, for teaching situations, and for nosing around a subject thatÕs new to you.
                                            
                                                         Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 22043 248
##T Country Wisdom Bulletins
Country Wisdom Bulletins

@@
32 pp.
$1.95 ($3.95 postpaid)
List of titles free 
from:

Garden Way Publishing
Storey Communications
Schoolhouse Road
Pownal, VT 05261
800-451-3522
@@

##A 10 15451 252
##T Living with Plants
Living with Plants


@@

This botany professor has taken all of the how-toÕs printed in current gardening books and woven them together with threads of why. ItÕs an incredibly complete and clear botanical textbook on gardening, landscaping, and houseplants.    
                                                              
                                                        Ñ Rosemary Menninger





Ù Biology of Plants
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##A 10 15722 253
##T Living with Plants
Living with Plants


@@
Donna N. Schumann
1980; 325 pp.
ISBN 0916422208
$16.95 ($18.20 postpaid)
from:

Mad River Press
141 Carter Lane
Eureka, CA 95501
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##A 10 106368 256
##T Right Plant, Right Place
Right Plant, Right Place

@@
This is a very diligent book of lists, 27 in all, with categories that are either types of garden plants (ÒPlants with aromatic leavesÓ), or locations in the garden where they are to grow (ÒPlants suitable for crevices in pavingÓ). Plants in each list 
are divided into sections running from sun tolerant to shade tolerant, and within each section they are presented in order 
of decreasing height. There is also extensive cross-indexing between the lists, and each of the more than 1500 plants has
its own 2-inch-square color photograph.

The lady who did all this lives in Scotland and says in her intro-
duction that she got into this when she acquired a garden needing
an overhaul and couldnÕt find a book like this to help her.  I donÕt
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##A 10 106903 258
##T Right Plant, Right Place
Right Plant, Right Place

@@
Nicola Ferguson
1984; 292 pp.
ISBN 0671523961
$14.95 ($16.20 postpaid)
from:

Simon and Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 10 13508 261
##T Gardening by Mail 2
Gardening by Mail 2

@@
Take one reference librarian with green thumbs, add one personal computer and four years of work and  Ñ  lucky for us  Ñ  comes this amazing book.  More than 2,000 mail order sources are ingeniously listed. Separate alphabetical lists of seed companies and nurseries are followed by a plant index, so that if you are looking for, say, Siberian Irises, you go to that heading and there are all the sources that sell them. Then comes a geographical index of the same sources, providing traveling gardeners with a ready-made tour guide. This same detailed attention is also given to garden supply companies, societies, libraries, magazines, and even one hundred gardening books.                   
                                                               
                                                              Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 10 70579 262
##T Gardening by Mail 2
Gardening by Mail 2

@@
Barbara J. Barton
New Edition 1987; 336 pp.
ISBN 093763302X
$16 ($19 postpaid)
from:

Tusker Press
P. O. Box 1338
Sebastopol, CA 95473
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##A 10 64684 264
##T Drip Irrigation Catalog
Drip Irrigation Catalog

@@
Anything that saves a person time and money is bound to be popular; drip irrigation does both. Plastic tubing delivers water to each plant in a slow, steady drip. Timers can further control how often you irrigate. The small army of drip irrigation manufacturers and products can be confusing. One solution is to shop at a store where you know and trust the salespeople. Or shop by mail order with the Urban Farmer. They specialize in drip irrigation and carefully select what they sell from more than 40 manufacturers. Their catalog lists components and also explains the basics of design and installation.                                         
                                                               
                                                              Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 64797 265
##T Drip Irrigation Catalog
Drip Irrigation Catalog

@@
Catalog $1 
from:

Urban Farmer Store
2833 Vicente Street
San Francisco, CA 94116
415-661-2204
@@

##A 10 70067 268
##T Peaceful Valley Farm Supply
Peaceful Valley Farm Supply

@@
If I had to do all my agricultural shopping with just one catalog, Peaceful Valley Farm Supply would be the one. With it I could buy a BSC tiller, Speedling Transplant Flats or beneficial insects for pest control. Or Fawn fescue grass seed (by the pound or the sack), earthworm castings or a bristlecone pine tree. More than 475 varieties of plants are for sale in the current catalog, including the Floyd Zaiger line of genetically dwarfing fruit and nut trees. The emphasis is on ecologically sound products and the service is friendly.             
                                                                            
                                                                 Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 10 57498 269
##T Peaceful Valley Farm Supply
Peaceful Valley Farm Supply

@@
Catalog $2 
from:

Peaceful Valley Farm Supply
11173 Peaceful Valley Road
Nevada City, CA 95959
916-265-FARM
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##A 10 3436 271
##T agAccess
agAccess

@@
This is a very useful service, long needed. The agAccess folks offer to supply  "any agricultural or horticultural book in print, as well as many that are out of printÓ, and to find you a reference on virtually any agricultural subject. The catalog consists of expert reviews of various publications and computer software programs useful to farmers. Though accenting the organic and generally eco-righteous, the service covers all sorts of cultivation  Ñ  even turf for golf courses. ItÕs run by nice people too.
                    
                                                                     Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 10 3727 272
##T agAccess
agAccess

@@
Catalog free 
from:

agAccess
P. O. Box 2008
Davis, CA 95617
916-756-7177
@@

##A 10 60438 275
##T GardenerÕs Supply Co.
GardenerÕs Supply Co.

@@

GardenerÕs Supply Co. grew out of the National Gardening Association, which publishes the magazine National Gardening
(Ù see separate reviews of the Association and the magazine).  This catalog  is aimed squarely at home vegetable gardeners, and in addition to tools, features home canning equipment and organic pest controls.
                                                                         
                                                            - Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 60836 276
##T GardenerÕs Supply Co.
GardenerÕs Supply Co.

@@
Catalog free 
from:

GardenerÕs Supply Company
128 Intervale Road
Burlington, VT 05401
802-863-1700
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##A 10 61618 278
##T Smith & Hawken 
Smith & Hawken 

@@

Smith & Hawken introduced American gardeners to the Bulldog line of English forks and spades, tools so well made they are likely to end up as items in wills. The catalog is aimed primarily at suburban horticulturists and also offers a fine selection of Japanese garden and flower arranging tools.        
                                                                        
                                                               - Richard Nilsen




Ù Growing a Business
@@

##A 10 61892 279
##T Smith & Hawken 
Smith & Hawken 

@@
Catalog free 
from:

Smith & Hawken
25 Corte Madera
Mill Valley, CA 94941
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##A 10 66996 282
##T Troy-Bilt Tillers
Troy-Bilt Tillers

@@
Troy-Bilt tillers have a personality of their own - theyÕre built solid as a Russian dump truck for starters, besides coming with a well-written 200-page manual covering everything from tilling techniques to tune-ups and transmission tinkering. For good measure, the factory service department has a toll-free 800 number. When IÕve had to use it there has always been a competent and courteous response. They range from three to eight horse-power, and the larger models now have a power take-off which allows use of accessories  Ñ  generator, log splitter, and shredder. Tiller prices go from $569 to $1,599, and thereÕs a unique pricing system in which hefty discounts are available in off season.
 
                                                                - Dick Fugett
@@

##A 10 67090 283
##T Troy-Bilt Tillers
Troy-Bilt Tillers

@@
$569 - $1,599
Information  free
from:

Garden Way Mfg. Co.
102nd Street & 9th Avenue
Troy, NY 12180
800-828-5500
@@

##A 10 92876 285
##T Garden Way Carts
Garden Way Carts

@@

Garden Way carts are made by Garden Way Manufacturing Co., also known for their Troy-Bilt tillers. IÕve had mine for years and have lugged everything from bags of concrete to a full-sized refrigerator in it. Their success has spawned other big-wheeled carts.  You wonÕt go wrong with a Garden Way cart, but you might save money by checking out the competition.
       
                                                         Ñ Dick Fugett
@@

##A 10 93183 286
##T Garden Way Carts
Garden Way Carts

@@
$149 & $179;
Information free 
from:

Garden Way  Manufacturing Co.
102nd Street & Ninth Avenue
Troy, NY 12180
800-833-6900
@@

##A 10 67947 288
##T Mainline Rotary Tillers
Mainline Rotary Tillers

@@
Market gardeners, landscapers, or anyone who makes a living with a tiller will want to know about Mainline. This American company sells two kinds of high-quality Italian tillers made by S.E.P. and Goldoni. Thirty-three models are offered, ranging in horsepower from 5.7 to 18 and in price from $1,500 to $5,000. Some of the larger sizes are available in diesel. A key feature provides great versatility: the tiller comes off, revealing the power take-off spline; the handles and controls pivot 180 degrees so the power take-off is pointed forward, and attachments hook on. They include rotary lawn mowers, sickle-bar mowers, snow throwers, sprayer pumps, and log splitters.
 
                                                             Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 68101 289
##T Mainline Rotary Tillers
Mainline Rotary Tillers

@@

$1,200-$5,000;
Information free 
from:

Mainline North America
Box 348
London, OH 43140
614-852-9733
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##A 10 68926 291
##T Harrowsmith
Harrowsmith

@@

Harrowsmith from Canada established itself early on as the best of the new magazines dealing with country living.  Beautifully designed and intelligently written, it has now spawned an American edition.  Both cover cold-climate gardening, plus architecture, cooking, and environmental politics.

                                                           Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 39909 292
##T Harrowsmith
Harrowsmith

@@
Harrowsmith Ñ Canadian Edition
William Grady, Editor

ISSN 08840296
$19/year (6 issues)
($15 in Canada)
from:

Harrowsmith Magazine
7 Queen Victoria Road 
Camden East, Ontario K0K 1J0
CANADA
800-344-3350
@@

##A 10 261938 293
##T Harrowsmith
Harrowsmith

@@
Harrowsmith Ñ U.S. Edition
Thomas H. Rawls, Editor

ISSN 08840296
$24/year (6 issues)
from:

Harrowsmith Magazine
The Creamery
Charlotte, VT 05445
800-344-3350
@@

##A 10 72424 295
##T HortIdeas
HortIdeas

@@

HortIdeas is a monthly newsletter gleaned from reading mostly technical bulletins at an agricultural library  Ñ  in this case the University of KentuckyÕs. Articles are capsulized for easy digestion and referenced for further investigation.  ItÕs an extremely fertile source of new gardening ideas.

                                                       Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 72551 296
##T HortIdeas
HortIdeas

@@
Gregory and Patricia Y. Williams, Editors
ISSN 07428219
$15/year (12 issues)  
from:

HortIdeas
Route 1, Box 302
Gravel Switch, KY 40328.
@@

##A 10 74493 299
##T Horticulture, The Magazine of American Gardening
Horticulture, The Magazine of American Gardening

@@

Horticulture is a venerable general-interest gardening magazine; it is occasionally a bit stodgy but has consistently good color photography. Because it is aimed at an affluent audience it is an excellent place to keep up with whatÕs new via the advertisements.                 

                                                           Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 74650 300
##T Horticulture, The Magazine of American Gardening
Horticulture, The Magazine of American Gardening

@@
Thomas C. Cooper, Editor
ISSN 00185329
$20/year (12 issues); 
$26 foreign from:

Horticulture
The Magazine of American Gardening
Subscription Department
P. O. Box 53879
Boulder, CO 80321
800-525-0643
303-447-9330(CO)
@@

##A 10 75318 303
##T National Gardening
National Gardening

@@

The National Gardening Association (Ù see separate review) has an excellent  magazine called National Gardening.  Backyard vegetable gardening is the primary subject, and readers furnish a good supply of new ideas and techniques. In a healthy attempt to live up to its name, there is steady coverage of solutions to problems caused by regional climates.

                                                         Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 75711 304
##T National Gardening
National Gardening

@@
Kit Anderson, Editor-in-Chief
ISSN 08878447
$18/year (12 issues)
includes National Gardening Assoc.
membership; from:

The National Gardening Association
180 Flynn Avenue
Burlington, VT 05401
802-863-1308
@@

##A 10 76395 308
##T Organic Gardening 
Organic Gardening 

@@

Organic Gardening, the venerable publication from Rodale Press, has watched the mainstream creep ever closer to its once isolated position as the proponent of natural gardening techniques.  Keeping backyard fruits and vegetables healthy without synthetic chemicals is the main idea.  Most of the articles are about things you can eat, although horticultural subjects are included, as is an ongoing discussion of sustainable or regenerative gardening and economics.

                                                           Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 76557 309
##T Organic Gardening 
Organic Gardening 

@@
Robert Rodale, Editor
ISSN 08973792
$13.97/year (12 issues) 
from:

Rodale Press
33 East Minor Street 
Emmaus, PA 18098
800-527-8200
215-967-5171(PA)
@@

##A 10 40481 312
##T The Food and Heat Producing Solar Greenhouse
The Food and Heat Producing Solar Greenhouse

@@

In the years this book has been available, it has become the one where you look first. For good reason too  Ñ  somebody or other has actually done whatÕs shown, and thereÕs a lot shown. More than shown, really, because thereÕs also lots of how and why too. And a good bibliography with comment. And good photographs of proven details. And step-by-step instruction on both building and operating. In fact, the book is a marvel. Lots of love in it.

                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 10 40814 313
##T The Food and Heat Producing Solar Greenhouse
The Food and Heat Producing Solar Greenhouse

@@
Bill Yanda and Rick Fisher
1980; 208 pp.
ISBN 0912528206
$8 $10.75 postpaid)
from:

John Muir Publications
P. O. Box 613
Santa Fe, NM 87501
@@

##A 10 46409 316
##T The Bountiful Solar Greenhouse
The Bountiful Solar Greenhouse

@@

Books on designing and building solar greenhouses abound, but 
the scarce commodity until now has been an explanation of how 
to keep the plants inside them healthy and productive. Shane Smith helped start and has run the first large-scale solar greenhouse in America (Cheyenne, WyomingÕs Community Solar Greenhouse, 5,000 square feet and 100 percent passively solar-heated). He has a wealth of experience and a knack for straight-forward explanation. Consider a major niche well filled.                                                                                                                          

                                                        - Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 46739 317
##T The Bountiful Solar Greenhouse
The Bountiful Solar Greenhouse

@@
(A Guide to Year-Round Food Production)
Shane Smith
1982; 221 pp.
ISBN 0912528087
OUT OF PRINT 

John Muir Publications
@@

##A 10 48735 320
##T Success with House Plants
Success with House Plants

@@

The heart of this book is its most useful part  Ñ  an A-Z guide to 600 house plants. Color illustrations accompany suggestions of varieties and instructions on care and propagation. Since this book was published, some safer and less toxic remedies for house plant pests have come on the market (Ù see separate review of Insecticidal Soap).  Otherwise this is a very comprehensive and useful book.

                                                               Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 49079 321
##T Success with House Plants
Success with House Plants

@@
Anthony Huxley, Editor
1979; 480 pp.
ISBN 0895770520
$23.95 ($24.95 postpaid)
from:

ReaderÕs Digest/
Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 10 80564 325
##T The Community Garden Book
The Community Garden Book

@@

This is like a yearbook on the current status of community gardening in the U.S. Many of the major programs are featured along with an overview of whatÕs been learned about preventing vandalism, setting up irrigation and composting systems, fundraising, and more. A neighborhood group could start a 
garden with this.

                                                    Ñ Rosemary Menninger
@@

##A 10 80781 326
##T The Community Garden Book
The Community Garden Book

@@
Larry Sommers
1984; 121 pp.
ISBN 091587301X
$8.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Gardens for All
180 Flynn Avenue
Burlington, VT 05401
@@

##A 10 78513 329
##T American Community Gardening Association
American Community Gardening Association

@@

The American Community Gardening Association and its publication, the Journal of Community Gardening, are in the business of promoting the practice of community gardening nationwide. Most of the people who got the Association rolling actually manage or operate community agriculture projects in major cities. They know firsthand how a community garden can transform the mood of a neighborhood, change lives for the better and instill pride in the residents. 

                                                             Ñ Shane Smith
@@

##A 10 78775 330
##T American Community Gardening Association
American Community Gardening Association

@@
Journal of Community Gardening
Sally McCabe, Editor
Membership $15/year 
(includes 4 issues of Journal);
Information free
from:

American Community Gardening Association
2615 South Grand Avenue
Suite 400
Los Angeles, CA 90007
@@

##A 10 79451 332
##T The Youth Gardening Book
The Youth Gardening Book


@@
Everyone knows that kids and gardens are a natural match-up, right? Wrong. I found out the first time I tried. Somehow gardens didnÕt have as much pizazz as video games and all the other diversions. It became a challenge that IÕm still working on. I wish IÕd had this book at the beginning to help out: it covers everything from motivation to garden design and is especially strong in stressing the fun of gardens with 25 pages of experiments, tests and special activities. Whether your garden partner is your own child or a horde of school kids youÕll find it a genuine ally.             
 
                                                               Ñ Dick Fugett
@@

##A 10 79797 333
##T The Youth Gardening Book
The Youth Gardening Book


@@
(A Complete Guide for Teachers, Parents and Youth Leaders)
Lynn Ocone
1983; 145 pp.
ISBN 0915873001
$8.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Gardens for All
180 Flynn Avenue
Burlington, VT 05401
@@

##A 10 87551 336
##T The National Gardening Association
The National Gardening Association

@@
The NGA began in 1972 by sponsoring community gardens in Burlington, Vermont. Today it is a 250,000-member national non-profit organization with many useful and even unique publications. (See review of their book, Gardening, plus two of the books reviewed in this cluster.)  Although they rode to popularity on the high food prices of the 1970s, the NGA has always understood that gardening is more than vegetables. It is therapeutic, and when done by a community it is political. In addition to publishing a magazine (Ù see separate review of National Gardening), they also offer a catalog of enabling hand tools for handicapped gardeners, a booklet on employee gardens for businesses, and a book on gardening for people in prison.                                  
                                                          Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 87626 337
##T The National Gardening Association
The National Gardening Association

@@

Publications list free 
from:

The National Gardening Association
180 Flynn Avenue
Burlington, VT 05401
@@

##A 10 16403 339
##T Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden

@@

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is an outstanding source of information on nearly everything useful relating to plants, greenhouse, vines, bonsai, pruning, the lot. In their fine periodical, Plants and Gardens, each issue is devoted to one subject.

                                                       Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 10 16784 340
##T Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden

@@
Plants and Gardens
Barbara Pesch, Editor
ISBN 03625850
$20/year (4 issues)
includes membership;
Publications list free 
from:

Brooklyn Botanic Garden
1000 Washington Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11225
718-622-4433 ext. 371
@@

##A 10 19957 343
##T Sunset New Western Garden Book
Sunset New Western Garden Book

@@

This continues to be the essential book for gardeners in the 11 western states. The 344-page ÒWestern Plant EncyclopediaÓ illustrates each entry and keys it to 24 very specific climate zones. By acknowledging and incorporating the amazing diversity of western climates, Sunset has created a book that gets used.

                                                            Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 20184 344
##T Sunset New Western Garden Book
Sunset New Western Garden Book

@@
Editors of Sunset Books and Sunset Magazine
5th Edition 1979; 512 pp.
ISBN 037603890X
$16.95 ($19.95
postpaid) from:

Sunset Books / Lane Publishing Co.
80 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025-3691
415-321-3600
@@

##A 10 17723 347
##T ReaderÕs Digest Illustrated Guide to Gardening
ReaderÕs Digest Illustrated Guide to Gardening

@@
ReaderÕs Digest has trained its vast resources on gardening and produced an impressive book. The illustrations alone involved the work of 44 different artists. With captions providing step by step directions, they are frequently all that is needed for numerous how-to garden chores. And the oblong shape of the book keeps it flat and open while your hands are busy. The text explains more details than most people would have time for in a lifetime of gardening. My one reservation is the heavy reliance placed on synthetic pesticides and weedkillers  Ñ  watch out here, or they will have you out there spraying everything from methoxychlor to paraquat. (Ù For safer alternatives consult the Pest Control reviews in the Horticulture Section.)
                                                                      Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 18119 348
##T ReaderÕs Digest Illustrated Guide to Gardening
ReaderÕs Digest Illustrated Guide to Gardening

@@
Carroll C. Calkins, Editor
1978; 672 pp.
ISBN 0895770466
$25.50 ($26.50 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 10 62034 350
##T HP Books
HP Books

@@
Trying to keep a young orange tree alive during a string of twenty degree nights and serious bug attacks had me looking for help, and when I asked my main nurseryman what to do, he reached back into the compact library behind the counter and pulled out his central citrus authority. It looked to me like another of the ORTHO series so I was anticipating a once-over-lightly approach, but instead there was a complete and thorough reference. The book was put out by HP Publishing in Arizona and was a most readable and informative volume, and led to my discovery of the wide range of their other gardening books.

The ORTHO similarity is genetic, for both operations were directly influenced by the Sunset garden book series that began in the Õ50s.
@@

##A 10 63253 352
##T HP Books
HP Books

@@
Postpaid HP booklist free;
Titles $8.95-$20.98
from:

HPBooks
P. O. Box 5367
Tucson, AZ 85703
800-227-8801
@@

##A 10 30553 356
##T Herbal Bounty
Herbal Bounty

@@

Long on information and short on hype, this book details how to grow, dry, and use 124 herbs. This is an excellent choice for beginners, and since the author has spent time in his library and 
in his garden, it is also a book that will not offend a botanist. 

                                                          Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 30726 357
##T Herbal Bounty
Herbal Bounty

@@
(The Gentle Art of Herb Culture)
Steven Foster
1984; 200 pp.
ISBN 0879051566
$11.95 ($13.45 postpaid)
from:

Peregrine Smith Books
P. O. Box 667
Layton, UT 84041
@@

##A 10 29397 361
##T The Herb GardenerÕs Resource Guide
The Herb GardenerÕs Resource Guide

@@

Praise be to catalogers, those diligent people who take cardboard boxes full of envelopes, brochures, and addresses and transform them into neatly alphabetized booklets. Paula Oliver is such a person, and her Resource Guide contains over 500 entries, from nurseries and seed houses to botanicals and florist supplies. And for each listing the details are nicely tended to (wholesale/retail, mail orders, visitors, foreign orders). For anyone interested in herbs, IÕd call it essential.

                                                       Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 29605 362
##T The Herb GardenerÕs Resource Guide
The Herb GardenerÕs Resource Guide

@@
Paula Oliver
1985; 82 pp.
$7.95 postpaid 
from:

Northwind Farm
Route 2, Box 246
Shevlin, MN 56676
218-657-2478
@@

##A 10 31915 365
##T Folklore Herb Company ¥ Sanctuary Seeds
Folklore Herb Company ¥ Sanctuary Seeds

@@

Folklore sells bulk spices and botanical herbs, also teas, oils,
food items, and books. Sanctuary sells culinary and medicinal 
herb seeds as well as non-hybrid vegetable seed.

                                                        - Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 32144 366
##T Folklore Herb Company ¥ Sanctuary Seeds
Folklore Herb Company ¥ Sanctuary Seeds

@@
Catalog from:

Folklore Herb Company/Sanctuary Seeds
2388 West Fourth Avenue
Vancouver, B.C.
V6K 1P1 CANADA
CANADA
604-733-4724
@@

##A 10 32905 367
##T Meadowbrook Herb Garden
Meadowbrook Herb Garden

@@

Culinary herbs, teas, cosmetics, seeds and books.
                                                        
                                                             Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 33026 368
##T Meadowbrook Herb Garden
Meadowbrook Herb Garden

@@
Catalog $1 
from:

Meadowbrook Herb Garden
Route 138
Wyoming, RI 02898
401-539-7603
@@

##A 10 33984 369
##T Richters
Richters

@@

An extensive selection of herbs, alpine and wildflowers, and dye plants. Plants and seeds.
                                                                       
                                                            Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 34207 370
##T Richters
Richters

@@
Catalog $2 .50 
from:

Richters
P. O. Box 26
Goodwood, Ontario
L0C 1A0 CANADA
416-640-6677
@@

##A 10 34931 371
##T TaylorÕs Herb Garden
TaylorÕs Herb Garden

@@

Herbs for cooking, smelling and healing sold as plants and seeds.  Good selection includes scented geraniums.  

                                                          Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 35327 372
##T TaylorÕs Herb Garden
TaylorÕs Herb Garden

@@
Catalog $1 from:

TaylorÕs Herb Gardens
1535 Lone Oak Road
Vista, CA 92084
619-727-3485
@@

##A 10 49750 373
##T Sinsemilla Tips
Sinsemilla Tips

@@
Smoking and then growing marijuana once introduced a generation of Americans to gardening.  There is still only one state (Alaska) where it is legal to grow and possess marijuana for personal consumption.  Between drug law enforcement and the neighbor kid down the block, growers today are becoming experts at high-tech indoor cultivation.  High-intensity discharge lights, hydroponic cultivation and even computer-controlled indoor environments are all available.  Companies selling this equipment advertise in Sinsemilla Tips, which covers political news and the latest in cultivation techniques. 

Commercial marijuana growing tends to be armed, dangerous, and locked in a symbiotic bear-hug with government.  There but for the
@@

##A 10 50298 375
##T Sinsemilla Tips
Sinsemilla Tips

@@
Don Parker, Editor
ISSN 08848858
$20/year(4 issues);
$35 foreign
from:

Sinsemilla Tips
P. O. Box 3004-155
Corvallis, OR 97339
503-757-TIPS (8477)
@@

##A 10 50455 376
##T Indoor Marijuana Horticulture
Indoor Marijuana Horticulture

@@

Indoor Marijuana Horticulture is the best introduction to the wonderful world of electricity that makes total indoor growing possible  Ñ  fans, lights, timers, moisture meters, and CO2 enrichment systems. 

                                                          Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 100213 377
##T Indoor Marijuana Horticulture
Indoor Marijuana Horticulture

@@
Jorge Cervantes
1984; 288 pp.
ISBN 0932331017
$16.95 ($19.95 postpaid)
from:

Jorge Cervantes
P.O. Box 02009
Portland, OR 97202
@@

##A 10 47380 380
##T The Mushroom Cultivator
The Mushroom Cultivator

@@
This is simply the best single manual ever published about each phase of home mushroom cultivation. Other books cover some of the more essential aspects of mushroom growing, like compost preparation, growing room construction, and maintenance of environmental conditions for optimum yield, but The Mushroom Cultivator takes you further, into a deeper understanding of mushroom life. It includes a full course on the intricacies of 
Òkitchen microbiology,Ó essential for isolating and maintaining your own strains of mushroom cultures and for turning them into spawn  Ñ  the ÒseedÓ for your mushroom garden. YouÕll appreciate 
the chapters on common microbial ÒweedsÓ and insect pests, and how to deal with them. Unlike many other writers on the subject, the authors are down on insecticides and fungicides.
@@

##A 10 47873 382
##T The Mushroom Cultivator
The Mushroom Cultivator

@@
Paul Stamets and J. S. Chilton
1983; 415 pp.
ISBN 0961079800
$25 postpaid 
from:

Homestead Book Co.
6101 22nd Avenue NW
Seattle, WA 98107
@@

##A 10 51335 385
##T Mushroompeople
Mushroompeople

@@

Mushroompeople is the best place for a grower and mushroom lover to begin. Mushroompeople are super-competent and have a computer help-line for their customers. They specialize in shiitake, sell specialized strains for greenhouses or outdoors and give mushroom tours to Japan. Costs are lower than equipment described in The Mushroom Cultivator (see separate review Ù). The catalog has all the best books for mushroom growing, hunting in the wild, feasting and cooking.
                                                                         
                                                              Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 10 51622 386
##T Mushroompeople
Mushroompeople

@@
Catalog free 
from:

Mushroompeople
P. O. Box 159
Inverness, CA 94937
415-663-8504
@@

##A 10 57969 389
##T Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape
Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape

@@
Edible landscaping is a new term for an old idea. It is a reaction to the lawns and shrubs that make many suburban yards look so boring. Its goal is to integrate food plants into the landscape: specifically to liberate fruits and vegetables from rectangular prisons often hidden out at the back of the lot. Bring those salad herbs up and put them right outside the kitchen door where they will be tended and used. And put the peaches (dwarf) under a south-facing eave of the roof where they can enjoy maximum frost protection and warmth.

What used to be common sense was lost when people stopped 
growing any of their own food and ran out of time even to be in 
their gardens, let alone work them. That is changing, and this book
@@

##A 10 58707 392
##T Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape
Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape

@@
Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally
Robert Kourik
1986; 400 pp.
ISBN 0961584807
$16.95 ($18.95 postpaid)
from:

The Edible Landscape Book Project
P. O. Box 1841
Santa Rosa, CA 95402
@@

##A 10 81637 394
##T How to Grow More Vegetables
How to Grow More Vegetables


@@

John Jeavons did not invent the biodynamic/French intensive method of gardening, but he clearly qualifies as its chief popularizer, and this book boils the technique down to its simplest terms. It is organic gardening using hand labor, raised beds, close spacing between plants to eliminate weeds and conserve soil moisture, and heavy feeding and composting. It can produce very large yields in very small spaces, and is therefore applicable to many diverse situations.

