Impressionist Cats and Dogs: Pets in the Painting of Modern Life

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Many Impressionist paintings of modern life and leisure include images of household pets. Their appealing presence lends charm to such works while alluding to middle-class prosperity and the growing importance of animals as family members. In many cases, such domestic denizens significantly complement representations of their owners. In certain others, the devotion of individual artists to their pets symbolically enhances their expressions of artistic identity. This enjoyable and informative book focuses on the role of pets in Impressionist pictures and what this reveals about art, artists, and society of that era. James H. Rubin discusses works in which artists paint themselves or their friends in the company of their pets, including several paintings by Courbet (who was fond of dogs) and Manet (a notorious lover of cats). He points out that in some works by Degas, dogs contribute to the artist's commentary on psychological and social relationships, and that in paintings by Renoir, dogs and cats have playful and erotic overtones. He also offers a theory to explain why Monet almost never painted pets. Drawing on early pet handbooks and treatises on animal intelligence, Rubin explores nineteenth-century opinions on cats and dogs and compares handbook illustrations to the animals shown in Impressionist works. He also provides fascinating information on pet ownership and on the place of Impressionism in the long history of animal painting.

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On assignment, projects in photojournalism
Tony Spina
Manufacturer: Amphoto
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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On Assignment: Projects in Photojournalism, from initial planning to final selection of photographs.
Tony Spina
Manufacturer: Amphoto
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MXYRSG

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"I've always felt that I would never develop into a really fine actress because I cared more about life beyond the camera than the life in front of it. Over the years my search became broader and broader. After two months on a picture my car seemed to veer toward the airport of its own accord. I still loved acting and enjoyed it. I was a professional, but basically I was more interested in the people I played than the movies I played them in... " -- Shirley MacLaine.

An outspoken thinker, a keen observer, a truly independent woman, Shirley MacLaine takes us on a remarkable journey into her life and her inner self. From her Virginia roots, to stardom, marriage, motherhood and her enlightening travels to mysterious corners of the world, her story is exciting and poetic, moving and humorous-the varied and life-changing experiences of a talented, intelligent and extraordinary woman.

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Prime Minister Lenny & Bhutan.......2005-06-03

My favorite story in this book is when Shirley visits the tiny country of Bhutan in 1964. She's thrilled and nervous when she's invited to meet Bhutan's prime minister, Llendhup Dorji. She expects an elderly holy man in saffron robes, sitting in a lotus position surrounded by an aura of sternness and spirituality. Suddenly, a handsome 28-year old Mongolian man dressed in tight black mohair pants, a bright red sports jacket and Italian shoes--with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth--swaggers into the room. He shakes her hand and says "Hi there, my name is Lenny!" Yes, Lenny was the acting Prime Minister of Bhutan in 1964 and according to Shirley, he was the hippest, coolest guy in the country. He asked HER about Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, shared a drink with her and drove her around in his European sports car. Yet his conversation became poignant when he told Shirley he once hitchhiked across the United States and lived in Greenwich Village, where people assumed he was a Chinese laundryman. He said: "How do you explain Bhutan to Americans?" But Shirley's comments were even more thought-provoking. "I was thrown off completely. This Bhutanese chief of state had slept in Grand Central Station and people thought he was a Chinese laundryman? I guess it was no more incongruous than an American movie star who wanted to experiment with her inner self in the Himalayas." This is Shirley's first book, originally published in 1970, and it's one of her best. It will expand your horizons and your outlook on life.

A Remarkable Book...................2000-10-20

.........by a remarkable woman. When reading this book, one tends to find themselves imagining that the contents are based upon a wonderfully moving, humourous, exciting and particularly enlightening feature film starring the immensely talented and deep-thinking Shirley MacLaine. Instead, amazingly......... the book is autobiographical and therefore makes absolutely stunning reading. I have read many books by Shirley MacLaine and within all of them, there is a complete honesty which made me personally, look a little deeper into my own life. It's a gift.

