Land Without Laughter

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"In the veins of the men of Tataristan courses the blood of Mongol, Hun, Macedonian and Chinese…the fanaticism of Saladin’s and Tamerlane’s Islam, and a rich heritage of Chinese wile."

This is the land and these are the countrymen of Ahmad Kamal’s ancestors. A Muslim of Tartar stock, Mr. Kamal was born in America. His great-grandfather fought against the Russians in Central Asia. More than a century later, his American descendant returned to renew the battle in the 1930s.

Kamal entered Turkestan through India and Tibet, crossing in mid-winter the most formidable frontier in the world, the Himalayan passes. The account of this journey — under constant threat of extinction from falling avalanches of snow — begins a series of almost incredibly hazardous adventures, told with an authenticity that unrolls the whole richly colored tapestry of a strange, feudal, and barbaric land.

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Does anyone know this author.......2002-12-12

This book was a great adventure story. Whether fictionalized or not, its depiction of the time and place, Xinjiang in the 1930s, was extremely accurate (read with "Muslims and Warlords in Chinese Central Asia," by Andrew Forbes). Its incredible that an American could have found himself in such an exotic locale at that time. Indeed, I found the biographical sketch of the author quite incredible too. ...

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Land Without Laughter
Ahmad Kamal
Manufacturer: Charles Scribners Sons
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H5LXJ0

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Vietnam: land without laughter
Thomas Edson Ennis
Manufacturer: Cooperative Extension Service, West Virginia University
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006EUT42

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Interesting reading

What a strange but brilliant fellow...

Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche , and Christopher Middleton
Manufacturer: Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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Interesting reading.......2002-12-29

If you want to gain insight into Nietzsche's thinking outside of his usual philosophical writings, or follow his chain of thought throughtout his life, this collection of letters is somewhat helpful, but he does not seem to engage in the manner in which he does in his formal philosophical works. One of the features I found surprising in his letters is the courtesy he showed to his recipients. It is evident that Nietzsche treasured the friendships he had, and this is very apparent in his letters. And interestingly, I did not find any hostility in any of the letters addressed to Richard Wagner, considering the history of their relationship.

The book is well-edited, and there is an index of recipients near the end of the book. The editor also includes a general index with subentries that allow the reader to scan an entire topic. This is a helpful aid for amateur readers of Nietzsche, such as myself, but could also be helpful I think to dedicated scholors of Nietzsche.

I was only disappointed that more letters did not address more of Nietzsche's thinking on Dionysus and Apollo. It would have been interesting to read what he had to say about them via the "freestyle" of letter writing. Nietzsche's philosophical writings are actually the most frank and unrestrained of all in nineteenth-century philosophy. He is very honest with himself, and because of this he might be viewed as somewhat narcisstic by some readers. This may be true to some degree, but Nietzsche is refreshing in his style of writing, and actually it is quite entertaining to randomly move through his books and read his maxims and opinions.

The most interesting letter is the one addressed to Carl von Gersdorff on April 6, 1867. He is writing about what he has called "the scholarly forms of disease", and tells of a story about a talented young man who enters the university to obtain a doctorate. He puts together a thesis he has been working on for years, submits it to the philosophical faculty. One rejects the work on the grounds that it advances views that are not taught there. The other states that the work is contrary to common sense and is paradoxical. His thesis is therefore rejected, and he does not therefore earn his doctorate. Nietzsche describes the "not humble enough to hear the voice of wisdom" in their negative judgment of his results. Further, the young man is "reckless enough", in Nietzsche's view, to believe that the faculty "lacks the faculty for philosophy. Nietzsche uses this story to emphasize the virtue of independence: "one cannot go one's own way independently enough. Truth seldom dwells where people have built temples for it and have ordained priests. We ourselves have to suffer for good or foolish things we do, nor those who give us the good or the foolish advice. Let us at least be allowed the pleasure of committing follies on our own initiative. There is no general recipe for how one man is to be helped. One must be one's own physician but at the same gather the medical experience at one's own cost. We really think too little about our own well-being; our egoism is not clever enough, our intellect not egoistic enough."

He's right.

What a strange but brilliant fellow..........1999-12-11

This book is real fun to have, and shows a side of Nietzsche that is hard to come across in his formal works and the countless biographies. You can read first-hand the conflicts with his sister's anti-semitic husband, read his own giddyness about finishing a new book, and follow his decline into a state of insanity (during which he wrote the strangest letters of all). His wierd sense of humor is much more visible in his letters, which helps one to recognize when he is humoring himself at the expense of the suprised reader in his other works.

