The Commercial Banking Regulatory Handbook: 1998-1999 (The Pricewaterhousecoopers Regulatory Handbook Series)

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This report describes the principal elements of the U. S. sugar industry, the corn sweetener industry, the sugar industries of major U. S. trading partners, and the International Sugar Agreement. It also discusses some of the issues involved in developing sugar legislation.

The report was prepared in 1979 by the General Accounting Office of the United States Congress and has become the classic and only assessment of the sugar industry.

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In this enlightening guide, renowned leadership coach Keith Harrell highlights the twenty-one principles that make up what he calls "The Attitude of Leadership," and profiles twenty-one successful business leaders who exemplify those principles. The Attitude of Leadership holds up a mirror to let you see your own leadership skills; offers inspired advice from other leaders on what works and what doesn't; and helps you improve your ability to positively influence others. Use it to develop your skills as a leader and discover a whole new world of professional and personal fulfillment.

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Inspiring & Instructive Easy Read.......2004-10-29

How would you like the opportunity to sit down, one-on-one, with 21 of the exemplary top leaders of our time? What would you ask them? Would you enjoy getting to know them and yearn to begin applying what you learn to make a difference in your own life-and the lives of others? What questions would you ask them to unlock the secrets of their success?

Oh, you might be a little bit intimidated to ask personal questions, like "what is your secret of success?" "What are their best practices?" You want to know what really makes them so successful, what makes it all come together. It might be helpful to have someone else ask those questions on your behalf. Keith Harrell is a been there-done that motivational speaker who knows how to get inside the issues to learn the real truths. That insight is what makes him one of the most popular figures on the speaking circuit today.

In these pages, Keith (you'll feel like you're friends from the beginning) takes us on an exciting and enlightening journey. Not only does he dig in to get profound answers for his readers, he offers his own expansion of the leaders' responses...with challenges for us to consider how we might want to apply the learnings to change our own lives. Each chapter concludes with a sort of official biography in smaller type to help us understand who we're learning from. In putting this book together, Harrell has selected well-known and not-so-well-known leaders. Each has an important message to share, and the author's style brings those messages to life. And, as a bonus, there's an extra chapter filled with a sort of rapid-fire collection of insights from other people Keith wants to share with us.

An index enhances the value of the book. For current and aspiring leaders, this is a worthwhile read.

Ready to find success? Buy this book!!.......2003-08-29

Keith Harrell gives 21 essential strategies that anyone can master to become successful. After reading this book I became more effective, decisive and now I have a vision of my personal climb on the ladder of success!

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Patrizia Chen's childhood was suffused with the scent of simmering pots of cacciucco -- a local, hearty seafood stew -- and of the pittosporum blooming along the Tuscan coast. Her family's house and sumptuous garden in the Italian seaside town of Livorno are at the center of this captivating book that weaves together simple, delicious recipes with a love of home, family, nature, custom, and, above all, food.

The family cook, Emilia, a feisty, temperamental woman from a nearby fishing village, dutifully produces bland white dishes for every family meal, as dictated by Patrizia's grandfather. But behind the kitchen door it's a different story. One day seven-year-old Patrizia is led by a wonderful smell into the kitchen, where Emilia is preparing a spicy red sauce bursting with garlic and onion. With one bite, Patrizia becomes hooked. In the spacious, sun-drenched kitchen and adjoining herb garden, Emilia takes Patrizia under her wing, disclosing the secrets of her favorite Tuscan dishes.

Through vivid descriptions and charming anecdotes, Chen brings to life the white Carrara marble terraces, the coal-burning stoves, antique roses, and sacks of chestnut flour that fill the family house, kitchen, and garden. This delightful and evocative narrative will welcome you into the heart of Patrizia's Tuscan home and allow you to bring the robust flavors of Emilia's cooking into your own kitchen.

