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Immigrant neighborhoods of the early twentieth century have commonly been viewed as segregated, homogeneous slums isolated from the larger "American" city. But as Mark Wild demonstrates in this new study of Los Angeles, such districts often nurtured dynamic, diverse environments where residents interacted with individuals of other races and cultures. In fact, as his engaging account makes clear, between 1900 and 1940 such multiethnic areas mushroomed in Los Angeles. Street Meeting, enriched with oral histories, reminiscences, newspaper reports, and other sources, examines interactions among working-class Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, Jews, Italians, African Americans, and others, reminding us that Los Angeles has been a multiethnic city since its birth. This study further argues that these ethnic interactions played a crucial role in the urban development of the United States during the early decades of the twentieth century.
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nice format with lots of misinformation.......2007-01-23
I have owned this book for several years and read it cover to cover, most parts more than once. It is a good read and I like the way it is set up, and the author's enthusiasm is appreciated. There is much good information inside, but unfortunately, there is misinformation to a degree that I think is inexcusable. For example, the drawings of "evening primrose" actually show primrose, which is a totally different plant in an entirely different family. But the text clearly describes eating the root of evening primrose. So it seems like he didn't even know what evening primrose was, had never tried it, but copied his information on how to use it, even the description of its flavor, from another book. The text sure makes it sound like he's had experience from the plant. I think its disingenuous and a disservice to the reader. This is the most glaring example of many errors. Otherwise, it is a good book.
A must have book!.......2002-12-31
This book is wonderful. I paid full price for it and would gladly do so again in order to give it as a gift to others. I highly recomend it.
Fresh and Fun.......2000-12-17
I haven't met many people who can point out at least ten different plants in the average yard and can tell you how to cook them. Mr. Henderson does an outstanding job of identifying wild, and not-so-wild, edibles common to almost every neighborhood. His recipes are easy to follow and delicious.
Even if you are not planning to run right out to the nearest shrub and harvest its leaves for dinner, I recommend this book. Mr. Henderson's prose is worth reading, whatever the content. His witty, humorous style enlivens a book full of excellent information.
Don't Know What to Do With That Weed? Eat It!.......2000-10-11
The Neighborhood Forager is a very informative and enjoyable book. It not only tells about the plants in our backyards and by-ways but gives historical information, recipes, warnings and dyer's tips.
Mr. Henderson writes with humor and personal anecdotes which makes the book a good read even if you're not into foraging.
Amazing!.......2000-10-11
I was amazed at all the information this book gave me. I have learned so many things, to see all the bounty we can have in our own backyard! Practical and easy to read. I recommend this book to all nature and food lovers.
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River Friendly, River Wild
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ASIN: 1416934871 |
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On TV we watch our city where people navigate the river-streets in any way they can....
"Look." Max points. "it's Sarah's house."
All I see is roof.
In searing personal poems, Jane Kurtz explores what it's like to struggle through a flood and pull your life together afterward. Inspired by Kurtz's own flood experience, this tale is realistic and unforgettable. Not just a moving story of one girl's courage, River Friendly, River Wild is a tribute to everyone who's ever faced great loss.
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A must buy!.......2000-04-06
Like so many others, I lived through the Grand Forks flood. A co-worker showed this to me, and I could not get half-way through without tearing up. It captured so many memories, and touched so much emotion that still lies right below the surface. A great job, and a "must own" for those who experienced the flood first-hand. Well done, Jane.
Wonderfully written.......2000-04-03
Just when I thought I had bought all the commerative items I wanted for living through the Flood of 1997, I found this book. The book is seen through the eyes of a child, who saw and remembered things that adults overlook. From the way the sandbags were made and stacked to the air raid sirens to the comparison of our snow banks and all our treasures along the berms waiting to picked up by the crablike machine. Even if you didn't experience the Flood of 1997 in Grand Forks, but may have experienced some other disaster, you will be able to relate that it all comes down to is the family and friends you have, not the possessions that have been lost. This is a great gift!
A poignant and remarkable book for all ages.......2000-02-15
This book is based on real-life experiences of the floods in Grand Forks, North Dakota in 1997, but it is sure to have a universal appeal. The poems are both child-like and lyrical. This would be a wonderful read-aloud and also a great book to use in the classroom.
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- Hemmingson does suburban Hitchcock.
- Predictable, but fun.
- A page Turner!
- It'll keep your attention.
- Cool, slick modern noir
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Wild Turkey
Michael Hemmingson
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Phil learns that when you have a lot of time on your hands, you begin to notice your neighbours, like the long and sexy neighbour across the street, Cassandra Payne. Phil has been keeping tabs on Cassandra. But when Cassandras husband is gunned down, Phil realizes that the beautiful Cassandra might be hiding more than meets the eye.
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Hemmingson does suburban Hitchcock........2007-05-16
"Wild Turkey" is so bad that it's kind of great. It's so silly, random and knowingly cheap that it's like some divine piece of comedic gold.
