Sistema Agroalimentario Ante El Mercado Unico Europeo

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Title: Barcelona.(planificación económica durante Cumbre Ministerial del Consejo Europeo)(TT: Barcelona.)(TA: economic planning during Ministerial Summit of European Council)(Artículo Breve)
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Title: EL DESAFIO DE LAS REFORMAS ESTRUCTURALES.(planificación de mercado único europeo; cumbre del Consejo de la Unión Europea en Barcelona, España)(TT: The challenge of structural reform.)(TA: planning of European common market; European Union Council summit in Barcelona, Spain)(Artículo Breve)
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El Mercado Unico Europeo
Spyros Makridakis
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Gigante político y económco: la unión Europea tendrá 25 miembros en 2004. (Reportaje).: An article from: Siempre!

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Gigante político y económco: la unión Europea tendrá 25 miembros en 2004. (Reportaje).: An article from: Siempre!
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Title: Gigante político y económco: la unión Europea tendrá 25 miembros en 2004. (Reportaje).
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Title: La Europa de los politicos. (Espana: el semestre).
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La Unión Europea, sin rumbo: los cerca de 50 años de historia de la UE se han escrito a golpe de sonoros desencuentros. Sin embargo, nunca antes Bruselas ... en entredicho.: An article from: Epoca

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Los retos que enfrenta la integracion europea en el futuro y las relaciones entre la Union Europea y America Latina.(Transcripcion): An article from: Estudios Internacionales

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Annette Neyts-Uytterbroeck
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Lola Fernández , and Marta Alvarez-Montalvo
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Nuevo impulso al mercado unico. (esta Europa nuestra).(plan estrategico de Comision Europea ): An article from: Epoca

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One of the best guides around.......2000-07-14

This book is excellent for anyone who likes to hike in new hampshire, but likes to stick to the presidentials. It's informative, compact and an essentail edition to any hikers pack. It comes with a map of the range, too. Now is a great time to buy because the AMC maps have just been given a make-over. They are now full colorized and eaiser to read. A very cool feature with the map is that it has an iset of Mount Washington from the hermit lake shelter to the summit. All in all, a wonderful book.

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Financial Accounting is designed to introduce accounting concepts in a practical and interesting way. It incorporates innovations in content and addresses the needs of both preparers and users of financial accounting information in an enlightening manner. The book uses the preparation of financial statements as the framework for understanding what accounting is all about. It combines these basic accounting concepts with a heavy dose of the real world to build and improve skills for effective business comprehension. Whether you're headed for a career or already involved in entrepreneurship, business management or professional accounting , this book will ensure all future successes.

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I COULD NOT REVIEW THIS BOOK I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT IT.......2002-05-16

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Making history a family matter

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One of the best books I've ever read!

A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience
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In this elegant family history, journalist Thai Jones traces the past century of American radical politics through the extraordinary exploits of his own family. Born in the late 1970s to fugitive leaders of the Weather Underground and grandson of Communists, spiritual pacifists, and civil rights agitators, Jones grew up an heir to an American tradition of resistance. Yet rather than partake of it, he took it upon himself to document it. The result is a book of extraordinary reporting and narrative.

The dramatic saga of A Radical Line begins in 1913, when Jones's maternal grandmother was born, and ends in 1981, when a score of heavily armed government agents from the Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force stormed into four-year-old Thai's home and took his parents away in handcuffs. In between, Jones takes us on a journey from the turn-of-the-century western frontier to the tenements of melting-pot Brooklyn, through the Great Depression, the era of McCarthyism, and the Age of Aquarius.

Jones's paternal grandfather, Albert Jones, committed himself to pacifism during the 1930s and refused to fight in World War II. The author's maternal grandfather, Arthur Stein, was a member of the Communist Party during the 1950s and refused to collaborate with the House Un-American Activities Committee. His maternal grandmother, Annie Stein, worked closely with civil rights legends Mary Church Terrell and Ella Baker to desegregate institutions in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

His father, Jeff Jones, joined the violent Weathermen and led hundreds of screaming hippies through the streets of Chicago to clash with police during the Days of Rage in 1969. Then Jeff Jones disappeared and spent the next eleven years eluding the FBI's massive manhunt. Thai Jones spent the first years of his life on the run with his parents.

