Pointman

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Pointman
William R. Kimball , Roger L. Helle , and Ken Norberg
Manufacturer: W.R. Kimball
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Binding: Unknown Binding

Vietnam War | Military | History | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0006OWXTQ

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Pointman
Jr. Alto Griffin
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1403358516

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Pointman :Roger L Helle
William R Kimball
Manufacturer: PLS CHECK NOTES FIELD
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UC76LE

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POINTMAN The true Story of a Young Marine's Brutal Ordeal in 'Nam, and His Journey Back twenty Years Later
William R.; Helle, Roger L. Kimball
Manufacturer: Authors, 1991
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NRAVG8

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Fixer/Pointman adds good "spy tech" flavor to Spycraft world

Spycraft: Fixer/Pointman Class Guide (Spycraft D20)
Scott Gearin
Manufacturer: Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
General | Role Playing & Fantasy | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 1887953914

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Fixer/Pointman adds good "spy tech" flavor to Spycraft world.......2003-10-16

The Fixer/Pointman Class Guide is the latest supplement for the Spycraft campaign setting. It is written by Scott Gearin with contributions by Alexander Flagg, Cameron Haigh, Patrick Kapera, and Clayton A. Oliver. Interior art is by Paul H. Way and cover art by Veronica V. Jones. The book is 128 pages in length, carries a retail price of $24.95 and is published by Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG).

The book is divided into four distinct focus points: prestige classes, new rules, "tradecraft" and an official mission guide. The prestige classes include the Cleaner (who handles worst case scenarios), Courier (specializes in transporting packages), Forward (a covert scout who works far behind enemy lines), Goodfella (respected member of an organized crime syndicate), Grifter (specialist thief), Inventor (tinkerer who can make almost anything), Ninja, Officer, Provocateur (specialist in indirect warfare), Ranger (wilderness expert), Saboteur and Smuggler.

The new rules include new backgrounds and how fixers and pointmen fit into existing departments (along with four new departments). There are new skill uses and new feats of several types. There are new rules for remotely operated vehicles that include chases and combat. Wrapping up the chapter are new vehicle-related rules including gadgets.

Tradecraft is the subject of chapter three. Here are topics and rules suitable for fixers and pointmen. Such topics include ambushes, brainwashing, harassment, interrogation, police actions, and using the streets to gather information, make contact and set up deals. Twenty generic sample NPC packages are included to make it easier to flesh out those contacts.
The final chapter expands upon the foundation for designing threats that is presented in the core Spycraft book, which is called the Mastermind System. Tips for developing a landmark serial, which not only brings a mastermind villain but also raises the danger level to agents, is described in detail. Threat resources allow evil organizations access to areas and things they normally would not have, such as favor checks, special minion types or even nuclear weapons. Instructions on how to use the Mastermind System to create multiple threats (instead of the single linear ones that are most common) at the same serial are included through the use of threat agendas. The biggest addition to the rules, however, is action sites. These are locations that support threat resources and simultaneously provide the GC/GM with a dedicated clue chain for his agents. Agents visiting these sites will encounter both challenges and rewards, along with the clues that will eventually lead them to the evil organization's headquarters.

The biggest asset of this book lies in the expansions of the core rules. The broader abilities of the Mastermind system coupled with the development of action sites really help in breaking away from the linear "one bad guy at a time" plot. The new rules are presented in a fashion that not only makes sense, but is also easy to comprehend and adjudicate. This is a book useable by both player and GC/GM.

Many of the prestige classes are better suited for NPCs rather than players, although some would be suitable for heavy role-play groups. This has been a bit of an ongoing issue with the Spycraft/Shadowforce Archer line in that in trying to develop more player options, some classes aren't really a good fit.

Once again, AEG has succeeded in broadening the world of Spycraft. The Fixer/Pointman Class Guide opens the rules up to another dimension by letting the Game Control craft more complex and realistic scenarios that mirror both real world events and headlines, but yet maintain that "hot and fast" feel of a Hollywood movie. Living Spycraft players can expect to see this book added to the list of useable sources in the near future. The flavor is good and the writing top notch as usual. For Spycraft fans, it's a must.

