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	Harvest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Harvest timing is critical, and involves a degree of risk and gambling, requiring an important decision each year, for each crop, that balances the likely weather conditions with the degree of crop maturity.
		Harvesting also encompasses the immediate post-harvest handling, including all of the actions taken from physically removing the crop, to sending it for further processing or to the consumer market, like cooling and preparation for initial storage.
		In Western Canada, the annual wheat harvest starts in late August or early September and farmers must balance readiness of the wheat versus the time before the first hard frost in the fall.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Harvest (575 words)

	Yojimbo (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This film, which starred Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake and is adapted from the novel by Dashiell Hammett is cited by Kurosawa as his inspiration.
		In Red Harvest, The Glass Key and Yojimbo, corrupt officials and businessmen are seen to stand behind and profit from the rule of the gangsters.
		Yojimbo was later remade as A Fistful of Dollars, a spaghetti western directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood; Youth of the Beast, a modern Japanese yakuza crime movie directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Shishido Jo; and remade, yet again, in a 20th century "gangster" genre, as Last Man Standing, starring Bruce Willis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yojimbo_(movie) (779 words)

	Harvest : A Novel of Medical Suspense : Tess Gerritsen at Audiobooks Online - Cassette, CD, MP3 audio books
		In a novel of harrowing suspense and brilliantly crafted plot twists, author Tess Gerritsen draws on her years of experience as a doctor to deliver an explosive thriller that makes her an indisputable star.
		Harvest vividly portrays a young woman doctor challenging a world where medical miracles and greed fuel a lethal conspiracy-and the bright lights of the O.R. conceal the ultimate corruption of genius.
		Unerringly authentic, with scalpel-sharp characterizations that rival Patricia Cornwell's, Harvest is an astounding debut....
	www.audiobooksonline.com /shopsite/0671046098.html (126 words)

	Utah firm.com Online Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Harvest Home (1973) demonstrated to many modern authors (Stephen King and Peter Straub both acknowledge borrowing heavily from Tryon) how horror novels don't have to contain creatures or aliens to be scary.
		Harvest Home is the story of a young couple who move to a remote hamlet in New England, known as Harvest Home.
		When you read this novel, you have to be able to imagine yourself in a time before Stephen King's novels (because he crafted several novels and stories based on material he gleaned from this book)...a time before modern horror cinema had bastardized all the really unique ideas that Tryon laid out in this book.
	www.utahfirm.com /onlinestore/page_us_0394485289_0_0.html (1032 words)

	Images of Social Change in Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest - Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The novel locates political and social criticism in a popular genre, and, at the same time, it gives a rough, though not always realistic, view of the corrupt character of the American society of the 1920s.
		In this novel the representatives of the official social institutions are constantly and repeatedly shown as corrupt and unable to fulfil their duties.
		This novel, though sharply commenting on the negative features of the era, concentrates more on showing things as they are rather than argues for a political solution; nor does it prefer any world view or ideology, as several critics have claimed.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=5001207780 (525 words)

	Books, Listed by Author
		Martin’s 0-312-91115-7, Jul ’88, $2.95, 156pp, pb) Horror novel: the undead stalk a young woman alone in a forest.
		* Harvest of Stars (Tor 0-312-85277-0, Aug ’93 [Jul ’93], $22.95, 395pp, hc, cover by Vincent Di Fate) [Harvest* of Stars] Sf novel which moves from an oppressive Earth to a near-space civilization, to the stars.
		* Harvest the Fire (Tor 0-312-85943-0, Oct ’95 [Sep ’95], $19.95, 190pp, hc, cover by Vincent Di Fate) [Harvest* of Stars] SF novella set in the future history begun in Harvest of Stars.
	www.locusmag.com /index/b12.html (2769 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Red Harvest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In "Red Harvest," the Op is summoned to Personville (known locally as Poisonville), where he is engaged by newspaper publisher Donald Willson, who is murdered before the agent has an opportunity to meet him.
		At first the novel feels like a traditional murder mystery; in its first half there are two homicides (among more than two dozen gangland-style assassinations) whose clues are scattered for the reader--and the Op--to solve.
		Not just a murder mystery, "Red Harvest" pursues broader themes: how corruption and greed poisons the inhabitants of Poisonville, how the Op is able to thwart the ambitions of various criminals by playing their own unprincipled game, and how his own abandonment of professional code nearly destroys the detective himself.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679722610 (1614 words)

