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cappuccino callosum divinestra's digital neuropsychology bookstore Selections by Anthony H. Risser, Ph.D. Consider using divinestra's bridging portal to amazon.com for your book orders. Click on individual book cover for specific ordering information or the "amazon" logo for additional titles. nonfiction < "Passage to Juneau" by Jonathan Raban. "Chihuly." "...The dizzying abundance of work created by Chihuly himself and his students-cum-assistants at his Pilchuk Glass School, and the enormously successful marketing of this art (Pilchuk, located near Seattle, is open to visitors), has lead some viewers to an overfamiliarity with the work. But art critics Donald Kuspit and Jack Cowart argue for its originality and importance in their introductory essays. (Perhaps overly so: Cowart compares the pieces to Matisse, Turner, and Walt Disney's Fantasia, while Kuspit evokes Freud, symbolism, and T.S. Eliot to argue for the works' seriousness of intent.) Even those readers familiar with Chihuly will be impressed with the capacious variety of form and function--candy bowls to chandeliers--captured in over 280 pages of photographs that exhaustively chart the artist's creations, along with the two essays mentioned above and a biographical time-line. For Chihuly fans who may not be able to afford a Chihuly original of their own, this book is the next best thing." -- John Longenbaugh, for amazon.com "Hidden in Plain View" by Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond Dobard. Quilts and quiltmakers have played an important -- though understated role -- in American social and cultural history. This wonderful, newly published account of the role of quilts as a secretive way to communicate information to those escaping slavery on the Underground Railroad provides further testimony to this simple fact. "At Home in the World" by Joyce Maynard. "Invisible Writer" by Greg Johnson. A biography of Joyce Carol Oates. "Granted privileged access to Joyce Carol Oates's letters and journals, as well as extensive interviews with family, friends, colleagues, and Oates herself, biographer Greg Johnson examines the relationship between Oates's life and work in this fascinating exploration of a complex and gifted artist." -- from the book. Nathalie Cooke's biography of Margaret Atwood. Also, "The Red Shoes" by Rosemary Sullivan. An acclaimed look at Atwood's life. "It's really a story of a female writer coming of age at a time when boundaries were opening up for women writers, and of a Canadian writer at a time of heady nationalism." -- Rosemary Sullivan interviewed in Maclean's magazine. "Girl, Interrupted" by Susanna Kaysen. "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone" by Deborah Madison. Yummy! Anthony Risser

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