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The how-and-why book on SASR patrols

Slow start but great book overall....

This Book Puts YOU on POINT!!!

Sleeping With Your Ears Open: On Patrol With the Australian Sas
Gary McKay
Manufacturer: Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited (Australia)
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ASIN: 186508297X

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Offering fresh insight into the heart and soul of the men of the Australian Army's Special Air Services Regiment, this is a comprehensive examination of SAS operations and the men who conducted them. It debunks the myths and clearly describes the rigors of the SAS selection process, their extensive training in Papua New Guinea, and the details of the combat behind enemy lines in Borneo and South Vietnam. The diverse and individual approach of the SAS patrols commanders and how this was central to the success of their operations also is examined.

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The how-and-why book on SASR patrols.......2003-11-09

I found this book to be very detailed and informative on how the Australian SAS approached their commitment to gathering accurate intelligence of the VC activities in Viet Nam. The author consistently allowed the soldiers to explain in their own words their experiences of patrolling in small recon/ fighting units within smelling distance of the enemy and often undetected. The book explains how the unit operated in closeknit teams and how the unit successfully adapted to the varying roles it was to perform from long range recon patrols to aggressive ambushes. It was also a personal pleasure for me to read Nev Farley's detailed contributions as a patrol commander. I had the honor of serving with Nev Farley in the early 80's when he was the Regimental Sergent Major of my battalion. His military professionalism was an inspiration to all soldiers who had the honor to be associated with him. This is the book to read if you want to know the how-and-why to patrolling deep in the enemy's turf and winning.

Slow start but great book overall...........2003-02-18

I must say this book started out very dry, in fact I put it down several times. But as you get into the tactics, equipment used, etc then it becomes very interesting. I do recommend it!

This Book Puts YOU on POINT!!!.......2002-04-08

As the author states in the beginning of this book, it is not a historical account or individual memoir. Instead, it is a journey into the nucleus of the SAS. The PATROL is the tool used to propel this account, which is the basic SAS fighting element of six operators. This book takes you through selection and training of patrol members, preparation and execution of patrols in Borneo, New Guinea, and Vietnam. This book spares no detail of operational patrols, from the warning order to mission debrief, it is all covered here. The book reads more like a how-to book highlighted with actual accounts of mission debriefs, this is just a treasure of lessons learned, that still apply today. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the SAS, or anyone that is in the military field Reconnaissance, scouting, sniping or special operations.

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A handsome new edition of the seminal collection of late-twentieth-century cultural criticism. Named a Best Book of the Year by the Village Voice and considered a bible of contemporary cultural criticism, The Anti-Aesthetic is reissued now in a handsome new paperback edition. For the past twenty years, Hal Foster has pushed the boundaries of cultural criticism, establishing a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a telling coherence. In The Anti-Aesthetic, preeminent critics such as Jean Baudrillard, Rosalind Krauss, Fredric Jameson, and Edward Said consider the full range of postmodern cultural production, from the writing of John Cage, to Cindy Sherman's film stills, to Barbara Kruger's collages. With a redesigned cover and a new afterword that situates the book in relation to contemporary criticism, The Anti-Aesthetic provides a strong introduction for newcomers and a point of reference for those already engaged in discussions of postmodern art, culture, and criticism. New afterword by Hal Foster; 12 b/w photographs.

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Worth the read........2006-03-24

This is a collection of essays that relate to contemporary art and concepts of postmodernism. Hal Foster (who wrote the acclaimed "Return of the Real") served as an editor for this book, although the writing itself is more diverse. There are a number of notable contributors represented, with a number of differing takes on art and culture post 1990's.
The most interesting articels in my opinion deal with "sculpure's expanded fields" (by Rosalind Krauss) and diverse gender and political issues. These essays express the sense that definitions and distinctions are blurring and fluid in postmodern society, which is a common theme throughout the book. The writing also frequently addresses discources outside of the art world, which is another element of the expanded roles of art and theory.
The writing can be a little dry at times, but overall I think it's worth the read, and a great reference for postmodern philosophy.

Accessible and Comprehensive.......2000-04-25

The majority of the essays are well-written in an approachable rhetoric that can be understood by a reader with relatively limited knowledge of the subject-matter. It also serves as a concise anthology of essays written by some of the leading critical thinkers in this area, making this both an excellent introductory book as well as a collection worthy to be on the expert's shelf.