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Albert Einstein was a great scientist and a seasoned philosopher with keen insight into the world around us. This book is a biography of Albert Einstein with a strong emphasis on his philosophy and theories. Einstein's Theory of Relativity is a masterpiece of science that greatly increases our understanding of the universe and profoundly influences our world. The goal of this book is to help understand Einstein's theory as well as his philosophy.

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a very readable book on Einstein.......2000-07-12

Einstein's theory, believe or not, high school algebra is suffice in this book. It also has interesting anecdotes on his life and philosophy. Einstein's grandson wrote a foreword for this book which is great. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Einstein's life, philosophy and theory.

An excellent book on Albert Einstein.......2000-06-21

This book gives a very good outline of Einstein's life, accomplishments, philosophy and theory with anecdotes to keep readers' interest. It has the simplest mathematical derivation of Einstein's theory compared to what is available on the market. His most famous equation E=mc2 is derived in four simple steps using high school arithmetic. Einstein's grandson Bernard wrote a Forward that adds a personal touch to his biography. I recommend the book strongly.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!The fourth installment in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series promises to be even more popular than its predecessors. The perfect gift for friends, family and business associates is now available in A 4th Course. About the Authors Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, are professional speakers who have dedicated their lives to enhancing the personal and professional development of others. They are joined here by Hanoch McCarty, president of Hanoch McCarty and Associates and an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer, and Meladee McCarty, a program specialist for the Sacramento County Office of Education. The McCartys are coauthors of Acts of Kindness and The daily Journal of Kindness.

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Tender and sweet.......2006-08-29

The stories in this edition of the book are my favorite. All of my friends have loved the autographed copies that I have given them. So many touching and tender stories, and even ones that make you chuckle.

Great Series.......2006-07-27

I have purchased a number of the Chicken Soup series am I am quite pleased with them.

A 4th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul.......2003-04-29

A 4th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul

By Melody Beattie, Bob Greene, Edgar Guest,
Harvey Mackay, Pat Riley, and many more

Stories, motivational excerpts

Chicken Soup for the Soul is a fantastic, true book with hundreds of stories inside all about people's real live experiences. The sections covered in here are about love, kindness, parents and parenting, teaching and learning, death and dying, matter of perspective, overcoming obstacles, and elective wisdom. Everyone and anyone who reads this book can find stories that they can relate to, while enjoying them. Happiness and sorrow is merely a speck of all the emotions felt throughout this amazing book. When reading this you are able to learn the different kinds of situations there are and the everyday people who go through them. This book is extraordinary and unique; how it slams real life into your face and shows exactly how unpredictable life can be. It also shows us how we should value those around us, for we do not know when it is anyone's time to go.
All of the characters are real people who have gone through an event and have decided to share it with us. Each story has a beginning, middle, and end to it; just like life. Their stories are there to help others or to send a powerful message across that has once touched them. Each and every story is unique, interesting, and 100% true. So be prepared for any kind of emotions, because in real life you don't always know what the outcome will be.
The stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul are all directly from those who experienced the story. They are all easy to understand and follow. The voice in each story is so strong that it actually feels as though the person is right there telling you their story; it's unbelievable! Though not all stories may be your type or make you feel comfortable, just skip them and move on to those that interest you more. There is something for everyone in this original book. After reading Chicken Soup for the Soul you will be able to truly see how precious life really is.

Too good to describe.......1999-12-02

I have read several of the Chicken Soup books and love them all. A five star rating is not high enough, it should be ten! I recommend all of the ones that I've read to all of my friends and even give out the Chicken Soup Calendars as gifts. I want them to experience the feelings that I have when I read the books. (My favorite story is the one about adoption when a child says that an adopted child is one that grows in her mommy's heart instead of her belly.)

This book, like the first three has moved me........1998-06-18

I had read all three of the Chicken Soup books until 5 days ago when I recieved book 4 for my 11th birthday. There was one story that I read that made me realize what beautiful really is. That story was called "Beautiful on the Inside". It was about a little girl who when told she was beautiful, replied boredly, "Yes, I know!". Then her mother explained to her how to be beautiful on the inside. Then two years after, the child's friend's mother had died and they went to visit her grave. The little girl showed great care and love and sorrow to her friend. Then, after the child's friend left, she asked her mother,"Mommy, was I beautiful on the inside?"

