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Adolescents and Their Music : If It's Too Loud, You're Too Old (New Directions in Sociology)
J. Epstein
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0815306148 |
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Explores the intersection of popular music and sociology.......1998-11-16
A must read for anyone interested in the intersection of popular music, adolescents, and extant sociological discourse. Some of the most current research in the area of rock music and adolescent culture are featured as well as an up to date bibliography on the sociology of rock music. A must read for both the student and professional sociologist!
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Adolescents and Their Music: If it's Too Loud, You're Too Old.: An article from: Notes
Robert Walser
Manufacturer: Music Library Association, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on September 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1060 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Adolescents and Their Music: If it's Too Loud, You're Too Old.
Author: Robert Walser
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Notes (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1996
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: v53
Issue: n1
Page: p91(3)
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Working in America: An Eyewitness History (Eyewitness History Series)
Catherine Reef
Manufacturer: Facts on File
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ASIN: 0816040222 |
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Every year more than 1,000 North Americans travel to Nicaragua to volunteer their labor. These "brigadistas," as they are called, spend between two weeks and three months as volunteer agricultural workers harvesting coffee and rice side-by-side with Nicaraguans. Brigadista presents, in their own words, some of these volunteers' experiences and the feelings these experiences generated. The author captures and conveys these experiences and feelings through interviews, articles, journal entries, photos, and descriptive pieces written by the volunteers. What emerges is an important first-hand account of Nicaragua, its people and its politics.
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The Surgery Handbook: A Guide to Understanding Your Operation
Paul Ruggieri
Manufacturer: Addicus Books
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ASIN: 1886039380 |
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Written clearly and concisely for the lay audience,
The Surgery Handbook covers such topics as pre-surgery anxiety, selecting a surgeon, questions to ask before your operation, types of surgery, aneesthesia, pain management, pre-operative tests, and recovery at home.
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Worth having and recommended. .......2007-08-19
I am not sure this is a "must have" book but I know it is very valuable reference work on the Antietam Campaign. This is a collection of notes on units, weather reports and a level of detail that is astounding. My understanding is this is all the writing that did not find a place in his two excellent books and was to valuable to discard.
It is not a book that you can set down and read but it is a book that can fill in the details or complete the picture.
Another Must Have for the Sharpsburg campaign.......2003-09-08
In conjunction with the author's masterwork, "Taken at the Flood," this companion work is a must. It contains many and valuable pieces of information that go into formulating a complete picture of the Maryland invasion of 1862.
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on February 1, 2002. The length of the article is 598 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Sounding the Shallows: A Confederate Companion for the Maryland Campaign of 1862. (Book Reviews).(Brief Article)
Author: Craig L. Symonds
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Date: February 1, 2002
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 68
Issue: 1
Page: 189(2)
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- One Small Critique
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The Bush - Haters Handbook: A Guide to the Most Appalling Presidency of the Past 100 Years
Jack Huberman
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The Bush-Haters Handbook is a godsend to those looking for a concise, mordantly entertaining overview of the Bush record from a liberal perspective, or those who want to arm themselves with talking points, facts, and figures for debates with conservatives, and at those seeking the perfect holiday gift book for that certain, special Bush-hater in their lives—or for a Bush-lover they hope to rescue from the outer darkness. Summarizing, detailing, and bewailing all of the more important Bush administration outrages, and some of the more trivial ones, this book is the brainchild of Jack Huberman, a former Canadian who took up U.S. citizenship just so he could vote against Dubya in 2000. Topics range from abortion, AIDS, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and Ashcroft, to women and workplace safety. Other major topics include budget and taxes, civil liberties, death penalty, defense spending, education, environment, gun control, health care, homeland security, Iraq, judicial nominations, “nucular” weapons, patients’ rights, privacy, public land, September 11 and the war on terror, and social security. In between are a variety of smaller topics, such as Bush’s language abilities (featuring a selection of priceless Bushisms). The pages are also enlivened by sidebars, “boxed” lists, and political cartoons.
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Absolutely Fabulous, Funny, and Terrifying.......2007-03-09
I had a whole plethora of emotions when I read this book. I laughed hysterically when I realized how stupid our President really is, I was astounded by the investigative journalism and the their findings, all of which should never happen in the office of the President of the United States. The reporting on the war and the real reasons we went there are sadly shocking. Everyday, you read about the deaths of the young men and women from 18 to 24, just babies really. None of them have been alive long enough to learn how beautiful life can really be, and it is just heartbreaking. Jack Huberman has done a fantastic job of documenting the lies and scare tactics used by this administration to terrify the population, and the member's of Congress into voting for Bush's blank check into Iraq. The author needs to update the book since it was originally published in 2003. The book would double or triple in size by the time the author starts digging into all the alleged crimes committed by Paul Bremer in Iraq, the illegal contracts with American companies that should have gone to the Iraqi's, and the missing billions in cash. What would they find if they really looked at what that arrogant, ignorant liar, our Commander in Chief (the decider), has done to this country. Why for example, do we have over 100,000 American businessman and workers who are earning billions, when 75% of Iraqi men can't find a job to feed their families? Our country is going broke, we have become a severly fractured society and we no longer have any "good standing" left anywhere in the world. "The Decider" has destroyed our great nation and his foolish decisions are directly responsible for the thousands of dead troops and another 30,000 severly disabled men and women. It is almost too much to believe the true axis of evil, (Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld), could do so much damage to such a proud nation, in such a short period of time. Our ecomomy is in ruins, and they have stripped our Armed Services down to its bare bones. They have cut the funding on every program they possibly could, including VA hospital benefits to pay for this fiasco. It will take generations for this country to recover. George Bush will walk into retirement admiring himself for this hideous mess, and he will dump it on the next President to clean up. It took "The Decider" less than six years to turn the United States into a gigantic bull's eye. Terror is already walking on our soil, just patiently waiting.
