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Onychophora, Chilopoda, And Lesser Protostomata (MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY OF INVERTEBRATES)
FREDERICK, ED. HARRISON
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No matter what your budget or whether it's your first trip or fifteenth, Fodor's Gold Guides get you where you want to go. In this completely up-to-date guide our experts who live all round the USA give you the inside track, showing you all the things to see and do ? from must-see sights to off-the-beaten-path adventures, from shopping to outdoor fun. Fodor's USA shows you hundreds of hotel and restaurant choices in all price ranges ? from budget-friendly B&Bs to luxury hotels, from casual eateries to the hottest new restaurants, complete with thorough reviews showing what makes each place special. The Smart Travel Tips A to Z section helps you take care of the nitty gritty with essential local contacts and great advice ? from how to take your mountain bike with you to what to do in an emergency. Plus, web links and mix-and-match itineraries make planning a snap.
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interesting but not thorough.......2006-08-16
I also bought their guides for new mexico amd arizona, and really didin't need this guide after all--it touches the high points in each state, but in western kansas, e.g., it didn't
touch on anything.
My First Choice.......2003-12-17
While on the road (Las Vegas, Arizona and New Mexico) I reviewed three USA guides (Fodor's, Frommer's and Let's Go) and, for those for whom money is not a primary issue, my first choice would be this guide.
Fodor's layout is great. The guide took you through a city in an intuitive manner. For example, in the `Exploring Las Vegas' section, instead of scattering the recommendations before you (as Frommer's did), Fodor's approached it from the point of you progressing down `the Strip'. Also, the guide only listed those sights (casinos) with "the most imaginative themes or attractive particulars."
The recommendations for accommodations were all `top drawer' and unique, but normally pricey. The restaurant and nightlife selections were great, always distinguishing and creative and worth the search to find. The maps in the guide did help, a bit, but this is a weak area that Fodor's USA needs to work on ( Frommer's USA has the best).
If you are a bit short on money, and cutting costs maters then check out `Let's Go USA'. If you are not financially challenged, and want to experience the best while you are on the road, then this is a great one volume guide. Strongly recommend 4.5 stars.
The best.......2001-01-27
easily the best guide of its kind. indispensible for anybody doing traveling of any kind. a must buy. detailed information on all kinds of sites of interest. maps are helpful. very comprehensive.
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Good study of the man and his impact on the nation's development.......2006-10-30
Eli Whitney ranks as one of the great inventors of American history. Associated in innumerable textbooks with the cotton gin that he developed, his contribution to the development of the American economy extended far beyond this simple device. Constance McL. Green explains his impact on our history in this brief biography, one that serves both as a study of his life and of the evolution of early American industry.
Whitney displayed his mechanical aptitude from an early age. Growing up in colonial Massachusetts, he preferred tinkering in his father's workshop to his various chores on the family farm. Though his family was middle class by the standards of the age, his request to go to college was nonetheless a considerable burden on the family finances, though one to which his father assented. Whitney attended Yale, which Green sees as a decision with critical consequences, as his subsequent career would be greatly aided by his fellow alumni.
After his graduation in 1792, Whitney's acceptance of an tutoring position brought him to Georgia, where he made the acquaintance of the remarkable Catherine Greene, the widow of General Nathaniel Greene. It was while he was staying at her plantation that he set himself to solving one of the most perplexing problems the South faced - how to process green-seed cotton cheaply. Here the author provides a valuable context, explaining the new nation's economic straits in the aftermath of the American Revolution. With America now cut off from most British markets and with her industry undeveloped, many believed that the solution was to develop a new staple product to export. The Industrial Revolution was stimulating a growing demand for raw cotton for the new machines to weave into cloth, but the green seeds of the dominant American variety were prohibitively difficult to separate from the fibers.
Eli Whitney solved this problem by building a machine the separated the seeds from the fiber easily. His new device, the cotton gin, was quickly seen as the revolutionary device it was, energizing the economy of a region that until then was bereft of a role. Filing a patent for it, he went into business with Greene's plantation manager, Phineas Miller. Their plan to gin cotton for 2/5 of the crop soon encountered hostility from numerous Southern cotton growers, however, who preferred to copy the gin and do it themselves. The subsequent legal battles dragged on for another decade, and resulted in judgements that brought in only a fraction of the money Whitney and Miller had hoped to make.
