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Quiet Places: The Burial Sites of Civil War Generals in Tennessee
Buckner Hughes , and Nathaniel B. Hughes Manufacturer: East Tennessee Historical Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 094119910X |
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Saddam's Bombmaker: The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq's Secret Weapon
Khidhir Hamza , and Jeff Stein Manufacturer: Scribner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0743211359 Release Date: 2001-10-30 |
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"I am lucky to be alive," writes Khidhir Hamza on the opening page of this memoir, which reads like a thriller. Hamza describes how he helped Saddam Hussein design a nuclear bomb over the course of 22 years. He has an amazing story to relate, and with the help of collaborator Jeff Stein, he tells it remarkably well. It begins with his cloak-and-dagger escape from Baghdad in 1994, then goes back in time to describe the education he received earlier in the United States. Hamza returned to his native Iraq, and Saddam seduced him into accepting the comfortable life of an atomic scientist trying to build a bomb for a megalomaniac. Hamza presents a terrifying, almost psychotic portrait of Hussein himself: the dictator--a man with "yellow, lifeless eyes"--has a paranoid fear of germs and a taste for Johnnie Walker Blue Label. He's prone to drunken rages and relies on sedatives to keep control of himself: "His personality grew more erratic with the ups and downs of the drugs, the liquor, and the pressures of command." Hamza recounts a story told by one of Saddam's doctors, in which the strongman was found "stomping about his palace bedroom in a blood-splotched shirt" near the body of a woman whose throat was slit.Hamza was eventually kept under house arrest, and even threatened with torture. His escape was an astonishing feat, and the message he brought to the West is vital: "I have no doubt that Iraq is pursuing the nuclear option." The Gulf War slowed development, but failed to shut it down. The coalition that knocked Saddam out of Kuwait has fallen apart, and United Nations inspectors no longer try to keep him in check. Hamza urges policymakers to confront Saddam, and suggests that the CIA redouble its efforts to help topnotch scientists flee from their virtual captivity. If rogue nations experience a brain drain, he says, their capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction will suffer. Saddam's Bombmaker is hard to put down and essential reading for anybody interested in national security. --John J. Miller
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"DON'T TELL ME ABOUT THE LAW. THE LAW IS ANYTHING I WRITE ON A SCRAP OF PAPER." -- SADDAM HUSSEINIn a white-knuckle thriller, Khidhir Hamza, who spent twenty years developing Iraq's atomic weapon, recounts his life in Saddam Hussein's inner circle and his daring flight to the West.
Taking readers into the darkest corners of a regime ruled by a volatile, brutal leader, Dr. Hamza, the only defector who has lived to write a firsthand portrait of Iraq, also presents an unprecedented portrait of Saddam -- his drunken rages, his women, his cold-blooded murder of underlings, and his unrivaled power. If pushed to the wall, Saddam will use the bomb that Dr. Hamza helped create.
From the relentless dangers Dr. Hamza endured in Iraq to his harrowing flight across three continents and his first encounter with skeptical CIA agents who turned him away, Saddam's Bombmaker is a true-to-life thriller as rich in danger, intrigue, and personal courage as a well-crafted spy novel.
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The defector once responsible for Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program reveals for the first time what the CIA and Iraq desperately want to keep hidden -- that Saddam Hussein is devastatingly close to manufacturing nuclear weapons and has every intention of using them.Customer Reviews:
Book Has Problems But Is An Important Contribution.......2006-10-22
A small point of clarification...........2006-10-17
Recommended.......2006-07-22
A well-written memoir..........2005-10-28
Eye-opening and informative book. Easy to smuggle past the UN.......2005-07-15
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Saddam's Bombmaker : The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq's Secret Weapon
Jeff Stein , and Khidhir Hamza Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000C4T1LS |
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Saddam's Bombmaker: The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq's Secret Weapon (Unabridged)
Stein, Khidhir, Jeff Hamza Manufacturer: audible.com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Download ASIN: B000BND01W |
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West Coast Bodybuilding Scene: The Golden Era
Dick Tyler Manufacturer: On Target ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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o.k. book.......2007-08-16
OLD SCHOOL!.......2006-12-12
Wanna be Inspired?.......2006-06-04
Old School at it's Best!.......2005-04-18
dick is my step mom's dad.......2004-06-12
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Shake Off the Sugar Cookbook: Not all Carbs are Created Equal
Lynn Stephens Manufacturer: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 1589393031 Release Date: 2003-01-29 |
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Reap the benefits of controlling your carbohydrates and following a low glycemic dietary lifestyle. The Shake Off the Sugar Cookbook was specially created as a guide for starting and staying on a healthy, low carbohydrate diet. Offering more than 275 scrumptious recipes, you’ll find a glycemic index, shopping tips, nutrition information, as well as food exchanges and calorie counts for diabetics and others who need them. Whether you are in need of losing weight, diabetic, insulin resistant, or just want to make healthy dietary changes, this book provides a way to help you with those important lifestyle choices.Download Description
Reap the benefits of controlling your carbohydrates and following a low glycemic dietary lifestyle. The "Shake Off the Sugar Cookbook" was specially created as a guide for starting and staying on a healthy, low carbohydrate diet. Offering more than 275 scrumptious recipes, you'll find a glycemic index, shopping tips, nutrition information, as well as food exchanges and calorie counts for diabetics and others who need them. Whether you are in need of losing weight, diabetic, insulin resistant, or just want to make healthy dietary changes, this book provides a way to help you with those important lifestyle choices.Customer Reviews:
A Great Cookbook.......2004-03-24
The whole family can enjoy and benefit from these recipes without feeling they are on a "diet". No need to cook separate dishes for yourself. Even my daughter, who is in college and suffers from PCOS, has learned to choose her foods more carefully by reading the first part of this book. She is losing weight and received improved results from her last blood tests.
