Morrison Books

1. Toni Morrison is brilliant at describing ghosts and the haunting of the past, intricate race relations, and the passions and pathologies that develop among people.

2. In Tarbaby, a white Philadelphia couple moves to a tiny Caribbean island with their black servants. The servants' niece, to whom the Philadelphia couple act as patrons, is a beautiful young woman who works as a model in Paris but comes to the Caribbean during Christmas to regroup and decide where to go next. A mysterious stow-away, a black man from the American South, crashes their Christmas party and incites the spilling of secrets, forever altering relationships between people, including his own with the Parisan model.

3. Their love affair occupies the second part of the novel, one which takes us to New York and to rural Florida. There, they are haunted by ghosts or by the lack thereof.

4. Morrison traffics in metaphors, universes of them, so that you as a reader must decipher the personal metaphors and cosmogonies of each character as the novel unfolds. In Tar Baby, the most beautiful one is of smell - the stowaway wishes to press his smell, and his dreams, of baking pie and small town America, into the subconscious of the model, who luxuriates in furs and jewels, before her heady perfume of "white" success presses into him. This metaphor works beautifully on the level of a cultural and capitalist imperialism, the subtle persuasion of material dreams that encourage people around the world to slowly abandon "old" ways for the new. But I find that she aligns this too easily with race, and works much better as a metaphor about the misguided expectations within a relationship.

5. The hypnotic switching of voices and unidentifiable pronouns somehow reflects the lull of equitorial heat, and the speed of the city also reflects in her episodic narrative of New York. Morrison's writing style is always lush and gorgeous, even if her central metaphors don't always click the whole way through.

Simple, easy to use, practical and helpful for work, life =-== any type of relationships. It can only help.

Crystal Morrison has spent a great deal of time researching her work, based on the listing of references. While I hope to follow up some of her references with my own readings, it will take years to do much of the exhaustive reading in her field. Suffice it to say that there are no clear cut villans to point the finger at. Gread seemed to motivate everyone in this New World Adventure. Isabel is shown to be a very small-minded and certainly ruthless person. Ferdinand had(if the research is true) alienated himself from his Jewish ancestry, not to mention Santangel,someone clearly omitted from any history book I have ever read(for the same reason that this review will probably not get published). My only disappointment was the ending. History will have to correct itself.

Well written and engaging, appears well researched. Not a 'boring' history book, instead history told with a story line. Describes life in Southeast Florida and the Keys from mid 1800s thru 1930s.

With honesty and sensitivity, Taylor Morrison depicts the devastating tsunami in Hilo, Hawaii, in 1946 that killed 159 people and led to the development of an improved American warning system. Our warning system was not tested until 1957, when seismographers detected a massive underwater earthquake of 8.3 in the Pacific Ocean. They contacted the military and police in Hawaii, who evacuated the coast and saved countless lives. Tragically, these same warning networks were not in place in the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004, when a tsunami killed over 230,000 people.

Morrison's mixed-media illustrations are versatile and depict a peaceful Hawaii, with its spectacular green mountains, then a ferocious Hilo tsunami. Morrison is gifted in action illustrations, such as figures running, people clinging, and boats speeding to deeper water for safety, and he offers some truly unique perspectives. In one undersea illustration, the view is from within a trench up towards the underside of a boat. In another high-impact pair of pictures, we see a lighthouse, as witnesses saw it, dwarfed by a hundred-foot wave then as a mass of crumbled concrete. Morrison also shows scientific instruments with accuracy and originality. Sharks encircle an underwater pressure gauge that sends a signal to a buoy then a satellite then a research station.

As the author points out, tsunamis do not have a season; therefore, coastal residents must be prepared year-round. This engrossing book helps readers understand man's efforts in the face of one of our planet's most elusive natural disasters.

I bought this book to supplement my QM grad course. It did a so-so job. The best chapter is where he introduces the 3-D picture. He introduces angular momentum very well. In fact his presentation is the most clear I've seen. Only have reading Morrison did the 3-D shro. equ. and how the ang. mom. operator comes into the picture click. Morrison does a good job with teaching the reader to deal in terms of eigenvalue equations (a thing he harped on a lot in his first book).

There are downsides though. The biggest is that he does not cover WKB approximation. And his dealing with Perturbation Theory in general is not that good and the notation not helpful.

Overall, it might be nice to buy if you need some help in QM 2. Another advantage is that it's not too expensive.

The book covers the basic tools needed to understand rheology.
From the vector and tensor analysis to the constitutive equations, this book offers good detail. It does lack some in-depth analysis of more difficult problems. The examples in the book are much different than assigned problems.
The polymeric section containing the memory function was sufficient, however, it was not as clearly presented as in previous chapters.

Overall, I recommend this book.

This is not a great book in and of itself, but it is Morrison's first entry into what have become some great waterfall guides. This book took a large area and tried to tell a lot about it. His later waterfall guides basically superseded this book, and limit themselves in geographic area. "Waterfall Walks and Drives in the Great Smoky Mountains and the Western Carolinas" and "Waterfall Walks and Drives in Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee" are the two latest versions of his guides, and both are excellent. ...

Archie Stringweed is now an official curse breaker -- he even has the medal from I.C.E. (International Curse Exterminators) to prove it. After defeating Huigor, Archie has the utmost confidence in himself. Unfortunately, his family is still treating him like a child. Archie is getting understandably frustrated with them, and it's making him behave a little bit recklessly. Especially now that strange things seem to be happening around Westervoe and Windy Edge. Again.

Archie hears the sound of an army marching over the sea, but how can an army march on water? Then there are the hypnotic eyes in the sea that keep trying to bring him closer, and the crazy sea gull that attacks him and his friends, the weird shadow in the classroom closet, and more icegulls. Archie knows there is a curse afoot, but no one seems to be willing to tell him anything at all. Archie is determined to help, whether they want him to or not.

This time, though, the curse might just be too much for all of them. This could be the curse to end all curses. Or, more accurately, the curse to bring back all curses, broken or not. All of I.C.E. and the entire Stringweed family is about to be put to the test, and Archie may be more necessary than anyone is prepared for.

There is a lot of information in this book. It still has all of the exciting elements of WIND TAMER as well as the characters that we got to know in that story. There are also a bunch of new characters, new monsters, and a whole host of new information about curse breaking. The story itself almost gets lost in the barrage of new information. I have a feeling, though, that this may turn out to be useful information. So pay attention because the end of the book makes it pretty clear that we haven't seen the end of Archie Stringweed.

Reviewed by: Carrie Spellman