A Remarkable Book.....................2000-10-20

........by a remarkable woman. When reading this book, one tends to find themselves imagining that the contents are based upon a wonderfully moving, humourous, exciting and particularly enlightening feature film starring the immensely talented and deep-thinking Shirley MacLaine. Instead, amazingly......... the book is autobiographical and therefore makes absolutely stunning reading. I have read many books by Shirley MacLaine and within all of them, there is a complete honesty which made me personally, look a little deeper into my own life. It's a gift.

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Don`t fall off the mountain.
Shirley MacLaine
Manufacturer: NORTON
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HTY86G

THE COMPLETE SHIRLEY MCLAINE : Don't Fall off the Mountain ; You Can Get There from Here ; Out on a Limb ; Dancing in the Light

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THE COMPLETE SHIRLEY MCLAINE : Don't Fall off the Mountain ; You Can Get There from Here ; Out on a Limb ; Dancing in the Light

Manufacturer: BANTAM
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HQGSQM

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BOXED SET OF FOUR PAPERBACKS. FOUR BESTSELLERS

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Don't Fall Off The Mountain
Amclaine
Manufacturer: W W Norton & Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JFCXE2

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Don't Fall Off The Mountain

Manufacturer: Bantam
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ASIN: B000I8U99Q

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Don't Fall Off the Mountain

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Don't Fall Off the Mountain
Shirley Maclaine
Manufacturer: W.W. NORTON & COMPANY INC.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OLN8MC

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Don't Fall Off the Mountain
Shirley MacLaine
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Don't Fall Off the Mountain
Shirley Maclaine
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Don't Fall Off the Mountain
Shirley MacLaine
Manufacturer: Bantam Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000R4G3QE

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A book that shouldn't have been written..........2002-03-25

A friend of mine sadly wasted his money on this book in the expectation that it might actually be worth reading, but just like everything else Pat Blashill writes, It sucked. I am saddened deeply, as well as embarrased to say I actually wasted the time reading some of it. Pat Blashill can't write Rolling Stone reviews, so of course she sure as hell can't write a book...

thinking you'd learn some more abot 90's "alternative"?.......2002-01-21

I bought this book when it first came out,somewhere in the mid-to-late 90's i suppose,and was looking forward to some cool info about alot of the bands that i grew up with of whom turned me on to music that wasn't the outdated guns'n'roses or aerosmith that i was into so damn much untill i found out about the likes of soundgarden and mudhoney and so on. to be honest, i mainly bought this book for the photography to learn more about all of those different scenes in a visual sense which worked quite well, but the story severely lacks - spewing out all of the blunt kind of info that i bet everybody who kept their ears to the ground would already know.i'd give this book 4 stars if it was only photos, which should be the main reason for anyone to purchase

Anything Alternative to this.......2001-11-30

Misunderstood tripe parading itself as a journal of "Alternative Music." Punny, Unfunny title... quickly veers into unreadability. Stick to the acurate Rolling Stone reviews, Pat...

Eh........2001-09-28

I bought this book back when it first came out, hoping for a well written dissection of the nineties music scene. What I got was a by-the-numbers retelling of the same "How alternative music came to be" speech we've all heard before. Zzzzz...

The cover is the best part of the book. Trust me.

Pat needs to go back to writing children's books...........2001-08-23

Absolute garbage.... Don't even think about wasting your money on it.......

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Good start.

Demonawesome

Okay

loved it

First Party Fluff?

Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying Supplement)
James Jacob , and Erik Mona
Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0786939192
Release Date: 2006-06-13

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Raw Chaos and Pure Evil

Out of the maelstrom of chaos the demons came–a primordial horde of perverse souls consumed by hatred. They are as ancient and infinite as the multiverse itself. Even the bottomless Abyss could not contain their malice, and so they spread out across the planes, corrupting and destroying everything in their path. No living soul is beyond their reach, and with each conquered soul their numbers grow. What can stand against such a terrifying onslaught?

This supplement for the D&D® game presents the definitive treatise on demons and their unspeakable home plane. Along with information about the physiology, psychology, society, and schemes of demonkind, you’ll find feats, spells, items, and tactics commonly employed by demons and those who oppose them. This book also provides detailed information on various demons, demon lords, and Abyssal layers.

