Edge Effects: Notes from an Oregon Forest (American Land & Life Series) - Tapa blanda

""Edge Effects" is a sweet, sane meditation on the state of our world in the American Far West. It should be mandatory reading for our warring timber merchants and environmentalists. Maybe they'd learn some sense. What a fine, hopeful statement. Chris Anderson is to be applauded." William Kittredge" "Anderson has provided a rich guidebook to his own country, and the walk he offers us is well worth taking." "Georgia Review"" ." . . he [Anderson] thoughtfully catalogues what makes a landscape pleasing and discusses the importance of learning to observe and read the forest slowly and regularly. Yet his affection for his surroundings fosters ambivalence: he becomes weary of the responsibility of having to learn about and master the forest. . . . Reflecting on his forest walks, he acknowledges feeling neither Thoreauvian intensity nor deep Benedictine contemplation; rather, the repetition 'has the effect of meditation or liturgy.'" "Publishers Weekly""

Chris Anderson is Assistant Professor of English and Composition Coordinator at Oregon State University.
Thomas Green, MD Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics Children's Memorial Hospital/Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois

Wayne Franklin, MD Physician-Director, CME Programs Associate Professor of Pediatrics Children's Memorial Hospital/Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois

Robert R. Tanz, MD Professor of Pediatrics Director, Diagnostic and Consultation Services Children's Memorial Hospital/Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois

This is a very impressive group of authors. Dr. Green is Chairman of Pediatrics at Northwestern, and Physician-in-Chief at Children's Memorial Hospital, one of the top pediatric hospitals in the U.S. (He succeeds James Stockman, who left the position to become President of the American Board of Pediatrics). Dr. Franklin is a pediatric cardiologist who coordinates all CME and recertification review activities for Children's, as such he is expert in the content of the recertification exam and its structure. Dr. Tanz directs the consult service at Children's and thus has a wide breadth of clinical knowledge. All three are widely published in the journal literature but this will be their first book.