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"The author's well-written story comes at the reader fast and furiously…shocking readers into an awareness of the inhumanity of America's juvenile penal institutions."-Publishers Weekly
At age nine, a family tragedy forced Dwight Abbott into the California Youth Authority. This is the chilling chronicle of his life behind bars-a story of brutality and survival, a dark journey showing how the systematic abuse of incarcerated children creates a cycle of criminal behavior that usually ends with prison or death.
Dwight Edgar Abbott, in and out of prison since childhood, is serving multiple life sentences in Salinas Valley State Prison.
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POWERFUL.......2007-06-09
What a candid book. I read it in one night. I volunteer in Los Angeles County Juvenile Hall. I read this aloud to the wards, 15-16 year old boys. That was last year, some are asking me when am I going to read it again. Some books about incaceration glorify the situation, but Mr. Abbott's account of an innocent childhood to a downhill spiral of abuse and survival really strikes a cord with the reader.
a story that needs to be told!.......2007-05-17
this is a great read. though much of it is tought to read through, the material is important and needs to be circulated!
Shocking.......2007-04-15
The author of this book states that he wrote it while in solitary confinement. It's a trip into his childhood, where he came of age in California's Juvenile system. It takes place throughout his childhood years, beginning with an early stay at age 6 (along with a rape by a counselor). The rest is his teenage years spent trying to survive the brutal system of rape, violence, and sadistic counselors (also known as prison guards).
It's very chilling. I couldn't peel myself away from this book, even though it has graphic descriptions of rapes and brutal fights between gangs of boys not even old enough to shave. The fact that the author even survived that system, which incidentally took place in the 1960s, impresses me. When I was a teenager, a few friends of mine ended up in a juvenile drug rehab center at Horsham, PA, and afterwards they were extremely shaken up. It turned out later they had been raped. Not much has changed in the last 40 years.
Abbott and his companion quickly rise to the top of the ruling prison gang, which he uses to attempt several escapes. Each time, he nearly makes it. It's amazing that he goes for his parents, who are totally excluded from being able to help their boy. He forms a love relationship with his companion which he must hide in order to survive. The counselors maintain the order by daily beatdowns and shake-ups, and when it comes down to it, the boys are treated exactly like adults. The prison system makes people have to fight for their survival almost daily, or be pushed to a fate of worse than death.
It makes the reader wonder why anyone thinks that prisons can reform any person. Trapping someone in a room and punishing them for years with the most sadistic people doesn't seem like a good way to reform anyone. In the end, prison, for adults or kids, really just sweeps the problem of emotional disturbance underneath the carpet. Nowadays, a few million reside in United States prisons, the largest such population in the world (even more than China, which has 5 times the population). We're at a time when the ruling classes think it's better to completely separate millions into boxes than to even give a carrot to oppressed communities.
Dwight Abbott remains in jail today, and he says he wouldn't be there unless the Juvenile Youth Authority had twisted him as a human being to the point where the only place he could exist was in a prison. They destroyed him as a teenager at a critical point in any human being's development. Why? If you want a window into how a person can be destroyed, read this book. At the same time, if you want to see how a person can keep some amount of love and hope for a better day (away from the prison), read this book as well.
Jaw Dropper.......2007-02-09
I cried, You Didn't Listen was absolutely breath taking. The whole time I wanted to stop reading the horrors, but didnt stop looking at the text the entire way through the book. It placed a new perspective on a lot of things for me and I thank Abbott for such. This is a must read for anybody looking for some perspective on juvenile punishment within the Califonia Youth Authority. It is a tough one though if you have a passion for living beings, especially children.
A Most Important Book.......2007-02-08
This plain autobiography is written with such directness that it is difficult to doubt the veracity of even the smallest incident. More important, it is difficult to doubt that these incidents (or similar ones) are fairly common place, not just the events of some freakish horror story.
The story is told with great specific purpose, to expose institutions so completely rotten, but one is aware that much is not being told. The author concentrates on what must be said to bear witness to what is wrong institutionally, and does not allow himself long divergences into his own feelings and ideas. The title is a bit ironic; it's about tears shed long ago, and mere personal understanding can no longer change much.