Beyond the politics, this is the story of a family whose lives were filled with love honored and betrayed, tragic deaths, painful blunders, narrow escapes, and hope-filled births. There is the drama of a pacifist father who must reconcile with a bomb-throwing son and a Communist mother whose daughter refuses to accept the lessons she has learned in a life as an organizer. There are parents and children who can never meet or, when they do, must use the ruses and subterfuge of criminals to steal a hug and a hello.

Beautifully written and sweeping in its scope, A Radical Line is nothing less than a history of the twentieth century and of one American family who lived to shake it up.

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Albany Law Student.......2006-04-18

I had the pleasure of having Judge Stein for my law school class last fall. She was an excelllent professor for Civil Procedure, really connecting with the class. Despite her extreme politicl views, she never injected any of them into the classroom setting. Thai Jones's book chronicled his family's pursuit of sticking up for ideas in which they believe. While I do not condone the violence that other group members used, I admire Judge Stein's courage to stand up to those she opposed.

Red Diapers Times Two.......2005-10-07

It is quite a feat to tackle writing a book about your parents and grandparents without succumbing to sentimentality, or in some people's case, bitterness. Thai Jones succeeds in keeping an even-handed, slightly amused tone to his family story, and some family it is. His parents, Jeff Jones and Eleanor Raskin, were two members of the Weather Underground, and the author was himself born on the run, so to speak. His first memory is of the FBI hauling his parents away when they were finally busted and he was age four. I don't envy him that memory.

And prior to Jeff and Eleanor were their respective parents, radicals of the Old Left, with their own strong opinions, which didn't necessarily match up with those of their offspring. That inherent tension gives the story some of its punch.

Of course, the most dramatic part of the book is the tromp through the New Left, SDS, and Weatherman (later, the Weather Underground). Jones draws on family memories, other participants, and reliable sources, but there may not be a whole lot new here for anyone who has read other memoirs such as Bill Ayers' or seen the Weather Underground documentary. Still, he provides yet another perspective which helps us triangulate on that over-heated era.

My main cavel about the book is its scattershot time-line, which bounces back and forth between different family members and different years. No doubt, some of this is done for dramatic effect, but it undercuts one's ability to get a clear picture of the linear order of events. And the confusion is made worse by Jones' almost exclusive use of first names for the main family members. A little journalistic insertion of last names, now and then, might have kept me better on track.

When all is said and done, I couldn't shake the feeling, from Jones' account, that both of his parents had a screw loose in the judgment department. The author's mother succumbs to the more revolutionary than thou guilt-tripping of the Weatherpersons, and leaves her first husband and abandons her law degree. At the time, I'm sure, it seemed like the right thing to do, but when you get right down to it, she flipped and joined a cult.

Jones' father, one of the most macho gun-wavers of the Weatherman leadership, can't keep from buying stand-out-in-a-crowd used cars, all while living "underground" and trying to remain inconspicuous, of course. This recklessness is topped off by his growing dope plants on an apartment fire escape in Hoboken, apparently to make a little cash while on the lam. This, needless to say, catches the eyes of the authorities and they're on the run again.

All in all, A Radical Line is an entertaining read. Slight flaws and family quirks aside, it provides a compelling portrait of two and a half generations of rebels.

Making history a family matter.......2004-12-19

This is a wry, smart book. Jones cleaves historical and personal stories into an astonishing narrative -- one that spans a century of American power and protest. That he does so at all is impressive; that he does so without any navel-gazing self indulgence is a miraculous breath of fresh memoir air. Jones' book is a stark and often critical look at his own family line, as well as a brilliant contextualization of everything from moral outrage and political movements to sex, drugs and car chases.

Rubbish.......2004-11-25

These people were evil, violent and remain unrepentant to the present day. There is nothing to be gained by reading this poorly-written account of their misshapen lives.