For use with these Dungeons & Dragons® core books
Player’s Handbook™ Dungeon Master’s Guide™ Monster Manual™

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Good start........2007-05-13

This book is very useful. Anyone facing the forces of chaos and evil (Or running them) will find this useful. Also, finally there are good stats for yocholols for 3.5e.

Demonawesome.......2007-05-07

If you are a DM of higher level games and need some seriously nasty beasties to toss at your adventuring crew, then this book will foot the bill.

Okay.......2007-01-12

Demons just aren't that complex. Lots of stuff here if you like demons. If you're not going to run a campaign centered around them, skip this. If you're going to run a game centered around them, there are new demons here, updates to old ones, history, etc.

The cover on mine was upside down.

loved it.......2006-11-11

i dont do reviews but this book has plenty of 411 for player and dm
alike

First Party Fluff?.......2006-11-07

Outside of the campaign setting books, their hasn't been much quality descriptive material from WotC. Generally, have stuck to mechanics and this has worked well from them. Honestly, when I heard of this book I assumed it was going to be another hodgepodge of feats, spells and PrCs glued together by some "generic to the point of being antiseptic" fluff. It, for better or worse, is not.

What this book gives you is a short primer on Demons and what they are about, some demon related mechanics, some setting information on the Abyss and some new monsters. This would all be good except there is so little of each that the book really doesn't get the job done. We sort of get the reverse of what was expected, a hodgepodge of description glued together by random mechanics. This is not to say the book is without charm. Some of the monsters of interesting and some of the description is inspiring, but it is extremely lean on content in an already thin book.

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Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Knopf Canada is proud to present a masterpiece of the Second World War, never before published in English, from one of the great Russian writers of the 20th century – a vivid eyewitness account of the Eastern Front and “the ruthless truth of war.”

When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Red Army’s newspaper. A Writer at War – based on the notebooks in which Grossman gathered raw material for his articles – depicts the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. It also includes some of the earliest reportage on the Holocaust. In the three years he spent on assignment, Grossman witnessed some of the most savage fighting of the war: the appalling defeats of the Red Army, the brutal street fighting in Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk (the largest tank engagement in history), the defense of Moscow, the battles in Ukraine and much more.

Historian Antony Beevor has taken Grossman’s raw notebooks, and fashioned them into a narrative providing one of the most even-handed descriptions – at once unflinching and sensitive – we have ever had of what he called “the ruthless truth of war.”

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War on the Russian Front.......2007-09-11

Most casual students of World War II in Europe are familiar with the major battles in the West, and are probably conversant with the Eastern struggles at Leningrad and Stalingrad, but that's about it as far as the "Russian Front" goes. This gripping book tells us the Russian soldier's story "from the grunt's eye-view", and we learn a lot about how the typical Russian soldier felt about the war. In an Ernie Pyle-style of writing, the author delves into the smallest aspect of the soldiers' lives, and their reaction to the fighting. As a conclusion, the reader learns that these soldiers fought, not for Communism or Stalin, but for the liberation of their Motherland, and for their friends who fought beside them. It's a powerful work, and one that really deserves wide distribution.

Ordinary people in wartime working to survive.......2007-07-25

Grossman was born in 1905, and though he was exempt from fighting in World War II when Hitler invaded Russia (he tried to enlist), he did get a job covering the war for the Red Army newspaper, Red Star, Krasnaya Zvezda.

Beevor (author of Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin, 1945) and Vinogradova have taken Grossman's extensive notes from his war reporting years and some of his published dispatches and combined them into a fascinating and horror-filled account of heroism, shocking brutality from both Germans and Russians, criticism of some officers, and praise for others. Grossman's experiences were coalesced into the novel Life and Fate, which Grossman tied to get published in the Soviet Union. It was suppressed in the 1960s and finally published in the 1980s to great acclaim.

