Pitt Books

Through her book, Ms. Pitt makes you see the value of your 50+ years of life (or what you have to look forward to!). When I finished the book, I thought it was excellent. It was very moving and touching. She made you look at simple things like a walk down the street and how to get so much insight out of things the rest of us walk by. It's good to have people like her around because they make us value what God has given us and savor it. So much went through my mind and heart while I was reading the book--and all positive, too. I enjoyed every minute of reading it.

The methodology is classic. The discussion of the results is poignant. Fans of such classic films as the Shawshank Redemption and the Spitfire Grill may find this study insightful. Anyone who enjoys the hits from REO Speedwagon will undoubtedly be moved. However, if you are interested in Neo-Kohlbergian Moral Judgement Development this study is a must read. I laughed, I cried, but, most importantly, I finally overcame my fear of the little girl who comes out of televisions.

this is a wonderful book for english faculty who are rethinking the future of english studies. begining with a theoretical/historical perspective on how metaphor has been discussed, seitz demonstrates how the in-house divides among composition, literature, and creative writing have limited the possibilities of undergraduate education and the field in general. the final section of the book offers an insightful way to imagine writing instruction as an integrated part of english departments beyond the first year.

i have just ordered this book to use in a graduate course on the future of writing studies. i think it's an excellent text to introduce future professors to the field. our writing faculty are currently using it to reimagine our program.

so in the lingo of amazon, "five stars."

Victor Andrade, Bolivian ambassador to Washington at various times between 1944 and 1962, offers a unique Third World perspective on U.S. politics and foreign relations. He presents a candid inside view of U.S.-Bolivian relations which will sometimes make American readers feel proud, other times ashamed. Although representing a small and poor country, Andrade mastered the art of Washington politics, establishing himself with the leading figures of his day; he describes his meetings with Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, and his many encounters with journalists, cabinet members, politicians, and U.S. senators.

Andrade fought in the Chaco War (1932-1935), a war that politicized an entire generation of Bolivians. Afterward he helped form a coalition between Gualberto Villaroel and Victor Paz Estenssoro of the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario that brought down the old regime in December 1943.

Andrade came to Washgington as ambassador in 1944, representing a young revolutionary government determined to check the power of the Bolivian tin barons who had dominated the country for decades. After his government was overthrown in 1946, he spent six years in exile.

When the WNR returned to power in 1952, Andrade began his second mission in Washington. One of his major goals was to negotiate favorable tin contracts between the newly nationalized Bolivian mines and the U.S. government. Through a blend of charm, resourcefulness, and sheer perserverance, Andrade obtained contracts acceptable to the Bolivian government and went on to negotiate massive economic and military aid for the development of the country. These successes demonstrate his capacity for understanding and manipulating Washington's massive political and governmental bureaucracies.
--- from book's back cover

I finally take my Bible everywhere I go. This is a perfect fit Bible. The font size is very easy to read and it lays perfectly flat. Good quality leather, not as soft as calfskin but it will soften up nice over time. Cambridge knows how to make em! Oh and you can't go wrong with Cambridge's Lifetime Warranty.

I may just have to stop saying nasty things about the catastrophic effect of the post-1945 academy on the peoples' art: poetry. This book is purity gorgeous. I was introduced to it while searching for poems about New Hampshire. A local librarian handed me Mark Cox's poem, "Natural Causes." A father and his young son are driving through the country. The son sees the enormous, modern "bails" of hay dotting the fields, wrapped in white plastic. The rest of the day father and son go from store to store, looking for normal-sized marshmallows. I've got red checks all over the table of contents to mark the "keepers": returning to the scene of your childhood in "Pail of Eggs"; the most fundamentally powerful list-poem I've seen in a long time, "Better Homes and Gardens"; "The Museum at the End of the World"; our compunction toward senseless violence, "Red Lead, 1978"; "Consolidated Freight"; the primal self reduced to banality by the ephemera of civilization, "Blind Cat at a Window," "At the Crematorium, ... ," "Want"-- all about living and loving in the face of untimate mortality, "our sorrow bestowed / so we won't float toward heaven too soon." (from "Red Lead, 1978") And who in the world needs another love poem? You do: "On the Way to See You." My God, what an ache. If Mark Cox ever needs someone to take his place at a reading and sell books, he needs to call me; I'll do it. I've got a presentation that will make the bookstore wish it had ordered more books for sure. (Incidentally, if I had seen the book first, I still would have bought it. The cover is a Rockwell Kent, whose paintings' compression of subject matter, simplicity of palat, sense of breathless expansiveness, do everything a strong modern lyric does. We need to remember that sometimes--and how better than to be blind-sided by a stunning painting.)

The Draft was the second graphic album that Marvel's New Universe line put out during a final attempt to revive it's ailing
comic book sales. Following THE PITT, the next book was about the government's reaction to the discovery of "paranormals". A second white event (called the Black Event) has had an adverse effect upon the people of Earth causing strange mutations amongt the populous. A nation draft has been ordered. The paranormals are weeded out through a series of tests (physical and psychological). All of the special recruits are sent to Fort Benning.

A very well written book that sadly was neglected by the readers. The whole black event leading to THE WAR was an utter failure. Following the death of New Universe, THE WAR was finally released and it was filled with many errors
and non-sequiters. A shame they didn't let one of the New Universe creators (like Mark Gruenwald) write THE WAR. Instead they had Doug Murray finish the story. Murray is better known for THE 'NAM. A sad foot note was the death of
Mark Gruenwald. He never gave his New Universe a final
closure that it deserved.

Highly recommended.

Documenting a media revolution
BY KELLY ARTHUR GARRETT/THE HERALD MEXICO
El Universal
Lunes 14 de agosto de 2006
Miami Herald, página 1


The Mexican news media is enjoying its moment in the sun. That moment started with the first stirrings of these endless 2006 elections, and it's still in full flower. Even if you take your Mexico news in English, what you read and watch - what you know - is influenced by an energized national press that has risen to this particular occasion (that is, the snarled election) with massive, multi-perspective coverage of a watershed event in this country's history.

It wasn't always thus, as Sallie Hughes reminds us in her thorough, insightful and very timely study of Mexican journalism's transition from lapdog to watchdog titled "Newsrooms in Conflict: Journalism and the Democratization of Mexico."

Read the rest of the review --

http://www.mexiconews.com.mx/miami/vi_8.html

Mr. Pierce writes like an angel, driven by a hardcore need to tell the truth about the piece-meal internet-connectivity, deer-caught-in-the-headlights, news-weary way we live today. This is one of those rare books that will get you not only entertained, but riled up . . . it seems each of these stories is a nugget of harsh, bitter truth about the dysfunctional world we live in. Trust it's author, he tells the kind of story you won't be able to put down or forget quickly. These stories seriously get under your skin and they are rather stealthy in the way they will get you to relish every one of them.

It is a great book for those who need to think about the relationship between letrados and oficial discurse of XIX hispanic america and popular insurgency, how the elite represent rural insurgency as bandidaje.