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An essential element of fashionable dress from the Renaissance into the twentieth century, the corset has been viewed not only as an object of eroticism but also as an instrument of torture and subjugation. This lavishly illustrated book explores the cultural history of the corset.
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Smart, beautiful, and interesting.......2007-05-18
Steele's books all feature informative text and beautiful pictures. In "The Corset", she discusses this mysterious undergarment and dispels myths, explains sociological and feminist aspects of it, and looks at controversies surrounding it throughout time.
Steele discusses fashion from so many perspectives: class, gender, art, sexuality, medical, historical, and anthropological, and she does so with insight and clarity. Tracing its antecedents and moving to contemporary times, Steele outlines its influences on fashion and society.
For anyone interested in deeply understanding this beautiful and controversial garment, Steele is the author to read. She merges the world of fashion with academia. This book is fascinating and insightful!
The ins and outs of corsetry........2006-06-28
A great history of the corset, for both men and women. A must read for anyone interested in the history of costume.
Please tell me..........2004-10-14
Theonly problem with this book I would have to say is that the dress on the cover is amazing so amazing I can't find anyone anywhere! If you can in some way help me to get a dress like that one or find that on. I have prom coming up and that dress is amazing I would do anything to get that dress, thanks for reading this and your book is great!
in depth history.......2003-09-11
Love the book!! Its a must have for any corset lover! Detailed history and pictures.
corset history.......2002-05-10
I found this book to not only be informative about the origin of corsets, but beautifully illustrated with period photographs and poetry concerning corsets throughout the centuries.
I am very pleased with this book!
Melissa Hawes.
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Lois Greenfield is uniquely adept at capturing the vibrancy and joy of dance. Part choreographer, part photographer, she does more than seize dancers in motion in her images--they seem to define the essence of movement itself. In this book, she has categorized her dancers as either earthbound or airborne, and it is hard to decide which images are more exhilarating. In the first set, a shot of a dancer taken the moment her toes hit the ground, with her body and filmy skirt still very much aloft, captures the fleeting experience of the transition. A dancer changes form beneath her stretchy curtain of a costume, seemingly grappling with gravity itself. Another is earthbound as she leaps up with an elongated tights leg pinned to the ground and anchoring her from below. Groups of dancers commingle, Pilobolus-style, and reshape the scope of human form. In the air, Greenfield's subjects fly, merge, and collide in a symphony of shapes that she somehow, unbelievably, captures on film.
All of the nearly 100 black-and-white photos in the book were shot in a studio with vacant backdrops so that the images sail forth unimpeded by background distractions. Greenfield offers short notes on many of the pictures that include information about the dancer as well as fascinating notes on how she achieved the image. Of one shot of three dancers seemingly pinned over each other and stuck like magnets to the same wall, she writes: "The dancers are running sequentially headlong into the wall. The first person is held up by the pressure of the second body. The third guy has to grab the top of the wall across the width of the two bodies. The moment I shot is when the outside man, Ned, just lets go from the wall."
Airborne is a breathtaking treat for lovers and dance and photography alike.
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Breaking Bounds brought Lois Greenfield's pioneering work in dance photography widespread acclaim and a dedicated following. Now with Airborne, her first book in over six years, Greenfield takes us to spectacular new heights. Collaborating with some of the world's finest dancers from such illustrious dance companies as the Martha Graham Dance Company, Pilobolus, San Francisco Ballet, the Parsons Dance Company, and Ballet Tech, she captures moments of startling grace and power. In 90 duotone images, Greenfield's dancers defy gravity and push the limits of the possible. A preface takes us behind the scenes in her studio, and the photographer's own captions illuminate the challenges of making pictures that recreate the seeming effortlessness of dance. As inspiring as it is technically remarkable, this collection of incomparable images is sure to captivate dance lovers, photographers, and all who admire the beauty and strength of the human body.
