Dean Books

An American Beach for African Americans is a special treasure of knowledge and history for everyone interested in reflecting upon the love, strength, and beauty of African American culture in Florida. Marsha Dean Phelts is truly a remarkable writer. She has dedicated a significant part of her time and expertise as a writer in order for all of us to appreciate times when the Beach Boys were not likely to be the first group to book a concert tour at American Beach, (although they had the choice), even though I sometimes wondered as a child growing up in Florida and New York in the 60s and 70s, if The Beach Boys were ever going to entertain an audience at American Beach. Thank God for Marsha Dean Phelts for writing this book. She was instumental in her sharing her writer-to-writer knowledge to me as I finalized the pages of my book titled Surfing the Sea, which is planned for release very soon. An American Beach for African Americans is more than a mere contribution to literature and Florida history. It is simultaneously long overdue and right on time!

This is really one of the most important contributions to Florida history in recent years. Some may think that black people just disappeared during the Jim Crow era, but this book will disabuse them of that notion. It has it all, from stories to recipes to photographs, covering a part of history that is still almost studiously ignored hereabouts. I hope this will encourage others to do the kind of digging Marsha Phelts has done, because Florida's black beaches from the age of segregation are an endangered species. They should all be studied, documented, and placed on the National Register of Historic Places to preserve what remains from the endless bulldozers of developers. Cheers to the author for telling this story so well!

Transcendentalism has never been easy to define, all the more so because its two most well-known adherents, Emerson and Thoreau, were highly poetic souls who had much better uses for their rhetoric than in crafting creeds or clear-cut manifestoes. It is a pleasure then to read Grodzins' biography of Theodore Parker, in whose life and work we can see more clearly the philosophical and personal dramas that played themselves out within the Unitarian Church in regard to its Transcendentalist sympathizers - in particular, the attempts of one Transcendentalist to define his views against the charges of Deism. Religion is a key concern for Transcendentalism, though in Emerson and Thoreau there is no sense that organized religion can play a key role in the individual's enlightenment. Parker remained in the Church as he struggled to know and preach Truth, and gained a large following. Our understanding of Transcendentalism is eminently richer for our appreciation of his struggle.

Grodzins has written an astonishingly thorough and readable biography of an important but neglected 19th Century American. Parker is one of the most influential Americans of the mid-1800s, a brilliant scholar and powerful preacher who became a crucial figure in our religious and political history.

The book is destined to become the standard biography of Parker for generations. Anyone interested in American political thought and the evolution of American religious doctrine will find this book invaluable. Any New Englander will find this a treasure trove of well-written stories.

The 2001 edition of The ARRL Handbook is the latest and most up-to-date version of an excellent reference book for both the Amateur Radio operator or anyone interested in RF engineering. The Handbook contains information on the basics of radio operation and practices and detailed information for the RF engineer needing to know technical component details. The ARRL has again designed a wonderful book that will provide information for all levels of hams. Information on the new HF digital modes is provided, as well as the old standards of voice and CW. For those wanting to know the theory behind the radios, the ARRL focuses on the technical details - the how and why - of the radios and the modes, so that when you walk away from this book you will know the answer to your question (and a lot more if you keep reading!) The only real negative comment on this book is that there is a LOT of very technical information. This can make finding exactly what you want to know a challange, as it takes a little digging and knowing exactly what you are looking for. A very complete index does make this much easier. However, for the beginniner this book would do well to whet your appetite for venturing deeper into Amateur Radio, and for the master RF engineer this book serves well as a very detailed technical reference that can aid in every day engineering questions.

Hi! Editors. I am Yanbei Liou from China,and my callsign is Bd2bh.I Iike the ARRL Handbook for Radio Amatures 2001 very much. For I had read it for many years (1987),but i never read it newly again. Like all hams in China I could not get it, and hope it will be published in China, and be bought

Finally a book that tells you how to get it together and make your film. Gives you a plan and the confidence to go out there and make it happen. Great interviews with people who've done it. Should be mandatory reading for every film school grad who is trying to make their first film.

The expansive knowledge, invaluable information and contained in this book are the tools required and needed to bring your project to reality. Ms. Dean willingly feeds the reader knowledge and ideas based on tried and true methods that never become outdated. In a time when filmmaking has become not just a dream; but, a life work option this book provides filmmakers of all levels the tools and inspiration need to complete their work. It is a map used by documentarians and filmmakers to aid in completing fully funded, successful works.

