Book Description
Half a century after he fought there as a young lieutenant of Marines, James Brady returns to the brooding Korean ridgelines and mountains to sound Taps for a generation. It's been 15 years since Brady first wrote of Korea in The Coldest War, drawing raves from Walter Cronkite and The New York Times, which called it "a superb personal memoir of the way it was." In the spring of 2003 Brady and Pulitzer-winning combat photographer Eddie Adams, a couple of old Marines, "gentlemen rankers off on a spree," flew in Black Hawk choppers and trekked the Demilitarized Zone where it meanders into North Korea, interviewing four-star generals and bunking in with tough U.S. Recon troops, in Brady's words, "raw meat on the point of a sharpened stick." The two Marine veterans bond with this handful of youthful GIs confronting the loopy and nuclear saber-rattling North, in a contemporary Korea which just might become the war we have to fight next. Brady recalls that first time on bloody Hill 749, the men who died there, what happened to the Marines who lived to make it home, and experiences yet again the emotional pull of a lifelong love affair with the Corps in which they all served. With consummate skill James Brady summons up the past and illuminates the present, be it the Korea of "the forgotten war", the Yanks who fought there long ago or today's soldiers standing wary sentinel over "the scariest place in the world". The result is uplifting, inspiring, often heart-breaking, and this new Brady memoir proves as powerful as his first.
Customer Reviews:
From what I hear, its a good book!.......2007-01-19
I bought this book as a xmas present for my grammpa, he was a marine who fought in Korea the same time the author did....He is half was through it, and he is really enjoying it. Can't say enough good things about it!
Great read.......2006-11-04
I loved this book. I served in Korea with USMC during the exact same time frame. It brought back many memories
A sell for "The Coldest War".......2006-09-23
As a previous reviewer I thought that Brady's book would be more of a focus on the DMZ and perhaps show some insight into "the scariest place." I did enjoy his war time reminiscences but that wasn't why I purchased his book. I didn't particularly care for his 'how he belatedly was awarded the Bronze Star,' and chumming around with colonels and generals at galas and such as it sounded like 'how great I am after all.' Oh, and by the way, Senator Chafee was my CO. I got tired of Mr. Brady selling his earlier pub,"The Marines of Autumn" (which is a fine read) but in particular I did not like him pimping (perhaps a bit too strong) his "The Coldest War." There are sections of the book where he cites this book seemingly every other page. After awhile I started to feel a bit sorry for Mr. Brady which is too bad as I'm sure that he was a fine officer for his Marines of Dog Company. It's an ok book for what it is but it really isn't about "the scariest place."
Reunion with Combat.......2006-04-06
The Scariest Place in the World by James Brady. Published by St. Martin's Press 11 April 2006. Paperback. ISBN 0312332432.
$14.95US.
The Scariest Place in the World is the latest missile by James Brady to remind the world that the Korean "Police-Action" should not be limited to a paragraph or two as in the recent history books.
It was a "real" war, fought by "real" men, who "really" died leaving empty chaits at many a table around the world.
The book is written speaking of the realities of war in a "tough-love", macho, politically incorrect style that will jar the reader awake causing them to remember those three years (1950-53) of warfare in which 37,000 American service men and women paid the ultimate price to stop the onslaught of communist aggression.
Captain Brady tells of his indoctrination in the United States Marine Corps which contributed in forming the basis of his love of the Corps but more so the love of the men he served with, partied with and fought with.
The book is a journey back in time, (remindful of "The Viet Journal" by James Jones), through the rigors of basic training providing backbround for stories for one's children and grandchildren that deserve to be told.
There are biographical sketches of Senator John Chafee, Maurice "Mack" Allen, John Fitzgerald, Nathaniel "Taffy" Sceva, et.al., which are written lovingly as a tribute to the lives of these men and the women who loved and supported them. The memory of the funeral of Senator Chafee must have been most difficult to attend as it was a memory.
