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From:  (m19701)
Subject: Looking for old Calculus book
Followup-To: rec.arts.books
Organization: mitre.org
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:21:29 GMT

Greeting y'all.  I need help and I know art.books and math don't always go
together but, hey, its worth a try. . . 

My officemate, Rosemary (m22698), is in search of her old Calculus book. 
She has looked around the DC area with no luck.  My ribbing her about her
search has forced me to put up or shut up.  She bet me a freshly baked cake
(or pie) that I couldn't find a copy while I bet her lunch out tat I could.
 Now I'll probably take her out to lunch anyway but I really want a freshly
baked blueberry pie and the season is almost over.

Name of book:		Calculus: With Analytic Geometry
															by Roland LARSON and Robert HOSTETLER
															copyright 1980  by D.C. Heath and Company

It comes with a 3 volume Solution Guide which is also desired.  Solution
Guide has one additional auther  David HEYD.

Apparently there may also be a Student Solutions Manual by HEYD.

Rosemary is willing to buy these books.

Thanks in advance.

ed casey

(insert standard disclaimer here)
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From: ballard@panther.adelphi.edu (Terry Ballard)
Subject: Feynman bio
Organization: Adelphi University Swirbul Library
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 12:27:40 GMT


   The new Feynman biography is due out in October.  It just got a rave 
review in one of the latest issues of Publisher's Weekly.  They said that 
the author has plenty of anecdotes for those of us who enjoyed "joking," and 
he has done a solid job of placing Feynman as one of the major players in 
physics.  I'm looking forward to it too.
                
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From: spb0457@zeus.tamu.edu (SubGenius)
Subject: Re: Help! - Sticky Stickers!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:57:00 GMT

Reid Woolery writes...
>I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this but since you all love
>books I thought someone might know the answer.
>I have a collectable paperback book on the cover of which a stupid dealer
>placed a very stuborn adhesive sticker. Usually I can remove these things by
>applying heat with a hairdryer but this one won't loosen. Any suggestions on
>how to get the thing off without ruining the book?
>Please send replys direct to me at the address below. Any advice will be
>greatly appreciated.

+-----------------------------------SubG---------------------------------------+
I find that a bit of nalptha from the trusty ol' Zippo usually does the trick.












Yours etc.,




SubGenius
From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: books to avoid
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:51:26 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Sep11.162116.8679@nas.nasa.gov> wismith@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (William R. Smith) writes:
>
>I guess my oxymoron wasn't framed correctly.  When I was in Hawaii the
>concept of "Hawaii Time" was explained to me.  When something happens
>on Hawaii Time it happens whenever someone gets around to it.  Unhurried.
>Leisurely.  Tomorrow.  Hawaii time and wikiwiki seem incompatible.

Which reminds me of what the locals in Sierra Leone refer to as "West
African Internal Time," or W.A.I.T.  




-- 
Lauren Crawford  //  crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu

I believe we are on the irreversible trend toward more freedom and
democracy -- but that could change.   -- J. Danforth Quayle  
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From: wismith@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (William R. Smith)
Subject: Re: books to avoid
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 16:21:16 GMT

Fiona Webster writes:

	With regard to "wikiwiki," William R. Smith writes:
	>Seems to me the Hawaiian word for "quick" is an oxymoron.
	
	Since I'll bound joyously in the direction of any discussion of
	things Hawaiian these days, I'll explain a bit: "wikiwiki," like
	many Hawaiian words, uses the principle of repetition for
	amplification.  



I guess my oxymoron wasn't framed correctly.  When I was in Hawaii the
concept of "Hawaii Time" was explained to me.  When something happens
on Hawaii Time it happens whenever someone gets around to it.  Unhurried.
Leisurely.  Tomorrow.  Hawaii time and wikiwiki seem incompatible.