I like the variety of recipes, from appetizers to desserts. The meat recipes are interesting and varied, and every one I have tried has been delicious. The whole wheat cheese bread is especially good - better than other whole wheat bread recipes I have tried. I also love both the cheese and nut pastry recipes that make a super substitute for pastry with refined flour.I highly recommend this cookbook. This cookbook doesn't sit on my shelf. I actually use it!
A Helpful Cookbook & Guide.......2004-03-09
I had no idea as to how to begin making the changes to a low carb lifestyle. This book has guided me in making healthy changes in my diet and that of my family with advise, a variety of recipes, from breads to entrees to desserts. We are now cooking with whole grains, more fiber and healthier carbs and better understand the importance of making low glycemic food choices. Unlike a previous reviewer, I know how tricky it is to substitute whole grains for white flour. Whole grains are more nutrient rich than the refined flours, and many of the recipes in this cookbook have added fiber like oat and wheat bran. Although alternative sweeteners can often be substituted for sugar to achieve the same sweetness, the resulting dish can be a disappointment. This book contains recipes that combine sweeteners like granular alternatives, fructose, and agave, maintaining good taste and a decent texture in the recipes. I appreciate having recipes where the glitches have been worked out of this time-consuming substitution process.
The Shake Off the Sugar Cookbook has helped me to focus on the amount of fiber that is in the foods I choose. The simplified, straightforward suggestions for following a low glycemic diet, as well as the handy glycemic index of carbs, is also a nice resource to keep in the kitchen. Each recipe has nutrition counts, even food exchanges for diabetics. I highly recommend this book.
Don't bother.......2004-03-05
There are a few pages of shopping information which really didn't teach me anything.
Her favorite substitute for sugar is Splenda. You don't need a cookbook for that. The substitution ratios are on the back of the Splenda box last time I looked. I was disappointed in this aspect of the book. It seemed lazy. I was expecting something healthier and more creative than just substituting the newest chemical for sugar.
As far as recipes go I have the most trouble finding healthy alternatives for sugar in desserts, cookies, quick breads, puddings. There wasn't a lot in this book to help with that. Beside the rather lame advice to use whole wheat flour in place of white flour (they cause almost the same glycemic reaction) she didn't offer much. The recipes that make up most of this book were for things that don't contain much in the way of sugar to begin with. If you substitute the flour and Splenda there wasn't much difference between her recipes and anyone elses. Besides, how much trouble do you have with the sugar content of your Veal Piccata?
Save your money and skip this book. You can find more and better information just from surfing the internet.
A Cookbook You Will Use.......2003-03-29
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The Little Spotted Calf (Hutchings Little Animals Series)
Tony Hutchings Manufacturer: Mcclanahan Book Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1878624121 |
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Circular Work in Carpentry and Joinery
George Collings Manufacturer: Linden Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0941936481 |
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Thats what I was hoping.......2007-01-10
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Circular work in carpentry and joinery: A practical treatise on circular work of single and double curvature
George Collings Manufacturer: C. Lockwood and Son ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0008AXR3E |
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Grow Native: Landscaping With Native and Apt Plants of the Rocky Mountains
S. Huddleston , and M. Hussey Manufacturer: Fulcrum Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Grow Native: Landscaping with native and apt plants of the Rocky Mountains
Huddleston S , and M. Hussey Manufacturer: Apple Tree Image Publishers, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000M31HOS |
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Includes black and white drawings and descriptions including suggested uses, planting space, height, water, and exposure. also contains a separate section of color plates and a chart for esay comparative reference.