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Good Read. Fills out pictures of Italian life and cuisine.......2004-07-16

`Rosemary and Bitter Oranges' is a memoir of a contemporary writer's childhood, mostly around the age of eight years old, in the house of her grandparents (Nonna and Nonno), parents, and two siblings. The house is that of a pre-World War II upper middle class family of Livorno, in Tuscany, near the Tyrrhean seacoast. The time is the late 1950s, when the family has restored some of its lost wealth and position to the grandfather while father is a lieutenant and teacher in the nearby Italian naval academy.

The central character in the child's life is neither Mamma nor Nonna, but the cook and housekeeper, Emilia, who fits in every way the stereotype of a middle-aged Italian housekeeper. The first and most fascinating culinary memory in the story is the difference between the cuisine of the household eaten at the luncheon and dinner tables, and the cuisine that the housekeeper makes for herself and eats in the kitchen. The family's meal is described as almost entirely white, as if to avoid a mismatch with the custom Belgian white linen on the table. In contrast, Emilia's meals are a riot of reds and greens, and represent a major discovery for eight year old Patrizia.

Like Gennaro Contaldo's stories of his Campagnia childhood in the cookbook `Passione', and unlike some adult and second hand impressions of Italy, the descriptions of impressions, experiences, and memories are so strong, you can practically smell the starch in the linen and feel the polished brass and the cool tiles in the courtyard. There may be much metaphor in saying this, but it gives one the sense of how vivid and genuine the word pictures come across to the reader.

Unlike Patricia Volk's memoir `Stuffed' and Ruth Reichl's first memoir volume, `Tender at the Bone', there is not a very large cast of well painted characters filling these pages. All the aunts and uncles and grandparents and parents and siblings fill pretty much the roles expected of them for the little girl of the author's memories. Since this is a memoir of a culinary writer, it has, like Reichl's two volumes, a number of recipes within each chapter which are more like photographs used to illustrate the narrative rather than a serious source of culinary material. My most interesting find was the recipe for Emilia's marinara sauce which is almost identical to Mario Batali's simple sauce published in all his books, which includes carrots to sweeten the tart tomatoes. This is perfectly fitting, as Mario acquired his authentic Italian cuisine in Emilia-Romagna, just a few miles from the border with Toscana (Tuscany).

Another fascinating resonance with Mario Batali's is the description of Emilia at the great central open-air market in central Livorno. Batali constantly states that every Italian housewife believes it is her god given right to get the very best piece of meat or vegetable available that day. Judging from Ms. Chen's description of Emilia's tactics at the meat counter, this rather benign Batali picture doesn't even come close to describing the cutthroat behavior of Italians at the market. Your average American who politely takes their paper queue chit and quietly waits their turn at the deli counter would be totally out of place. At the Italian counter, there is no queue and the ladies use every trick in the book to advance their position relative to that particularly attractive lamb shoulder in the display case.

Next to culinary memories, the most evocative are those connected with the young child's love of reading and interest in things which would later be her career in writing. I suspect part of interesting writing is to see and describe simple things that escape the average person's attention. It is not that the non-writer doesn't experience these things, it is that they take no special note of them. In the case of this writer, her narrative of the sights and smells of bookstores and stationary stores with freshly printed books and newly sharpened wooden pencils brings back similar memories to me.

If you love culinary lore, memoirs, Italian culture, or just plain good writing, this book will be a rewarding and entertaining day's read.

very disappointing.......2003-10-15

I tried & tried but I just couldn't get attached to this book. The characters weren't presented in an interresting manner, neither was the food & certainly not the memmories.

Have I been spoilt after reeding Collette Rossant? She was what hooked me on food memmoires, but I'll certainly think twice before reacing for another book of this genre.

My advice is get a proper cook book & don't bother with this one!

Sweet and Savory Memories.......2003-06-13

Always on the lookout for eloquent voices on Italian food and life, I noticed a new release entitled "Rosemary and Bitter Oranges" by Patrizia Chen. Subtitled "Growing Up in a Tuscan Kitchen," the book piqued my interest on several levels. Rosemary and bitter oranges are strong ingredients, impossible for a cook to ignore. On the cover, a sepia snapshot of a pigtailed girl in a proper '50s cotton dress and sensible shoes smiled sweetly in a sun-dappled garden. The name Patrizia is certainly Italian, I thought, but "Chen" sounds Chinese. I was curious.