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You Won't Beleive Your Eyes.......2006-06-04
You will think that this was photoshopped, airbrushed, other otherwise tricked up. It's not. These are simple, real photgraphs of dancers that are hard to believe as real.
Modern dance is something not everyone understands. This collection will make you wonder how it is that human beings can create such kinetic sculpture with their bodies and some pieces of cloth.
fantastic , highly energised photographs & photography.......1999-09-23
I think the line above says everything.. you will not regret buying this book.
Wonderful no-trick photos that seem to defy gravity.......1999-04-02
Wonderful book. None of the photographs are tricked -- that is, all are usual perspectives, normal orientation (what looks like the floor at first glance really is), no strings, no unseen bars or plates, no studio retouching of former. (See LG's preface.) Truly amazing work.
A unique perspective of dance photography........1998-10-28
This book is a sequel to the book BREAKING BOUNDS.The trick photography is incredible! Some of the photos are tasteful nudes that captivate you with their artistry. If a picture is worth a thousand words... this book is worth a couple million!
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Bil Keane draws "The Family Circus" in his Paradise Valley, Arizona, studio, where he created the award-winning feature over 30 years ago. It is now read daily by one hundred million readers in the nation's leading newspapers.
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fun times when the boss isn't looking.......2001-04-28
If you are underworked but also underpaid this would be a good investment. Find out if you officemate is a lesbien. Do you like chocalate too much? Or, What do your eating habits say about your sex habits. It's a Tale of Two Cities meets the magazine quiz.
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What is black music? For some it is a unique expression of the African-American experience, its soulful vocals and stirring rhythms forged in the fires of black resistance in response to centuries of oppression. But as Ronald Radano argues in this bracing work, the whole idea of black music has a much longer and more complicated history-one that speaks as much of musical and racial integration as it does of separation.
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An interesting enterprise that falls kind of short.......2005-01-26
This is an essential book to approach Bl ack music today. It starts from Dubois's and Ellison's idea that the American nation, American culture and particularly American music were built from the constant and irrepresssible interplay of what the Blacks have brought to America and what the Whites have invested from their European origins. The two racial lines are absolutely entertwined and cannot be seen but as a common construction. The Blacks were submitted to extreme conditions of loss with slavery, but in fact they found in that situation the energy to resist and to remain sane, and that was essentially music. Ralph Ellison goes as far as saying that the future can only exist in democratic diversity, hence the continuation of this rwofold historical cooperation, in spite of all segregation and racism. Can we go further than that ? Radano tries to do so by going back to history and finding out what Black music was as soon as the 17th century. He finds a great silence in testimonies from the time, and yet enough to know that music went on. This great silence was the main characteristic of the pre-revolutionary 18th century. Then in the antebellum period Black music starts being recognized but most of the time as a disease infecting the social body. Here Radano is short because he harps on the negative testimonies and ideas, deeply racist and segregative. He does not understand the position of the Enligtenment philosophers like Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire, Buffon and many others, positions that will lead to the abolition of slavery by the French Revolution in the whole of French West Indies and Louisiana (from the Gulf Coast to Quebec and Maine). He then will not be able to explain the positive involvement of many Euro-Americans in the fight against slavery that was seen as an evil leading to war by many, among others Chateaubriand who extensively travelled in the US and expressed his fear of the division and war within the United States as soon as 1824 in his « Mémoires d'Outre Tombe ». That enables Radano to downplay the forces against slavery that went as far as fighting to the finish and to the death, the Civil War being a perfect example of this sacrifice. After the war Radano sees the emergence of Black music and the tremendous impact it had on American music as a whole, as Dvorak saw it very clearly, but he harps on negative attitudes and testimonies and not on the tremendous movement of exchange and collaboration with some white intellectuals and artists, always seeing the negative side of it : appropriation, using this emergence for one's own profit, and at times even a complete blindness of what this music brought that Radano calls rhythm. But his totally closed up approach (closed up on the United States and the Black community, makes him not see the real value of the French Catholic Church that tolerated Vodun and encouraged religious practice and original enterprises. He does not open his study to the