                                                      Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 81907 395
##T How to Grow More Vegetables
How to Grow More Vegetables


@@
John Jeavons
1982; 160 pp.
ISBN 0898150736
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Ten Speed Press
P. O. Box 7123
Berkeley, CA 94707
415-845-8414
@@

##A 10 38457 399
##T MAIL ORDER FLOWERING PLANTS
MAIL ORDER FLOWERING PLANTS

@@
Two excellent sources of ornamental plants. Wayside Gardens has a larger selection (including flowering trees) and White Flower Farm calls its catalog ÒThe Garden BookÓ because it includes very chatty and detailed cultural information on the plant varieties that are sold. Both catalogs are worth having.
       
                                                            Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 38822 400
##T MAIL ORDER FLOWERING PLANTS
MAIL ORDER FLOWERING PLANTS

@@
White Flower Farm
The Garden Book (catalog) $5 
from:

White Flower Farm
Litchfield, CT 06759-0050
203-567-0801
@@

##A 10 14260 401
##T MAIL ORDER FLOWERING PLANTS
MAIL ORDER FLOWERING PLANTS

@@
Wayside Gardens
Catalog free  
from:

Wayside Gardens
Hodges, SC 29695-0001
803-223-6863
@@

##A 10 18690 402
##T Complete Guide to Plants and Flowers
Complete Guide to Plants and Flowers

@@

A flower gardenerÕs encyclopedia, a seed catalogueÕs companion, and a visual delight. Five hundred half-page color photos with graphic cultivation tips for common varieties of flowers, cactus, houseplants, and other ornamentals.
           
                                                       Ñ Rosemary Menninger
@@

##A 10 19090 403
##T Complete Guide to Plants and Flowers
Complete Guide to Plants and Flowers

@@
Simon & SchusterÕs Complete Guide to Plants and Flowers
Frances Perry, Editor
1976; 522 pp.
ISBN 0671222473
$11.95 ($13.20 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
Order Dept.
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 10 65712 405
##T Hugh JohnsonÕs Encyclopedia of Trees
Hugh JohnsonÕs Encyclopedia of Trees

@@

If the quest is for one volume on trees, this is the choice. Ace popularizer Hugh Johnson is a great organizer with a wonderfully personal writing style. Well captioned color photographs are included and there are 65 pages of A-Z tree species encyclopedia as well. A bargain of a book.
                            
                                                            Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 66481 406
##T Hugh JohnsonÕs Encyclopedia of Trees
Hugh JohnsonÕs Encyclopedia of Trees

@@
Dian Taylor, Editor
2nd edition 1984; 336 pp.
ISBN 0831748176
OUT OF PRINT

W. H. Smith, Publishers
@@

##A 10 71186 409
##T International Green Front Report
International Green Front Report

@@

The Friends of the Trees International Green Front Report is a rich source of information about planting trees and saving forests. ItÕs is an excellent way to follow the news and the players in the international alternative forestry and sustainable agriculture movements. Hundreds of groups are reviewed.

                                                            Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 77373 410
##T International Green Front Report
International Green Front Report

@@
Friends of the Trees 1988 International Green Front Report
Michael Pilarski, Editor
1988; 196 pp.
$8 postpaid from:

Friends of the Trees Society
P. O. Box 1466
Chelan, WA 98816
509-687-9714
@@

##A 10 17182 415
##T SEEDS INTRODUCTION
SEEDS INTRODUCTION

@@

Seeds are envelopes made for traveling, and seed catalogs aid and  organize the process. Regional seed companies are worthy of support because their locally adapted varieties will often do best in your garden. The catalogs reviewed in this section are included because they offer either a good selection for one climatic region, a very comprehensive selection, or exotic or unique varieties.

                                                            - Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 73169 416
##T Sources of Native Seeds and Plants
Sources of Native Seeds and Plants

@@

Over 200 sources of wildflower, native grass, tree and shrub seed are in this 36-page pamphlet, as well as sources for native plant
material and nursery stock.
 
                                                              Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 73987 417
##T Sources of Native Seeds and Plants
Sources of Native Seeds and Plants

@@
$3 postpaid
from:

Soil Conservation Society of America
7515 Northeast Ankeny Road
Ankeny, IA 50021-9764
@@

##A 10 76865 418
##T Directory of Seed and Nursery Catalogs
Directory of Seed and Nursery Catalogs

@@

Close to 400 U.S. and Canadian mail-order sources are included in this 14-page pamphlet. Updated annually. 

                                                      Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 79219 419
##T Directory of Seed and Nursery Catalogs
Directory of Seed and Nursery Catalogs

@@
$3 members
$4 non-members
from:

National Gardening
180 Flynn Avenue 
Burlington, VT 05401
@@

##A 10 88224 420
##T Seed, Bulb, and Nursery Supplies
Seed, Bulb, and Nursery Supplies

@@

This 12-page list of U.S. and Canadian sources is updated annually.

                                                           Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 92224 421
##T Seed, Bulb, and Nursery Supplies
Seed, Bulb, and Nursery Supplies

@@
Seed list free (with 45 cent SASE)  
from:

RodaleÕs Organic Gardening
Reader Service
Attn: Seed List
33 East Minor Street
Emmaus, PA 18049
@@

##A 10 17456 422
##T Garden Seed Inventory
Garden Seed Inventory

@@
The Inventory is a piece of cataloging heroics:  an alphabetical listing of each and every variety of nonhybrid vegetable seed for sale by seed houses in the U.S. and Canada. ThatÕs 5,291 varieties from 215 wholesale and retail seed companies. So if youÕre a gardener used to buying your favorite chili pepper seed from the same source for years  Ñ  only this year itÕs NOT THERE  Ñ  you look that variety up and find out who else sells it. If youÕre a northern gardener faced with a short growing season, you scan the 
listings of days to maturity for each variety of a kind of vegetable, and come up with whatever is quickest and best for your situation.

                                                                  Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 18676 423
##T Garden Seed Inventory
Garden Seed Inventory

@@
Kent Whealy, Editor
2nd Edition 1988; 422 pp.
ISBN 0961397748
$17.50 postpaid 
from:

Seeds Savers Exchange
Rural Route 3, Box 239
Decorah, IA 52101
@@

##A 10 97778 427
##T Abundant Life Seed Foundation
Abundant Life Seed Foundation

@@

Nonprofit source of vegetable, native, and endangered seed for the Pacific Northwest.

                                                           Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 97905 428
##T Abundant Life Seed Foundation
Abundant Life Seed Foundation

@@
Catalog $1 
from:

Abundant Life Seed Foundation
P. O. Box 772
Port Townsend, WA 98368
206-385-5660
@@

##A 10 126858 429
##T Bountiful Gardens Ñ Ecology Action
Bountiful Gardens Ñ Ecology Action


@@

Organically grown heirloom vegetable seed; also herb, flower, and cover-crop seed. 

                                                               Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 127121 430
##T Bountiful Gardens Ñ Ecology Action
Bountiful Gardens Ñ Ecology Action


@@
Catalog free 
from:

Bountiful Gardens Ecology Action
5798 Ridgewood Road 
Willits, CA 95490
@@

##A 10 136087 431
##T Butterbrooke Farm
Butterbrooke Farm

@@

This co-op has the cheapest prices for a basic selection of vegetable seed of anybody  Ñ  45 cents per packet. 

                                                          Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 141883 432
##T Butterbrooke Farm
Butterbrooke Farm

@@
Catalog free 
with SASE from:

Butterbrooke Farm
78 Barry Road
Oxford, CT 06483
203-888-2000
@@

##A 10 142762 433
##T Good Seed
Good Seed

@@

Open-pollinated vegetable seed, plus herb, flower, and cover-crop seed, all selected for the intermountain region east of the Cascades and west of the Rockies. 

                                                     Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 143245 434
##T Good Seed
Good Seed

@@
Catalog $1 
from:

Good Seed
Box 702 
Tonasket, WA 98855
@@

##A 10 143895 435
##T High Altitude Gardens
High Altitude Gardens


@@

Short-season vegetable and herb varieties for the western mountains. Their seed testing and production are done from 5,000 to 7,000 foot elevation. 

                                                        Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 144305 436
##T High Altitude Gardens
High Altitude Gardens


@@
Catalog $2 
from:

High Altitude Gardens
P. O. Box 4238
Ketchum, ID 83340
800-874-SEED
208-726-3221(ID)
@@

##A 10 159740 437
##T J. L. Hudson, Seedsman
J. L. Hudson, Seedsman

@@

Rare seed from all over the world. As much an encyclopedia as a source of seeds, this catalog has tiny print and is a botanical gold mine. 

                                                            Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 159769 438
##T J. L. Hudson, Seedsman
J. L. Hudson, Seedsman

@@

Catalog $1 
from:

J. L. Hudson, Seedsman
P. O. Box 1058
Redwood City, CA 94064
@@

##A 10 145129 440
##T JohnnyÕs Selected Seeds
JohnnyÕs Selected Seeds

@@

Well-designed catalog of vegetable seed adapted ideally for a cool 145-day-average frost-free season. Good germination and cultural directions, also recipes.

                                                         Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 145276 441
##T JohnnyÕs Selected Seeds
JohnnyÕs Selected Seeds

@@
Catalog free 
from:

JohnnyÕs Selected Seeds
299 Foss Hill Road
Albion, ME 04910
207-437-9294
@@

##A 10 146001 442
##T Larner Seeds
Larner Seeds


@@

Native plant seed of California, wildflower mixes and native grasses; much of it rarely collected.

                                                              Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 146205 443
##T Larner Seeds
Larner Seeds


@@
Catalog $1 
from:

Larner Seeds
P. O. Box 407
235 Fern Road
Bolinas, CA 94924
415-868-9407
@@

##A 10 150143 444
##T Le MarchŽ Seeds International
Le MarchŽ Seeds International

@@

Best source for baby vegetable varieties used in nouvelle cuisine restaurants. WhatÕs new (to American gardeners) is here. 

                                                           Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 150520 445
##T Le MarchŽ Seeds International
Le MarchŽ Seeds International

@@
Catalog $2 
from:

Le Marche Seeds International
P. O. Box 190
Dixon, CA 95620
916-678-9244
@@

##A 10 151121 446
##T Nichols Garden Nursery
Nichols Garden Nursery

@@

Herb seed and plants, vegetable seed (large selection), some flower seed, plus beer and winemaking supplies and dried herbs and spices. 

                                                         Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 151363 447
##T Nichols Garden Nursery
Nichols Garden Nursery

@@
Catalog free 
from:

Nichols Garden Nursery
1190 North Pacific Highway 
Albany, OR 97321
503-928-9280
@@

##A 10 152169 448
##T Park Seed Company
Park Seed Company

@@

Full-color catalog of flower and vegetable seed from an old and respected seed house.  (Ù See separate reviews of three books they publish:  ParkÕs Success With Seeds, ParkÕs Success With Herbs, and ParkÕs Success With Bulbs.)

                                                           Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 152458 449
##T Park Seed Company
Park Seed Company

@@
Catalog free 
from:

Park Seed Company
Greenwood, SC 29647-0001
803-223-7333
@@

##A 10 153238 450
##T Plants of the Southwest
Plants of the Southwest

@@

Vegetable, flower, shrub and tree seed; also native grass and wildflower mixes. From and for the high southwest American deserts.

                                                        Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 153499 451
##T Plants of the Southwest
Plants of the Southwest

@@
Catalog $1.50 
from:

Plants of the Southwest
1812 Second Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505-983-1548
@@

##A 10 154284 453
##T Redwood City Seed Company
Redwood City Seed Company

@@

Heirloom open-pollinated vegetable seed. Also herbs, tree seed, and books. Tiny print and dense with information. 

                                                          Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 154614 454
##T Redwood City Seed Company
Redwood City Seed Company

@@
Catalog $1 
from:

Redwood City Seed Co.
P. O. Box 361
Redwood City, CA 94064
415-325-7333
@@

##A 10 155358 455
##T Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

@@

Regional source for heirloom vegetable varieties adapted to the 
mid-Atlantic region. Good cultural instructions. 

                                                            Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 155482 456
##T Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

@@
Catalog $3
from:

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
P. O. Box 158
North Garden, VA 22959
@@

##A 10 156390 457
##T Stock Seed Farms
Stock Seed Farms


@@

Native American prairie grasses and perennial and annual wildflower seed for preserving and duplicating the tall-grass prairie. 

                                                         Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 156468 458
##T Stock Seed Farms
Stock Seed Farms


@@
Price list free 
from:

Stock Seed Farms
RR #1, Box 112
Murdock, NE 68407
402-867-3771
@@

##A 10 157315 459
##T Stokes Seeds
Stokes Seeds


@@

Bulk vegetable and flower seed for commercial growers.  Huge selections, and they also sell small packets of seed to home gardeners.

                                                          Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 157518 460
##T Stokes Seeds
Stokes Seeds


@@
Catalog free 
from:

Stokes Seeds
P. O. Box 548
Buffalo, NY 14240
416-688-4300
@@

##A 10 158714 461
##T Thompson & Morgan
Thompson & Morgan

@@

Full-color catalog of an enormous selection of flower seed, 
plus vegetables. American branch of one of the oldest British 
seed houses. 

                                                            Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 158852 462
##T Thompson & Morgan
Thompson & Morgan

@@
Catalog free 
from:

Thompson & Morgan
P. O. Box 1308
Jackson, NJ 08527
201-363-2225
@@

##A 10 22291 463
##T VeseyÕs Seeds Ltd
VeseyÕs Seeds Ltd

@@

Vegetable and flower seed adapted to the short-season requirements of CanadaÕs Maritime Provinces and New England.

                                                          Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 30228 464
##T VeseyÕs Seeds Ltd
VeseyÕs Seeds Ltd

@@
Catalog free 
from:

VeseyÕs Seeds Ltd.
P.O. Box 9000
Houlton, ME 04930-0814
902-892-1048
@@

##A 10 104241 466
##T Seed Savers Exchange
Seed Savers Exchange

@@

Seed Savers Exchange is the kind of good-works nonprofit outfit that people ought to leave money to in their wills. Run on a shoestring by Kent Whealy, it is the place where gardeners raising unique or endangered vegetables swap seeds. Many of the varieties have been passed down within families for generations. Here seeds are passed from the old to the young via the mailman. If you raise vegetables, consider joining in and adopting a variety or two.
                                                                   
                                                             Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 104691 467
##T Seed Savers Exchange
Seed Savers Exchange

@@
$15/year(3 issues) 
Information free with a long SASE
from:

Seeds Savers Exchange
Rural Route 3, Box 239
Decorah, IA 52101
@@

##A 10 137748 469
##T Growing and Saving Vegetable Seeds
Growing and Saving Vegetable Seeds

@@

This is a book for beginners with a completely self-descriptive title.                                                      

                                                          Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 19222 470
##T Growing and Saving Vegetable Seeds
Growing and Saving Vegetable Seeds

@@
Marc Rogers
1978; 140 pp.
ISBN 0882661329
$7.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Garden Way Publishing/
Storey Communications
Schoolhouse Road
Pownal, VT 05261
@@

##A 10 139957 473
##T Native Seeds/SEARCH
Native Seeds/SEARCH

@@

Native Seeds/SEARCH is a nonprofit rescue mission for the food plants of native peoples in southwestern North America. The turf extends roughly north/south from Durango, Colorado, to Durango, Mexico, and west/east from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Las Vegas, New Mexico. The ethnobotany involved in searching out the survivors is as remarkable as the fact that so many varieties (several hundred
are for sale in the catalog) are still clinging to mostly marginal existences. For those interested in the work there is a newsletter, The Seedhead News.                                    

                                                            Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 138018 474
##T Native Seeds/SEARCH
Native Seeds/SEARCH

@@
Information free.
Catalog $1;
Membership $10/year
(includes quarterly Seedhead News & 10% discount on seeds & publications) from:

Native Seeds/SEARCH
3950 West New York Drive 
Tucson, AZ 85745
602-327-9123
@@

##A 10 130959 478
##T Permaculture Institute of North America
Permaculture Institute of North America


@@
Permaculture Institute of North America (PINA) is expanding on the work begun in Australia by Bill Mollison. It was he who coined the term permaculture, a contraction of Òpermanent agriculture,Ófor a kind of ecosystem design that recognizes that sustainable land use is only possible within the context of sustainable and humane culture. Whether in a backyard or an entire watershed, the goal is the same:  to produce food and energy in ways that mimic the conserving stability and resiliency of natural ecosystems. There is a great emphasis on tree crops here, but fundamentally permaculture is asking many of the same basic design questions being raised at The Land Institute (Ù see separate review). Membership includes a subscription to their magazine, The Permaculture Activist.
                                                              Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 131152 479
##T Permaculture Institute of North America
Permaculture Institute of North America


@@
The Permaculture Activist
Membership $16/year
includes a subscription to The Permaculture Activist (quarterly)from:

Permaculture Institute of North America
4649 Sunnyside Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98103
206-547-6838
@@

##A 10 135149 482
##T Woodland Ecology
Woodland Ecology

@@

Seventy-three percent of the forest land in the eastern United States is held by private, nonindustrial owners, according to the author.  He considers the eastern hardwood forest types and explains very basic woodland ecology and discusses the options a small owner has in deciding how to maintain and use his woods. 
The book includes an extensive appendix of references, well annotated, and a section on growing and using wood for fuel.
                                                            
                                                            Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 140119 483
##T Woodland Ecology
Woodland Ecology

@@
(Environmental Forestry for the Small Owner)
Leon S. Minckler
2nd Edition 1980; 241 pp.
ISBN 0815601549
$14.95 ($16.95 postpaid)
from:

Syracuse University Press
1600 Jamesville Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13244-5160
@@

##A 10 138831 486
##T BriefBook: Biotechnology and Genetic Diversity
BriefBook: Biotechnology and Genetic Diversity

@@

Genes are EarthÕs most important resource. Genetic diversity is a prerequisite for abundant food and it is the ultimate reason for having confidence there will be food tomorrow and the day after.

That this is news to most people makes this an important book. Strategically designed for maximum impact, it is aimed at news writers and contains plain English, a good glossary, and an uncanny ability to demystify.              

                                                                Ñ Richard Nilsen

Ù Seed Saving
@@

##A 10 139085 487
##T BriefBook: Biotechnology and Genetic Diversity
BriefBook: Biotechnology and Genetic Diversity

@@
Steven C. Witt
1985; 145 pp.
ISBN 0912005033
$12.50 ($14.50 postpaid)
from:

California Agricultural Lands Project
4244 20th Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
415-553-8772
@@

##A 10 53052 489
##T Plants, Man and Life
Plants, Man and Life

@@

The classic on the domestication of plants, by a damned interesting man. Bless him, he annotates his bibliography.

                                                        Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 10 113844 490
##T Plants, Man and Life
Plants, Man and Life

@@
Edgar Anderson
1952; 251 pp.
ISBN 0520000196
$6.50 ($8 postpaid)
from:

University of California Press
2120 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
@@

##A 10 129509 494
##T MAIL ORDER FRUIT TREES
MAIL ORDER FRUIT TREES

@@
Chestnut Hill Nursery: Home of the Dunstan Hybrid Chestnut, highly resistant to the bark fungus that wiped out the American Chestnut early this century. Chestnuts used to be the dominant species of the eastern hardwood forest, and their comeback is underway here.

LawsonÕs Nursery: Owner James Lawson describes his business as
Òjust a hobby that has gotten a little out of hand.Ó He specializes in over one hundred old variety apples on dwarfing rootstocks.

Southmeadow Fruit Gardens: Two hundred thirty-nine (!) rare and old apple varieties; also pears, peaches, apricots, plums, cherries, berries, and grapes. The catalog is a treasure-house of varietal information.
@@

##A 10 119545 496
##T MAIL ORDER FRUIT TREES
MAIL ORDER FRUIT TREES

@@
Chestnut Hill Nursery 

Catalog free 
from:

Chestnut Hill Nursery
Rural Route 1, Box 341
Alachua, FL 32615
@@

##A 10 120173 497
##T MAIL ORDER FRUIT TREES
MAIL ORDER FRUIT TREES

@@
LawsonÕs Nursery
Catalog free 
from:

LawsonÕs Nursery
Route 1, Box 492
Ball Ground, GA 30107
404-893-2141
@@

##A 10 218993 498
##T MAIL ORDER FRUIT TREES
MAIL ORDER FRUIT TREES

@@
Southmeadow Fruit Gardens
Catalog $8;
Price list free
from:

Southmeadow Fruit Gardens Lakeside, MI 49116
@@

##A 10 218605 499
##T MAIL ORDER FRUIT TREES
MAIL ORDER FRUIT TREES

@@
New York State Fruit Testing Cooperative Association
Catalog $5 
from:

New York State Fruit Testing Cooperative Association
Geneva, NY 14456
@@

##A 10 218684 500
##T MAIL ORDER FRUIT TREES
MAIL ORDER FRUIT TREES

@@
Stark Bros.Õ Nurseries and Orchards
Catalog free 
from:

Stark Bros.Õ Nurseries and Orchards
P. O. Box V9406H
Louisiana, MO 63353-0010
@@

##A 10 213958 501
##T MAIL ORDER FRUIT TREES
MAIL ORDER FRUIT TREES

@@
Miller Nurseries
Catalog free 
from:

J. E. Miller Nurseries
5060 West Lake Road
Canandaigua, NY 14424
@@

##A 10 128273 502
##T North American Fruit Explorers (NAFEX)
North American Fruit Explorers (NAFEX)


@@
These folks are backyard orchardists, many with a lifetime of experience to share on everything having to do with fruit orchards. Their quarterly, Pomona, exchanges member information that is priceless. They exchange plant materials, have a lending library, and stay together by refusing to argue over the finer points of organic vs. nonorganic orcharding. This policy of sunny noncontroversy is occasionally disrupted by a delightful downpour of disagreement, but there is no scientific snobbery. Anyone with some experience is urged to share it and they will let it stand on its own merit. 
                                            
                                                          Ñ Peter Beckstrand
@@

##A 10 128761 503
##T North American Fruit Explorers (NAFEX)
North American Fruit Explorers (NAFEX)


@@
Victor A. Triola, Editor
Membership $8/year
(includes quarterly Pomona
ISSN 07486510)
from:

North American Fruit Explorers
Route 1, Box 94
Chapin, IL 62628
@@

##A 10 125064 505
##T Ecological Fruit Production in the North
Ecological Fruit Production in the North

@@
Do you live so high up or so far north that every time you look something up in a gardening book youÕre right off the edge of the charts? If you are trying to raise fruit, this book should rank as a minor miracle. It is a self-published gem by two fruit farmers from Quebec who define Òthe NorthÓ as whatÕs above a line running from New York City through St. Louis to Santa Fe, and then up the spine of the Rockies and over to Vancouver. In addition, author Jean Richard explains a method of restorative pruning for mature trees that he learned as a kid in Switzerland in the 1930s. It apparently works wonders on old standard apple trees and is about as different as you can get from the open-center pruning most books describe. 
                                                         Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 125188 506
##T Ecological Fruit Production in the North
Ecological Fruit Production in the North

@@
Bart Hall-Beyer and Jean Richard
1983; 270 pp.
ISBN 0969141408
$11.50 ($12.75 postpaid)
from:

Bart Hall-Beyer
Rural Route 3, Box 149
Scotstown, Quebec 
J0B 3B0 CANADA
@@

##A 10 132874 513
##T Pruning
Pruning

@@

This book neatly combines what you need to do with why it needs doing.  Since beginners often equate pruning with vegetative barbarism, these explanations are most helpful.  Fruit trees are covered as well as grapes, berries, roses, hedges, and other ornamentals. (Ù For a look at other gardening titles by this publisher, see separate review of HP Books.)
                                       
                                                         Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 133279 514
##T Pruning
Pruning

@@
(How-to Guide for Gardeners)
Robert L. Stebbins 
and Michael MacCaskey
1983; 160 pp.
ISBN 0895861887
$9.95 ($11.90 postpaid)
from:

HPBooks
P. O. Box 5367
Tucson, AZ 85703
@@

##A 10 88568 519
##T NatureÕs Design
NatureÕs Design


@@
If you are intent on landscaping without professional assistance, this is a great book to own. The emphasis here on using native plants can make sense for todayÕs gardens, since natives are both low maintenance and drought tolerant. The plants are divided into 12 ecological regions covering the continental U.S.

Smyser is a landscape architect and she manages to be both straightforward and patient with her explanations. The coverage of all the steps that go into making a landscape plan is especially well done. Additional sections cover plant selection, construction techniques, planting, and maintenance.               

                                                        Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 54450 520
##T NatureÕs Design
NatureÕs Design


@@
(A Practical Guide to Natural Landscaping)
Carol A. Smyser and The Editors of Rodale Press Books
1982; 390 pp.
ISBN 0878573437
$22.95 postpaid 
from:

Rodale Press
33 East Minor Street
Emmaus, PA 18098
@@

##A 10 82658 523
##T The House of Boughs
The House of Boughs

@@

This book describes practically everything that has ever been put into a garden that is not a plant. From ancient Egypt, Persia, and China, through Europe, Japan, and into the contemporary American backyard, a common theme emerges: a garden is an attempt to construct an earthly paradise.                    

                                                      Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 82844 524
##T The House of Boughs
The House of Boughs

@@
Elizabeth Wilkinson and Marjorie Henderson
1985; 226 pp.
ISBN 0670380199
$35 ($36 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600(NJ)
@@

##A 10 23002 526
##T Color In Your Garden
Color In Your Garden

@@
Have you ever watched somebody do something they were really good at and then asked them to explain how they did it? Words often fail. Arranging color in a garden is like that because it involves positioning plants both in space and in time, through changes of bloom and season. Penelope Hobhouse succeeds at sharing years of gardening experience and at explaining the whys of her very refined sense of what goes with what. She begins with a color wheel and basic theory and moves on to chapters with titles like ÒClear Yellows,Ó ÒPinks and Mauves,Ó and ÒHot Colors.Ó Each chapter has a plant catalog arranged by season. The color photography is exceptional.                               

                                                          Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 23239 527
##T Color In Your Garden
Color In Your Garden

@@
Penelope Hobhouse
1985; 239 pp.
ISBN 0316367486
$40 ($42 postpaid)
from:

Little, Brown & Company
Attn.: Order Dept.
200 West Street
Waltham, MA 02254
@@

##A 10 36039 530
##T Plant Propagation
Plant Propagation

@@
Plant Propagation clearly presents the tricks of the trade that make the difference between success and frustration. It is my basic reference for Òhow toÓ horticultural questions. Straight-forward, nontechnical text and very helpful illustrations dispel the mystique surrounding plant propagation. Each procedure occupies facing pages. 

I qualify my praise with a caution against the bookÕs excessive recommendations of fungicide use. Many commercial growers face 
serious problems with resistant strains of fungi that have developed from just such practices. A concerted sanitation program and observation schedule are better strategies for many reasons besides being ultimately more effective. Otherwise, this
@@

##A 10 36528 532
##T Plant Propagation
Plant Propagation

@@
Philip McMillan Browse
1988; 96 pp.
ISBN 0671658409
$9.95 postpaid 
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 10 37159 535
##T ParkÕs Success With Seeds
ParkÕs Success With Seeds

@@
From the venerable George W. Park Seed Company of South Carolina comes this handy book for propagating. (See separate reviews in this cluster of two other books in the series.) To a normal encyclopedic format of each ornamental or vegetable species Ñ with a color picture of the bloom or fruit  - has been added a second color picture showing how each plant looks when small.  Taken just after the appearance of the first true leaves, these photos will end all confusion between what is a baby plant and what is a baby weed. Also included is a description of what each plant looks like, what it is used for, where it can be grown, and how it is propagated.
                                                          Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 37530 536
##T ParkÕs Success With Seeds
ParkÕs Success With Seeds

@@
Ann Reilly
1978; 364 pp.
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

George W. Park Seed Co.
P. O. Box 31
Greenwood, SC 29647-0001
@@

##A 10 2480 539
##T ParkÕs Success With Herbs
ParkÕs Success With Herbs

@@
Like the other two titles in this series, (see separate reviews in this cluster) this is a well-executed and very useable book.  Photos of each herb Ñ both as a young sprout and a mature plant Ñ aid the propagator. In addition to where and how to grow each variety, the text includes information on how to harvest and use each herb, right down to favorite recipes.