One of the best books I've ever read!.......2004-10-17

I read "A Radical Line" in a single weekend and it really was as advertised - a crash course in American protest movements. My parents lived through the sixties and they have bored me for years with stories from "back in the day". Reading this book - written by someone in my generation - showed me why that ancient history is still important today - maybe more than ever. The author tells the story through the people in his family, and when he describes the anger his parents felt because of American atrocities in Vietnam, it reminds me of the way I talk to my friends about the war in Iraq.

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Volkogonov mis-quotes Trotsky.......2007-01-18

As someone who is interested in the Russian Revolution, I have to say that Volkogonov's biography is inaccurate. He makes false claims, which he never backs up. (For example, Volkogonov states that Trotsky was corrupt, early on his book, but he never presents any supporting facts for this assertation.) He also grievously misquotes Trotsky as saying, "It is impossible to organize an army without repression. It is necassary to give soldiers the choice of death at the front or the rear." This is only a part of the original quote, taken from My Life, by Trotsky, which reads, "It impossible to organize an army without repression. It is necassary to give soldiers the choice between death at the front or the rear. That was the principle of old armies, but we organized an army on the principles of the October Revolution." The point is not to disput the accuracy of Trotsky's statement, but to get an idea of what he said.
I am sure Mr. Volkogonov worked very hard on his book, but reviews by disillisioned ex-communists are not really the best source of information about revolutionaries. As Chris Harman says, "You have to sympathise with a revolution to write about it." This is because without sympathy, no one will understand what motivated the Bolsheviks, or any other bunch of revolutionaries. It seems to be popular now to beat dead Marxists even deader. Whatever our political opinions, it does no good to judge Trotsky from the view-point of the 21st century, after the collapse of Stalinsim. People have to be judged in the context of their time. Ignoring the battle between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks also gives a distorted view of Trotsky, who, like all Russian Marxists of his time was deeply changed by the split. Hate to say it, but, Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary is an ax job. Ironic, huh, that Trotsky's biography whould be called an ax-job. There should be a limit on the number of those one person can get. For a REAL analysis of Trotsky, I would go for Isaac Deutscher's biography (it's three volumes but is absolutely fascinating, I read the first book in two days. GREAT books.) A warning with those books, however, is that Vol. 1 seems very pro-Trotsky, until the end, where Deutscher brings up some very tough questions about Trotsky's involvement in the so-called "Labour-armies". W. Bruce Linclon has written an amazing trilogy of books about the Russian Revolution in general, though it essential to read his Red Victory to gain a clear understanding of the conditions facing the Bolsheviks at the end of the Civil War. Trotsky's autobiography (My Life) is also a good source, though like all autobiographies, it has to be taken with a grain of salt. A warning about My Life- it is very interesting but contains some passages that might require liberal use of the Marxists Internet Archive's Dictionary of Marxism. I hope readers will turn to more balanced sources than Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary, when researching Trotsky's life. A modern-day Marxist could easily blow off Volkogonov's work as crap. Deutscher's sympathetic but relentless biography is impossible for anyone to brush off or forget.