emergence of rhythm through percussions and other means in European music from the Gregorian tradition onwards, not seeing the constant exchange between popular and religious and « elite » music, rhythm and the use of percussions coming from the popular side of European music. That prevents him from identifying the real heritage of the Blacks in the US, which is the double rhythmic line of their music that will produce the syncopation. He sees the parallel between the emergence of rhythm and the great success it had among what he calls the white populace in the industrial and urban context of their development. But he cannot connect the two has a perfect case of one invention becoming a universal heritage of humanity and he never gets to that universal globalized level that we cannot neglect in our vision any more. This emergence of double syncopated rhythm is the best expression of the fast rhythm of life in cities and the fast rhythm of work in factories with fordism and taylorism. The last remark is about the style and the thinking process, that he calls « jazz thinking ». It is syncretic at all levels and under the influence of virtual Internet forum discussions. If you do not like this ellipsoidal thinking, forget it. If you don't like the anachronic vision of historical facts, forget it. It is difficult to see Rousseau being quoted in the 19th century, out of context, though his impact was essential for the French Revolution in the 18th century, period in which he is not even quoted, for one example. Radano locks himself up in a vision of the American society as being cut in two racial homogeneous groups, the Blacks and the Whites, and cannot see the contradictions running free in both communities, in the economic field of the US, in the world even. He never reaches the globalized universal level needed today and actually does not go beyond Dubois and Ellison that he even criticizes as not radical enough in their racial approach. An essential book to understand this particular brand of Black nationalism that sets apart the Black community as such even if they consider the Blacks were essential actors in the construction of the American nation and American culture. Black nationalist ideology that pretends against all possible facts and testimonies that the Blacks were practically the only dynamic group in the construction of the American nation.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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Title: Ronald Radano. Lying Up a Nation: Race and Black Music.(Book Review)
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The Raping of American Culture
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The average working American has very little time or opportunity to express his/her views regarding the events that occur daily. Only exceptional writers, sports figures, actors and politicians are asked to express their opinions regarding subjects of interest to the public. Little attention is paid to the unknown and knowledgeable people who do not have access to the media or to the politicians who frequently ignore the average American and his/her views. As an educator, I feel that it is my responsibility to express opinions that are shared by many other people who have been and continue to be stifled by their own circumstances and/or limitations.
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This collection of essays revises and broadens scholarly assumptions about the history of migration in search of work. The book begins with a critique of current concepts in migration history and a general survey of European labor migration from the 1820s to the 1920s. The following section discusses important emigration and immigration countries and examines in detail the problems of internal European migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author then focuses on the acculturation of labor migrants on both sides of the Atlantic. The final section of this work tackles the much neglected question of return migration. A bibliographic essay, as well as numerous graphs, maps, and illustrations, supplement this collection of essays.
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Excellent coverage of childbirth and taking care of newborn.......2004-03-23
A friend loaned me this book early in my pregnancy. Unfortunately, I was already weighed down with other pregnancy books and didn't look at it until much later. This book provides general information on exercise, nutrition, and fetal development. IF you want more details about how the baby is developing, though, you will have to look somewhere else. It is particularly good at describing what happens during labor and many of the medical choices you have- including more options on pain relief than you are likely to be offered. I found the sections for postpartum care and taking care of the baby very helpful as well. It will get you through the first days until you have time to pick out a book on baby care.
Bible for a first time pregnancy.......2003-05-28
I had three best selling pregnancy books and this one stood above the others!! I refered to it more than the others due to the content being more "facts" rather than the "stories". Any Mom may have her own way of doing things but there are basics that you just can't expect to know based on instinct and this book spells them out in easy to read sections that are well labeled for reference. It's the best and most thorough! A MUST!
