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The southern fern guide, Southeastern and South-midland United States
Edgar Theodore Wherry Manufacturer: New York Chapter of the American Fern Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006CU7VY |
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Lonely Planet Boston: Condensed (Lonely Planet Condensed Guides)
Tom Given Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1864503262 |
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This informative and savvy guide captures the best that Boston offers in a practical, easy to use format. With opinionated reviews, essential travel tips and detailed fold-out maps, Boston Condensed has all the information the discerning visitor needs - for a day or a week, for business or for pleasure.
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Perfect for First Timers and Short Stays.......2003-07-02
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Trusted Mole
Milos Stankovic Manufacturer: HarperCollins UK ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0006530907 |
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My view of Trusted Mole.......2005-01-13
Valuable, but..........2002-01-06
Informed readers should be ready for some double-takes... and disappointments.
1. Stankovic's grasp of the Bosnian situation is simplistic and at times woefully ignorant. He declares that there was no separate "Muslim" ethnicity in Bosnia until the Western media created it, showing his ignorance of a crucial factor behind the Bosnian wars: the 1974 Consitution and Muslims-as-consituent-nationality issue. He recounts "rescuing" Sarajevans by "slipping" them out in official vehicles, clueless that he and other well-meaning UN personnel were doing the belligerents' ethnic cleansing for them ...and strengthening the Bosnian Serb hand. Perhaps most shockingly, he takes as gospel the Serbs' good faith behind an early "offer" to yield territory later for a cease-fire today. ...Stankevic slams the international community for not jumping on this supposed perfect opportunity.
2. .... His boss General Rose can do no wrong: even Rose's most naive and disastrous moves are depicted with something approaching hero worship. To Stankevic, it's unfailingly "us" (U.N., Britain, Rose) good, "them" (NATO, America, Wesley Clark) bad...Prepare for plenty of adolescent swagger and sneer.... Stankevic simply cannot separate himself from his subject. Any personal angle changes everything. He calls the thoughtful and respected U.S. ambassador John Menzies a "pro-Muslim fanatic," offering no reason for this intriguing characterisation except that Menzies apparently once questioned his judgement. Though he derides the idea that his Serb ancestry affected the performance of his duties, and indeed can criticise the Bosnian Serbs, he appears incapable of ever viewing the Muslim leadership with anything but cold suspicion or painting Izetbegovic et al in any but the most sinister colours.
4. Okay, it's a sideshow, but I for one would like to know the rest of the story behind his arrest. His introduction leaves him in a jail cell from which we never see him released. Was he ever exonerated? Fined? Sentenced? We're never given the opportunity to judge whether his detainment made any sense. We're simply to take his word that it was a trumped-up load of bureaucratic hysteria.
So if you're a subject expert, buy the book. You'll be able to make sense of what Stankevic witnessed, even if he obviously can't. If you're new to the Bosnian conflict, look elsewhere.
Another glorious failure.......2001-12-09
An insight into the day-to-day reality of the war in BiH.......2001-08-07
This is no "advocacy" literary piece. There are no sentimental biases or hidden agendas - it's so refreshing to read something which just sticks to the facts and tells the story as it is. As an Australian of part Serbian heritage I totally understood the "mentality" that Stankovic tried to convey, he did it so well, but unfortunatly I think this "mentality" is so foreign to your average westerner that a lot of the true gems of this book would be lost on them. Nonetheless, Stankovic has attempted to articulate it, and once you understand this "mentality" that drives the people of the Balkans, you will start to see why this war happened. That is not to justify the horrors of the last ten years in any way, shape or form - but I feel that this innate understanding of the "mentality" is what is perhaps lacking from most books on the subject.
It's a great read. Stankovic has portrayed the nitty gritty reality of the war in Bosnia, and provides an insight into the lives of the "little people" and the behind-the-scenes players that we otherwise never hear about because it's not newsworthy enough, or won't fit into someone's colour-by-numbers view of what is going over there... Or quite simply does not suit whoever's agenda.