Great read!.......2006-11-27
I found this to be a great book full of facts and statistics necessary to back up the feelings that anyone who picks this up to read must already have.
I especially enjoyed the history of the administration officials that was offered and the specific information on the Iraq "situation."
A quick read, which had me both shocked and in awe at some points. :)
A must have for any American!.......2006-11-04
I can't get over how great this book is! It is well organized (all social/political issues are in alphabetical order). It covers all aspects of the presidents mistakes from the environment, appointment of jugdes, the war on terror, etc. Its presented in a concise manner so that its interesting but still information packed. This book is a must have for anyone who disagrees with Bush or anyone who is blind enough to think he is a good president.
One Small Critique.......2006-05-13
I enjoyed the book very much, but there was one thing he said that I disagree with, and was totally unnecessary and perhaps a little damaging to his case, and that was his comment that we really should have 100% inheritance tax, with the argument that people who inherit have already been given the best educational and other opportunities, etc.. The irony I found in that statement was that when my parents died and I inherited probably more than some I grew up with did, part of the reason for this was that we scrimped and saved and had to do without some of the things the neighbors kids got, because my parents lived through the depression and never got it out of their skin. I earned my inheritance in part by doing without things to allow my parents to be able to save and invest for the future, a future that unforunately for them was cut shorter than it was planned to be by a tragic accident. Okay, there were plenty who had it worse than us, whose parents didn't earn enough to save even if they had wanted to, but even if I can't convince the author that I deserved to not have my whole inheritance taken away from me, there was a missed opportunity here.
I am precisely the sort of person Bush was probably trying to pretend his relief in inheritance was supposed to help, protecting the honest middle class family that wants to pass on their hard earned savings to their children..we all know the line. But in actuallity long before Bush the law already provided quite adequately for people like me. Even back in 1994 when I inherited, the first $600,000 of an estate was tax exempt at least when passed on to the children, and I suspect that has gone up in adjustment for inflation. Now there's a funny quirk in the inheritance law that allowed us twice the exclusion in effect, because my parents died in a car accident at the same time, which allowed them each to pass on $600,000 untaxed. If they had not died at the same time we would have had to pay some inheritance tax, but even with only the first $600,000 untaxed it would not have been oppressive. With the already in existence back in 1994 $600,000 exclusion a family with 2 children could pass on $300,000 to each without anyone needing to pay inheritance tax at all. In our case there were 3 of us, so only our first $200,000 would have been untaxed if one or our parents had died before the other, still not exactly hardship, though.
In other words, the point about inheritance tax relief being tax relief for the rich could have been made much better without clouding things by making it seem like an argument about whether inheritance should exist at all. By saying that kind of thing he is unnecessarily playing right into the hands of Bush supporters that will be all too eager to say, that he (and by association all Bushhaters) wants to steal the family home away from the children before they have even had the chance to properly grieve.
When Clinton Lied, Nobody Died.......2006-04-25
For the reviewer below mine who has begged for a review of the book and not how much they hate Bush, I will attempt to grant his wish.
This book is somewhat strident in its tone, which, considering the title, is understandable. It does provide a ton of facts for those who may feel verbally combative with the neighborhood neocon. It is a compilation of Bush's lies, deals, swindles, contradictions, etc. It is broken down into topics such as economy, veterans, etc.
What is important about these facts is that a lot of people are not familiar with them, and the people who like the president don't want to become familiar with them. Keep in mind, this book was written before the start of his second term, and his popularity has dropped to the freezing mark as of this writing i.e. 32%--not degrees.
I believe this book had one bit of conjecture I didn't like, and that was the uncomfirmable assertion that he impregnated a woman who later had an abortion with the help of one of Bush's friends. (Rove, perhaps?) Supposedly, this woman is now married, and not talking or admitting, therefore it should not have been mentioned.
The facts of the book are otherwise unassailable especially for a president who implied that he would do almost anything for our soldiers and veterans, and then didn't. In fact, the book brings out all the things that Bush did to hurt our veterans by closing VA hospitals, freezing pay hikes, balking at raising the death benefit for GI insurance, trying to cut combat pay, and housing allowance pay, to name a few.
Anyone who looks at Bush's business dealings, the way he attacked McCain during the 2000 primary in Carolina, could easily see what kind of man this country would be getting. They wouldn't have had to buy this book to find out that he was a divider, a nation-builder, a man without principle or integrity, nor one who could take responsibility for anything.
If you want to catalogue this man's impeachable offenses, this book is a good start. Beware. It is a little like the writing of Michael Savage. It will anger liberal and neocon alike. That's the drawback to a fine litany of mistakes and character flaws.
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A basic guide to North American birds for children, with information on bird behavior and anatomy, this book is also a "flip book." Color photographs - individual frames captured from videos - are printed on the page edges. When the pages are flipped, one can watch a swooping eagle grabbing a fish out of water, a brown pelican taking off, a great egret landing and tundra swans flying.
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