The book speaks clearly to the need for, at very least, massive alterations in the juvenile (and adult) justice system in this country, above and beyond any very small reforms made since this story occurred. Ultimately, one must question our reliance on "professionals" to do our thinking and social organizing for us. Every terrible action detailed in this book, each so obviously misguided and clearly bound to have exactly the opposite effect of it's supposed intention, is a reminder of how we as a people have turned our freedom and control over to institutions that serve only the dictates of cynical and uncaring power, and which operate directly against the interests of individuals and society in general.
Whatever tiny changes have been made in California's juvenile system must be looked at against the fact that America has few (or perhaps no) growing industries other than it's prison system, which cannibalizes the society it purports to serve, and is already a bloated hulk, claiming more far people per capita than that of any other country, two, four, or 10 times as many as any other major nation today.
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Poetic and haunting, Listen is an artfully rendered memoir that recounts the author’s relationship with her brilliant and abusive father.
Listen is a memoir of voices, the voices of parents that linger in the ears of children until the day when those children are able to sound their own note. A domineering father and a professor of languages and literature in the 1950s and ‘60s, Victor has four women trapped in his orbit—his long-suffering wife and his three well-behaved daughters. “Teacher, poet, translator” is how he wants his gravestone to read, and in life he is dedicated to passing on to his family the great cultural achievements of western civilization—poetry, philosophy, religion, music, art. But he leaves darker gifts as well, in particular to his daughter Wendy the most traumatic legacy of all: incest.
A major achievement and a stunning debut, Listen is about how families shape their memories and how even things that are never spoken about have potent echoes. It’s also a memoir that chronicles a poet’s apprenticeship to words, the story of a daughter who listened and who, with the gift for poetry her father gave her, learned to translate the darkest secrets of their past.
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I couldn't get the meaning out of this book.......2007-08-29
The author says she is a poet. I guess I don't see it?! She does include some of her poetry but still I don't get it.
A stunning book!.......2006-07-25
LISTEN is unlike any book I have ever read. It is no surprise that Wendy Salinger has poetry in her blood--her sentences sing and dance and break our hearts all at once. And slowly, breath by breath, these gem-like constructions build into a mesmerizing world. The result is an excavation of Salinger's coming of age and coming into her own, and coming to terms with her haunting and remarkable family.
To accomplish this remarkable task, Salinger is employs not only her consider talents as a poet but also as a monologist and a ventriloquist. She recreates the voices of the figures of her mother and father with devestating clarity, revealing them to be alternately hilarious and horrifying. I was astounded over and over by how she so generously offers to the reader the big mess that is a family--giving equal value, and an equal absence of judgment, to both the incredibly banal moments and the truly awful ones.
If you are looking for something smart, and hysterical, and remarkable, read LISTEN.
Haunting book...........2006-07-19
I, too, read this book (the first time) in just a few days, mostly reading for plot. I've now re-read it a couple of times to more fully appreciate the poetry and language. We don't know how strange our family is till we become intimately familiar with someone else's. An excellent book.
a privilege to read.......2006-07-13
Wendy Salinger has given us a work of art, fully formed as only a poet can deliver. It is easy to see this story as a play or a film and feel its impact just as hauntingly as the written word.
The rhythm of the whole is psychologically dazzling! By the time one gets to the chapter "Undoing the Spell" one is ready to scream to be released from the relentless parental dialogue...and then she, in fact, does release the tension..........and oh so brilliantly. I started to reread the poetry because each phrase was so incredibly elegant, but then I realized I was messing with the rhythm, so I just let it all fall into being, the mists, the colors, the running images which in total expressed so very very much. At last her own voice! It was a release, and I thank her for that.
She didn't leave us there in the poetic requiem. Her life, all life keeps its own rhythm, and knowing there was more to deal with, more to transcend, more to climb just made the work more real, more brilliant, more honest.
I admire her courage in both writing this memoir and in living her life. Her unique and elegant voice is now in the world in a way, which has the power to influence others positively.
She is pictured smiling on the back cover. For those of us who are influenced by the last taste on the tongue, it was a gracious end note.
Thank you Wendy Salinger, your work was a privilege to read.
Abuse, pain and love.......2006-06-20
This is a brilliant book. At its heart is the author's devotion to her father (including her presence at his bedside as he died) despite his abuse of her and the damage it caused. I can't think of anything in literature which so daringly combines the experience of sexual abuse, pain and love. The memoir is an extraordinary combination of prose and poetry. In the prose sections, the author comes across as an observer, as if she were a passenger in a car driven by her parents. Only in the poetry does she reveal her inner feelings. In the chapter, "Undoing the Spell," which is nearly all poetry, the author becomes most revealing about her pain and its source. One must admire her bravery.