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Stedman's Medical Dictionary: Illustrated in Color
Thomas Lathrop Stedman Manufacturer: Williams & Wilkins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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Stedman's Medical Dictionary.......2006-03-23
Stedman's Medical Dictionary.......2006-02-09
Excellent.......2005-03-10
Must have Doctors.......2004-03-05
The most useful dictionary in ur office.......2003-05-22
- Numerous colored illustrations including ADAM Anatomical Art, new diagnostic plates e.g. imaging and clinical and microscopic plates.
- Common medical abbreviations.
- Highly organized vocabularies.
- Highly organized entries and cross-references.
- Special reference to medical eponyms.
- Shows the difference between British and American spellings.
- Pronunciation key.
- Easy & simple Wordfinder.
- Genus Finder.
- A-Z vocabularies.
- Origins of the medical words e.g. Latin, Greek etc. which attracts me for the most ! Learning the origins of the medical words can be a boon to learning medical language. It makes remembering medical terms easier.
- Appendices including: Table of elements & their atomic weights, Comparative temperature scales, Temperature equivalents, Weights & measures, Symbols, Laboratory reference range values, Blood groups, Diagnosis related groups, Certified Regional Poison Control Centers, CDC Universal Precautions, AIDS - resources (By State), AIDS Hotlines (By State), and AIDS education & training centers (By region).
- 27th Edition comes in 2098 pages, and was published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins company (great company by the way!), 2000.
I wish there could be Stedman's Dictionary on PDA handhelds (e.g. Palm) in the future.
I strongly advise medical students and other health care workers to use this invaluable dictionary. 10/10
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Stedman's Medical Dictionary: Illustrated in Color
Thomas Lathrop Stedman Manufacturer: Williams & Wilkins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000RBWA6Y |
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The Pursuit of Wisdom and Other Works by the Author of the Cloud of Unknowing (Classics of Western Spirituality)
James Walsh Manufacturer: Paulist Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0809129728 |
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This volume contains six works written by the great fourteenth-century mystic, the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing. Presented here are: "The Pursuit of Wisdom" (the author's translation of Richard of St. Victor's treatise "Benjamin Minor"), his translation of Pseudo-Dionysius' mystical theology entitled "Denis' Hidden Theology," his free development of St. Bernard's homilies "The Discernment of Spirits," and the treatises "The Assessment of Inward Stirrings," "A Letter on Prayer," and "A Letter of Private Direction" often entitled The Book of Privy Counseling.In his masterly preface, George A. Maloney states that Ut is in the burning love of the author for Jesus Christ as indwelling and risen that techniques are seen always as subservient to the essential Christian teaching of mystical union with Christ and through him with the Indwelling Trinity. The fruit of such 'darkness' spirituality is seen as an outward movement toward active service on behalf on other human beings to co-create a better world through a loving synergy with the indwelling Trinity."
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Good second installment from the Cloud author.......2006-11-17
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The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom
Naomi E. Maurer , Vincent Van Gogh , and Paul Gauguin Manufacturer: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0838637493 |
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great reference book.......1999-04-26
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The Butchers, the Baker: The World War II Memoir of a United States Army Air Corps Soldier Captured by the Japanese in the Philippines
Victor L. Mapes , and Scott A. Mills Manufacturer: McFarland & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 0786406364 |
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Twelve hours after Pearl Harbor, Clark Field in the Philippines was attacked by Japanese aircraft. Among the survivors was Private Victor L. Mapes, who spent the next three years fleeing from and then being imprisoned by the Japanese military machine. When the tide of battle in the Pacific turned against the Japanese, Mapes experienced more harrowing conditions than before. After his unmarked prison ship was torpedoed by an American submarine, the wounded author struggled in the water against the elements and the enemy, as the Japanese tried to kill the escaping POWs.Mapes' memoir chronicles a gruelling three-year ordeal that was punctuated by strange and often amusing encounters with fellow Americans, Japanese, Filipinos, and the fierce Moros of Mindanao Island. The memoir includes photographs and maps, as well as a bibliography and index.
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An incredible story........2003-10-02
A Great Man has now left the world of the living........2003-08-28
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The Butchers, the Baker: The World II Memoir of a United States Army Air Corps Soldier Captured by the Japanese in the Philippines
Victor L. Mapes , and Scott A. Mills Manufacturer: McFarland & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0786433175 |
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The Butchers, the Baker: The World War II Memoir of a United States Army Air Corps Soldier Captured by the Japanese in the Philippines
Victor L. Mapes Manufacturer: NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MU94CI |
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