El Alca En Debate: Una Perspectiva Desde Las Mujeres

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Mostly accurate.......2004-01-08

This book is a translation of the classic survival text written in the 1980s by Xavier Maniquet. It is very comprehensive and is especially strong in advising the reader on how to prepare for a survival situation before he/she has encountered one (e.g. this is one of the few texts that recommends acclimation training before a trip to an arctic region). For the most part a great deal of the information provided is extremely accurate and helpful due to the fact it is based on sound scientific principles. Unfortunately there are a few minor issues where Mr. Maniquet makes assumptions that are not valid, (e.g. he states "the organs of sharks are not held in place with ligaments...therefore they are sensitive to impacts.") If you honestly believe you can fight off a great white shark with a simple impact to its midsection because it has no ligaments you have obviously never seen one in person. Overall the bulk of the information provided is very accurate and in a pinch could save your life. I especially loved the chapter how drinking saltwater would not necessary prolong your life, but if done correctly could extend your ability to remain conscious and capable.
The contents includes survival information on the following:
1. Major Threats: Cold, heat, thirst, physical exertion, sharks, snakes, and venomous and poisonous creatures
2. Hostile Environments: Sea and shipwrecks, underwater, desert, jungle, and mountains
3. Science and survival: weather and survival, snow and avalanches, orientation, diet, food gathering motion sickness and sensory aberrations, and medicine without a doctor.

I agree with the person above...........2000-05-17

This book explains in detail all aspects of survival and helps you to understand with real life anecdotes. One of the books that never seems to end. Highly reccomended....it's a small price to pay...

This is a must read if you are a beginner or expert........1999-10-17

This author seperates fiction from facts about survival. He provides captivating real stories about survival situations in all the arenas of the world. What people did right and what they did wrong. Above or below water, desert or desert island, jungle, mountains, snow and ice, look here for expert advice covering major threats, hostile environments, science and survival. The author is a physician and well known author in his native France, where this book was a bestseller.

Survival How to Prevail In Hostile Environments

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Survival How to Prevail In Hostile Environments
Maniguet Xavier
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Survival: How to Prevail in Hostile Environments

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ASIN: 0760717044

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Heavy-Weight Personal Fitness Service: A Sole-Proprietorship Practice Set to Accompany Accounting Principles, Fifth Edition
Jerry J. Weygandt , Donald E. Kieso , and Paul D. Kimmel
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Warning! This is *NOT* the libertarian John Ross...

Charming and engaging, but morally evasive

Fascinating memoir of the voices of the left

A radical assault on middle-class movement pacifism.

Ode to Bomb-throwers Past

Murdered by Capitalism: A Memoir of 150 Years of Life and Death on the American Left (Nation Books)
John Ross
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After spilling bourbon on Schnaubelt’s grave, its pugnacious and very dead occupant becomes Ross’s mentor, sidekick, and boozing companion through this epic telling of the hallucinatory, carnal, and ornery histories of the American Left and John Ross’s own remarkable life. Schnaubelt navigates us through his seemingly boundless revolutionary battleground, uttering cries of subversion from within the grave while trying to remain out of earshot from the FBI snoop and local supermarket tycoon buried nearby. Ross’s own story—hobo revolutionist, junkie, poet, and journalist is a contrapuntal to Schnaubelt’s. Ross never takes himself too seriously, yet his most remarkable trait is the honesty with which he approaches life, even while trying to deconstruct his own faults, personal tragedies (including the death of his one-month-old son), and imperfections. His pursuit of revolutionary politics and poetics is the constant, often spent with his muse, Revolutionary Mexico. Ross concludes with a trip to Baghdad as a “human shield,” before the Anglo-American invasion, ready to sacrifice his life as part of his perpetual struggle for justice. Award-winning writer John Ross’s memoir is inspired from a tumbledown tombstone in California: The headstone reads: E. B. Schnaubelt 1855–1913, “Murdered by Capitalism.”

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Warning! This is *NOT* the libertarian John Ross..........2006-06-12

...who had written the brilliant novel *Unintended Consequences*, and whose political morality is diametrically opposed to that of "...the American Left."

Amazon.com had better correct this mistaken impression ASAP.