Postmodern Animal (Reaktion Books - Essays in Art and Culture)

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Clever and insightful, but not for entertainment
Ridiculous pomo nonsense.

Postmodern Animal (Reaktion Books - Essays in Art and Culture)
Steve Baker
Manufacturer: Reaktion Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1861890605

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In The Postmodern Animal, Steve Baker explores how animal imagery has been used in modern and contemporary art and performance, and in postmodern philosophy and literature, to suggest and shape ideas about identity and creativity. Baker cogently analyses the work of such European and American artists as Olly and Suzi, Mark Dion, Paula Rego and Sue Coe, at the same time looking critically at the constructions, performances and installations of Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Beuys and other significant late twentieth-century artists. Baker's book draws parallels between the animal's place in postmodern art and poststructuralist theory, drawing on works as diverse as Jacques Derrida's recent analysis of the role of animals in philosophical thought and Julian Barnes's best-selling Flaubert's Parrot.

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Clever and insightful, but not for entertainment.......2007-03-23

This book is not for the animal enthusiast who is looking for cute stories about critters and a little background on the blue dog painter. This is a book about animals as they appear in the postmodern era. Really, if the reader is not interested in contemporary art, this may be a dull read because it expects a minimal level of art background. However, if you are interested in art now and animals in contemporary culture, especially if you are an artist working with animals, this is a great read!

Artists discussed that may be familiar include:
Joseph Bueys
Damien Hirst
Paula Rego
Cindy Sherman
Paul McCarthy
Jeff Koons
Bruce Nauman
Hubert Duprat
Louise Bourgeois
William Wegman

It was amazing to see a compilation of animal works through these artists, although it gave relatively few avenues to expand my own work. It was exceptionally gratifying to hear that I wasn't the only one hitting this animal criticism (Using animals in postmodern art is harder than declaring yourself a landscape artist). There is even a great chapter in the end about fear of the familiar, in using animals like pets, due to anthropomorphophobia and the fear of being uncritically sentimental.

Ultimately, it was very insightful and a fairly easy read. Don't expect to gain all the answers of postmodernism by reading this though - postmodernism is more or less built on questions, not answers. It's more of a window and a catagorizing based on various theories and criticisms.

Enjoy!!

Ridiculous pomo nonsense........2002-10-27

I'm sure that there might be plenty who say that I'm too dull and logocentric, too "Oedipalized", to recognize the obvious profundity that lies in these pages. The intelligent reader, however, who does not confuse obscurity for insight, might think differently.

I don't know what would possess someone to write about the "postmodern animal" - I really don't. So often in these pages it seems as though Baker has to read "the postmodern animal" into places it just doesn't seem to be. That is, whatever the hell the "postmodern animal" is. I'm not quite sure myself after trying to decipher this trendy gobbledegook.

I guess I have to "supply my own meaning" or some other such hippy postmodernist platitude.

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We become ill in ways our parents and grandparents did not, with diseases unheard of and treatments undreamed of by them. Illness has changed in the postmodern era--roughly the period since World War II--as dramatically as technology, transportation, and the texture of everyday life. Exploring these changes, David B. Morris tells the fascinating story, or stories, of what goes into making the postmodern experience of illness different, perhaps unique. Even as he decries the overuse and misuse of the term "postmodern," Morris shows how brightly ideas of illness, health, and postmodernism illuminate one another in late-twentieth-century culture.
Modern medicine traditionally separates disease--an objectively verified disorder--from illness--a patient's subjective experience. Postmodern medicine, Morris says, can make no such clean distinction; instead, it demands a biocultural model, situating illness at the crossroads of biology and culture. Maladies such as chronic fatigue syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder signal our awareness that there are biocultural ways of being sick.
The biocultural vision of illness not only blurs old boundaries but also offers a new and infinitely promising arena for investigating both biology and culture. In many ways Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age leads us to understand our experience of the world differently.