The Man Destroyed By the Revolution He Made.......2005-11-25

Leon Trotsky is one of the most fascinating, and yet despicable
men in history. The most brilliant of the Bolsheviks who made the October Revolution in Russia and its number 2 leader during the Civil War that solidified the Communist regime, the man is truly an enigma. At a young age, he decided to use his talents to create a Marxist world-wide revolution and still at a young age, had already made a name for himself by moving into Lenin's close circle before the famous Second Party Congress that led to the formation of the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions and then to being one of the leaders of the abortive 1905 Revolution in Russia. It is already at this early stage we see the strange combination of far-sightedness combined with myopia that came to characterize him. This is manifested in Trotsky's correct realization that Lenin's formula for creating a tightly controlled movement ruled by the Center would ultimately lead to a one-man dictatorship. Yet, in spite of his almost prophetic perception of Lenin's flaws, when the February 1917 Revolution leading to the overthrow of the Tsarist regime occurs, Trotsky throws all caution to the wind and rejects all his previous criticism of Lenin and the Bolshevist path and wholeheartedly joins him in his plan to carry out a Bolshevik coup. With the success of the Bolsheviks in coming to power, Trotsky reaches the peak of his career, first as Commissar for Foreign Affairs given the unenviable task of negotiating with the Germans who were demanding immense
swaths of Russian territory. He then moves on to be Commissar for War. Here Volkogonov explodes one of the myths that has come up around Trotsky which claims that, overnight, this bookworm and orator suddenly became a military genius in creating the Red Army and leading it to victory over the White forces opposing the Bolsheviks. Volkogonov points out that Trostky, against the views of others like Stalin and Voroshilov supported the use of former Tsarist military officers (called "specialists") to lead the Red Army and they are the ones who really ran the war, even though their "ideological purity" was suspect. Trotsky's role, although important, was primarily to give motivational speeches to the troops and party cadres and to be the liaison with the government in Moscow.
We also now see the dark side of the man, in his support of mass terror, executions, confiscation of grain and the like, in order to bring about his Marxist "utopia".
With the victory of the Bolsheviks, coinciding with Lenin's deteriorating health, the other Bolshevik leaders, always jealous of Trotksy's eloquence and brilliance and his late "jumping on the bandwagon", began to plot to remove him.
At this critical point, Trotsky's myopia, combined with poor health come into play, and he easily falls into the trap of his enemies, the principle one being Stalin, and he is eased out of power. Even though Lenin viewed him as his successor, Trotsky (who was tricked into not coming to Lenin's funeral) is unable to use this and falls quickly.
After this, Trotsky's life quickly goes into a downward spiral. Because of his blind belief that world revolution (which the other Bolsheviks were rapidly losing interest in) is more important that "building socialism in one country", he is expelled from his posts, then the Politburo, then the party and then the USSR in short order. He spends the rest of his life in exile.
Although we again see his farsightedness in predicting that Stalin would reach an accomodation with Hitler, and then correctly predicting that Hitler would turn on Stalin and invade the USSR in 1941, we also see his blindness in refusing to view Lenin as anything other as a perfect saint and prophet (his cult of Lenin was just as extreme as that of Stalin's, only less cynical), and his ridiculous belief that Stalin's adoption of Trotsky's radical farm collectivisation in 1929 might lead to Stalin recalling him from exile. Stalin's show trials against "Trotskyism" sends Trotsky into a mantle of self-pity about all the "lies" being told about him, all the while ignoring his own role in creating the terror state and all the innocent victims he created. He denounces the Stalin terror against the Party, yet he criticized Stalin for halting the collectivization program that led 10 million deaths from terror and famine. All these contradictions lead in the end to Trotsky being isolated by the Marxists outside the USSR and the pathetic failure of his attempt to create a Fourth International. Finally, his own entourage is infiltrated by Stalinist agents, his close family members are murdered, and he is left alone in Mexico to face the inevitable-an assassin (Ramon Mercader) who easily gains access to the old man who lets down his guard because he is tired of being perpetually on the run from Stalin's murder machine. Mercader finally puts him out of his misery.
The life of Trotsky is a tragedy, the story of a man with great potential, who used it to create one of the most evil regimes in human history, and in the end he is consumed by it. This book is a good introduction to this fascinating figure. The author admits that Deutcher's book is very good, but for someone who wants a shorter introduction to the Eternal Revolutionary, this is a good place to start.

Trostsky Comes Alive.......2001-05-24

Volkogonov has written a very sensitive portrait of Trotsky. For specialists, of course, it should be combined with a reading of Deutscher's three-volume biography, but for general readers Volkogonov should suffice. Volkogonov's "Trotsky" is not as scholarly as Deutscher's masterly work, but it's more balanced. The author, a disillusioned former Communist, recognizes Trotsky's genius and portrays him in sympathetic and tragic terms, yet frequently reminds us that his subject was working under fatally flawed premises. Since he doesn't take communism seriously on an intellectual level, he spares us most of the details about theoretical clashes among the Bolsheviks over Marxist interpretations. He also reminds us that even though Trotsky never ceased criticizing Stalin's tyranny, his own role in the development of the murderous role of the CPSU was not innocent. Some readers may justly criticize Volkogonov's haphazard organization of his materials, but I find it doesn't detract from his work, and I rather enjoyed his more personal observations.

