Kinkaseki : One Day at a Time

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Arthur Thitherington has led the fight for justice for the treatment the POWs received at the hands of the Japanese. For more than 50 years he has battled to gain a meaningful apology from the Japanese Government and for compensation for what he and his comrades suffered. In "Kinkaseki: One Day at a Time," he details exactly what happened to him, and so many others, during the brutal years he spent as a prisoner in a Japanese slave labor camp. "The scars on my body have healed, but there remain scars that I am unable to show. Twenty years old when the Japanese took me prisoner, I spent my twenty-first birthday working in the copper mine at Kinkaseki. Almost four years of irrecoverable youth were left in the depths of that mine. I do not forget. I do not forgive." Arthur Thitherington

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Known in her own day as an enchantress of numbers, Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron, was one of the most fascinating women of the 19th century. In collaboration with Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical thinking machine that anticipated by more than a century the invention of the computer, Ada devised a method of using punchcards to calculate Bernoulli numbers, and thus became the mother of computer programming. It was in her honor that, in 1980, the U.S. Department of Defense named its computer language Ada.

In this critically acclaimed biography, author Benjamin Woolley portrays Ada Byron's life as the embodiment of the schism between the worlds of Romanticism and scientific rationalism. He describes how Ada's efforts to bridge these opposites with a poetical science was the driving force behind one of the most remarkable careers of the Victorian Age. A brilliant chronicle of an extraordinary life in math and science and an enthralling rumination on the death of Romanticism and the birth of the Machine Age, The Bride of Science offers thought-provoking insights into the seemingly irreconcilable opposition between art and science that continues to haunt us today.

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Byron's daughter: spawn of acrimony.......2006-06-20

I bailed out of this about a third of the way through, having gotten extremely frustrated waiting for the author to discuss Ada Lovelace. She never was as vividly portrayed as her parents; I have learned more about her from snippets in books about Victorian intellectual life. Even when she is on stage, it is as the puppet of her domineering mother - the incidents are at least as much about Lady Byron as about Ada. I suggest that my review title would be a more accurate description of the contents. Or perhaps, the Martyrdom of Lord Byron at the Hands of His Demented Wife.

It appears that the author's real interest is Lord Byron, who appears in what is supposedly a biography of his daughter more than can be justified, since he had virtually no involvement in her life after the shipwreck of his marriage. I am somewhat skeptical about how good a father Byron would have been in any case - writing touching lines about the loss of one's child is a far cry from the actual inconveniences of being a parent. This really isn't the point. Byron must have haunted Ada's life: he was famous, and Woolley would have it that cleansing his daughter of any similarities was the obsession of Lady Byron's life. But this wasn't the flesh-and-blood Byron, but society's and Lady Byron's view of him. Woolley rambles on about his doings that were probably irrelevant to Ada. Meanwhile, she is a dimly glimpsed cipher.

Despite the one star, this might be an interesting book for someone who wants to read about Byron and his marriage, particularly a reader who isn't expecting something else.

It's a pity that the Byrons' marriage was such a disaster, but really, I picked this up to learn about Ada Lovelace, not how vicious unhappy marriages can get. For that purpose, an article would have sufficed.

Not bad, but not really that great.......2002-10-12

As a historian of science and technology, and also a person very interested in computer science and fascinated by poetry as well, this book looked like a full 5 stars at first. Like some of the other reviewers, I felt swamped by the details of Ada's emotional life; yet, there are flashes of brilliance where the author makes a clear connection between her social position, her interior life as we can best judge it, and her pursuits. I wonder if there would have been a better way to organize the book; as it stands now, the book is almost purely narrative (with some asides and flashbacks), and appears to be aimed at the popular reader with a seasoning of technical information to goad the more serious critic into reading on. On the positive side, I was pleased to read a clarification of Ada's role in the Babbage Difference Engine's precocious presentation. And at times, the story was fascinating. Other times, it was just plain soggy.

A Huge Disappointment.......2002-03-24

Ada Lovelace had a rich intellectual life.