                                                        Ñ Richard Nilsen




Ù Herbs
@@

##A 10 35759 540
##T ParkÕs Success With Herbs
ParkÕs Success With Herbs

@@
Gertrude B. Foster and Rosemary F. Louden
1980; 192 pp.
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

George W. Park Seed Co.
P. O. Box 31
Greenwood, SC 29647-0001
@@

##A 10 146615 543
##T ParkÕs Success With Bulbs
ParkÕs Success With Bulbs

@@
ParkÕs Success With Bulbs covers close to 200 plants grown from
bulbs.  A color photo of the bloom or foliage is accompanied by
a picture of each bulb; so if the gladioluses get mixed up with the ranunculuses, they can be identified and sorted.  Instructions on where and how to grow each variety are included.  As with the other books in this series, (see two separate reviews in this cluster) the information is succinct and the quality of the color photography is high.

                                                        Ñ Richard Nilsen


Ù Flowers
@@

##A 10 147918 544
##T ParkÕs Success With Bulbs
ParkÕs Success With Bulbs

@@
Alfred F. Scheider
1981; 173 pp.
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

George W. Park Seed Co.
P. O. Box 31
Greenwood, SC 29647-0001
@@

##A 10 26296 548
##T RodaleÕs Color Handbook of Garden Insects
RodaleÕs Color Handbook of Garden Insects

@@

More than 300 pests and beneficial insects leap from these pages in close-up color photographs. While your own worst enemy may not appear (because the insect world is far more varied than a single book can cover), a similar species is probably listed  Ñ  along with organic controls, geographic range and life cycle data.
                                                
                                                Ñ Rosemary Menninger




Ù A Field Guide to Insects of America North of Mexico
@@

##A 10 88813 549
##T RodaleÕs Color Handbook of Garden Insects
RodaleÕs Color Handbook of Garden Insects

@@
Anna Carr
1979; 241 pp.
ISBN 0878574603
$12.95 postpaid 
from:

Rodale Press
33 East Minor Street
Emmaus, PA 18098
@@

##A 10 41760 552
##T Identifying Diseases of Vegetables
Identifying Diseases of Vegetables

@@

This book gives brief and nontechnical descriptions of the major diseases of common garden vegetables and illustrates each one with a high-quality color photograph. It does not prescribe cures of any kind, although from the explanations of environmental conditions that some diseases prefer  Ñ  such as cool, wet weather or poorly drained soils  Ñ  you may get clues as to what went wrong in your case. If this book needed a subtitle it would be ÒKeeping Ahead of the Fungi.Ó

                                                             Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 26445 553
##T Identifying Diseases of Vegetables
Identifying Diseases of Vegetables

@@
A. A. MacNab, A. F. Sherf 
and S. K. Springer
1983; 62 pp.
$8 postpaid from:

Agricultural Publications Department
Dept. of Special Publications 
214 Agriculture Administration Building
University Park, PA 16802
@@

##A 10 42823 557
##T Introduction to Integrated Pest Management
Introduction to Integrated Pest Management

@@
Integrated pest management (IPM) has come into its own in the last 15 years as the shortcomings of reliance on synthetic chemical pesticides have become glaringly apparent  Ñ  the bugs become immune to the sprays, which are oil based and expensive; natural checks and balances get wiped out, groundwater becomes contaminated, birds die, and people eat foods laced with carcinogens. This is an easy reading introduction to a system based on looking at pests in their total environmental setting via careful monitoring in the field and use of computer-built predictive mathematical models of insect behavior. Compared to using only chemical pesticides, IPM is gentle on the earth, and frequently cheaper.                                   
                                                     Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 42034 558
##T Introduction to Integrated Pest Management
Introduction to Integrated Pest Management

@@
Mary Louise Flint 
and Robert van den Bosch
1981; 240 pp.
ISBN 0306406829
$24.50 postpaid 
U.S. and Canada 
$29.40  elsewhere
from:

Plenum Press
233 Spring Street
New York, NY 10013
@@

##A 10 43924 562
##T Bio-Integral Resource Center
Bio-Integral Resource Center

@@
Integrated pest management (Ù see separate review) isnÕt just for farmers and gardeners. It works on cockroaches, rats and clothes moths too. Plenty of techniques are known, and getting them to people who can use them are what these two newsletters from Bio-Integral Resource Center are all about. The Common Sense Pest Control Quarterly is for a general audience and the subscription price includes one written consultation about a pest problem you may have of your own. Reprints of programs for safe and economical control of an amazing variety of pests are also sold  Ñ  everything from mosquitos and head lice to poison ivy and lawn pests. The Practitioner is read by professional pest managers who serve the growing market of people demanding safe alternatives to chemical poisons.
                                                                   Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 44083 563
##T Bio-Integral Resource Center
Bio-Integral Resource Center

@@
Common Sense Pest Control Quarterly
William Olkowski, Helga Olkowski and Sheila Daar, Editors
ISSN 87567881
$30/year (4 issues)
from:

BIRC (Bio-Integral Resource Center)
P. O. Box 7414
Berkeley, CA 94707
415-524-2567
@@

##A 10 170828 564
##T Bio-Integral Resource Center
Bio-Integral Resource Center

@@
The IPM Practitioner 
William Olkowski, Helga Olkowski and Sheila Daar, Editors
ISSN 0738968X
$25/year (10 issues)
from:

BIRC (Bio-Integral Resource Center)
P. O. Box 7414
Berkeley, CA 94707
415-524-2567
@@

##A 10 172569 565
##T Bio-Integral Resource Center
Bio-Integral Resource Center

@@
BIRC Publications Catalog
$1 from:

BIRC (Bio-Integral Resource Center)
P. O. Box 7414
Berkeley, CA 94707
415-524-2567
@@

##A 10 27328 568
##T Insecticidal Soap
Insecticidal Soap

@@
Soaps are made of fatty acids from plants and animals. There are hundreds of these fatty acids, and while most will get dirt off your hands, a select few will also kill insect pests yet not harm people, beneficial insects, or the plants themselves. Safer, Inc. has built an innovative line of products around these special soaps  Ñ  the one for use against fruit and vegetable pests is safe to use right up to the day of harvest. Others kill moss and algae, powdery mildew, and fleas on pets.                     

                                                           Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 27539 569
##T Insecticidal Soap
Insecticidal Soap

@@
Information free 
from:

Safer, Inc.
60 William Street
Wellesley, MA 02181
617-237-9600

or at your local garden supply store.
@@

##A 10 45512 571
##T Reuter ÒAttackÓ  Natural Pest Controls
Reuter ÒAttackÓ  Natural Pest Controls

@@
DonÕt insects ever get sick? Yes, if they eat the right bacteria. Scientists have discovered naturally occurring microbial insecticides for many garden pests like tomato worms and grasshoppers, and even one for mosquitoes. And since they are specific as to what they infect, they do not harm fish, honeybees, chickens that eat grasshoppers, your ripe tomatoes, or you. Reuter Labs sells an entire line of these products under the brand name 
ÒAttack.Ó They also sell naturally occurring pesticides like pyrethrum Ñ which comes from a flower. It kills a wide range of critters, but is safer to use than many synthetic chemical pesticides.                                   
                                                                                                              
                                                          Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 45817 572
##T Reuter ÒAttackÓ  Natural Pest Controls
Reuter ÒAttackÓ  Natural Pest Controls

@@
Catalog free 
from:

Reuter Laboratories
8450 Natural Way
Manassas Park, VA 22111
800-368-2244

At your garden supply store
@@

##A 10 25157 573
##T Rincon-Vitova Insectaries
Rincon-Vitova Insectaries

@@

Mail-order bugs that eat bugs. TheyÕre called beneficial insects, and ladybugs are best known. Also for sale here are bugs to control aphids, greenhouse whiteflies, and even a parasite to attack common flies that breed in livestock manure. 

Rincon-Vitova is the oldest and largest commercial insectary in the world.
                                                                    
                                                       Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 25518 574
##T Rincon-Vitova Insectaries
Rincon-Vitova Insectaries

@@
Catalog free 
from:

Rincon-Vitova Insectaries
P. O. Box 95
Oak View, CA 93022
800-248-BUGS
805-643-5407(CA)
@@

##A 10 77980 580
##T A PlantersÕ Guide to the Urban Forest
A PlantersÕ Guide to the Urban Forest

@@

TreePeople rallied the citizens of Los Angeles to plant one million trees in time for the 1984 Olympic Games. The city estimated it would take 20 years and $200 million to accomplish. TreePeople did it with volunteers in three years for less than $100,000.  Out of that came this book, perfect for those interested in more greenery in any sized city, any place.

                                                               Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 83937 581
##T A PlantersÕ Guide to the Urban Forest
A PlantersÕ Guide to the Urban Forest

@@
TreePeople
1983; 96 pp.
$10 ($12 postpaid)
from:

TreePeople
12601 Mulholland Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210-9990
213-873-3786
@@

##A 10 57711 583
##T The Complete Shade Gardener
The Complete Shade Gardener

@@
Shade seems a function of modern urban life. Scarce land is expensive, and architects who get to cram square interior feet onto tiny lots often have little time or inclination to consider what that does to the space outside. This author has the additional consideration of climate, since he gardens in Seattle, Washington. He says it got so bad one drippy August that toadstools sprouted on the carpet in his car. He takes all of these sufficient reasons not to garden and turns them into a wonderfully opinionated, and even humorous, display of all that shady sites can offer.

                                                               Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 59525 584
##T The Complete Shade Gardener
The Complete Shade Gardener

@@
George Schenk
1984; 278 pp.
ISBN 0395365643
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
@@

##A 10 121385 588
##T ANIMAL RIGHTS INTRODUCTION
ANIMAL RIGHTS INTRODUCTION

@@
Our growing understanding of evolution has eroded much of the artificial separation between ÒhumanÓ and Òanimal,Ó making
it increasingly difficult to ignore the suffering of non-humans bent to human purpose in agribusiness Òanimal factoriesÓ and 
bio-medical research labs. Today the moral philosophers of our nationÕs universities regularly debate the animal rights question in an abundance of books and journals devoted to the topic, while less patient activists break into animal experimentation labs to free the victims and publicize their abusive treatment. Opinions 
may vary on where to draw the line in considering the needs and rights of nonhuman animals, but the growing number of animal rights activists agree that we must extend some degree of compassion to our fellow inhabitants of planet Earth.
                                                                         Ñ Ted Schultz
@@

##A 10 124721 589
##T The AnimalsÕ Agenda
The AnimalsÕ Agenda

@@

The AnimalsÕ Agenda is a must for anyone interested in keeping up to date on animal rights. Independent of any particular animal organization, the magazine freely explores the issues and controversies behind the headlines, and offers a unique and open forum for participation to all parties concerned. 
                                                                    
                                                            Ñ Bradley Miller
@@

##A 10 260896 590
##T The AnimalsÕ Agenda
The AnimalsÕ Agenda

@@
Doug Moss, Publisher
ISSN 07415044
$18/year (10 issues)
from:

AnimalsÕ Agenda
P. O. Box 5234
Westport, CT 06881
203-226-8826
@@

##A 10 127800 594
##T Animal Liberation
Animal Liberation

@@
This powerful and meticulously reasoned book is credited with sparking the recent animal rights movement in America. Not simply a documentation of ill treatment, it is also a skillfully presented case for animal protection.

All of the chemical products we use, from cosmetics to oven cleaner, are tested on living animals. Death for these animals comes after days, weeks, or even months of pain. Factory farms are equally bad; millions of calves, chickens, and other animals spend their lives in tiny cages just larger than their bodies. The 
factory farms and laboratory horrors Singer exposed ten years ago remain prevalent.
@@

##A 10 133990 596
##T Animal Liberation
Animal Liberation

@@
Peter Singer
1975; 297 pp.
ISBN 0380017822
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Avon Books
P. O. Box 767
Dresden, TN 38225
@@

##A 10 134829 599
##T People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

@@

The vanguard of the animal rights movement. These gutsy and articulate activists have made the name PETA synonymous with 
Òlandmark victory.Ó  In five short years this group has developed a track record which puts most older and wealthier organizations to shame. Saving laboratory animals has been their focus. PETA is directly responsible for halting numerous government-funded animal experiments.

                                                          Ñ Bradley Miller
@@

##A 10 136568 600
##T People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

@@
Information free 
Membership $20 
(includes quarterly newsletter)
from:

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals-PETA
P.O. Box 42516
Washington, DC 20015
202-726-0156
@@

##A 10 141097 602
##T Humane Farming Association (HFA)
Humane Farming Association (HFA)

@@

Expanding the boundaries of animal protection, HFA is spear-heading a campaign against the intense confinement and brutal treatment of farm animals.

                                                       Ñ Bradley Miller
                                                        (Miller is currently the
                                                        Director of the HFA)




Ù Farming Philosophy
@@

##A 10 125984 603
##T Humane Farming Association (HFA)
Humane Farming Association (HFA)

@@
Information free;
Membership $10 (includes periodic newsletter)
from:

HFA
1550 California Street
Suite 6
San Francisco, CA 94102
@@

##A 10 146977 606
##T The Fund for Animals
The Fund for Animals

@@

If someone is threatening to make dog food out of wild horses in Nevada . . . call the Fund for Animals.

                                                       Ñ Bradley Miller
@@

##A 10 147335 607
##T The Fund for Animals
The Fund for Animals

@@
Information free 
Membership $20 
(includes quarterly newsletter)
from:

The Fund for Animals
200 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
212-246-2096
@@

##A 10 148054 610
##T International Primate Protection League (IPPL)
International Primate Protection League (IPPL)

@@

The murder of IPPL advisor Dian Fossey in Rwanda in 1985 is but one tragic example of the risks primate protectors face. Harassed by lawsuits from chimpanzee dealers and threats of violence from black market smugglers, IPPL continues its valiant struggle to protect the EarthÕs primate species. They also run a sanctuary for primates rescued from abusive institutions.

                                                            Ñ Bradley Miller
@@

##A 10 141521 611
##T International Primate Protection League (IPPL)
International Primate Protection League (IPPL)

@@
Information free;
membership $20
(includes quarterly newsletter)
from:

IPPL
P. O. Box 766
Summerville, SC 29484
@@

##A 10 149490 612
##T Buddhists Concerned for Animals
Buddhists Concerned for Animals

@@

If you hang around Buddhists all day, by and by you hear yourself making an interesting pair of statements:

ÒSentient beings are numberless.Ó

ÒI vow to save them.Ó                                    

                                                           Ñ Stewart Brand



Ù Buddhism
@@

##A 10 148693 613
##T Buddhists Concerned for Animals
Buddhists Concerned for Animals

@@
Information free Membership $10 (includes periodic
newsletter) from:

Buddhists Concerned for Animals
300 Page Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-485-1495
@@

##A 10 3200 617
##T BEES INTRODUCTION
BEES INTRODUCTION

@@
Bees donÕt need much room. You can keep them in a back yard, on a city rooftop, or in your neighborÕs empty lot. IÕve put mine in all three places over the years. I offer bees my clean and sturdy shelters more for the joy of having their fascination nearby than for the several gallons of honey a year they pay me as rent. They donÕt bark, or need milking twice a day, either.      

                                                            Ñ Kevin Kelly

Capturing a swarm of bees can bring genuine adventure into your life, making it unnecessary to watch TV that day.   

                                                            Ñ Dick Fugett
@@

##A 10 7995 618
##T The BeekeeperÕs Handbook
The BeekeeperÕs Handbook

@@
HereÕs a book I wish had been around when I started working bees. The BeekeeperÕs Handbook is a well-illustrated introduction covering most of the basics, from site location and equipment to the installation of package bees to basic management techniques. 
ItÕs the best beginnerÕs book IÕve seen, and most readable, so I 
wonÕt quibble about small stuff like the authorsÕ hang-up on mandatory chemotherapy.

With this book and some equipment youÕll be on your way. If youÕre beginning, youÕd do well to find a local beekeeper and thus benefit from someone elseÕs experience. More fun is to make contact with two local beekeepers. YouÕll soon discover that they disagree with 
each other half the time Ñ that beekeeping is an art, not a science.
@@

##A 10 8654 620
##T The BeekeeperÕs Handbook
The BeekeeperÕs Handbook

@@
Diana Sammataro 
and Alphonse Avitabile
2nd Edition 1986; 150 pp.
ISBN 0020814100
$17.95 postpaid
from:

Macmillan Order Dept.
Order Dept.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
@@

##A 10 9282 624
##T The Hive and the Honey Bee
The Hive and the Honey Bee

@@
Since the major technical breakthroughs in beekeeping Ñ movable frames, wax foundations, and the honey extractor Ñ were all 
made over 100 years ago, beekeepers today can devote their efforts to improving technique rather than trying to keep up with state-of-the-art equipment advances.  So when it comes to bee books, it follows that the old can be as useful as the new, and sometimes more so.

The Hive and the Honey Bee is still going strong after 40 years, now in a 7th printing of a 3rd edition which was in fact inspired by a book published in 1853. ItÕs passed the test of time; if any 
single volume could be said to present the topic, this would be it. 
                                                
                                                               Ñ Dick Fugett
@@

##A 10 9657 625
##T The Hive and the Honey Bee
The Hive and the Honey Bee

@@
Dadant & Sons, Editors
8th edition 1976; 740 pp.
ISBN 0684147904
$19.95 ($22.45 postpaid)
from:

Dadant & Sons, Inc.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08370
@@

##A 10 10305 628
##T Gleanings in Bee Culture
Gleanings in Bee Culture

@@

Gleanings in Bee Culture has been published monthly for 113 years and appears to be permanent.  It has current information  on every-thing of interest to the hobbyist Ñ from techniques, research and disease to books and equipment.                                                   

                                                           Ñ Dick Fugett
@@

##A 10 10537 629
##T Gleanings in Bee Culture
Gleanings in Bee Culture

@@
Kim Flottum, Managing Editor
ISSN 0017114X
$12.49/year (12 issues)
from:

A. I. Root Company
P. O. Box 706
Medina, OH 44256
216-725-6677
@@

##A 10 11339 631
##T MAIL ORDER BEES
MAIL ORDER BEES

@@

Since bee supply stores are few and far between, mail order becomes a necessity.  Each of the following dealers will send a free catalog on request.                                   

                                                         Ñ  Dick Fugett
@@

##A 10 11557 632
##T MAIL ORDER BEES
MAIL ORDER BEES

@@
Walter T. Kelley Company 
Catalog free
from:

Walter T. Kelley Company
Clarkson, KY 42726
@@

##A 10 21566 633
##T MAIL ORDER BEES
MAIL ORDER BEES

@@
Dadant Bee Supplies 
Catalog free
from:

Dadant & Sons, Inc.
Hamilton, IL 62341
@@

##A 10 102524 634
##T MAIL ORDER BEES
MAIL ORDER BEES

@@
Root Bee Supplies 
Catalog free
from:

A. I. Root Co.
P. O. Box 706 
623 West Liberty Street
Medina, OH 44256
800-289-7668
216-725-6677(OH)
@@

##A 10 108342 637
##T StrombergÕs Chicks & Pets Unlimited
StrombergÕs Chicks & Pets Unlimited

@@

For non-killed protein nothing beats milk and eggs. For ordinary chickens go to local sources. For particular chickens, fancy ones, and geese, ducks, pigeons, turkeys, peacocks Ñ plus everything to house and care for them Ñ StrombergÕs.                     

                                                           Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 10 108554 638
##T StrombergÕs Chicks & Pets Unlimited
StrombergÕs Chicks & Pets Unlimited

@@
Catalog $1 
from:

StrombergÕs Chicks & Pets
Box 400
Pine River, MN 56474
218-587-2222
@@

##A 10 86329 642
##T Murray McMurray Hatchery
Murray McMurray Hatchery

@@

Many kinds of chicks both plain and fancy, great service, a catalog thatÕs an education in itself, and good prices. They also respond quickly to questions Ñ we got an individual reply to ours in less than a week.     

                                                        Ñ Daryl Ann Kyle
@@

##A 10 86573 643
##T Murray McMurray Hatchery
Murray McMurray Hatchery

@@
Catalog free 
from:

Murray McMurray
P. O. Box 458
Webster City, IA 50595
800-247-4888
515-832-3280 (IA)
@@

##A 10 109919 646
##T Raising Small Meat Animals
Raising Small Meat Animals

@@

If your average country vet doesnÕt know too much about sick rabbits and chickens, thatÕs because he spends most of his time doctoring horses and cattle. Dr. Giammattei helps fill the void with this excellent book. There are 39 pages of diagnostic keys for various animal diseases, plus instructions on how to doctor your own flocks. Details on nutrition, housing, breeding, management, and butchering are equally well presented.
                                                                     
                                                        Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 110303 647
##T Raising Small Meat Animals
Raising Small Meat Animals

@@
Victor M. Giammattei, D.V.M.
1976; 433 pp.
OUT OF PRINT 

Interstate Printers and Publishers
@@

##A 10 90371 650
##T Garden Way Livestock Books
Garden Way Livestock Books

@@

Garden Way is the best single source for introductory books on raising back-yard animals. The size of your back yard determines which critter(s). A book each on poultry, rabbits, ducks, turkeys, goats, sheep, pigs, and cattle.                        

                                                        Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 90647 651
##T Garden Way Livestock Books
Garden Way Livestock Books

@@
Raising Poultry the Modern Way
Leonard S. Mercia
1975; 220 pp.
ISBN 0882660586
$8.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
Publications list free 
from:

Garden Way Publishing
Storey Communications
Schoolhouse Road
Pownal, VT 05261
@@

##A 10 13023 652
##T Garden Way Livestock Books
Garden Way Livestock Books

@@
Raising Rabbits the Modern Way
Bob Bennett
Updated Edition 1988; 178 pp.
ISBN 0882664794
$8.95 ($10.95 postpaid) 
Publications list free 
from:

Garden Way Publishing
Storey Communications
Schoolhouse Road
Pownal, VT 05261
@@

##A 10 20955 654
##T The Freshwater Aquaculture Book
The Freshwater Aquaculture Book

@@

This book deals with just about anything that moves in fresh
water and is big enough to bite Ñ fish species plus frogs, crayfish, shrimp, and clams.  Normally, to get the kind of comprehensive information this book contains you would have to go to several books, and most of them would be aimed at the fellow who wants to know how to go about raising 30 acres of catfish in ponds.  But as with agriculture so with aquaculture:  a small pond provides 
Òthe best combination of productivity and manageability.Ó                                        

                                                            Ñ Richard Nilsen

Ù Getting the Most From Your Game and Fish
@@

##A 10 149742 655
##T The Freshwater Aquaculture Book
The Freshwater Aquaculture Book

@@
William McLarney
1988; 583 pp.
ISBN 0881790184
$24.95 ($25.95 postpaid)
from:

Hartley & Marks, Inc.
P. O. Box 147
Point Roberts, WA 98281
@@

##A 10 53628 658
##T Earthworm BuyerÕs Guide
Earthworm BuyerÕs Guide

@@

Earthworms are far more than fish bait.  They help organic matter decompose into soil, and will improve the qualities of any soil they inhabit. Get some and theyÕll do it for you.
                                                                    
                                                         Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 53767 659
##T Earthworm BuyerÕs Guide
Earthworm BuyerÕs Guide

@@
1988-89 (A Directory of Earthworm Hatcheries in the U.S.A. and Canada)
Robert F. Shields
1988; 64 pp.
ISSN 0914116258
$3 ($4 postpaid)
from:

Shields Publications
P.O. Box 669
Eagle River WI 54521
@@

##A 10 112098 660
##T Worms Eat My Garbage
Worms Eat My Garbage

@@

Worms Eat My Garbage tells how to keep worms in a box to transform kitchen organic garbage into humus for the garden.
                                                                   
                                                            Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 10 21109 661
##T Worms Eat My Garbage
Worms Eat My Garbage

@@
Mary Appelhof
1982; 100 pp.
ISBN 0942256034
$7.95 postpaid 
from:

Flower Press
10332 Shaver Road
Kalamazoo, MI 49002
@@

##A 10 99261 665
##T The Whole Horse Catalog
The Whole Horse Catalog

@@

As a newcomer to the equestrian scene, I found this book particularly helpful. It covers everything but the riding:  selecting a horse, choosing a stable, horse health, tack, apparel, events, and organizations. In the Whole Earth Catalog genre, itÕs an excellent resource for books, magazines, and all sorts of products for both English and Western riders.                        

                                                          Ñ Patricia Phelan
@@

##A 10 99353 666
##T The Whole Horse Catalog
The Whole Horse Catalog

@@
Steven D. Price, Editor
1985; 287 pp.
ISBN 067154196X
$12.95 postpaid 
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
@@

##A 10 98297 667
##T The Manual of Horsemanship
The Manual of Horsemanship


@@

This is the classic book of English riding Ñ on the flat and jumping fences. The first third of the book is devoted to riding skills 
(equitation). The rest is ÒhorsemastershipÓ Ñ the care of the horse and the equipment involved. The text and illustrations are good for young or novice riders.            

                                                      Ñ Pamela Cowtan
@@

##A 10 112215 668
##T The Manual of Horsemanship
The Manual of Horsemanship


@@
Marabel Hadfield, Editor
8th Edition 1983; 320 pp.
ISBN 0812056132
$10.95 ($12.45 postpaid)
from:

BarronÕs Educational Series
250 Wireless Boulevard
Hauppauge, NY 11788
@@

##A 10 28204 672
##T The Western Horseman
The Western Horseman

@@
This is the horse magazine of the American Cowboy, probably second only to ReaderÕs Digest in subscriptions in ranchland. Includes a little of everything, from rodeo fashions and 
twelve-year-old horsegirls looking for penpals, to new product evaluations and general coverage of all important national horse shows. It is quarter horse biased because the cattle industry is too, but every October it prints a special ÒAll Breeds IssueÓ in which access information is published for all the various registries in this country. If you own a pleasure horse, here is your mag. If you plan on getting a horse someday, you can do some nice picture-shopping while you wait. If you are scared of horses but like boots and hats, here is your mail-order marketplace.
                                  
                                                                   Ñ J. D. Smith
@@

##A 10 28582 673
##T The Western Horseman
The Western Horseman

@@
Randy Witte, Editor
ISSN 00433837
$15/year (12 issues)
from:

Western Horseman, Inc.
P. O. Box 289004
San Diego, CA 92128-9004
800-828-2514
800-331-4164 (CA)
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##A 10 105318 676
##T Practical Horseman
Practical Horseman

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For those who ride English. ThereÕs lots about proper form, the hunt, and other activities associated with East Coast equitation.
                                     
                                            Ñ Patricia Phelan and Pamela Cowtan
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##A 10 105520 677
##T Practical Horseman
Practical Horseman

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Pamela Goold, Editor-in-Chief
ISSN 00908762
$19.95/year(12 issues)
from:

Practical Horseman
Subscription Service Dept.
P. O. Box 927
Farmingdale, NY 11737-0927
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##A 10 56623 681
##T KingÕs Saddlery
KingÕs Saddlery

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The best catalog for the working cowboy and all Western riders. They manufacture ropes and saddles and have a large selection of bits.

                                            Ñ Patricia Phelan and Pamela Cowtan
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##A 10 56900 682
##T KingÕs Saddlery
KingÕs Saddlery

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Catalog free 
from:

KingÕs Saddlery
184 North Main
Sheridan, WY 82801
800-443-8919
307-672-2755(WY)
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##A 10 54605 684
##T MillerÕs
MillerÕs

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This classy catalog offers tack and accoutrements for those riders of English persuasion.  Lots of handsome apparel.

                                             Ñ Patricia Phelan and Pamela Cowtan
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##A 10 54970 685
##T MillerÕs
MillerÕs

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Catalog $2 
from:

MillerÕs
235 Murray Hill Parkway 
East Rutherford, NJ 07073
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##A 10 52597 687
##T Libertyville Saddle Shop
Libertyville Saddle Shop

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Such an overwhelming selection of everything for all sorts of riding (both English and Western) that itÕs difficult to order unless you already know what you want.

                                             Ñ Patricia Phelan and Pamela Cowtan
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##A 10 52761 688
##T Libertyville Saddle Shop
Libertyville Saddle Shop

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Catalog $3 
from:

Libertyville Saddle Shop
P. O. Box M
Libertyville, IL 60048-4913
312-362-0570
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##A 10 171383 690
##T PhelanÕs
PhelanÕs

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ÒPhelanÕsÓ is a beautiful catalog of great riding gear. They donÕt offer one (or hundreds) of everything, and they donÕt direct themselves to veterinary items or show apparel; but they do offer indispensable, carefully designed and as carefully made items for the competitive (and not-yet-competitive) equestrian sportsperson. I have acquired only a pair of denim riding pants from them, while I save my pennies for the other have-to-haves, but I am unwilling to approach a horse wearing anything else anymore. They are more durable, more washable, more comfortable, better-looking, than my initial purchase of nylon breeches from my local tack shop. AND they have pocketsÑone of the great ideas of Western man. Maybe THE great idea of Western man. The other items in the catalog are of equal quality.
                                                                        Ñ Kate Gowen
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##A 10 242012 691
##T PhelanÕs
PhelanÕs

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Catalog free
from:

PhelanÕs
184 Schoonmaker Point
Sausalito, CA 94965
415-332-6001
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##A 10 103418 694
##T How to Be Your DogÕs Best Friend
How to Be Your DogÕs Best Friend

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This is an exceptional book not only on training, but also on canine behavior. I was surprised to discover the breadth and depth of understanding and knowledge shown by the authors. This is not a religious book, except in the devotedness shared by these monks with their dogs.  The dogs are with their handlers nearly 24 hours a day, even during the monks' lengthy periods of silence, with which the dogs must cooperate. One of the most amazing photographs in the book is of the monks at a meal, with all their dogs lying down silently, in the dining room, with no friction among the dogs.