Writer at War is full of beautiful brief anecdotes of ordinary people, both army and civilians, and their defense of the Soviet Union. There are short descriptions of bodies, ruins, the frenzied flight of whole towns in front of the invading German forces, the mud, the cold, the food, and the orphaned and abandoned children. These are images we may not want to confront; but we should. Brutal wars and genocide are still going on-and we need to recall what it was like and what it is still like.

I have not experienced anything so powerful since I saw Elim Klimov's film about the invasion, Come and See.

NOTE: Grossman's report on Treblinka was used in the Nuremberg Military Tribunal, and published in Znamya. Grossman was disillusioned by Stalin's refusal to acknowledge the slaughter of Jews in the Ukraine (among those killed was Grossman's mother). Grossman's articles on this subject were often censored or not used at all.

Armchair Interviews says: Powerful stories.

Eyewitness........2007-07-23

Really a unique book. Beevor contextualises Grossman's notes and editorials for Red Star but leaves Grossman to tell the story. Whilst history books can provide a detached description of events they cannot provide the level of intimacy and humanity that Grossman's interviews (from civilians to generals) and observations, at most of the key moments of the war, provide.
An understated man, he seems to have the trustworthiness for people to open up to him and you can feel the personality and character of the Russian people as individuals rather than a faceless homogenous mass.
You travel the path of retreat, teater on the brink of defeat, and feel their savage joy in fighting back.
The most powerful sections have to be that of Stalingrad and Treblinka, the former for the incredible strength of human spirit to survive and the latter for the shocking industrial scale of the state sanctioned murder in which many freely collaborated.
Whilst Grossman was a Jew and clearly feels the suffering of fellow Jews at this time you feel he is a Soviet citizen first and foremost and loves the diversity of his people.
An excellent insight.

GRIPPING REALISM.......2007-06-18

I HAVE READ MANY ACCOUNTS OF THE EXPLOITS OF THE RUSSIAN SOLDIER AND THE SIEGE OF STALINGRAD BUT THIS IS THE MOST DESCRIPTIVE ONE YET.THIS SEEMS ONLY NATURAL COMING FROM A WRITER WHO LIVED THE EXPERIENCE.WE FROM THE WEST WHO SAW NORMANDY AS THE DEFINING BATTLE TEND TO OVERLOOK RUSSIA'S DEFIANCE AT STALINGRAD WAS THE TURNING POINT OF WW2

Profoundly moving and disturbing.......2007-06-01

This is one of the very best books to come out of the War in the East. A combat journalist, Grossman saw as much action as many combat veterans. Comparable to America's Ernie Pyle, Grossman wrote with a common, sympathetic manner that powerfully conveys complex and highly emotional stories. Anyone who professes to be a serious student of the War in the East absolutely must read this book. Be warned; however, that Grossman's writings on Treblinka and other scenes of Nazi genocide are horrific and the pain they convey is staggering (his mother was one of the millions of victims of Nazi genocide). Do not read this book unless you are prepared to deal with some of the most gut-wrenchingly honest and brutal writing of your life.

A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945

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A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
Vasilii Grossman
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A Writer at War Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
edited and translated by Beevor Antony and Luba Vinogradova
Manufacturer: Pantheon
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UF5WR6

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The Chinese Civil War was one of the key conflicts of the twentieth century. The Communist victory determined Chinese history for several generations, and defined international relations in East Asia during the Cold War and after. Despite its importance and scope—its battles were the largest military engagements since World War II—until now remarkably little has been known about the war, and even less about its effects on the societies that suffered through it. This major new history of the Chinese Civil War attempts to answer two central questions: Why was the war fought? What were the immediate and the lasting results of the Communists’ victory?

Though the book highlights military matters, it also shows how campaigns were mounted alongside profound changes in politics, society, and culture—changes that ultimately contributed as much to the character of today’s China as did the major battles. By analyzing the war as an international conflict, the author explains why so much of the present legitimacy of the Beijing government derives from its successes during the late 1940s, and reveals how the antagonism between China and the United States was born.

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Good but partisan summary.......2007-08-10

Professor Westad offers here a concise and well-written overciew of the Chinese civil war and its international ramifications. While he is an excellent cold war scholar and I *do* recommend the book, I do so with certain reservations.