As a huge disservice to her, this book is one extended gossip column of speculation and opinion about her personal life and that of her parents. In contrast, only a few pages are devoted to the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine.

At first I thought the author was gossiping about her parents as what he considered a necessary background to understanding Ada, so I kept reading, hoping to get to the substance of the book soon-- but the gossip never stopped, right through the description of her death.

If you too have a rich intellectual life, you will enjoy this book as much as you enjoy reading gossip about celebrities in the National Enquirer.

A fascinating woman in a fascinating age.......2002-02-01

Every computer programmer knows (or should) that Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer, honored with the name of the DoD's official programming language. What I didn't know was that she was the daughter of Byron, the poet.

Her parents were a very strange match, actually: Byron the flamboyant Romantic poet and Annabella Millbanke, a coldly rational woman he dubbed "the Princess of Parallelograms." Their relationship was a brief one, followed by a bitter estrangement, but it produced a daughter, Ada.

Ada was raised exclusively by her mother, seemingly more as a science project - a demonstration of rational childraising principles - than as anything involving parental affection. Not surprisingly, she grew up to be a brilliant woman prone to nervous disorders which, when combined with attempts at treatment, led to a short life, with her dying at 37.

The focus of this book is set by the dichotomy between science and poetry exemplified by Byron and Annabella. The time period is one of extraordinary technical advancement, with the locomotive and the telegraph shrinking the world in a way that even our jet planes and satellite links can't compare. Some embraced this revolution, even some of the poets, while others rejected it.

Those like me who came to this book looking for a detailed account of Ada and her association with Babbage and his Difference Engine will come away disappointed. It is indeed covered, and Woolley describes Ada's monograph on the principles of the Engine as being a hundred years ahead of its time. But after providing a copious lead-in (to such an extent that Annabella seems as much the subject as Ada), he quickly moves on to the latter part of her life.

Still, this is an interesting book about a fascinating age and fascinating people.

Mistress of The Idea of Computation.......2001-04-30

We will forever wonder if Charles Babbage could have given the computer age a jump start of a century. His brilliant designs for intricate and complicated calculating machines included the never-built Analytical Engine, which would have had a memory and a processor like our electronic versions, and would have run on punched cards, programmable and flexible enough to vary its routine through the If-Then steps familiar to any programmer. It never got funded because others were not able to envision just how singularly useful the gadget could have been, but Babbage had one friend and interpreter who knew the potential of his creation, and who handed the world a prescient account of what this computer might be expected to do.

Her name was Ada Lovelace, and although her ties to Babbage and his machine give her a connection to our century, she was a sensation in her own times by right of birth. As told in the exciting biography _The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter_ (McGraw-Hill) by Benjamin Woolley, everyone knew about Ada because she was the one child of Lord and Lady Byron. Their stormy marriage had endured only eleven months when Ada was born, and a month later, Lady Byron left him; he left for the continent, never to see his daughter again. Lady Byron was motivated ever after to vindicate herself against Byron, and she raised Ada to be a soldier in this cause; she tried to make sure that the child was raised on mathematics to suppress imagination and keep any elements of the Byronic temperament from breaking out.

Raising Ada was thus a science experiment, one that didn't work. She remained curious about her father, and as she got older, she was convinced that she had genius from him and was impelled to express it. She couldn't do it through mathematics, as despite all the intense training, she wasn't a mathematician. But she was introduced to Babbage, and in 1840, set out to translate a paper he had presented on his Analytical Engine in Italy. She didn't just translate, but with Babbage's help, she made her own notes on the meaning of the computer and what it could and could not do, amazingly prescient for her time.

Woolley has not only given a fine biography of a limited woman who happened to be at the center of events that presaged our future. He has given capsule biographies of Lord and Lady Byron, Babbage, and many others who were connected with her. Furthermore, he has given historic notes on phases that touched Ada's life, such as phrenology and mesmerism, which are extremely interesting and valuable, and his argument that the Analytical Engine could not catch on because the Victorian world was not ready for the computer is fascinating. Even feminists and cyberhistorians who want to make Ada something she wasn't (and there are many of these) should be thrilled with this portrait of what she really was.