This should be the number one pregnancy book!.......2000-04-03
I found Pregnancy to Parenthood "by accident" in the book store. When I got it home and started reading it, I couldn't believe how wonderful and informative it is. I have to agree with the reviewer who said she'd trade all her pregnancy books for just this one. It gave me more birth information than any of the others. And it is so clear and understandable. Now that my baby is 6 months old, it is still the one I refer to for guidance. The breastfeeding information is the best--so supportive. You can tell that these writers have "been there." I love the great photos and the cartoons too. If you are pregnant, get this one FIRST--you won't need any others!
Very, Very helpful.......1999-04-22
I got this book beacuse I couldn't find what to Expect when your Expecting and I love it!! It is very helpful. I then got WTE and found that PTP had better information in most places. This book has more Medical information. I found that the other book said See your doctor or try the diet way to often. I would reccommend this book to anyone. I particularly liked the area that talks about how the baby is growing and what is happining to her/him.
I'd trade all my pregnancy books for just this one!!.......1999-04-21
Wonderful, informative, confidence builder for first time mothers. More information than a lamaze class. Helps with pregnancy, birth and parenthood decisions from every aspect of pregnancy, birth to parenthood.
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The first battle of the desert war, Operation Compass was originally envisaged as a spoiling attack, combined with a reconnaissance in force to disrupt the Italian forces that had advanced into Egypt in September 1940. Lt Gen. Richard O'Connor launched what amounted to a British 'Blitzkrieg'. In less than two months the British forces swept 500 miles along the coast of North Africa. 7th Armoured Division raced across the desert to cut off the retreating Italians, and O'Connor's men destroyed 9 Italian divisions, and took 130,000 prisoners. In March 1941 General Rommel and the Afrikakorps landed at Tripoli.
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Essential title fills a huge gap in history of WW2.......2005-11-14
There are few books which dare even touch on the desert campaigns of the second world war, and those that do usually slight the role of the British, and that of the Italians. This book gives a great and simple to follow account of the battle which started the whole mess in North Africa, the battle that started the domino effect that would lead to every major power, axis and allies, pouring all their resources into what was ultimately useless territory. The only thing I felt the book lacked was background as to why Italy sought to invade Egypt, and why Britain was so woefully unprepared to meet the attack. There also isnt a lot of perspective as to what else was going on during this campaign, such as the Italian invasion of Somalia, Kenya, Greece, Yugoslavia, etc. But as a study of the campaign itself, this book offers a great description of an important but overshadowed group of battles.
A Useful Synthesis but Flawed Synthesis.......2000-09-09
While realizing the 95-page space limitation of the Osprey Campaign series, this volume on the initial British offensive in North Africa could have been much better. Jon Latimer, the author, is a serving officer with the Royal Welch Fusiliers (TA). Latimer brings military experience to this volume, which is useful, but it is not enough. He has culled together the best available references to produce a useful synthesis, but he does not go far enough.
Latimer is to be applauded for mentioning the roles of the Royal Air Force, the Royal Navy, the Reggia Aeoronautica (Italian Air Force), intelligence and various aspects of equipment. Some of his information, such as the high quality of British intelligence versus the poor quality of Italian intelligence is very contentious. Despite valuable signals intelligence, the British were actually quite weak in tactical reconnaissance and they knew it; thus they began to form the Long Range Desert Groups in late 1940. A few months later, Rommel and the Afrika Korps would amply demonstrate how weak the British really were in reconnaissance.
The biggest flaw in this volume are the maps. First, all three of the 3-D maps are presented "upside down" with south pointing to the top of the page. This is disconcerting to readers familiar with North African terrain and odd for an army officer. Second, there are not enough maps to fully support the Battle of the Camps and the attack on Bardia.
Oddly, the author neglects the main commanders Wavell and O'Connor (there is only one very poor photo of O'connor in the volume, but a better shot of Wilson, who had no command role in the campaign). Operation Compass was O'Connor's show and he deserves better treatment, even in a short volume. The author might have mentioned that O'Connor had quite a lot of experience with the Italians, having served in Italy in the First World War (where he was decorated for valor). Nor does the author mention that O'Connor was captured by Rommel's vanguard just two months after his great victory at Beda Fomm. Field Marshal Wavell is also slighted, no mention of losing an eye in the First World War, extensive staff experience in Russia and the Mideast, etc.