Patrizia was born just a few years after the end of WWII and grew up in a stately peach-colored home on Via Roma in the heart of Livorno, Tuscany's major port. Only a few years earlier, the large home had, of necessity, been abandoned by her family and had endured the abuse of occupying German soldiers.

Patrizia lived with her parents, grandparents, brother, two sisters, and the family cook Emilia.
The tension that existed between the culinary dictums of the patriarch Nonno GianPaolo and the talents of the cook Emilia play a central theme of the story and mirror Patrizia's personal journey from a well-bred Italian convent schoolgirl to an international journalist married to a Chinese American living in Manhattan.

Of her grandfather's table, Patrizia recalls, "The food was invariably whiteýuniformly whiteýand bland. Many souffleés, lots of sformati (timbales), paste al gratin, and beautiful fishýmaybe a merluzzo (a small Mediterranean cod), steamed to perfection, with a whisper of extra-virgin olive oil. Food was judged by the same standard as fashion: spiciness was as vulgar as a skintight dress."

Of Emilia's kitchen, she recalls, "One day as I passed through the kitchen after playing in the garden, my senses were suddenly awakened, stirred by a vivid aroma that I had never experienced at the table with my family. Emilia was eating the meal she had prepared for herself. It was an explosion of colors: vermillion tomatoes, green basilico and parsley, and contrasting black pepper dots. And the smell! Pungent, strong, and exotic enough to stop me, and my seven-year-old nose, in my tracks."

After Emilia shares a sample with Patrizia, both lives are changed. Emilia teaches Patrizia to cook, and a special bond develops. "Now I knew that lifeýreal lifeýhappened behind the kitchen doors and not in the subdued, elegant atmosphere of my grandparents' dining room."

Seasoning the story are recollections of chickpea pancakes, sugar-coated doughnuts, chocolate ricotta and other comforting childhood snacks. Recipes for the signature Livorno dish cacciucco (seafood soup), minestrone, semolina gnocchi, chicken stew, coffee zabione and more are woven into the text. And black-and-white family photographs take us immediately back to postwar Italy.

Strong support characters are important to any good narrative and Patrizia supplies them. Her Mamma's bitter orange marmelade production becomes worthy of a minor opera. Her Nonna Valentina's whimsical creation of canary gelato, prepared from freshly fallen snow, evokes images worthy of Fellini.

Grazie, Patrizia for sharing.

Disappointment..........2003-04-29

I enjoy reading food narratives and childhood accounts of growing up in foreign countries; however, this book is quite a disappointment after reading the summary above. The writing isn't great, the descriptions certainly don't transport you to Tuscany, and despite the title, I wouldn't say there is an emphasis on food. If you were related to Patrizia, you mind find it an interesting read, but I've found myself skimming through it, searching for compelling passages, of which there are few.

Rosemary and bitter oranges.......2003-03-14

I loved this book I could not stop reading it even when I was very busy finishing a deadline work... It is so naturaly and beautifuly written... Parizia Chen will go far and I am sure all her books will be read with such a pleasure.

Thanks for this delicious treat... with all my cogratulations to Patrizia Chen.
Virginia C Corm.

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This book is all you need to pass the Series 3.......1999-05-19

Using only this book and the companion volume of practice tests, I was able to pass the Series 3 with ease. The book recommends planning for 40 hours total study time, which I found to be about right. The 2 Passtrak books for the Series 3 were the most cost effective guides I could find and I recommend them to anyone preparing for the exam.

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The transformation process from the planned to the market economy in the East Central European countries is a laboratory of applying economic theory and business ethics to an enormous historical transition in the economic and political system. Authors from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia analyse the economic, philosophical and political problems of the transition process. They discuss the economic and legal questions of the privatization of socialized property, examine critically whether pure Liberalism has been and is able to cope with the transition problems, and investigate the role and impact of business ethics in the transition process. This volume contributes to the theory of the role of business ethics in periods of institutional change.