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		Set in Poland during World War II, the 1958 novel Angry Harvest depicts the complex relationship, as well as the inevitable culture clash, that develops between a Jewish woman who escapes from a death-camp-bound train and the Roman Catholic farmer who harbors her.
		The same year as its publication Angry Harvest was adapted for Kraft Television Theatre, and less than 30 years later Polish director Agnieszka Holland brought it to the big screen, where in 1986 it earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film (it lost out to La Historia Oficial).
		Exasperated by a lack of progress in his case, Field tried to prompt his captors into putting him on trial or releasing him by engaging in a hunger strike in early 1951; while this failed to yield the exact desired result, it did bring tangible benefits–a chess set, books and, most important, writing materials.
	www.nypress.com /14/17/online/obit.cfm (2052 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Random Harvest
		Now, Voyager or Olivia de Havilland playing aunt to the son who doesn't know her in To Each His Own, some of the most splendid movies are those that don't hesitate to pour on the sentiment and melodrama.
		Hilton's novel is structured like a mystery: We meet Rainier in 1937, when he is an established businessman and a minor celebrity, and travel back into the past with him as he tries to fill in the strange hole in his life left by his missing years.
		Even today, the novels that inspired these classic films are still in print and winning over a new generation of fans.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/randomharvest.php (1812 words)

	Major Works: Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
		The "stir-it-up" approach prevails in Hammett's first novel, which emphasizes brilliant scenes, a traditional first-person narrator, dialogue that is funny, and action that is highly stylized, rather than plausible plotting or characterization.
		In return she reveals that "Max" killed the police chief's brother years ago; her error -– it is "MacSwain," not "Max" – leads to the revealed plot of the novel's mid-section: that MacSwain's old girlfriend Myrtle Jennision covered up the murder for him.
		Some took the novel to be an allegory about organized labor, even arguing that it was a Marxist critique of capitalism.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/Redharvest.html (1045 words)

	Harvest Home - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An oft-repeated phrase in a well-known Christian Thanksgiving hymn entitled "Come Ye Thankful People, Come," (words by Henry Alford; music by George J. Elvey);
		The title of a 1973 horror novel by Thomas Tryon.
		This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harvest_Home (98 words)

	Only in Butte -- The Seeds of Red Harvest: Dashiel Hammett's Poisonville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Whatever the origins of his inspiration, the novel that grew from the seeds planted in Hammett's imagination was Red Harvest.
		The novel was first printed as a serial in the magazine Black Mask, titled "The Cleansing of Poisonville." Personville is the name of the western mining town, twisted in the local idiom and pronounced as Poisonville.
		Red Harvest is the story of a detective who follows his own code of ethics in a world where all sides are corrupt.
	www.butteamerica.com /hist.htm (1466 words)

	The Alien Online - Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror News, Reviews, Articles and more... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Brown Harvest was concocted more or less by accident in the course of an extended email exchange between myself and the lovely Gordon Van Gelder, my then-editor at St. Martin’s Press in New York.
		This was a good thing, of course, because it meant that the novel would be meaningful even to those not so familiar with the source material.
		Four Walls are now distributing Brown Harvest in the UK and the sound of mirth shall be heard throughout the land.
	www.thealienonline.net /features/brown_harvest_aug03.asp?tid=3&scid=26&iid=1842 (1208 words)

	Harvest Home (Mabon)
		Despite the bad publicity generated by Thomas Tryon's novel, Harvest Home is the pleasantest of holidays.
		Often this corn spirit was believed to reside most especially in the last sheaf or shock harvested, which was dressed in fine clothes, or woven into a wicker-like man-shaped form.
		While in the past, most all were farmers, this harvest festival traditionally applies to the harvest of foods, yet in this day and age, the "harvest" may also apply to the "seeds of dreams and wishes" that were planted many months earlier.
	pagans.foolmoon.com /holidays/fall_equinox.htm (2369 words)