Yet Whitney's efforts on the cotton gin were to lead to an even more revolutionary innovation. To produce the number of machines believed his company would need, Whitney developed a standardized production process, one which he soon sought to apply to the production of muskets. After his struggles with marketing the cotton gin, Whitney turned to musket manufacturing as an endeavor that ensured a guaranteed income through federal contracts. His promise to deliver thousands of muskets rested not on a new design of the weapon, but on the application of his "uniformity system" to their production. This, as Green notes, was Whitney's "unique contribution to American industrial development . . his execution of a carefully-thought-out system, of which every separate type of machine was a part." Such a system offset the shortage of labor plaguing the young nation, and permanently transformed both American manufacturing and the American economy.
Green's book is a good examination of both the man and his legacy. Drawing upon a range of materials, it describes his inventions and his business activities in a clear and accessible manner. More than just a portrait of Whitney, it is a study of a pivotal moment in the history of the American economy and in the development of American technology, with lessons and insights that are as applicable today as they were in his age.
Eli Whitney.......2004-06-15
Excellent book! The author presents the life of Eli Whitney from birth to death, and all his accomplishments. I found that Eli was more gifted than previously thought and accomplished much more than is covered in simple biographies.
She shows how Eli was mechanical from a young age, and how through perseverence in the many tribulations he faced, he finally reached the success he desired.
The author used the letters and papers from Eli's life to write the biography and inserts their text throughout the biography.
Cotton Gin, what is that?!.......2000-10-17
When I walked in to class the first day of school , he told us get out some paper and write this down. I thought O.K. just probally those boring class rules again. He said read Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology,I thought oh how cool we get to read a book! So I found the book and read it.Here is my comments and summary.I was amazed to learn that we were not doing to good economical in the 1700s. England got mad at us because we were no longer doing things they hoped America would,so we went our way and they went thiers.America started declining in economics because we no longer had the machinery that England had supplied us with. We kept declining because we no longer knew how to do anything independantly. Suddenly we could grow cotton! Pulling the seeds out of the cotton was hard labor and the colonists could only produce 1 pound a day. Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin to make the labor of picking seeds out of cotton easier. He was not very good at reading, but doing figures was easy.This helped him majorly in inventing the cotton gin and many other inventions. If you are interested in America's struggle for economics in thr 1700s,I would highly recommend this great book.
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Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, born in Brittany in 1971 and 1976 respectively, live and work in Paris. They are freelance designers with an aptitude for creating items that are both simple and intelligent. Their innovative minds allow them to bring to life mechanisms that encompass numerous possibilities. Among other things they have designed furniture and objects for Cappellini, Vitra, Habitat and Iittala. They came to the world's attention through a number of exhibitions and received the Grand Prix du Jury International at the Paris Furniture Fair in 1998, the Grand Prix du Design de la Ville de Paris, the Best New Designer Award New York (1999), and a "Compasso d'Oro" nomination for the Spring Chair (2001). Their pieces belong to the permanent collections at the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and their design for an Issey Miyake A-POC space opened in Paris in 2000. They have had their own exhibitions at the Miyake Design Studio!Gallery in Tokyo and Galerie Kreo in Paris in 2001, and also at the London Design Museum in 2002. This book is conceived as a journey by the Bouroullecs around their work and world. During this journey they meet people with whom they collaborate, such as Rolf Fehlbaum (chairman of Vitra) and Giulio Cappellini (chairman of Cappellini), and who talk about the experience of working with them. They also visit places where they have realized products or exhibitions. Along the way the brothers present many realized and unrealized projects illustrated with drawings, sketches, models and photographs, most of them never published, that show the complex process of development behind each one. The images are accompanied by texts by the brothers that explain the history of the commission, the realization and, in some cases, the failure. This book, conceived, written and designed by the Bouroullec brothers, is the first in which they explain and present their work in detail.
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Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec - The Catalogue of Reason
Laurent Lebon
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form 186 Office Design
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form, the European design magazine, is issued in both German and English and belongs to the leading design magazines in Europe. Six times a year, renowned specialist writers report on the latest trends in industrial design, graphic design, and interaction design. Ever since 1957, form has been an authoritative source of information and inspiration to designers, entrepreneurs, lecturers and students alike. The internationally oriented magazine founds its reputation on thoroughly researched articles, lavish photo sequences, noteworthy interviews, a vivid layout and high print quality.