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African Game Trails (Capstick Library)

African Game Trails : An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist

Classic African Safari Travel Narrative

A must read if you are going on safari

Better than being there

African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist (Capstick Adventure Library)
Theodore Roosevelt
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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ASIN: 0312021518

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St. Martin's is proud to present a new and continuing series of the greatest classics in the literature of hunting and adventure, chosen from the personal library of writer and big game hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick. These showcase volumes will once again make available the true masterpieces of Africana to collectors, armchair hunters, sportsmen, and readers at large.The twenty-sixth president of the United States was also a world-renowned hunter, conservationist, soldier, and scholar. In 1908 he took a long safari holiday in East Africa with his son Kermit. His account of this adventure is as remarkably fresh today as it was when these adventures on the veldt were first published. Roosevelt describes the excitement of the chase, the people he met (including such famous hunters as Cunninghame and Selous), and flora and fauna he collected in the name of science. Long out of print, this classic is one of the preeminent examples of Africana, and belongs on every collector's shelf.

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This book reads like a loping conversation with Roosevelt about his safari in east Africa. He is full of dated opinions about native peoples, and the endless hunting scenes are not for vegetarians. All this said, it is a bully adventure book.

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African Game Trails (Capstick Library).......2007-01-24

I purchased a copy of this book and am extremely disapointed with the quality of the photographs. They are so fuzzy and out-of-focus as to be useless--in some cases unrecognizable. I'm suprised that you offer such a poor quality volume for sale. I coresponded with the publisher and the nice young lady offered to send me another copy but added "I looked at the pictures and they're terrible." I replied that I already had one lousy copy and did not need another. You should check the quality of this volume carefully....it's terrible!

African Game Trails : An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist .......2006-03-24

I cannot get enough of Teddy Roosevelt this man is unbelievable in all his accomplishment
as a hunter and naturalist a great American you must read his works.the book is five stars.
mike gorman.

Classic African Safari Travel Narrative.......2002-11-22

In 1909, just after the end of his term as President, Theodore Roosevelt traveled to Africa for a year long safari.The trip was a major undertaking ; hundreds of porters were needed to carry his baggage. Roosevelt's son, Kermit came along, taking photographs which are reproduced in the book. Roosevelt and company bag hundred of animals. It appears that all hunting rules were suspended for the ex-president. Roosevelt and son are soon blasting away at anything and everything that comes into view. British East Africa is described in terms that make today's politically correct readers wince. Attitudes have changed dramatically in less than one hundred years. It is odd to hear Roosevelt describe parts of Africa as a "white man's country," suitable for large scale settlement by Europeans. The book bogs down and I was unable to read it without skimming through some parts. The descriptions of marching through wilderness and chasing after game on foot and on horseback seem to go on forever. There is a lot of great infomation here even if it is necessary to become your own editor by skipping though tedious parts.

A must read if you are going on safari.......2002-05-20

This book gives you the genuine flavor of safari 80 years ago.

Better than being there.......2001-11-24

Not being very good with a gun, having little outdoorsman skills, and not being in the best shape of my life, reading this book was better than being there. If I was there, I would miss the animals, I would be too tired to enjoy it, and besides all of that, Africa is not as it was 100 years ago.
I have just begun to reread this book, and I don't know how many times this is. I enjoy it each and every time I pick it up.