Fully in late-night-cable treatment mode, Hemmingson whips through a tale of three horny neighborhood guys who sit around drinking all day while watching the comings and goings of their hot, miniskirted English neighbor. Her husband ends up murdered and the men, one an ex-cop, take it upon themselves to investigate the crime. Our narrator, Phil, who has been watching the woman obsessively, soon finds himself inside her bedroom.
From there, all sorts of improbable things happen -- death, hit men murder people, tragedies, infidelity, alcoholism, a trip to Vegas, with a brief stop-off in "Deliverance" and Tarantino land. It's like fifty bad plots stuffed into one short little novel.
I am a big fan of Hemmingson's, and I don't believe for a moment he didn't know what he was doing here. He HAD to be deliberately making a good bad novel. It all had to be purposeful. How else to explain the head-spinning ridiculousness of the ending -- as Phil tracks down Cassandra, the British woman, who of course has a big secret to reveal, and the two get involved with post-Tarantino hit men and some Lynchian wheelchair-bound dude who acts as the ethics hotline for criminals? It's so horrible it's hilarious.
The whole book -- its characters' depth, its plotting, its attempt at seriousness -- is gossamer thin. It feels less like a screenplay and more like the pitch to a treatment for a screenplay that wasn't fully formed.
But I kind of loved it. I don't normally like bad novels -- the way I do bad movies -- but this is written by a talented guy that I almost pictured at the keyboard, cackling, saying, "And watch this...!" One implausible scenario after another stacked on top of each other until it makes a pretty amusing take on this whole melodramatic genre.
Hemmingson, in a way, reminds me of Kosinski. You never knew what you were going to get from him, and sometimes he was brilliant, and other times he released real dogs (I won't even get into the idea that people said he didn't write his own books, which could explain the inconsistency). Hemmingson and Kosinski, at their best, share that ability to shock and horrify. But when they're off, they can be shockingly and horrifyingly dull.
But "Wild Turkey" (the title doesn't even have a double meaning; it is literally Cassandra's drink of choice) is so quick (I read it in a few hours) and goofy, I'll simply consider it a knowing tribute to overanxious thrillers and bad plot twists.
Predictable, but fun........2006-06-07
Michael Hemmingson, Wild Turkey (Forge, 2001)
I'm still not exactly sure what to make of Wild Turkey. It's a thriller, but one that shimmers with an air of defeatism; it's noir through the eyes of someone who is slowly sliding into unrecoverable depression. The result is certainly interesting, but I haven't quite figured out how effective it is.
Phil Lansdale is a disbarred lawyer, rich enough to not need to go out and work immediately, who quickly learns to adapt to a life of sitting on the front porch drinking entirely too many beers with Brian, the retired cop next door, and watching his across-the-street neighbor, young and succulent Cassandra Payne. To top it all off, Phil's son is a budding pyromaniac, and the spark has gone out of his marriage. Cassandra's husband is gunned down on his way home from the airport one day, and from there, the stage is set.
As the story is, in fact, told from the point of view of someone sliding ever deeper into alcoholism, depression, and a serious sense of unreality, the tone of the novel makes perfect sense; he's calling it as he sees it. The air of detachment applied to horrific events has a long tradition of effectiveness in literature (consider the continuing popularity of Elie Wiesel, a mediocre writer at best, but a pony whose one trick is a very, very effective one); what puts it on the edge of not working here is unclear. Perhaps the events aren't quite horrific enough, or perhaps Phil has already slid too far down that slope. Perhaps there's too much foreshadowing-- or, worse, we're so used to the conventions of noir that we know what's going to happen long before Phil does. The end result is the same, however-- predictability with a sheen of ennui.
It's fun, in a mindless-action-movie sort of way, though whether you'll find it a Schwarzenegger flick or a Jean-Claude Van Damme flick I have no idea. Turn your brain off and have a good time watching things blow up. ** ½
A page Turner!.......2003-09-07
I agree, this book will keep your attention. Hard to put down and stays in your head for days, lots of plot twists and turns.
It'll keep your attention........2003-07-15
How can I even begin to describe this book? It starts off like many other noirish books do. A man who has fallen. He's no longer at the top of his game and neither is his marriage. I honestly can't complain about the book but I can say that it does get pretty weird. The sex is something straight out of a perverted porno and when the main characters get to Las Vegas the book does a complete 180.
I can't say that I was disappointed in this book; I didn't know what to expect. I can say that I was surprised. Imagine reading a script for the Salton Sea with some Pulp Fiction and Crying Game mixed in for good measure. Oh and lets not forget a sprinkling of David Lynch.
Overall I'd say it's worth a look but I wouldn't put it at the top of any list.
Cool, slick modern noir.......2002-12-06
This is like John MacDonald updated to our times--middle class guy with great marriage gets into deep trouble with adultery, murder, and the whole shebang. Hemmingson, previously known for editing anthologies of erotic literature, here does a great job with prose smooth as silk. The tale is of Phil Lansdale, former lawyer now disbarred, who finds out his married neighbor, Cassandra Payne, is one swell looking babe and pursues his need to scratch that itch in spite of a wife who digs him a lot.