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Featured is Victorian art glass produced from the 1880s into the early 1900s in New Bedford, Massachusetts. More than 800 exquisite photos featuring Burmese, Peach Blow, Crown Milano, Royal Flemish, Colonial Ware, Rose Amber, Napoli, and Verona are provided. Included are sections showing biscuits, lamps, fruit bowls, salt pepper and other condiment sets, sugar shakers, pitchers, vases, and toothpick holders. In addition, there is a chapter of outstanding Webb Burmese examples. AUTHORBIO: Betty Sisk spent more than 30 years collecting and researching before producing her book, Mt. Washington Art Glass. REVIEW: More than 800 photos are featured in this picture price guide to America's premier Victorian art glass. Webb Burmese glass is included, and the book packs in clear and inviting color photos of the expensive pieces. It provides collectors with specific, important references to values and history. Clear color photos and succinct captions are supplemented by additional information about the various lines and makers.
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A definitive encyclopedia and outstanding reference!.......2006-03-19
Author Kenneth M. Wilson passed away before publication of his opus MT. WASHINGTON & PAIRPOINT GLASS - but he reviewed and approved the page proofs and had written two chapters of the projected second volume (which will be prepared in future using his research materials and illustrations), so nothing lacks in MT. WASHINGTON except the author's ability to enjoy his finished product. The Mt. Washington Glass Works and the companies after it make up America's second-oldest glass manufacturer: the factory opened for business in the mid-1800s and spun off another business in silver plating. Glass collectors will find MT. WASHINGTON & PAIRPORT GLASS the definitive encyclopedia of the manufacturer's works: the volume has been long awaited by collectors and provides an extensive company history to compliment an in-depth coverage of its many products. Chapters come packed with black and white and color illustrations and photos, providing descriptions and color illustrations of all glasses and silver-plated wares and reviewing design, craftsmanship and unique attributes. Add indexes of patents and trademarks, glass decorators who operated in the region from 1867 to 1902, and illustrations of ads, production records and more and you have a truly outstanding reference.
WOW-You Will Not Believe This Book-Beautiful!!.......2002-09-25
We have waited a very long time for a comprehensive book on this beautiful American art glass and Betty Sisk has provided us with a treat for the eyes! The photos are beautiful in full color and plentiful. I did not know that such examples of this artform existed until feasting on this book. All collectors of art glass must add this to their libraries. The information with each type of glass is insightful and just enough to ready the reader for the pictures to follow. The insight provided is both scholarly and from a collector's perspective. Prices are given in a fair range to give a fair market value. And what pictures there are to enjoy! Many glass types are well covered for the first time. This book will set a very high standard by which all other references on this glass will be judged in the years to come. We indeed owe the author a debt due to this subject's neglect until now. This is a must buy! We have waited a long time to get this book-thanks Betty!!
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Many gardeners are vaguely aware of the "greats" of plant exploration, such as E. H. Wilson, George Forrest, or John Tradescant. Fewer may know the names of today's plant explorers or recognize the makings of a new golden age of plant discovery. Nonetheless, a quick visit to almost any nursery will reveal the bounty of these intrepid plant collectors, whose handiwork enriches gardens everywhere. The Plant Hunter's Garden profiles 32 of today's more prolific plant hunters. From the Czech Republic to the Rocky Mountains, Bobby Ward has sought out those explorers in the private sphere who are collecting plants specifically for horticultural introduction. While providing interesting details on the lives and careers of these new explorers, the real focus of the book is on the plants themselves. Ward asked each of the hunters to choose the very best treasures from their years of collecting, and has sumptuously illustrated these jewels in stunning photos. Many plants in these pages became bestsellers quickly after introduction from the wild, but hundreds more underappreciated gems are sure to entice and surprise any reader of this book. From the comfort of the armchair or the potting-shed table, readers of The Plant Hunter's Garden can embark on their own voyages of discovery in these delightful pages.
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A Must Read.......2004-11-25
This is a great book for someone wanting to read about how and where different plants come from. Ward takes you on a journey of exploration making each of the entries in this book an adventure. I really enjoyed reading about the Sargents and Wilsons of our time and the great plants they have contributed to. I have already found some plants that I can't live without.
The photography is first rate making each plant stand out at you with its vibrant colors.
This book may not be for everyone, but is well worth a look from master gardeners and those curious about the evolution of plants.
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Die Kommagenischen Kultreformen Unter Konig Mithradates: Kallinikos Und Seinem Sohne Antiocus (Vno 1)
H. Waldmann
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Dancing With Principle: Hanya Holm in Colorado, 1941-1983
Claudia Gitelman
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In 1941, Hanya Holm, a German-American dancer and educator who would later become a celebrated Broadway choreographer, created a sanctuary for dance in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains at Colorado College. In Dancing With Principle, Claudia Gitelman details Holm's work during an amazing span of forty-three years. The Hanya Holm/Colorado College Summer School of the Dance in Colorado Springs educated many thousands on both sides of the footlights in the art of modern dance.