The Siren's call.......2000-09-03

"The entire structure of Leninism is at present based on lies and falsification and carries within it the poisonous seeds of its own destruction."

Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, known as Trotsky, the one time Social Democrat, one time political opponent of Lenin, one time war correspondent, one time toast of radical society dilatants, one time People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, one time member of the Bolshevik Central Committee, and finally political fugitive and Stalinist purge victim wrote the above quote in 1913. Dmitri Volkogonov's book, Trotsky, provides a stimulating portrait of this fascinating personality and the various roles/political outlooks that he struggled through.

To start let's consider Volkoganov's view of the 2nd Party Congress held in London in the summer of 1903. Far from repeating the usual interpretation, he offers a new one, namely that instead of being simply a question of party organization which divided the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, it was "over a difference in the theory and practice of revolutionary methodology. The congress formalized the coexistence of two parallel tendencies: one radical, revolutionary and uncompromising, which would characterize the Bolsheviks; the other reformist, evolutionary and parliamentary, which was to become the hallmark of those henceforth known as Mensheviks" page 29. As the author mentions, it is also interesting to note that the original platform of the RSDLP advocated democracy, secret suffrage, inviolability of the person, freedom of thought, speech, press, movement, assembly, strikes and trade unions as well as other similar goals.

How did all these noble dreams of a great humanist state end up as a mass gulag? The answer in one word is Lenin. Lenin, the egotistical nihilist, rejected out of hand any "bourgeois theory", relying solely instead on his own interpretation of Marx and Engels. Any non-Bolshevik political opponent was subject to the worst sort of derogatory comments and personal attack. In March of 1917, Lenin arrived in revolutionary Petrograd unwilling to compromise with anyone and enjoying unlimited financial resources thanks to the German General Staff. Trotsky, who had since joined the Bolsheviks, supported Lenin's hard line unquestioningly. While the Provisional Government worried of an attack from the right, Lenin, ever the cynical opportunist, promised an end to the war and land to the peasants. Bolshevik agitators spread through the army to convince the troops to desert or simply ignore the orders of their officers. By October the stage was set, a radical party of limited support and scope was able to overthrow what remained of the Provisional Government with little effort or bloodshed, but by rejecting all compromise and by ruthlessly exercising complete power, Lenin, Trotsky and the Bolsheviks made the Russian Civil War a reality. After the October "Revolution" Trotsky became ever more important to Lenin, whose effectiveness as a speaker was limited. As Yaroslavsky described him at the time, Trotsky was "a man most profoundly dedicated to the revolution, a man who has grown up to be a tribune, with a tongue as finely honed and flexible as steel, a tongue that can cut his enemies down, and a pen which scatters a wealth of ideas like handfuls of artistic pearls." Page 82.

Perhaps the author's most important view is that the tragedy that became the Soviet Union required each of the Bolshevik triumvirate to play the part he was most suited for. Lenin was the ruthless opportunist, his unquestioning will to destroy and control by terror setting the tone and shape of the entire system. Stalin was the pathological paranoid master of conspiracy, the consolidator, basically a fascistic criminal, who had got his start in the Party as a bank robber. And Trotsky? He provided the siren's song for the masses, the pure light of his reason projected to attract a storm of adolescent and unquestioning human devotion and energy willing to follow whoever held the red flag. Is it any wonder that Trotsky didn't outlast the Civil War period by very long? After his expulsion, Trotsky provided the excuse for Stalin's tyranny, even supplying the ideological framework for the disasterous "Second October Revolution" of 1928-40. The Bolshevik system required all three and played itself out in a very mechanical, a very deterministic way, success meant retaining absolute power and in that one sense, the only goal with any meaning for Lenin, it was successful until 1991 when the machinary collapsed.

Why do unrepentant Leninists in the West continue with the charade that Bolshevism held any hope for mankind? Pride and egotism, along with a cynical and patronizing view of humanity blind them to the shambles all around them, block their noses from the smell of the grimacing, yet rancid Leninist corpse that they have strapped to their backs. That and the role they play as scarecrow/whipping boy for the reactionary and Reaganist right which automatically labels any opposition to the corporate-dominated national security state as "communism" gives them a false, yet ego-enhancing, sense of importance. In other words they'd love to stop acting like trick dogs, but they can't give up the attention they get.