Dean Young's poetry book "Beloved Infidel" seeks truth in the strangest places, like the men's restroom. The poems in this book are both witty and poignant. It is a good collection to begin with if you are not familiar with Young's writing because it is essentially his first book of poems where as he states on the back of the book" I really think of it as my first because it's in this book that I felt like I was throwing off my (perfectly good) education and beginning to write the poems I didn't know how to write."
You will get an idea of how his writing style began. You will find yourself reevaluating what poetry can be. He uses strong images and tone to bring the reader closer to what he is trying to say about life. One of the best things about his poetry is how he ties an ordinary thing like "rain filling a crack" or a situation where "I didn't know how alone I was until they brought out more chairs" to create a building of emotional exigency. It is these things he highlights in the poem that make the reader see the greater picture he is trying to paint about life.
This book contains a lot of poems about the dynamics between men and women like "Marriage" and " What Does Us In." In his poem "Shades" he writes about the difficulty of helping a friend deal with his wife's suicide in a very tender way. This tenderness is also revealed in "Another Ocean" and "The Soul" where he discusses watching his friend deal with a deadly illness. He also has some very erotic poems like "Storms" and "The First Time & The Time Before That" that show the vast contrast between two inexperienced lovers and two people that have many dynamics in their sexual relationship.
When you read this book it will make you examine how you see the relationships in your own life and whether you notice the things that make them special. Young's ability to make the reader aware in an understated way by throwing a surprising detail in the middle of the poem is what makes reading his poems so exciting. His poems are sewn together by their tone which is created by tender language or brash language and images of things in life we don't often focus on.
Young uses a lot of association in his poems and strengthens the connections with parallelism. A good example of this is found in his poem "The Fine Arts" where he uses the different pieces of art in his life to describe the stages of a relationship. He uses the art as the object of parallelism with pieces by Bonnard, a table, and a Chagall painting.
Dean Young's poetic voice is distinctive and unpretentious which is highly appealing because he is not afraid to admit he doesn't have all the answers. His questioning makes the reader feel like she isn't the only one bumbling around trying to figure out this life.

I'm glad they re-issued this book. I tried for over a year to get a used copy and finally found one in the discard pile at the Phoenix library. I'd say that it's definetly one of the best books of poetry written in the 90's. So, the moral of this review is: never trust librarians, try to do things over a course of a year (at least), look for things in dumpsters, and judge everthing by the decade in which it first appeared.

This is really quite good. Keep your eyes peeled for Dean's next book, out soon.

This is perhaps my favorite work in the growing corpus of queer theory. While much of the discipline has become sedimentations of regurgitated contentions about 'culturally constructed subjectivities,' Dean argues clearly and convincingly for a social theory which does not reduce desire to historical variability. Desire, he reminds us, is the failure of discourse, not its unequivocal success. With this as his starting place, Dean suggests that what we locate in psychoanalysis is neither some return to an isolated self independent from a social or linguistic context nor a culturally-formed subjectivity reducible to that context. Reading desire as fundamentally recalcitrant to social discourses that are always trying to grasp it, it emerges in his work as inherently disruptive or transgressive, as necessarily queer. Whether he is working with Freud's concept of the death drive as an explication of contemporary social responses to AIDS, elucidating Lacan's 'object a' as the inevitable interlinking of the desirable with the abject, or demonstrating why a model of the unconscious is necessary for grasping the fantasies that undergird our culture's ideas about gay men, Dean cogently argues for the rich potential that psychoanalysis contributes to our understanding of sexuality and society.

I think this book would be very helpful to anyone transitioning from military/government employment to the private sector. And my opinion is not based on the fact that I once worked with the author overseas.

Read it from cover-to-cover. Easy reading. Exceptionally informative and extremelly useful. A job well done.

This is an excellent book. It's vocabulary may be a bit too advanced for 1st graders, though. However, it is an excellent tale of the cat "Smokey" and his owner "Susan". (Amazing that Susan looks just like Robyn Dean). If you are looking for a book for children, or just feel like sending Robyn Dean money :) , then buy this book.

This story recounts what happens to a black cat named Smokey when his owners take a vacation. The illustrations are really wonderful, as is the text. It will teach young children that pets are to be cherished as family members. It is a great story to impress pet care upon young children. Ms. Dean clearly loves her cat, and it shows in the loving descriptions of Smokey and the beautiful black and white illustrations which at times seem reminiscent of art nouveau illustration.

Branches on the Conejo: Leaving the Soil after Five Generations was a surprisingly compelling treat. I was drawn into the interactive dynamics of this family from the get-go. I've recommended it to countless family and friends who have been equally impressed. This book much deserved winning the William Saroyan "Persie" Award. Anne Schroeder has an endearing and powerful writing style and I look forward to enjoying any future works by her. Watch this author, I feel that there is much more to come from her - at least, I hope so. (Definitely 5 stars)
Sandra J. Wright

This year's first place William Saroyan non-fiction winner is a delight. Anne Schroeder chooses every word so carefully that with each sentence the reader is drawn into the story of her family. The opening chapter, Sweet Partings, tenderly and lovingly bids farewell to Nana, the author's grandmother and the book's inspiration. As Schroeder and her family deal with the loss of their much loved matriarch, the reader feels the strength of familial ties and is brought back in time to a less complicated, more idealistic era. I found Branches on the Conejo a very heart warming and inspirational book, a much needed reminder of the value of a supportive, hard working, and loving family.

I just got back from the course taught by Dr. Tabar and it was phenomenal! If you can't attend his course, then you must have this book. It covers all the material in the course in a clear and concise manner using almost 1600 images. This would also be a great reference for pathologists and surgeons who perform breast surgery, and techs interested in why they do what they do would find this text a great resource. I will use it as an adjunct learning tool after attending the seminar - I would recommend that buyers of this text do the same. Find the time to go to the seminar and then get the book - and good luck in your practice!

This book is really fantastic.
The reader has the pleasant sensation to go through the book like he is attending a course of the Author, step by step, with no rush, having really the time to understand every concept of what he is reading.
Even pathological images were handy for me, because i was given the tools to understand them.
The style of the book is very particular as well, because the method is to teach you to understand what you see, explaining accurately what happened to that patient so that you see that image on the mammogram. I think this method is absolutely brilliant.
Furthermore the book is full of high-quality images and the text is not redundant and tiring, but it is focused to allow you to understand the mammograms.
I think every breast radiologist should have this book!