"Dear Professor: Actually I would much rather be a basel professor than God; but I have not yet ventured to cary my private egoism so far as to omit creating the world on his account. You see, one must make sacrifices, however and wherever one may be living..." (Jan. 6 1889, To Jacob Burkhart, from Turin).

Also, the index in the back of this book is very thorough, making it easy to find any person or concept that he deals with.

Note: If you are looking for other writers that write as intangible and beautiful as Nietzsche's works but less harsh on the world, try reading some Emmanuel Levinas, a briliant French Jewish Philospher who died in 1995, (Good book: Dificult Freedom)

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Selected Letters
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Manufacturer: Learning Links
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Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche
Christopher (editor-translator); Friedrich Nietzsche Middleton
Manufacturer: The University of Chicago Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LZW0A2

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SELECTED LETTERS OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Friedrich; Christopher Middleton, Ed. Nietzsche
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Binding: Hardcover
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Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche

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Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche. Ed. with a Preface By Oscar Levy. Authorized Trans. By Anthony M. Ludovici
Friedrich Nietzsche
Manufacturer: Doubleday, Page and Co.
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CATCH A FALLING STAR

Super resource!

Practical advice and action items

The Definitive Resource for MD Patients and their Families

Macular Degeneration: The Complete Guide to Saving and Maximizing Your Sight
Lylas G. Mogk , and Marja Mogk
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ASIN: 0345457110
Release Date: 2003-01-01

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The acclaimed book on macular degeneration—now completely revised and updated with cutting edge research and the latest developments in the field.

More than fifteen million Americans have age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and the disease will strike 200,000 more people this year. It is the most prevalent cause of vision loss in the western world. Dr. Lylas Mogk, the founding director of the Visual Rehabilitation and Research Center of the Henry Ford Health System, has a unique professional and personal understanding of AMD. A doctor and loving daughter of a parent with this frightening though manageable condition, Mogk here explains exactly what it is and how to limit its effect on your life. Reassuring and comprehensive—complete with illuminating first person stories of people with AMD—Macular Degeneration will help you or someone you love with information on

• Reducing your risk factors
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Plus a Low Vision Living Rehab program to help you read better, see better, and live independently!

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Excellent.......2007-01-12

This book is an excellent reference for someone who has just learned that they have Macular Degeneration. It has a wealth of information and actual stories from people who are going through the same thing. It sure helps to reassure the patient.

CATCH A FALLING STAR.......2007-01-10

THIS BOOK HELPED ME WITH EVERYTHING I WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MACULAR DEGENERATION. IT WILL BE A GOOD REFERENCE BOOK FOR THE FUTURE. MACULAR IS SOMETHING I MUST BE CONCERNED ABOUT IN MY FAMILY.

Super resource!.......2006-07-10

Anyone diagnosed with AMD needs to read this book--it is full of great information to help ease your mind. Also, the author includes updates on the latest medical studies.

Practical advice and action items.......2005-08-13

Very good reading on background of the disease, thoughts on how to treat/prevent for family members (there is some genetic component) as well as sufferers of the condition themselves.

The Definitive Resource for MD Patients and their Families.......2003-12-06

The Mogks' book is a must-read for all Macular Degeneration patients, their families, and their doctors. It is written in an intelligent but completely approachable style. It is very clear and user-friendly, chock full of advice, resources and information. I have recommended this book to all the MD People I've encountered, and I'm certain they have all been *enlightened* with the Mogks' fine work. Thank you so much, Lylas and Marja.

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Over four hundred winners from over 2,600 cookbooks across the country

BCE...The best cookbook EVER!

Best of the Best from America: Preserving Our Food Heritage One State at a Time (Best of the Best Cookbook)

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Gwen and Barbara, authors and editors of more than sixty-five best-selling cookbooks, including the Best of the Best State Cookbook Series and Recipe Hall of Fame Cookbook Collection, have traveled thousands of miles and evaluated hundreds of thousands of recipes in the course of their search from the Best recipes from the Best Cookbooks from every state in the U.S.A. In addition to these 414 outstanding recipes from over 2,600 of America's favorite cookbooks, the book includes interesting state trivia and photographs, plus inside stories from Gwen's Road Diary. You'll be entertained and fascinated by "We Did It!" - the story of Gwen and Barbara's quest to Preserve America's Food Heritage.