4th Course of Chicken Soup for Soul: 101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirits

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4th Course of Chicken Soup for Soul: 101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirits
Mark Victor; McCarty, Hanoch; McCarty, Mel Hansen
Manufacturer: Health Communications Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NXZ5WC

A 4th Course Of Chicken Soup For The Soul - 101 More Stories To Open The Heart & Rekindle The Spirit

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A 4th Course Of Chicken Soup For The Soul - 101 More Stories To Open The Heart & Rekindle The Spirit
Jack and Hansen, Mark Victor Canfield
Manufacturer: Health Communications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K02ONG

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Since Bodhidharma's legendary discovery of Camellia sinensis, tea has traveled around the globe, sparked rebellions, and spawned fortunes. This eponymous volume unveils the delights and mysteries to be found in the uncomplicated infusion of leaf in water, serving up a sophisticated brew of enticing photographs, evocative poetry and prose, history, myth, and tempting recipes. It explores tea's ability to awaken the body, refresh the senses, and soothe the spirit, whether the brew be black, green, or oolong; sipped hot or iced; steeped in samovar or teapot; served in heirloom porcelain or a simple clay bowl. Delving into the life and lore of tea, we visit Bombay, Beijing, London, Tokyo, and Paris, and hear from the likes of Marcel Proust, Paul Theroux, Amy Tan, and others. From tea house reveries to recipes for Orange Pekoe Compote and Tea Smoked Duck, Tea invites us to revel in the subtle bliss of the world's most popular beverage.

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"coffee table book" plus recipes.......2000-02-09

I saw this book at a friend's house and paged through it. It is a beautiful, small volume of photos, information, and recipes. I copied out two recipes to try at home--so many looked great but I wanted to check them out. The one I tried, green tea salad, was wonderful and sold me the book. I'm on-line now to get my own copy.

"coffee table book" plus recipes.......2000-02-09

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This manual provides an introduction to the fascinating world of carved spoons. Carving basics are covered, including selecting tools and materials, transferring patterns, sanding, and finishing. Two progressive projects introduce basic and intermediate carving techniques. An additional 45 patterns provide dozens of mix-and-match designs. Introductions to the history of Welsh and Scandinavian spoon carving provide a rich context for this historical craft.

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The Perfect Wisconsin Lawn: Attaining and Maintaining the Lawn You Want (Perfect Lawn Series)
Melinda Myers
Manufacturer: Cool Springs Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1930604300

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Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. Homeowners are realizing the health benefits derived from gardening and the increase in their home's property value.

Book retailers are well aware that the trend in gardening books is to regional titles that provide credible information on the plants that perform well in specific regions.

The Perfect Wisconsin Lawn is written by the highly popular gardening expert Melinda Myers.

Lawns are the foundation of a great landscape. This series contains regional information on the best lawns for a midwestern landscape.

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Creative Journal for Parents: A Guide to Unlocking Your Natural Parenting Wisdom
Lucia Capacchione
Manufacturer: Shambhala
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1570623996
Release Date: 2000-04-25

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"It's important to embrace parenting with all your might," writes Lucia Capacchione, "in order to reap the deepest rewards available to you." But with so many theories, methods, and opinions about raising children, how can we find our own way of parenting? Her answer: By accessing the inherent wisdom and guidance within ourselves to find out what we really value, what dreams and aspirations we hold, what our individual parenting styles are. The Creative Journal for Parents shows us how. Capacchione's book applies her popular creative journaling method of self-discovery to every stage of parenting: preparation, birth or adoption, early childhood, and all the way through the teenage years. Using journal writing and drawing—including her pioneering use of the non-dominant hand to access intuitive, breakthrough, right brain thinking—she takes us through simple, enjoyable exercises like "Wanted: My Kind of Parent" and "The Inner Child Answers Back." Parents and prospective parents alike will learn to get in touch with true feelings and needs, articulate core beliefs and values, learn to reframe negative experiences, and celebrate their relationships—present and future—with their children.

