Secondary phloem of Calycanthaceae, (University of California publications in botany)

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Secondary phloem of Calycanthaceae, (University of California publications in botany)
Vernon Irvin Cheadle
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007DSFTI

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Footprint's Venezuela Handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide available for this most beautiful of South American countries. From Angel Falls to the Caribbean, Venezuela's many and varied attractions are covered in depth for the independently-minded traveller. It includes highlights of Venezuela illustrated with colour photography, practical advice on outdoor activities from scuba diving and white-water rafting to climbing hills and watching whales, comprehensive practical information on where to eat, what to eat and drink and keeping healthy plus unique colour maps to help plan a trip.

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Offers objective and tested recommendations.......2003-10-10

Now in a thoroughly updated and expanded third edition, Venezuela Handbook offers objective and tested recommendations of where to stay (including the best ecotourism ranches); informative and entertaining insights into the Venezuelan people and culture; full color "highlights" maps; and an improved Contents and Index pages for easy and rapid accessibility. The collaborative effort of Venezuelan experts Alan Murphy and Dan Green, the Venezuela Handbook is an invaluable resource for planning a business or vacation in this South American country so especially noted for its superb beaches, high-rise waterfalls, and exuberant wildlife.

useful info, no color pictures, hardcover, lightweight.......1999-10-01

500 pages, all B&W [not color]; hardcover, but light [~12 oz?], 4.5x7x1. Good intro section, 80 pages. maps are within the book, some full page, some smaller for details of city center, etc. Divided by geographical regions: Lima, 40pgs; North of Lima 40pg; Northern Peru, 70 pg; Arequipa & south, 35 pg; Lake Titicaca area 20 pg; Cusco area [includes Macchu Piccu etc, all the main Inca sites around Cusco] 45 pg; Central highlands 40pg; Amazon area, 30 pg. Travel tips, 25 pgs, good index of topics & maps. "tinted boxes" are little "essays" that are inserted into the flow of the more practical details, which are generally entertaining & informative. They may be as important as a "big picture" discussion of Macchu Picchu, to the fact that Pisac is known for a great place to buy beaded necklaces. I had no interest in the details on accomodations [hotels, eating, etc], as I was on an organized tour; but there are such things in there. also reviewed: Lonely Planet Peru, Rough guide Peru, and Insight guide Peru.

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A Great Book that covers various approaches to the business

There are better books

Self-serving and promotional--author should stick to charts

Helps brokers become successful and investors make money

An absolute must read for EVERY investment professional

Thriving as a Broker in the 21st Century
Thomas J Dorsey , and Thomas J. Dorsey
Manufacturer: Bloomberg Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Point and Figure Charting: The Essential Application for Forecasting and Tracking Market Prices, 2nd Edition (A Marketplace Book)

ASIN: 1576600661

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Tom Dorsey, one of the most energetic and high-profile money managers on Wall Street, has written the ultimate guide for brokers who want to get ahead now and in the coming years. Dorsey shows brokers how to shape their practices, how to build a strong, enduring client base, and how to tackle new challenges as the market evolves over the next decade.

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A Great Book that covers various approaches to the business.......2005-12-24

Tom takes the time to interview different brokers with different approaches/business models showing there's more than one way to skin a cat as a broker. Yes Point and Figure Charting is referenced throughout the book but you don't need an understanding of it because it is secondary, even tertiary to the books thrust: the varying ways top brokers have built there businesses. Admittedly, I am a follower of Point and Figure and a subscriber of Dorsey Wright & Associates. His other books are based on Point and Figure and it would help to have that understanding in reading his trading strategies book. For someone seeking direction within our industry, this is a must as a reference.

There are better books.......2001-07-14

This book may have been published, just to be published, but not to provide any worthwhile information for such an inflated price. There are some great books out there by Nick Murray, Bill Bachrach and Steve Moeller. Save your money - Stay away from this one..

Self-serving and promotional--author should stick to charts.......1999-10-15

I agree with the rest of the reviews--this was one big brochure. The only thing it's good for is pushing the author's point and figure business.

