Kerner: THE CONFLICT OF INTANGIBLE RIGHTS

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What Happened To Otto Kerner.......2000-07-07

The warden stood to leave our brief family orientation. "I'll give you a moment to say goodbye", he said, stepping to his office door. When it shut my sister and I turned to our father. His soldier's face fell, vanquished and vulnerable; once sky-blue eyes clouded with sadness and bewilderment. As we left the prison, I said to my sister, "I just saw Dad die." She replied quietly, "I know."

Less than two years later, in the still, dark, early morning of May 9, 1976, my father, Otto Kerner - retired U.S. Army major general, former U.S. district attorney for the northern district of Illinois, former Cook County judge, former governor of Illinois, former chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Disorders, and former judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals - surrendered his last breath.

The next day, Illinois' poet laureate, Gwendolyn Brooks, penned the opening stanza of a remembrance entitled, Otto Kerner:

He was a man extensive and extending/But we do not love largeness very long/We look with narrowing littleness on largeness.

Brooks' husband, the late poet Henry Blakely, elaborated her insight with these closing lines of his poem, Of Otto Kerner:

and his was the soldier's error/knowing/but not deeply believing/any who followed the flag/could be enemy/And so/he was flanked, taken/and then beheaded/the fate, sometimes, of princes/And I will be remembering/murders/and old kingdoms dead/because of great men killed.

Little has since been written about Otto Kerner, save occasional reference to his chairmanship of the 1968 Commission that produced the so-called "Kerner Report" and his incongruous 1973 federal conviction and imprisonment. Otto Kerner: The Conflict of Intangible Rights, the first biography of him by Chicago Tribune columnist Bill Barnhart and retired Republican Illinois legislator Gene Schlickman is a vital account of a man that Tom Wicker's dust jacket blurb aptly proclaims "an admirably dedicated public servant, later victimized by partisan prosecution."

The Kerner Report's finding that "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white - separate and unequal" and that "white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto" was a landmark as well as a watershed for America's and Kerner's civil liberty. In January 1969, Richard Nixon - the nation's first critic of the Kerner Report - became president, and his campaign manager, John Mitchell, launched his masquerade as U.S. Department of Justice attorney general. Intangible civil rights of minorities advanced by Kerner were set on a collision course with a specious intangible rights theory invented by Mitchell's prosecutors to denigrate this most respected civil rights advocate. The authors correctly report that, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the government's theory, surviving defendants were granted reversals, while an otherwise timely appeal to reverse Kerner's conviction was denied because he had died.

But they fail to report the broad pattern of government misconduct that made Kerner a target; not crime. Absent are incontrovertible proofs that Kerner was convicted by witnesses whom the government induced to lie, that the government's keystone bribery count named no briber or quid pro quo, that the government obstructed justice in hiding its campaign to ruin his reputation through prejudicial, pre-trial leaks to the media, and that original IRS notes were destroyed and recreated to frame the perjury allegation he steadfastly denied. Uncritically repeated is the government's cover story that the official investigation was inspired - within a year of Kerner's 1968 U.S. Senate confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals - by a tale that he was connected to the Mob. Neglected is the story that government agents on the case commonly joked that their code acronym, CRIMP, stood for Corrupt Republicans Investigating Marje's Pals, "Marje" referring to Marjorie Everett, a key witness suborned by the government to testify in Kerner's trial.

Whatsmore, the authors miss the enormity of the injustice Kerner suffered when they dismiss strong evidence of the political inspiration behind his prosecution. They recount the famous November 1970 meeting where Nixon, Mitchell and cohorts plotted their racist 1972 re-election campaign strategy to split-off southern and northern white voters disgruntled by Democratic national civil rights and integration initiatives of the 1960s and repeat John Mitchell's boast there that Illinois Democrats wouldn't be so powerful after his grand jury got through in Chicago. Admitting that Mitchell's Washington, D.C. Justice Department officials had briefed Chicago prosecutors about Kerner only a month earlier in October 1970, they nevertheless doubt Mitchell's boast pertained to Kerner because no grand jury was then convened, overlooking Mitchell's Kerner grand jury seated in Chicago just a month after the 1970 holidays. To whom else was Mitchell referring, if not Kerner?