This book covers basic obedience training, but more importantly it attempts to teach you how to develop a real closeness with your
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##A 10 107241 696
##T How to Be Your DogÕs Best Friend
How to Be Your DogÕs Best Friend

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(A Training Manual for Dog Owners)
The Monks of New Skete
1978, 1987; 202 pp.
ISBN 0316604917
$16.95 ($18.45 postpaid)
from:

Little Brown & Co.
Attn.: Order Dept.
200 West Street
Waltham, MA 02254
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##A 10 109110 702
##T House Rabbit Handbook
House Rabbit Handbook


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Rabbits make great pets. This book introduces you to 20 pet rabbits and their owners, revealing personalities, offering advice, and exposing humor and bad habits. Having a pet rabbit requires a certain degree of bunny-proofing, for instance, or your furniture could end up in shreds.  Harriman, who has lived with rabbits, shares a sensible, realistic knowledge that will enable you to appreciate the difficulties and joys of owning an urban rabbit.
                                           
                                                         Ñ Beverly Lowe
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##A 10 109644 703
##T House Rabbit Handbook
House Rabbit Handbook


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(How to Live with an Urban Rabbit)
Marinell Harriman
1985; 108 pp.
ISBN 0940920050
$5.95 postpaid 
from:

Drollery Press
1615 Encinal Avenue
Alameda, CA 94501
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##A 10 113389 706
##T Dog OwnerÕs Home Veterinary Handbook
Dog OwnerÕs Home Veterinary Handbook

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Comprehensive and comprehensible, this is a first rate extension of the medical self-care literature.  Instead of anguished un-certainty about whatÕs wrong with your friend, you get confident diagnosis and prompt treatment.  Lotta tricks of the trade in here, too.             
 
                                                       Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 10 113538 707
##T Dog Owner's Home Veterinary Handbook
Dog Owner's Home Veterinary Handbook

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Delbert G. Carlson D.V.M., 
and James M. Giffin, M.D.
1980; 364 pp.
ISBN 0876057644
$18.95 postpaid 
from:

Howell Book House
230 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10169
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##A 10 114816 709
##T The Book of the Cat
The Book of the Cat

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Whether you own four blue ribbon Abyssinians or a freebie street orphan (as I do), this book answers every possible question about cats. It is graphically a joy to look at, with abundant images of kitties in all their charismatic postures. The chapter on breeds is particularly impressive; sophisticated charts clearly indicate how, for example, Siamese genotypes are combined to produce twenty different varieties of point colors. There are superb illustrations and diagrams describing feline anatomy, behavior patterns
(including hunting, dreaming, mating, grooming), and health (diet, geriatrics, first aid). Instead of immediately urging you to Òsee your vetÓ should your puss have a problem, this book thoroughly examines common and uncommon disorders, outlines care and 
remedy procedures, and offers a section on choosing and using a
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##A 10 118394 711
##T The Book of the Cat
The Book of the Cat

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Michael Wright and Sally Waters
1981; 256 pp.
ISBN 0671416243
 $15.95 postpaid
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 10 120986 714
##T The Natural Cat
The Natural Cat

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Sensitive, interesting, natural, well written.  A great reference book.                                   

                                                     Ñ Susan Erkel Ryan
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##A 10 98472 715
##T The Natural Cat
The Natural Cat

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(A Holistic Guide for
Finicky Owners)
Anitra Frazier with Norma Eckroate
Revised Edition 1983; 216 pp.
ISBN 0942294122
$9.95 ($11.20 postpaid)
from:

Kampmann & Co.
90 East 40th Street
New York, NY 10016
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##A 10 160868 718
##T The Care of Exotic Birds
The Care of Exotic Birds


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A commonsense and informative booklet that touches on the ethical considerations of owning an exotic bird.  If, after reading this, you still decide to get one, this booklet will tell you how to take care of it.         

                                                          Ñ Beverly Lowe
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##A 10 161222 719
##T The Care of Exotic Birds
The Care of Exotic Birds


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Roberta Lee
54 pp.
$2 postpaid from:

San Francisco SPCA
Education Department
2500 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-554-3000
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##A 10 162726 721
##T PET SUPPLIES
PET SUPPLIES

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The best resource for pet supplies is your local retailer. Establishing rapport with them is your quickest reference for information on new and quality supplies. They can probably special order for you, too. Several companies offer pet supplies by mail and phone. Animal Veterinary Products (AVP) is strictly for cats and dogs; Animal City includes products for birds, fish, hamsters and gerbils as well. Both supply everything from books and brushes to shampoos and vaccines and some nonchemical alternatives for flea control.                                                
                                                           Ñ Beverly Lowe
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##A 10 163243 722
##T PET SUPPLIES
PET SUPPLIES

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Animal City
Catalog free
from:

Animal City
P. O. Box 269024
San Diego, CA 92126-9024
619-453-7845
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##A 10 12775 723
##T PET SUPPLIES
PET SUPPLIES

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Animal Veterinary Products  
Catalog free  
from:

AVP, Inc.
P. O. Box 1326
Galesburg, IL 61402
800-962-1211
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##A 11 221671 5
##T Powers of Ten
Powers of Ten


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Like the famous film of the same name by Ray and Charles Eames, Powers of Ten takes you on a photographic journey from quasars to quarks  Ñ  10 to the 25th power to 10 to the Ð16th power
Ñ  in 42 incremental steps, each one ten times the next. The changes in scale are provocative and truly mind-expanding, because you canÕt comprehend such matters without the aid of sensitive instrumentation (and some imagination). ItÕs both jarring and inspiring to see how much of what is really going on is invisible to our five senses. 

                                                           Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 11 221863 6
##T Powers of Ten
Powers of Ten


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(About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe)
Philip and Phylis Morrison and The Office of Charles and Ray Eames
1982; 150 pp.
ISBN 0716760037
$19.95 ($21.45 postpaid)
from:

W. H. Freeman & Co.
4419 West 1980 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84104
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##A 11 226519 15
##T Cosmos
Cosmos

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Human knowledge used to be divided into: 1) our people; 2) every-thing else.  In the last decade or so, itÕs started to divide differently:  1) Earth; 2) everything else.  This new book is now the best introduction to understanding everything in the context of Earth, and Earth in the context of everything else.  ItÕs a personal view  Ñ  Carl SaganÕs  Ñ  derived from his public television series of the same name.  I liked those programs far less than this book, but clearly the necessarily graphic research for video yielded a rich inventory of images for the book.  (They are mostly new and mostly highly illuminating and knowledgeably captioned.  ThatÕs rare in the field of popular astronomy, where half-decent images 
are recycled forever.)  Carl is opinionated as well as insightful;
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##A 11 226978 17
##T Cosmos
Cosmos

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Carl Sagan
1980, 1985; 365 pp.
ISBN 0345331354
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
80-638-6460
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##A 11 223577 20
##T The New Astronomy
The New Astronomy

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Astronomers donÕt look through telescopes. (The eye isnÕt very good at star-watching.) Moreover, a lot of what is going on out there is happening Òinvisibly.Ó Infrared, ultraviolet, x-ray, radio and gamma radiation can be detected and the images captured on film. This book explains how itÕs done and shows what has been found in startling color images of cosmic activity. The author fortunately speaks normal English and makes the phenomena comprehensible without recourse to intricate math. The book gives new meaning to the word fascinating. 

                                                                               Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 11 223866 21
##T The New Astronomy
The New Astronomy

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Nigel Henbest and Michael Marten
1983; 240 pp.
ISBN 0521310571
$17.95  postpaid 
from:

Cambridge University Press
510 North Avenue
New Rochelle, NY 10801
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##A 11 213544 25
##T BUYING A TELESCOPE
BUYING A TELESCOPE

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Buying a good telescope is similar to buying a good camera or car: itÕs worth doing some research. There are many different types of telescopes and even within the same type, quality and price can vary widely. The November 1985 issue of Consumer Reports had an excellent evaluation of amateur telescopes, giving specific brand names (check your library).

Another helpful source with more information about what each type of telescope does best is the nontechnical pamphlet Selecting Your First Telescope.
                                                                  Ñ Andrew Fraknoi
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##A 11 22161 26
##T BUYING A TELESCOPE
BUYING A TELESCOPE

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Selecting Your First Telescope
Sherwood Harrington
1982; 12 pp.
$2 donation from:

A.S.P./Info Packets Dept.
1290 24th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122
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##A 11 210763 27
##T SKY WATCHING
SKY WATCHING

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Learning the identity of those uncountable twinkling points in the night sky can be a daunting task without a guide. Books are a good place to start. ThatÕs where youÕll find out the names of the constellations (and how they got them), where and when to look, and what youÕre really looking at (e.g., that ÒstarÓ is actually an enormous galaxy comprising billions of stars). Skyguide is a good one, done in the usual Golden Field Guide manner. ItÕs concentrated in northern midlatitudes but is useable south of the equator, too. The charts are big enough to see at night by flashlight.

Guidebooks are a bit awkward when youÕre actually outdoors looking; there are a number of adjustable charts that can help.
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##A 11 211950 31
##T SKY WATCHING
SKY WATCHING

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Skyguide (A Golden Field Guide)
(A Field Guide for Amateur Astronomers)
Mark R. Chartrand III
1982; 280 pp.
ISBN 0307136671
$9.95 postpaid   
from:

Western Publishing Company
Dept. M
P. O. Box 700
Racine, WI 53401
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##A 11 30420 32
##T SKY WATCHING
SKY WATCHING

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The Night Sky Star Dial
$5.95 postpaid  
from:

David Chandler Company
P. O. Box 309
LaVerne, CA 91750
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##A 11 30653 33
##T SKY WATCHING
SKY WATCHING

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Sky Challenger
$8.95 postpaid  
from:

Discovery Corner
Lawrence Hall of Science
University of California 
Berkeley, CA 94720
415-642-1016
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##A 11 30964 34
##T SKY WATCHING
SKY WATCHING

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NightStar 
The NightStar ÒClassicÓ
$39 postpaid from:

NightStar Company
1334 Brommer Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
408-462-1049
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##A 11 31117 35
##T SKY WATCHING
SKY WATCHING

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Tapes Of The Night Sky 
Two cassettes $15.45
(information free) from:

Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Catalogue Dept.
390 Ashton Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94112

This sound excerpt is taken from the Spring tape.
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##A 11 31255 36
##T SKY WATCHING
SKY WATCHING

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TellStar II 
IBM and Apple II versions each
$14.95
Macintosh version $19.95
Information free
from:

Spectrum HoloByte
2061 Challenger Drive
Alameda, CA 94501
415-522-3584
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##A 11 31488 37
##T SKY WATCHING
SKY WATCHING

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Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar 
$6/year 
(12 monthly calendars,
mailed 3/ quarter year)

from:

Sky Calendar
Abrams Planetarium
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
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##A 11 32499 38
##T SKY WATCHING
SKY WATCHING

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Sky & Telescope 
Leif J. Robinson, Editor
$21.95/year (12 issues)  
from:

Sky Publishing Corp.
P.O. Box 9111
Belmont, MA 02178
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##A 11 32676 39
##T SKY WATCHING
SKY WATCHING

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Hansen Planetarium
Catalog free 
from:

Hansen Planetarium
1098 South 200 West
Salt Lake City, UT 84104
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##A 11 35155 40
##T SKY WATCHING
SKY WATCHING

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Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Astronomy Software, Annotated List and Bibliography $2.00 
Information free from:

Astronomical Society of the Pacific
390 Ashton Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94112
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##A 11 225152 44
##T Echoes of the Ancient Skies
Echoes of the Ancient Skies

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A great work of connection is done here. The EarthÕs sky is connected to the EarthÕs dwellings, temples, and cities. The present, in this perspective sadly impoverished, is connected to our deepest past at its most perceptive and intelligent. Here are the sun daggers striking to the middle of labyrinths on certain days, the horizon points that connect the whole world to the whole year to the whole life, the lines drawn on the land to match the lines found between the sky and the passage of time. Richly told, richly illustrated. 

How have our modern architects remained so blissfully ignorant of these findings? All we seem to know in our constructions these 
days is the crudities of north, east, south, west. The solar energy
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##A 11 225717 46
##T Echoes of the Ancient Skies
Echoes of the Ancient Skies

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(The Astronomy of Lost Civilizations)
Dr. E. C. Krupp
1983; 380 pp.
ISBN 0060151013
$19.45 ($20.95 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
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##A 11 209909 48
##T Sunsets, Twilights, and Evening Skies
Sunsets, Twilights, and Evening Skies

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Is it intimations of a gorgeous death, or revelling in the seamless gradation of blazing horizon to a starry dark, or the lifelong scout for the green flash that keeps us going and gazing on sunsets? Part of the attraction surely is the spectacular variety. This bookÕs color photos and clear explanations can serve as a sort of field guide of twilight special effects  Ñ  green flashes, noctilucent clouds, zodiacal light, volcanic dust leading to BishopÕs rings and blue suns, and the EarthÕs own shadow climbing the fading eastern sky. Is there a more universal ceremony of planethood than watching the sun set and, by profound implication, rise?                                                                

                                                       Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 11 210148 49
##T Sunsets, Twilights, and Evening Skies
Sunsets, Twilights, and Evening Skies

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Aden and Marjorie Meinel
1983; 163 pp.
ISBN 0521252202
$39.50 postpaid from:

Cambridge University Press
510 North Avenue 
New Rochelle, NY 10801
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##A 11 214660 53
##T Entering Space
Entering Space


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This book is quite simply the best and most attractive introduction to manned space exploration that I have seen. Written by one of the Space Shuttle astronauts (before the Challenger tragedy), it is an upbeat, behind-the-scenes look at the U. S. space program. Over 215 dramatic color illustrations, many unique to the book, provide a visual feast for the space enthusiast.
 
                                                         Ñ Andrew Fraknoi
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##A 11 214948 54
##T Entering Space
Entering Space


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(An AstronautÕs Odyssey)
Joseph P. Allen with Russell Martin
Revised Edition 1985; 240 pp.
ISBN 0941434745
$16.95 ($18.10 postpaid)
from:

Stewart, Tabori & Chang/
Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 11 215637 56
##T Planetary Landscapes
Planetary Landscapes


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Access to planets! Pictures and text show and explain radically different geological processes in a way that makes other planetary bodies more familiar and our own more fantastic. This is exciting stuff. ItÕs a lot like anthropological archaeology, where a mix of careful observation and creative detective work is needed. WhatÕs presented is both the what (discovered) and the how (it was discovered). Greeley is contagiously fascinated with his subject. Everything is explained with an attention to a type of detail necessary for scientists but often neglected for lay people  Ñ  such as an explanation of Òthings that go wrong with pictures sent from space.Ó The mountains of Mars to the moons of Jupiter  Ñ  come alive.
                                                              Ñ David Finacom
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##A 11 215997 57
##T Planetary Landscapes
Planetary Landscapes


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Ronald Greeley
Revised Edition 1987; 288 pp.
ISBN 0045510814
$29.95 ($31.95 postpaid)
from:

Unwin Hyman, Inc.
8 Winchester Place
Winchester, MA 01890
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##A 11 216599 59
##T The Greening of Mars
The Greening of Mars

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British scientist James Lovelock, the co-author of the Gaia Hypothesis  Ñ  which suggests how EarthÕs life uses the atmosphere to regulate the planet  Ñ  has co-authored a novel on how to do something similar with Mars. LovelockÕs credentials to devise such a scheme are impressive. Back before the Viking probe of MarsÕ surface, he was hired by NASA to analyze the chances for life on Mars by studying the Martian atmosphere. His conclusion  Ñ  no life on Mars because its atmosphere is so chemically stable it shows nothing is fiddling with it  Ñ  was hushed up by NASA, but there was a nice byproduct:  because EarthÕs atmosphere is so chemically unstable that the presence of life is required to 
explain it, LovelockÕs Mars research led directly to the Gaia Hypothesis (Ù see separate review).  What is particularly
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##A 11 217420 62
##T The Greening of Mars
The Greening of Mars

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James Lovelock 
and Michael Allaby
1984; 215 pp.
ISBN 0446329673
$3.50 ($4.50 postpaid)
from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 11 7221 66
##T UNDERSTANDING WHOLE SYSTEMS
UNDERSTANDING WHOLE SYSTEMS

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Understanding whole systems means looking both larger and smaller than where our daily habits live and seeing clear through our cycles. The result is responsibility, but the process is filled with the constant delight of surprise. Neither the Earth nor our lives are flat. What happened in the 20th century? The idea of self  Ñ  the thing to be kept alive  Ñ  expanded from the individual human to the whole earth.
                                                                  Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 11 182489 67
##T Gaia
Gaia

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This may turn out to be one of the epochal insights of this
century: that the entire life of Earth, through its atmosphere
and ocean, functions effectively as one self-regulated organism: Gaia (after the Greek Earth goddess).

Free-lance British scientist James Lovelock writes a winning
prose. This is a brief, personal, convincing performance.
It even overcomes my lifelong aversion to chemistry, making
fascinating sense of the difference between the chemical equilibrium of a dead planet and the chemical steady state of a live one.

Along the way, he notes that from Gaian perspective we are 
over-concerned with industrial pollution and under-concerned
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##A 11 182928 69
##T Gaia
Gaia

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(A New Look at Life on Earth)
J. E. Lovelock
1979; 176 pp.
ISBN 0192860305
$7.95 postpaid 
from:

Oxford University Press
16-00 Pollitt Drive
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
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##A 11 185943 72
##T Biosphere Catalogue
Biosphere Catalogue

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A wide-ranging book of adventurous intellect. You can find everything from the best botanical gardens to shields against cosmic particles. From the Gaian point of view, this is the only publication to consider all aspects of materially closed, energetically opened systems  Ñ  from hermetically sealed test tubes to Òbio-regenerative life support systemsÓ that might be used for space colonization. The cutting edge of the world as it is.

                                                             Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 186259 73
##T Biosphere Catalogue
Biosphere Catalogue

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Tango Parrish Snyder, Editor-in-Chief
1985; 240 pp.
ISBN 0907791123
$12.95 ($14.95 postpaid )
from:

Synergetic Press
P. O. Box 689
Oracle, AZ 85623
602-622-0641
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##A 11 185048 75
##T The Living Planet
The Living Planet

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In the Attenborough style of a long anecdote and a short but pithy summary conclusion, The Living Planet introduces the larger biological communities (biomes or biogeographical regions): tundra, jungles, grasslands, oceans, deserts, sweet waters, etc. A breezy book with gripping color photographs that will entice the reader into more appreciation of how this little spinning sphere got to have so much happening. 

                                                         Ñ Peter Warshall



Ù BIOREGIONS
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##A 11 185259 76
##T The Living Planet
The Living Planet

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David Attenborough
1985; 320 pp.
ISBN 0316057495
$17.45 ($18 postpaid)
from:

Little, Brown & Co.
200 West Street
Waltham, MA 02254
800-343-9204
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##A 11 14402 80
##T GoodeÕs World Atlas
GoodeÕs World Atlas

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Per buck, this atlas has the most and best  Ñ  372 pages of locational maps (from continent right down to city), landforms, climate, weather, vegetation, soil, population, agriculture, trade, language, resources, ocean floor, topped off with a fine pronouncing index. When something in the newspaper puzzles you, check here. Well, well: about ten languages are spoken in different regions of the Soviet Union.           
                                                      
                                                        Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 11 14839 81
##T Goode's World Atlas
Goode's World Atlas

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Edward B. Espenshade, Jr.,
17th Edition 1986; 384 pp.
ISBN 0528831275
$22.95 from:

Rand McNally Map Store
23 East Madison Street
Chicago, IL 60602

Single copies are not available by mail; check your local bookstore.
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##A 11 17833 83
##T World Biogeographical Provinces Map
World Biogeographical Provinces Map

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This map is the gem of 15 years of thought and work on the Whole Earth Catalog. It is the map of how the Earth itself has simultaneously produced variety and parallels during its long evolution . . . how water, soils, plants, animals, and locations near or far from the oceans create provinces of similar life. Besides its beauty, itÕs being used to insure that every biogeographic region of the planet will have at least one representative ecological community preserved. It is a meditative map.

By scanning similar provinces I understand why Australian eucalyptus do so well in California; why the ÒMediterraneanÓ regions have similar heritages and can look to each other for 
advice on wine, sunlight in art, fire, grasses, and erosion management.                                                      Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 18143 84
##T World Biogeographical Provinces Map
World Biogeographical Provinces Map

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Miklos D. F. Udvardy, S. Brand 
and T. Oberlander
$5 postpaid 
from:

Whole Earth Access
2950 Seventh Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
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##A 11 18754 86
##T World Political Map
World Political Map

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Like it or not, this is how the Earth has been subdivided. From Burkina Faso to Tasmania, each political bloc is displayed in full color on heavy paper. A best buy. Index available for an extra buck and a half. 

                                                          Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 18997 87
##T World Political Map
World Political Map

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(order #02690) $6 ($8.40 postpaid) from:

National Geographic Society
17th and M Streets NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
202-857-7000

World Map Index
$1.50 ($2.75 postpaid) 
order #02395                                                          

Many other regional maps and atlases also available
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##A 11 15915 88
##T World Ocean Floor Panorama
World Ocean Floor Panorama

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The great explorers of the twentieth century have been the oceanographers. Their maps have confirmed the theory of floating continents, exposed mountain ranges taller than the Himalayas, located the deepest communities of living creatures, opened the last great caches of EarthÕs resources, and made me feel, once again, reverent toward our birthplace. The World Ocean Floor Panorama wall map cheaply and beautifully displays the earth surface of the planet for the first time in history.

                                                       Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 16519 89
##T World Ocean Floor Panorama
World Ocean Floor Panorama

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Bruce C. Heezen and Marie Tharp
$18.50 postpaid
(24" x 38") from:

Marie Tharp
1 Washington Avenue
South Nyack, NY 10960
914-358-5132
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##A 11 7605 92
##T The Times Atlas of the Oceans
The Times Atlas of the Oceans

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The Times Atlas of the Oceans is a pure joy to behold. A comprehensive understanding of the ocean environment has become critical as we learn more about the limits of the once-boundless sea. The Times Atlas is well-written, graphically pleasing, and logically organized  Ñ  it includes weather patterns, fisheries and resource exploitation, ship-borne commerce, shoreline development, pollution sources, military strategy and sea law.                                                       
                                                          
                                                             Ñ David Burnor
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##A 11 364377 93
##T The Times Atlas of the Oceans
The Times Atlas of the Oceans

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Alastair Couper, Editor
1983; 268 pp.
ISBN 0442216610
OUT OF PRINT

Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
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##A 11 245181 96
##T Atlas of North America
Atlas of North America

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With a level of quality readers have come to expect from National Geographic, this book is a wondrous display of what must be the quintessence of space-based photography. Set in a context of text, maps, and illustrations, it is the color photographs  Ñ  from satellites, shuttle crews, and aircraft  Ñ  that make this atlas unique. Though nominally North American, the coverage slights Canada to the benefit of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. This book may be the forerunner of a more mature exploitation of space imagery at work.

                                                            Ñ Don Ryan
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##A 11 245390 97
##T Atlas of North America
Atlas of North America

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Wilbur E. Garrett
1985; 264 pp.
$39.95 ($44.20 postpaid)
from:

National Geographic Society
Washington, DC 20036
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##A 11 243720 99
##T Interpretation of Aerial Photographs
Interpretation of Aerial Photographs

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Learn how to read aerial and satellite photos for tree species, geological trends, camouflaged missile sites, industrial pollution, and the peculiar configuration of your yard.  The best book. 

                                                                Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 11 243995 100
##T Interpretation of Aerial Photographs
Interpretation of Aerial Photographs

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Thomas Eugene Avery 
and Graydon Lennis Berlin
1985; 554 pp.
ISBN 0808700960
OUT OF PRINT 

Burgess Publishing Co.
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##A 11 74159 103
##T The Times Atlas of World History
The Times Atlas of World History

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Most engrossing new reference book in decades. Six hundred color maps ingeniously present historical periods from the perspective of the time and people involved. Praise be, the volume corrects generations of Europe-centered versions of history. 

                                                             Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 11 74426 104
##T The Times Atlas of World History
The Times Atlas of World History

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Geoffrey Barraclough
Revised Edition 1985; 360 pp
ISBN 0843711299
$85 ($88 postpaid) from:

Hammond, Inc.
Sales Dept.
515 Valley Street
Maplewood, NJ 07040-1396
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##A 11 20159 107
##T Map Use
Map Use

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If I had to limit myself to one book about mapmaking and map use, this would be it. The illustrations show cartographic concepts very well. The authors do an excellent job, reminding the reader that the map is not the territory, and that maps can be used to abuse as well as to enlighten.

                                                             Ñ Ron Hendricks
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##A 11 20285 108
##T Map Use
Map Use

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(Reading, Analysis, and Interpretation)
Phillip C. Muehrcke
2nd Edition 1986; 512 pp.
ISBN 0960297820
$25 ($28 postpaid) from:

J. P. Publications
P. O. Box 4173
Madison, WI 53711
608-231-2373
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##A 11 31902 110
##T LOCAL MAPS INTRODUCTION
LOCAL MAPS INTRODUCTION

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NO ONE HAS EVER TALLIED the types of watersheds in North America. There are probably about 75 basic Òspecies.Ó HereÕs access to the nitty-gritty of your watershed . . . its drainage pattern and density; its bedrock and soils; its channels and floodplains; its slopes and orientation to the sun. The best 
ÒdictionaryÓ is Terrain Analysis which can also direct you to the best maps  Ñ  U.S. Geological Survey topographics  Ñ  and low-altitude photos.

To find maps, start with an ÒoutdoorsÓ store or look up 
ÒPhotographers  Ñ  AerialÓ in the closest town or cityÕs Yellow Pages. You can call the County and ask if they have a map room
(especially if you need property boundaries). Many local and all
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##A 11 33030 112
##T Terrain Analysis
Terrain Analysis

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Covers remote sensing; landforms and interpreting aerial photographs.  Also development issues Ñ highways, septic tanks, groundwater Ñ plus access to maps and photos, and case studies. Salt of the Earth.
                                                      
                                                          Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 33384 113
##T Terrain Analysis
Terrain Analysis

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Douglas S. Way
2nd edition 1978; 438 pp.
ISBN 0879333189
OUT OF PRINT 

Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
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##A 11 34573 115
##T Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service
Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service

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The Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service (ASCS) has black-and-white photos for many seasons, with scales as large as 1"= 400'. ItÕs a branch of the Department of Agriculture with local offices in almost every county. (If you have no ASCS office near you, then contact your local State Forester or your County Extension Agent.) Request a photo by sending a map of the area 
(with the specific part you want clearly outlined) or the exact latitude and longitude. Ask for the scale youÕd prefer or just the largest scale available.

                                                               Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 34883 116
##T Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service
Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service

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Information free 
10" x 10" $3; 
24" x 24" $12; 
38" x 38" $25 
(all prices postpaid).
from:

USDA-ASCS Aerial Photography 
Field Office
2222 West, 2300 South
P. O. Box 30010
Salt Lake City, UT 84130-0010


ASCS Aerial Maps
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##A 11 35673 117
##T USGS Topo Maps and Low-Altitude Aerial Photos
USGS Topo Maps and Low-Altitude Aerial Photos

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THE basic maps. Contour-lined for elevations, they come in two basic scales (one inch equals 2,000 feet, and one inch equals about one mile).

For maps by mail, write to the USGS in Denver. TheyÕll also send you a list of USGS regional offices.
      
                                                                 Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 36045 118
##T USGS Topo Maps and Low-Altitude Aerial  Photos
USGS Topo Maps and Low-Altitude Aerial  Photos

@@
Information free
from:

Map Distribution/U.S. Geological Survey
P. O. Box 25286
Federal Center Building 41
Denver, CO 80225
303-236-7477
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##A 11 258793 123
##T INTRODUCTION TO MAPMAKING BOOKS
INTRODUCTION TO MAPMAKING BOOKS

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A measure of the difficulty of progress in cartography is the out-of-printness of two of these texts. Their market is limited to academe and a small interface with commerce and government. The costs of production are disproportionate: High quality reproduction of already printed maps is technically difficult, therefore costly; the generation of hundreds of entirely new illustrations is even more so. Slow, conservative evolution within a proven market has kept the third book alive. What has suffered is the growth of knowledge and advancement of the art.