The book is not devoid of humor as at times Brady's telling of an incident brought on a chuckle or two. But it would have had to been exerienced to understand the reason for the chuckle. In the same vein, a tear was shed at times by the memory stirred.
The unabshed emotion(s) of the author are as open as any I have read. Brady doesn't mask his love for his compatriots-in-arms, expressing his love not for dramatic flare, but to tell them and the world "This is how I feel and it is also the Raison d' etre for the book".
James Brady dedicated the book to all who fought in Korea and provided to those who will not make the journey back a return from the comfort of an easy chair.
It is an easy read and thoughful. Try it!
A warm look back at a cold and scary place.......2006-03-17
Man... Talk about crabby... Everyone else who's reviewed this book so far here don't seem to be impressed. But I always enjoy James Brady's writing and this book was no exception. It's a memoir, of course. The underlying theme of the book is the march of time and how one looks back at -- or in this case, returns to -- a specific geographic place where youthful impressions were made, ideals died or changed... Where a young, unsure Marine officer discovered he did, in fact, have what it took to lead Marines in combat.
Those looking for edge-of-your seat combat with Marines gunning down on-rushing human waves of Chinese infantry will be disappointed. This book is more like a love letter to youth and to the Marine Corps. And taken in that context, it's a fine book and a satisfying read.
Amazon.com
Arthur Evans leapt into the public imagination with his 1900 discovery of Crete's Palace of Knossos, interpreted as the lair of the mythical Minotaur. Though his findings were a crowning achievement of archaeology's golden age, then, as now, questions have been raised about Evans's excavations and the conclusions he reached. In the richly detailed Minotaur, Joseph Alexander MacGillivray, who has himself excavated Crete, suggests that the man who gave us the very term Minoan provides a prime example of "how archaeological discovery occurs first in the mind." By examining Evans's life and work through his actions and correspondence, MacGillivray shows that Evans's evidence was "fully, even exaggeratedly exploited" but rarely reviewed. Adventurous, energetic, and highly observant, Evans also displayed "single-minded arrogance," "pomposity and manifest racism"--traits that invited misinterpretation, MacGillivray writes. The book also incorporates an interesting history of war-torn Crete and the Balkans as well as Evans's involvement in the region's politics. It finally outlines modern theories on Minoan civilization, though the "Palace and surrounding buildings are crumbling as fast as Evans's intellectual reconstruction," so that solid proof of any thesis is increasingly problematic. Fascinating as a portrait of the man who "gave the world a new chapter in its ancient history" and for its portrayal of the developing discipline of archaeology, Minotaur also poses some important questions about whether archaeologists are ever impartial observers. --Karen Tiley
Book Description
The intrepid Englishman who shaped the way we think about Europe and the Middle East.
Sir Arthur Evans was the diminutive, fiery archaeologist who, at an excavation in Knossos in 1900, discovered what he called the Palace of Minos and presented to the world his stunning re-creation of Minoan civilization. This is the first biography of a flamboyant and very influential man--written by a scholar with unparalleled expertise in the archaeology of Crete.
When Evans went to Greece after a mediocre career as a journalist in the Balkans, Heinrich Schliemann had recently uncovered what he claimed were Troy and Mycenae, famed cities of Homer; Evans, too, wanted to verify the factual basis for the myths that meant most to him. He found what he was looking for in Crete: he believed he located the origin of "tree and pillar worship," at the heart of Teutonic mythology in Europe but somehow linked to an early cult of the Greek god Zeus.
Joseph Alexander MacGillivray shows that Evans in fact anticipated what he found. Evans's Minoans were perfect Victorians: a peaceful, literate, aesthetic, just society where wise men held political office and powerful women ruled the people's hearts. Yet Knossos was not simply a lucky find, and MacGillivray shows Evans was a heroic figure struggling with many central themes concerning the origins of civilization. He concludes with his own assessment of our current knowledge about ancient Crete.
