Fran Harris, an entrepreneur since age nine, shows you how to help your children become better savers, smarter spenders, and more informed consumers. Packed with exercises teaching fundamental financial skills, In the Black covers all the basics of money management, including:
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Politics is war, but in America one side is doing all the shooting-liberals. Shell-shocked conservatives blame their failures on the media or unscrupulous opponents, but they refuse to name the real culprit: themselves. In a new book that will shatter the complacency of establishment conservatives, David Horowitz shows how Bill Clinton's generation, having mastered the art of political war, has spent the last ten years clobbering conservatives in and out of government. The best-selling author of Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes has the strategy to fight back.
The Democratic Party's recent electoral dominance is due not to its theft of Republican issues, but to its superior grasp of the nature of political war. Horowitz opens his book with the six principles of politics that liberals understand and conservatives do not. He next warns against the essentially liberal inclination to supervise the lives of a "helpless" citizenry. This "Puritan impulse" promises shipwreck for conservatives who fail to keep liberty as their watchword.
The success of the left is nowhere more evident than in the politics of race. Revisiting a recent controversy in which Time branded him a "real live bigot," Horowitz probes an ugly strain of left-wing racism and reflects on the prospects for true racial justice. He concludes with a profile of the radical mentality-hidden but real-of the American left. In 1972, the bomb-throwers took their battle from the streets into the McGovern campaign and became the activist core of the Democratic Party. A genuine ideological left thus entered the heart of America's political culture.
Once a notorious radical himself, David Horowitz understands the mind of the left better than any other conservative. The Art of Political War is an indispensable guide for the battles of the campaign season and beyond.
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Predictably Great. .......2007-03-19
Well, I'm a bit biased here because I happen to be a fan of basically everything David Horowitz has ever written, but I love this book. In fact, I just read it for the third time and these essays, along with others appearing from this era (found in Hating Whitey and How to Beat the Democrats) are the finest he ever penned. The big advantage that Horowitz has over other conservatives is stylistic because reading him is a pleasure. There is a small amount of overlap here with Hating Whitey, but I think The Art of Political War is worth buying based on the first chapter alone which is an extensive strategic overview concerning liberals and conservatives. It shows Republicans how to switch over to the offense and stop their habit of perpetually yielding ground to the left. I do believe that Horowitz's injunction to decease calling leftists "liberals" had an effect on me personally because I quit making that mistake several years ago. I also cherished the exchange he had with Tipper Gore that he recapitulates here. Overall, Horowitz, in The Art of Political War, gives the right something which we don't appear to possess naturally: power, verve, flair, and irreverence.
Sun Tzu of the 21st Century.......2005-03-17
Former Congressman James Rogan calls David Horowitz the "Sun Tzu of the twenty-first century." He may be right. This book teaches conservatives the very techniques that the left has perfected for decades. Endorsed by Karl Rove, this book is an excellent read for any conservative who wants to learn how to win.
Brilliant political thinker at work . . ........2002-12-06
Horowitz does a masterful job of figuring out what lies behind the Democratic Party's traditional electoral appeal. In essence, they figure out how to state their message in a short, easily understood phrase, then they all line up to repeat it. Example: Tax cuts for the rich. Horowitz uses the main essay to show the GOP how to play the same game and win. My only complaint is that he doesn't spend more time on that topic. He could have devoted an entire book to "The Art of Political War" rather than filling it out with assorted essays. Nevertheless, the essays are of high quality and worth reading in their own right.
Controversial Snack for the Conservative Glutton.......2002-02-12
Anyone interested in conservative politics has probably heard of David Horowitz, inexhaustible political author, columnist extraordinaire, ... among other things. A couple of his more notorious books are "Hating Whitey" and "Radical Son".
Horowitz writes in a consistently aggressive style and he always stays true to his Conservative Libertarian ideals. One particularly interesting book of his is "The Art of Political War And Other Radical Pursuits". This title was released in the year 2000, prior to the infamous Presidential election fiasco.
This book is split into two main sections, as its title is divided. And also, as the title suggests, the first part of the book seems to be patterned after the classic, "Sun Tzu, The Art of War".
In the first section of the book, Horowitz clearly defines the players, the rules, and the tactics of this "political war". The liberals are predictably playing outside of the traditional rules, while the conservatives stand aside and complain about the fouls. There are no shortages of specific examples to illustrate these truths, and Horowitz is not afraid to draw conclusions.