Find these books in a large public or university library.

                                                            Ñ Don Ryan
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##A 11 241765 124
##T Elements of Cartography 
Elements of Cartography 

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The great, grey tome of my college years has grown greater through many editions but is still not the single sufficient source IÕd like it to be.

The book first appeared in 1953, concentrating on history, design, and time-proven technique. Since then it has grown by accretion Ñ like a hailstone Ñ picking up layers here and there: remote sensing in the 60s and layers of computer applications in the 70s and early 1980s. Unfortunately, the busy layout of the book emphasizes the diversity of its origins rather than the cohesiveness of its theme. It is, frankly, uninspiring. A book about a visual craft or science just ought to look better.
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##A 11 246371 126
##T Elements of Cartography 
Elements of Cartography 

@@
Arthur Robinson
1984; 448 pp.
$45.45 ($47.40 postpaid)
from:

John Wiley & Sons
1 Wiley Drive
Somerset, NJ 08875
201-469-4400
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##A 11 233449 127
##T Semiology of Graphics
Semiology of Graphics

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ÒSemiologyÓ means the Òlanguage of signs,Ó and itÕs significant that semiology originated within the same circle of French sociologists to which this bookÕs author, Jacques Bertin, belongs. 

This book is mother-lode of the theory of technical graphics. But it is written in the tone of one artist speaking to another. That is, technical graphics are treated as a legitimate art-form, to which standards of clarity, form, and balance are to be applied.  Every 
mapmaker and computer graphics jockey will find useful material in this book. 
                                                  Ñ Robert G. Flower

A monumental work, essential in its theory. A visual feast, full of
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##A 11 233558 129
##T Semiology of Graphics
Semiology of Graphics

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(Diagrams, Networks, Maps)
Jacques Bertin. Translated by William J. Berg
1983; 415 pp.
ISBN 0299090604
OUT OF PRINT

University of Wisconsin Press
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##A 11 235151 131
##T Mapping Information
Mapping Information

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This is the book for one entering thematic cartography in a serious way (this subset of the field excludes maps of general interest such as topographic maps or road maps, to deal with special subjects such as economic or scientific data, including non-physical events and totally abstract or hypothetical matters).

By assuming that the beginning cartographer already knows several ways to make a mark on a piece of paper Ñ including via computer, if his or her pencil is broken (Fisher founded the pioneering Harvard Laboratory of Computer Graphics) the author frees the book of the necessity of describing penpoints and typesetters and reproduction technology which will be obsolete by  
the time the book enters its second printing. In essence, the book
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##A 11 235824 133
##T Mapping Information
Mapping Information

@@
OUT OF PRINT


Abt Books
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##A 11 253386 134
##T The Map Catalog
The Map Catalog

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A guide to over 50 kinds of maps and atlases from commercial sources and governments, both foreign and domestic, of land, sky, and water. Appendixed with addresses of agencies, map libraries, and selected map stores; glossaried and copiously indexed.

                                                        Ñ Don Ryan
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##A 11 253649 135
##T The Map Catalog
The Map Catalog

@@
(Every Kind of Map and Chart on Earth and Even Some Above It)
Joel Makower, Editor
1986; 252 pp.
ISBN 0394746147
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 11 243014 138
##T Map Data Catalog
Map Data Catalog

@@
Between the covers of this thin booklet from the National Cartographic Information Center is everything you need to know about how to order a topographic map, geological survey map, aerial photograph, or any other kind of cartographic information from the vast archives of the U.S. Government. It gives explicit step by step instructions for identifying and ordering the particular part of the world you want, including procedures for securing copies of out-of-print maps for historical research. You can also order the components of U.S. Topo maps in order to construct your own maps, and even get advance ÒproofsÓ of maps in the making. For instance you can get the latest street maps of an area by requesting only the ÒculturalÓ overlay for the chosen area, which may be completed years before the rest of the map is.
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##A 11 244256 140
##T Map Data Catalog
Map Data Catalog

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1984; 30 pp.
OUT OF PRINT

U. S. Government Printing Office
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##A 11 249868 142
##T Electronic Map Cabinet
Electronic Map Cabinet

@@
The outline of a country (or state or city) doesnÕt change much from year to year. No need then to redraw its profile each time you need a base map if you could pull out a blank one to the size you wanted. Stockpiling all the thousands of blank ones into a tidy and manageable place has been the obstacle to this great idea. Even most map libraries donÕt have that kind of room. 

The Electronic Map Cabinet solves this problem by storing a continuous map of the U.S. on a Macintosh-readable CD-ROM disc. You can then enlarge the lines to the scale you desire. It will zoom in from an overview of the United States down to the level of counties and further down to a close up of city streets in all the SMSA (Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas Ñ fair size cities
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##A 11 251324 144
##T Electronic Map Cabinet
Electronic Map Cabinet

@@
$200 from:

Highlighted Data
P. O. Box 17229
Washington Dulles International Airport
Washington, D.C. 20041
703-533-1939
@@

##A 11 259911 145
##T MapMaster
MapMaster

@@
MapMaster is a mass-market mapping program from Ashton-Tate 
(formerly Decision Resources). For a mapping program, it is easy to learn and use (all menu-driven) and produces good-looking maps. It lacks some of the sophistication that hard-core cartographers like, but outputs nicely to both dot-matrix printers and plotters, something the others donÕt do.

The software comes with boundaries for the U.S. by state and some population data items.

                                                          Ñ Diane Crispell
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##A 11 260291 146
##T MapMaster
MapMaster

@@
$395  from:

Ashton-Tate
25 Sylvan Road South
Westport, CT 0680
203-222-1974
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##A 11 36855 147
##T Raisz Landform Maps
Raisz Landform Maps


@@
Erwin Raisz was perhaps the last great artist-cartographer.
He invented little images of all the EarthÕs landforms and then drew delicate lines with an understanding eye and a hand for utmost clarity.

To place your watershed within the large context of its river basin, upstream and downstream neighbors, or bioregion, these maps are as fertile loam.

                                                            Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 101367 148
##T Raisz Landform Maps
Raisz Landform Maps
1981; 501 pp.

$12.95
($14.45 postpaid) from:

Bantam Books
414 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016

or Whole Earth Access


@@
Information free with SASE 
from:

Raisz Landform Maps
130 Charles Street
Boston, MA 02114
617-523-4520
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##A 11 220185 150
##T Below From Above
Below From Above

@@
The best book of aerial photographs ever (133  Ñ  in color). What is unique is the captioning  Ñ  Gerster knows what he is floating over, or he studies it until he does. He knows the history of places, and why the farmers do odd things, and what the tribe is after, and how to keep sand dunes from covering the oasis. The book is a tour de force of form and content.

The range is so worldwide and culturally rich that no reader-flier can escape wanting to try things differently. ThatÕs the yield of perspective. IÕve seen no other book  Ñ  not even the space satellite ones  Ñ  with perspective like this.

                                                               Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 11 220486 151
##T Below From Above
Below From Above

@@
Georg Gerster
1986; 133 plates
$39.95 ($41.95 postpaid)
from:

Abbeville Press
488 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
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##A 11 248263 152
##T EOSAT/Landsat
EOSAT/Landsat

@@
In 1984, the U.S. Congress decided to turn the Landsat program over to the private sector. The still-functioning Landsat 4 and 5 satellites, and the huge archive of data accumulated since 1972, have been transferred to the Earth Observation Satellite Company 
(EOSAT).

Prices range from $50 for a black and white photo on paper with 80-meter ground resolution (image size 7.3 inches on an edge, showing approximately 115 miles square), up to $3,300 for a computer-compatible tape of a scene from the Thematic Mapper 
(TM) on Landsat 5. TM scenes have a ground resolution of 30 meters  Ñ  less than SPOT (Ù see separate review) provides, but the TMÕs primary sensor has seven spectral filters, compared with
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##A 11 248794 154
##T EOSAT/Landsat
EOSAT/Landsat

@@
Information free 
from:

EOSAT
4300 Forbes Boulevard
Lanham, MD 20706
301-552-0500

EOSAT Satellite Images
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##A 11 250435 156
##T SPOT 1
SPOT 1

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On February 21, 1986, the French space agency launched the first satellite specifically designed for remote sensing on a commercial basis: SPOT 1. Its high-resolution images are marketed through an international network of subsidiaries and affiliates. Because of SPOTÕs sidelooking capability, it can view a site without passing directly overhead. Thus, it can re-view ground areas more often than Landsat, every few days, if necessary (Ù see separate EOSAT/Landsat review).

Prices for a scene showing 60 x 60-85 km of surface range from $370 for a 19" x 19" color transparency (20 meters ground resolution), to $2550 for a computer-compatible tape with geometric corrections. ÒPanchromaticÓ images can attain a ground
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##A 11 251022 158
##T SPOT 1
SPOT 1

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Information free 
from:

SPOT Image Corporation
1897 Preston White Drive
Reston, VA 22091
703-620-2200

SPOTLIGHT is a quarterly news-letter published by SPOT Image Corporation (ISSN 08885850)
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##A 11 251850 161
##T SATELLITE DATA ACCESS
SATELLITE DATA ACCESS

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For now at least, oceanographic and meteorological satellites continue to be operated by the U.S. Government as a public service. The Satellite Data Services Division of NOAAÕs National Environmental Satellite Service maintains an archive of over 8 million images from some 30 satellites going back more than 20 years, and their prices are still lower than their commercial cousinsÕ. Prices start at $44 for a black and white print from a negative (plus $5 handling per order), and range upwards.

Call for a price quote. Orders are taken by telephone, MCI Mail, GTE Telenet, and direct modem calls into NOAAÕs Electronic Catalog.

                                                         Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 11 252107 162
##T SATELLITE DATA ACCESS
SATELLITE DATA ACCESS

@@
Satellite Data Services Division

Information free from: 

NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC/SDSD
World Weather Building 
Room 100
Washington, DC 20233

301/763-8185
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##A 11 247057 165
##T Data from Earth Imaging  Satellites
Data from Earth Imaging  Satellites

@@
This handsome booklet is a useful guide to five research collections managed by federal agencies, including Seasat, 
Nimbus-7, and the Shuttle Imaging Radar-A.

                                                          Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 11 247348 166
##T Data from Earth Imaging  Satellites
Data from Earth Imaging  Satellites

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C. Scott Southworth
1985; 102 pp.
$6.50 postpaid 

from:

U. S. Geological Survey
Public Inquiries
169 Federal Building
Denver, CO 80294

Bulletin 1631
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##A 11 237941 168
##T The Photogrammetric Coyote
The Photogrammetric Coyote

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Your one-stop aerial surveying shop. The Photogrammetric Coyote has it all: new and used aerial photography and remote sensing equipment, profiles of famous pilots, and news from the world of aerial surveying. Before I read the Coyote, I didnÕt even know what a photo interpretation instrument was, and now I want one. 

                                                               Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 11 239135 169
##T The Photogrammetric Coyote
The Photogrammetric Coyote

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Marilyn M. OÕCuilinn, Editor
Free from:

E. Coyote Enterprises
P. O. Box 1119
Mineral Wells, TX 76067
817-325-0757
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##A 11 96479 173
##T NATURAL HISTORY INTRODUCTION
NATURAL HISTORY INTRODUCTION

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MOST STUDIES OF EVOLUTION are Òjust soÓ stories: how the mastodon got to South America; how the baboon became social; how the forest-dwelling antelope-goat evolved into all todayÕs goats and sheep. The evolutionary historian interviews (fieldwork) and visits the archives (the fossil record). Here are some of the best natural historians: Charles Darwin and Konrad Lorenz doing their homework; Niko Tinbergen with his ingenious and wily ways of confusing and then revealing the lives of animals by outdoor experiments; George Schaller, the tireless note-taker of lions, tigers, and takins; and George Gaylord Simpson who trudges through geological time with careful steps and an eye to the present. 
                                                             Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 238689 174
##T Natural History
Natural History

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I use it two ways: The monthly column ÒThis View of LifeÓ by Stephen Jay Gould, who teaches Biology, Geology and History of Science at Harvard, regularly contributes to (or at least soundly reaffirms) my understanding of how the world works. He explains fundamental issues clearly and always sets them against a background of why anyone ever thought differently. Second, it is written and edited in such a way that my children seem to get as much out of it as we do. It is one of the few publications weÕve found that has this quality. A good magazine at a good price from a great institution. 
                                                                  Ñ George Putz

Ù The FlamingoÕs Smile (by Stephen Jay Gould)
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##A 11 238903 175
##T Natural History
Natural History

@@
Alan Ternes, Editor
ISSN 00280712
$22/year (12 issues)
from:

Natural History
P. O. Box 5000
Harlan, IA 51537
800-234-5252
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##A 11 97435 177
##T Curious Naturalists
Curious Naturalists

@@
The best outdoor experiments on camouflage, finding Òhome,Ó searching images for food, recognizing your own nest, and scaring your neighbors.                                

                                                            Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 97693 178
##T Curious Naturalists
Curious Naturalists

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Niko Tinbergen
Revised Edition 1984; 269 pp.
ISBN 0870234560
$13.95 postpaid
from:

University of Massachusetts Press
P. O. Box 429
Amherst, MA 01004
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##A 11 121639 179
##T A Sand County Almanac
A Sand County Almanac

@@
The most important book on ethics ever written on American 
soil Ñ honest, clear, graceful, superbly crafted. It begins: ÒThere are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.Ó For Leopold, like Thoreau, human nature and natureÕs nature are inseparable natures and anything worth saying must be born from both. So The Almanac exposes, reflects on, and strays into ÒvaluesÓ that humans might cherish but it never strays too far from wildness, that teacher of many minds. In short, this is the bible of Òoikos-logosÓ  Ñ  the governing principle of our communal home  Ñ  Òecology.Ó
                                                             
                                                         Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 122094 180
##T A Sand County Almanac
A Sand County Almanac

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Aldo Leopold
Special Commemorative Edition 1987; 226 pp.
ISBN 0195053052
 $17.95 postpaid
from:

Oxford University Press
16-00 Pollitt Drive
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
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##A 11 227792 185
##T Microcosmos
Microcosmos

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The prose is at times raucous, joyful, teasing, even catty; the tone of friends out to the local bar on Friday and living it up. But as one reads it becomes clear that this book is also brilliant science.

This is by far the best book written on human prejudice and evolutionary history. It carefully tracks the evolution of life on earth from one-celled life into todayÕs mind-boggling variety of cell conglomerates. This book makes clear the importance of symbiosis, mutual dependence, cooperation, and cohabitation in evolution, thus delightfully shoving Òspecies competitionÓ and Spencerian Òsurvival of the fittestÓ into the back seat ashtray.

                                                                Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 188120 186
##T Microcosmos
Microcosmos

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Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
1986; 301 pp.
ISBN 0671441698
$17.95 ($18.95 postpaid)
from:

Simon & Schuster
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 11 229111 192
##T The FlamingoÕs Smile
The FlamingoÕs Smile


@@
The most ingratiating of all evolution writers has to be Stephen Jay Gould, whose monthly column in Natural History (Ù see separate review) has been a beacon of scientific essay style for some ten years now. The cash crop of those columns is a sequence of books   Ñ  Ever Since Darwin, The PandaÕs Thumb, HenÕs Teeth and HorseÕs Toes, and this new one, The FlamingoÕs Smile. This book is particularly thrilling since we get to watch GouldÕs major scientific contribution, the idea of Òpunctuated equilibriumÓ 
(evolution by spurts), dealing with the emerging evidence of periodic mass extinctions, which apparently deal a whole different kind of articulation to the text of time (sort of like paragraph breaks, come to think of it; think IÕll take one now . . .).
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##A 11 229536 194
##T The FlamingoÕs Smile
The FlamingoÕs Smile


@@
The FlamingoÕs Smile
(Reflections in Natural History)
Stephen Jay Gould
1987; 480 pp.
ISBN 0393303756
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

W. W. Norton
500 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10110

For tape version, see last card of this review for access info and to play an excerpted sound.
@@

##A 11 2985 197
##T The FlamingoÕs Smile
The FlamingoÕs Smile


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The FlamingoÕs Smile Ñ Tape Version
Stephen Jay Gould
10 - 1 1/2 hour cassettes
RentalÑ$16.50
PurchaseÑ$80.00 
($82.50 postpaid)
from:

Books on Tape
P. O. Box 7900
Newport Beach, CA 92660
800-626-3333

Read by Grover Gardner
Catalog number 2107
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##A 11 279282 198
##T CHARLES DARWIN
CHARLES DARWIN

@@
Darwin and the Beagle is the story of DarwinÕs five-year circumnavigation, his revelation on the shores of Chile and confirmation on the isles of Galapagos; the story of how humans always fret about life as timeless-design vs. life as fluid-forming. From here, it is one easy step to DarwinÕs story in his own words, the Illustrated Origin of Species. 

                                                         Ñ Peter Warshall



Ù Also see review of DarwinÕs Expression of The Emotions in Man and Animals
@@

##A 11 279862 199
##T CHARLES DARWIN
CHARLES DARWIN

@@
Darwin and the Beagle
Alan Moorehead
1969; 224 pp.
$10.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Viking Penguin Books
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600(NJ)

For tape version, see last card of this review for access info and to play an excerpted sound.
@@

##A 11 280229 200
##T CHARLES DARWIN
CHARLES DARWIN

@@
Illustrated Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
1979; 240 pp.
ISBN 0809013975
$7.95 ($8.95 postpaid)
from:

Hill and Wang, Inc.
19 Union Square West
New York, NY 10003
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##A 11 2625 203
##T CHARLES DARWIN
CHARLES DARWIN

@@
Darwin and the Beagle Ñ Tape Version
Alan Moorehead
6 - 1 hour cassettes
RentalÑ$12.50
PurchaseÑ$48.00 
($50.50 postpaid)
from:

Books on Tape
P. O. Box 7900
Newport Beach, CA 92660
800-626-3333

Read by Michael Prichard
Catalog number 1599
@@

##A 11 99435 204
##T King SolomonÕs Ring
King SolomonÕs Ring

@@
The classic by the father of modern thoughts on animal behavior.

                                                             Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 99595 205
##T King Solomon's Ring
King Solomon's Ring

@@
Konrad Z. Lorenz
1952, 1979; 202 pp.
$6.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:

Harper and Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
@@

##A 11 100412 207
##T Splendid Isolation
Splendid Isolation

@@
The Whole Earth picture of changing animal forms and moving tectonic plates in South America. 
                                                               Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 100818 208
##T Splendid Isolation
Splendid Isolation

@@
George Gaylord Simpson
1980; 266 pp.
$10.45 postpaid  
from:

Yale University Press
92A Yale Station
New Haven, CT 06520
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##A 11 37686 212
##T ECOLOGY INTRODUCTION
ECOLOGY INTRODUCTION

@@
ÒECOLOGYÓ HAS COME TO MEAN just about anything. Doom-gloom to the end-of-the-worlders. Mystical harmony to the religio-eco-freaks. Grants to the college crowd. The word comes from Greek: 
ÒOikosÓ and ÒLogos.Ó ÒOikosÓ means house, or dwelling-place. 
ÒLogosÓ primarily means discourse, or Òword, thought or speech.Ó To the early Greeks,  ÒlogosÓ was the moving and regulating principle in things (associated with fire-energy), as well as the part of human nature that was able to see this ordering energy at work. 

Ecology, at its root and origin, means domestic chatter; talking about where-you-live; feeling out the household rules; remaining 
 open and perceptive to the moving and regulating principle of your watershed and/or planet home.                    Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 40232 213
##T Ecology
Ecology


@@
The science of ecology has suffered from success. It can mean many things in the popular mind and seems to have emerged all at once as a full-blown discipline around 1970. One of the best things this college text does is take pains to trace the evolution of ecology as a branch of science and explain the significant changes it has undergone since the early 70s. Colinvaux writes clearly and is sparing with the jargon and math unless absolutely necessary. He even offers several routes through his book for short-course browsers.

                                                          Ñ Richard Nilsen

Ù Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare (also by Paul Colinvaux)
@@

##A 11 40636 214
##T Ecology
Ecology


@@
Paul Colinvaux
1986; 725 pp.
ISBN 0471165026
$32.95 postpaid 
from:

John Wiley & Sons
Order Department
1 Wiley Drive
Somerset, NJ 08873
@@

##A 11 232726 217
##T The Ecologist
The Ecologist

@@
Edited by the ebullient Teddy Goldsmith, this British mag is a nice mix of careful and radical. It has a strong point of view, lots of good ideas, and considerable effect. 

                                                         Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 11 235441 218
##T The Ecologist
The Ecologist

@@
Edward Goldsmith, Nicholas Hildyard, and Peter Bunyard
ISSN 02613131
$28/year (6 issues)
from:

The Ecologist
Subscription Dept.
Worthyvale Manor Farm
Camelford, Cornwall PL32 9TT 
U. K.
@@

##A 11 202749 221
##T Audubon Magazine
Audubon Magazine

@@
ItÕs for the birds, but not just  Ñ  protection of all life is now the official business of the Audubon Society. The magazine is slick and well-produced with gorgeous photographs and graphics enhanced by a high editorial standard. Like other upscale nature publications, Audubon is having an interesting time balancing nature conservation with the conservative nature of many Society members.

                                                             Ñ J. Baldwin


Ù National Audubon Society
@@

##A 11 202784 222
##T Audubon Magazine
Audubon Magazine

@@
Les Line, Editor
Membership $30/year        
(includes 6 issues)
from:

National Audubon Society
Membership Data Center
P. O. Box 2666
Boulder, CO 80322
@@

##A 11 2287 225
##T Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare
Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare


@@
Ecology is having a kind of personality crisis at the moment, feeling bewildered, and searching for new harmonies amid the raucousness of NatureÕs wild ways. It is a healthy time. Some even question if there is really a ÒsystemÓ in ecosystem. Life is certainly viewed as more complex than simple parallel, melodic lines  Ñ  like a Bach canon  Ñ  of foxes and rabbits. 

Ecologists must face the new metaphors of music:  Nature as a 
16-track multi-mix; African polyrhythms; raga modes or natural dissonance. New, less deterministic harmonies of community ecology await human expression. The new music will give great weight to the invisible, for example, special types of plant 
biotechnology like C3, C4 and CAM metabolism; to a karmic
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##A 11 38662 227
##T Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare
Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare


@@
(An EcologistÕs Perspective)
Paul Colinvaux
1978; 256 pp.
ISBN 0691023646
$7.95 postpaid 
from:

Princeton University Press
3175 Princeton Pike
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
@@

##A 11 163418 230
##T Fire in America
Fire in America

@@
This book concerns fire, ecology, and mankind, and the history they have made together in North America.  Nobody has ever written on the totality of this subject before, and while this dense volume may easily qualify as more than you ever wanted to know about fire regimes, fire-fighting techniques, and the history and politics of the U.S. Forest Service, it is a fascinating story and well told. And if anybody gives out awards for the best dust jacket photo, this book gets my vote.

                                                             Ñ Richard Nilsen
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##A 11 163646 231
##T Fire in America
Fire in America

@@
(A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire)
Stephen J. Pyne
1982; 656 pp.
ISBN 0691083002
$42 ($44 postpaid)
from:

Princeton University Press
3175 Princeton Pike
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
@@

##A 11 25255 235
##T A Field Guide to the Atmosphere
A Field Guide to the Atmosphere

@@
ÒIt was a dark and stormy night.Ó Most fiction seems to begin with a weather report. For good reason  Ñ  nothing so quickly establishes a locale and mood. Also nothing so connects a place with everywhere else on Earth, and with the grand procession of the year and years, as the daily weather. Observe it and you observe them.

This lovely guide is the most detailed of all weather books. The captions not only tell you what clouds those are but how they got that way, and pretty quickly you catch on how they fit in the grand scheme of things  Ñ  jet streams, various crystal effects, and such. Any window becomes a cure for boredom.
                                                                  Ñ Stewart Brand
@@

##A 11 25395 236
##T A Field Guide to the Atmosphere
A Field Guide to the Atmosphere

@@
Vincent J. Schaefer 
and John A. Day
1981; 359 pp.
ISBN 0395330335
$10.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
@@

##A 11 26553 240
##T The Coevolution of Climate and Life
The Coevolution of Climate and Life

@@
Ah weather. It can irritate us so  Ñ  being beyond our control. Yet, in one lifetime, we get so little feel for its true extremes  Ñ  little Ice Ages, Greenhouse Effects, el Nino. These are but the passing children of biospheric evolution, or rather a coevolution in which life itself helps steer the fickle unknown forces of climate. This tome analyzes the speculations of Ònow primitiveÓ scientists trying to understand the sun godÕs spots or the heavensÕ and oceansÕ affinity for dancing carbon molecules. It covers four billion years and focuses on the IÕm-going-to-scare-you issues of aerosols, nuclear winter, overheating, acid rains and droughts. It is, at times, tainted by a humorless, clawing ÒhumanismÓ and a college-sophomore attitude toward topics it cannot fully comprehend
(history, Marxism, capitalism, the Gaia hypothesis). But there is no
@@

##A 11 27112 242
##T The Coevolution of Climate and Life
The Coevolution of Climate and Life

@@
Stephen H. Schneider 
and Randi Londer
1984; 576 pp.
ISBN 0871563495
$25 ($28 postpaid)
from:

Sierra Club Bookstore
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
@@

##A 11 256696 246
##T Future Water
Future Water

@@
If ever there was a need for circles, it is in sewage treatment. 
For centuries, we have taken our rivers, run them through our 
homes, added our fertile fecal nutrient, then run our sewage into 
rivers or the sea. This downhill, linear mind has been destructive 
to our land, waters and mental wholeness. This is a very important book written by two men who have dedicated a good part of their lives to looping city ÒwastesÓ back to farm productivity. For those interested in farms, cities, water, land, private vs. public sector politics, water and sewage bills, visions for a future structured with institutions that benefit humans Ñ read it.

                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 256902 247
##T Future Water
Future Water

@@
(An Exciting Solution to AmericaÕs Most Serious Resource Crisis)
John R. Sheaffer 
and Leonard A. Stevens
1983; 269 pp.
ISBN 0688015751
$14.95 ($16.45 postpaid)
from:

William Morrow & Co.
Wilmor Warehouse
39 Plymouth Street
Fairfield, NJ 07006
@@

##A 11 134224 250
##T Mass. Audubon Water Resources Publications
Mass. Audubon Water Resources Publications

@@
The Massachusetts Audubon SocietyÕs Water Resources publications are practical and philosophical introductions to protecting, preserving, and restoring streams and groundwater. 

                                                          Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 18522 251
##T Mass. Audubon Water Resources Publications
Mass. Audubon Water Resources Publications

@@
Publications catalog free
from:

Massachusetts Audubon Society
Educational Resources Office
South Great Road
Lincoln, MA 01773
617-259-9500
@@

##A 11 135597 253
##T The Stream Conservation Handbook
The Stream Conservation Handbook

@@

The Stream Conservation Handbook remains the best education for anglers wishing to take action against stream degradation.

                                                        Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 11 135713 254
##T The Stream Conservation Handbook
The Stream Conservation Handbook

@@
J. Michael Migel, Editor
ISBN 0517506149
OUT OF PRINT

Crown Publishers
@@

##A 11 291986 256
##T The Future of the Oceans
The Future of the Oceans


@@
This book is full of wonderful facts. It is the first to present and analyze the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea . . . perhaps the first global government of Third World and industrialized nations. It is well written with an extremely sophisticated sense of the marine resources, marine ecology, and marine-based economy of our largest bioregion: the vast ocean filled with fish, aquatic plants, mineral nodules, and petroleum power.
                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall



Ù The Times Atlas of the Oceans
@@

##A 11 292266 257
##T The Future of the Oceans
The Future of the Oceans


@@
(A Report to the Club of Rome)
Elisabeth Mann Borgese
1986; 139 pp.
$12.95 (Canadian)
($13.95 postpaid) from:

Harvest House Ltd. Publishers Sales & Distribution Services
314 Judson Street
Toronto, Ontario,
Canada M8Z 4X7

or Whole Earth Access
@@

##A 11 293218 261
##T STREAMING WISDOM
STREAMING WISDOM

@@
Watershed Consciousness in the 20th Century
 
By Peter Warshall

IN OUR TOWNS AND CITIES, two of the essential sources of life  Ñ 
water to drink and soil to grow food  Ñ  remain hidden from our eyes. The hills and valleys are coated with asphalt, ancient streams are buried beneath housing, and soil is filler between gas, water and electric piping.