Charming and engaging, but morally evasive.......2006-01-02

The most frustrating charachteristic of this book is its likeability. It reads like tour-guide patter on a comfortable bus trip through the landscape of the American far left over the last century and change. Superficial, but damned entertaining. There's no attempt to explore the distinctions between the violent and non-violent, or to justify in a meaningful way the rejection of the electoral process. It seems to lump non-violent champions of social justice with those who responded to monstrous injustice by resorting to terror tactics and killing. Ultimately, Ross fails to clarify his own sympathy or lack thereof for leftist terrorists. Is he saying that the Haymarket bomber was justified because he was aiming at cops? Does he really bestow victim status on the Weathermen who blew themselves up, on a par with the kids shot at Kent State? Ross seems determined not to judge. His dedication to historical accuracy is also suspect, and he seems to lack resistance to leftist legends and conspiracy theories (McKinley blew up the USS Maine; LBJ killed JFK, etc.). Nevertheless, it reads well, and if you don't crave moral clarity you can give it another star.

Fascinating memoir of the voices of the left.......2005-11-23

An outstandingly outrageous autobiography intertwined with truthfully tragic American history as seen from the left.

I give this book a shining five stars and rate it a recommended read.

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A radical assault on middle-class movement pacifism........2005-03-11

The great contribution of this popularly written history of American radicalism is the joyful abandonment John Ross brings to slamming the annoying pacifism and political correctness of today's anemic Left movement. Yes folks, fighting imperialism and blowing it to bits can be fun! It's supposed to be fun. This bold idea is the premise of Murdered by Capitalism. Ross captures the spirit of the working class heroes who slugged it out, toe to toe, with the capitalist villains of American history. (Not the "corporate" villains PLEASE!) In addition to enjoying lives of adventure and freedom, people like Lucy Parsons, Eugene Debs and Big Bill Haywood kicked butt and made breakthroughs that bettered the lives of all working people for decades to come. This is partisan writing. Pacifism and political correctness are middle-class ideologies that have infected the Left. The working class must break out of these limits if it is to ever mount a fight for human liberation, for freedom, and for political power. Ross wants to blow these middle-class prejudices away. And his book succeeds in doing so. The book presents the entire history of the American left since the Eight Hour Day movement of the 1880s. That's a lot of history-and a lot of contending ideologies-to cover well. Ross tries to represent the disputes fairly, and this book can serve as an introduction to the disputations that roil the adherents of anarchism, syndicalism and Leninism down to the present day. But Ross's own untamed anarcho-communist ideology comes through, in all its poetic fury, on every page. This book never descends into mere analysis of the contending trends. Explaining our past mistakes and finding the way forward is, of course, absolutely necessary if we are going to win. But a winning movement needs more than analysis. It needs to unlock all the latent creativity and combativeness of the American working class. John Ross's book is a long needed wake-up call to the Left. It is a life-affirming manifesto for working class rebellion and for revolution. "MBC" is, at the same time, a hilarious indictment of the politically-correct liberalism that is dragging our movement down.

Ode to Bomb-throwers Past.......2004-09-14

Digs into the soul of resistance in a way no cut and paste history of the American Left can. Though excessive at times, the narrative occasionally snaps and crackles like a firestream of defiance, taking one voice then another, but always returning to its source: the echo of struggles past and those to come. Also along the way are the laughs, with adventures-misadventures ranging far and wide, unable to resist any siren call from the Left. Too bad, Ross couldn't raise the shade of Earl Browder to explain the progressive potential of the Party of Roosevelt in an era of Clinton-Kerry. I don't know how many of the vintage facts he has right, but the poetics of affirmation are there in abundance and speak loud and clear to all who will listen. Worth the trip.

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From 1939 to 1954, Malcolm Lowry lived and wrote in a shack near Dollarton, in North Vancouver. It was here that he revised and polished Under the Volcano until it was almost ready for publication, and here that he experienced his happiest and most productive years. His posthumously published works are filled with references to the landscape and lifestyle he enjoyed while living in BC.
Now, for the first time, these Vancouver years are the focus of a Lowry study. The words and letters of AI Purdy, Earle Birney, George Robertson, and many others shed light on the great novelists's method of working, his view of the world and the fascinating, paradoxical character that was Malcolm Lowry. Extensively illustrated with photographs of people and places Lowry knew, Malcolm Lowry: Vancouver Days includes maps and a selected bibliography.