In creating the image of her father, Victor, she has depicted a monster, but without recourse to superlatives or even description of her subjective response. Her style of painting pictures with dialogue, so that it comes across as purely objective is stunning. Somewhere towards the end of the book, she has her mother, Lillian, say something like, "Why should I wear my hearing aid when I'm only going to be talking" - which makes the reader gasp, and points up the intent of the title.
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Be Still and Listen
Janice Lake Presgraves
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Biography of housewife and mother possessing special connection to God. While becoming a Christian she learns to listen to God\'s inner messages and many wondrous blessings appear.
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I Always Sang for My Father/Or Anyone Who Would Listen
Victor Tedesco , and
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I Always Sang for My Father is a memoir about a life spent serving and entertaining the public. Not only does Vic Tedesco give an unprecedented overview of local politics in the 60s and 70s, we learn about his strong and vibrant family history, and how his greatest wish has always been to make people happy. Tedesco grew up poor in the Italian enclaves of Saint Paul, Minnesota, in the 1920s and 1930s. He started working at age nine selling newspapers downtown to Depression-era characters. By high school he was playing regularly in night clubs with his saxophone and singing, which lead to a career as an entertainer that continues to this day. After the war, Tedesco and his two brothers built a radio business in the Twin Cities and throughout the Upper Midwest. In 1965, local Democratic figures asked Tedesco to run for the Saint Paul City Council. What followed were eleven successful elections and twenty-one years of service as one the best-loved and most colorful politicians in the citys history.
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I Pay You to Listen, Not Talk
M. D. Nathan Schnaper
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Listen My Children
Thomas E. Scarr
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Listen to the Crickets
Patricia Jacobs Pote
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Give thanks to the Lord; make it known what He hath done. What an awesome God we have whose love for us is never ending. Isaiah 12:4, Dusk, sometimes called twilight is that time of day when the heart is most sensitive to all that was security as a child. It is during this time that my mind plays a medley of memories that are so powerful and so real that if I wished, I'm sure I could reach out and capture one with my fingertips. It is our memories that afford us the only true sabbatical to today's fast paced world. I can still see my sister's big brown eyes pleading for a puppy or remember the smells and creaky floorboards of the old mercantile where I shopped for dress fabric with my grandmother. The long soft branches of the Weeping Willow tree that served as a cool summer day playhouse, once again beckon to me to come and sit beneath their coolness and the taste of trick or treat candy still rests on my tongue. During the decades of the fifties and sixties when these events took place, they seemed so insignificant. But now, as I reminisce and see these stories of everyday life as words on a page, I realize it was a way of life that is now only a shadow of memory to cherish and tuck away in my memory box to bring out and share with future generations.
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Listen To the Words
Bruce Richard Wallace
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This book should have been completed sooner but the Lord does things for a reason and we cannot question why; well, we can but we don't. My mother-in- law fell and broke her hip and this was a very hard road. Another test from God and God will get us through this. We all have asked the question "why" God puts us through these things to make us strong. You will see as you read this book its not just poems its thoughts it's what God wants for all of us a better life a happier life. I am just the messenger of God. There is a great story by my good sweet friend Cindy Downing from Michigan. Cindy is a great friend please read her story, "The Dove". This is my second book. I enjoy writing these books. I hope you enjoy reading them. I want to thank everybody for the kind words from my last book. I write my books for my readers; so just sit back and enjoy. We did do it a bit different. I am also giving fifty cents from the purchase of this book to Alex's lemonade stand for pediatrics cancer.
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Listen: Memories of a Daughter
Wendy Salinger
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Originally published in the late 1940s, and never before available in paperback in the United States, Arturo Barea's astonishing Spanish trilogy is both the autobiography of a man and the biography of a nation during the first four decades of the twentieth century, one of the most crucial periods in Spain's long history.
