By: Bhatti, Tanvir Hussain
The writer’s grasp of current affairs derives from three overlapping factors: his sensitivity to the contemporary issues, his medical training and his penchant for philosophical analysis. These …
More factors are further complemented by a deep and extensive study of the history of his own country. His powerful and hard-hitting expression adds extra flavor to his analytical recipe; a remarkable feat, indeed, keeping in view his ‘green shoulders’ and the unending spate of his daily engagements.
Dr Tanvir records sensitively what happens around him and he provides and elaborates not only the immediate context of these happenings but ferrets out a fresh perspective by relating them to their correlative historical realties. In this way he weaves together into a vibrant coalescence the past and the present with an inevitable prefiguration of the future which, in his opinion, carries a bleaker ring if things spin further out of control and no effort is made to stem the present state of ideological perversion.
He achieves the unification of the multiple stands of his vision through his positive tilt towards philosophical interpretation. In the absence of his probing prods, the different components of his prognostication would have remained isolated streaks in anotherwise dark scenario, creating more opportunities for fumbling than clarification.
His medical training is responsible for some of the stethoscopic soundings of the groundswell of protest that has been piling up over the years as a result of ignorance, poverty and a glaring sense of deprivation. He is particularly struck by the kaleidoscope of disparities that stalk ‘the land of the pure’, reinforced and fortified by the supercilious attitude of the elite class towards the filings of humanity who constitute the major chunk of our population. I hope the people at the helm of affairs respond effectively to his diagnosis and pull the country out of the present morass.
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Iftikhar Ahmad, University of Central Punjab Professor of Communications
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By: Brands, H. W.
This is a pioneering book that takes the California Gold Rush into a national perspective. Not local history but the integration of the Golden State into the fiber of American history. Well done and highly recommended.
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Longhorn Reviewer
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By: DeWitt, Howard A
This is one of the finest books on the Beatles early years. Not only is it filled with solid scholarship but it brings about new material. The author writes very well. Highly recommended.
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Longhorn Reviewer
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By: Kenzaburō Ōe
Readers who have read John Hersey’s Hiroshima will find here a gentler investigation of the psychological, emotional and long-term effects of the nuclear detonations over Japan. This is a book of the small gesture, the pinpoint insight, and a book of longing for what cannot be recovered. Readers of this book who can bear it should also read Hersey’s more clinical account of the events and their aftermath. (continue)
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Dennis Trombatore
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By: Freedman, Russell
Review From Publishers Weekly
“The Newbery Medalist returns to the subject matter of Indian Chiefs and Buffalo Hunt –though with a narrower scope–in this recounting of the 1833-1834 expedition of Prince Maximilian of Germany and the artist Karl Bodmer up the Missouri River. While Maximilian’s own journal provides details of a difficult trek, the book’s primary focus is the winter spent by Bodmer and the Prince with the Mandan and Hidatsa tribes–details of their daily lives, customs, modes of dress and beliefs. The book is generously if unevenly illustrated, chiefly with works by Bodmer, whose watercolors of individuals are direct and immediate. However, engravings later produced in Europe seem stereotyped, and several large oil paintings are not well reproduced. Background information and sites to visit today fill out the volume. Readers of Freedman’s other titles on Native American topics will find much of interest here, though some may question the reliability of two European dilettantes concerning a culture they visited only briefly. Ages 10-up.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.”
Taken From: Amazon.com – http://www.amazon.com/dp/0823409309
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By: Murray Hill Records
Apparently, Murray Hill records was a subsidiary of Random House, and mainly re-released excellent material. Other sources claim this boxed set was released in 1970. Gorgeously recorded. My pressing is quite good — I can not remark on the condition of those at this library. Interesting academic material in the liner notes.
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Longhorn Reviewer
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By: Hopkins, Ellen
I think this book gives a great view into the life of an impressionable teenage girl suddenly immersed in the world of illegal drugs. Kristina starts using meth after a short stay at her estranged father’s home. She continues to use it for recreation purposes but soon develops a dependency on it and what was left of her previous life disappears. Make sure to read the sequel, “Glass”. Kristina’s life get’s even worse.
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Longhorn Reviewer
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By: Turner, William
Many notes in Latin and Greek.
Several hands.
One page includes notes about king Charles the first, which cannot have been written by William Turner.
The microfilm seems to include copies of two different books.
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F. Deconinck-Brossard
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By: Kitchen, Denis
Thank Harvey Kurtzman for Mad Magazine, if you are old enough to remember when it was good, or if not, for The Simpsons whose creators were influenced by him as youths. Or whatever hilarious subversive satire the kids are reading and watching these days. He was a subversive genius when it wasn’t so lucrative.
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Ellen
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By: Lutz, Joshua.
Wonderful photography and essays about an area that we usually see only from planes (landing at Newark Liberty) or from the road and rail links that cross it.
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David
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