Customer Reviews:
Revenge of "Modern" Archaeology.......2005-08-25
Minotaur by Joseph MacGillivray
This book presents itself as a readable biography of one the great Archaeologists, Sir Arthur Evans, instead of a thoughtful biography the book is really a prolonged attack on Evans (and 19th century archaeology) by an author of dubious credentials and makes for extremely painful reading.
The book is tolerable journalism when its sticks to the factual events, but it is so filled with hostility towards Evans, that the reader is quickly bogged down in a long winded and poorly researched series of ad hominen attacks and innuendo of wrong doing that the thrill of Crete and Minos is completely buried.
The central claim of this bad book is that Evans created Minoan archaeology and did not discover anything. The attacks are unrelenting. The author claims variously : Evans is unscientific and concerned only with objects, stole antquities, horded valuable linear B scripts, was a repressed homosexual, took too much credit for his finds and harmed nearly all of his colleagues, was shrewd and calculating to excess in his business dealings, was a racist because his disliked Turks and personally favored European and Greek religion and culture, was a spoiled wealthly aristocrat of no ability but gifted merely by birth and social standing- who also ate very well, etc etc etc
That the author has issues with Evans is an understatement and parrying all of his attacks (most of which are the authors own unsubstantiated suspicions or irelevant details) is a waste of time.
Evans- the gentlemen and scholar who devoted his 90 years of life to classics, beauty in art and history, who spent his fortune to dig Knossos and who developed new theories of myth and civilization: in short a person whose name will be recalled as long as history-minded Western man is revered- is not present in this book. This book is the product of a modern academic archaeology resentful of its romantic past, that prefers digging with toothbrushes, hates coin collectors, believes antiquities dealers are evil and wishes that British, Germans and French had left everything in the ground for them to sniff about with white gloves and a microscope.
That the author is an academic feather-weight is evident in the opening pages, where he attempts to work out his own crude thesis: Evans was not an archaeologist but a myth maker motivated by sexual demons. His analysis is so bad, reading his turns of phrase are like chewing on sand: "Archaeologists are the progenitors as well as the midwives at the birthing process we call excavation." Ugly writing quickly leads to bad analysis such as this delphic prose: " ...we must start with Evans himself, the product of his genes and his life experiences." These experiences include the alleged homosexuality of Evans which the author tries to awkwardly weave into his book perhaps hoping to increase sales, but he cannot find much and we are left with a few sentences of inane writing worthy only of a freshman trying to impress a bored teaching assistant. He writes that he suspects Evans was driven to pursue his career because of the "repressed 'beastliness' of his homosexuality..." His efforts degenerate further a few hundred pages later with innuendo about a young man Evans adopted and his association with Baden Powell and the Boy Scout movement.
The author has no wit and his style wears the reader down. He makes no effort in the biography to educate the reader about the civilization of Crete and takes the excitement of the past away completely. I know of no other book on archaeology that deadens its subject matter to such a degree. The author is all over the place with his own insipid thoughts and at times contradicts his own thin analysis.
For example the author continually harps on the fact that Evan's sister titled her biography of him, "Time and Chance". The author writes "Nothing could be further from what I believe about how Evans discovered Knossos..."(p.6) In his effort to bring Evans down from his perch the author continually paints Evans as simply a digger with money. At the end of his book, the author returns to this theme: "Arthur Evans did not stumble upon Knossos by some happy circumstance. He set his mind on acquiring the rights to a well-documented site.... he secured the expertise he lacked in the person of a site foreman, architects, and conservators..." (p.308) Ok this attack may work in hindsight, but on page 175 the author himself writes: "they all faced the risk that within a few hours they might have removed only a thin layer of eroded soil and exposed a solid rock outcropping scattered with worthless pot shards... Evans might learn that he had chased off the other suitors only to find the bride barren of promise and her dowry worthless. These are the risks excavators take." Which is it? Did Evans simply walk in and dig up what everyone knew was there or did chance play a role and did he finally locate the fabled city of Knossos after three and a half millenium? Clearly this writer is a moron.
