The Wallace Stevens Case: Law and the Practice of Poetry

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Wallace Stevens was not only one of America's outstanding modernist poets but also a successful insurance lawyer--a fact that continues to intrigue many readers. Though Stevens tried hard to separate his poetry from his profession, legal theorist Thomas Grey shows that he did not ultimately succeed. After stressing how little connection appears on the surface between the two parts of Stevens's life, Grey argues that in its pragmatic account of human reasoning, the poetry distinctively illuminates the workings of the law.

In this important extension of the recent law-and-literature movement, Grey reveals Stevens as a philosophical poet and implicitly a pragmatist legal theorist, who illustrates how human thought proceeds through "assertion, qualification, and qualified reassertion," and how reason and passion fuse together in the act of interpretation. Above all, Stevens's poetry proves a liberating antidote to the binary logic that is characteristic of legal theory: one side of a case is right, the other wrong; conduct is either lawful or unlawful.

At the same time as he discovers in Stevens a pragmatist philosopher of law, Grey offers a strikingly new perspective on the poetry itself. In the poems that develop Stevens's "reality-imagination complex"--poems often criticized as remote, apolitical, and hermetic--Grey finds a body of work that not only captivates the reader but also provides a unique instrument for scrutinizing the thought processes of lawyers and judges in their exercise of social power.

The Wallace Stevens Case: Law and the Practice of Poetry.

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The Wallace Stevens Case: Law and the Practice of Poetry.
Wallace]. Grey, Thomas C. [STEVENS
Manufacturer: Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press,
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ASIN: B000UG3826

Death is the mother of metaphor: Review of Grey: The Wallace Stevens case, law and the practice of poetry

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Death is the mother of metaphor: Review of Grey: The Wallace Stevens case, law and the practice of poetry
Steven L Winter
Manufacturer: Harvard Law Review Association]
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006OWE0E

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Big Macs, chickens and cut flowers are commodities beginning to dominate the global agro-food system. Using case studies from the US, Britain, India, South Africa, New Zealand and Latin America, Globalising Food addresses the key themes that are transforming the character of the traditional agricultural communities, ranging from multinational food corporations and World Bank policies, to regulation of pollution and labor relations.

Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanic Garden

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An excellent book
Best book my mom ever wrote

Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanic Garden
Lucile H. Brockway
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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ASIN: 0300091435

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This widely acclaimed book analyzes the political effects of scientific research as exemplified by one field, economic botany, during one epoch, the nineteenth century, when Great Britain was the world's most powerful nation. Lucile Brockway examines how the British botanic garden network developed and transferred economically important plants to different parts of the world to promote the prosperity of the Empire.

In this classic work, available once again after many years out of print, Brockway examines in detail three cases in which British scientists transferred important crop plants -- cinchona (a source of quinine), rubber and sisal -- to new continents. Weaving together botanical, historical, economic, political and ethnographic findings, the author illuminates the remarkable social role of botany and the entwined relation between science and politics in an imperial era.

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An excellent book.......2004-09-04

This is an excellent book, very easy to read and covering the colonial economic botany (rubber, quinin, sisal) in a true apealing way.

Best book my mom ever wrote.......1997-07-31

The author was my mother. The book, based on her anthropology thesis, applied anthropological concepts to the sweeping GLOBAL influence and changes of Western colonization using the British empire as the model. Its a ground breaking book, easy and interesting to read (don't mind the implicit occasional politics). "The best part" (that's an inside family joke) is learning about the relationship between colonial expansion, Kew Gardens, rubber plantations, malaria, chinchona (sp?) and Gin and Tonics. I actually typed an early version of this chapter and couldn't have been happier with the content

Hops and Hop Picking (History in Camera)

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Hops and Hop Picking (History in Camera)
Richard Filmer
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Reshaping the Countryside: Perceptions and Processes of Rural Change

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Reshaping the Countryside: Perceptions and Processes of Rural Change

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During the past few decades, characteristics of the countryside traditionally regarded as immutable have begun to change substantially. This book collects a variety of impressions of these changes in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. It explores the issues of continuity and change associated with the operation of demographic, socio-economic and political processes as they reshape the countryside. An valuable survey for students and researchers in rural studies and geography, the book is also an indispensable guide for policy makers and professionals concerned with the management and planning of rural resources and the countryside.