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Sir Winston Churchill was a well-traveled man. By the time he was twenty-five, his thirst for adventure had taken him to Cuba, India’s North-West frontier, the Sudan, and South Africa, as well as to battle, prison, and worldwide fame. During World War II, when as prime minister he held Britain’s destiny in his hands, he hazarded arduous journeys not only to confer face-to-face with his allies Roosevelt and Stalin, but also to witness firsthand the action at the front. In later years, his enduring passion for painting prompted travels to locales like Marrakech. (He took President Roosevelt there in 1943, simply to view a splendid sunset.) Celia Sandys actually accompanied her famous grandfather on some of his later travels, most memorably on a cruise aboard Aristotle Onassis’s yacht Christina, but for this always-engaging book she herself has retraced his many journeys over seventy years on four continents, and sought the people who knew, entertained, consulted, or simply crossed paths with him. In their long-untold stories she finds her grandfather’s character illuminated in new, revealing, and often surprising ways.

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Fun but lacking depth.......2007-03-19

Churchill was a complex and enigmatic man, so it's not surprising that this book, written by his granddaughter, is itself enigmatic. It's hard to know what to make of many of the stories, because clearly the author had a prejudiced eye--she revered her grandfather. But there are stories and anecdotes and bon mots aplenty, many of them funny enough to make me burst out laughing. My particular favorite was an aging Churchill who, when upended by a large wave while bathing in the sea, made a V-for-victory sign with his legs. I think that anecdote brought home to me, maybe for the first time, just where the British sense of humor in something like Monty Python's Flying Circus came from. There's something deeply irreverent in the British psyche, and that irreverence positively glowed inside Churchill.

The book is relatively short, and makes no great demands on the reader; you aren't required to bring extensive knowledge of British and world history from Churchill's history with you. (Of course, the more you know about history from 1895 or so through 1960, the better.) I did find a few spots where the author's shifts from Churchill and his world to her later travels were so abrupt that I was left confused. It took a few puzzled re-readings of some paragraphs to grasp this. A bit of editing would have been helpful in those spots.

And a reader looking for historical insight is bound to be disappointed by this book. It doesn't offer any. It's more of an affectionate character portrait than a biography. So affectionate, in fact, that the harshest language the author can use to describe her grandfather (who, whatever his better qualities may have been, was far from sainthood) was to refer to him at one point as a "paternalistic Victorian."

But I enjoyed the book all the same, and I'm sure I'll read it again.

Churchillian Beach Reading.......2004-07-19

If there were, in fact, such a thing as Churchillian beach reading, Chasing Churchill would be it. The book begins deliciously with an anecdote describing the author's trip with her grandfather on the world-famous Christina - a voyage that marked the beginning of the epic love affair between Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis. Wow! From the clothes to the food to the conversation, every detail drips with elegance.

From there, though, the book loses steam, for the Christina story is by far the most interesting and well written. Perhaps because it's the only story related from the author's own memories. Other content comes in three forms: rehashing of accounts of Churchill's travels throughout his public life (most has been published elsewhere with more detail), descriptions of the author's retracing of many of those travels (not well or thoroughly described) and quotes from people Churchill met or influenced along the way (or, in many cases, their children or grandchildren relating their own family lore of encounters with the great man). Only the last of these is really worthwhile and there is so little of it that it could have made an excellent magazine article but as a book it feels sparse.

With regards to the accounts of both the author's and her grandfather's travels, there doesn't seem to have been enough of a mandate for a full length book. As stated, most of the detail regarding Churchill's travels is rehashed from other sources (many of which were also written by Churchill descendents - what would they do without their famous relative? Seems they write lots of books about him). As for the Sandys' travels, she adds little new detail other than to impress upon the reader her ability to gain access to a series of dignitaries (Fidel Castro among them).

The books acknowledgements thank several of Sandys' relatives for allowing quotation from their books as well as a series of corporatations for their sponsorship. The effect reinforces the idea that writing the book was more of an ego or money exercise than an attempt at further illuminating one of the last century's greatest men. It's a shame that a book that started so well ends up on such a poor note. Clearly, Celia Sandys would do better to rely on her own memories of her grandfather than on attempting new "research".

Nice Travelogue with WSC's Granddaughter!.......2004-02-16

Celia Sandys does a terrific job detailing and following in the wandering footsteps of her incredible grandad! Starting with a trip through the Mediterranean with Onassis, and the ever-complaining opera-singer Maria Callas, when the author was about 14, and witnessing luxury on an incredible scale, even for such a famous family (i.e the Churchills). Then she goes back to 1895 New York City, and Cuba. She tell of a cigar smoking contest in 1946 Cuba between her granddad and Hemingway, sponsored by the original "Old Man And the Sea", Mr. Fueuntes, who died in 2002 at the age of 104. As both a Churchill and Hemingway buff, this was a new story for me! And the travels continue through South Africe, World World 1 France, Egypt, and in all the other famous spots visited by her legendary granddad. Some new (to me anyway), black and white photes, plus some color photos of Winston's painting are included as a special bonus. All in all, a great ride, and thanks to Mrs. Sandys for this excellent effort!