Arturo Barea was born into a poor family in Madrid in 1897 and spent his early years moving between the social and economic worlds of his beloved and widowed mother and a well-to-do aunt. Spain had just lost the last of its rich colonial possessions and was burdened by a sick and corrupt monarchy, and Barea's description of Madrid in The Forge-its slums and boulevards, beggars and children, and conflicting economic and political currents, is as gripping as it is fascinating. As with many of his generation, he developed bourgeois yearnings and became a prosperous businessman; yet he also became deeply concerned about the greed, corruption, and injustice he saw around him. His experience in the Spanish Army in Morocco during the bloody Riff War of the early 1920s, chronicled in The Track, affected him deeply and brought him back to Spain with a new perspective. The Clash jumps ahead a decade to chronicle the events in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, from 1935 to 1939, when Barea and his wife, Ilsa, left Spain for good. His descriptions of people rising up to resist their aggressors are unforgettable, and brings home more poignantly and insightfully than any history the underlying conflicts, tensions, and complexities of the Civil War.
Individually, each of Barea's books is unforgettable; together they form a literary and historical masterpiece.
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Gritty and real.......2007-03-28
This book gives you a real idea of what life was like in early 20th century Spain. Barea is ruthless and unromantic in his descriptions, letting you know exactly how things worked in this dirty, gritty, cruel place and time. Don't doubt it, life really is better now than one hundred years ago. It's not a hollywood story, but you'll learn a lot, and the imagery is strong. One of my favourite books.
Completely Engaging.......2003-08-14
I first read Barea's long book in 1965 and enjoyed it immensely, as it captured a time and events with compelling immediacy. Remembering how engaged I was, I reread The Forging of a Rebel (skimming the section dealing with Barea's early childhood to get to the more exciting stuff) and found, having completely forgotten the book, that I was every bit as involved as when I read it almost four decades ago. It's a very personal account of Barea's life as it braids with the events of the time, from his work in a bank (and, later, at a patent office), through his stint in the Spanish army with duty in battle-torn Morocco, to the prelude and raging turmoil of the Spanish Civil War. His journalistic style makes for quick reading. It's hard to imagine any reader not be pulled through to the end.
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Forge the Forging of a Rebel (Flamingo)
Arturo Barea
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At a time when the situation of women in the Islamic world is of global interest, here is a study that unlocks the mystery of why women's fates vary so greatly from one country to another. Mounira M. Charrad analyzes the distinctive nature of Islamic legal codes by placing them in the larger context of state power in various societies.
Charrad argues that many analysts miss what is going on in Islamic societies because they fail to recognize the logic of the kin-based model of social and political life, which she contrasts with the Western class-centered model. In a skillful synthesis, she shows how the logic of Islamic legal codes and kin-based political power affect the position of women. These provide the key to Charrad's empirical puzzle: why, after colonial rule, women in Tunisia gained broad legal rights (even in the absence of a feminist protest movement) while, despite similarities in culture and religion, women remained subordinated in post-independence Morocco and Algeria. Charrad's elegant theory, crisp writing, and solid scholarship make a unique contribution in developing a state-building paradigm to discuss women's rights.
This book will interest readers in the fields of sociology, politics, law, women's studies, postcolonial studies, Middle Eastern studies, Middle Eastern history, French history, and Maghrib studies.
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At a time when the situation of women in the Islamic world is of global interest, here is a study that unlocks the mystery of why women's fates vary so greatly from one country to another. Mounira M. Charrad analyzes the distinctive nature of Islamic legal codes by placing them in the larger context of state power in various societies. Charrad argues that many analysts miss what is going on in Islamic societies because they fail to recognize the logic of the kin-based model of social and political life, which she contrasts with the Western class-centered model. In a skillful synthesis, she shows how the logic of Islamic legal codes and kin-based political power affect the position of women. These provide the key to Charrad's empirical puzzle: why, after colonial rule, women in Tunisia gained broad legal rights (even in the absence of a feminist protest movement) while, despite similarities in culture and religion, women remained subordinated in post-independence Morocco and Algeria. Charrad's elegant theory, crisp writing, and solid scholarship make a unique contribution in developing a state-building paradigm to discuss women's rights. This book will interest readers in the fields of sociology, politics, law, women's studies, postcolonial studies, Middle Eastern studies, Middle Eastern history, French history, and Maghrib studies.
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Much contemporary environmental literature names as enemies of the wild corporate agriculture, logging, mining, and ranching. For mountain guide/philosopher Jack Turner, these will not do. He dislikes even more the abstractions that divorce us from the natural world, which cause us to create pseudo-wild locales like Yellowstone National Park and Grand Canyon, places that resemble nothing so much as Disneyland. Wilderness advocates who do not make themselves at home in the wild, he believes, cannot hope to understand the object of their desires, for only from that "complete immersion in place over time" can there arise the "wisdom that cannot emerge from tourism in a relic wilderness." This sometimes blistering, provocative book is an eco-radical manifesto of a kind, and every reader concerned with wilderness issues should pay attention to it.