William Sburgfort Smith
Intel, SSD
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From:  (jmhodapp@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu)
Subject: Re: ... on Miss Manners (cough)
Organization: master/peon
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 16:25:57 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.162433.27724@athena.cs.uga.edu>, heath@athena.cs.uga.edu (Terrance Heath) writes:
> 

> I was wondering if anyone else out there is a reader of Miss Manners,
> or if there are any other etiquette buffs out there. I'd be intersted
> to here from you, if you're out there.
> 


My personal favourite Miss Manners column dealt with the problem of
how to drink a long-necked beer.  A business kept attemding  social meetings
with long necked beers and no glasses to pour them into.  He wondered if it was
acceptable to hold the beer by the neck and tilt it up.  Miss Manners' reply:

This is not high school. It is acceptable to go below the neck.  

She then followed with a description of the proper way to drink a longneck
(fingers on the label - to keep them drier- thumb at the back, pinky
extended.) 

Jon jmhodapp@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
-----------------------------------------------------
Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?
Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?

Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
From: matthew@.cs.mu.oz (Maciek Blasikiewicz)
Subject: Re: The White Man's Burden of Proof
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 09:11:47 GMT

jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes:

>In article <1992Sep9.170026.22202@cmcl2.nyu.edu> cruz@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Nancy Cruz) writes:

>   In article <9209062116.AA27492@cfdev1.shearson.com> mtaranto@shearson.com (Mark Taranto) writes:
>   >
>   >Professor McCarthy might like to know that "Insidious intent" was a
>   >literary allusion.  Someone might like to tell him what poem it is
>   >from.
>   >

>   Let us go then, you and I
>   when the evening is spread out across the sky
>   like a patient etherrized upon a table;
>   Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
>   the muttering retreats
>   of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
>   and sawdust restaurants with oyster shells:
>   Streets that follow like a tedious argument
>   of insidious intent
>   To lead you to an overwhelming question...
>   Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'
>   Let us go and make our visit.


>   Ah, Eliot.....


>   -- 
>   +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
>   | Nancy Cruz - a.k.a. "Tensha, the Icewoman" |   New York University    |
>   |      cruz@lab.ultra.nyu.edu                |Ultracomputer Research lab|
>   +--------------------------------------------+--------------------------+

>Woe is me.  I have to confess yet further literary incompetence.  Now
>that I see the context of "insidious intent" in "The Lovesong of J.
>Alfred Prufrock, I no longer have the remotest idea what Mark Taranto
>meant in suspecting Clayton Cramer of it.  

>I promise to take a literature
>course next year if someone will assure me that after taking it I
>will understand what Mark Taranto meant.

The benefits you gain from a literature course are your own responsibility. Are you so dependent on your mother's teat that you require another's
assurance of your success before stepping out into the big wide world?


Endek.


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From: tmaddox@netcom.com (Tom Maddox)
Subject: Re: books to avoid
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 07:28:01 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

In article <1992Sep7.013810.13862@micor.ocunix.on.ca> ve3pak@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Alayne McGregor and Brett Delmage) writes:
>In article <18den8INN1hg@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> br105@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey A. Del Col) writes:
>>>   What other phrases
>>>   get up your nose or otherwise serve to prevent you, like Socrates'
>>>   divine sign, from making sorry mistakes?
>
>Any title with "Loving" or "Love" or "Wicked" in it

	This would remove both _Love in the Time of Cholera_ and _Love
Among the Ruins_, both grievous losses.  And while I would object to the
loss of _Something Wicked This Way Comes_, others would.

	With regard to the more general topic: 

	Actually, I have trouble believing that any of the distinguished
r.a.b.ble are foolish enough to judge books by their covers.  Do remember
that writers have *no* say 99.n% of the time about what does and doesn't go
on the cover--whether idiotic words or phrases or pink & heaving bosoms.
-- 
				Tom Maddox
		    	    tmaddox@netcom.com
		   "I swear I never heard the first shot"
                Wm. Gibson, "Agrippa:  a book of the dead"
From: levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: ... on Miss Manners (cough)
Date: 10 Sep 92 18:41:40 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

heath@athena.cs.uga.edu (Terrance Heath) writes:


>I saw the subject line, and I just had to post.