There are some egregious editing problems in this volume as well. The photo on page 61, supposedly of the Italian cruiser San Giorgio, is actually a well-known photo of the burning German pocket battleship Graph Spee. The author's tendency to use modern military vernacular, referring to units as "3 and 7H" instead of 3rd and 8th Hussars, should have been curbed. There are also odd word choices such as "scudding rain" and awkward sentences.
This volume is a good introduction to Operation Compass, but it certainly could have packed in more detail. The author frequently mentions logistic problems but never clarifies. In the section on opposing armies, the author might have explained how much motor transport was available and the difficulty of desert logistics.
Finally, it amazes me that a military author would not attempt a bit more analysis of the classic victory at Beda Fomm. Perhaps because the victory was so complete, the author feels that no analysis is necessary. Perhaps, because Italian performance was so terrible, analysis also seems moot. However given the rather poor performance of British desert operations in the remainder of 1941, the author might have tried to answer: what did the British learn from this campaign and more important, what did they retain? Is it possible that lacking serious resistance from the Italians, the British gained an exaggerated opinion of their own capabilities which would work against them once the Afrika Korps arrived? This questions might at least have been raised for thought, if not for answer.
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Oriana Fallaci is back with her much-anticipated follow up to The Rage and the Pride, her powerful post-September 11 manifesto. The genesis for The Force of Reason was a postscript entitled Due Anni Dopo (Two Years Later), which was intended as a brief appendix to the thirtieth edition of The Rage and the Pride (2002). Once Ms. Fallaci completed the postscript, she chose to expand it into a book, a continuation of her ideas set in motion in The Rage and the Pride.In The Force of Reason Fallaci takes aim at the many attacks and death threats she received after the publication of The Rage and the Pride. Ms. Fallaci begins by identifying herself with one Master Cecco, the author of a heretical book who was burnt at the stake during the Inquisition seven centuries ago on account of his beliefs, and proceeds with a rigorous analysis of the burning of Troy and the creation of a Europe that, to her judgment, is no longer her familiar homeland but rather a place best called Eurabia, a soon-to-be colony of Islam (with Italy as its stronghold). Ms. Fallaci explores her ideas in historical, philosophical, moral, and political terms, courageously addressing taboo topics with sharp logic.
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A Reasonable Polemic.......2007-07-24
I think that Oriana Fallaci and similar minded people need to be heard. Basically she is tired of the debasement of Western Civilization and the unfounded extoling of alternative cultures. Much of her rhetoric is passionate and funny. In the end we are all human and it is our thinking and culture which set us apart. Western Civilization has done much bad throughout history; however, it has also done much that is good. To naively dream that all thinking or ideas are equally valid is utter nonsense. People should be respected but not dysfunctional behaviors. This is one of the major points that Fallaci makes. In addition, it is sad to hear some of her stories about the defacing of important historical buildings in Florence and other parts of Europe. She providies a number of interesting vignettes.
What is needed, is a new Renaissance and Age of Reason. I only wish that Ms. Fallaci had lived to translate her third book in this series.
A must read for all who believe that Islam is not the religion of peace.......2007-05-14
To get a true grip on whats' happening in the world today because of Islam , you must know its' history and motives . Fallaci was quite well read and a very passionate writer. You should read the rage and the pride before starting this book .
I love it.......2007-04-11
One of the best books without political correctness and leftist liberalism twists.
Oriana's overview of Radical Islam.......2007-02-02
Quite a book! A lot of information not read in the daily media. Oriana brings her lifes work and experiences to bear on a topic that she is very agitated about, Radical Islam.