A good graduate student should set things right and demolish MacGillivray's shoddy research on Evans, a student of history with a sense of the classical- not one inspired while waiting to use public tennis courts in Manhattan as MacGillivray says he was. Surely some inspiration can still be found in the stones of ruined cities, a brilliant gemstone or winds of the Mediterranean.
The author, in writing this extended effort to libel the dead, succeeds only in diminishing our native appreciation of history, and our myths. That is the end point of modernity.
Reception Theory and Victorian Psychosis by Example.......2000-10-12
Sandy MacGillivray's in depth analysis of the life and times of pioneer Cretan archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans was a pure joy to read. The author's own experiences as a professional in the field on Crete add great weight to his arguments as he finds himself coping the Evans' legacy on a daily basis. I really got the sense that the author knew Evans, both the man and the scholar, through close attention to and extensive research on the amply available primary sources. This is a wonderfully scholarly, yet very readable and highly interesting book to both the professional archaeologist and interested armchair amateur.
Book Description
"Important. Urgent. Practical. Very, very useful."-Jonathan Kozol.
Lead poisoning is one of the most common and preventable pediatric health problems in the United States. The prohibition of lead in paint in 1978, followed by the phasing out of lead in gasoline, have done a great deal to lower the average level of lead in children's blood in the last twenty-five years, but the threat to public health of this insidious poison is far from being eradicated. Every child is at risk.
Getting the Lead Out explains the nature and sources of lead poisoning and discusses the basic measures for minimizing the associated risks and damage. It also explains the physical and emotional effects of lead poisoning, including problems with language-acquisition and other learning disabilities, reduced IQ, renal failure, and antisocial and violent behavior. This book gives readers the information they will need to identify symptoms of poisoning in their children as well as lists of resources addressing each special need that may emerge due to exposure. It also includes guidelines for community organizing around the issue and instructions for suing for personal injury.
Amazon.com
The Tribeca Grill, famously backed by Robert De Niro and Bill Murray, is a Manhattan treasure. Since its birth in 1990, chef Don Pintabona has produced stylish, savory fare that's considered among the city's most attractive. The Tribeca Grill Cookbook presents 125 of Pintabona's most enticing recipes, including many Grill classics such as Tomato-Basil Crostini with Shaved Parmesan, Cilantro, and Sake-Grilled Chicken, and the much-loved Tribeca Chocolate Torte. In chapters that cover a wide range of courses and dish types, including soups, sandwiches, brunches, and risottos, the book offers approachable, painstakingly written formulas. Though some of these, and particularly those for desserts, demand a cooking commitment, many are unfussy, and dishes such as Brook Trout with Pecans, Lemon, and Parsley Brown Butter, and Molasses-Cured Pork Loin with Boston Baked Beans are as simple to make as they are easy to enjoy. With a chapter on wine selection and dozens of color photos, the book should bring the Grill's relaxed spirit and good cooking home to all. --Arthur Boehm
Book Description
This year marks the tenth anniversary of Tribeca Grill, one of the best neighborhood restaurants in New York City. Acclaimed chef Don Pintabona shares his dazzling creations in this wonderful new book.
The Tribeca Grill Cookbook celebrates this anniversary milestone with exciting food and flavors from around the world. To complete this collection, Tribeca Grill partners Robert De Niro and Drew Nieporent have provided a Preface and a Foreword, which are accompanied by a peppering of celebrity anecdotes throughout the book.
Filled with more than 120 enticing recipes and dozens of full-color photographs, this cookbook is straightforward, with lots of new twists on old classics. Recipes include Lobster and Mango Tartlets, Crisp Fried Oysters with Asian Vegetable Slaw, Molasses-Cured Pork Loin with Boston Baked Beans, and Tribeca Film Center Peanut Butter Parfait. You'll also find suggestions throughout for the perfect wine for hors d'oeuvres, appetizers, salads, pastas, and entrées.
The Tribeca Grill Cookbook is sure to be a neighborhood classic for your kitchen and the ultimate taste of Tribeca for your table.