With exhortations to understand what they were doing and stick with their principles, Holm helped thousands of students with their craft. As Gitelman notes, many of her students went on to work in regional and national dance companies, and some even achieved international status as choreographers and company directors.
Fascinated by her own work with Hanya Holm in Colorado, both as a student and as one of Holm's assistants, Gitelman examined archives held by the Holm family and interviewed more than fifty of Holm's students, associates, and observers of the program. Describing the birth, constant renewal, and lasting legacy of an institution that has been overlooked in studies of American dance culture, Dancing With Principle will appeal to dance lovers and dance specialists, regional historians, and students of American culture and Colorado history.
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FROM THE PUBLISHER.......2002-07-06
Dancing With Principle Hanya Holm in Colorado
240 pages, December 2001, Univ Press of Colorado; ISBN:0870816446
by Claudia Gitelman
Fascinated by her own work with Hanya Holm in Colorado, both as a student and as one of Holm's assistants, Gitelman examined archives held by the Holm family and interviewed more than fifty of Holm's students, associates, and observers of the program. Describing the birth, constant renewal, and lasting legacy of an institution that has been overlooked in studies of American dance culture, Dancing With Principle will appeal to dance lovers, dance specialists, historians, and students.
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"A gripping story of courage, disillusionment, survival, and the triumph of the human spirit."—Sarah Durant, author of The Birth of Venus
Loyalties, beliefs, love, family ties: all are tested to the limit in one of the most devastating moments of human history: the siege of Leningrad during World War II. Boris Aleksandrovich, a well-meaning bureaucrat, thinks he can negotiate between idealism and politics. His daughter, Natasha, learns otherwise when, as a young woman in love, she is almost crushed by her father's compromises. Watching all this unfold is Irina. Wise, ironic, marvelous Irina, whom Boris had persuaded to go on an ill-fated voyage to the Arctic Circle, where she barely survived. When she arrives back in Leningrad, he feels honor bound to find her a position within his family circle. Irina comes to understand how love for another may, in the end, be more powerful and more profound than blind loyalty to an idea. Exciting and heroic, peopled with wonderfully complex characters, Ice Road is a masterpiece. A finalist for the Orange Prize.
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Excellent historical novel.......2006-09-06
Gillian Slovo's Ice Road is a great book. She deftly managed to weave together the compelling stories of a handful of people in St Petersburg in the midst of the first wave of mass killings in Stalinist Russia in the 1930s.
I have looked into this period of history for some time and am aware of all the debate surrounding it. The late 1930s (particularly 1937 and 1938) are the most well known period of mass persecution and have taken a large place in our historical consciousness. When someone refers to Stalinist totalitarianism, they refer to the 1930s. But anyone who reads Solzhenitsyn knows that this was not the period of the worst Stalinist excess - that belongs to the years following world war II. But we know so much more about 1937-38 because the people persecuted in it were intellectuals and writers who have left such a large footprint in the historical record, as opposed to the mainly workers and military people who were persecuted in the later period and remained largely silent.
Bit of a diversion, but yes, Slovo did a wonderful job of capturing this period. I didn't give it 5 stars on literary reasons (it could have used some editing), but as a historical novel the book succeeds brilliantly. One thing though - Kolya's family in all likelihood would not have learned that he was dead until after 1956. Many (perhaps most) people executed in the late 30s were disposed of in secret. Their families were told they were sent for ten years to a distant labour camp "without the right of correspondence" and their families would only find out years, if not decades later, that the person was killed soon after being arrested. In other words, the reality would probably have been even more heart wrenching and terrible than the picture Slovo paints.
All in all, this was a great book, and I wish more historical fiction was written of a period of history whose writing and reflection has been dominated by statisticians and economists rather than perhaps more literary types.
Deft, brilliant portrait of Stalinist Russia.......2006-07-22
I read this books six months ago and am still thinking about it -- and still dismayed that it seems not to have gotten the attention it deserves. Without being pedantic or sacrificing a wonderful and readable story, the author does a phenomenal job of capturing the paranoia and everyday cruelty of Stalinism, and gives us a harrowing glimpse of life during the Seige of Leningrad.