I found her final chapter interesting, worth thinking about at length, comparing the Inquisition to Radical Islam. RIP
The Force of Reason by Oriana Fallaci.......2007-01-11
This is a book which should be read by all. Fallaci is a major intellect; clear-thinking, a powerful writer and backs up her statements with verifiable proof. The free world is in great danger but by many insidious methods we don't notice, just as she says she did not notice for twenty years because she was so involved in fighting other wars.
I highly recommend her previous book The Rage and the Pride as well. The world lost a priceless treasure when she died.
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A short, snappy handbook detailing why the military may need you, but you really don't need it.
"The Army's top recruiter, already struggling to meet his quotas this year, said ….that 2006 would be even harder, and perhaps the toughest year for recruiting since the all-volunteer force began in 1973."—The New York Times, May 13, 2005
So you're walking out of school and parked at the gate is a new, bright red Ford Mustang with a hulk of a man in the front seat. He's sporting a razor cut and wraparound shades. Before you can pass he's out of the car and blocking your path. "Mind if I take a minute"—he has you by the arm now—"to tell you about the great life in today's Army and why you should seriously think about signing up?"
The armed forces are having a tough time attracting new recruits lately, in no small part due to the mess in Iraq. Young people are getting wise to the many excellent reasons not to join the U.S. Military, and this handy book brings them all together, combining accessible writing with hard facts and devastating personal testimony. Contributors with firsthand experience point out the dangers facing soldiers, describe the tricks used by recruiters, and emphasize that there really are other options, even in a sluggish economy. It's essential reading for anyone thinking of signing up.
Over 2,000 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq, and over 14,000 have been wounded.
• Nearly 100,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq as a result of the U.S. invasion.
• One in six soldiers returning from Iraq experiences mental health problems.
• Two-thirds of all recruits receive no college funding from the military, and only 15 percent graduate with a four-year degree.
• According to the VA, 90 percent of recent women veterans reported experiencing sexual harassment; a third were raped.
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EXCELLENT BOOK!.......2007-02-16
A MUCH NEEDED BOOK! The Bu$h Administration lies and soldiers die! They have destroyed the military for at least a generation maybe more. Don't join the military! It's not worth it.
1 excellent reason not to read this book.......2006-11-12
What this book tells you is nothing more than common sense. If you are selfish, a coward, or a combination of the two, then the military is not for you.
The BEST reason NOT to join.......2006-09-09
The very BEST reason NOT to join the military (or be a policeman, firefighter or non-union teacher) is that you won't have to wonder too hard whether or not you did anything to promote freedom, peace and justice in the world. You'll know that you probably didn't.
The pioneers of a warless world..........2006-07-24
"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service." -Einstein
Lately the U.S. military's small army of professional recruiters have landed on hard times. The military has crashed hard upon the rocks of quagmire Iraq and fewer people want to join the armed forces today than in order a decade. And if Cindy Sheehan and Elizabeth Weil-Greenberg have their way, 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military will add considerably to the military's difficulties.
The sane person's response to the unnecessary bloodshed in the Middle East is to bring our loved ones home now. Instead, Congress and the Pentagon have chosen to swell the ranks and budgets of military recruiters in order to accommodate hundreds of stationary and mobile recruitment centers operating at once across America.
10 Excellent Reasons is the peace movement's response to the war machine targeting our youth. It sheds light on the many drawbacks to military service from "you may be killed" to "you may kill others" to "you may face discrimination" and beyond. Each contributing author makes his or her case through the hard facts and true-life horror stories that never make their way into Army television ads.
Todd Ensign's chapter vividly describes the dangers that await soldiers who survive their tour(s) of duty in Iraq: "Thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan vets are returning home badly wounded by psychological trauma as well. Military officials estimate that up to 30 percent of all soldiers who serve in Iraq will suffer some level of mental trauma...17 percent of Iraq war vets interviewed showed signs of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)...Flashbacks and intense nightmares are common symptoms of PTSD. Sufferers often resort to alcohol or drug abuse in an effort to get some relief." (74-75)
This pocket book is really worth its wait in gold because it brings together everything the antiwar movement has said all along. This book deserves to be on a lot of people's reading lists: High school students and their parents, high school counselors and counter-recruitment activists.