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an exact and perfect plea.......2007-03-28
consider this fact about the USA - 13 (now 14)have reviewed this book in this forum - and all have declared that this book, against almost all other books regarding the environment, and specifically, wildness, comes the closest to expressing their own hearts, if not before reading it, then because of reading it - yet we are force fed through the mass media that americans are gluttonous and rapacious - well as it turns out, no - just a handful are- and that handful has all of the money and all of the guns.
the landlady, dear readers, IS strangling our cat.
Must reading if you consider yourself an "environmentalist".......2006-02-24
This book hits the nail on the head regarding what we think we believe and with how we really live and work in this world. Chapter 2, "the Abstract Wild: a Rant" and chapter 4, "Economic Nature" are particularly valuable, but then so is the rest. This is a book that makes the reader face the reality of our world and what we are making of it on no uncertian terms. If you think that we can reconcile the comfort of modern life with the real world you need to read this book. The world we are loosing is very different from the "abstract wild" we believe we are "saving". The book makes the strongest justification and argument for the spiritual reality of the world over the "economic reality" that we seem to think we must compromise with.
The "Abstract Wild" belongs in every hand that hold such writings as Thoreau, Leopold and Abbey important. Much like Thoreau, it holds up a mirror that all of us, including the "mainstream" environmentalists should look on. It reveals an image that is difficult to rationalize away, showing some hard truths that we all must heed if we wish to truely change, both individually and as a culture. The "Wildness" that is the salvation of the world is more than a slogan, a momentary protest or a cause. It's Reality in the true meaning of the word.
This kind of writing is rare.......2003-11-18
I got this book when searching for something for my biodiversity class to read that would hook them to the subject and move them the way "Sand County Almanac" did me back in my college days. Wasn't able to read it at the time, but I picked it up this fall, thought I would read an essay at a time before bed, like I usually do with essay books. Sometime in the wee hours I realized that I had to stop reading or I would head out into the dark night and wander until I found the wilderness again. Few modern writers, or writers of any age, have so clearly and eloquently expressed what it means to love the wild, what we are about to loose, and truly why we are loosing it despite efforts to the contrary. Turner's solution is one I believe in, but rarely find seriously advocated, probably because it would work. Frankly, if you haven't gone wild, you may not "get" this book. If you want to really know what the wild is about though, read this book and if you like the sound of things, go seek it out. If you are wild, this will be one of the few books on the topic you can stand to read these days. I haven't been so enlightened since I read "The Practice of the Wild" by Gary Snyder. Five stars means a great book. Some books are beyond that, this is one for the ages.
"Can we put the wild back in wilderness?".......2003-03-26
This is a book about wildness. Not about the wilderness where it exists. More importantly this book is about you and me and how we think about wilderness.
I have single-handed my sailboat to Catalina Island many times and watched the dolphins with fascination as they played at the bow of my boat. You cannot help feeling a sense of connection with them as you watch them only a few feet away as they share their ocean with you.
As a young man I stood on top of Mt Whitney and looked out across the many mountain ranges of the High Sierras.
I purchased this book at the visitor's center while camping in Anza Borrego State Park in California. What an appropriate place to buy this book!
I have visited many National and State Parks and National Monuments crowded with people.
So, I have experienced the wildness that Jack Turner talks about and I have also visited the controlled spaces of our current managed wilderness areas that this book addresses.
Because the author has traveled in wilderness areas worldwide and a former philosophy professor from Cornel University and a long time climbing guide in the Tetons of Wyoming this book is an absolute jewel - well researched, eloquently written and straight from the heart.
What can I now write to get you to read this wonderful book? It is more than his opinion. It is a way of thinking about the world we live in and the true meaning of wilderness.
I sometimes end a review with some original poetry. Unfortunately, I am still trying to get my mind around this book. It is such great food for thought.
Here is a quote from the book:
"Do you want to change the world?
I don't think it can be changed.
The world is sacred.
It can't be improved.
If you tamper with it, you will ruin it.
If you treat like an object, you will lose it.
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The Master sees things as they are,
With out trying to control them.
He let's them go their own way,
and resides at the center of the circle."