Customer Reviews:
Great Cookbook to Use--Destined to Be One to Last.......2001-02-12
This is truly one of those exceptional cookbooks from a famous restaurant which is accessible for the home goumet.
The recipes are of exceptional creativity and taste and style, yet they are not of such ingredients that you have to scour the city or internet to find, nor learn exotic techniques.
For example, Lamb and Portabello Skewers with Mint Pesto, Goat Cheese and Oven-Dried Napleons, Crab-Crusted SeaBass with Briased Endive, Pine Nut Polenta, and RedWine Fumet, or my favorite so far from the collection: Molasses-Cured Pork Loin with Boston Baked Beans. And for finishers, you've got to try the Carmelized Banana Tart with Malted-Milk Chocolate Ice Cream.
This is outstanding collection of Italian, Mediterrean, and mixture and fusion of oriental and Middle-east dishes. Great stuff, not too difficult to prepare. Looks great, and the taste is sophisticated, but comfort food as well.
This is one of the best recent new ones out.
A Great Cookbook for a Restaurant That Gets Better With Age........2001-01-28
I have been eating periodically at the Tribeca Grill since it opened in 1990. It is a restaurant that continues to get better with age: hearty food, friendly, professional staff, a great wine list, and celebrity buzz. Now there's a book that really captures the spirit and excitement of Tribeca Grill and brings it to my home. The book is lavishly illustrated, the recipes are simple to follow, and the stories are interesting. Even if you've never been to Tribeca Grill, you'll enjoy this book.
Experience The Excitement Of Tribeca Grill........2000-11-24
I have visited the Tribeca Grill several times on trips to NYC and have always enjoyed it. I was intriguied to learn that they now had a cookbook, and purchased a copy. It's a thoroughly enjoyable book. The recipes are great and very accessible, and the annecdotes are interesting and capture the personality of the restaurant. If you can't get to New York, this is a nice alternative to experience the Tribeca Grill.
Book Description
A collection of over 20 beautiful bags and accessorising projects decorated with, or made entirely of, beads, from the best-selling author of Simple Glass Seed Beading. Featuring 12 original designs ranging from a tiny amulet purse to a funky beach bag, each bag is accompanied by a beaded accessory made in the same way. The beading techniques include netting, fringing and bead loom work and beads are also added to crochet, knitting or used to make tiny beaded motifs to apply to ready-made accessories. Backed up with all the technical help and guidance on materials and equipment needed, this selection of easy-to-make bags is suitable for the beginner as well as the experienced beadcrafter looking for new and up-to-the-minute ideas. With beaded accessories still part of current fashion trends this craft is maintaining its popularity.
Customer Reviews:
So So.......2007-01-17
There are only two bags in this book that I'd like to make, but they are worth the price. The instructions are good and easy to follow.
Customer Reviews:
Everything you always wanted to know but ............1998-12-23
This book is for someone whose already had some hands-on exposure to bonsai and started generating questions about what they've encountered. An excellent practical reference that covers everything from watering to growing moss. Not much on specific species and no color pictures (or many black and whites either) but very readable and makes bonsai much less intimidating. A must for new bonsai practicioners.
excellent resource.......1997-10-22
an excellent resource that covers all the fundamentals of bonsai. There are no fancy pictures in this book, just practical info
Average customer rating:
- Remember, review and understand your story of loss.
- Remember, review and understand your story of loss
- "Good Mourning"
- Genuine understanding for those suffering a pregnancy loss
- Remember, review and understand your story of loss.
|
Good Mourning: Help and Understanding in Time of Pregnancy Loss
Judy Gordon Morrow , and
Nancy Gordon Dehamer
Manufacturer: W Pub Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 General
| Christian Living
| Christianity
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Parenting & Families
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0849931681 |
Customer Reviews:
Remember, review and understand your story of loss........2005-04-17
This book is really easy to read. Each chapter tells part of a story, reviews the story and then asks the reader to journal the different emotions they felt throughout the pregnancy, the labour, and the loss. This book will really help the reader to remember what happened and to express their feelings through journalling.