Kerner's U.S. Appellate Court opinions in defense of civil liberty and his persistent advocacy of Kerner Report recommendations frustrated, embarrassed and enraged Nixon and Mitchell. He not only blocked their draconian approach to law and order; he criticized their impeding racial progress. In Nixon's Oval Office tapes released October 5, 1999, Mitchell is heard complaining about Kerner just two weeks before he called him in front of the June 1971 Grand Jury: "Now he's out talking about his Kerner Commission Report when he should be keeping his damn mouth shut as a judge."

Long before my father's trial, my sister, Helena, and I sat alone with him at dinner in the Governor's Mansion. "I may not leave you much materially when I'm gone", he said, "but you will have something that will open more doors than all the money in the world: you will have a good name." When his good name was taken, he felt the door to public service shut forever. This book, despite its shortcomings, may prove him wrong about that. It renews hope that his legacy of good works may yet overwhelm the calumny of his enemies, remedy his injuries, exonerate, restore his name and thwart like future injustice. In this light, Otto Kerner: The Conflict of Intangible Rights reveals how we might more fully realize our great capacity for genuine nobility as human beings.

WHAT HAPPENED TO OTTO KERNER.......2000-05-20

Son looks at biography Otto Kerner: The Conflict of Intangible Rights by Bill Barnhart & Gene Schlickman

The next day, Illinois' poet laureate, Gwendolyn Brooks, penned the opening stanza of a remembrance entitled, Otto Kerner: He was a man extensive and extending. But we do not love largeness very long. We look with narrowing littleness on largeness. Brooks' husband, the late poet Henry Blakely, elaborated her insight with these closing lines of his poem, Of Otto Kerner:

and his was the soldier's error, knowing but not deeply believing any who followed the flag could be enemy.

And so he was flanked, taken, and then beheaded, the fate, sometimes, of princes.

And I will be remembering murders and old kingdoms dead because of great men killed.

Little has since been written about Otto Kerner, save occasional reference to his chairmanship of the 1968 Commission that produced the so-called "Kerner Report" and his incongruous 1973 federal conviction and imprisonment. Otto Kerner: The Conflict of Intangible Rights, the first biography of him by Chicago Tribune columnist Bill Barnhart and retired Republican Illinois legislator Gene Schlickman, fills a great void. It is a vital account of a man that Tom Wicker's dust jacket blurb aptly proclaims "an admirably dedicated public servant, later victimized by partisan prosecution."

The Kerner Report's finding that "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white - separate and unequal" and that "white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto" is a landmark. And its insufficiently heeded calling "to make good the promises of American democracy to all citizens - urban and rural, white and black, Spanish-surname, American Indian, and every minority group" still resonates today.

The new biography digs deeply into the wellspring that fed Kerner's work on the Commission and his forty-year career in public service. The story of his Czech forebears' passion for civil liberty and his parents' struggle that took his father from unskilled laborer to attorney general of Illinois and judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals is authoritatively drawn from unpublished private - as well as public - documents. And fresh materials enrich the portrayal of his boyhood, his education, and his early dual careers in the military and the law.

Regrettably, a dark caricature reveals none of the joy in his thirty-nine year marriage with the youngest daughter of Anton Cermak, the Chicago mayor killed by an assassin's bullet intended for President-elect Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. But accounts of his prosecutorial, judicial, and gubernatorial years and his work on the Civil Disorders Commission are valuable. His 1958 judicial struggle with the Catholic Church over adoption reform and his gubernatorial initiatives in mental health, statewide open housing, and economic development are warmly celebrated. And research into his work on the Commission is enlightening, especially the unearthing of a Commission background document entitled, The Harvest of American Racism, likening 1967's urban black activists to colonial revolutionaries.