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More Postmodern Hubris.......2001-11-18

In this self-important, boringly long, intellectually dishonest solipistic monologue, Morris manages to parade a litany of postmodern politically correct sacred cows. However, his central thesis that western medicine distinguishes disease as objective and illness as subjective is patently wrong as recourse to any medical dictionary will reveal. This is just the first of his outright disinformation, exaggerations, and many false strawmen that he creates in nothing less than a frontal assault on western medicine that is full of ill-will and a transparent invitation for postmodern gurus to take over as self-appointed high priests of a deconstructed medicine. Morris kindly allows a small role for a properly humbled and subservient science and the remaining carcass of medicine as we know it. this is an anti-science, anti-medicine, anti-western, anit-rational diatribe that is supposedly an argument for a new biocultural theory to supplant western medicine. It is rambling, tangential, and plays fast and loose with facts. It is another chapter in the effort of postmodernists to constuct a worldview in which the mantra is "culture uber alles," not by any radional argument but by simple repetitive assertion intermixed with false strawmen in and effort to deceptively prop up their nihilism while viciously deconstructing anything that gets in the way of their imperialistic jihad against anything that is western or caucasian (or at least male caucasian). This book confirms my worst fears about postmodernism. It will appeal to that cadre of perpetual toddlers who masquerade as quasi-intellectuals but are intent on destroying culture by declaring everything as culture and political, and thus returning us to the primeval jungle. Unfortunately it may appeal also to those who are vulnerable to the chic attack of postmodernists. However, any informed critique will reveal that debunking Morris is so easy that it is not even sport. It is like shooting fish in a barrel -- red herrings to be exact. If anyone buys this book they should carefully examine the facts and argument that Morris makes, but I would not recommend that anyone buy it.

Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age.......2001-11-13

Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age
Reviewer: Veronica S. Albin from Houston, TX USA
I used Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age for the first time this semester as a text book for Spanish 307 (The Language and Culture of Medicine and Health Care) at Rice University in Houston, TX. Most of the students enrolled in this advanced Spanish course are juniors and seniors headed for the top medical schools in the country.
My students' response to the book was overwhelmingly positive. Their one complaint about it was that sometimes Morris required pages and pages to make a point and that by the time the point was made, the reader was fairly tired. Nonetheless, they unanimously labeled it as one of the most provocative books they had ever read, and that by having read it, they were now able to see the negative side of the biomedical model and the positive side of a biocultural model.
Illness and Culture proved to be so rich in topics that all 35 students found not one but several topics that were of personal interest to them. Student athletes, for example, most of them headed to Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, or to Sports Medicine, found the section on how the American fixation on sports and exercise backfired and instead of improving health, brought more medical problems to our society (ACL tears, stress fractures, tennis elbow, heat stroke, etc.) Students who have an interest in art were fascinated by the connections Morris establishes to the experience of illness. Those interested in literature found the sections on narrative outstanding. The chapter on suffering truly moved students in light of the recent events of September 11 and got them thinking about the suffering of others, not just our own. Students interested in linguistics and neuroscience were fascinated by Morris' chapter on the obscene and Tourette's syndrome. And, of course, the threat of bioterrorism was in everyone's mind and Morris' treatment of the subject proved to be highly stimulating.
I start the course by telling my students that they need to write smart and different med school application essays in order to stand out. When I first ask them what they are going to write about, their answers are thoroughly predictable: they love medicine, love humankind, they believe in altruism, they want to study medicine because as good Christians, Jews, Muslims, etc., they want to relieve suffering.
After reading Illness and Culture, my students no longer have good answers to my "what are you going to write about" question, for they realize that there are very few answers to most of Morris' provocative questions... and perhaps there are none. Instead they have a myriad intriguing thoughts and questions buzzing through their minds. And intriguing thoughts, without a doubt, are much better stimulants than boilerplate answers for writing intelligent med school application essays. Questions, in fact, make us better thinkers, they make us participate in human affairs. Questions stop us from being mere bystanders in this difficult postmodern world of ours. Trying to solve what seem to be paradoxes, dilemmas, inconsistencies is, after all, what makes us human.
In short, David B. Morris has helped open the eyes of 35 extremely bright students at one of our country's top universities this term, and I plan to keep on using his book in the years to come.
Vero Albin
Hispanic and Classical Studies
Rice University

Deconstructing Sport History: A Postmodern Analysis (S U N Y Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations)

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Deconstructing Sport History: A Postmodern Analysis (S U N Y Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations)
Alun (FWD) Munslow
Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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ASIN: 0791466108

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Presents a broad spectrum of critical approaches that question traditional sport history.