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Remarkable Adventure
Great Writing, Great Adventure
Teddy Roosevelt's Last Great Adventure
An excellent narration of T.R.'s sometimes perilous journey

Through the Brazilian Wilderness
Theodore Roosevelt
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ASIN: 1417924586

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1925. This volume contains Roosevelt's account of a zoogeographic reconnaissance through the Brazilian hinterland. The official and proper title of the expedition is: Expedicao Scientifica Roosevelt-Rondon. Contents: The Start; Up the Paraguay; A Jaguar-Hunt on the Taquary; The Headwaters of the Paraguay; Up the River of Tapirs; Through the Highland Wilderness of Western Brazil; With a Mule-Train Across Nhambiquara Land; The River of Doubt; Down an Unknown River into the Equatorial Forest; and To the Amazon and Home; Zoological and Geographical Results of the Expedition. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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Cherrie and Miller had secured a little owl a month before in the Chaco, and it was travelling with them in a basket. It was a dear little bird, very tame and affectionate. It liked to be handled and petted; and when Miller, its especial protector, came into the cabin, it would make queer little noises as a signal that it wished to be taken up and perched on his hand. Cherrie and Miller had trapped many mammals. Among them was a tayra weasel, whitish above and black below, as big and blood-thirsty as a fisher-martin; and a tiny opossum no bigger than a mouse.

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Remarkable Adventure.......2003-06-02

Theodore Roosevelt was a man's man. A New York kid whose taste for adventure was sparked in his boyhood by a dead seal for sale on a Broadway sidewalk. Harvard student, soldier, Rough Rider, youngest President ever and one who survived the assassin's bullet, maverick politician, Nobel Prize winner, hunter and conservationist, and finally the man who, at 55 years old, explored an unknown region of the Amazon river basin. Imagine one of today's former-Presidents undertaking a similar adventure. For six weeks, in 1914, Roosevelt and his party paddled and carried their canoes down a previously unexplored 950-mile river now called the Rio Roosevelt. Men died, boats were lost, food became scarce, dangerous animals and natives were about, fever borne by insects sickened many in the party (and led to Roosevelt's own death five years later). This is the stuff of "Through the Brazilian Wilderness".

Roosevelt's other works, including "The Rough Riders", are better known, and this one is not great literature. Instead, it is a remarkable adventure story by an interesting man. The book is essentially Roosevelt's trip diary, colored by his great enthusiasm for adventure and the natural world. Even before reaching the Amazon, Roosevelt stops at a Brazilian snake research lab that so captures his attention that he writes seventeen pages about it. At all times, he makes careful note of the wildlife he encounters, not quite with the depth of a professional scientist, but with the trained eye of a dedicated and experienced hobbyist. He squeezes in some amusing stories about piranha fish that he heard --and apparently believed. Naturalists of the day killed animals in the name of science, which places in context Roosevelt's joy in hunting and his comments: first on alligators ("They are often dangerous and are always destructive to fish, and it is good to shoot them") and later on conservation ("There is every reason why the good people of South America should waken... to the duty of preserving from extinction the wildlife which is an asset of such interest."). The book is most poetic in its description of animal life, and particularly in registering surprise that the myriad insects are far more pernicious than any of the better-known dangers such as alligators, big cats, or piranhas.

The book's is not perfect, and Roosevelt is not a great author in a literary sense, rather making up in enthusiasm what he lacks in prose and penetrating insight. There is no attempt at political analysis, he simply praises Brazilians as good hosts who have started down the road to democracy. He sees the land he travels through as like the United States of perhaps a hundred years earlier, so there are frequent predictions that a promising location is ripe for development. The limited foray into politics is to praise Positivism, the ideology of the Brazilian military class that emphasized modernity and structure, and that not incidentally justified the many instances of military intervention in Brazilian politics over the years. Finally, the one annoyance is the recurring theme (perhaps a dozen times in all) of the true danger of the journey. Over and over we read that the river has never been charted, that it is truly dangerous, that the explorers are not your armchair-adventurer variety, and that such voyages will necessarily be easier for those who follow in the future. We get that.

Roosevelt was an interesting man, his enthusiasm and taste for adventure are infectious. The book is not a literary triumph, but it is a fun read and an excellent journey through the Amazon

Great Writing, Great Adventure.......2002-11-02

TR's account of his expedition to explore the River of Doubt shows a lot of the reasons we still admire him. First, he was a serious scientist. He was dedicated to discovering new species of wildlife (and could rattle off their Latin names with the best of them), mapping unknown stretches of river, and observing the ways of foreign lands. We know TR as a physical character and often forget what a highly intelligent man he was.