While the collective effect of these vignettes is somewhat impressionistic, what is missing is mostly implied in the whole. For example, readers may well wonder how Kerner achieved consensus from rival Illinois legislators and contentious Commission members. Nowhere detailed was his capacity to sublimate tactics, strategy and ego to substantive objectives. His quietly efficacious leadership modeled a respected alternative to the politics of noisy confrontation and blatant self-promotion that sold newspapers, but accomplished little.

The book might also have done well to delve into Kerner's view of class in America as it informed his public life. It was a view reinforced by the career of Anton Cermak, benefactor of Kerner's father and creator of the pan-ethnic, labor-based, anti-Prohibition, Cook County Democratic Party that heralded Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 presidential election sweep. Growing up in a neighborhood of laborers, Kerner appreciated the role of the corner tavern. As a child, he carried buckets of beer on a pole over his shoulder to workmen for small change. He and his neighbors ate for free in the beer garden where adults drank and socialized in the Old World custom before radio, television, and movies. And he recalled that the tavern's only neighborhood safe was where laborers put their wages at day's end and that the tavern was where they went to borrow for their first home rather than face formidable lenders downtown. What Kerner understood - and what Cermak capitalized on politically - was that threadbare, ethnic laborers felt disenfranchised by Prohibition in ways never grasped by well-clad, white-collar managers who could afford expensive, illegal Canadian liquor and who felt at home in the city's imposing, marbled halls of commerce. Prohibition sensitized Kerner to the deep-seated political, economic and social misunderstandings between the haves and the have-nots and anchored his belief that we must try harder to do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

The Kerner Report was as much a watershed for America's civil liberty as it was for Kerner's. In January 1969, Richard Nixon - the nation's first critic of the Kerner Report - was sworn in as president, and his campaign manager, John Mitchell, launched his masquerade as attorney general in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice. The intangible civil rights of minorities advanced by Kerner were set on a collision course with a specious theory of intangible rights invented by Mitchell's prosecutors to allege Kerner failed to give citizens of Illinois "good and faithful services" as governor. With his conviction, Nixon and Mitchell managed to destroy one of America's most respected civil rights advocates. In a disturbing and poignant account, the authors accurately report that, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Justice Department's overreaching theory eleven years after Kerner died, surviving defendants were granted reversals, while an otherwise timely appeal to reverse Kerner's conviction was denied because he was dead.

But the book fails to relate this injustice to the broad pattern of misconduct by Kerner's prosecutors who made him their target; not crime. Absent are incontrovertible proofs of his assertion that he was convicted by witnesses whom the government induced to lie. Missing is revelation that the government's keystone bribery count named no briber or quid pro quo. Omitted is the government's obstruction of justice in hiding its campaign to ruin his reputation through prejudicial, pre-trial leaks to the press of confidential grand jury proceedings and IRS information. Ignored is the government's admission that original IRS notes were destroyed and recreated to frame the perjury allegation he steadfastly denied. Uncritically repeated is the government's cover story that their investigation was inspired - within a year of Kerner's 1968 U.S. Senate confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals - by a faded moll's yarn that he was connected to the Mob. Neglected is the story that government agents on the case commonly joked that their code acronym, CRIMP, stood for Corrupt Republicans Investigating Marje's Pals, "Marje" referring to Marjorie Everett, a key witness suborned by the government to testify in Kerner's trial.

And the authors fail to recognize the enormity of the injustice Kerner suffered when they dismiss strong evidence of the political inspiration behind his prosecution. They recount the famous November 1970 meeting where Nixon, Mitchell and cohorts plotted their racist 1972 re-election campaign strategy to split-off southern and northern white Democratic voters disgruntled by their party's national civil rights and integration initiatives of the 1960s. They also repeat John Mitchell's boast that Illinois Democrats wouldn't be so powerful after his grand jury got through in Chicago when that meeting turned to winning Illinois. They even admit that Mitchell's Justice Department officials had briefed Chicago prosecutors about Kerner only a month earlier in October 1970.

Kerner: The Conflict O Intangible Rights.......2000-02-20

I've just finished reading the excellent biography of Otto Kerner- Kerner: The Conflicts of Intangible Rights. What a wonderful and interesting read! It was real page-turner for me as the story of his life unfolded and touched on the many famous and infamous names in Illinois history.