This book is an important read for anyone with a serious interest in recent Balkan history. After being falsely slapped with charges of espionage and his military career in tatters, Stankovic has written a probably the best and most important book on the Bosnian war. Put it at the top of your reading list.
spellbinding.......2001-06-25
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Trusted Mole
Manufacturer: HARPER COLLINS 1 PAP ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000GSJHAA |
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Trusted Mole, a Soldiers Journey into Bosnias Heart of Darkness
Milos Stankovic Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000O8PL9I |
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Trusted Mole: A Soldier's Journey into Bosnia's Heart of Darkness
Milos Stankovic Manufacturer: Harpercollins Pub Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000O8MNJE |
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Flim-Flam Man: A True Family History
Jennifer Vogel Manufacturer: Scribner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0743217071 |
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One frosty winter morning, Jennifer Vogel opened the newspaper and read that her father had gone on the run. John Vogel, fifty-two, had been arrested for single-handedly counter-feiting nearly $20 million in U.S. currency -- the fourth-largest sum ever seized by federal agents -- and then released pending trial. Though Jennifer hadn't spoken to her father in more than four years, the police suspected he might turn up at her Minneapolis apartment. She examined the shadows outside her building, thought she spotted him at the grocery store and the bus stop. He had simply vanished.
Framed around the six months her father eluded authorities, Jennifer's memoir documents the police chase -- stakeouts, lie detector tests, even a segment on Unsolved Mysteries -- and vividly chronicles her tumultuous childhood while examining her father's legacy. A lifelong criminal who robbed banks, burned down buildings, scammed investors, and even plotted murder, John Vogel was also a hapless dreamer who wrote a novel, baked lemon meringue pies, and took his ten-year-old daughter to see Rocky in an empty theater on Christmas Eve. When it came time to pass his counterfeit bills, he spent them at Wal-Mart for political reasons.
Culling from memories, photo albums, public documents, and interviews with the handful of people who knew the real John Vogel, Jennifer has created an intensely moving psychological portrait of a charismatic, larger-than-life figure -- a father who loved her and whom, in spite of everything, she loved back.
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Shows the Duality of Man.......2004-05-07
Can't put it down!.......2004-04-05
A Gem.......2004-03-09
A Moving, Interesting and Highly Recommended Debut.......2004-03-07
Estranged from her father for years when he died, Vogel's guilt and sadness fuel this memoir. And so does her love for him and her understanding of his outlaw ways. She tries to get closer to him by examining his childhood (his father was absent and his mother emotionally distant) and his other relationships. Still, this is not a family history in the traditional sense. Vogel gives the reader sketches, impressions of her family more so than details and facts. The result is emotional, fascinating and quite personal.
Vogel's parents divorced when she was a child. Her mother, left to raise three children alone, was the disciplinarian. Her father's mystique grew. The children spent summers with him, driving in his fancy Cadillacs, spending time at his cabin, entertaining guests and having fun. But over the years Vogel pieced together truths about her father. Her mother told her early on that he was delinquent in his child support. To Vogel, his gifts and personality seemed to make up for this somehow. Yet how was she to balance out his other crimes such as arson? And how was she to make sense of the fact that her father had served prison time as a young man for a violent crime? Or what about his justification to rob a corporate retail chain for sociopolitical reasons by creating and passing counterfeit money? Or the armed bank robberies? How could his rap sheet sum up the creative and eccentric man she knew and loved?
It is not just Vogel's father's faults that are laid bare. Jennifer Vogel exposes herself as well. Despite his shortcomings, or perhaps because of them, Vogel felt a propinquity with her father's life of crime; she understood the need to subvert the system and had a distrust of authority. She eventually channels those tendencies in a way her father was never able to, and as she grew up she steered clear of the choices and mistakes her father made.
Moving between childhood scenes and 1995, the year her father was on the run from the FBI and Federal Marshals, Vogel tells the tale of her family with honesty and even humor. At first glance this appears to be a family unlike most, but she proves they share much in common with families across America. FLIM-FLAM MAN is the poignant story of a challenging father-daughter relationship. It is also about the struggle for the American dream: in John Vogel there was a not uncommon sense of alienation coupled with the not uncommon sense of entitlement. Here we read about a man who makes disastrous and dangerous choices his entire life, yet is also a loving and charming father. It is easy to understand why Vogel is so conflicted about him.
This is not exactly a book about forgiveness or recovery or anything quite as simple as that. Jennifer Vogel's short book is emotionally complicated but a joy to read. Both the joy and the complication seems a fitting tribute to the man presented in its pages: a loving and lovable father, and a career criminal. FLIM-FLAM MAN is a moving, interesting and highly recommended debut.