He calls for fighting fire with fire. I'm just not so sure that the politics of personal destruction works all that well. I'd rather see the conservatives stick to their principles and avoid playing the game altogether. Either way, the first section of the book stands tall as a beacon of conservative understanding in modern politics.
The second half of the book is even more interesting as Horowitz covers a variety of controversial topics. One of his most popular topics is "Hating Whitey", his book and the title of a thought-provoking chapter in this book. He clearly holds true to his overall outspoken position against racism of any form. Considering that he is a former Black Panther, I find him to be credible when he speaks about white racism. Yet, even considering his hardcore civil rights career, which continues to this day, he is labeled a "racist" by demagogues from the left at every prospect. And he continues on, fighting the oppression from these very leftists with which he used to associate.
His strongest point in this chapter lies in the negative results of the 'help' of the mainstream Black civil rights leaders. Horowitz concludes, "The continued suffering of disadvantaged black communities and the continued under-par performance of black school children is a price the well-heeled civil rights establishment is apparently willing to pay for guilt tributes from all-too-accommodating white 'oppressors'." Jesse Jackson is truly an extortionist, and Horowitz lets him have it.
One particularly poignant chapter is entitled, "Guns Don't Kill Blacks, Other Black People Do". Horowitz fills the chapter with scary statistics that point toward a dire situation in the US where people need to promote and accept personal responsibility for social ills, rather than laying the blame on other people and inanimate objects. He makes sense.
Another standout chapter, "The Intellectual Class War", covers the peculiar fact that many of the most outspoken anti-capitalists are the most successful capitalists in the country. The very people who benefit the most from our liberties are those who tirelessly try to destroy it. Again, Horowitz bombards his reader with hard evidence that is undeniable.
Perhaps the most satisfying part of the book is his detailed analysis of three prominent Leftist elitists who concocted their own biographical information to suit their agenda. Let me just say that the conclusion is priceless.
David Horowitz speaks to the average citizen when he writes. He is a former hardcore Leftist, and shouts with authority and believability on these matters. He also takes the opportunity to attempt to set his record straight, being that his is a regular target in the politics of personal destruction.
This is a book that should be on every conservative's shelf. It is straightforward and honest, as well as enlightening. Sometimes a shock to the system is needed to make forward progress. This could be it. I highly recommend this book.
Insightful polemic.......2001-12-14
Speaking as a former leftist, I have to say that David Horowitz here lays out a pretty hard but in many ways honest map of the "progressive" mindset and how it leads them to certain political strategies. He then goes on to make some pretty interesting recommendations for conservatives and Republicans in order to combat that in politics.
It's certainly a pretty good picture of what one side of the political fight looks like today. Leftists especially will find interesting how conservatives view them--there's more here than they might expect. This document has been very popular in Republcan circles and formed at least part of the Bush election strategy in 2000.
One question Horowitz fails to ask himself and thus his audience is whether or not the strategies used by the political left are as effective as he thinks. Horowitz mostly seems to advise conservatives to take up the most negative methods used by the left to win elections. The question is: will doing so alienate the "silent majority" types who resent and react negatively to the types of tactics he advocates?
Insightful and thought-provoking, this book played a big part in the American political campaigns of 2000, and might well play as big or bigger a role in 2002 and 2004. As such, it's very interesting reading, no matter whether you agree with Horowitz or not.
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This book reveals the Ancient Egyptian roots of the Romany (Gypsies) and how they brought about the civilization and orientalization of Hispania, over the past 6,000 years. The book also shows the intimate relationship between Egypt and Hispania—archeologically, historically, culturally, ethnologically, linguistically, etc., as a result of the immigration of the Egyptian Romany (Gypsies) to Iberia. Sample Highlights include: The Romany / Bohemians / Gypsies / Gitanos / Moriscos / Mudehars / Mossarabs; the "orientalization" of Hispania; the flamenco; the Running of the Bulls; the sacrificial rituals of the bull; and the Hispanic and other Mediterranean Basin languages.
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Revealing Afro... ehem... Egyptcentrist Knowledge in Need of Getting Synthesized With Other Revealing Afrocentrist Books.......2007-06-08
Moustafa Gadalla has written another revealing book on the Egyptian influence upon the world. This time he has set out to prove the Egyptian (and not the East Indian) origin of the Iberian Romany/Gypsies; that the entire Iberian civilisation derives directly from Egypt; the false credits of various cultural phenomena given to many other peoples than the Egyptians.
These proofs work with metallurgy, linguistics, music, dance, agriculture, population demographics, historical reports and many other ways. (But not with genetics, I may make a point, as this would have been possible to do in the year 2004, when the book was published.)