Helps brokers become successful and investors make money.......1999-09-20

The book consists of interviews with some of America's best-know brokers. They go far in revealing incidents and secrets they acquired during their long experience. Tom Dorsey, himself no lesser expert, interviews them in a clever way. He compliments what they are saying and prompts them with cues that sometimes trigger more details than they may have wanted to give.

Written for the broker the book is highly accessible to the average investor. The many real-life examples and useful practical advice will help new brokers succeed and investors make money. The issues range from the appropriate emotional disposition "the key to success for any broker is confidence" to the utility of technical analysis "the beauty of the Point and Figure method is there is no room for subjectivity."

Dorsey's insights extend into the 21st century. He has a clear vision of what the new century (technology and the Internet) has in store for brokers and investors.

Not to be overlooked are the book's two Appendices. The first one gives summary information on 350 web sites for brokers. The second presents the basics of the Point & Figure Charting technique, something that no ones is to better suited to speak about than Dorsey himself.

An absolute must read for EVERY investment professional.......1999-09-10

In this age of increased competition from on line brokers and do-it yourselfers Tom Dorsey provides you with the tools to compete effectively and confidently. He provides you with ideas on prospecting, building relationships, using technical analysis, and even creating partnerships.If you plan to stay in the brokerage business you should plan to read this book.

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Cost accounting: creating value for management.......2003-07-16

The book is good and easy to lernd.

Study Guide for Use With Cost Accounting: Creating Value for Management

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Study Guide for Use With Cost Accounting: Creating Value for Management
Michael W. Maher
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQJJFC

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"Encyclopedia" is a misnomer.......2003-11-26

I ordered this book as a gift for my 7th grade grandson. What I had in mind was a dog encyclopedia with a lot of pictures and information on various breeds. This book has no illustrations at all and is a topical guide to caring for your dog. Not exactly a coffee table attention getter (even for a seventh grader). For that matter, encyclopedias are usually long. This book is quite short.

For an adult who wants good practical advice about caring for a dog, its obviously very helpful. As a gift to a kid, its a dud.

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Encyclopedia of Dogs and Puppies
Barbara Woodhouse
Manufacturer: Berkley
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0425062546

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For those who want perfect piecing

Disappointed

Don't buy it for the front cover pattern!

A perfect and highly prized addition

Spectacular ideas

Quilt Mavens: Perfect Paper Piecing
Deb Karasik , and Janet Mednick
Manufacturer: American Quilter's Society
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1574329197

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For those who want perfect piecing.......2007-07-25

Excellent book for those interested in "New York Beauty" type blocks. The cd includes exact-sized, paper piecing patterns for 6-8 quilts. (Normally paper piecing patterns for one quilt equal the price of this book.) The cd is EXTREMELY easy to use, just click on the picture of the quilt or block and you're done. They print out beautifully on your printer and off to the sewing machine you go. The book provides all the necessary info for fabric yardage, cutting and assembly plus helpful hints to ease cutting and assembly. Book also includes gallery of other quilts by author. Probably not a good choice for a beginning quilter due to the curved piecing required for new york beauty blocks.

Disappointed.......2007-06-13

I also bought this book because of the quilt on the cover of the book and feel the publishers were dishonest by not including the pattern for the quilt. I wrote to the publisher and they did send me a bonus CD but the pattern pieces are not the actual size as they are on the CD that is included with the book. The bonus CD does not say how much to enlarge the pieces.

Don't buy it for the front cover pattern!.......2007-05-20

I bought this book because I liked the pattern featured on the front cover [it's also featured on the back cover, the front cover of the CD, as well as the back cover of the CD] but while the authors or publishers were fond enough of that quilt to use it four times to encourage sales they did not include the pattern in the book or CD. Sure enough, there ARE other patterns included, just not that one.

This is just dishonest.

I felt strongly enough about this subject to write letters to the publishers and the authors. This type of unethical behaviour should not be rewarded with book sales. Unfortunately, it does not seem to be a "one time mistake" with the publisher, American Quilting Society - the summer issue of "American Quilter" features a beautiful blue and yellow paper pieced quilt on the cover but you're wasting your time and money if you actually expect to find that pattern included in the magazine.

I buy pattern books and magazines for the PATTERNS - if the book is not going to include the patterns shown it rather defeats the purpose for me.