>Of late, thanks to the encouragement of a friend of mine, I have
>become an avid reader of Miss Manners (a/k/a Judith Martin), mostly
>her books on etiquette ("Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct
>Behavior" and "Miss Manners' Guide to the turn of the Milleneum".)
>I've also picked up another book on table manners, "The Rituals of
>Dinner" by Margaret Visser.

>I was wondering if anyone else out there is a reader of Miss Manners,
>or if there are any other etiquette buffs out there. I'd be intersted
>to here from you, if you're out there.

I really enjoy reading this feminist activist masquerading as a humorist
masquerading as an etiquette writer. 

Of course some of this stuff (like not wearing white shoes after Labor
Day, or not putting labelled ketchup bottles on the table) is really
too silly. (If you are not an etiquette buff, and didn't grow up in
circles where such rules existed.)

But unlike my other favorite feminist writers (e.g., Naomi Wolf,
Cynthia Heimel) Ms. Martin doesn't only say things I already knew
much better than I could say them. She says things about the
culture I never would have guessed, but ring true when you read
them...

Lenore Levine
 
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From: alisg@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Subject: Re: [UPI] Report: Book censorship, challenges in schools at 10-year high
Reply-To: alisg@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 03:42:49 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.050058.28456@mv.mv.com>, mem@mv.mv.com (Mark E. Mallett) writes:
>In article <1992Sep1.214241.984@m.cs.uiuc.edu> kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
>>	The group said the most frequently challenged books during 1991-92
>>school year included Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck;
>
>What is the basis of this particular challenge?  I've not heard of it.
>(the complaint, that is... )

Many of the people who object to _Of Mice and Men_ find the language
objectionable; also the "low" characters, the sexual situations, etc. Since
this is often assigned or recommended in high schools and sometimes junior high
schools, parents usually constitute the majority of challengers, whether they
be "extremist conservative" or not.
>
>
>>	``More than one-fifth of all incidents were the handiwork of
>>extremist conservative groups or individuals at the national or local
>>level,'' People for the American Way reported.
>
>I'm curious as to why this is an impressive statistic.  What about the
>other four-fifths?
>
A good source of information about this and the many many other book censorship
cases which arise every year is the _Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom_
published by the American Library Association.


>Mark E. Mallett  MV Communications, Inc./ PO Box 4963/ Manchester NH/ 03108
>Bus. Phone: 603 429 2223    Home: 603 424 8129     BIX: mmallett
>Internet: mem@mv.MV.COM  ( uucp: ...{decvax|harvard}!mv!mem )
>Looking for news and mail in southern NH / northern MA?  Try MV!

george (former high school librarian)
From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Damned lit yokels
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:39:04 GMT
Organization: More like Dis~, really.
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

In article <1992Sep10.195556.20675@infonode.ingr.com>, James
Brock's friend, Mr 'Arrogant newbie fuck' writes:

> My associate James Brock (a fine writer, I must say, none of this 
> awful brand name, trademark, angst-ridden bullshit in his words)
> is loaning me this e-mail thing, and I am a novice to this type of
> modern communication tool, so give me quarter.
> 
> Now, what I want to say is this: you people should quit trying to 
> sound so intelligent and really read something. All this talk about
> books to avoid and best editions of some encyclopaedia. For
> F*ck's sake, loosen up.

Game Over.

Insert another quarter to play again.

Dac
--
dac@prolix.apana.org.au              David Andrew Clayton.           // _| _  _
dac@prolix.sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au      Canberra, Australia           \X/ (_](_](_
munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac        I post .
"I'm not a pheasant plucker ..."             . . I am.           +61 6 290 2215
From: saint@cats.ucsc.edu (Dan Bodenheimer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: rec.arts.mystery - INFO!
Date: 11 Sep 1992 06:49:24 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu
Summary: Discussion on new group going on!


There is currently a discussion going on in news.groups about a
proposed new group called rec.arts.mystery

Anyone interested should join news.groups and read the messages
concerning RFD: rec.arts.mystery.detective   (the last word,
detective, has been cut out by group discussion.)