	Crab sale idea stirs up debate
		At the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and state water project pumps near Tracy in the Delta, the same exotic crabs are such a costly nuisance that millions were crushed and buried this fall.
		A Hong Kong-born American entrepreneur is proposing a win-win solution to this novel problem: Harvest the hairy-legged crustaceans and ship 'em across the Pacific for sale in Asian markets.
		The plan for the commercial harvest of mitten crabs, which are gumming up the works in the state's water pumps and aqueducts, will be examined in detail by the California State Fish and Game Commission on Dec. 3 in Eureka.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1998/11/27/NEWS16062.dtl&type=printable (756 words)

	HARVEST HOME by Thomas Tryon
		Where this lack of secondary characterization hurts the book most is in the character of Ned's wife, Beth, who remains something of a cypher through much of the book.
		Tryon appears to be going for a subtle shift in her as she comes under the sway of the widow and the town, and yet he feels he has to stage these melodramatic scenes--Kate's "death" and Tamar's "rape" in order to drive her motivations in distancing herself from Ned and in participating in Harvest Home.
		Where I think that Tryon succeeds is in his avoidance of the standard American Gothic horror novel, a la Stephen King.
	www.book-summary-review.com /HARVEST-HOME-0394485289.htm (1461 words)

	Dashiell Hammett, page 13: Chronology
		He wished to be judged on his novels only, and tried to leave no permanent record of his earlier works.
		Hammett also wrote the introduction (and is credited as the editor) of the horror anthology Creeps by Night (1931), and his work as writer of the comic strip Secret Agent X-9 (1934) has occasionally been collected in book form.
		In reality, this “new” novel is the joining of two previously published short stories from 1927.
	www.mikehumbert.com /Dashiell_Hammett_13_Chronology.html (2041 words)

	Review \| Vintage Hammett by Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		That's a big deal in a world where inane pop singers and talent-challenged "celebrities" barely out of their teens sign seven-figure deals for their autobiographies, and the third anniversary of some soon-to-be-forgotten reality show is considered newsworthy.
		Four of his five published novels -- Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Glass Key and, of course, The Maltese Falcon -- were first serialized in that magazine.
		So perhaps it's no surprise that The Thin Man was Hammett's last novel and major work of fiction, and that he never wrote much of anything else, as far as fiction goes, save for a handful of short stories, the continuity for the Secret Agent X-9 comic strip and a few uncompleted scraps of novels.
	janmag.com /crfiction/vinthammett.html (2284 words)

	Bookslut \| The Harvest by Scott Nicholson
		Scott Nicholson, with his second horror novel, The Harvest, establishes Appalachia as his area, a setting surprisingly underutilized by other authors, given the history of the region.
		The bootlegger's love for his wife, the teenager's conflicted emotions about the older women he's sleeping with, the minister's love for his daughter, all make the populace of this town one that you have to care about.
		That said, The Harvest is a surprisingly fun read, and much better than most of the Leisure and Pinnacle books you'll find in stores nowadays.
	www.bookslut.com /fiction/2004_02_001515.php (544 words)

	Jon A. Jackson - Go By Go Introduction
		On mature consideration however, I felt that it would be a great disservice to the memory of a writer whom I regarded as an inspiration: if my novel were successful, it would give wide dissemination to a canard.
		Hammett's first novel, Red Harvest, was set in Butte (fictionalized as Personville -- pronounced "Poisonville," by a "red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey," who also "called his shirt a shoit") and was only published on the condition that he make extensive revisions.
		Red Harvest is of interest to us these days primarily as a preview of Hammett's innovative style: it's not a great novel, though certainly an exceptional first novel.
	www.jonajackson.com /gobygointro.htm (547 words)

	The Ice Harvest : A Novel - shop.tech-archive.net Product Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A journey around town via strip clubs, topless bars, and masseuse parlors is what this short novel offers.
		Charlie is a mob lawyer who is about to leave town, granting last minute favors, and just wasting time until he meets with Vic.
		What has been described in one review as a slow first half to this novel is what is usually missing...
	shop.tech-archive.net /prod/asinsearch_0345440196 (242 words)