Lao Tzu
Yes, this reads like a Zen koan. Don't meditate on it too long -read this book and then keep it in your backpack or sea bag.
A book with clarity and guts........2002-08-20
This book is such a welcome deviation from so much "environmental" judgmentalism, finger-pointing, and theoretical whining. Its basic premise is: how can we relate to the "wilderness" we wish to preserve when we don't even spend time with it? And: what, in fact, are we working to preserve?
There is a rawness and intensity to how the writer expresses himself that has a marvelous feeling of sincerity about it. He is not afraid to point up the shadow side of the very ecological programs he subscribes to. Reading, I had the feeling of sitting next to him by a campfire somewhere, or in front of the fireplace in his home in the Grand Teton, hearing him talk from the heart about things that concern him deeply.
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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Cumulative Index (Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia)
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ASIN: 0787665703 |
Book Description
This digital document is an article from Journal of Shellfish Research, published by National Shellfisheries Association, Inc. on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 4684 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: Brooding pattern and larval production in wild stocks of the puelche oyster, Ostrea puelchana d'orbigny.(Abstract)
Author: C. Castanos
Publication:
Journal of Shellfish Research (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: National Shellfisheries Association, Inc.
Volume: 24
Issue: 1
Page: 191(6)
Article Type: Abstract
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Genetic characterization of HPAI (H5N1) viruses from poultry and wild vultures, Burkina Faso.(DISPATCHES)(Author abstract)(Clinical report): An article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Mariette F. Ducatez ,
Zekiba Tarnagda ,
Marc C. Tarnagda ,
Adama Sow ,
Sebastien de Landtsheer ,
Brandon Z. Londt ,
Ian H. Brown ,
Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus ,
Ron A.M. Fouchier ,
Jean-Bosco B. Ouedraogo , and
Claude P. Muller
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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ASIN: B000PTYG7O
Release Date: 2007-04-25 |
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This digital document is an article from Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1849 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: Genetic characterization of HPAI (H5N1) viruses from poultry and wild vultures, Burkina Faso.(DISPATCHES)(Author abstract)(Clinical report)
Author: Mariette F. Ducatez
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Emerging Infectious Diseases (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 13
Issue: 4
Page: 611(3)
Article Type: Author abstract, Clinical report
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This digital document is an article from Borneo Research Bulletin, published by Borneo Research Council, Inc on January 2, 2002. The length of the article is 1054 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: Hoare, Alison L., 2001. Cooking the Wild: the role of the Lundayeh of the Ulu Padas (Sabah, Malaysia) in managing forest foods and shaping the landscape.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
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Borneo Research Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: January 2, 2002
Publisher: Borneo Research Council, Inc
Volume: 33
Page: 202(1)
Article Type: Brief Article
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Studies on Alcohol, published by Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc. on January 1, 2001. The length of the article is 7155 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.
From the author: Objective: Perceived vulnerability to harm is widely acknowledged as a determinant of behavior change, but little is known about why some drinkers believe that they are personally "at risk" for problems while others do not. This study examined perceived vulnerability to alcohol-related harm in relation to epidemiological risk status on a standardized problem-drinking measure and two psychosocial measures of drinking context: (1) typical reasons for drinking and cutting down and (2) social network influences related to alcohol use. We evaluated the general hypothesis that these psychosocial variables would independently affect perceived vulnerability to alcohol-related harm, over and above epidemiological risk status. Method: Adults between the ages of 18 and 79 (N = 430; 249 women, 173 men, 8 gender unknown) completed a questionnaire about drinking behavior and drinking-related social and motivational context. Results: There was a positive relationship between problem-drinking status and perceived risk of experiencing harm, and no support for the idea that objectively "at-risk" drinkers believe that they are less likely to personally experience harm than comparable peers. Drinking motives and social network variables each significantly improved the prediction of perceived vulnerability when epidemiological risk status was controlled. Conclusions: Interventions designed to alter drinkers' risk perceptions should take into account the reasons that people have for drinking and the social network context of alcohol use, in addition to whether or not individuals are "problem drinkers." (J. Stud. Alcohol 62:105-113,2001)
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Title: Psychosocial Determinants of Perceived Vulnerability to Harm among Adult Drinkers.(Abstract)
Author: T. Cameron Wild
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Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc.
Volume: 62
Issue: 1
Page: 105
Article Type: Abstract
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Discovering wild Wicklow
Richard Nairn
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