Watershed consciousness is, in part, an invitation to peel off (not discard) the layer of industrial and technological activity that 
hides us from the water and soils of our communities. It is an
@@

##A 11 137812 266
##T Restoring the Earth
Restoring the Earth

@@
Breezy, thumbnail sketches of humans who spearheaded land and water restoration projects. Not a how-to-do-it book, but more like a rousing cheer, for the compassionate and caring U.S. citizens who are trying to do good for the earth and its children. Stories include: cleaning a river and lake, reclaiming prairies, planting redwoods, and restoring strip-mined land.

                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 11 138027 267
##T Restoring the Earth
Restoring the Earth

@@
(How Americans are Working to Renew Our Damaged Environment)
John J. Berger
1985; 241 pp.
ISBN 0394523725
$18.95 ($19.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 11 136844 270
##T The Earth Manual
The Earth Manual

@@
Just like the man says: ÒBetween well-trimmed surburban lawns and the vast regions of mountain wilderness, there are millions of patches of land that are semi-wild. They may be wood lots, small forests, parks, a farmÕs Ôback forty,Õ or even an unattended corner of a big back yard  Ñ  land touched by civilization but far from conquered. This book is about how to take care of such land: how to stop its erosion, heal its scars, cure its injured trees, increase its wildlife, restock it with shrubs and wild flowers, and otherwise work with (rather than against) the wildness of the land.Ó

A book of gentle advice and easily-absorbed wisdom. Great bibliography. 
                                                               Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 11 137118 271
##T The Earth Manual
The Earth Manual

@@
Malcolm Margolin
Revised Edition 1985; 224 pp.
ISBN 0930588185
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Heyday Books
P.O. Box 9145
Berkeley, CA 94709
415-549-3564
@@

##A 11 126009 275
##T Geology Illustrated 
Geology Illustrated 

@@
An artist of aerial photography, John S. Shelton uses some 400 of his finest photos to illuminate a discussion of the whole earth system. Not a traditional textbook, but a fascinating exploration of the problems posed by asking, ÒHow did that come about?Ó Worth buying for the photos and book design alone, but youÕll probably find yourself becoming interested in geology regardless of your original intentions. A masterpiece.

                                                            Ñ Larry McCombs



Ù Earth Imaging
@@

##A 11 126227 276
##T Geology Illustrated 
Geology Illustrated 

@@
John S. Shelton
1966; 434 pp.
ISBN 0716702290
$35.95 ($39.45 postpaid)
from:

W.H. Freeman and Company
4419 West 1980 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84104
801-973-4660
@@

##A 11 124992 280
##T The Restless Earth
The Restless Earth

@@
The new theory of the Earth accounts for earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain-building, and the formation of minerals in one comprehensive process: Movement of the plates of our planetÕs outermost shell. Nigel Calder is the best teller of the tale  Ñ  though slightly out of date. Richly illustrated. 

                                                         Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 11 125394 281
##T The Restless Earth
The Restless Earth

@@
Nigel Calder
1972; 151 pp.
OUT OF PRINT 

Viking Penguin Books
@@

##A 11 127088 282
##T Roadside Geology
Roadside Geology

@@
The Roadside Geology Series is one of the best for car nomadics. Coordinated with highway mileage markers, each book transforms endless roadcuts into millions of years of history. Each volume has an introduction and vocabulary list. Turn off the radio and have your side-kick begin rock scouting.
                                                             

                                                             Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 11 127247 283
##T Roadside Geology
Roadside Geology

@@
$9.95 - $13.95 postpaid from: 

Mountain Press
P.O. Box 2399
Missoula, MT 59806

*Currently available:
Northern CA, AK, OR,
WA, CO, AZ, VA, NY,
Yellowstone National Park,
MT, NH, VT, NM & WY.
Soon to be released:
UT, PA & ID.
@@

##A 11 128240 284
##T Rocks and Minerals
Rocks and Minerals

@@
For roadside stops, the best field guide to examining rocks is Rocks and Minerals, with an easy key and clear photos of rocks.
 
                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 11 128259 285
##T Rocks and Minerals
Rocks and Minerals

@@
Pat Bell and David Wright
1985; 192 pp.
ISBN 0020796404
($8.95 postpaid) from:

Macmillan Publishing Co.
Order Dept.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
@@

##A 11 83504 289
##T SOIL INTRODUCTION
SOIL INTRODUCTION

@@
Soil is the stage from which all things  Ñ  good, beautiful, vicious, creative, dull, outrageous and evil  Ñ  emerge. A teaspoon of living earth contains five million bacteria, twenty million fungi, one million protozoa, and two hundred thousand algae. Amoebas slide over sand grains hunting bacteria. Bacteria swim through micro-rivers scarfing nutrients. Viruses attack bacteria. Nematode worms, like soil hyenas, devour almost anything. There are about 9,500 kinds of soil in the United States and no one has ever tried to create sanctuaries for any of them.

There is no single great book on soils; we review the best of 
whatÕs available. The best out-of-print book on soils, The World of 
Soil by Sir E. John Russell, should be available in most libraries
@@

##A 11 104482 291
##T The Nature and Properties of Soils
The Nature and Properties of Soils

@@
A college text on soil science. The writing is clear, there
is a glossary of terms, and the section headings make it easy to find the information you want quickly. More facts than most people need, but well worth consulting on specific subjects.

                                                             Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 11 104831 292
##T The Nature and Properties of Soils
The Nature and Properties of Soils

@@
Nyle C. Brady
9th edition 1984; 750 pp.
ISBN 0023133406
 $32.50 postpaid
from:

Whole Earth Access
2950 Seventh Street
Berkeley, CA  94710
800-845-2000
415-845-3000(CA)

(or order through your local bookstore)
@@

##A 11 105514 295
##T Soil and Water Conservation Society of America
Soil and Water Conservation Society of America

@@
Over one million acres of prime farmland disappear in urban development each year. In the Great Plains and the Pacific Northwest, 85 percent of the farms lose five tons of their topsoil yearly. The Soil Conservation Society of America provides a meeting ground for all the specialized interests who are concerned with preserving the ultimate strength of this nation:  its soil. They publish a technical but, for my interests, totally absorbing magazine  Ñ  The Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. ItÕs a mature group, organized in 1945. 

                                                        Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 105896 296
##T Soil and Water Conservation Society 
Soil and Water Conservation Society 

@@
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Max Schnepf, Editor
ISSN 00224561
$30/year(6 issues)  
$35 foreign from:

Soil and Water Conservation Society
7515 NE Ankeny
Ankeny, IA 50021-9764
@@

##A 11 106576 297
##T Soil Conservation Maps
Soil Conservation Maps

@@
Every citizen should be able to say: ÒI live on a sandy-loam that is about ten feet deep and covers half my community.Ó Soil Conservation Maps are step one, but are not detailed enough for some projects (like house-to-house septic tank assessment or gardening problems). Scales vary from one inch equals 1,320 feet to one inch equals one mile.  Maps are available (for free, usually) from your local Soil Conservation Service.
                                                        
                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall



Ù Local Maps
@@

##A 11 106911 298
##T Soil Conservation Maps
Soil Conservation Maps

@@

Information free from your local U. S. Soil Conservation Service office, listed under U. S. Government, U. S. Department of Agriculture in the white pages of the phone book.
@@

##A 11 107738 299
##T World Soils
World Soils

@@
This introduction to the soils of the world is complete with a
brief course in soil science (pedology). A knowledge of what
kind of soils are where, and why they are there, is critical for geographers, land use planners, and food-raisers.    
                                                                         
                                                           Ñ J. Baldwin
@@

##A 11 108019 300
##T World Soils
World Soils

@@
E. M. Bridges
1978; 128 pp.
$11.95 postpaid 
from:

Cambridge University Press
510 North Avenue
New Rochelle, NY 10801
@@

##A 11 149180 304
##T Biology of Plants
Biology of Plants

@@
Peter Raven is the Godfather of American botany. This is his sequoian text. Though the prose tastes of leaf-litter, the information sparkles like a virgin tropical jungle at dawn. Everything you want to know and more, beautifully illustrated.

                                                         Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 11 149276 305
##T Biology of Plants
Biology of Plants

@@
Peter H. Raven, Ray F. Evert 
and Helena Curtis
4th Edition 1986; 775 pp.
$43.95 ($46.90 postpaid)
from:

Worth Publishers, Inc.
33 Irving Place
New York, NY 10003
212-475-6000
@@

##A 11 150268 308
##T How to Identify Plants
How to Identify Plants

@@
There is no easy road into plant architecture. Ovaries are superior or inferior; flower parts can be imbricate or valvate; surfaces can be scurfy, scabrous, comose, viscid, glaucous or otherwise. If you want to make the leap into botanical terms and use the more technical floras, then this book is the key to MONSTER VOCABULARY.  It lists all the best technical floras by area.                      
                                                                                                                         
                                                            Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 11 150341 309
##T How to Identify Plants
How to Identify Plants

@@
H. D. Harrington 
and L. W. Durrell
1957; 203 pp.
$7.95 ($10.70 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
@@

##A 11 159382 312
##T Nature Study Guild ÒFinderÓ Series
Nature Study Guild ÒFinderÓ Series

@@

This plant identification series uses line drawings of simplified taxonomy for beginners. LIght-weight, and sized to slip into a
shirt or pants pocket.

                                                             Ñ Richard Nilsen
@@

##A 11 159514 313
##T Nature Study Guild ÒFinderÓ Series
Nature Study Guild ÒFinderÓ Series

@@
Complete list of titles free   
from:

Nature Study Guild
Box 972
Berkeley, CA 94701

Sample titles include:
Pacific Coast Berry Finder, Pacific Coast Fern Finder, Redwood Region Flower Finder,  and Winter Tree Finder.

Nature Study Guild ÒFinderÓ Series: $1.50 each.
@@

##A 11 152082 316
##T Wildflowers: Northeastern/Northcentral North America 
Wildflowers: Northeastern/Northcentral North America 

@@
Arranged by shape and color. Over 1300 species with many line drawings and some color illustrations.

                                                             Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 152479 317
##T Wildflowers: Northeastern/Northcentral North America 
Wildflowers: Northeastern/Northcentral North America 

@@
Roger Tory Peterson 
and Margaret McKenny
1968; 420 pp.
$10.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
@@

##A 11 153279 319
##T Common Wildflowers of the N.E. United States
Common Wildflowers of the N.E. United States

@@
Arranged by plant families, this is the best informed book, and
has the best color photos.


                                                          Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 11 153523 320
##T Common Wildflowers of the N.E. United States
Common Wildflowers of the N.E. United States

@@
The New York Botanical Garden
1980; 318 pp.
$12.95 ($14.95 postpaid)
from:

BarronÕs Educational Series
113 Crossways Park Drive
Woodbury, NY 11797
@@

##A 11 154130 322
##T Roadside Plants and Flowers
Roadside Plants and Flowers

@@
Great car book. Arranged by color and season of peak bloom with color photos.

                                                          Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 11 154607 323
##T Roadside Plants and Flowers
Roadside Plants and Flowers

@@
(A TravelerÕs Guide to the Midwest and Great Lakes Area)
1985; 143 pp.
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

University of Wisconsin Press
114 North Murray Street 
Madison, WI 53715
@@

##A 11 155198 326
##T North American Wildflowers (Western Region)
North American Wildflowers (Western Region)


@@
Best overall guide. Arranged by shape and color plus fine photos and ID tips.

                                                          Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 11 155642 327
##T North American Wildflowers (Western Region)Wildflowers (Western)
North American Wildflowers (Western Region)Wildflowers (Western)

@@
Richard Spellenberg
1979; 862 pp.
ISBN 0394504313
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 11 156354 331
##T California Spring Wildflowers 
California Spring Wildflowers 

@@
What youÕre likely to find from the base of the Sierra Nevada and southern mountains to the Pacific.

                                                          Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 11 156428 332
##T California Spring Wildflowers 
California Spring Wildflowers 

@@
California Spring Wildflowers: From the Base of the Sierra Nevada and Southern Mountains to the Sea
Philip A. Munz
1961; 122 pp.
ISBN 0520008960
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

University of California Press
2120 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
@@

##A 11 157271 335
##T California Mountain Wildflowers
California Mountain Wildflowers

@@
Arranged by color with some photos and excellent line drawings. Philip MunzÕs books are the best nontechnical guides.

                                                      Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 11 157527 336
##T California Mountain Wildflowers
California Mountain Wildflowers

@@
Philip A. Munz
1963; 122 pp.
ISBN 0520009010
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

University of California Press
2120 Berkeley Way
Berkeley CA 94720
@@

##A 11 158237 338
##T Shore Wildflowers (California, Oregon, Washington)
Shore Wildflowers (California, Oregon, Washington)

@@

Arranged by color with some photos and excellent line drawings. Philip MunzÕs books are the best nontechnical guides.

                                                   Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 11 158468 339
##T Shore Wildflowers (California, Oregon, Washington)
Shore Wildflowers (California, Oregon, Washington)

@@
Philip A. Munz
1965; 122 pp.
ISBN 0520009010
$7.95 ($8.45 postpaid)
from:

University of California Press
2120 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
@@

##A 11 161311 341
##T Southwest Parks and Monuments Association
Southwest Parks and Monuments Association

@@
This non-profit organization supports the educational and scientific activities of the National Park Service by publishing and distributing a variety of field guides, trail guides, and technical and historical handbooks. They also distribute books and guides by other publishers.

                                                             Ñ Hank Roberts
@@

##A 11 161612 342
##T Southwest Parks and Monuments Association
Southwest Parks and Monuments Association

@@
Publications list free 
from:

Southwest Parks and Monuments Association
221 North Court
Tucson, AZ 85701
602-622-1999
@@

##A 11 162313 346
##T California Desert Wildflowers
California Desert Wildflowers

@@
For the Mojave and lower Colorado deserts, this is an excellent guide, arranged by color.

                                                     Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 11 56292 347
##T California Desert Wildflowers
California Desert Wildflowers

@@
Philip A. Munz
1962; 122 pp.
ISBN 0520008995
$8.95 ($10.45 postpaid)
from:

University of California Press
2120 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
@@

##A 11 145208 351
##T Knowing Your Trees
Knowing Your Trees


@@
The encyclopedia of trees in America, with descriptions and illustrations. There are photos of leaves, seed pods, bark, and the natural range of each type tree. Lovingly presented, in print for 50 years.                                                

                                                           Ñ Lloyd Kahn
@@

##A 11 145576 352
##T Knowing Your Trees
Knowing Your Trees


@@
G. H. Collingwood 
and Warren D. Brush.
Revised and Edited by Devereux Butcher
Revised Edition 1984; 389 pp.
$9.50 ($10 postpaid)
from:

The American Forestry Association
P. O. Box 2000
Washington, DC 20013
@@

##A 11 143315 356
##T The Great Forest
The Great Forest

@@
A history of our virgin forests and the ever-recurring conservation-preservation-industrial dialogue of America.  A dialogue still fought bitterly though the acreage is vastly shrunk. I cannot recommend a book more passionately to those citizens in love with the scattered remains of our Great Forest.                                                     
                                             
                                                            Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 11 143394 357
##T The Great Forest
The Great Forest

@@
Richard G. Lillard
1947, 1973; 399 pp.
ISBN 0306705346
$49.50 postpaid from:

Da Capo Press, Inc.
233 Spring Street
New York, NY 10013
@@

##A 11 164523 360
##T Trees of North America (A Golden Field Guide)
Trees of North America (A Golden Field Guide)


@@
The guide to travel with. Surpasses Peterson and Audubon
for ease, drawings, and distribution maps. Keep in your glove compartment. 

                                                       Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 11 164777 361
##T Trees of North America (A Golden Field Guide)
Trees of North America (A Golden Field Guide)


@@
C. Frank Brockman
1979; 280 pp.
ISBN 0307136582
$9.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Western Publishing Co.
P. O. Box 700
Racine, WI 53401
800-558-3291
414-633-2431(WI)
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##A 11 189145 367
##T Animals Without Backbones
Animals Without Backbones

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The spineless wonders!

                                      Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 189208 368
##T Animals Without Backbones
Animals Without Backbones

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Ralph Buchsbaum
1938, 1976; 392 pp.
$14 postpaid from:

University of Chicago Press
11030 South Langley
Chicago, IL 60628
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##A 11 193104 371
##T A Field Guide to Insects of America N. of Mexico
A Field Guide to Insects of America N. of Mexico

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They may not make millions or drive BMWs, but the insects of the planet win top honors for biological success. Ninety thousand species inhabit North America: lice, earwigs, stoneflies, springtails, butterflies, beetles, thrips and bugs. This guide covers 579 of the insect families and has at least one illustration for each. Amazing! I have rarely found the exact moth or water scorpion but always came close enough to feel good.
                                                        
                                                             Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 193458 372
##T A Field Guide to Insects of America N. of Mexico
A Field Guide to Insects of America N. of Mexico

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A Field Guide to the Insects of America North of Mexico
Donald J. Borror and Richard E. White
1970; 404 pp.
$11.70 ($12.70 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
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##A 11 194242 375
##T Spiders and Their Kin
Spiders and Their Kin

@@
The most informative, accurate, entertaining and useful guide to spiders ever written. 

                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 194476 376
##T Spiders and Their Kin
Spiders and Their Kin

@@
Herbert W. and Lorna R. Levi
1969; 160 pp.
ISBN 0307240215
$3.95 ($4.95 postpaid)
from:

Western Publishing Company, Inc.
P. O. Box 700
Racine, WI 53401
800-558-3291
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##A 11 191227 379
##T AUDUBON SOCIETY FIELD GUIDES TO BUTTERFLIES
AUDUBON SOCIETY FIELD GUIDES TO BUTTERFLIES

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Voyeurs of evolutionary eroticism!  Uninspired artists!  Urbanites seeking a sense of fragile, angelic loveliness!  Buddhists confused about mysterious transformations!  Here are the guides to North AmericaÕs scaley-winged psychedelic nymphs  Ñ none better or easier to use than these two from Audubon.

                                                               Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 191302 380
##T AUDUBON SOCIETY FIELD GUIDES TO BUTTERFLIES
AUDUBON SOCIETY FIELD GUIDES TO BUTTERFLIES

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The Audubon Society Handbook for Butterfly Watchers
Robert Michael Pyle
1984; 274 pp.
$17.95 postpaid 
from:

MacMillan Publishing Co.
Order Dept.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
@@

##A 11 333366 381
##T AUDUBON SOCIETY FIELD GUIDES TO BUTTERFLIES
AUDUBON SOCIETY FIELD GUIDES TO BUTTERFLIES

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Audubon Society Field Guide to N. American Butterflies
Robert Michael Pyle
1981; 916 pp.
ISBN 0394519140
$13.50 ($14.50 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 11 195081 386
##T FIELD GUIDES TO REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS
FIELD GUIDES TO REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS

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West: StebbinsÕ guide is a combination of love, intelligence,
and good writing. A model guide covering areas west of the
Rockies. If you find something weird, itÕs probably a real
discovery. 

East: Conant is older, less beautiful, but equally
useful for areas east of the Rockies.

                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 195556 387
##T FIELD GUIDES TO REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS
FIELD GUIDES TO REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS

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A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians
Robert C. Stebbins
2nd Edition 1985; 279 pp.
ISBN 039538253X
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
@@

##A 11 3082 388
##T FIELD GUIDES TO REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS
FIELD GUIDES TO REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS

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Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern & Central N. America
A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America
Roger Conant
1975; 429 pp.
ISBN 0395199778
$11.95 ($12.95 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
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##A 11 190500 393
##T The Sea Turtle: So Excellent a Fishe
The Sea Turtle: So Excellent a Fishe

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So Excellent a Fishe radiates chelonian love. Its beautifully crafted prose conjures an eerie feel  Ñ  of eras of time with clouds and waves and turtles bumping onto shorelines in syncopated arrivals. Inside this intimacy one can almost believe that as long as this book remains in print turtles will survive in the sea.                                                  

                                                          Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 190837 394
##T The Sea Turtle: So Excellent a Fishe
The Sea Turtle: So Excellent a Fishe

@@
Archie Carr
Revised Edition 1986; 280 pp.
ISBN 0292775954
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

University of Texas Press
P. O. Box 7819
Austin, TX 78713
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##A 11 197244 396
##T North American Fishes, Whales and Dolphins
North American Fishes, Whales and Dolphins

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Had it up to the gills with yuppie frenzy? Drop a line, cast, troll, scuba . . . go fishing with this fine guide . . . you might net a Freckled Madtom, see a Pancake Batfish, Blue Tang, Tautog or, with reverence, angle the Cutthroat.

                                                             Ñ Peter Warshall






Ù The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins
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##A 11 197513 397
##T North American Fishes, Whales and Dolphins
North American Fishes, Whales and Dolphins

@@
The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fishes, Whales, and Dolphins
ISBN 0394534050
H. T. Boschung Jr., et al.
1983; 850 pp.
$13 ($14 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 11 199311 400
##T The Book of Sharks
The Book of Sharks

@@
As a novice scuba diver, living on a coast called ÒThe White Shark Attack Capital of the World,Ó IÕve been on the lookout for a good, unbiased source of information about these impressive creatures. Ellis has managed to cut through our ÒJawsÓ-inspired hysteria without minimizing the real danger that does exist: sharks have been the oceansÕ top predators for over 300 million years; they are very good at their job.

                                                            Ñ David Burnor
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##A 11 199594 401
##T The Book of Sharks
The Book of Sharks

@@
Richard Ellis
1983; 256 pp.
ISBN 0156135523
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1250 Sixth Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101
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##A 11 9576 405
##T BIRD GUIDES
BIRD GUIDES

@@
After much comparison and birder chit-chat, I accept the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America as the best on the market. Without writing a book about bird books, here are the essentials:

In the eastern region, beginners should use the familiar Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America by Roger T. Peterson, although it has its own problems. The Geographic guide is too jargony, too full of casual or vagrant species which unnecessarily distract the novice. And it lacks good comparison pages (for fall warblers, for instance). 

In the western region, the Geographic leads the V-flight. It has 
some good pictures of western races found in no other guide and is
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##A 11 10116 407
##T BIRD GUIDES
BIRD GUIDES

@@
Field Guide to the Birds of North America
Shirley L. Scott, Editor
1983; 464 pp.
ISBN 0870446924
$14.95 ($18.30 postpaid)
from:

National Geographic Society
Washington, D.C. 20036
@@

##A 11 10327 408
##T BIRD GUIDES
BIRD GUIDES

@@
Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America
A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
Roger Tory Peterson
1980; 384 pp.
ISBN 039526619X
$12.95 ($13.95 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
617-725-5000
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##A 11 28149 412
##T BIRD LIFE
BIRD LIFE

@@
Nature is much more than knowing names of birds. Nature has its own theater of voices, gestures, rages, intimacies, and power. Too many times, a birder will see a bird, check it off and ask: ÒWhatÕs next?Ó

ÒNextÓ is learning the vocabulary, lifestyle and concerns of each creature by patiently paying attention. StokeÕs Guide to Bird Behavior shows 25 common birds (mostly eastern), their territory, courtship, songs, seasonal movements, nests, and plumages. A true pleasure for those who feed birds. Watching Birds fields the gap between Òsport-birdingÓ and heavy ornithological texts. Concise 
summaries of giant notions help you see more richly. The Audubon 
SocietyÕs Encyclopedia of North American Birds is the avian
@@

##A 11 28892 414
##T BIRD LIFE
BIRD LIFE

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A Guide to Bird Behavior 
Donald W. Stokes 
and Lillian Q. Stokes
1983; 352 pp.
ISBN 0316817295
$9.70 ($10.70 postpaid)
from:

Little, Brown & Co.
200 West Street
Waltham, MA 02154
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##A 11 47376 415
##T BIRD LIFE
BIRD LIFE

@@
Watching Birds 
Roger F. Pasquier
1977; 301 pp.
$9.70 ($10.70 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Company
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
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##A 11 139274 416
##T BIRD LIFE
BIRD LIFE

@@
Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds
John K. Terres
1980; 1,280 pp.
 $75.50 postpaid
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
@@

##A 11 283722 427
##T Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology


@@
No field guide or record can substitute for being out there and in tune with our avian cousins.  But, like the guides, records 
(especially by region or bird family) can help.  For those who know, a bird heard is a bird seen.

The best access to records coordinated with field guides and other birdomania comes from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.  The bird pictures that follow in this review are taken from Roger Tory PetersonÕs Field Guide to Western Birds, because the sound clips used here as examples of CornellÕs records are keyed to that Peterson guide.                                                  
                                                               Ñ Peter Warshall

Ù Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America
@@

##A 11 283919 428
##T Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology


@@
Catalog free  
from:

The CrowÕs Nest Bookshop
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-254-2400
@@

##A 11 330170 429
##T Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology


@@
PetersonÕs Field Guide to Western Birds
Roger Tory Peterson
1972; 309 pp.
ISBN 039513692X
$11.95 ($12.95 postpaid)
from:

Houghton-Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
@@

##A 11 98505 441
##T Expression of The Emotions in Man and Animals
Expression of The Emotions in Man and Animals

@@
Are we less joyful than gorillas? Less fearful than baboons? Does each species have its own repertoire of emotional possibilities? Do some  (the dolphins) express emotions we have no name for? Darwin started it. His followers prefer ÒaggressionÓ to anger; 
ÒsubmissionÓ to  affection.  They copped out.

                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall





Ù CHARLES DARWIN
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##A 11 98602 442
##T Expression of The Emotions in Man and Animals
Expression of The Emotions in Man and Animals

@@
Charles Darwin
1873, 1965; 372 pp.
 $9 postpaid from:

University of Chicago Press
11030 South Langley
Chicago, IL 60628
@@

##A 11 23103 445
##T The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins
The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins

@@
You will probably never see 99 percent of the cetaceans described here. The few you will see probably will be in oceanaria. Strangely, it doesnÕt seem to matter. Just knowing that all that incredible variety of mammalian life is happening heals a loneliness  Ñ  MelvilleÕs marine melancholia of the arid seas. Not since Mark Twain personally funded ScammonÕs 1870s expedition has such a fine book of cetacean portraits and scholarship appeared.
                                                         
                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall



Ù North American Fishes, Whales and Dolphins
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##A 11 23475 446
##T The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins
The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins

@@
Stephen Leatherwood 
and Randall R. Reeves
1984; 302 pp.
ISBN 0871563401
$12.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Sierra Club Bookstore
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
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##A 11 12253 449
##T WalkerÕs Mammals of the World
WalkerÕs Mammals of the World

@@
The two-volume encyclopedia WalkerÕs Mammals of the World has every living and extinct mammal (with photos of the living). ItÕs technical, comprehensive, and especially for fanatic mammal patriots like myself.

                                                          Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 3798 450
##T WalkerÕs Mammals of the World
WalkerÕs Mammals of the World

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Ronald M. Nowak 
and John L. Paradiso
4th Edition 1983; 1,362 pp. 
(2 volumes)
ISBN 0801825253
$75 ($77 postpaid)
from:

Johns Hopkins University Press
701 West 40th Street
Suite 275
Baltimore, MD 21211
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##A 11 13444 454
##T A Field Guide to the Mammals
A Field Guide to the Mammals

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Although the drawings are mediocre (at least, the color plate reproductions), this is the best general guide to all of North America. I found difficulties with the subdivisions and descriptions of the Rocky Mountain chipmunks but, by using the annotated bibliography, you can get the needed details. Great section on skulls and many footprint diagrams.

                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 13733 455
##T A Field Guide to the Mammals
A Field Guide to the Mammals

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William H. Burt 
and Richard P. Grossenheider
1976; 289 pp.
$10.45 ($11.45 postpaid) from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803

or Whole Earth Access
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##A 11 21278 457
##T A Field Guide to Animal Tracks
A Field Guide to Animal Tracks

@@
The best guides to our tit-sucking, warm-blooded, hairy compatriots in North America belong to the Peterson Series. Animal Tracks is the best-written Peterson Guide . . . good olÕ backwoods detail . . . chewed branch, yesterdayÕs scat, a 
chickareeÕs scolding, a javelinaÕs stench. Since most mammals like the night, it is the signs that best inform. Murie includes bird, snake, and insect signs youÕll find while tracking mammals.

                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 21799 458
##T A Field Guide to Animal Tracks
A Field Guide to Animal Tracks

@@
Olaus J. Murie
1974; 376 pp.
$10.45 ($11.45 postpaid) 
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
or Whole Earth Access
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##A 11 112961 461
##T ENDANGERED SPECIES INTRODUCTION
ENDANGERED SPECIES INTRODUCTION

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During the Great Dying of the Dinosaurs one species vanished every 10,000 years. Species are now vanishing somewhere between 40 and 400 times faster. By the year 2000, perhaps one million species will have become extinct because of human influences on the planet. Compared to the Great Dying, this is the Holocaust.