Highly recommended.......2005-09-10
Actually, it's a pity that this book got so little attention in North America. I can not be really objective, being born in Leningrad and living there for the first 20 years of my life. So, reading the "Ice road" returned me to the good - and not so good - old times in Russia. But this is not the only, and not even the main reason for me to enjoy the book. First of all, it is a real story. Well, it is real in a sense, that this story truly has happened to many people - and all of them had to go through grief, losses, betrayal, doubts... and this was the system that broke the people down. Read the book, and you understand how it works - something that will help you to discover one of those infamous "Russian mysteries".
Secondly, I was truly amazed to see that Slovo, who never has been in Russia, was able to find the right words, to paint the right atmosphere and describe all these Soviet hard idealists better than most Soviet writers that I know. This is a very impressive thing to perform from South Africa.
Bottom line? Highly recommended. If you want to read a really good book, which will make you both to turn the pages at 2am, to cry and to think, pick this one.
"...and all the world is buried deep.".......2005-03-29
In 1934, Irina Davydovna is sent on a fated Artic expedition, along the coast of Siberia and back. Trapped in the Arctic ice with her shipmates, the author perfectly captures Irina's sense of isolation, the eerie crackling sound of the ice floes pressing against the ship and the helplessness of their predicament in this frozen, indifferent world: "I have grown heavy with hope and with belief. I have dared to dream." In an enormous rescue effort, most of the crew is saved, including Irina, although the ship is lost to the depths of the ocean.
Later, Irina finds employment in the household of Anton Antonovich Abramov, once a close friend of Boris Aleksandrovich, and his adopted daughter. Although the orphan child, Anya, never warms to her more welcoming circumstances, Irina is content to have a place in the home of a respected man after the terrifying, near-fatal experience in the Arctic. Irina watches the metamorphosis of her nation, a woman given to obedience and respect for those in power. But these are dangerous times, neighbor spying on neighbor as those of questionable motives join the ranks of the disappeared.
The vital Natasha, daughter of Boris Aleksandrovich Ivanov, is in love with Kolya and eager for marriage. Natasha is in the bloom of youth, beautiful and covertly watched by many male admirers, her father's favorite child. The couple is married and has a child, Katya, when Kolya is arrested.
Natasha is bereft when Kolya is arrested, her life now precarious, a social outcast. Natasha marries the jealous, uninspired Dmitry Fedorovich, the epitome of an inflexible Stalinist regime, her one opportunity to secure her future and that of her daughter. Desperately unhappy, Natasha is riddled with questions about Kolya's fate, but fearful of her husband's power. In her distress, Natasha turns to her friend Irina, living alone with Anya since Anton's untimely death.
As Russia hurtles towards its date with destiny, the Germans mass on the Russian border. Leningrad prepares for a devastating siege and soldiers desperately dig trenches to protect the city from assault. Hitler is eager to subdue this massive country, while a flustered bureaucracy is decimated by those who flee from the city. The great experiment is in turmoil, under attack and unprepared, without provisions in a brutal winter.
With uncanny insight, Slovo defines society through the eyes of the women in this vast, white world where ideas are as rigid as the ice-covered terrain, proving there is room for passion, love and tenderness. It is the women who reflect the true changes in society, showing astonishing emotional growth, made stronger by their trials, losing the passive obedience of long habit. In spite of personal danger, Irina and Natasha form a bond that sustains them where others, fathers, husbands, have failed. Slovo's characters are surrounded by peril, betrayal and intrigue, but when survival is at stake, the women breathe life into the future, buoyed by loyalty and compassion. Luan Gaines/ 2005.
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-The massacre by Russian officials of unarmed workers assembled in St. Petersburg on January 9, 1905, inflamed world opinion and paved the way for revolution that year in what Lenin termed the "dress rehearsal" for the drama of 1917. Drawing on all available documents, Walter Sablinsky reappraises the events, especially the role of the volatile and often unpredictable Father Georgii Gapon, the young Orthodox priest who inspired and led the workers' organization. The author shows how he combined pious traditionalism and potentially explosive innovation to gather the workers into activities that began as little more than social events but culminated in the unforeseeable and terrible violence of Bloody Sunday. The Assembly of the Russian Factory and Mill Workers was one of the trade unions originally created by the Russian authorities as a means to deal with the labor problem that resulted from rapid industrial growth. It grew quickly, alarming business leaders as it increased in strength. Conflict was precipitated when several union members were dismissed from a plant. The Assembly violated the law by striking, the officials withdrew support, and the workers who gathered to appeal to the emperor were fired upon by the troops. The author provides a sympathetic but objective reconstruction of the workers' movement.