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The Calculus of Passion.(Review): An article from: American Scientist
Thomas A. Trainor
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The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter
Benjamin Woolley
Manufacturer: Macmillan
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The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter
Benjamin Woolley
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Must-have if your child is lead poisoned.......2001-06-13

This book was recommended to me by a local govt. housing worker, and it's EXCELLENT. It will scare you into action, but gives practical advice and lots of information that you just can't seem to find elsewhere. As the author says, while most lead poisoned children come from low-income housing, those with the worst lead poisoning tend to be from middle-income families living in an older home that has been or is being renovated. It's too bad that most kids are never tested for lead.

Childhood lead poisoning: Older homes, silent hazard : hearing before the Subcommittee on Public Health of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and ... November 15, 1999 (Lewiston, ME.) (S. hrg)

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Childhood lead poisoning: Older homes, silent hazard : hearing before the Subcommittee on Public Health of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and ... November 15, 1999 (Lewiston, ME.) (S. hrg)
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Delicious and nutritious recipes for kids

The Healthy Start Kids' Cookbook: Fun and Healthful Recipes That Kids Can Make Themselves

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With a little help from an adult, 6 to 10 year olds can create more than 85 delicious, easy, and imaginative concoctions that are surprisingly good for them.

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Delicious and nutritious recipes for kids.......2000-05-09

This kids' cookbook starts with a brief and easy-to-understand discussion of nutrition. Safety tips for kid-cooks are included, as well as a handy illustrated glossary of kitchen tools and cooking terms.

But the "meat" of the book is the recipes. They are simple, fun, tasty and (don't tell the kids) good for you. There are sections on breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and dessert. Many of the recipes are assembly line cooking (take a banana, stick a clean popsicle stick in the end and freeze overnight for a frozen banana treat) that will be a snap for even the youngest cook. But don't get the idea that this is all "cooking for babies." There's a "Sunny Honey Banana Bread" recipe with sunflower seeds that I'm making for the family tonight.

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Violin-Making: A Historical and Practical Guide
Edward Heron-Allen
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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This classic guide offers an accessible initiation into the mysteries of violin-making. Charming in its style and cultivated in its research, it covers every detail of the process and includes a fascinating history of the instrument. More than 200 diagrams, engravings, and photographs complement the text. 1885 edition.

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got me through a difficult time in my life.......2004-11-08

This book came into my hands during the most difficult time of my life. It encouraged me to have hope and keep holding on. It is a tremendous book!

An Uplifting Read.......2000-09-27

First of all, each chapter of this book is written by a different person. Jesse Duplantis has one chapter too. The topics of this book are variegated, all designed to inspire and empower you to press on toward the goal God has set for you. The chapter on "Hope" is particularly good (written by Kenneth Copeland).

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On My Way: The Arts of Sarah Albritton.......2001-01-24

Anyone interested in the arts, Southern culture, African-American history or a survivor's story will get something out of this exhibition catalog/biography of Sarah Albritton and her works. I do not typically enjoy the Primitive School of Art but was blown away by the emotion in her work. She is quite an unusual person - this is not Grandma Moses. Ms. Albritton runs a restaurant in Ruston, La. and you need to see the photos in this book of how she decorates the outside of it at Christmas. She's fantastically talented. Treat yourself or an art lover in your life. As I mentioned, this is also a Toni Morrison-esqe chronicle of an African-American female's childhood in the South. Not for the faint-hearted.

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The first full-length work in English on Kitahara Hakushu (1885-1942), a leading poet of modern Japan. In addition to a thorough recounting of the poet's life and times, the author provides numerous translations of Hakush's poems and excerpts from his critical theories. Essential for any student of modern Japanese literature.

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Mergent's Handbook of Common Stocks(TM) offers you quick and easy access to key financial statistics on approximately 900 New York Stock Exchange-listed issues.

