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not sure why this is considered out of print..it might be getting low, but as the compiler, I know there are copies available..I have some here at my home. as well as volumes 2 and 3. We are going to try and do a reprint of it once the stock dies out from SWPGS, if they will release the contract.

This is the finest baseball book I have ever read...in fact, it is my all time favorite book...buy it

After listening to Chess for over a few years I finally decided to go in search for a Vocal Selections book that would give me some of the great songs featured in the musical. What I found was quite a surprise. It should be noted however that this selections book is based on the 1984 London Concept Album, not the Broadway. The book itself features 13 selections from the aforementioned article.

The songs themselves are piano arrangements with the vocal top line from the songs. The vocal top lines are kept intact from what is heard in the recordings in all the vocal solos. The actual piano accompaniments mimic the full score quite well. The arrangement for 'Pity the Child' in particular stood out. It should be noted that there is one selection called 'Chess' that has been arranged for piano. And the introduction to 'One Night in Bangkok' known as 'Bangkok' has also been arranged for piano. The duets from the musical are also featured. 'You and I' being a personal favorite and for the women 'I Know Him So Well' has also been included. And if you have four singers you can also perform Quartet (A Model of Decorum and Tranquility) with all four parts intact.

The only drawbacks to this book. Well the first could be that unlike most Vocal Selections/Selections book there is not much information on the show. Secondly, for those familiar with the Broadway version of the show the beautiful song 'Someone Else's Story' is not featured. And lastly for anyone who has seen the London version of the show or heard the Chess In Concert CD, the great song 'The Soviet Machine' is not included.

Overall a very comprehensive selections book that should be in any singers collection. The selections taken from the album include: 'Merano', 'Where I Want To Be', 'Quartet (A Model Of Decorum and Tranquility)', 'The American & Florence/Nobody's Side', 'Chess', 'Mountain Duet', 'Embassy Lament', 'Anthem', 'Bangkok/One Night In Bangkok', 'Heaven Help My Heart', 'I Know Him So Well', 'Pity the Child' and 'You and I'.

This is a book for young and old. It offers practical information in a respectful way. I enjoyed it because of its wholistic approach to a subject (sexuality) that has been so misunderstood and misused by so many. I highly recommend this book.

As someone who helped playtest this module I just have to say it really adds something back to the Ravenloft setting that some of the recent modules have been lacking. DMs looking for an excellent challenge for mid to high level parties need to get this adventure and do mean things to good people!

Stan Rice's sardonic bitterness rivals even that of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece, "The Wasteland." This expansive volume of his work includes numerous examples of the extreme exhaustion and weariness of life that echoes throughout Rice's work. Poems like "Poem on Crawling into Bed: Bitterness" are exemplary of Rice's style, his bitter cynicism and his often-times harsh sarcasm. Also common to Rice's work is a rich imagery of animals, gods, and angels. But he uses these with a twist, and an often cynical one at that. He uses these images in an effort to understand the nature of humanity: where we've come from, where we are, and what we've done wrong. Rice's masterful use of language, metaphor, imagery, and unexpected rhyme make his work a pleasure to read, and his themes are universal ones that demand to be dealt with. Rice attacks these issues head-on with a harsh and bitter sense of consciousness.

This book covers the build up to the sinking of the Belgrano and to the Falklands war. Thatcher's determination for the war to proceed and her manipulation of the British public is horrifying.

In Julia Floyd Smith's book Slavery and Rice Culture in Low Country Georgia, 1750-1860, the unique economic system that developed in the tidewater region along Georgia's Atlantic Coast is carefully evaluated. According to Smith, the geographic and economic nature of rice cultivation fostered the development of a distinctive plantation culture, the characteristics of which were drastically disparate from that of cotton, indigo and tobacco plantations within the same state.

Rice cultivation, being a highly labor-intensive enterprise, required the employment of a more efficient system of slave labor than that of the gang system, commonly found on upland cotton plantations. Instead of the gang system, coastal rice plantations utilized the task system, whereby slaves were assigned specific tasks each day "designed to produce effective performance and served as a convenient measurement of labor requirements on various projects." The precise workmanship necessary throughout various stages of successful rice cultivation was more suitable to a single slave as opposed to a gang of slaves. Smith asserts that the task system provided advantages for rice plantation slaves, who unlike their counterparts laboring in the gang system, did not have to work from sunup to sundown. Task system slaves were able to engage in leisure time or recreation once their task was completed.

Tidewater rice plantations cultivated suitable tracts of land carved out of coastal swamplands. The unique geographic limitations of tidewater farming fostered the development of larger plantations with dense slave populations requiring efficient managerial oversight. Smith contends that not only did slaves influence the methods used in rice cultivation, where she is in agreement with historian Daniel Littlefield, they also played a valuable role in effectively managing plantations. Smith challenges the stereotyped image of the uneducated and brutal overseer by painting a picture of an experienced manager, successfully directing the operation of plantations and slave labor. Interestingly, Smith contends that many tidewater plantation owners relied more on drivers, themselves slaves, than on white overseers. According to Smith, "Overseers came and left and seldom developed a close bond with the owner. Reliable and trusted drivers remained on the plantation for a lifetime and were of invaluable service to the owner."

In Slavery and Rice Culture in Low Country Georgia, 1750-1860, Julia Floyd Smith argues that the slaves of coastal Georgia exercised more religious freedom and autonomy than slaves in other parts of the South in addition to developing a distinctive African American culture. Smith states, "Negro slave preachers had to be cautious and stress a doctrine approved by whites..." Smith adds that in addition to stressing a doctrine approved by whites, black slave preachers also aided in controlling slaves. Smith has potentially overestimated the religious autonomy of tidewater slaves by neglecting to fully account for the fact that the religion exercised by these slaves was one restricted by whites. By closely regulating religious freedom among slaves, slave owners were able to exert substantial control over their slaves, encouraging them to seek salvation only in God's heavenly kingdom. Smith contends that slaves were aware of this fact, and actually went to painstaking lengths to meet secretly and conduct services.

A distinct African American culture developed in coastal Georgia. This culture reflected the African origins of the slaves, including song, dance, language and family relationships. According to Smith, "They have created a cultural blending of the African and Anglo-American to form a distinct low country society in which the contributions and traditions of both may be seen." Although the slaves of coastal Georgia undoubtedly created a unique culture, this culture must have been fragile and subject to disruption. Instead of simply describing the nature of the distinct culture established by slaves in coastal Georgia, it is necessary for Smith to discuss the factors that challenged the establishment of this culture and contributed to its inherent fragility.

Finally, Smith merely alludes to the "matriarchal concept of the family as an institution" in coastal Georgia. This statement requires further analysis by Smith. Historian Orville Vernon Burton describes the patriarchal nature of slave families inland from the Atlantic Coast in Edgefield, South Carolina. According to Burton the slave owner acted as the patriarch of the slave family. Smith needs to elaborate by possibly attributing the remoteness and seclusion of many of the tidewater plantations with their matriarchal nature, given that slave owners often did not reside on the plantation itself.

Julia Floyd Smith presents a significant contribution to the study of the South. Recognizing the distinctiveness of the economic and social makeup of coastal Georgia enhances previous assessments of plantation society and challenges historians to reassess certain aspects of the antebellum south.

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