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- Light and Breezy Judaism
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And You Shall Teach Them to Your Sons: Biblical Tales for Fathers and Sons
Allan C. Tuffs , and
Paul Palnik
Manufacturer: Urj Press
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This provocative resource for men of all ages retells more than 15 biblical tales, recapturing a male perspective and providing archetypal models for discovery of a uniquely Jewish masculine voice.
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Light and Breezy Judaism.......2002-02-28
Rabbi Tufts makes it easy to be Jewish. This book makes me feel good about being a liberal Jew. It seems to me that the G-d wants us to be inventivee and creative. Tufts is a warm and gentle human being. The Paul Palnik drawings are interesting and happy. This is not a dotti (orthodox) approach to Judaism. That is why I like it. My brother likes it too.
When Jews are Democrats.......2000-02-13
This rabbi demonstrates what happens when Judaism is created by popular vote. No more commandments, no more tradition, no more loyalty; now we get suggestions, whats in, and dedication to what liberals want today. Even the spirited, interesting and clever drawings can't save this version of judaism-lite. Serious students of Judaism should look elsewhere for meaningful religion. The book reads like a boring dose of pool side chatter.Pass over this pampered, country club approach to Almighty G-d.
Modern Religion in America.......2000-01-06
This book was read as a religious school assignment by my whole class. We loved the quirky and delightful drawings and our group particularly liked the illustration of a rabbi flying off the page and out of the book. The author's suggestions on what it means to be a spiritual person are interesting and enlightening. Rabbi Tufts seems to encourage an almost effeminate approach to male spirituality that several of us found disturbing. Our class discussed the difference between accepting the femenine side to our male personalities and becoming a whimp. This book sparked much discussion and debate. Our religious studies class was not boring for a change.
Creative excellence in spiritual communication.......1999-11-25
This book is well written but what really makes it a modern classic is the art. ENORMOUSLY INVENTIVE AND UNIQUE drawings make this book a delight. A good book to discuss with young people.Each drawing must be studied to be appreciated.
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Charles Cameron Kingston: Federation Father
Margaret Glass
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Eight studies by American and European writers on the relations between Jean Monnet, founder of the European Union, and a wide range of Americans who supported his vision of uniting after World War II. The Americans include Presidents Roosevelt and Eisenhower, Secretaries of State Acheson and Dulles, journalists, government "insiders", and key policy makers including George Ball and John McCloy. An introductory biographical sketch of Monnet is by Richard Mayne, British writer and the translator of Monnet's Memoirs.
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- Sevander sheds light on unknown chapter in American history.
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They Took My Father: A Story of Idealism and Betrayal
Mayme Sevander , and
Laurie Hertzel
Manufacturer: Pfeifer-Hamilton Pub
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Binding: Paperback
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Sevander sheds light on unknown chapter in American history........1999-05-12
Mayme Sevander's book, "They Took My Father," sheds light on an almost unknown chapter in the intersecting histories of Russia, Scandinavia and America. The Autonomous Republic of Karelia, set up by the Soviet Union in the 1930s as an experiment in social engineering, was an enticing destination for many Finnish-Americans who were, at that time, enduring the economic hardships of The Great Depression. Sevander's family made up just a handfull of the some 6,000 Finnish-Americans who emigrated to Karelia, bringing with them American technical expertise as well as Finnish grit and determination. However, as Sevander describes, life in Karelia was far from the "Worker's Paradise" it was slated to become. A series of purges and disappearances shook Karelia's Finnish-American population. Karelia's two Finnish leaders were imprisoned and later executed as Stalin began his reign of terror over the USSR. Sevander's own father was arrested and later revealed to have been executed (his death certificates, both fake and real, were not officially released until 1991), leaving the remaining members of the Sevander family in a state of grim poverty. Striving to provide for her suffering mother and siblings, Sevander secured government work and climbed the long ladder from "Enemy of the People" (A title bestowed upon her father by the Soviet authorities) to a respected government worker, friend of future Soviet leader Jurij Andropov, and a member of Komsomol, the Soviet Communist Youth Organization. However, Sevander's story is riddled with hardship at every step, from her father's arrest and execution, to stints in exile in Siberia, to internment in a work camp after failing intelligence officer's training in the Red Army. Throughout her seemingly impossible journey, though, Sevander remains confident that communism, instituted under the right circumstances, is a feasable system and a worthy goal. Both Inspiring and saddening, Sevander's book offers a glimpse into Soviet Karelia and relates one tale of many - one tale of the over 6,000 tales of American citizens who endured unspeakable atrocities under Stalin's regime.
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