Food, Science, Policy and Regulation in the Twentieth Century: International and Comparative Perspectives (Studies in the Social History of Medicine)

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Food, Science, Policy and Regulation in the Twentieth Century: International and Comparative Perspectives (Studies in the Social History of Medicine)
David F. Smith
Manufacturer: Routledge
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A range of important case studies from pasteurization in Britain to the E coli outbreak offers new material for those interested in science policy and the role of expertise in modern political culture. This book examines the twentieth century history of key aspects of this contemporary debate, including the relationship between food and science,the character of food policy, and the role of business in shaping or constraining new policies.

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Honest and proud

Grafters
Colin Jones
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Colin Jones followed an unusual path into photography having been a dancer with the Royal Ballet until his late twenties. It was among his colleagues in the company that he began to take photographs and through dancing that he learnt of the tremendous physical labour involved in creating something of beauty. While on tour in the north of England he began to take pictures of the mining communities and it was not long before he had given up dancing to begin his new career, landing a job at the Observer alongside photographers such as Philip Jones Griffiths and Don McCullin.Colin Jones's subjects are working people: miners, shipbuilders, dockers - and dancers. This book comprises Jones's best work from his full career to date. Timeless and beautiful, it is an emphatic tale of industrial post-war Britain, and a moving portrait of poverty and physical hardship endured with dignity.

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Honest and proud.......2003-08-20

So many thought provoking images, it makes you realise how tough life was for many people only a couple of decades ago. More ironic is the fact that some of the images are from the early 1990's and they sit very easily alongside the images from the 1960's. The whole book is fascinating, there is not a single image that looks contrived.

It's difficult to summarise the overall impresssion you get from this book, it's probably one of pride and as the title says 'graft' - it's not at all depressing or grim, quite the opposite in fact. However, it does make you realise that our comortable, modern world is lacking in opportunity for real grafters, more is the pity.

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The Goatkeepers Bible

The Goatkeepers Bible

The BIBLE for goatkeepers.

Highly technical in spots, but with a wealth of info...

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Goat Husbandry: Fifth Edition, Revised and Edited by Ruth Goodwin
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This new edition has been extensively revised by Ruth Goodwin, a well-known expert, to reflect twelve years of massive change to the goat-keeping world since the publication of the fourth edition in 1980. She has incorporated her revisions with great skill without losing the character of this classic book.

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The Goatkeepers Bible.......2004-01-18

I've had a copy of this book for at least 25 years and read it over and over. It is by a Brit, but so what? Make the stretch. It covers so many aspects of the subject that transcend goats that it would be informative to anyone interested in land management and animal husbandry in general. He deals with concepts of nutrition ecology and health hardly ever dealt with today, such as alternatives to the use of mainstream comercial feeds, rearing methods and things too numerous to mention, and all from a unique perspective. A true lover of goats. It's THE Bible of goats, written back in 1957 and never equaled to my knowledge.

The Goatkeepers Bible.......2004-01-18

The BIBLE for goatkeepers........2003-06-27

This is a highly technical treatise oriented especially for Brits. Don't let that scare you though - it is a terrific book worthy of shelf space on any serious goatkeeper's library.

I have not found a better source within one book for dairy goat information.

You'll find a lot of useful information if you're wishing to learn about dairy goat farming. If, however, you also want to learn about meat goat production, buy Raising Meat Goats For Profit by Gail Bowman.

Highly technical in spots, but with a wealth of info..........2002-10-24

This is a reference for a serious goat owner. It is not one I'd recommend for someone just getting into goats. But if you're really serious about your caprines, this book is a must-have.

The topics covered include: Control and Housing of Goats; Principles and Practice of Feeding; Selection of Breeding Stock; Breeding Problems; Disease and Accident; Milking and Dairy Produce; Meat, Leather, and Fleece; Goat Farming Systems; Crops for Goats; Goats for Export; Harness Goats; and more.

There is a thorough index, a bibliography, and several appendixes. The info is presented in a rather dry manner, but is very useful. There are lots of great diagrams, charts, and pictures. It's just a ton of good information. The only major fault I can find is that being published in Great Britain, it does use some terminology unfamiliar to most Americans, and doesn't deal with the US at all. But that's ok, we have enough other books which cover those topics.

Bottom line, if you're looking for a really good, technical reference book on goats of all types, this is an important one to add to your library.

Better Suited for Brits.......2001-10-03

Lots of good anecdotal advise, even humourous at times. The chapter on goat health problems, poisons, and antidotes has proven useful, and is well organized. Genetic discussion on link between hornless goats and sexual malformity is thorough and necessary.

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This edition contains fresh material about farm building design after 1880, and the problems of conservation as traditional designs become inappropriate for modern farming. The demands of conflicting conservation and re-use, and the danger of over-enthusiastic restorers are explored.

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