	Autumn 2000
		The scales symbolizing Libra are a direct link to the harvest, as this is the time where the farmers brought in their goods to be weighed and sold.
		Although our Pagan ancestors probably celebrated Harvest Home on September 25th, modern Witches and Pagans, with their desk-top computers for making finer calculations, seem to prefer the actual equinox point, beginning the celebration on its eve (this year, sunset on September 21st).
		The second of the pagan harvest festivals, Mabon (also known as the Feast of Avalon, the Winter Finding or the Wine Harvest) is the celebration of lifes renewal.
	www.crystalinks.com /autumne.html (2129 words)

	Unit on Vertebrate Organogenesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Based on initial mapping results, we have initiated fine mapping and positional cloning projects for nine distinct novel loci that likely represent previously undescribed genes important for vascular development (there are no obvious known candidate genes mapping near the selected loci).
		Our experience thus far suggests that our genetic screens will continue to yield a rich harvest of novel vascular-specific mutants and bring to light new pathways regulating the specification, differentiation, and patterning of the developing vertebrate vasculature.
		In collaboration with researchers studying related murine genes, we have uncovered novel robo and plexin receptors expressed in zebrafish blood vessels and examined their functional roles.
	nichddirsage.nichd.nih.gov:8080 /ar2004/pages/lmg/uvo.htm (1933 words)

	Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source for the Middle East
		I refer to that fl sheep of American literature, the nameless detective of Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest (1927) whose tactical doctrine is quoted above.
		Numerous films borrowed Red Harvest's plot outline, including Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Sergio Leone's For a Fistful of Dollars, Walter Hill's Last Man Standing, and the Coen brothers' Miller's Crossing, without, however, portraying Hammett's protagonist.
		That is why we never have seen American literature's most characteristic creation on the screen, which abounds with cynical tough guys, but cannot abide an intelligent one.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/FA27Ak01.html (1332 words)

	Jabootu's Bad Blogging Dimension: 2005-06-12
		John Huston’s adaptation of Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon is the best of the lot (albeit only after the book had been earlier brought to the screen with markedly inferior results), which is a bold statement, considering that The Thin Man, one of the most infectiously joyous movies ever made, was also taken from his work.
		However, Hammett’s scenario of a private eye who comes to a town so completely corrupt that the only hope of redeeming it is to coax the two rival gangs that run it into killing each other off wholesale was borrowed by Akira Kurosawa for his classic samurai film Yojimbo.
		Hammett had been himself an experienced operative for the famous Pinkerton Agency, and it was his experience that brought a real sense of verisimilitude to the Op’s often cartoonishly baroque adventures.
	jabootu.blogspot.com /2005_06_12_jabootu_archive.html (2142 words)

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		The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear: a novel - a review by Stuart Carter.
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		Two views of Russell's award-winning novel, The Sparrow: a review by Jon Courtenay Grimwood and A Case of Conscience for Mary Doria Russell by John D Owen.
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	EI > Video Risks > THE DARK SECRET OF HARVEST HOME (1978)
		One wonders if he was motivated to write horror stories by his equally horrific experiences as an actor working for Otto Preminger, who apparently verbally and psychologically abused him to no end while directing him in THE CARDINAL and IN HARM’S WAY.
		It seems utterly credible that those same scissors were used to expunge much of the story down to a presumably more commercial length.
		And while difficult to find on the shelf at the local video store, it is another gem available through the rental service The Video Library in Philadelphia.
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/videorisks/harvest.php (420 words)

	BookPage Mystery & Suspense Review: Harvest
		With the intensity and precision of the heart transplant surgery she writes about, Tess Gerritsen crafts a riveting thriller in her breakout novel, Harvest.
		Gerritsen enlivens the traditional thriller theme of an innocent led astray by an older, corrupt group with deft linkage between the suspense of the surgeries themselves and the rising dangers Abby faces as she refuses to quit her efforts to learn the truth about the transplant team.
		In the process, she accomplishes for the medical thriller what John Grisham achieved in his own breakout novel, The Firm: gut-grabbing tension that doesn't quit.
	www.bookpage.com /9609bp/mystery/harvest.html (314 words)

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