A perfect and highly prized addition.......2007-05-10

The collaborative work of quilting experts Deb Karasik and Janet Mednick, "Quilt Mavens: Perfect Paper Piecing" provides clear and easy to follow, step-by-step, fully illustrated instructions for creating perfect paper piecing for making distinctive quilts. Specifically designed to enable even the most novice beginner to make perfect narrow, sharp spikes, the 'quilter friendly' patterns will create stunningly beautiful and seemingly complex quilts utilizing the 'Mavens' method of construction. Along with offering an informed and informative text that is profusely supported by illustrations, "Quilt Mavens: Perfect paper Piecing" includes an accompanying CD containing all the patterns represented - making it a perfect and highly prized addition to personal, professional, and community library Needlecraft and Quilting reference collections.

Spectacular ideas.......2007-04-24

The book and CD contain wonderful and very creative foundation pieced ideas fof quilts.

Perfect Piecing (Rodale's Successful Quilting Library)

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Perfect Piecing (Rodale's Successful Quilting Library)
Rodale Press Staff
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Your step-by-step guide to perfect piecing.

More than 270 color, step-by-step photos and crystal-clear directions from the experts make each and every sewing session fun and successful no matter what your skill level is.

Here's just a sampling of what you'll learn:

* How to sew accurate 1/4-inch seams every time
* Innovative tricks for strip and string piecing
* Secrets for perfectly matched seams
* Five simple ways to make triangle squares (and when to use each one)
* How to sew pucker-free set-in seams
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Miniature to Masterpiece: Perfect Piecing Secrets from A Prizewinning Quiltmaker

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Miniature to Masterpiece: Perfect Piecing Secrets from A Prizewinning Quiltmaker
Nancy Srebro-Johnson , and Mark Wilber
Manufacturer: R C W Pub
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Pine Tree Quilts: Perfect Patchwork Piecing

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A veritable forest
Enhanced with a colorful gallery of quilts

Pine Tree Quilts: Perfect Patchwork Piecing
Lois Embree Arnold
Manufacturer: American Quilter's Society
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Make a forest of trees for a full-sized bed quilt, a stand of pines for place mats, or a tiny lone pine Christmas ornament. Includes the history of this enduring pattern and dozens of examples showing the amazine variety of strip-pieced, paper-pieced, and appliqued Pine Tree blocks. *Complete step-by-step illustrated instructions and yardages. *Includes 15 projects - fast and simple to masterpiece quality. *Contains a Walk in the Pine Forest gallery of quilts. *Traditional favorites: Log Cabin Pine, Pine Star, Redwood Forest, Territorial Trees, and more. AUTHORBIO: As a third generation quiltmaker, Lois Arnold has lived with quilts all her life. Being a 'country girl' at heart, Lois loves to be surrounded by antiques and traditional quilts, but she makes both traditional and innovative quilts. Lois began teaching quiltmaking in 1980 when friends asked her to teach them to quilt. Her quilts, wall quilts, and quilted clothing have been exhibited in galleries and quilt shows from coast to coast. Lois has won awards in local, regional, and national shows... REVIEW: A review from Quilt University says, "If you have ever been fascinated by this traditional pattern, you must have this book for your library. You will get your money's worth and then some. Before she ever gets to the 15 projects and their step-by-step instructions, Lois gives a history of the block, shows 48 different variations, and provides basic instructions for hand or strip piecing, applique or foundation.There is also a Gallery of quilts,both old and new, providing additional inspiration."

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A veritable forest.......2001-05-27

If you have ever been fascinated by this traditional pattern, you must have this book for your library. You will get your money's worth and then some. Before she ever gets to the 15 projects and their step-by-step instructions, Lois gives a history of the block, shows 48 different variations, and provides basics instructions for hand or strip piecing, appliqué or foundation. There is also a Gallery of quilts, both old and new, providing additional inspiration. Finally, on page 43, we start the projects designed for the book. They range from the simple paper pieced tree made with long strips for each layer of branches to the eye-popping pieced tree with more than 40 triangles. Each pattern is clearly explained with excellent graphics and written instructions. Many of the projects are small, allowing you to try different trees without making a lifetime commitment.