The research that they did was real yeomanship delving into the relationships and background of Kerner through their interviews (seven pages of Appendixes), references (twenty five pages of Notes) and a Bibliography of fifteen pages referencing Articles, Books, Dissertations and Oral Histories.

The Index reads like a WHO's WHO from Illinois to Washington, DC. As a former resident of Lake and Cook County from 1950 -1973 a great many of the names have many memories attached to them.

The book provided a new insight for me into Otto Kerner, the person as well as the politician and finally as a fallen hero. Hopefully, through the effort and dedication that was put into producing this book, it will provide generations to come a better understanding of Otto Kerner as an Illinois' icon.

Because of Schlickman's service to the people of Illinois in serving in the Illinois House for sixteen years and his experience in Illinois government and politics this book presents a clear and unbiased knowledge of the greater events in Otto Kerner's life.

I want to thank the authors for providing the opportunity for me to have a much better understanding of Otto Kerner- the man.

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Kerner : The Conflict of Intangible Rights
William E.; Schlickman, Eugene P. Barnhart
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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In 1978, seeking an education, a career, and a form of self-expression, Lisa Falour went to New York, where she began a bondage career that spanned two decades. I Was for Sale candidly describes Falour's extraordinary sexual life as a bondage model and her simultaneous pursuit of a career on Wall Street.

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Poor Choices = Poor Life.......2007-03-29

Lisa Falour states early on in her biography that she is not a good writer; she's right. The book is organized by people and events she experienced in her 20 years as a bondage model, sex worker, and sometime druggie from the late 1970s to the late 1990s. She claims she wrote this biography to explain the dangers of her choices in the hopes the others will avoid them. Unfortunately I think the book will attract mostly people wanting a sexual thrill or looking for information about the sex industry. Falour's is only one person and she wasn't really part of the management of the various forms of sexual entertainment. I don't think most young people will reach for this book. Sadly I don't think her book will attract the audience she was hoping it would given the title and the cover. It is however another book about those "good old days" of sexuality and SM that you may heard about; also another book about how those "good old days" weren't very good for most people.

Muddle mess of meandering prose.......2003-02-07

Help! This book is in desperate need of an editor! There's a story here that should be told but "I Was For Sale" is bogged down by the writing style of author Lisa B. Falour.

I really wanted to like this book. I had hopes that it'd perhaps pick up where Shawna Keeney's I Was A Teenage Dominatrix (see CdC #11) left off. A former zinester and bondage model, Falour's life is rife with tawdry (and poignant) tales, yet Falour's writing often left me scratching my head, wondering to where she was going and from where she had come. Falour skips willy-nilly from decade to decade from paragraph to paragraph. I finally had to put the book down when I got to the first page of chapter four and found myself completely lost in the maze of Falour's life-a labyrinth that one would hope she'd navigate rather than compound. I valiantly struggled to pick up the thread that weaves Falour's tales together. I've known people who talk like Falour writes and I try to avoid getting into conversations with them.

Four chapters may sound like a half-hearted effort, but reading Falour's work after proofreading CdC was driving me a bit bonkers. I itched for a pen to rewrite lines like, "I saw him in person recently and he looked great and seemed extremely fit. He didn't seem to be 82 years old at all-he seemed quite a bit younger." Perhaps a synonym (or two) for "seem" is in order. How about "appear"? A good thesaurus, a few infinitives, and a gerund or two might pep up Falour's writing. A muddled disappointment, I hope that Falour's publisher might consider a seriously rewritten second printing of "I Was For Sale" . And, for a book subtitled "Confessions of a Bondage Model," might I suggest that such an edition might sport a few pictures-racy or otherwise! (ISBN: 1840680539)

Memoir of an appalling and interesting time.......2001-10-23

Lisa Falour is a former "sex worker" (the term hadn't yet been coined), a raconteur who is defiant and glib, jaded and heartbreakingly hopeful all at once. Her humor is deadpan. She has an astonishing story. Part of the surprise is that she is alive to tell it. This is a dead-on memoir that is informative, sometimes painful - and intended to inform but not to arouse.