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In 1980, a twenty-three-year-old student named Aaron Lansky set out to rescue the world’s abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Twenty-five years and one and a half million books later, he’s still in the midst of a great adventure. Filled with poignant and often laugh-out-loud tales from Lansky’s travels across the country as he collected books from older Jewish immigrants—books their own children had no use for— Outwitting History also explores brilliant Yiddish writers and enables us to see how an almost-lost culture is the bridge between the Old World and the future.

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Important story, self-important author.......2007-09-24

This desire to hang on to history and heritage is noble and necessary. Bravo to the author and his colleagues. There are things that can be expressed in Yiddish, that when translated, need twice as many English words to convey their meaning. Unfortunately, this book is incorrectly marketed as an adventure---we expect to encounter Indiana Jones! With so much built up anticipation, the reader is left with a "hmmm" instead of a "WOW!" at the end.

A Good Book About Good People.......2007-06-07

This book is the last present I bought my grandfather before he died. I walked into a small bookstore and the owner recommended it to me (you simply cannot get this kind of service from the major book chains). I must have read half the book in a day, before I sent it to him, and got to finish it only after he passed away.

I'm glad I bought this book, he loved it and so did I.

The book tells the story of a graduate student trying to rescue Yiddish books from elimination, and all the characters he meets along the way. The book is easy to read, funny, inspiring, well writing and a page turner. A story of how one man's passion triumph over the odds.

Great read.......2007-02-19

Seller sent book in excellent shape and the story is a great read on preserving history.

would have been a great 30-page essay.......2007-01-01

This is an interesting personal story about a guy doing something everyone else thought was stupid. It would have been a great 30-page essay for the Web, but in the world of commercial publishing a story needs to fit into a 5-page magazine article or be padded out to fill a 300-page book. This, then, is the padded version.

If you read between the lines of the padded version, what you learn is that this guy got books for free from people anxious to clear out their basements. Then he got Steven Spielberg to pay for the books to be digitized and got some other rich folks to give him $7 million so that he could build himself a nice office in central Massachusetts. Now he sells hardcopy reprints of these books, whose authors and publishers have all died, for $53 per copy from his Web site. It is an inspiring story of entrepreneurship perhaps, but given the digital copies and his non-profit organization's mission statement to distribute this material widely, one would rather have expected to see these books available for viewing/searching online.

It's not about the books........2006-10-26

A well-written and amazing story, and it's not about the books.

Aaron Lansky saved Yiddish literature and everything a language and a literature tells us about a people, their culture, and their experiences. Rescuing a million and a half Yiddish books was a Herculean task, but it was a means to an end. Lansky sums it up with one Hebrew word, intentionally untranslated: heneini - here I am (Abraham's response when God called to him.). Yiddish literature was on the verge of extinction, and Lansky assumed responsibility for saving it - heneini.

Read the book and whet your appetite for Yiddish literature (in translation, if necessary).

OUTWITTING HISTORY : THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF A MAN WHO RESCUED A MILLION YIDDISH BOOKS

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OUTWITTING HISTORY : THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF A MAN WHO RESCUED A MILLION YIDDISH BOOKS
AARON LANSKY
Manufacturer: ALGONQUIN BOOKS CHAPEL HILL
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

History of Ideas | Historical Study | History | Subjects | Books
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Aaron Lansky and Saving Yiddish.(Book Review): An article from: Midstream

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Aaron Lansky and Saving Yiddish.(Book Review): An article from: Midstream
Howard I. Aronson
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000BKHMB4
Release Date: 2005-09-26

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This digital document is an article from Midstream, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1339 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Aaron Lansky and Saving Yiddish.(Book Review)
Author: Howard I. Aronson
Publication: Midstream (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 51 Issue: 4 Page: 25(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books--Large Print

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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books--Large Print
Aaron Lansky
Manufacturer: Algonquin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1419322559

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This large print book is an ex library copy but it is in excellent condition with a clear plastic cover. It has several library stamps and stickers. Looks like an interesting book!

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OUTWITTING HISTORY: THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF A MAN WHO RESCUED A MILLION YIDDISH BOOKS.
Aaron. Lansky
Manufacturer: Algonquin Books,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RIVTBO

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