An extra bonus is the gorgeous quilting design that goes with Pine Star wallhanging, a classical beautiful combination of leaves, cones and swirls. It would make an equally impressive appliquéd border design.

Enhanced with a colorful gallery of quilts.......2001-03-18

In Pine Tree Quilts: Perfect Patchwork Piecing, needlecrafter Lois Arnold presents the variety and utility of Pine Tree blocks in quilt making. She offers step-by-step illustrated instructions for more than a dozen projects, some of them are fast and simple, others offer "masterpiece quality" quilting. Highly recommended for novice and practicing quilters, the informative, "user friendly" text is enhanced with a colorful gallery of quilts, fabric requirements, helpful tips, and grid charts.

A Perfect Match: A Guide to Precise Machine Piecing (The Joy of Quilting)

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A Perfect Match: A Guide to Precise Machine Piecing (The Joy of Quilting)
Donna Lynn Thomas
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The Perfect Fit: Piecing Together True Love

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The Perfect Fit: Piecing Together True Love
Julie Ferwerda
Manufacturer: Crazy Moose Publishers
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Ask your child to create a piece of art that you can frame and hang up at work.
Check out a library book on constellations and take your child into the backyard at night for some stargazing.
On a rainy day, make a fortress out of blankets and couch cushions in which you and your child can read, play a game, or just hide out.
Mail a surprise-a card, tape, or book-to your child from your office. It's very grown-up to get goodies in the mail!
Schedule a special time to rent your child's favorite movie. Then pop some popcorn and watch the movie together on the floor.

Vicki Lansky's bestselling books include 101 Ways to Make Your Child Feel Special, 101 Ways to Tell Your Child "I Love You," and the Practical Parenting series, which together have sold more than three million copies.

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Great way to get the ideas flowing.......2001-11-16

I gave a 5-star review to a book that's a "companion" of sorts to this one, by the same author: "101 Ways to Make Your Child Feel Special." Both books are wonderful in that they give parents inspiration on affectionate acts to show a child that they're loved.

"101 Ways to be a Special Dad" has somehow additionally managed to capture the kinds of things that fall in a dad's special sphere. It's a lot more than just a re-hash of the same material.

I recommend this book to any father, as a way to keep focused on nurturing a child in those ways that only a dad can.

A great gift for a new Dad.......2000-06-22

I gave this book to my husband after the birth of our second child. I was really impressed and touched by some of the activities suggested in the book. Some were so simple, yet things we don't think about when going about our busy lives. I think any Dad would enjoy reading it, but especially someone becoming a Dad for the first time.

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Against All Hope is Armando Valladares' account of over twenty years in Fidel Castro's tropical gulag as a result of his philosophical and religious opposition to communism. He gives a picture of the Cuba that he lived in and tells of how his deep Christian faith kept him from abandoning hope during the most evil treatment.

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Makes Shawshank seem like a Club Med.......2007-10-15

Another Amazon reviewer got it right when he wrote that this book should be given to all one's deluded friends sporting hip "Che" T-shirts. This eye-opening, stomach-churning account of the author's 22 years in Cuban prisons, the conditions of which make Shawshank seem like a Club Med, demolishes the romanticized memory of "freedom fighters" like Che and exposes the lie that Castro's Revolution created a socialist paradise. And it highlights Communism's inability to understand or erase one of the most important traits of human nature: our hunger for individual freedom and personal dignity.

Valladares wastes no time plunging us into a hell Dante himself could barely have imagined - on page one he is abducted in the middle of the night by the political police on trumped-up charges (having been denounced, he feels, by a jealous coworker for his disapproval of Castro's embrace of Communism), and before his prison odyssey is over, he endures and observes the worst extremes of totalitarian repression. The tension and the drama never let up, and often reach the breaking point. The litany of sadistic human rights abuses goes on page after page, every page; the degree of physical and psychological cruelty is so incomprehensible as to nearly defy belief. And yet Valladares and others maintain an almost superhuman strength of character and will to live that are inspirational and humbling. Amazingly, there are even flashes of humor and an ultimate triumph in this maddening and disturbing memoir.