--- Reviewed by Sarah Rachel Egelman
A fascinating story from an intelligent writer........2004-03-05
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Flim-Flam Man: A True Family History
Jennifer Vogel Manufacturer: Scribner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000P8ITL4 |
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Veterinary Advice for Gundog Owners
Gillian Averis Manufacturer: Howell Book House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0876056427 |
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Combine the professional training of a practicing veterinarian with the love of hunting and the outdoors and you have the nucleus for an outstanding reference for every hunter who wants the right dog, wants to condition it properly and wants to keep it safe and healthy.Gillian Averis earned her degree in veterinary medicine in 1977 and maintains several successful practices. She combines her
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Now You're Talking!: All You Need to Get Your First Ham Radio License (Now You're Talking, 4th ed)
Manufacturer: American Radio Relay League ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0872597970 |
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now you're talking.......2007-09-09
Excellent resource for the technicians test..........2006-06-06
Highly recommended for your Amateur Radio Technician License.......2006-01-18
Great Companion Book to Gordon West's Technician Class Book.......2005-09-22
This book is all you need for a FCC Amateur Technicians License.......2005-09-16
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Now You're Talking!: All You Need to Get Your First Ham Radio License (Publication no. 139 of the Radio amateur's library)
Larry D. Wolfgang Manufacturer: Amer Radio Relay League ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000UUWW42 |
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Now You're Talking: All you need to get your first HAM RADIO LICENSE
Manufacturer: The American Radio Relay League ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000MHK4DY |
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1001 Pelargoniums
Hazel Key Manufacturer: Batsford ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0713482680 |
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1001 Pelargoniums.......2005-07-18
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Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes, Revised 25th Anniversary Edition
William Bridges Manufacturer: Perseus Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 073820904X Release Date: 2004-08-10 |
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Whether it is chosen or thrust upon you, change brings both opportunities and turmoil. Since first published 25 years ago, Transitions has helped hundreds of thousands of readers cope with these issues by providing an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful roadmap of the transition process. With the understanding born of both personal and professional experience, William Bridges takes readers step by step through the three stages of any transition: The Ending, The Neutral Zone, and, in time, The New Beginning. Bridges explains how each stage can be understood and embraced, leading to meaningful and productive movement into a hopeful future. With a new introduction highlighting how the advice in the book continues to apply and is perhaps even more relevant today, and a new chapter devoted to change in the workplace, Transitions will remain the essential guide for coping with the one constant in life: change.Customer Reviews:
Transitions.......2007-10-12
Bridging a unfathomable Gap in our life from work to retirement.......2007-07-17
Best Help for Job Changes.......2007-07-03
SPEEDY SERVICE.......2007-03-19
Very insightful........2007-02-13
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Our World in Transition: Making Sense of a Changing World
Diarmuid O'Murchu Manufacturer: Crossroad Classic ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0824518624 |
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In this book, O'Murchu pulls back from the chaos and confusion of the contemporary scene to examine the profound evolutionary changes that are taking place in and around us.
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Transitions : Making Sense of Life's Changes
William Bridges Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000JL32EQ |
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Transitions : Making Sense of Life's Changes
William Bridges Manufacturer: Addison - Wesley Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000RFTRKC |
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Transitions : Making Sense of Life's Changes
William Bridges Manufacturer: Perseus Books Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000HMDNT6 |
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Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth
Manufacturer: Wildside Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 159224212X Release Date: 2003-04-09 |
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The first scholarly book-length examination of the work of comics legend Neil Gaiman includes detailed analysis of his best-selling "Sandman" and "Death" series, a look at his work's relationship to Joseph Campbell, and such topics as "Living in a Desacralized World," "The Relationship of Dreams and Myth in Campbell, Jung, and Gaiman's Sandman," "Humanization, Change, and Rebirth: The Hero's Journey," "The Role of the Artist and the Art of Storytelling," and more.Customer Reviews:
Terribly Disappointing.......2007-09-14
Neil Gainman's The Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the MOdern Myth.......2007-01-18
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Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and Joseph Campbell : In Search of the Modern Myth
Stephen & Neil Gaiman (related) and Joseph Campbell (related) Rauch Manufacturer: Wildside Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000P0ZV7C |
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Neil Gaiman's the Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth
Stephen Rauch Manufacturer: Wildside Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000KY38VY |
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Neil Gaiman's the Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth
Stephen Rauch Manufacturer: NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MU2VBE |
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Archbishop Richard Creagh of Armagh, 1523-1586: An Irish Prisoner 0F Conscience of the Tudor Era
Colm Lennon Manufacturer: Four Courts Pr Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1851824731 |
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