This book and the author's biography on Lenin tell the whole sordid history. Time for the "left" to finally bury the Leninist corpse and decide on a counter-argument that exposes Reaganist "behind-closed-doors-government". What America especially needs is a new urge and will to protect our basic human rights and liberties, such as the original goals of our Founding Fathers or, for that matter, of the RSDLP. Nobody needs another utopian ideology, such as Leninism or some deluted, "people-friendly" version of Reaganism, but a pragmatic program that sees humanity, its natural physical environment and its artifical economic environment for what they are and responds accordingly.

Very poorly written bio of a great man.......2000-07-25

Attempting to make the most interesting political figure of the twentieth century seem absolutely boring would be quite an obstacle for most people, especially when you have access to the Soviet Presidential Archive, but Dmitri Volkogonov has somehow achieved this task with flying colors. The historian Isaac Deutscher wrote a three-volume biography of Leon Trotsky in the 1950's, and his writings were far superior to this biography of Trotsky by Volkogonov, which was written within the past decade!

The playright Edvard Radzinsky had the same access to the Presidential Archive that Volkognov had, yet his biography of Stalin was one of the most informative books I have ever read. Perhaps Volkogonov attempted to take advantage of the newly established market economy in Russia by producing as many books as he could(at the expense of research and lucidity of writing), and after they attained a respectable amount of success, he walked away with all the money(of course he died in 1995, so I guess his family now is now taking the money). He tells the reader everything they could have found elsewhere(even on Microsoft Encarta!), such as Trotsky's birth in Yanavka in 1879, the Russian Social Democratic split in 1903, his first encounter with Lenin, his role as the founder of the Red Army, etcetera, and etcetera. This is all fine if you're not familiar with Trotsky life, but it's not fine if the author has access to as exclusive as documents as the Presidential archive. A prospective reader would have expected a book that claims to be a "breakthrough reinterpetration" of Trotsky to live up to it's name, but I found that it almost certainly didn't. Although [this] is a good price for a Hardback book with a dustjacket, I would still recommend that you just look at MSN Encarta's description of Trotsky, you learn all of the same stuff that Volkogonov somehow crammed into 488 pgs(maybe this is what he did to write the book, who knows?). Edvard Radzinsky has written books about Rasputin, Nicholas II, and Stalin, so there's always the possibility that he'll write a biography of Trotsky, and maybe even Lenin(tasks which would undo all of the damage that Volkogonov has done to the prestige of the Presidential Archive).

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Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary

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Dmitri; Shukman, Harold Volkogonov
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Away from headlines and into the lives of refugee families.......2001-07-15

This material formed a display at the Royal Ontario Museum; it works even better between book covers. It should be mandatory reading for Canadians - and few could help but respond to this intimate introduction to selected refugee families. The material was compiled back when Canada's refugee policies were worthy of international recognition. That time has passed. From time to time, "the refugee issue" splashes across headlines and quickly fades from view - having left little insight but rather the unmistakable whiff of problem and cost.

The refugee families selected are representative of the major refugee movements of the recent past. Both photos and text help place these personal stories within the larger context. However, the strength of the book is the personal glimpse of individuals' hopes and fears, losses mourned and futures planned. The reader sees that individuals differ in their responses to this devastating circumstance. The book is a useful antidote to the tendency to view the refugees' plight as simply a political or economic concern. The reader may better question the belated and begrudging response currently given to refugees who request safe haven in Canada. The process of moving past mourning lives torn asunder in order to plan lives to be built sits in painful hiatus while government appointees decide whether individuals are welcomed or forced back into the maelstroms from which they fled. Send this excellent book to our elected representatives.