Recreation and Sports Ministry: Impacting Postmodern Culture

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The best of its kind that I've found

Recreation and Sports Ministry: Impacting Postmodern Culture

Manufacturer: B&H Publishing Group
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The best of its kind that I've found.......2007-06-21

Three years ago, in response to a Sunday School student's question about what the kids were supposed to do on Sunday mornings in the Summer after Sunday School went on vacation, I found myself starting a summer soccer program at a small, rural Episcopal church in the Northeast.

At the time, it seemed like a perfectly reasonable thing to do. We had kids with an interest in it, and we had a field behind the church that we could use. And it was better to have the kids (and their parents) present at church in the Summer than off doing their own things.

Only when I started planning the second summer did it occur to me that this was something that wasn't usual, especially in the Episcopal church. I started looking for books that might help me figure out how to do a better job of whatever it was that I was doing.

My first forays into what I came to realize was the literature of recreation and sports ministry came up with some pretty awful tracts -- for that is what they were. The gist of them seemed to be that the content of the sports or recreation program wasn't important; the only thing that was important, according to these books, was to harangue the kids about Jesus as long as they would hold still. They were so wrong-headed, so counter-productive, so punitive, that one wondered if they had been written by closet atheists who wanted to poison kids on Christianity so permanently that they would never want to enter a church again. They were genuinely that bad.

THEN I found this book.

It gave me a good, well thought out scriptural basis for recreation and sports ministry.

It traced the history of recreation and sports ministry in the English-speaking world and helped me understand why our little summer soccer program was unique (increasingly I am thinking that it is unique!)

It gave me some practical advice about a whole range of topics concerned with organizing, funding, and operating a recreation and sports ministry.

It had FOOTNOTES!!!! and it cited OTHER AUTHORS!!!!! Not one other source on the subject that I found had that much intellectual integrity; not a single one.

We're now in the midst of our third year of summer soccer at Trinity Church, Lime Rock. If you want to see what it looks like, www.trinitylimerock.org is the parish website; you can find the soccer program under the "Young people" tab.

Using advice from this book, the program's doubled in size from last summer. We get respect from the local youth soccer club, and from the proprietors of the summer soccer camps. The local paper has given us coverage for four consecutive weeks now. We see families in church regularly now that we saw on occasional Christmases and Easters in the past. We see adolescents who had moved on to other things in their lives back on the premises for soccer.

Importantly, this book has helped me to realize that what we are doing is exciting and novel and effective, but that it is by no means all we can do in the recreation and sports ministry area. Since reading the book I've had some thoughts about programs for adults and more programs for kids that we can do. And right across from our church is the auto racetrack, Lime Rock Park. Who knows what the possibilities are?

It is a really valuable book.

Masocriticism (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture)

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Masocriticism (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture)
Paul Mann
Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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These provocative, inventive, and at times outrageous essays on literary theory, philosophy, and cultural criticism describe, in their form and content, the end of criticism, even while performing the endlessness of that endgame. In a sense, the book deconstructs all forms of critique and criticism, including deconstruction, and including its own self. That the book is so painfully aware of the futility of its own enterprise, even while pursuing it relentlessly and with such critical rigor, is what makes this a book of masocriticism as well as about masocriticism.

The Anti-aesthetic: Essays on postmodern culture

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The Anti-aesthetic: Essays on postmodern culture

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The A to Z of Postmodern Life: Essays on Global Culture in the Noughties

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The A to Z of Postmodern Life: Essays on Global Culture in the Noughties
Ziauddin Sardar
Manufacturer: Vision
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ASIN: 1904132030

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Through a collection of challenging but humorous essays, grounded in personal experience, observation and anecdote, Ziauddin Sardar analyzes the key characteristics of the embryonic 21st century. From advertising to zapping, sex to shopping, toys to hype, The A to Z of Postmodern Life explores the ideas, products, artifacts and “-isms” that shape the undefined, but ever encompassing, global culture. By learning to read the message of postmodernism, the author suggests that we might discover whether this new century is heading off in the right direction or leading us all up a very dark alley.

Mail-Orders: The Fiction of Letters in Postmodern Culture (Suny Series in Postmodern Culture)

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Mail-Orders: The Fiction of Letters in Postmodern Culture (Suny Series in Postmodern Culture)
Sunka Simon
Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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Explores the contemporary uses of letters and letter writing - including electronic mail - in literature, film, and art.

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The Anti-Aesthetic, Essays on Postmodern Culture
Hal (ed.) Foster
Manufacturer: Bay Press
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