Travels with Winston.......2004-01-29

Ah, for the travelling life of the famous! When you read this book by Churchill's granddaughter, you get an intimate portrait of what an entourage WSC had when he went anywhere. There were private planes or yachts, villas or really up-scale hotels provided to him gratis, and a tremendous retinue of extra people to care for him. This seemed to happen even before he became world famous, and continued until his death. I don't ever want to take away the tremendous contributions he made to the peace and security of the world, but he certainly travelled like an Oriental despot! The book details his travels all over the world, and his many trips to America, both before, during and after WWII. If only the rest of us mere mortals could live in this extravagant lifestyle! This is a side of the great man's life that one rarely comes across in the many biographies of him, but it does tend to round out the picture of his life. While there are no new and startling revelations in the book, it is written in a breezy, easy reading style, and was quite enjoyable. As a granddaughter, the author tends to overlook a lot of WSC's faults, but who can blame her? We would all do that for our own family members, given the chance.

A chase any Churchill fan should enjoy.......2004-01-15

Winston Churchill is like a fine gem. Hold him and his immense life up to the light and turn them around some, and you'll always find interesting new facets to explore. (I have a feeling WSC himself would have appreciated that metaphor.) This explains the constant stream of articles and books on the Man of the (Twentieth) Century -- many re-examining old themes and issues, but a surprising number coming up with new aspects or approaches to understanding who Churchill was and what he did.

This title is of the latter sort. Celia Sandys, WSC's granddaughter and author of two earlier books on the man, here presents us with a Churchill biography that focuses on his wide-ranging travels outside the UK. In many cases, Sandys has herself followed in her grandfather's footsteps, revisiting the locales -- and in many cases the actual buildings -- of WSC's visits. Hence the title.

Despite Sandys' encyclopedic chronicle, I suspect it is this latter, personal element that many readers may find especially interesting. What Churchillian hasn't thought how much fun it would be to retrace his footsteps along the armored train track in South Africa? Few of us, however, have Sandys' access to places and people (including Fidel Castro), nor I suspect her ability to tell a story.

Even more memorable, and touching, are the author's memories of her own participation in some of Churchill's later travels, especially aboard Aristotle Onassis' yacht "Christina."

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Nice and easy, relaxing reading........2004-12-14

Ms. Rutherford's book takes you back to a bygone era, even if you were never there to begin with. It gives you a glimpse of life when it was tough, but the people were tougher. They worked hard and loved hard and made their own happiness. I would advise you to read the book and get to know them.

fun to remember.......2003-11-21

Although the author is ten years my senior, and grew up in a different mountain region than I did, I still was able to relate to much of what she mentions. Of course, there's much I would be happy to forget. All in all, the book is good, although I did begin to second guess the author's memory when she mentions pretending to be Patsy Cline while playing her guitar in the outhouse as a young girl. Seeing that Cline didn't become known until the mid to late 1950's, the author would have been thirty years old. Not trying to nitpick, but that just stuck in my mind.

A book written from the author's heart.......2003-11-09

This dear book is full of beautiful descriptions about the author's life in Appalachia. With great courage, the author truly shares what is on her heart. My favorite part of her life story is how she first met her husband and their courtship.

A Lesson in love,pride ,and dignity.......2003-05-03

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Rough Lumber.......2002-09-25

When I read this book, the tales of my own grandmother stirred in my mind. Justine's humor and joy of life should serve as a standard to a new generation as she proves that determination, love and mischief taken in good measure will put you on a path of joy and fulfillment throughout your life. Close your eyes and you can smell the spring afternoon at the brook, or hog-killing day. Maybe you'll hear the whispers in class, or the dying breath of one of the patients she cared for until the end of their days. This book is rich in imagery and will take you to a time only a few will still remember with such clarity and fondness. At last, an accurate picture of rural life in the West Virginia hills.

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A living history of American popular music, the book profiles those musicians and entertainers who reached the top of their professions and made substantial contributions to it, without necessarily becoming household names in the years between World Wars I and II .

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Tells of 7 Catholic women who saved many Jews........1999-11-18

The authors wrote of 7 women, out of many they could have chosen. An astonishing chronicle of courage in the face of Nazi terror. While many of the powerful and famous failed to help, these humble women - some vowed religious, some lay - faced death and torture and fearlessly rescued some hundreds of innocent people, including many children. A moving, wonderful book.

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