Second, his writing is greatly under-appreciated. He doesn't breeze over his descriptions of wildlife or the landscape--it's pretty technical stuff--but he does it clearly and concisely. As someone who has labored through countless pedantic textbooks, I took comfort in his words, "Ability to write well, if the writer had nothing to write about, entitles him to mere derision. But the greatest thought is robbed of an immense proportion of its value if expressed in a mean or obscure manner."

Third, despite the above, he could still endure enormous physical hardship at an old age. Battling rapids, hauling canoes, fighting disease, and hunting game, TR had the combination of brawn and intelligence that's seriously lacking in our leaders today, especially the lightweight that now sits behind TR's desk.

This book is also a great window into a time and place forever lost to history. TR's writing projects a clear photo in your mind of undiscovered wilderness and great adventure.

Teddy Roosevelt's Last Great Adventure.......2002-03-30

As those familiar with his history know, Theodore Roosevelt was truly a unique, gifted and accomplished person. He was naturalist, historian, big game hunter, politician, statesman, conservationist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize rolled into one. If he had followed the interests and predilictions of his youth, he would have grown up to be a naturalist rather than President of the United States. As a boy he had a vast collection of frogs, squirrels, snakes, birds, insects that he called the Roosevelt Museum of Natural History.

Science's loss was politics gain. However, T.R. never lost his interest in nature. Following his presidency, he set out on an expedition to explore and map unknown regions of Paraguay and Brazil on the 950-mile River of Doubt, a previously unexplored tributary of the Amazon River. The scientific endeavor became an ordeal to test the expedition's courage and stamina as it faced overpowering heat, dangerous rapids, wild animals, devouring ants, endless insects, fever, dysentery and more. The expedition collected thousands of species of birds and mammals, but Roosevelt would die a few years after completing the expedition. Roosevelt admired those who lived life with passion and for what he called "the Great Adventure." This story chronicles one of T.R.'s last great adventures in his typical inimitable style.

An excellent narration of T.R.'s sometimes perilous journey.......1998-01-11

T.R. was writing was very gradiloquent, and this book really gives readers a good example of this. Read about the journey that ended with T.R. having a river named after him (Rio Duvida renamed to the current Rio Roosevelt), and gave him the sickness that would eventually lead to his death less than five years later.

Adventures of Theodore Roosevelt (NG Adventure Classics)

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Manufacturer: National Geographic
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Release Date: 2005-05-01

The Adventure of the Stalwart Companions: Heretofore Unpublished Letters and Papers Concerning a Singular Collaboration Between Theodore Roosevelt and Sherlock Holmes

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Delightful entertainment
Not bad, not bad

The Adventure of the Stalwart Companions: Heretofore Unpublished Letters and Papers Concerning a Singular Collaboration Between Theodore Roosevelt and Sherlock Holmes
Harry Paul Jeffers
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
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Delightful entertainment.......2005-04-28

I am not a Holmes aficionado, having read only 6 or 7 hundred titles and not much scholarly work. I read for enjoyment and found myself laughing out loud on several occasions in this story, not because it is uproariously funny, but because it was so preposterously delightful. The Adventure is not about mimicking Doyle or Watson, although there are echoes of the canon, rather it is a breezy historical romance. . . I thought Jeffers captured Teddy quite nicely. A quick read and a good reread.

Not bad, not bad.......2003-09-05

I am probably not qualified to make a judgement of any SH book but I will give you my thoughts on this one.
I was not bad as SH stories go. Boiled down, it is about a young Sherlock before the days of Watson in which he becomes friends with Teddy Roosevelt in his younger days. Holmes assists the NY police dept with a murder that eventually turns out to be an assasination plot against the President.
It uses alot of quotes from the Canon as well as actual quotes from Roosevelt.
The story does not drag but I question some of Holmes methods considering this is his younger days and he ends up doing things that you would expect later in his career, for example ordering a NY police officer to stay at the scene of crime till he can return, it is explained but it still stretches reason a bit.
The story is told from TR point of view, as if he had replaced Watson so to speak.
I have read worse and have read better but I would recommend giving it a glance.