This handbook, updated quarterly, presents market data, performance ratios, stock prices, and dividend information of recent quarterly results as well as future prospects in succinct one-page profiles. Filled with the latest available facts and figures, Mergent's Handbook of Common Stocks helps you make the most informed investment decisions.

Each full-page company profile includes: Business Summary — highlights products, markets and business lines; Summary of recent developments, including latest quarterly earnings reports; Future prospects analysis; Stock movement charts showing 10-year records of monthly highs and lows and trading volumes, if available; Ten years of income statement and balance sheet data, if available; Dividend payment record; Key performance ratios; Institutional holdings—number of institutions and number of shares held; Officers, address, phone and fax numbers, Web sites, transfer agents, auditor, investor contact and legal counsel and more.

Plus, special addenda that includes: Companies added and dropped; Recent and pending dividends and splits; Recent dividend changes; Recent and pending name changes; Latest developments and more.

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A modern day application of time tested ideas.......2000-03-13

In this remarkable book the very versatile former Port Authority Director provides a clear and very persuasive arguement for the application of Natural Law principles. In Thomist style, Marlin presents opposing views and then tears them apart. Several current events are cited (in the US and Europe). I only wish the author addressed Robert Bork's opposition to Natural Law interpretations of US law. If you've enjoyed the works of Suarez, Harry V. Jaffa and Larry Azar, you'll love this book!

A lucid, straightforward defense of natural law........1999-06-16

This extraordinarily lucid defense of what the Declaration of Independence calls "the laws of nature and of nature's God" against current practices that cheapen human life is addressed to those who are responsible for the social and political safety of our bodies and the freedom of our souls, but it is really for all of us. Particularly unusual and important is Mr. Marlin's exposure of the racism and Social Darwinism behind our "progressive" approach to birth, death, and genetic improvement. Also, he provides us with a little-known and very alarming insight into the ideas of such favorites of the culture elite as Oliver Wendell Holmes.

An extraordinarily readable, yet scholarly volume........1998-06-15

This is a very readable and scholarly volume, that covers the most important issues of our day. I would recommend this book to every person involved in public life. It will save their political careers and their souls!

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You can turn to this revised classic for a step-by-step plan to prepare pertinent and accurate accounting manuals, determine which formats to use, as well as maintain and update information. You'll get:

Details on the general accounting manual
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Packed with over 150 examples of actual documents, this Third Edition offers comprehensive guidance on repairing and maintaining effective accounting manuals.

The core volume (ISBN 0471-253685) is supplemented annually.

The 2002 Cumulative Supplement (ISBN 0471-249882) includes the following:

A new chapter on dealing with the electronic manual- its advantages and shortcomings, as well as how to reformat a paper-based manual to take advantage of hypertext, on-line tutorials, and various help features.
A new chapter on handling the production and distribution of the accounting manual
An extensive list of detailed procedures that apply to accounting, human resources, and management information systems.

The supplement updates the core volume Brown/Design and Maintenance of Accounting Manuals, Third Edition (ISBN 0471-253685).

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Well descriptive research book.......2007-02-14

This book is very helpful for beginners. It describs research methods thoroughly.

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Research Methods for Public Administrators:
Gail Johnson
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Without jargon or mathematical theory to hinder a quick understanding and use, here are the research tools and techniques you can grasp and immediately apply to obtain research services from others or do research yourself. Johnson makes clear that to succeed in any public agency management position, you have to be able to think analytically and know how to assess the quality of research results. By providing the underlying concepts and just enough methodology to operationalize them, she gives you exactly what you need--in a clear, straightforward way that takes the fear out of learning. You will find here an especially wide range of practical guidelines and examples, all from the author's own and others' experiences in a variety of settings within the public sector. Throughout her book she emphasizes the "how" of research--how to do it, how to make sense of its findings--and covers all the basic statistical tools, concetrating steadily on interpreting research results. An important, reader-friendly text for students of public administration, and for their often perplexed colleagues already on the job. Johnson explains that public administrators do not do research themselves all that often. But with the rising demand for results measurement, balancing scorecards, benchmarking and assessing customer satisfaction, they do need to understand the basics of what research is and at least have more than just a glimmer of how it is done. Her book offers both--a simple, easily grasped presentation of research concepts and principles, plus all of the essentials of doing program evaluation, policy analysis, and applied social science. It is especially useful as a text in such courses as research methods, program evaluation and introduction to applied statistics, usually found in public administration programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. And for people already in jobs outside the academic community, people who are now asked to do tasks that they seldom did before--and never expected they would be asked to do--it is essential.