Against All Hope is one of the most gripping books you will ever read. It has a compelling social conscience and an inspirational message of hope, faith, courage, determination, and even love, and it will leave you with a changed perspective on yourself and the world.

Cuban paradise.......2007-07-05

Give a copy of this book to all your friends wearing Che t-shirts. After so many descriptions of beatings and hunger strikes, you become numb to the next ones. I recall the AI campaigns in the 70s-80s to send letters and postcards to the Cuban and Soviet embassies just to remind them that the world was watching. Sadly today AI has degenerated into just another wacko outfit. The UN comes in for a beating of its own in this book, as it just sat back and closed its eyes, passing resolutions against Israel and other nonsense instead of putting pressure on Cuba. This continues today with Zimbabwe, NK, and others.

Take a look at "The Aquariums of Pyongyang" for a look at the same song, different verse.

A conscience's prisioneer life in Cuba........2006-03-19

I read this book, translated to the portuguese, here in Brazil, some years ago.It's a book about the decades, who this Castro's victim was under prision in Cuba.A nightmare's life and for more then two decades.
The failures of this book really exists.At first, the author don't tells you nothing about cuban revolution.In fact, never there existed a battle in cuban revolution.Fulgencio Batista simple scaped, without a single shoot.A mafia's man, whithout a single drop of moral or courage.This was really the true Fulgencio Batista.
At second he doesn't tells you nothing about the sucess of castrism in latin America and the catholic church "liberation theology".Having nothing of liberation and nothing of theology, the catholic church in latin America became a marxist organization.

A Great Chronicle Of Castro's Achievements .......2006-02-19

Castro has now ruled across the terms of 10 US Presidents. The secret of his longevity is not his popularity with the Cuban people, but rather his ruthless suppression of any dissent or competition. Valladares provides a keyhole view into this world of true terror and depravity.

Behind the warm white beaches where libbies from around the world find paradise there exist prisons where the brutality is only equaled by that of Stalin, Saddam, Mao and a few others. Any yet, like the American press' refusal to admit the terrible atrocities of the Soviet Union, these are happening in our back yard.

Those who claim to be against abuse of prisoners or the imprisonment of those whose only crimes are peaceful protest or political unreliability should take an evening to read this book.

It is not a comforting book and evening reading may lead to sleepless nights for the routine horrors of Castro's prisons are the stuff of nightmares. Without assurances of its validity, this book reads like fiction in that it is difficult to conceive that so much could be inflicted on another human who poses no threat.

Highly recommended

should be read alongside orwell and wiesel.......2005-11-14

This is a great book. It should be given to every sap and sucker who somehow finds merit in Castro's Revolution. Valladares chronicles the absolute repression at the core of Castro's regime. The torture and executions at La Cabana and Isle of Pines prisons are among the most brutal and extensive cases of barbarism any government has ever devised. The next time some Oliver Stone or Michael Moore type tells you about Castro's achievements such as a "high literacy rate," give them this book. And remind them that this is one book you'll never see in Cuba, or in an American college classroom that romanticizes Castro's oppression. This is the real "Animal Farm," folks: a powerfully written nightmare of tyrannical cruelty and the deep spiritual resilience needed to pull through.

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A hard book to read
A Heart-Wrenching Experience!
Monumental, Irrefutable, Unforgettable.
Complete propagandist hogwash
Against All Hope

Against All Hope
Armando Valladares
Manufacturer: Knopf
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Binding: Hardcover

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America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It

ASIN: 0394534255
Release Date: 1986-04-12

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A hard book to read.......2001-09-05

When I read this book I had to put it down at least seven different times; the barbaric cruelty of the jailers was that upsetting. For little more than a token show of distaste for Marxism, Valladares was imprisoned under the harshest conditions imaginable. The mind numbing sadism goes on chapter after chapter until you can't imagine how a man could put up with it. Valladares, thru sheer faith and belief that he'll survive, finds a way to survive the drawer cells, the white room, the extended solitary confinement in total darkness, the sleep deprivation, the horrible food, the immersion in a lake of human excrement, the brutal beatings and having to witness fellow prisoners maimed and killed.