There is perhaps no more noble or righteous employment on the planet than saving a living species (or its habitat). Try it. ItÕs a world of smuggling, tears, beauty, petty bureaucracy, mockery, vigilance, money, and unbending vision. 

For specific species (bats, cycads, manatees, desert bighorns, salmon, peregrines, et al.), see the ÒConservationÓ section in the
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##A 11 112058 463
##T Where Have All the Wildflowers Gone?
Where Have All the Wildflowers Gone?

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This is a well-written and entertaining survey of U.S. wildflowers
in need of allies.  120 species are discussed by region.

                                                             Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 112333 464
##T Where Have All the Wildflowers Gone?
Where Have All the Wildflowers Gone?

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Robert H. Mohlenbrock
1983; 256 pp.
ISBN 002585450X
$15.95 postpaid 
from:

Macmillan Publishing Co.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
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##A 11 114993 467
##T Vanishing Fishes of North America
Vanishing Fishes of North America

@@
This is a well-written and entertaining survey of a group of
living beings in need of allies.

                                                       Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 115217 468
##T Vanishing Fishes of North America
Vanishing Fishes of North America

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Dr. R. Dana Ono, Dr. James D. Williams and Anne Wagner
1983; 257 pp.
ISBN 091327643X
$29.95 ($32.50 postpaid)
from:

Stone Wall Press
1241 30th Street NW 
Washington, DC 20007
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##A 11 114106 472
##T Animal Kingdom
Animal Kingdom

@@
Animal Kingdom is the most thoughtful magazine on protecting wildlife in the Third World and the importance of zoos in keeping critters from oblivion.  

                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall
@@

##A 11 114400 473
##T Animal Kingdom
Animal Kingdom

@@
Eugene J. Walter, Editor
ISSN 00033537
$10.95/year (6 issues) 
from:

Animal Kingdom Magazine
New York Zoological Park 
Bronx, NY 10460
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##A 11 86633 478
##T Cultural Survival Quarterly
Cultural Survival Quarterly


@@
Homogenization is consuming even the most isolated indigenous cultures on the planet. Can the languages of threatened cultures be saved? Can indigenous people share game parks where white men come to play? Is the drug trade crucial to some tribal peopleÕs cultural survival? Does ÒeducationÓ really mean loss of identity? Cultural Survival is an organization of concerned anthropologists and other citizens trying to preserve threatened cultures and explore ways in which native peoples can accommodate to the twentieth century without too great a loss of their own uniqueness. The magazine, Cultural Survival Quarterly, provides thorough coverage of their efforts.
                                                          Ñ Peter Warshall

Ù Katœah
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##A 11 86871 479
##T Cultural Survival Quarterly
Cultural Survival Quarterly


@@
Jason Clay, Ph.D., Editor
ISSN 07403291
$20/year(4 issues)
from:

Cultural Survival, Inc.
11 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
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##A 11 85647 483
##T The Savage Mind
The Savage Mind

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The formidable Levi-Strauss parses the logic of totemism  Ñ  native science based on deepest familiarity with fellow species and ritual celebration of mutual dependency. He gestures in detail at the dramatic life awaiting souls willing to bear totemic relation to the life around them.

                                                            Ñ Stewart Brand

The Savage Mind is uncanny: revealing our primitive thought as much as tribal peoplesÕ. You end up wondering whoÕs the dunce.

                                                            Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 85955 484
##T The Savage Mind
The Savage Mind

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Claude Levi-Strauss
1968; 290 pp.
ISBN 0226474844
$10.95 postpaid 
from:

University of Chicago Press
11030 South Langley Avenue
Chicago, IL 60628
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##A 11 84534 488
##T Patterns of Culture
Patterns of Culture

@@
Years go by and still no book replaces Patterns of Culture.  The graceful contrasts of human life.  The reminder to reflect on our cultural prejudices before judging another tribe.  Unique anthropology by a unique woman.

                                                         Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 84788 489
##T Patterns of Culture
Patterns of Culture

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Ruth Benedict
1934, 1959; 291 pp.
ISBN 0395083575
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mail Order Dept.
Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
@@

##A 11 269014 491
##T The Sacred
The Sacred

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I love this book. I read it like Jews and Christians read the Bible or Asian peoples read Confucius or Buddhists their sutras. Life may be complex, but the religious principles of traditional native peoples are simple, straightforward and clear. The Sacred quietly, carefully and somewhat bookishly lays out the everyday morality of Native Americans before the whiteman. This book is the growing bridge between modern Euro-American society and the strength, beauty and vitality of North AmericaÕs earliest inhabitants.                                      Ñ Peter Warshall

This book was prepared for use by young Native Americans and largely put together by Native Americans. ItÕs a spiritual field guide for North America.                   Ñ Stewart Brand
Ù Native American Life
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##A 11 269194 492
##T The Sacred
The Sacred

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(Ways of Knowledge, Sources of Life)
Peggy V. Beck & Anna L. Waters
1977; 369 pp.
ISBN 0912586249
$16 ($17.69 postpaid)
from:

Navajo Community College Press
Navajo Community College
Tsaile RPO, AZ 86556
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##A 11 24485 494
##T Visual Anthropology
Visual Anthropology

@@
The great 19th-century American photographer Matthew Brady felt he was morally obligated to record for the future the events, places, and people of his time. Since BradyÕs time, with the exception of the Roosevelt administrationÕs documentation of the Great Depression, the public face of photography has shown more consistent attention to aesthetic achievement.

BradyÕs plea for recording has been answered by the Colliers, who show how. For the anthropologist, geographer, or sociologist, the authors present the photograph (film and video are also thoroughly discussed) as a rich source of both qualitative and quantitative information about human behavior and culture.
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##A 11 75316 496
##T Visual Anthropology
Visual Anthropology

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(Photography as
a Research Method)
John Collier, Jr. 
and Malcolm Collier
1986; 248 pp.
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

University of New Mexico Press
Albuquerque, NM 87131
505-277-4810
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##A 11 270059 502
##T Ishi In Two Worlds
Ishi In Two Worlds

@@
One August day in 1911 the last wild Indian in America, near gone with starvation, the rest of his tribe dead, walked into a northern California town. Adopted by the brilliant anthropologist, Alfred Kroeber, he lived his remaining years in a California museum. This book by KroeberÕs wife reconstructs IshiÕs wild years in the Deer Creek area and tells with affection of his civilized years in Berkeley. For millions of readers, Ishi is our emotional link to native America.                                                                                                 

                                                             Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 11 270163 503
##T Ishi In Two Worlds
Ishi In Two Worlds

@@
(A Biography of the Last Wild Indian of North America)
Theodora Kroeber
1961; 262 pp.
ISBN 0520031539
$10.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

University of California Press
2120 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
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##A 11 270928 505
##T Handbooks of North American Indians
Handbooks of North American Indians

@@
These volumes are the most straightforward history ever written on the peoples inhabiting North America before Anglo-European arrival. They are honest tracings of what happened to each tribal group  Ñ  be it extinction; exodus from their homelands; fusion with Anglo-Europeans or another tribe; or decreased or increased tribal sovereignty and power. There are superb essays of the peoples known (even to the Indians) only from artifacts and diggings. Each volume features an Òeco-culturalÓ area with excellent essays on local problems . . . snow or heat, grizzlies or witchcraft, food shortages or war. In short, these volumes will be our basic North American Indian references for all time. If you have even the slightest interest in the human, ecological, and 
spiritual history of the place you live in, you will devour your
@@

##A 11 271427 507
##T Handbooks of North American Indians
Handbooks of North American Indians

@@
All postpaid from:

Smithsonian Institution Press
Dept. 900
Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17294-0900

see next card for specific volumes
@@

##A 11 272397 513
##T Black Elk Speaks
Black Elk Speaks

@@
The Pueblo tribes donÕt go in for visionary solitary mystical whizbangs. (Of all of them only Taos is into peyote very much.) The plains tribes are something else however. Their lives turned on their visions  Ñ  solo manhood transports, dreams, name visions, sun dance ordeals, battle ecstasy, doctoring sessions . . . and later, ghost dance and peyote. This book is the power vision of one Oglala Sioux  Ñ  and the extraordinary man it made. Black ElkÕs account, besides affording unusual insight into Sioux life and historical figures such as Crazy Horse, demonstrates the manner of recognizing a serious vision and being responsible for it, and the burden, joy and power of doing that.

                                                           Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 11 272811 514
##T Black Elk Speaks
Black Elk Speaks

@@
John G. Neihardt
1932, 1959; 238 pp.
ISBN 0671452215

OUT OF PRINT 

Washington Square Press
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##A 11 291758 517
##T Science and Civilisation in China
Science and Civilisation in China

@@
Joseph Needham is a renowned biologist who travelled into unexplored regions of Chinese technological history and became a yet more renowned historian and interpreter of what is for most of us the back of the planet. His series is awesome in size and depth; heÕs done the mining, but youÕve got to refine the ore to suit your own purposes. One purpose might be learning about Taoism and how its influence helped the Chinese discover and utilize some technology long before the West and also overlook or never utilize other stuff that the West seized on. Another purpose might be taking some of the mechanical inventions of old China  Ñ  from man-kites to waterwheels  Ñ  and applying them to your own hand
technology of intentional communities. ThereÕs no source like the source in these matters. If youÕre timid, you should try The
@@

##A 11 297694 519
##T Science and Civilisation in China
Science and Civilisation in China

@@
The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China
Joseph Needham 
and Colin A. Ronan
1978
ISBN 0521292867/ 0521235820
Vol. 1, 326 pp.
$18.95 ($19.95 postpaid); 
 Vol. 2, 459 pp.$42.50
($46.50 postpaid)
from:

Cambridge University Press
510 North Avenue
New Rochelle, NY 10801

9 Volume set, or in 2 Vols
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##A 11 80290 521
##T I and Thou
I and Thou

@@
You can read I and Thou in two hours and not get over it for the rest of your life. Buber tells you how you stand, either in a dialogical relationship with the Creative Force or in a position of 
ÒhavingnessÓ where you are a thing bounded by other things.
                                                               Ñ Ken Kesey

A discovery more prime than EinsteinÕs Relativity is BuberÕs distinction between the ÒexperienceÓ of I-It and the ÒrelationÓ of                     
I-You. It can cure at once the twin pathologies of Transcendent God and Controllable Nature. In ÒI-YouÓ is the possibility of love that does not possess, as well as the realest perception of learning, which is coevolution. Martin BuberÕs original German torrent is
well served by the translation and prologue by Walter Kaufmann. 
                                                               Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 11 80482 522
##T I and Thou
I and Thou

@@
Martin Buber
1984; 137 pp.
ISBN 0684717255
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

MacMillan Publishing Co.
Order Dept.
Front and Brown Streets
Riverside, NJ 08075
800-257-5755
@@

##A 11 12813 526
##T The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette
The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette

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I used to think that to have manners was to be mannered; that etiquette was affectation. Now I see that discipline of any sort is a lot more comfortable than its absence, and that is quite as true of consideration for others as it is of daily exercise or meditation. Comfortable, yes; effortless, no. ThereÕs inborn grace and learned grace, and in a world of constant change and conflict, whatÕs inborn may soon be eroded.

All you have to do is follow a few hundred simple suggestions. The essence of them is consideration for others, whether that is made manifest as tact, promptness in thanking people, being organized enough not to confound everybody else, or making a proper
introduction. The point of all the information, commonplace (how
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##A 11 51783 528
##T The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette
The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette

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Letitia Baldrige
Revised Edition 1978; 879 pp.
ISBN 0385133758
$17.95 postpaid 
from:

Doubleday and Company
Direct Mail Order
501 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
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##A 11 46107 533
##T Technics and Civilization
Technics and Civilization

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I first read this book in 1957, and twice since then.

Here are the first lines of the book.

     During the last thousand years the material basis
     and the cultural forms of Western Civilization have 
     been profoundly modified by the development of the
     machine. How did this come about? Where did it take 
     place?

Lewis Mumford is an unusual man. He is not an engineer or a scientist, he isnÕt an historian or sociologist, you canÕt identify 
him as a business man or a literary man or an academic. He seems
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##A 11 48564 535
##T Technics and Civilization
Technics and Civilization

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Lewis Mumford
1934, 1963; 495 pp.
ISBN 015688254X
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1250 Sixth Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101
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##A 11 51387 538
##T Civilization and Capitalism
Civilization and Capitalism

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The first book in this three volume set, The Structures of Everyday Life, is divided into sections: rice, corn, beer, furniture, alcohol, iron and many many others. I found that I paid close attention to Braudel; most history books make my mind wander. He turns the usual history upside down  Ñ  many details of everyday life but perhaps no mention of the King. All his discussions are filled with quotes from first hand.

There are no chapters of theories concerning why this or that happened. Instead piece by piece you hear about furniture in China and Europe, alcohol in France, England and America. The details pour out of the book. One of the nicest qualities of the book is that it can be opened anywhere and read for 20 minutes. Braudel has
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##A 11 53875 540
##T Civilization and Capitalism
Civilization and Capitalism

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Volume 1: The Structures of Everyday Life 
Fernand Braudel
1981; 623 pp.
ISBN 0060912944
$16.95 ($18.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
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##A 11 9029 541
##T Civilization and Capitalism
Civilization and Capitalism

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Volume 2: The Wheels of Commerce
Fernand Braudel
1986; 720 pp.
ISBN 0060912952
$16.95 ($18.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
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##A 11 22845 542
##T Civilization and Capitalism
Civilization and Capitalism

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Volume 3: The Perspective of the World  
Fernand Braudel
1986; 704 pp.
ISBN 0060912960
$16.95 ($18.45 postpaid)
from:

Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
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##A 11 44561 544
##T Archaeology
Archaeology

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A rare specimen: a textbook that is a joy to read for its own sake. Archaeology ably puts across the science and practice of discovering the past, with a twist IÕve not seen before: co-author RathjeÕs study of contemporary garbage in Tucson, Arizona, is used to demonstrate how archaeologists treat data and test hypotheses. I found myself painlessly learning something new on nearly every page.

                                                           Ñ Jay Kinney
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##A 11 50945 545
##T Archaeology
Archaeology

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William L. Rathje 
and Michael B. Schiffer
1982; 434 pp.
ISBN 0155029509
$25.95 ($26.95 postpaid)
from:

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1250 Sixth Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101
800-543-1918
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##A 11 58898 547
##T Archaeology magazine
Archaeology magazine

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One of the few remaining sciences that embraces amateur participation is archaeology. An awful lot of fantastic research is carried out (literally) by eager bands of students and volunteers sifting through old layers of silt. ThereÕs another kind of field work going on these days, too:  Experimenters shed their modern habits and by taking up ancient tools reconstruct the past by living it for a while. The findings of both these kinds of research are given colorful play in this classy journal, which might be mistaken for an enticing travel magazine. Between the ads and the  magazineÕs biannual listing of excavations in progress, itÕs the best place to find a dig to work on.

                                                                     Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 11 59466 548
##T Archaeology magazine
Archaeology magazine

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Phyllis Pollak Katz, Editor
$20/year (6 issues)
from:

Archaeology
Subscription Service
P.O. Box 928
Farmingdale, NY 11737
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##A 11 67512 550
##T The Source
The Source

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Simply the best genealogy book to get if you want to buy only one. This mammoth handbook is the best all-purpose reference manual for both hobbyists and professional genealogists. It goes into great detail about where to look for records, and even where not to look. For instance, it tells you not to count on finding military records from 1912 to 1959 because a disastrous fire destroyed 80 percent of them in 1973. The Source tells which files are left intact. The 16 experts who compiled the book also include specifics for the increasing numbers of racial minorities doing ancestral research, such as blacks and Asian-Americans. 

                                                                    Ñ Bob Mitchell
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##A 11 67588 551
##T The Source
The Source

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Arlene Eakle 
and Johni Cerny, Editors
1984; 786 pp.
ISBN 0916489019
$39.95 ($43.95 postpaid)
from:

Ancestry, Inc.
P.O. Box 476
Salt Lake City, UT  84110-0476
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##A 11 69638 555
##T The Living History Sourcebook
The Living History Sourcebook

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Living history is a curious blend of grassroots obsessiveness
and radical academia. It started out with history buffs getting dressed up to act out bygone battles. They discovered no one really knew very much about what happened back then because when they tried things the way the professors said they were, it didnÕt work. The buffs kept getting dressed up, having fun and living out the roles, rediscovering new things as a pastime, and finally the experts got interested. Eventually when some museums found out that the only way you could get TV-numbed Americans to visit a museum was to have people dress up in costume and demonstrate old-timey ways, a veritable movement got rolling. There are now several magazines, hundreds of active sites, festivals, mock 
battles, rendezvous, and a whole new science. This sourcebook will lead you to them all.                                Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 11 70355 556
##T The Living History Sourcebook
The Living History Sourcebook

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Jay Anderson
1985; 469 pp.
ISBN 0910050759
$19.95 ($21.95 postpaid)
from:

American Association for State and Local History Press
172 Second Avenue North
Suite 102
Nashville, TN 37201
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##A 11 68787 558
##T Practicing History
Practicing History

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To get to any depth in a complex story, secondary sources  Ñ other peopleÕs histories  Ñ  arenÕt good enough; you have to go to primary sources: letters, diaries, maps, journals, newspaper accounts, photographs, and memoirs. Nothing will help introduce you to the craft of history-writing as well as this book of essays by Barbara Tuchman. (She wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning history of the fourteenth century, A Distant Mirror.) Ms. TuchmanÕs methods: discard the unnecessary, write like a storyteller, invent nothing, and use mainly primary sources

You could be a historian with nothing more than this book of advice and examples, access to a good research library (with interlibrary loan), a little travel, and the devotion of a year or two.
                                                                     Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 11 69308 559
##T Practicing History
Practicing History

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Practicing History
Barbara W. Tuchman
1935, 1981; 306 pp.
ISBN 0345303636
$8.95 ($9.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460

For tape version, see last card of this review for access info and to play an excerpted sound.
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##A 11 5194 561
##T Practicing History
Practicing History

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Practicing History Ñ Tape Version
Barbara W. Tuchman
7 cassettes/9.75 hours
Purchase: $39.95 ($43.20 postpaid)
30-day rental: $13.50 ($16.75 postpaid) from:

Recorded Books
P. O. Box 409
Charlotte Hall, MD 20622
800-638-1304

Unabridged narration by Aviva Skell
Catalog number 87510
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##A 11 70850 562
##T Old Glory
Old Glory

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Your town has origins. So does your family. This is a splendid book about how to find and preserve and parade them. There is such a thing as cultural good ecology. Savor your own peculiar 
communityÕs weirdness. Savor some other peopleÕs.

                                                            Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 11 70941 563
##T Old Glory
Old Glory

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(A Pictorial Report on the Grass Roots History Movement and The First Hometown History Primer)
James Robertson, Editor
1973; 191 pp.
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Warner Books/Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 11 60263 567
##T Engines of Creation
Engines of Creation

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The Last Technological Revolution is upon us: ÒnanotechnologyÓ  Ñ  the science of building molecules to order. What this might mean for good or bad is enthusiastically examined in this lively book. There is some gee-whizzing; how could there not be when the potentials include cell repair, disease reduction, and life extension? Ebullience is balanced by a serious discussion of the potential for horrifying weaponry, and the social disorder that could result from thoughtless incorporation of nanotechnology into an unprepared populace. The book is remarkably wide-visioned and comprehensively based: most unusual for this sort of thing. Future-reading at its best.

                                                              Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 11 60441 568
##T Engines of Creation
Engines of Creation

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(The Coming Era of Nanotechnology)
K. Eric Drexler
1986; 298 pp.
ISBN 0385199732
$10.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Doubleday & Co.
Direct Mail Order
501 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
800-223-6834
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##A 11 242019 570
##T Foresight Update
Foresight Update

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Imagine molecule-sized machines that can alter or repair any organ in your body. 

Imagine biologically-based machines that can enter and repair your defective cells and, so, extend your life indefinitely.

Imagine a molecule-sized weapon that is undetectable and able to enter an organism and Òre-programÓ its genetic code. 

This isnÕt science fiction, but a relatively new field of research  called ÒnanotechnologyÓ (ÒnanoÓ for nanometers, the measurement 
standard for molecules), first described in K. Eric DrexlerÕs excellent book, Engines of Creation. While still in its infancy, biologically-based nanotechnology promises to  change (and
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##A 11 242425 572
##T Foresight Update
Foresight Update

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Chris Peterson, Editor
$25/year from:

Foresight Institute
Box 61058, Department S
Palo Alto, CA 94306
415-364-8609
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##A 11 61223 574
##T The World Future Society
The World Future Society

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More interested in possibilities than predictions, the World Future Society conducts ongoing discussions amongst its 25,000 members. Their magazine, The Futurist, works over ideas both nasty and nice, not mere pie-in-the-sky stuff. The editor fortunately avoids academic dead-serious essays, preferring to look at subjects with an open mind and unafraid of controversy. YouÕll probably find the same attitude in the World Future Society chapter near you.

The Society also publishes Future Survey, a monthly abstract of matters futurist from books, articles, and other sources. The book reviews are particularly good. I find that I keep up with futurist thought a lot more easily in this publication than in any other, including The Futurist.                                  Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 11 61577 575
##T The World Future Society
The World Future Society

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The Futurist
Edward Cornish, Editor
ISSN 00163317
Membership $25/year
(includes 6 issues of The Futurist)
from:

World Future Society
4916 St. Elmo Avenue
Bethesda, MD 20814
301-656-8274
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##A 11 58108 576
##T The World Future Society
The World Future Society

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Future Survey
Michael Marien, Editor
ISSN 01903241
$59/year(12 issues)
plus Annual Volume
from:

World Future Society
4916 St. Elmo Avenue
Bethesda, MD 20814
301-656-8274
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##A 11 62569 581
##T YesterdayÕs Tomorrows
YesterdayÕs Tomorrows

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ItÕs hard to say which is most salient in these visions of how we were going to be living today: prescience, hubris, or naivete. In any case, a look at this book should induce a certain humility in our own prognostications of the future, despite the ÒadvancesÓ we enjoy.

                                                         Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 11 62753 582
##T YesterdayÕs Tomorrows
YesterdayÕs Tomorrows

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Joseph J. Corn 
and Brian Horrigan, Editors
1984; 158 pp.
$17.95 postpaid 
from:

Simon & Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 11 76138 586
##T BATESON INTRODUCTION
BATESON INTRODUCTION

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Gregory Bateson is responsible for a number of formal discoveries, most notably the ÒDouble BindÓ theory of schizophrenia. As an anthropologist he did pioneer work in New Guinea and (with respect to Margaret Mead) in Bali. He participated in the Macy Foundation meetings that founded the science of cybernetics but kept a healthy distance from computers. He wandered thornily in and out of various disciplines  Ñ  biology, ethnology, linguistics, epistemology, psychotherapy  Ñ  and left each of them altered with his passage.

Cybernetics is the discipline of whole systems thinking. For a field of such importance it is shocking there are so few introductory books. The ones here, like the Bateson books, introduce the cybernetic frame of mind. They instill habits of
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##A 11 77116 588
##T Steps to an Ecology of Mind 
Steps to an Ecology of Mind 

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Steps to an Ecology of Mind is a collection of all of Gregory BatesonÕs major papers, 1935-1971. In recommending the book 
IÕve learned to suggest that it be read backwards. Read the broad analyses of mind and ecology at the end of the book and then work back to see where the premises come from.

Bateson has informed everything IÕve attempted since I read Steps in 1972. Through him I became convinced that much more of whole systems could be understood than I had thought, and that much more existed wholesomely beyond understanding than I thought  Ñ  that mysticism, mood, ignorance and paradox could be rigorous, 
for instance, and that the most potent tool for grasping these essences  Ñ  these influence nets  Ñ  is cybernetics.
                                                                            Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 11 77456 589
##T Steps to an Ecology of Mind 
Steps to an Ecology of Mind 

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Gregory Bateson
1985; 541 pp.
ISBN 0345332911
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 11 78570 593
##T Mind and Nature
Mind and Nature

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Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity addresses the hidden, though unoccult, dynamics of life  Ñ  the misapprehension of which threatens to unhorse our civilization. Bateson doesnÕt have all the answers, he just has better questions  Ñ  elegant, mature, embarrassing questions that tweak the quick of things.

One of the themes that emerges is the near identity between the process of evolving and the process of learning, and the ongoing responsibility they have for each other which includes our responsibility, which we have shirked. We shirked it through ignorance. Mind and Nature dispels that.

BatesonÕs previous writing  Ñ  Naven; Communications: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry; Balinese Character; and Steps to an Ecology
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##A 11 78903 595
##T Mind and Nature
Mind and Nature

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Gregory Bateson
1979; 259 pp.
ISBN 0553227866
$4.95 ($6.45 postpaid)
from:

Bantam Books
414 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
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##A 11 56985 602
##T BUCKMINSTER FULLER
BUCKMINSTER FULLER

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Back in 1967, the insights of Buckminster Fuller initiated The Whole Earth Catalog.
                                                                  Ñ Stewart Brand

Back in 1951, when I was 18, the insights of Buckminster Fuller initiated my education.  I liked his referring  to himself as 
"Guinea Pig B" (for Bucky), living his life as an experiment showing what one person might accomplish.

Fuller contended that it is easier to reform the human-built environment than to reform people, that the worldÕs resources can be distributed better by doing more with less (ÒephemeralizationÓ) than by war.  To demonstrate this, he developed a number of
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##A 11 2549 606
##T BUCKMINSTER FULLER
BUCKMINSTER FULLER

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A Fuller Explanation
(The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller)
Amy C. Edmondson
ISBN 0817633383
$37.50 ($40 postpaid)
from:

Birkhauser Boston, Inc.
P.O. Box 2485
Secaucus, NJ 07094
201-348-4033
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##A 11 63589 607
##T BUCKMINSTER FULLER
BUCKMINSTER FULLER

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Buckminster Fuller
(An Autobiographical Monologue / Scenario) Documented and Edited by Robert Snyder, 1980; 218 pp. $18.95 postpaid.
from:

Buckminster Fuller Institute, 1743 South La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
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##A 11 74569 608
##T BUCKMINSTER FULLER
BUCKMINSTER FULLER

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The Dymaxionª World of Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller 
and Robert Marks
1960; 246 pp.
ISBN 0385018045
$11.95 postpaid
from:

Buckminster Fuller Institute
1743 South La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
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##A 11 74806 609
##T BUCKMINSTER FULLER
BUCKMINSTER FULLER

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Trimtab Bulletin
Jaime Snyder and Janet Brown, Editors
Membership $20/year(includes 6 issues of Trimtab Bulletin); Information free
from:

Buckminster Fuller Institute
1743 South La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
213-837-7710
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##A 11 230874 610
##T BUCKMINSTER FULLER
BUCKMINSTER FULLER

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Critical Path
R. Buckminster Fuller
1981; 471 pp.
ISBN 0312174918
$15.95 postpaid
from:

Buckminster Fuller Institute
1743 South La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
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##A 11 187803 611
##T BUCKMINSTER FULLER
BUCKMINSTER FULLER

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Synergetics
(Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking)
R. Buckminster Fuller
1975; 876 pp.
ISBN 0020653204
$19.95 postpaid
from:

Buckminster Fuller Institute
1743 South La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
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##A 11 230557 612
##T BUCKMINSTER FULLER
BUCKMINSTER FULLER

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Synergetics 2
(Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking)
R. Buckminster Fuller
1979; 592 pp.
ISBN 0020926405
$16.95 postpaid 
 from:

Buckminster Fuller Institute
1743 South La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
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##A 11 306045 618
##T The Recursive Universe
The Recursive Universe

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You are God in the game of Life (Ù see separate review), a computer game. Let there be a grid. And you create all in it. You design not only the creatures, but the rules of their universe. Let the cells live (a black dot) or die (emptiness) in each generation. And then there is time, a thousand generations a minute. Let there be graphic patterns of your cellsÕ growth, as they pulse in expansion, or flicker into extinction. Their destiny is fixed by the original premises that you, God, choose. Mathematically there is no way to tell where the system is going until you try it. That you can TRY it is heavenly.