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From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
Subject: Re: hectored by Hector
Originator: mnemonic@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 02:50:03 GMT

In article <15SEP199215085685@portal.lasc.lockheed.com> le01167@portal.lasc.lockheed.com (Ron Nadel (x2025)) writes:
>In article <1992Sep15.180343.29639@grebyn.com>, fi@grebyn.com (Fiona Webster) writes...
>
>>Just now, I got it.  I was thinking idly about the dream, and suddenly
>>I was replaying in my head a film version of "Troilus and Cressida," in
>>which the camera shows a dray horse running toward us, with Hector's
>>body bouncing behind on the dirt.  And then I thought of the woman
>>dragged behind her car.
>
>But you have just begun.  Why you thought of Hector's death in regard to the
>woman in the news, for example.  Your clever Subject may provide a clue to
>this, or not.

These are the times that troy men's souls.


--Mike



-- 
Mike Godwin,    |"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact 
mnemonic@eff.org| of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, 
(617) 864-0665  | both are transformed."
EFF, Cambridge  |                           --Carl Jung
From: proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: The White Man's Burden of Proof
Date: 7 Sep 92 23:19:39 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <1992Sep7.154850.27116@athena.cs.uga.edu> fuller@athena.cs.uga.edu (James P. H. Fuller) writes:
>proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts) writes:
>
>>>Indeed I hope someone will tell me what poem "insidious intent" is
>>>from. 
>>
>>Haven't been following this thread, but it is from Eliot's "The Waste
>>Land". Of was Eliot quoting someone else?
>
>    Hmmmmmm.  *I* remember it from _The Love Song of J. A. P._  Have Eliot
>verses been misceginating in the dark?
>
>                                             -- jf

No, you are quite right. I stand corrected.

Paul
From: sstover@sumax.seattleu.edu (Maven o'Mirth)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Chautauqua ? (Zen & the Art...)
Date: 11 Sep 92 17:30:33 GMT
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle WA

In article <1992Sep10.080414.1811@bnr.co.uk> br@bnr.co.uk (Brian Robertson) writes:
>I have nearly finished reading Zen & the Art... and the author 
>continually uses the word _chautauqua_ (sp?).  Although I have 
>more or less worked out what the word means, could anyone help
>me with its origins and use.  
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Brian
>
><<Usual disclaimers apply>>

I'm way behind on my r.a.b. reading, so someone may have educated you
already and will make me look silly...but I studied this book a while ago
with a woman whom I have no doubt is capable of locating existing
information (she had, in fact, corresponded with R.M. Pirsig on a couple
of occasions regarding how she went about teaching the book), but we could
*never* find the origins for the word chautauqua.  Clearly it meant a
journey illustrated through both speech and reflection...but other than
that I can't help you.  Good book, yes?  BTW, walking home to my apartment
last night I noticed that someone had spray-painted "chautauqua" on a
local graffiti-wall.  

--
Sheryl Stover				|  How passing fair is youth,
*>sstover@sumax.seattleu.edu<*		|  Forever fleeting away;
and Hemingway, feline philosopher	|  Who happy would be, let him be;
Watch this .sig for news of the		|  Of tomorrow, who can say?
upcoming album from Seattle's 		|	-Lorenzo de'Medici
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From: bh419@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ted B Samsel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Oinkies
Date: 14 Sep 1992 12:49:22 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Or The Apocalypse of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm>>>>>
-- 
Ted....
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From: yarnot@csusac.csus.edu (Jan Yarnot)
Subject: Re: Encyclopedia Brit.
Organization: Moi?
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 18:21:36 GMT

My Mom got a Pretty Good Deal in '88 at the library sale: the '80 edition 
for $90.  I've seen the facsimile first edition, too, and am lusting after
a copy of my own.  Anyway, the EB we have doesn't have the "Great Ideas"
volume or the Great Books, but does have the micro/macropaedia volumes,
and has proven useful to the students in the family.