Phil starts drinking and doing stuff he never did before. He gets buddy-buddy with another neighbor, a retired cop, who thinks Cassandra may have done something pretty nasty. Of course this doesn't stop Phil from letting his pants go where his head shouldn't.
As Phil gets more and more involved in finding out who Cassandra is and what she may have done, things get worse and worse. The plot is fast and sharp; the momentum is powerful, and the action is intense.
Because Hemmingson's writing is so carefully controlled, you can read this in one afternoon or less. A great addition to the continuing availability of excellent modern noir fiction that also includes The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips and The 25th Hour by David Benioff.
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A Wild Neighborhood
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Your Wild Neighborhood (Project Eco-City)
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Social History, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2007. The length of the article is 1150 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles.(Book review)
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Title: Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles.(Book review)
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Title: Wild west.(Higher Education)(Fall riot spurs city and other stakeholders to clean up West University Neighborhood)
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Anyone who has ever shot and missed with a shotgun will profit from Bob Brister's advice. Virtually every shooting problem encountered is covered completely. Photographs, taken literally over the barrel, show how to mount the gun, point, and swing through the target with proper forward balance. In-depth studies are presented in easy-to-understand text to help the shotgunner understand and improve all aspects of his shooting.
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Shotgunning: The Art and Science.......2006-07-21
This book is a great book containing lots of useful information. I would recommend this book to beginners and advanced shooters alike.
An adequate primer, but... .......2006-03-16
Shotgunning: The Art and Science provides a good basic introduction to almost every aspect of shotguns and should prove especially beneficial for new shooters. That said, it comes up short in any substantial discussion of wingshooting technique--which was my primary need. And while the very detailed empirical discussions of ballistics and patterning are thorough and illuminating, much has changed in shotgunning technology since this book was published 30 years ago, and, of course, none of those changes are reflected. For instance, the move away from lead shot for virtually all waterfowling applications has had a profound effect on choke recommendations. Also, the birth and development of sporting clays has rejuvenated many shooters and brought countless other new shooters into shotgunning. Sporting clays is perhaps the most popular clays game being shot today, but it arrived after this book did.
In short, buy this book for its focus on the immutable fundamentals of shotgunning, but look elsewhere for a discussion of technique or a more up to date overview of new and emerging technologies.
A classic introduction to the sport........2006-01-26
I thought Brsiter's work was very well written and showed how dedicated he was to the sport. For me, a person relatively new to shotgun sports and wing-shooting, this book is an excellent introduction to shotgunning fundamentals and why shooting a shotgun is so different than any other type of firearm.
In addition, Brister takes the time to provide perspective on various types of shotguns, and even more perspective on various shotshell loads. The summaries of his shotshell tests were very eye-opening for me, as they can teach beginners how shot spreads are affected by larger payloads and higher powder charges, and also, how various loads may affect your ability to produce clean kills in the field, rather than crippling game or causing a slow and painful passing for birds.
Though this book is almost 30 years old at the time of this review, ALL of the principles taught in it hold true today. Some argue that Brister was visionary when he wrote this book and I agree. Much of what is written could very well have had a huge part in shaping the shotgun and shotshell industry as we know it today.
Seminal Work on Shotgunning.......2005-08-13
I bought this book when it first came out over 20 years ago. I loved it then, and love it now. Much of what Brister wrote forms the bases for many current articles where his information is presented as "new" and he's not even credited! There's very little to criticize in the book. There's excellent chapters on guns, gauges, chokes, shooting styles, etc. It really was a comprehensive book at the time it was published.
That said, the book was written before the lead shot ban in waterfowl hunting, before widespread availability of choke tubes, and before the rapid rise in popularity of sporting clays. Thus the book really doesn't address these issues, and the reader will have to look elsewhere to find current information. (Well, it does talk about choke tubes some, but at that time most shotguns still were purchased with fixed chokes while the reverse is true today.)
This book should be in every serious shotgunner's library, and should be read, and then revisited every year or so, to remind the shooter that whatever recent article he/she just read was already covered by Brister!
Brister's writing style is clear and concise. The book was well edited. Most topics are explained in detail, and information is presented in such a way that most readers should be able to understand. In this day and age of computers, DVD's and other communication media, though, some younger readers may prefer a different approach.
I would love to see this book updated, with current photos and chapters covering some missing topics.
Good coverage and interesting, but somewhat disappointing.......2005-01-19
I agree with the other reviews in that this is a very indepth guide to shotguns (but with an emphasis on trap shooting). Unfortunately this is not a good book for waterfowl hunting as Bob goes in depth about *lead* shot and how it performs. While his testing methods and insights on how to shoot are good, I really would care less how #4 would perform on ducks as I can't legally use it in the US. This book was written before the ban on lead shot and hasn't been updated accordingly! This book is good for the trap/skeet shooter who can use lead shot but much less useful for the waterfowl hunter. Other than this I like the book as its a good read with clear points.
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