His health, particularly his lung tissue, was permanently damaged. The description of his injury and its aftermath in the wake of his attempt to escape made me wince repeatedly. Having been on crutches 15 times myself I could feel his pain. God bless Amnesty International for helping to spring this guy.

When I read about the excoriation that Ron Radosh and David Horowitz endure from their former communist comrades I want to suggest that the complinants go live in Cuba and ply their demogoguery there. Then they can do time in Castro's jails and give us their opinion about his glorious revolution.

Read "Guerilla Prince" by Geyer as a compliment to this book; it's the story of Castro's life. Fidel, whatta guy. Valladares adds to the extensive record of what a horrifying sadist we have ruling an island prison 90 miles from our shores. All American communists-progressives-socialists should read this book, for perspective if nothing else.

A Heart-Wrenching Experience!.......2001-07-04

My cousin was also imprisoned by Castro following the Bay of Pigs Invasion in the 60's. He refused (and still refuses)to speak about his experiences, so my aunt loaned me the Spanish version of this book several years ago. I was fascinated but must admit that I was totally unprepared for the brutality and cruelty that those prisoners must endure. I cried the entire time, and the memory of what that book described will haunt me for the rest of my life. Now I want my children to read this account so that they will appreciate their heritage and the freedom that we enjoy in the United States.

Monumental, Irrefutable, Unforgettable........2000-09-13

In this monumental testimonial of his twenty-two years as a Cuban political prisoner, Valladares graphically recounts the executions, beatings and sadistic tortures that are a commonplace in Cuba's prisons. During his "travels" within the vast Cuban prison complex, Valladares crosses paths with the "Plantados," the brave men and women who refused "reeducation" inside Castro's jails, and who paid a terrible price as a result. More than a recounting of the horrors of the Cuban gulag, this book is an inspiring testimonial to the capacity of faith and love to overcome hatred and utter moral depravity. Sixteen years after its original publication, Against All Hope remains the authoritative English-language account of the depredations committed by the Castro regime. It adds yet another devastating chapter to the growing body of documentation on the crimes of totalitarianism in the 20th century. No one who reads this book will ever again see Fidel Castro and his revolution in the same light.

Complete propagandist hogwash.......2000-05-15

This tome (while imaginatively translated) is no more than a facile fabrication underscored throughout by a clear anti-Cuba political agenda. Read this book if you remain hooked on the Cold War and need ammunition as you continue your backwards march into battle with a long forgotten, inconsequential enemy.

Against All Hope.......2000-04-28

I read this book a few years ago and the images of heroism and injustice have lingered with me ever since. Valladares' account of his time in prison is a rare first-person account of the horrors of a tyrannical government. A truly outstanding work that helped me understand a world totally alien to me and most Americans.

Against All Hope: Resistance in the Nazi Concentration Camps 1938-1945

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An important chronicle, a serious historical contribution.

Against All Hope: Resistance in the Nazi Concentration Camps 1938-1945
Hermann Langbein
Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group
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An important chronicle, a serious historical contribution........1999-08-30

Herman Langbein is one of the best known Auschwitz historians, and this book chronicles, in painstaking detail, acts of resistance and defiance that took place in the nazi concentration camps. The book recounts simple acts of humanity between prisoners, far reaching acts of organised resistance (for example using the nazi's obsession with bureaucracy - people selected for extermination were saved by altering forms), to open acts of insurrection towards the end of the war.

Langbein, himself a key member of Combat Group Auschwitz, uses all the rigour and objectivity we expect of the serious historian. The book is an important contribution in these days when those who survived to bear witness are fewer and where the accounts by important witnesses such as Filip Muller, Hans Marsalek and Eugen Kogon, are out of print.

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Against All Hope
Vallandares Armando
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf
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Against All Hope (Harlequin Intrigue, No. 168)

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Against All Hope (Harlequin Intrigue, No. 168)
Laraine McDaniel
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Against All Hope - Resistance In The Nazi Concentration Camps 1938-1945
Hermann Langbein
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AGAINST ALL HOPE THE PRISON MEMOIRS OF ARMANDO VALLADARES

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AGAINST ALL HOPE THE PRISON MEMOIRS OF ARMANDO VALLADARES
Andrew (translator) Hurley
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf
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