Roosevelt the Explorer: T.R.'s Amazing Adventures as a Naturalist, Conservationist, and Explorer

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A thoughtful, environment-oriented, biographical study

Roosevelt the Explorer: T.R.'s Amazing Adventures as a Naturalist, Conservationist, and Explorer
H. Paul Jeffers
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No American president has been so enthusiastic in his appreciation of the wilderness and in his attention to the preservation of natural treasures as Theodore Roosevelt. This book chronicles the adventurer's lifelong quests and expeditions, which saw him traversing some of North America, South America, and Africa's most difficult terrain.

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A thoughtful, environment-oriented, biographical study.......2003-03-04

H. Paul Jeffers' Roosevelt The Explorer: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazing Adventures As A Naturalist, Conservationist, And Explorer is an outstanding biography of American President Teddy Roosevelt and one which focuses specifically upon his work in the areas of conservation and exploring. Dwelling on Roosevelt's enthusiastic appreciation of nature, and his struggles as President against tough opposition in order to create a system of national parks and to protect America's forests and wetlands from the depredation of development, Roosevelt The Explorer is a thoughtful, environment-oriented, biographical study of a truly great American leader, family man, outdoor enthusiast, and human being.

The treaty of Portsmouth;: An adventure in American diplomacy,

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The treaty of Portsmouth;: An adventure in American diplomacy,
Eugene P Trani
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The Lion of depth against the Wind of shallowness

The wind and the lion
John Milius
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The Lion of depth against the Wind of shallowness.......2005-03-12

This film was always one of my favorites from the time that it came out in 1975. I was curious as to how close the novelization was to the original- and if it would include any additional information not included in the film as shot. I found it to be extremely close to the film with a few minor exceptions. By reading the story you pick up plot and set details that you might otherwise miss. I have heard people call this film "flawed"- honestly I do not see where either it, or this book, has any obvious major flaws. They are true classics.

One other thing, coming back to this film after many years can change your perspective. When I first saw it in my younger days, the character of Theodore Roosevelt was my clear favorite. In fact, I resented what I saw as the parodying of him in a few scenes. My favorite details were the accurate depictions of historical ships, weapons, and uniforms. I found the unabashed imperialist theme to be thrilling and inspiring.

Now, watching the same film three decades later, it is the Raisuli and his people that I find to be the more interesting. The American and European characters seem somehow trivial and shallow in comparison. The Imperial "game" seems wasteful and pointless. On the other hand, the Raisuli is a man of depth. When he was young and foolish he thought that he could ignore or oppose the will of God. Then, in the living death of the dungeons of Mogador, he was reborn. Even the guards recognized that the Baraka was with him. He wandered alone into the mountains and became Lord of the Riff, true defender of the faith, by divine providence. This is a king in the truest, traditional sense- a man who is one with his people, his land, his God. He fights to free his land of the corruption of the profane outsiders, and those who would betray all in the name of mere money. He is the Lion that represents the heart of the land, fighting against the tide of the meaningless, relentless western wind. In comparison to this, all other characters are as childish, cardboard cutouts of true men.

This particular edition contains a large section on the making of the film in the back. Milius talks of his vision for it, and the difficulties in getting it made. There are some interesting anecdotes (like the problem in getting the actual U.S. Marine extras and the Spanish army extras to start off in the marching scenes on the same foot.) There are also individual biographies of the actors playing all the major characters, as well as that of the writer-director and producer. The cover art is based on the original poster art for the movie.

SAFARI SLEUTH BOOK #TV-3 (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, TV-3)

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SAFARI SLEUTH BOOK #TV-3 (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, TV-3)
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Release Date: 1992-05-26

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