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...Beginners is simply the best introduction to genetics you can buy. Sylvester and Klotz write in The Gene Age that molecular biologists "stand out among scientists as intensely visual, as imaginative rather than analytic." DNA for Beginners puts this visual imagination into pictures. And what pictures they are! Borin Van Loon's clever and exhaustive illustrations should be the required text for anyone who wants to design educational graphics...
Despite an occasional felicitous phrase--enzymes, for example, are described as "nature's answer to the blast furnace and the 10-ton press"--The Gene Age reads like a scrapbook of competent but unexceptional magazine articles. Sylvester and Klotz write clearly and chattily, but they lack a unifying theme. And their sections on the science of genetic engineering suffer from dull graphics poorly integrated with the text. Even the most sparkling writing could never explain molecular genetics without a good set of pictures; DNA for Beginners is thus far better for anyone interested in genetics out of pure curiosity...
...apparent reason. "Cardinal at first uses this image very successfully to suggest that the blood flows from a wound civilization imposed on her as an unformed child, But in the and she ever plays this image hitting the reader over the head with the idea. She seems to write best when she tries least...
Some see The Words to Say It as a novel about the experience of psychoanalysis. Analyst Bruno Bettelheim writes, "in my opinion The Words to Say It is the best account of psychoanalysis as it is seen and experienced by the patient." But Cardinal contends that her message is a more general one. "I never intended to write a book about psychoanalysis. I wanted to write about imperialism and colonialism. I wanted to write about the life of two women, a mother and a daughter. Since I had been analyzed, I decided to use psychoanalysis as a literary vehicle between...
Cardinal has become a prominent leader in the women's movement, but she claims her novels are not specifically about this activity. "I do not write for women; I write for myself. The process of writing is completely individual and natural. You must translate what you feel into words. The communication with the reader comes afterward. For me, writing is necessary--more necessary than financial success. If I wrote only for money, I am sure I would not be happy. I would rather be poor and write what I feel in myself, pushing...