A cute, blond Midwesterner, Falour arrived in New York in the late 1970's (amidst the "smell of things falling apart"). Ambitious, not yet educated, and chronically short of money, she enrolled in a succession of colleges, art schools and, eventually, graduate programs. She also worked two jobs. At brokerage firms as a secretary or a research assistant, she wore good suits and heels. In the second job of prostitute and more - the locus of this story - Falour wore often not much more than the standard accoutrements of the sexual galaxy BDSM- and much higher heels. (Some of her johns preferred her in her office clothes - something she exploited, too.)

You may well be appalled at the job description of "bondage model" - as well as the many other things Falour did for money. She was paid to endure pain, and to mete it out. Sometimes she enjoyed herself. She liked drugging and drinking, and did lots of it. The details of what she calls her "dirty little voyages" take up a lot of this book. She minimizes the psychic (if not physical) pain of that work by asserting that "the only difference at my secretarial jobs during the day was that I was wearing clothes while men (my bosses) humiliated me."

With unconvincing insouciance Falour claims that the money drove her into it - but then, more convincingly, though not with much elaboration, she acknowledges that "low self-esteem" was motivation, too.

She's impulsive and smart and self-destructive. She married three men, lived through a series of near-disasters, and she made a lot of friends, whose portraits she draws with wit and gentle humor. The story of many of the friendships' unraveling is one of the saddest parts of the book.

This is a strange and disturbing memoir that is well worth reading. There's a portrait of a seamy underside of New York City in the late '70's and early 80's that's awfully well drawn. Readers repulsed by honest depictions of comparatively unconventional sexual acts or tolerance of unconventional behaviors might choose to skip this book. Despite Falour's claim that " at 41, my spirit is broken, I am alcoholic, and my bouts of depression are now lasting years at a time," without benefit of writing workshops or thousands of hours of psychotherapy - she has managed to succeed at telling an astonishing personal story.

Bondage Would be Preferable.......2001-07-05

Human sexuality is an interesting subject, especially the fringes of sexual behavior. Even more interesting are those who work in the sex industry, exploring their own sexuality and seeing others' sexuality up close and personal.

So how could such a great subject matter yield such a bad book? Well, to start with the book is categorized by the publisher as "autobiography". I'm not sure if this really autobiographical, fiction, or some sort of "gonzo" blurring of the two. Despite the word "Confessions" in the title, the author reveals little of herself, her thoughts, her psyche. She recounts episodes of her work but never tells us how she came to be a bondage model or why. Did she already have an interest in the S&M scene? Did she like the work? Was this an expression of her sexuality or just a job? What did she think about her clients?

The book is merely a collection of seemingly random anecdotes recounted with little passion or indication of the author's feelings about the events. There is no underlying theme and no particular order. One would expect better writing from an author with a post graduate degree and who has written for numerous publiations as indicateed in her biography in the "about the author" page in the front of the book. And this is problematic as well. I have never seen a page listing the authors accomplishments and life history in an autobiography, again leading me to belive that this book is at least as much fiction as fact. The purpose of an autobiography is to tell us about the subjects life, therefore an "about the author" page would be redundant. But the author doesn't really tell us much about her life, or reveal much about herself at all. She merely strings together tawdry stories about herself and others which generally raise more questions that never get answered. The sories often seem to begin in the middle and leave numerous loose ends at the conclusion.

I have never heard of the publisher, Velvet Publications, but I assume they have editors on their staff. A good editing would have helped this book immensely. Even a mere chronological arrangement of events would have made it more readable.

In short, I can name numerous books on this subject written by men and women who have worked in and/or lived the S&M lifestyle, and none with the educational or writing credentials of this author, that are more revealing of themselves, the S&M lifestyle and the S&M aspects of the sex industry. I suggest either Mistress Jacquelines "Whips and Kisses" or Shawna Kenney's "I Was a Teenage Domiatrix" as being far superior to this book.