He convincingly points out that the Phoenicians have been wrongly credited with a lot of things, such as the invention of the alphabet, mining, ship and harbor building, setting up colonies. The latter to be supposedly true even for Carthage. At this specific point I would have liked to read an elaboration, who else build Carthage then, including its sophisticated harbor and large fleet. The Arabs have been wrongly credited with introducing e.g. the flamenco, guitar, gardening and extensive vocabulary into Spain (and by that indirectly Western culture at large). The Greeks have been wrongly credited with e.g. Hercules, the Romans with e.g. bringing "civilisation" into Iberia. The astonishing thing is that the author lists historical records of the beforementioned peoples, themselves giving credit to the Egyptians of all of these things. In fact, many Western museums display e.g. Ancient Egyptian guitars etc., which shows the intentional character of the historical deception.
Moustafa Gadalla goes even further, showing that Western linguists use flawed methods of categorizing language groups. Probably on purpose also. He suggests that Ancient Egyptian is the mother tongue of all: the "Afro-Asiatic", Semitic and Indo-European language families. And yes, the Basque language isn't such a mystery at all, but directly derived from Ancient Egyptian as well. Astonishing are the revelations about the introduction of the alphabet, e.g. the m-sound being derived from the Ancient Egyptian word for "water/sea", mer (still used as e.g. "Meer" in German), with the "m" representing a wavy water surface as the original sign. Expressions like "Notre Dame de la mer" are completely Egyptian.
Ancient Egyptian religion survived, too, in Christianized and Islamized versions, e.g. transferring the veneration of local/minor gods (who are part of the One God) into the veneration of saints, especially in Iberia.
A very important book. Yet, I have to subtract a star nevertheless. For one thing, the author seems to be a bit biased. Other peoples are termed gangsters, terrorizing, contrary to civilisation etc., while the ancient Egyptians are always the clearcut opposite. For example being not war-like, because they used mercenaries, supposedly exclusively. Even if completely true for all times, this doesn't make them not war-like. They DID wage war, no matter with what sort of soldiers. Terming e.g. the mother language the "purest" qualifies as a reversal of the bad habit of using reactionary vocabulary too easily. His theory of the Muslims/Arabs, Berbers and Moors in combination with the Jews planning to rule to exploit Iberia TOGETHER would be in need of a bit more substantiation, for as far as I am informed, the Jews had to provide those non-Muslim taxes in Iberia, too, which is odd in context of supposedly having been allies.
This book clashes occasionally with other revealing Afrocentrist books. Which doesn't necessarily make this book (or the others) invalid, yet this shows that further research is necessary to synthesize all the knowledge. Mostly for a variating, not really directly contrary approach to linguistics, I advise reading The Africans Who Wrote the Bible about the language of the Akan, who don't even get mentioned by this name here, but represented a people or many peoples who once spread over a far more vast area than ancient Egypt. On the origin of the veneration of saints in Christianity, Akan Rites of Passage and Their Reception into Christianity: A Thelogical Synthesis (European University Studies: Theology, 768) will - indirectly - provide a variation also. When We Ruled: The Ancient and Medieval History of Black Civilisations explains that the Almoravid and Almohad empires which successively ruled Iberia, from Africa, were actually Black empires by power structure (and of more southern origin than averred in "Egyptian Romany"), NOT really being Arabic and/or Berberish or of nomadic nature. The same book reveals much older dates of the especially early Egyptian dynasties, which may bring Moustafa Gadalla into trouble occasionally, for he connects Egyptian history directly to Iberian history.
If you are interested in further Egyptian colonization of Europe, Ancient and Modern Britons: Volume One (Ancient & Modern Britons) (and Volume II) will be of interest, although written in 1884 and unfortunately not as well and concisely structured as this book.
A refreshing insight on Egyptian/Hispanic history & culture.......2005-04-24
Egyptian Romany is the eleventh book in a line of non-fiction works by author, Moustafa Gadalla, a torch bearer illuminating the threadbare excuses and suppositions of centuries of Western academic posturing (as means of job protection) upon Egypt and its ‘imagined’ (more Western job protection) history. Perhaps that is a little misleading, as Moustafa Gadalla’s work is not theory debunking, rather it is by his process of revealing to the world the tenets of ancient and modern Egyptian life the outdated academic battleships who should never have been trawling in these waters to begin with are sunk. If you are at all familiar with the author’s work, Egyptian Romany will not disappoint and if all you care about is understanding how interpolated Spain, with preference to the Iberian coast, was and still is with ancient Egypt you may be stunned with the stark, yet undisguised, realisations and common-sense findings within.