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Over four hundred winners from over 2,600 cookbooks across the country.......2005-11-07

Best Of The Best From America Cookbook by Gwen McKee and Barbara Moseley represents the authors' travels across the country evaluating thousands of regional recipes. The result: over four hundred winners from over 2,600 cookbooks across the country. Arranged by state and including a centerfold of color photos charting their journey, Best Of The Best From America Cookbook includes such winners as St. Louis Favorite Salad with lettuces, artichokes, onion, and more; New Mexican Green Chile Pinwheels, and Oklahoma Pecan Pie. No color photos of finished dishes in either book; but most recipes are so simple, photos aren't needed.

BCE...The best cookbook EVER!.......2005-07-16

This is, by far, the best cookbook I have ever owned! I have tried many of the recipes in this book with outstanding results. The cookbook does not go on the shelf...it stays right out on my counter. The recipes are easy to follow and yummy. My husband and I have started to rate every new dish that I make from this cookbook on a scale of one to ten...and I write comments and possible modifications in the margins. It has become a real buddy and I look forward to trying something new. There is plenty to choose from. This would make a great gift...especially to a person who is not overly comfortable in the kitchen, LIKE ME! This is a purchase worth every penny!

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The Raw Shark Texts

Unique book, with lots to keep your attention

The Raw Shark Texts is a compelling read and highly recommended.

Watch out for conceptual fish!

The Raw Shark Texts
Steven Hall
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A March 2007 Significant 7 Editors' Pick: Not since Fight Club have a I read a book that sizzled with such fierce originality and searing vision as Steven Hall's electrifying debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts. It's a twisting, trippy thriller that tears through the landscape of language, revealing the lurking terrors uncovered in every letter of the written word. Steven Hall swims in the same surreal waters as pop-culture pioneers David Lynch and Michel Gondry, and The Raw Shark Texts deserves to be shelved somewhere between Trainspotting and Life of Pi. It pulls you under like a riptide, leaving you exhausted, exhilarated, and gasping for air.

But don't just take our word for it. We asked Audrey Niffenegger, one of the most creative contemporary writers working today, to share with readers her take on Steven Hall's debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts. Check out her exclusive Amazon guest review below. --Brad Thomas Parsons

Guest Reviewer: Audrey Niffenegger

Audrey Niffenegger is a professor in the Interdisciplinary Books Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. A visual artist, she shows her artwork at Printworks Gallery in Chicago. The Time Traveler's Wife, her first novel, was an international bestseller and was one of Amazon.com's Best Books of 2003. It won several awards and is being made into a major motion picture. Her visual novels, The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress, were recently published by Harry N. Abrams. Miss Niffenegger is currently hard at work on her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, a ghost story set in London's Highgate Cemetery.

Eric Sanderson has lost his memory, his girl, his life as he once knew it. His pre-amnesiac self is sending him letters, a sort of correspondence course on how to be Eric Sanderson. Unfortunately, this previous self didn't really have it all together either. This is too bad, because the source of all the trouble is a conceptual shark, a Ludovician shark, no less. Soon Eric is on the run, trying to piece it all together and find true love before his mind gets wiped by the shark for the twelfth and probably final time.

Steven Hall is an inventive, funny and extremely smart writer. I am a letterpress printer and a typophile, and I was drawn to his book because of the typography: The Raw Shark Texts is riddled with typographic games, codes, a flip book, and a boatload of very elegant plot devices that hinge on collisions between the Information Age and the imagination. At one point Eric and Scout, his guide/love interest, are speeding away from the conceptual shark on a motorbike. Scout eludes the shark by exploding a letter bomb, a bomb made out of old metal type; the type diverts the shark into a stream of random letterforms. At this I practically fell off the couch with admiration.

There's plenty to groove on in The Raw Sharks Texts even if you're not a type maven. There's echoes of Cyberpunk, Borges, Auster; there is adventure on the high seas, lost love, an exploration of what it means to be human in the age of intelligent machines. The Raw Sharks Texts is huge fun, and I gleefully recommend it. --Audrey Niffenegger

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Creative Window Treatments : Curtains, Shades, Top Treatments & No-Sew Styles
The Editors of Creative Publishing international
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After 4 years of searching..........2002-10-29

I found it by accident in my local library about 4 years ago, and have been searching for my own copy ever since; it is, unlike so many books these days, well worth RE-reading on a yearly basis.

Being an avid gardening fan, and also a huge lover of those large, rambling properties that have been unkept and unloved for numerous years, watching this gentleman conquer the same was at times extremely amusing, fairly informative, and always interesting.