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The monograph is useful for investment professionals seeking to develop quantitative models of equity performance or to understand the performance of those models. Proves that the "drivers" of above-index returns differ between markets and differ over time. Clearly written good exposition with interesting references, but are YOU really interested in the subject?

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Until relatively recently, it was the domestic perspective of business which was the driving force behind information technology applications. But in the age of globalization, there is an increasing need for IT to be more 'global friendly'.

International Business & IT is a breakthrough text that analyses the relationship between international business operations and information technology. Firstly, it assesses the impact of current developments in IT on the operation of multinational corporations on both a practical and theoretical level and explores how it can improve competitive advantage. Secondly, it investigates how doing business in an international environment affects the design, implementation and management of information systems for global enterprises.

The text offers a much-needed overview of the key trends in IT and global business management, with contributors from the fields of IT, international business, business development and marketing. Taking a multi-disciplinaryapproach, the text includes unique case studies of global companies to complement and illuminate the theoretical grounding of each chapter and raise the issues that are of real relevance to managers working internationally.

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Release Date: 2006-06-20

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Grand Complications, Vol. II provides a detailed overview of complicated watchmaking. Published by Tourbillon International, this reference work for connoisseurs deals with each of the major horological complications by theme, from their history through to their most recent developments. Multi-complications, minute repeaters and sonneries, tourbillons, equations of time, perpetual calendars, chronographs, jump hours and retrograde mechanisms, GMTs and multiple time zones are reviewed in great detail. The latest creations by over 23 elite watch manufacturers are displayed and accompanied by technical descriptions, comprising more than 400 pages in this book that already has earned respect among connoisseurs.

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The Quality Pictures are the Thing!.......2007-05-08

This is the third or fourth large format watch book I have bought and read cover to cover. This one has the least amount of text, and the largest pictures. The other books of this type tell you about the companies and the people running them, as well as an overview of the models they make. This book concentrates on the stars of this world, not the people. It has a large, high quality picture on each page of a stellar example watch, with a small amount of description of the watch and what it does besides tell time. I pulled out my magnifying glass and learned a lot about how the different makers present the complications. The book is divided into types of complications, and all the top brands'top models are grouped together by type of complication. I loved it when I was learning by looking close and comparing instead of reading a lot of words. I recommend this book for visual appreciation of high craftmanship.

(One of the) Ultimate Wish Books.......2006-11-06

If you want your favorite watch enthusiast to love you forever, buy this book! You may be subjected to discussions about tourbillons, chronographs, repeaters, etc., but your amateur (or professional) horologist will be in seventh heaven just viewing these works of art for the wrist. While not a catalog, it really doesn't matter to a serious collector and they will spend many happy hours perusing their favorite jewels. Makes Timex look like a kiddy toy.

Grand Complications: High Quality Watchmaking (Grand Complications)

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For six years, Watches International, the original annual of the world's finest wristwatches, has set the standard for up-to-date reference guides devoted to luxury timepieces. Now Tourbillon International, the publishers of Watches International, is proud to present Grand Complications, which delves into the complexities of high-end watchmaking, offering a survey of watches and timepieces of the highest quality, from the most exclusive luxury brands.This first edition devotes chapters to tourbillons, repeaters and sonneries, chronograph rattrapantes, perpetual calendars, equations of time, astronomical indicators, GMTs, retrogrades and host of novelties. It explores the roots and origins of these complications as a complete compendium of brands and watches that fall within the realm of haute horology, complete with full-color images and detailed technical descriptions. It also features more than 1,000 full-color photographs, a full glossary, and contact information for each house, making this the must-have reference for watch collectors, connoisseurs and professionals.

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Perfect for the Mechanical Watch Afficianado.......2006-11-06

This volume gives little text but loads of glossy photos of the inner workings (and outer beauty) of fine Swiss mechanical movement watches. These pictures are enough to send most watch afficianados into a frenzy. Take it from me. I'm married to one and he didn't put this book down for about two weeks. It was drooled over every chance he got. If you have one of these (watch nuts) at home, you may want to order this, as it will keep them out of your hair for the next couple of weeks and you can get things done. It also makes them more amenable to your suggestions. Have fun!