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Research Methods for Public Administrators
Elizabethann, Rassel, Gary R., Berner, Maureen Oandapos;Sullivan
Manufacturer: Longman
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Actually 2.5 Stars.......2004-08-21

Just about everyone agrees that Sinatra is among the most talented singers of popular songs and many of us think he was a far more accomplished serious film actor than is generally acknowledged. (I can think of at least a dozen films in which he delivers a brilliant performance. For example, From Here to Eternity, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Manchurian Candidate, and The Detective.) The quality of his art as a performer is not in dispute. Rather, it is Sinatra's personal life which continues to generate so many differences of opinion. I was attracted to Munn's book because it claims to provide "the untold story" of Sinatra's relationships with the Mafia, John and Robert Kennedy, Ava Gardner, and Marilyn Monroe. Although much of that story had been told prior to the first publication of this book in 2001, Munn explains that he "resorted to researching as few books as possible" because he never intended to write a full-scale biography. In fact, what he offers consists almost entirely of what he claims to have obtained during dozens of interviews, notably of Gardner.

Other reviewers have duly noted the book's easily-avoidable inaccuracies (e.g. the Henry James band) and sloppy editing (e.g. countless redundancies). My rating is more the result of problems I have with Munn's credibility. He was not an eyewitness to most of the Sinatra behavior which serves as the book's focus. Moreover, he asks his reader to trust him completely when sharing what eyewitnesses (again, notably Ava Gardner) allegedly told him. Did they know what they were talking about? Are their accusations verifiable? Is Munn their messenger or their interpreter? If the latter, how reliable is he? I am also curious to know why Ava: My Story (1990) is not listed among his "Selected Bibliography and Sources." According to Munn, Gardner was the single most important source for the material in his book.

Think about various components in Sinatra's life: the Mafia, the Oval Office, the F.B.I. and C.I.A., Hollywood, the Bogart Rat Pack and then the Sinatra Rat Pack, Las Vegas, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Mia Farrow, Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon...conspiracies, assassinations, vast wealth (mansions, private jets, etc.), countless awards, non-publicized philanthropies...just about everything needed to write a full-scale biography of one of the most interesting and (yes) enigmatic celebrities in our contemporary culture. It is possible but unlikely that the author of that biography will find much of unique value in Munn's book. I know that I didn't.

Shrewdly written British publication........2004-03-24

This is another conspiracy theory book involving Frank, Ava, Marilyn, The Mob, The Kennedy's, and the rest of the Rat Pack. The problem with this book, is the author's assertions that he personally received his information from them. He provides no proof that these conversations actually took place. The reader is to believe the author's words only. To make matters worse, there are incorrect facts, names and dates throughout this book. And sadly, the people involved can not refute what was written.

Interesting story, questionable accuracy.......2004-03-01

The author presents an interesting premise, but I have to question the accuracy of his facts. There were some very basic errors that would have been caught with even the slightest amount of research. For example:

He states that Sinatra's first big band gig was with the Henry James Orchestra. It was in fact, the Harry James Orchestra. I realize that Harry is a nickname for Henry, but no one has ever referred to him as Henry James.

He say that Sammy Davis Jr. started his career with his uncle's trio, "The Will Martin Trio." It was in fact, the Will Mastin Trio.

The author claims the Desert Inn in Las Vegas was run by Cleveland mobster Moe Daltz. His name was actually Moe Dalitz.

These were not just typos, but were repeated several times in the book. You have to wonder how much effort he put into checking his facts.

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