Here's hoping for a direct correlation between the sales of this book and the decline in enlistment. Those slick military recruiters have their handbook, do you have yours?
Truth and Fiction.......2006-07-02
I may as well start out with the obvious, I am in fact in the Army and in Iraq. It's not as bad as I thought it might be, but it is still not a great place to spend a year of your life. There is some truth in this book, but a lot of it is conflated statistics and I just want people who are honestly considering serving their country to see a better picture of the whole truth. Those who are simply against this war and military service will naturally accept the book as is.
If you join the Army, you might die. You might also be injured. Your friends might die, one of mine already has. You may have to kill people (thought this is less likely, you rarely have a positive target to shoot at over here, our enemies are so cowardly) who later turn out to have been innocent. So the top of the list is completely true and accurate. It starts to fall apart from there.
I'll just go on in order of truth. I don't have time to cover all the points, but here goes. It is true that too often veterans are denied medical treatment, or at least have to wait entirely too long. This is largely because this administration continues to see fit to cut VA funding year after year, despite the two combat zones producing an entire new generation of combat veterans. Anyone in the military, or out of it, for it or against it should be up in arms about this. It is inexcusable.
Now for the slightly less than true. If you are against all war and killing other human beings, do not enlist in the military. This should be fairly obvious. It is possible to get conscientious objector status once you are in, it's just a very long drawn out process. You can refuse orders you believe are wrong: for instance, sarge tells you to go kill the little girl and her puppy. You can say, "Seargent, you really mean me to kill that little girl?" and he still says yes. You can (respectfully, because they can always ding you for disrespect) refuse to comply. The sarge will be unhappy, which means your life will be unhappy for a bit, but it will be sorted out later. "Just following orders" didn't cut it at Nuremburg and won't cut it over here.
Ah, the education benefits. If you have something in your enlistment contract, it is yours. If the military cannot honor a particular stipulation (this is somewhat rare) you can ask to leave the service. Of course you will be highly encouraged to choose another job, but .... If YOU cannot meet the training standards, you will not necessarily get what you want. That's the first the thing your hear off the bus at Basic: "We will not lower our standards for you, you must rise to meet the standards."
As for 15% of troops actually getting their education benefits. I'm not sure about that stat, but I can tell you that the big problem here is people not claiming the money. The military is very good at losing paperwork. It is also reasonably good at finding paperwork, if you are persistent. You have look out for your own interests. And that's really how I am going to sum this up. If you want to serve your country and get ahead: get it in your contract (ignore what your recruiter says, he doesn't write the contracts), claim what is rightfully yours, and PLEAE pick a job that transfers well to the outside. Like Military Police or Arabic Linguist. Meet the standards, and move on!
(I also recommend you get at least 12 to 45 credits of college BEFORE you enlist, because part time college is hard, though still doable, when deployed to Iraq!)
Thank your for your time.
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ASIN: 0312225709 |
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The year of 1945 saw both the dawning of the age of nuclear weapons and the creation of the United Nations for the maintenance of world peace. Compared with the huge and continuing outlays of time and money on research and development of weapons since that date, little effort has been devoted to ways of ridding mankind of war and its armaments. Ending War contains fifteen essays on this topic, written by world renowned political thinkers and scientists including Robert S. McNamara and Mikhail Gorbachev.
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The Force of Reason and the Logic of Force
Richard A. Lee
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 1403933669
Release Date: 2004-11-04 |
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The Force of Reason and the Logic of Force investigates the concept of force through various "episodes" in the history of philosophy. The author argues that force arises on the basis of the distinction of reality and mere appearance. The book looks at figures who reduce force to something other than itself as well as figures who develop a "logic of force" that allows them to trace the operation of force without such a reduction.
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Physiology and Behaviour of the Pigeon
Michael Abs
Manufacturer: Academic Pr
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0120429500 |
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