Eye candy and great food for the brain..........2006-03-19

Stunning photography, great close-up detail, and thorough descriptions, makes this book a work of art, and an absolute must for any watch enthusiast.

If it contained info on YEAR and PRICE.........2006-02-20

it would be perfect. As it is now, its just a (huge) coffee table book of very nice closeup pics of watches.

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Great resource.......2007-08-06

Big book, full color photos, explanations of all the majoy watch works. Perfect for any watch affectionado.

Grand Complications Volume III.......2007-08-04

Not worth the money unless you like pictures. Needs more technical background information on the various watches.

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Great for the beginner and old hat alike.......2005-04-15

After reviewing this set for our woodworking blog, I wanted to share a big thumbs up with others. This is a great collection of articles from the last decade of Fine Woodworking Magazine and a great place for beginners to get a jump on learning. For the more experienced, having the articles aranged by subject makes it easy to find solutions and alternatives when faced with uncertanty. For more reviews check out NothingSeveredYet.com.

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Emotional Livesaver: A Patient's Guide to Treatment

Not enough information.

This was so helpful

Very educational!

Cancers of the Mouth and Throat: A Patient's Guide to Treatment
MD, William M. Lydiatt , and MD, Perry Johnson
Manufacturer: Addicus Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1886039445

Book Description

William Lydiatt, M.D. and Perry Johnson, M.D., have worked with hundreds of mouth and throat cancer patients. They understand the emotional turmoil patients and their families go through after a cancer diagnosis, and they know how being informed can relieve some of that stress. Topics covered in this book include how early detection leaads to high cure rates; symptoms that could mean cancer; the emotional side of the cancer; how doctors make a diagnosis; staging the cancer and why it so important; surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy—how they kill cancer; reconstructive surgery; and experimental treatment through clinical trials.

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Emotional Livesaver: A Patient's Guide to Treatment.......2003-02-25

When you get the news you have cancer, there is a period of waiting in total agony for yourself and your family until the time you get before a specialist who can explain and answer your concerns. As you wait, fears and anxiety lead to despair and depression because you don't have understandable information and your mind thinks the worse based upon your preconceptions of the word "Cancer."

Simple questions that need immediate answers. What is cancer and how did I get it? How bad is this cancer and how far has it spread? What caused it and what can I do to change my lifestyle? How will they treat it and what are the odds of success in treatment? How long will this take and what are the likely side effects?

This book, Cancers of the Mouth and Throat: A Patient's Guide to Treatment, has its greatest value during that time as an initial resource to frame the problem and sketch out concerns and issues for the patient in a language that is logical and understandable.

A friend gave me this book shortly after diagnosis for cancer. I was being treated at an ENT clinic for an acid reflux problem that was so bad that it closed my airway. The acid reflux apparently had damaged tissues to the degree that it created a carcinoma just below the vocal chords. The book explained how all of this happened and I could see my situation completely.

I strongly recommend it for hospitals, clinics, and institutions that can put it in the hands of newly diagnosed patients. It has been a wonderful comfort to me throughout radiation treatment, and I reference it often.

Searching the internet for information can be confusing and often only creates more fear, because you don't even know what questions to ask. This value of this book, Cancers of the Mouth and Throat: A Patient's Guide to Treatment, is its focus upon an overview -- not medical mumbo jumbo detail -- but an overview, of head and neck cancers, treatment options, side effects, in a language understandable to patients.

This book was an absolute lifesaver to my emotional health, and sits at my bedside. Next to the Holy Bible, this book did the most in my situation to provide information that put me back in control of the cancer.

A patient needs this book to answer what cancer is, what to expect, and what to do and to guage the probabilities for success of a course of action. This book provided the answers to family that call with concerns and support.

By the time I finally went to my first cancer clinic visit, I went calm, informed, secure and with a positive spirit. The book gave me a basic understanding of my condition. I was able to ask and answer questions intelligently, and to give my family reassurances for their concerns and questions.