Also of note for those who like to compare cultures; the British point of view is definitely different from the American, and the historical perspectives that can be occasionally drawn from Mr Courtauld's lively prose are also worth thinking about, if not always pleasing to the ultra-sensitive PC American mind... :)

Strongly recommended for those who like gardening, reading about gardening, and occasionally reading about gardening without worrying too much about all the technicalities!

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An Axe, a Spade and Ten Acres: The Story of a Garden and Nature Reserve
George Courtauld
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good reference

A wide-ranging, eminently readable reference

The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child: Healthy Development from Birth to Adolescence
Linda C. Mayes M.D. , and Donald J. Cohen M.D.
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Children don't grow up simply by adding inches and pounds-child development is a much richer mix of physical, cognitive, social, and emotional growth. While children make progress at their own pace, parents can help (or, occasionally, hinder) them. Understanding the many ways in which your child grows is the essence of parenting, and if you appreciate the ebbs and flows of development, you can raise your child with more insight and confidence.

The Yale Child Study Center studies the life experiences of infants, children, and parents. The faculty-psychiatrists, psychologists, pediatricians, and educators-provides the unique combination of a solid grounding in the science of child development, an understanding of a child's point of view, and an appreciation of parents' expectations and experiences.

Problems arise, of course, in every family's life. Dr. Mayes and Dr. Cohen's reassuring approach helps parents understand the nature of a problem, their role in it and response to it, and when and where to go for help with concerns such as learning disabilities, bullying, sibling rivalry, mental health and depression, anger and other difficult feelings, and divorce. This classic guide will be an incredible resource in every family bookshelf.

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good reference.......2006-06-10

This book is good if you want a book that doesn't tell you how to parent, but rather helps you understand your baby/child. With the information in this book, you can make your own educated decisions on how to parent. It's very straightforward and it's easy to use it as a reference if you have a specific question.

If you're tired of books that tell you how you should be parenting but are interested rather in your child's development, this could be for you. It makes you think and is not a manual.

For example, in the sleep section, it doesn't tell you what to do, but rather the implications of different methods of helping your kid sleep and why your kid might be having trouble or falling into certain patterns (like maybe it's just part of development). This book really respects the parent-child relationship.

A wide-ranging, eminently readable reference.......2003-05-17

The collaboration of Linda C. Mayes (Arnold Gesell Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center) and Donald J. Cohen (Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center), The Yale Child Study Center Guide To Understanding Your Child: Healthy Development From Birth To Adolescence is a superbly practical and "reader friendly" guide for parents which compiles the findings and discoveries of the Yale Child Study Center (an organization first founded in 1911) in order to assisting men and women in finding their own parenting style, achieve balance between family and work duties, and acquire ways to strengthen the ties the bind their family relationships and deal with difficult issues arising from new siblings, to school bullies, to divorce and death. The Yale Child Study Center Guide To Understanding Your Child is confidently recommended as being a wide-ranging, eminently readable reference packed with solid information for parents and caretakers of children everywhere.

Guia Para Entender a Tu Hijo / The Yale Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child: Un Desarrollo Sano Desde El Nacimiento a La Adolescencia / Healthy Development from Birth to Adolescence

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Guia Para Entender a Tu Hijo / The Yale Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child: Un Desarrollo Sano Desde El Nacimiento a La Adolescencia / Healthy Development from Birth to Adolescence
Linda C. Mayes , and Donald J. Cohen
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SOUVENIR: A BICENTENNIAL SALUTE TO CHARLOTTE. VOL. I ONLY.

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SOUVENIR: A BICENTENNIAL SALUTE TO CHARLOTTE. VOL. I ONLY.
James M. (Editor). Dumbell
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Providing details of over 30,000 lives, the original Dictionary of National Biography was published between 1885 and 1900. This century has seen the addition of over 6,500 further names in Supplements taking the work up to 1985. This wealth of information is contained in shortened versions within the three volumes of the new Concise DNB. Covering British history from the first century AD Roman times to the mid-1980s, the Concise DNB recalls the lives of men and women from all walks of life, including many from the Empire and the Commonwealth. Previous editions of the Concise DNB extended only up to 1970. The inclusion of biographies of those who died between 1971 and 1985 brings the work up to date and the rearrangement of material means that the entire Concise DNB is available in a single chronological sequence for the first time. Providing the essential facts of each person's life in an easy-to-use form, this new edition also includes corrections to a number of entries and an expanded system of cross-references.

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