Among the repertoire of the author’s multilingual published works, Egyptian Romany shares a certain relationship to the earlier work, Exiled Egyptians, in that it is a tracing of lineage and interrelationships along the tides of millennia. Unlike, said previous work, Egyptian Romany explores the special relationship between the two lands, one that is prevalent in modern society in Spain to this very day.
It is the ‘silent majority’, known perhaps most commonly as Gitanos/Gypsies/Romany who by their very nature of non-violence toward northern colonists were pushed out of their country into nomadic-seeming existence that the book begins, delving immediately into etymological fact before breaking down the stages of conquest over the land and people. The union of Egypt and early Iberia is explored with the Virgin Mary/Isis, which remains indelibly powerful today; this link is revealed clearly woven back to its intrinsic roots in Egypt with story and symbology. Spiritual kinship is not the premise of Egyptian Romany, however, as it is one that has strong trade ties that Egypt was dependent on from the Iberia, given silver was one of the metals more plentiful outside of the limited eastern Mediterranean stores. Moustafa relates metallurgical methods and historical accounts delving trade routes and methods of oceanic transport, in particular, in rich detail. Beyond these geo-cultural foundations the author investigates the collapse of the peaceful relationship between the countries by the aggressive invasions by Roman, Moorish, and other forces who would come to occupy and laud their selves over the indigenous peoples; in detail the impact on Iberia itself and the fact-less bias of such occupiers and their academic champions in their assertions of ‘renaissance’ over their colonised demesne. An excellent dissertation on languages and dialects of Hispanic culture ends the book with two similarly power-packed chapters on the religious and musical traditions from Egypt with preponderance on their representation in Iberian culture.
Like previous Tehuti Research Foundation volumes, Egyptian Romany continues with similar design and layout, no-nonsense lineated illustration is coupled with small to full page geographical maps permeate chapter. Paragraphs are concise and neatly laid out, with important information easily accessed with bullet points and highlight that have the care of any manual or instructive material. This is not an academic book in the sense of vast swathes of tiny text drowning in its own paragraphs. The visual elements and typography make the book an easily digestible work for the young to the old. Extensive glossary, bibliography, and sources are provided for the reader and the index, as with other Tehuti Research Foundation volumes, is on par excellence, not some shallow and haphazard accretion.
Speculation is not the pulpit of Moustafa’s work, you do not get the sense of browbeating for indigenous demands as it is by facts and historical observation gathered in such a lucid manner that makes intelligent and refreshing reading. If you at all are interested in the Egyptian themes that wend throughout Iberian history whether you know about them or not, I highly recommend this book, and if you’re at all familiar with Moustafa Gadalla’s work then Egyptian Romany will be another welcome addition to your library.
Moustafa is a master at historical research.......2004-10-10
Also available in an e-book format (1931446202, $10.95), Egyptian Romany: The Essence Of Hispania by Egyptologist and historian Moustafa Gadalla surveys 6,000 years of Iberian history to reveal the cultural roots of the Romany (Gypsies) to ultimately derive from ancient Egypt. Moustafa draws upon his original research to reveal and document the relationship between Egypt and Hispania through several factors including archeology, history, culture, ethnology, linguistics, and more. Moustafa is a master at historical research and has often brought to the study of history (especially Egyptian history) a novel and iconoclastic perspective that is buttressed by impeccable research and an articulate presentation of often surprising and long obscured data. Egyptian Romany is enthusiastically recommended reading for students of Egyptology, Hispanic history, and Romany culture.
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Electronic materials provide the basis for many high tech industries that have changed rapidly in recent years. In this fully revised and updated second edition, the author discusses the range of available materials and their technological applications. Introduction to the Electronic Properties of Materials, 2nd Edition presents the principles of the behavior of electrons in materials and develops a basic understanding with minimal technical detail. Broadly based, it touches on all of the key issues in the field and offers a multidisciplinary approach spanning physics, electrical engineering, and materials science. It provides an understanding of the behavior of electrons within materials, how electrons determine the magnetic thermal, optical and electrical properties of materials, and how electronic properties are controlled for use in technological applications. Although some mathematics is essential in this area, the mathematics that is used is easy to follow and kept to an appropriate level for the reader. An excellent introductory text for undergraduate students, this book is a broad introduction to the topic and provides a careful balance of information that will be appropriate for physicists, materials scientists, and electrical engineers.
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