I most strongly recommend this book and thank the authors for writing it and the hospital administrators that bought it as a resource for their patients, and the friend that brought it to me.

Not enough information........2003-01-04

The authors seem to assume their readers are incapable of appreciating the "whole picture" when it comes to diagnosis and treatment. They spoon-feed what they consider to be the important information, leaving more questions than they answered.

This was so helpful.......2001-07-02

My grandfather was diagnosed with larynx cancer. We had no idea about cancer and the treatments available. This book was great in explaining the options in plain language that we all could understand. We thank God for this book and the authors. Without it our experience would have been much more difficult.

Very educational!.......2000-11-18

A great read for patients and their families!

Book Description

These 301 letters between Giuseppe Verdi and his last, most gifted librettist, Arrigo Boito, document an extraordinary chapter in musical history. Now available for the first time in English, this correspondence records both a unique friendship and its creative legacy.

This new edition of the landmark Carteggio Verdi/Boito is at once a valuable resource for all students, teachers, and scholars of opera and a fascinating glimpse of the daily life of European art and artists during the fertile last decades of the 19th century.

Embarking on a 20-year collaboration, Verdi and Boito produced a successful revision of Simon Boccanegra, and two new operas, Otello and Falstaff. They created what many consider to be Verdi's greatest operas, thanks both to Boito's poetry and to his handling of the composer. Here are the day-to-day tasks of creation: poet and composer debating problems of dramatic structure, words, phrases, and meters; altering dialogue as, at the same time, they converse about the wider worlds of art and music. The give and take of artistic creation is rendered fascinatingly.

This edition features a new introduction by Marcello Conati, improvements and updatings to the original edition, and an appendix of undated correspondence. William Weaver's translation is characteristically pitch-perfect; he also provides a short closing sketch of Boito's life after the death of his beloved maestro. Explanatory "linking texts" between the letters create a narrative.

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A moving testament to friendship and musical genius.......2002-01-21

This superbly-annotated collection of more than 300 letters between Verdi and his librettist Arrigo Boito shows not only an insight into musical creativeness but also the workings of generous and selfless friendship. Boito invested an immense amount of time and effort in his own opera Mefistofele; as those who witnessed its revival at the English National Opera a few years ago will attest, it is a hack work that can only successfully be portrayed as parody. In these letters, Verdi is ceaselessly encouraging and interested in the work, though he must have known that it was not a work of art. For his part, Boito is touchingly appreciative of his colleague's talent - he habitually addresses Verdi as 'Dearest Maestro' - and in their exchanges the reader can gain a glimpse into the creative workings that, Wagner not withstanding, produced the finest body of 19th-century opera.

There is real spine to the work of Verdi and Boito: it encompasses politics, religion, pathos and tragedy. These letters are testament to the men's friendship and genius; it is a moving and important work, and I strongly recommend it.

This book is a must!.......1998-01-27

Perhaps the most delightful surprise in reading this book is the number of deep-down belly-laughs experienced in reading the letters of Verdi and Boito. The text between the letters often creates suspense even for those moments when we know the outcome. This is a book to own.

Verdi's Otello and Simon Boccanegra (revised version) in Letters and Documents: Volume I: Letters and Telegrams Volume II: Documents (Revised Version in Letters and Documents)

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Verdi's Otello and Simon Boccanegra (revised version) in Letters and Documents: Volume I: Letters and Telegrams Volume II: Documents (Revised Version in Letters and Documents)
Hans Busch
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0193132079

Book Description

This study illuminates the creation and early productions of Verdi's Otello and the revised version of Simon Boccanegra by featuring Verdi's correspondence with his librettist, Arrigo Boito, and their publisher, Giulio Ricordi. An indispensable aid to the student of Verdi's late works, opera
producers, conductors, and vocalists as well as the general reader and opera buff, the work contains reviews of early performances, production books kept by Ricordi and Boito, and biographical notes on all correspondents.

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Verdi-Boito: Briefwechsel
Giuseppe Verdi
Manufacturer: S. Fischer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 3100096169

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Vick Knight
Manufacturer: Borden Pub Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0685645444

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