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In this major work about jazz and one of its most significant figures, James Lincoln Collier brilliantly recreates the colorful popular music world of the 1920s and 1930s, when the music industry was just expanding, radio was the great source of musical entertainment, and swing bands that had emerged out of the growth of jazz in the 1920s were first finding national audiences. He chronicles the rise and success of Goodman and his band against the social milieu and popular music of the time, and perceptively analyzes dozens of Goodman's significant recordings, making the reader hear them afresh. Through this intriguing study, it becomes clear that Benny Goodman was a brilliant musician but an enigmatic man. Collier's biography captures this elusive personality with great insight and understanding.

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A decent book on the 'King of Swing'.......1999-06-08

Collier's book on Goodman is okay, but it could have been better. He has a bad habit of rarely if ever seeking primary sources. Instead he relies on past published materials, acting as an assimilator rather than a biographer. This leads to the needless perpetration of myths and errors rather than (as a biography should) the clarification and correction of facts. He also tends to psychoanalyze too much, sometimes making some huge leaps, while to the best of my knowledge he has no degree in psychology. A far better book on BG is Ross Firestone's "Swing Swing Swing," which breaks new ground and sheds some real light on Goodman and what drove him and what made him behave as erratically as he did, particularly in his later years.

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Benny Goodman and the Swing Era.
Benny]. Collier, James Lincoln. [GOODMAN
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THE SWING ERA THE MOVIES: BETWEEN VITAPHONE AND VIDEO

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THE SWING ERA THE MOVIES: BETWEEN VITAPHONE AND VIDEO
BENNY GOODMAN & FLETCHER HENDERSON
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Swing Era, Benny Goodman Into the '70s: The King In Person;

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Swing Era, Benny Goodman Into the '70s: The King In Person;
Time-Life Records
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BENNY GOODMAN AND THE SWING ERA
Collier James
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Benny Goodman and the Swing Era
James Lincoln Collier
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Journey into an enchanted treasure garden where you will meet Woody and all his friends. Hold on tight to your seats as you travel along with Grandpa Noah and the gang on their exciting trip around the world with a little help from a magic globe. Children learn, dream and imagine and their parents are welcome to go along for the ride. A multi-cultural approach is used along with ethical values are conveyed in the story.

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Perfect for Families with Religous Diversity.......2000-01-25

Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Noahides--any faith that embraces the biblical story of Noah-- can all agree on the universal ethical values taught in this delightful childrens book. Daphne Cohen has written the perfect book for me to share with my grandchildren and participate in their spiritual development without compromising my religous beliefs or violating the faith they are taught at home. A blessing for us all!

Great Ethical Values.......1999-04-07

"...these ethical values and principles have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, when they were known as the Seven Noahide Laws." -U.S. Congress (H.J. Resolution 104, Public Law 102-14)

Great Ethical Values.......1999-04-06

"...these ethical values and principles have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, when they were known as the Seven Noahide Laws."

The Rainbow Covenant.......1999-04-06

"The ideas in this book are presented in a manner that will help communicate the Seven Universal Laws of Noah to younger readers. Adults will also enjoy reading this book along with their children. It makes the facts of the rainbow covenant relevant to all ages."

A Unique children's book.......1999-04-06

In Search of the Seven Wonders of Noah uniquely explores the biblical story of Noah. The author has done extensive research on this rich subject that has never been done as a children's book. While parents are scrambling to find good literary works to enrich their children's minds, what a surprise they will find within these pages.

Resource Manual for In Search of the Seven Wonders of Noah

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An excellent resource manual

Resource Manual for In Search of the Seven Wonders of Noah
Daphne M. Cohen
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This manual is full of background material, creative projects and learning activities which are specifically based on both the story and illustrations in the book In Search of the Seven Wonders Of Noah. Parents and educators can introduce young children to a variety of cretive learning activities based on world geography, ethnic diversity and family values. A multi-cultural approach is used along with ethical values.

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An excellent resource manual.......1999-04-08

This resource manual to suppliment the book In Search of the Seven Wonders of Noah is an excellent too for both parents and educators. There is great background information, helpful projects and activities as well as discussion topics. There are very interesting subjects to be found in this manual such as world geography, transportation, multi-culture, family values, global environment, international and criminal law and endangerd species. What an excellent resource for schools, libraries, and for every home.

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