Invented in 1970 by mathematician Jon Conway, Life is no longer played as a mere game.  Run on large mainframe computers, this
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##A 11 306544 620
##T The Recursive Universe
The Recursive Universe

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(Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge)
William Poundstone
1985; 252 pp.
ISBN 0688039758
$7.95 ($8.95 postpaid)
from:

William Morrow & Co.
Wilmor Warehouse
39 Plymouth Street
Fairfield, NJ 07006
800-843-9389
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##A 11 141478 622
##T ARTIFICIAL LIFE 4-H SHOW
ARTIFICIAL LIFE 4-H SHOW

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by Kevin Kelly

Some snapshots I took at the First Artificial Life 4-H Show, held September 1987, at the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. This landmark conference brought together an eclectic band of biologists, computer scientists, nano-technology advocates, and mathematical geneticists. For an entire week the workshop showcased primeval organisms infused with a touch of artificial life.
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##A 11 306280 628
##T Life
Life

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The computer game. Let the opening pattern occur as a random event, or create your notion of what might be a Garden of Eden.  Have your computer change that first configuration repeatedly according to a few simple rules and watch as something grows.
(Ù See also separate review of The Recursive Universe.)

                                                            Ñ Hank Roberts
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##A 11 375005 629
##T Life
Life

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Public Domain; Macintosh. $3
from:

Berkeley Macintosh User Group 
(BMUG)
1442A Walnut Street, #62
Berkeley, CA 94709
415-849-9114

Public Domain; IBM PC.
$8 from:

Software Copying Co.
33 Gold Street #13
New York, NY 10038
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##A 11 128596 630
##T Cellular Automata Machines
Cellular Automata Machines

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One of the reasons CAs may be really important is that they provide a paradigm for the kind of parallel computers (such as the Connection Machine) which we are now just starting to build. Another reason why CAs are important is their essential properties of 1) parallelism, 2) homogeneity, and 3) locality make them natural models of all physical processes. 

Working together in the Information Mechanics Group at MIT, Toffoli and Margolus developed a piece of hardware Ñ the CAM6 Ñ and the software to drive it. Cellular Automata Machines describes how to use the CAM6 to generate a wide range of CA patterns Ñ including the familiar game of Life, reversible color mandalas, accretion fractals, crystalization processes, colonies of things 
like insects, billiard-ball computers, and much more. If you really
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##A 11 176331 632
##T Cellular Automata Machines
Cellular Automata Machines

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(A New Environment for Modeling)
Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus
1987; 259 pp.
ISBN 0262200600
$30 ($32.50 postpaid)
from:

The MIT Press
c/o Uniserv Inc.
P.O. Box 1034
524 Great Road (Route 119)
Littleton, MA 01460
617-253-2884
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##A 11 177657 635
##T Charles PlattÕs Cell Systems
Charles PlattÕs Cell Systems

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Charles PlattÕs Cell Systems versions One and Two are clever extensions of the game of Life concept. By changing the simple onscreen parameters, you can create cell patterns that scroll up your screen like moving ice mountains, strange caverns and cityscapes. Cell Systems One lets you create patterns using 4 of 8 available colors. Cell Systems Two doesnÕt use color graphics, but gives you much more flexibility in creating cell patterns, allowing you to enter parameters graphically, with decimals, or hexadecimals.

                                                     Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 11 178122 636
##T Charles PlattÕs Cell Systems
Charles PlattÕs Cell Systems

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$17; $28
from:

Charles Platt
594 Broadway
Room 1208
New York, NY 10012

Versions One & Two; IBM PC
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##A 11 179270 638
##T Freestyle CAs
Freestyle CAs

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Patterns like BrianÕs Brain send blocks of ÒlivingÓ creatures skimming across the screen to confront other creatures moving up from the bottom. Sometimes they merge; sometimes they wipe each other out. Interference patterns emerge, like stylized ripples in a cybernetic pool. This is how a computer sees the physical world. Only this is a world where you set up the rules. 

                                                     Ñ Richard Kadrey
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##A 11 179666 639
##T Freestyle CAs
Freestyle CAs

@@
IBM PC. $10  
from:

Freestyle CAs
15 Kimble Avenue
Los Gatos, CA 95032
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##A 11 209283 641
##T Complex Systems
Complex Systems

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A bonafide academic journal, it requires high mathematical understanding. However, occasional articles are comprehendable by plain-English layfolk, and merit attention. The complexity in question permeates key concepts like distributed learning (honey bees co-operating in a hive), fault-tolerant networks (a downed powerline doesnÕt topple the electric grid), and local politics in cellular automata worlds (local rules, rather than global order, determine the ecology).

                                                   Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 11 215043 642
##T Complex Systems
Complex Systems

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Stephen Wolfram, Editor
ISSN 08912513
$75/year(6 issues)
from:

Complex Systems Publications, Inc.
P.O. Box 6149
Champaign, IL 61821-8149
217-244-4250
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##A 11 338478 644
##T Brain/Mind Bulletin
Brain/Mind Bulletin

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Easily the handiest way to stay current with news and gossip on the soft psychology frontier. Despite success and a burgeoning of the subject matter, editor Marilyn Ferguson has admirably kept the bulletinÕs format to a terse, packed four pages.

                                                            Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 11 338923 645
##T Brain/Mind Bulletin
Brain/Mind Bulletin

@@
Marilyn Ferguson, Editor
$35/year (12 issues)
from:

Interface Press
P. O. Box 42211
Los Angeles, CA 90042
800-553-MIND
800-648-MIND(CA)
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##A 11 355695 648
##T Brain & Psyche
Brain & Psyche

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Like most mammals, we dream. The few mammals that donÕt dream, such as the egg-laying echidna (spiny anteater) and the platypus, appear to integrate their experiences with memory as they plod along in real time. WinsonÕs theory of dreams considers both brain structure and Freudian analysis. He suggests that the rest of us mammals, with more to think about than leaf mold and ants (and more of a need to make quick decisions) save up the dayÕs news and take several runs at folding it in to the rest of our memories during the night. We process the dayÕs information while we sleep, in batches which we perceive as dreams.

                                                            Ñ Hank Roberts
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##A 11 357625 649
##T Brain & Psyche
Brain & Psyche

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(The Biology of the Unconscious)
Jonathan Winson
1985; 300 pp.
ISBN 0385194250
OUT OF PRINT 

Doubleday & Co.

Will be reprinted in 1989.
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##A 11 78217 652
##T The River That Flows Uphill
The River That Flows Uphill

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Neurobiologist William Calvin was part of several rafts full of scientists on a boat trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Their conversations Ñ relaxed, witty, skillfully rendered Ñ teach as much about river rafting, Southwest anthropology, and respect for Nature as about neurophysiology, biology and evolution. The Grand Canyon almost forces a broad, long-term point of view: the marks of geological evolution are everywhere.

The concept of the evolutionary ratchet is a common thread throughout the book: geographic isolation causes speciation, conserving new traits. Something new and different results. Particularly tasty are the incidental benefits of natural selection
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##A 11 81695 654
##T The River That Flows Uphill
The River That Flows Uphill

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(A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain)
William H. Calvin
1986; 528 pp.
ISBN 0871567199
$12.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Sierra Club Store Orders
730 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA
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##A 11 82997 659
##T Megabrain
Megabrain

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A gee-whiz reporter for Omni magazine travels around the country trying out various gizmos claimed to elicit altered states of awareness, looking for action beyond biofeedback. Most of the inventions he examines apply weak electrical currents to the skull. One machine is reputed to emit Òlove wavesÓ Ñ frequencies that would churn up cheery hormones in the userÕs cortex. Do they work? Well, they do induce changes in the brainÕs activity, and the literature he digs up on each device indicates they produce some kind of mind molecules (the appropriate ones?). His own direct experiences suggest that the contraptions, in general, tend toward instilling Òalert relaxation.Ó Some would call that simply daydreaming or meditation.
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##A 11 83783 661
##T Megabrain
Megabrain

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Michael Hutchison
1986; 347 pp.
ISBN 0688048803
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:

Ballantine/Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 11 92774 665
##T The Three-Pound Universe
The Three-Pound Universe

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Man, with arm around graduating son-in-law, pointing to the future. ÒI have two words for you, son: Brain Juices.Ó

This lucid book constitutes the necessary orientation to the flow of neuro-transmitters from the mind to the soul.

                                                              Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 11 92966 666
##T The Three-Pound Universe
The Three-Pound Universe

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Judith Hooper and Dick Teresi
1986; 410 pp.
$12.95 ($13.70 postpaid)
from:

Dell Publishing Co.
6 Regent Street
Livingston, NJ 07039
800-626-3355
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##A 11 252867 670
##T ROBOTS INTRODUCTION
ROBOTS INTRODUCTION

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Unlike personal computers, robots have not become a popular consumer item  Ñ  despite such prototypes as HeathkitÕs ÒHeroÓ and Nolan BushnellÕs ÒTopo.Ó The personal robots that exist today are like the primitive personal computers of a decade ago. They show a great deal of promise, but they are sort of useless novelty items now. As costs shrink, that will change. Sometime soon, many a small industrial workshop and school will find it worthwhile to buy a robot. Families will follow suit later. In the meantime, robotics has become the most intriguing, involving, gripping field of inquiry for home electronics experimenters.  As one robot-maker, Maris Ambats, described the scene, ÒRobotics is at an early stage, and an independent experimenter can make substantial original contributions without a large budget or elaborate equipment.Ó                                         Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 11 94273 671
##T The Tomorrow Makers
The Tomorrow Makers

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Deep robotics, deep shivers.

Fjermedal has done the formidable footwork of staying up countless nights working, scheming and speculating with most of the cutting-edge robot fanatics in the labs at Carnegie-Mellon, MIT, Stanford, Thinking Machines Corp., and on and on Ñ a fine comprehensive sweep. His report on work in Japan is a scoop and fittingly closes the book, since it proves that some of the wilder speculation he begins with is already stalking about in Japan, like some ominous, humorous Transformer toy, just barely still a plaything.

For grasping what technology is rapidly bringing by way of exploding human bodies and minds into new configurations, The
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##A 11 95845 673
##T The Tomorrow Makers
The Tomorrow Makers

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(A Brave New World of Living-Brain Machines)
Grant Fjermedal
1986; 272 pp.
ISBN 0025385607
$8.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:

Microsoft Press
Attn: Consumer Sales
16011 NE 36th Way
Box 97017
Redmond, WA 98073-9717
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##A 11 24301 676
##T Robotics
Robotics

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Edited by an artificial intelligence pioneer, this anthology covers all the bases: the history of automatons, artificial common sense, sensors, human-machine partnerships (cyborgs), industrial robots, and the effects of robots on society. Here is the best starting point for a non-tinkerer who wants to know what robotics is about, and how it might change the world. 
       
                                                       Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 11 24821 677
##T Robotics
Robotics

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Marvin Minsky, Editor
1985; 317 pp.
ISBN 0385194145
 $19.95 postpaid
from:

Doubleday and Company
Direct Mail Order
501 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
800-223-5780
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##A 11 290263 681
##T Basic Robotic Concepts
Basic Robotic Concepts


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Generally agreed upon as the best overall technical book. ItÕs designed to educate people about the various problems in robotics  Ñ  balancing the machine, vision systems, motors, torque curves, wheels versus legs, and programming the intelligence. 

                                                        Ñ Art Kleiner
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##A 11 337318 682
##T Basic Robotic Concepts
Basic Robotic Concepts


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John M. Holland
1983; 270 pp.
ISBN 0672219522
$19.95 ($22.45 postpaid)
from:

Howard W. Sams & Co.
4300 West 62nd Street
Indianapolis, IN 46268
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##A 11 262347 686
##T Mind Children
Mind Children

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The ideas are heretical, and if they werenÕt coming out of the Robotics Institute of Carnegie-Mellon University, slightly lunatic, too. What is proposed is the end of biology, and the birth of a new cybernetic race, more machine than human. More efficient, more intelligent and more likely to survive their indefinite lifespans. Moravec also lays out the methods these autonomous machines might use to think: program in a little piece of a person into each unit. The human consciousness would be the wide-eyed innocent, the one who would keep things interesting, the one who, in the end, would be responsible for furthering evolution; the machine would keep the unit running smoothly, repair damage, and sort the information the human part absorbs. 

Like many visionaries, Moravec tends to be somewhat myopic. How
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##A 11 262818 688
##T Mind Children
Mind Children

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(The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence)
Hans Morave
1988; 196 pp.
ISBN 0674576160
$20 ($21.25 postpaid)
from:

Harvard University Press
79 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA, 02138
617-495-2600
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##A 11 320626 690
##T Godel, Escher, Bach
Godel, Escher, Bach

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The subject of this book  Ñ  and the frequent preoccupation of its deities, mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M.C. Escher, composer J.S. Bach, and writer Lewis Carroll  Ñ  is self-reference, what the author calls Òstrange loopsÓ or Òtangled hierarchies.Ó It is the domain of extreme paradox, where math, art, religion (lots of zen in the book, honestly employed), and epistemology collide. It is the fearless exploration of black holes of the mind.

Hofstadter set out to make GodelÕs Incompleteness Theorem
accessible to the lay thinker, and happily he succeeds in that. Along the way he illuminates a world of music, mathematics, computer intelligence (and gossip), and philosophy. The book 
confirms the suspicion IÕve had for years that perhaps the most
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##A 11 321170 692
##T Godel, Escher, Bach
Godel, Escher, Bach

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Douglas Hofstadter
1979; 777 pp.
ISBN 0394745027
$13.95 ($14.95 postpaid)
from:

Vintage Books
Random House
Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 11 40151 695
##T The MindÕs I
The MindÕs I

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HofstadterÕs second volume, The MindÕs I, is an anthology of essays he co-edits that circles through the apparent paradoxes of consciousness. Round it goes through children, ant colonies, and large computers. Parable and fiction lurk in the book, about the only animals that can keep a tentative grip on the circulating elusiveness of self-consciousness.

                                                            Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 11 366048 696
##T The MindÕs I
The MindÕs I

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(Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul)
Douglas R. Hofstadter 
and Daniel C. Dennett
ISBN 0553014129
$13.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:

Bantam Books
414 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
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##A 11 322312 700
##T Grammatical Man
Grammatical Man

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In the age of information it is shocking that there is so little useful information about information  Ñ  how it behaves, what its economics are, indeed, what it is. A good book on the subject would have to talk about the primary domains of information: evolution, genetics, computer programming, entropy, whole systems, and human language. This book does. It is the only one to encompass the whole natural ecology of information in a readable way.

                                                         Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 11 322611 701
##T Grammatical Man
Grammatical Man

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(Information, Entropy, Language, and Life)
Jeremy Campbell
1982; 319 pp.
ISBN 0671440624
 $9.95 postpaid
from:

Simon & Schuster
Mail Order Sales
200 Old Tappan Road
Old Tappan, NJ 07675
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##A 11 304957 704
##T Systemantics
Systemantics

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The pun in the title carries the important message that systems have ÒanticsÓ  Ñ  they act up, misbehave, and have their own mind. The author is having fun with a serious subject, deciding rightly that a sense of humor and paradox are the only means to approach large systems. His insights come in the form of marvelously succinct rules of thumb, in the spirit of MurphyÕs Law and the Peter Principle. This book made me: 

1) not worry about understanding a colossal system  Ñ  you canÕt, 2) realize you CAN change a system  Ñ  by starting a new one, and 3) flee from starting new systems  Ñ  they donÕt go away.

                                                                Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 11 305339 705
##T Systemantics
Systemantics

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(The Underground Text of Systems Lore)
John Gall
2nd Edition 1986; 297 pp.
ISBN 0961825103
$14.95 postpaid
from:

The General Systemantics Press
3200 West Liberty, Suite A
Ann Arbor, MI 48103-9794
313-994-5858
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##A 11 307443 707
##T An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking


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Viewed from just about any perspective this book is an exemplary introduction to a complex subject. The fascinating observations are well organized and are stated in a consciously informal tone. Thoughtful questions for research and additional readings are provided for those who want to go beyond the scope of the book. Over a hundred wide-ranging quotes add to the fun.

                                                        Ñ William Courington
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##A 11 307670 708
##T An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking


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Gerald M. Weinberg
1975; 279 pp.
ISBN 0471925632
$47.95 postpaid
from:

John Wiley & Sons
Order Dept.
1 Wiley Drive
Somerset, NJ 08873
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##A 11 110992 711
##T On Growth and Form
On Growth and Form

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A paradigm classic. Everyone dealing with growth of form in any manner can use the book. WeÕve seen worn copies on the shelves of artists, inventors, engineers, computer systems designers, biologists. 

                                        Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 11 111236 712
##T On Growth and Form
On Growth and Form

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DÕArcy Wentworth Thompson
1917, 1961; 346 pp.
ISBN 0521093902
$18.95 postpaid 
from:

Cambridge University Press
510 North Avenue
New Rochelle, NY 10801

(Unabridged edition by John Tyler Bonner)
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##A 11 109900 716
##T Form, Function and Design
Form, Function and Design

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This book is wonderful. Here is a man trying to tell the truth about design and about our lives and civilization. I never heard of him. After reading his book, I canÕt understand why not.  

                                                           Ñ Steve Baer

There really is no better introduction to all that is admirable in design. Baer had to remind me of the book: I had forgotten how much I owe to it. It is full of the kind of lore and wisdom that you immediately take for your own.                            

                                                           Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 11 110293 717
##T Form, Function and Design
Form, Function and Design

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Paul Jacques Grillo
1960; 238 pp.
ISBN 0486201821
$9.95 ($10.80 postpaid)
from:

Dover Publications
31 East Second Street
Mineola, NY 11501

1975 unabridged publication of 1960 Edition is titled
What is Design?
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##A 11 231597 720
##T Art Forms in Nature
Art Forms in Nature

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The possibilities of structure in nature. Exemplified by marine and micro-organisms rendered in nearly hallucinogenic vividness by a turn-of-the-century German biologist. ThereÕs no science fiction fantasy that has yet approached the baroque abundance of (extra)terrestrial life forms shown here.

                                                                  Ñ Kevin Kelly
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##A 11 242459 721
##T Art Forms in Nature
Art Forms in Nature

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Ernst Haeckel
1974; 100 pp.
ISBN 0486229874
$7.95 ($9.20 postpaid)
from:

Dover Publications
Second Street
Mineola, NY 11501
516-294-7000
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##A 11 95258 724
##T Patterns in Nature
Patterns in Nature

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This is a book in which, with a bunch of photographs, some clear uncomplicated text and an occasional number, you are plunged into natureÕs mysteries. I suspect that the route to the frontier need never be more complicated than this, but there are so few guides who can show you the way.   

I wish the book were five times as long as it is because reading it is such a pleasure. There are eight chapters:

1. Space and Size
2. Basic Patterns
3. All Things Flow
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##A 11 95563 726
##T Patterns in Nature
Patterns in Nature

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Peter S. Stevens
1974; 240 pp.
ISBN 0316813311
$18.95 ($21.95 postpaid )
from:

Whole Earth Access
2950 Seventh Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
800-845-2000
415-845-3000(CA)
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##A 11 253991 728
##T Sensitive Chaos
Sensitive Chaos

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The ways that flowing forms our heart, cyclones, rivers and bird flight. How we flowed as embryos and our bones still spiral and loop with the markings of past eddy movements. Here is spiritual guidance in the greatest book of Jungian-Taoist history.
 
                                                           Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 254308 729
##T Sensitive Chaos
Sensitive Chaos

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(The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air)
Theodor Schwenk
1978
ISBN 0805205896
$9.95 postpaid 
from:

Schocken Books/Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
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##A 11 255479 731
##T Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching


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Taoists watched water; opened their hearts and minds to waterÕs teachings; took water as an ally in understanding. Their aqueous attitude washed out preconceived notions of religious righteousness; dissolved rigid ways of viewing the universe; liquefied frozen ambitions, social convictions, ideals and hopes. The elegance of Taoism was taking humans from their everydayness but not to grace, being and nothingness, or samsara  Ñ  simply to water, the liquid center of nature.

The Tao Te Ching has many translators. Archie BahmÕs is more fortune cookie than others. Orville Schell, who reads Chinese, recommends Gia-Fu FengÕs translation. 
                                                                      Ñ Peter Warshall
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##A 11 255619 732
##T Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching


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Tao Te Ching 
Lao Tzu. Translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English
1972; 160 pp.
ISBN 039471833X
$10.95 ($11.95 postpaid)
from:

Vintage Books/Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 11 11612 733
##T Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching


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Tao Teh King 
Lao Tzu. Translated by Archie J. Bahm
1958; 126 pp.
ISBN 0804463875
 $5.95 ($6.95 postpaid)
from:

The Ungar Publishing Co./
Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-242-7737
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##A 11 313315 734
##T Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching


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Tao Te Ching - Tape Version
Jacob Needleman, Reader
1987
ISBN 0944993001
$9.95 ($10.95 postpaid)
from:

Audio Literature, Inc.
3800 C Palos Verdes Way
South San Francisco, CA 94080
415-878-4123
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##A 11 147946 738
##T Mathematical Snapshots
Mathematical Snapshots

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The most graphically insightful math book in print.  Most math feeds proof; this lovely stuff feeds understanding, and is no less rigorous. If someone were going to see only one mathematics book in their life, this would be the best.
                                                         
                                                              Ñ Stewart Brand
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##A 11 148007 739
##T Mathematical Snapshots
Mathematical Snapshots

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Hugo Steinhaus
3rd Edition 1983; 311 pp.
ISBN 0195032675
$8.95 postpaid 
from:

Oxford University Press
16-00 Pollitt Drive
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
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##A 11 144242 741
##T How to Solve It
How to Solve It

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This is the best book I know of for lining up a problem for a logical solution. The emphasis is on math, but it is simple logic and can easily be applied to all forms of problem identification and analysis. Better yet is that the methods shown really work even on personal decision-making binds. Essentially itÕs a head-straightener.

                                                                 Ñ J. Baldwin
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##A 11 144593 742
##T How to Solve It
How to Solve It

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Gyorgy Polya
1973; 253 pp.
$6.95 ($8.05 postpaid)
from:

Princeton University Press
3175 Princeton Pike
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
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##A 11 146683 747
##T How to Lie with Statistics
How to Lie with Statistics

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In these days of polls and ÒproofÓ furnished by testing by 
Òindependent laboratories,Ó it might be well to bear in mind the lessons given by this simple book. ItÕs been around a long time, but itÕs still deadly.

                                                       Ñ J. Baldwin






Ù The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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##A 11 146913 748
##T How to Lie with Statistics
How to Lie with Statistics

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Darrell Huff
1954, 1973; 142 pp.
$2.95 postpaid from:

National Book Co.
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-233-4830
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##A 11 232084 751
##T Shaping Space: A Polyhedral Approach
Shaping Space: A Polyhedral Approach

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Remember solid geometry? The younger of you may not; computer programming has largely displaced that discipline as a teacher of logic. Nonetheless, the field seethes today as biologists and chemists seek geometric keys to understanding complex physical structure, and mathematicians seek improved methods of modeling.

This book is a look at some recent action, the 1984 Shaping Space conference at Smith College. Like many conference-based books, this one is a bit of a potpourri. Instructions for easily gluing paper models in grade school are right in there with abstruse theoretical 
dissertations riddled with techno-jargon. Also typical of conference-based books is the feeling of excitement as sometimes messy explorations are presented complete with surprises and
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##A 11 232491 753
##T Shaping Space: A Polyhedral Approach
Shaping Space: A Polyhedral Approach

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Marjorie Senechal and George Flack, Editors
1987; 284 pp.
$49.95 ($52.45 postpaid)
from:

Springer Verlag NY Inc.
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
212-460-1500
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##A 11 91812 757
##T INTRODUCTION TO FRACTALS
INTRODUCTION TO FRACTALS

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By Robert Horvitz

The August 1985 Scientific American had a gorgeous, mysterious picture on its cover: a black disk rimmed with smaller disks, surrounded by Kirlian halos of multicolored flame. A. K. Dewdney explained, in that issueÕs ÒComputer RecreationsÓ column, that the image represented part of the edge of the Mandelbrot Set, one of the most complex mathematical forms ever devised. His article was illuminated with close-ups of other regions on the edge of the M-Set. Deliriously detailed, all were generated on a computer by repeating a simple calculation on a field of real and imaginary numbers. When this is done many times, the plane around the Mandelbrot Set erupts in convoluted symmetries and fluid-crystal 
swirls, as the algorithm drives points outside the set to infinity.
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##A 11 177707 760
##T The Fractal Geometry of Nature
The Fractal Geometry of Nature

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Fractals, and other members of a growing family of mathematical works of art, are quite well known by now; Lucasfilm employs them for special effects and videogames, and the Mandelbrot set has made the cover of Scientific American. But I remember the first time I saw a fractal, a hand-drawn snowflake curve somebody had left around our common workspace. Later, the concepts of self-similarity and recursion would help unlock the secrets of what mathematicians of the last century used to call 
ÒmonstersÓ; but back then, I had a hard time wrapping my mind around this simple, complex picture/idea. A fractal is something like a snapshot of a never-ending procedure, an instruction which calls itself over and over; computer graphics are used to reveal the complex beauty of these creations.
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##A 11 223468 762
##T The Fractal Geometry of Nature
The Fractal Geometry of Nature

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Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Updated Edition 1983; 468 pp.
ISBN 0716711869
$34.95 ($38.45 postpaid)
from:

W.H. Freeman & Co.
4419 West 1980 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84104
801-973-4660
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##A 11 107220 765
##T The Beauty of Fractals
The Beauty of Fractals

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Some seventy dazzling color pictures, and many more in black and white, make this a seductive introduction for those not mathematically inclined. At the same time, itÕs packed with enough advanced mathematics to keep a grad student busy for years. Capping it off, there are thoughtful essays on the impact of fractals on the way we view nature, science and art, as well as a personal account of the discovery of the M-Set and a review of the evolution of fractal geometry by Mandelbrot himself.
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##A 11 107363 766
##T The Beauty of Fractals
The Beauty of Fractals

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Heinz-Otto Peitgen and Peter H. Richter
199 pp.
ISBN 0387158510
$35 ($37.50 postpaid)
from:

Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.
44 Hartz Way
Secaucus, NJ 07094
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##A 11 98972 772
##T The Journal of Chaos and Graphics
The Journal of Chaos and Graphics

@@
A new occasional journal covering all sorts of mathematically based visual wildness, edited by one of the leading researchers. Brief, inspiring reports with barely adequate black-and-white graphics.  The seed of future glory.


                                                         Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 11 102257 773
##T The Journal of Chaos and Graphics
The Journal of Chaos and Graphics

@@
Clifford A. Pickover, Editor
Published irregularly; subscriptions free
from:

Clifford A. Pickover
Journal of Chaos and Graphics
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
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##A 11 109371 776
##T Growth Morphogenesis
Growth Morphogenesis

@@
Yoichiro KawaguchiÕs work makes use of fractals, but heÕs not just a finder of fruitful equations, heÕs a brilliant inventor of visual worlds. Colorfully patterned biomorphs, resembling sea creatures from another planet, grow, writhe, float and evolve in his video animations, while the surroundings, the observerÕs viewpoint and the light source all move. The dynamism of these forms is partly captured in sequences of stills in this amply illustrated book, with texts in Japanese and English. Some of the chapters seem to be transcribed lectures by Kawaguchi; the hallucinogenic flavor of his thinking is somewhat heightened by the difficulty of translation.

Other chapters are descriptions of method and purpose by some of his collaborators, interspersed with short testimonials from his
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##A 11 109731 778
##T Growth Morphogenesis
Growth Morphogenesis

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Yoichiro Kawaguchi
1985; 212 pp.
ISBN 4880630934
$29.95 ($32.95 postpaid)
from:

JICC USA
3540 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 406
Los Angeles, CA 90010
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##A 11 101020 785
##T Amygdala
Amygdala

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Newsletter for people interested in the Mandelbrot Set. Short articles  (including some Òmath-fi,Ó a new fiction genre related to sci-fi); reviews of fractal-generating software and algorithmic shortcuts; and a running bibliography of important fractal publications. Two kinds of subscriptions are offered: you get either 10 issues of the newsletter, or 25 stunningly beautiful color slides of the M-Set released over the same time period. Or you can get both the slides and the newsletter.

By the way, ÒAmygdalaÓ is Latin for Òalmond;Ó ÒMandelbrotÓ is Yiddish for Òalmond bread;Ó and ÒamygdaloidÓ is an igneous rock with rounded cavities filled with mineral crystals.

                                                        Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 11 115576 786
##T Amygdala
Amygdala

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Rollo Silver, Editor
$25/year (10 issues); 
$45/year (10 issues plus 25 color slides) 
from:

Amygdala
Box 219
San Cristobal, NM 87564
505-758-7461
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##A 11 117164 787
##T Art Matrix
Art Matrix

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The leading vendor of high-resolution Mandelbrot Set color graphics Ñ videos, slides, photoprints, and postcards. You gotta love a company whose motto is ÒA Fractal in Every Paw.Ó Also produces work on commission, and develops and sells software.

                                                          Ñ Robert Horvitz
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##A 11 117477 788
##T Art Matrix
Art Matrix

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Catalog free 
from:

Art Matrix
P. O. Box 880
Ithaca, NY 14851
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