-- 
---Jan Yarnot, net.grandma.-- | A lifetime of smirking behind your hand
                              | is a lot better than a few seconds of
                              | triumph.
CSUS depends on my every word.              Kinsella, _Box Socials_
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
From: tmaddox@netcom.com (Tom Maddox)
Subject: Re: Title of poem from scanty fragment?
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 06:44:03 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

	wagner@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu rewrites Yeats:

>       The best are gnawed by withering doubts

	Okay.  And what about--

	And the worst are filled with inappropriate jollity.

	Also--

	Some hairy thing shuffles off to Buffalo to the delivery room.


-- 
				Tom Maddox
		    	    tmaddox@netcom.com
		   "I swear I never heard the first shot"
                Wm. Gibson, "Agrippa:  a book of the dead"
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
From: BL.JYC@forsythe.stanford.edu (Jon Corelis)
Subject: Re: NPR & Freedom of the Press: Part II
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 17:40:32 GMT

In article <1992Sep5.162429.28860@morrow.stanford.edu>,
francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir) writes:

>Also on NPR today was an interesting and classic tale involving
>Liberalism and Freedom of the Press. No; for "and" read "versus".
>
>The employees of Walden Books in Georgetown have all been fired.
>This is how it went.

     [African-American staff of bookstore fired for refusing orders
      to display calendar for sale decorated with blatantly sexist
      and racist jokes.]

>Comments?
>

   My first comment is that this episode, based on the information
given, has nothing to do with either liberalism or freedom of the press.
There's nothing particularly liberal about being offended by gross
ethnic slurs, unless you want to consider not being an asshole as an
ideological stance.  And the phrase freedom of the press is generally
understood (especially when clad in august capitals) to refer to
constitutional safeguards against the government's interfering with the
discretion of newspapers and other communications media to publish what
they want to.  There may be certain ethical or even legal principles
involved in this instance, but, since neither the government nor a
communications medium is party to the dispute, freedom of the press is
certainly not one of them.

   Francis Muir must be really desperate for examples of leftist
political correctness to mock if he's reduced to trying to politicize an
episode like this.  There is still plenty of grist out there for that
particular mill; those of us who haven't long since gotten bored by that
game need hardly stoop to such barrel-scraping.

   My other comment is that on the information given this incident
should be considered a fairly typical labor-relations issue.  The book
shop in question had to weigh the costs of offending and demoralizing
most of their staff and some of their customers, as well as risking a
certain amount of public opprobrium, versus the benefits of profiting to
the extent that the calendars in question sold.  I'll leave it to the
conservatives among us, who tend to pride themselves on their
hard-headed business sense, to judge whether management in this case
choose the prudent option.
From: "dale patterson" <dale.patterson@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: npr & freedom of the
Date: 12 Sep 92 18:19:20 EST
Reply-To: "dale patterson" <dale.patterson@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

FM>From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)

FM>The employees of Walden Books in Georgetown have all been fired.

Walden Books fired local store employees for refusing to display for 
sale a calendar that they found racist, homophobic, and sexist. 
Elsewhere in cyberspace, I found the following message about Walden Books
refusing to stock a novel because of its content:

  Date: 09-11-92 (13:11)              Number: 10939
  To: ALL                             Refer#: NONE                                
  From: SANDRA SCOPPETTONE            Read: NO
  Subj: CENSORSHIP                    Status: PUBLIC MSG
  Conf: Gay-I (304)                   Direction: FORWARD                            

Hi,

I thought it might be interesting for you all to know that Waldenbooks
refused to carry my lesbian private eye novel, Everything You Have Is
Mine, now published in paperback by Ballantine!  Yes, because of the
content.  Dalton's and other chains are carrying it.  But Waldenbooks &
Coles (part of WB) won't.  Naturally they didn't carry it in hardcover
either but I didn't know about that at the time.

Sandra

  RNet 1.08I:ILink: Invention Factory BBS  New York  NY  212 431-1194

I haven't seen the calendar or read the novel, but I sense a double 
standard.  I may not being doing further business with WaldenBooks.

Dale
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