*Note* This book is written from a Christian perspective but other than that I really recommend it.
Remember, review and understand your story of loss.......2005-04-17
This book is really easy to read. Each chapter tells part of a story, reviews the story and then asks the reader to journal the different emotions they felt throughout the pregnancy, the labour, and the loss. This book will really help the reader to remember what happened and to express their feelings through journalling.
*Note* This book is written from a Christian perspective but other than that I really recommend it.
"Good Mourning".......2002-07-22
I received a copy of this book from a Physician after suffering two miscarriages. It helped me to heal by hearing about others losses and how to recover and go on. It is a quick read. The author encourages the reader to keep a journal as a part of your recovery and healing. Journal topics are given at the end of each chapter. I have been trying to locate a copy for years and found out it was reprinted in 1998 under a different title. The new title is Silent Cradle: Helping and Understanding in the Time of Pregnancy Loss, the new Publisher is Light and Life Communications. Hopefully this will help others track down this useful book.
Genuine understanding for those suffering a pregnancy loss.......2001-10-23
The fact that I read this book ten years ago but I am searching to find a copy of it now is a testimony in itself to the genuine comfort and support "Good Mourning" provided. No other book, no other counselor, no other family member offered the complete understanding and first-person knowledge that this author did. A second perspective from the author's sister confirmed to all mothers who have lost a baby that their feelings are normal.
If you, or anyone you know has lost a baby, this book is a must.
Especially perfect for those who can't express their concern to a mother in mourning.
Remember, review and understand your story of loss........2001-10-18
This book is really easy to read. Each chapter tells part of a story, reviews the story and then asks the reader to journal the different emotions they felt throughout the pregnancy, the labour, and the loss. This book will really help the reader to remember what happened and to express their feelings through journalling.
*Note* This book is written from a Christian perspective but other than that I really recommend it.
Average customer rating:
|
Else Regensteiner: Biography of a Weaver
Sadye Tune Wilson
Manufacturer: Tunstede
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Artists, Architects & Photographers
| Arts & Literature
| Biographies & Memoirs
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Biographies & Memoirs
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Crafts & Hobbies
| Home & Garden
| Subjects
| Books
Textile Arts
| Crafts & Hobbies
| Home & Garden
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0961652640 |
Average customer rating:
|
Aru Yogi No Jijoden/Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
Manufacturer: Self Realization Fellowship Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Japanese
| Ethnic & National
| Biographies & Memoirs
| Subjects
| Books
Japanese
| Instruction
| Foreign Languages
| Reference
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Reference
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 4627999313 |
Books:
- The Surly Bonds of Earth: A Pilots Remembrances of a World at War
- The Trafalgar Captains: Their Lives And Memorials
- The Visitable Past: A Wartime Memoir (Biography Monograph)
- The War Diary of Claire Gass: 1915-1918 (Mcgill-Queen's Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society, 9)
- The War I Never Fought
- Through the Hitler Line: Memoirs of an Infantry Chaplain (Life Writing Series)
- Thutmosis III: 1490-1436 bce : First Conqueror of the Middle East, Artist & Multiculturalist
- Trader Jon: His Life! World War II Veteran a Legend in His Own Time
- Tragedy To Triumph: A Terrorist Attack Survivor Story
- Vieques Island: A Few Good Men on Radio Hill
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs
- Molesworth
- How to Give an Effective Seminar
- Inland Fishes of California
- Magic Item Compendium
- Just Enough Light for the Step I'm On: Trusting God in the Tough Times
- Measuring Movement and Locomotion: From Invertebrates to Humans
- Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
- Cost Structure and the Measurement of Economic Performance: Productivity, Utilization, Cost Economie
- Kiss the Rat Race Good-Bye: A Step-By-Step Program That Shows How You Can Get Your Finances in Shape
The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea
The Marines of Autumn: A Novel of the Korean War
The Marine: A Novel of War from Guadalcanal to Korea
Dog Company Six
Colder Than Hell: A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir (Bluejacket Paperback Book Series)