He begins by blaming Stalin for "inadvertantly" beginning the Chinese civil war via Soviet troop withdrawals from Manchuria. This analysis reflects the still-dominant view among Western academics to reflexively blame the USSR and Stalin for the cold war in general, although Professor Westad adds the liberal adverb caveat of "inadvertant." There is no analysis of what the Soviet alternative could have been: to remain in occupation of Manchuria? And then, of course, Stalin would now be blamed for "advertantly" causing the Chinese civil war by staying, and providing sanctuatry for the CCP to grow.

Similarly, Professor Westad is inclined to give Chiang Kai-Shek ("Jiang" - sorry, I just *can't* get used to Pin-Yin!) the benefit of the doubt. Professor Westad is of the opinion that Chiang was "deeply concerned" about the corruption of his Kuomintang regime, and "took steps" to correct it; but as Professor Westad is surely aware, these could be little more than rhetorical scoldings of middle and lower level cadres. The true source of the KMT's rot was at the top. Any serious anti-corruption drive would have threatened the corporate monoplies of the Soong family, which had been the backbone of Chiang's rise to power, and of the "Green Gang," a mafia brotherhood of which Chiang had long been a member. Ralph Thaxton's book, "Salt of the Earth," shows how peasant cottage industry was in basic opposition to the central monopolizing policies of the KMT and its confiscatory tax system for the favored few. Thus a mere "anti-corruption drive" could not have removed deep-seated peasant opposition going back some 20 years, and reinforced by the KMT's postwar carpetbaggery.

Also, Professor Westad brushes aside the CCP claim that it "bore the brunt" of the Japanese occupation. I find this an unsupportable conclusion, based on the logic of events. Chiang did not have the resources to drive the Japanese out of China. Knowing it would be suicidal to risk his remnant regime in an all-out assault, he knew also he must accomodate their presence, however unwillingly. But there was great advantage to him in having the Japanese in China, in providing a law and order he could not and keeping the Communists in line. Proof of this was his continued reliance on the Japanese remaining after the peace, to help him consolidate "Free China." In terms of attacks on the Japanese, the CCP definitely had nothing to lose and a world to gain by pushing a confrontional anti-Japanese policy, and thus *can* be said to have born "the brunt," however limited, of anti-Japanese resistance.

But in spite of my criticisms, I do recommend the book as a concise and necessary overview of a time and place that remains shrouded in cold war night and fog.

A good primer but needs much more detail.......2003-06-20

Prof. Westad's book provides the reader with a solid overview of the tumultuous events that engulfed China in the wake of WWII and led to China becoming the world's most populous Communist country. Prof. Westad has an engaging writing style that keeps the reader's interest, unlike many of the works written by academics. He does a good job at introducing the reader to the salient political and military events that led to the eventual defeat of the Kuomintang (KMT or Nationalist Party) and does a good job at giving those new to the subject matter the necessary background to expand their studies. Unfortunately, the work lacks in several respects. First, the the book's maps are too few and provide little of the necessary detail for one to truly understand why the principal actors made the military decisions they did. Bluntly put, the maps should have included more topographical detail and there should have been more maps covering areas of fighting in smaller increments of time to permit one to truly follow the course of military events. Furthermore, in his introduction Prof. Westad states "the main emphasis (of the book) is on the political and military history of the war..." As a former Marine combat officer who later served as a diplomat in China, I found the book lacked in both respects. There was a good deal of coverage regarding the issues of CCP debate regarding its land reform policies and debates about those policies within the party. However, the book fails to provide as much information on what the KMT leadership's thoughts about this and other important socio-economic issues. In addition, there was only superficial discussion of the military forces, organization, weaponry, and almost no real attempt to provide a detailed chronology of the war's events, at the strategic, operational or tactical level. In spite of these criticisms, I strongly recommend the book at a good starting point for those who have little or no knowledge of what happened in China during these years as there are few works available in English that deal with the subject well.

Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950.(Book Review) : An article from: Pacific Affairs

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Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950.(Book Review) : An article from: Pacific Affairs
Hans van de Ven
Manufacturer: University of British Columbia
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ASIN: B0009GSB9M
Release Date: 2005-08-01

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Title: Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950.(Book Review)
Author: Hans van de Ven
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2004
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Volume: 77 Issue: 2 Page: 324(2)

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Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian

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Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian
Ling Xiaobing
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Title: Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950.(Book Review)
Author: Ling Xiaobing
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Date: January 1, 2004
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Volume: 66 Issue: 4 Page: 862(2)

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Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950.(Book Review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950.(Book Review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Dennis Showalter
Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan
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Title: Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950.(Book Review)
Author: Dennis Showalter
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 40 Issue: 1 Page: 165(3)

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Multiplied millions of women all over the world are looking over the church's shoulder, longing to see the freedom Jesus purchased for them at Calvary. Millions more have found freedom in Jesus but are still bound by human ideas-ideas that pressure a woman to let culture, not God, determine her place in the Kingdom.

While hurting men and women are outside the church cry out, "Is there any hope? Does anyone care?" their sisters in the church are asking, "How can I share the hope I have" How can I, a woman, serve the Lord?" Many women, having heard God call them into public roles in the Kingdom, are serving in positions of leadership. They are asking, "Will the church support us?"

We must respond. The issue of women in missions, ministry, and leadership is dividing homes, churches, communities, even societies. We must respond responsibly, for we never want to find ourselves working against God's purposes, quenching His Spirit at work in the lives of those He has called. We must respond carefully, since God's truth often stands in direct opposition to what the majority of people believe.

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Wonderfully balanced, historically and theologically sound.......2007-06-29

Cunningham, et al, have done a masterful job of addressing a topic which too often is tackled based on traditionalism, scriptural "sound bites," and emotionalism. Stripping away our preconceptions, they have examined this issue in the light of the full counsel of God's Word (the Bible), careful study of the original languages (Hebrew and Greek), cultural context, and the historical and comtemporary record of women in ministry. This book is now a "must read" recommendation from me to peers in ministry. As truth will always do, I found this book to be liberating!

A Must read.......2007-04-26

Wow. This book is well-written and obviously well-researched. Up until very recently, I bought into the view that women shouldn't teach and that women shouldn't be pastors. Even though I am a woman myself,I felt that women pastors were disobeying God and had missed there true calling. I didn't believe that women could be truly gifted as pastors and teachers. I believed (as so many do) that those rules could and should be occupied only by men. Certain passages in Pauls Epistles disturbed me. To be honest, at times, Paul came across as a sexist pig. All my assumptions about women pastors were challenged when God recently used a woman pastor to minister to me in a powerful way. At first, I was very reluctant to share with her simply because she was a woman. But I'm glad I didn't allow my assumptions and preconceived notions to keep me from talking to her. I would have missed an incredible blessing. I had the opportunity to talk with this female pastor both one on one and to listen to her teach. It quickly became evident to me that she is very clearly gifted as both a pastor and a teacher. This experienced has caused me to rethink many of my views and ideas regarding female pastors. I didn't know how to reconsile the idea of a woman clearly gifted as a pastor/teacher with many of Paul's teachings about women (especially in 1st Corinthians 11 and 2nd Timothy 2)
I had seen this book in the Christian bookstore several times previously. But I never even picked it up. Why would I? I didn't think women could or should take leadership roles in the Church. I was blown away by the amount of research that obviously went into this book. This book has helped give me a whole new perspective. This book clarified a lot of my confusion.

I don't know at this point if God is calling me to me a pastor or to take on some other leadership role in the church. But if He does, I fully intend to obey. I know that God will lead me step by step into His will and will equip me to do His will. Regardless of where that might take me. Being a pastor/teacher is a very serious responsability. It is not one that should be taken lightly. This book makes that very clear. I am grateful to the authors for having the courage to write this book. This is a very volatile subject. But it is a vital issue. These types of issues have been swept under the rug for far too long. The authors have done a great serve to both men and women through this book. I believe this book should be required for every Christian.

BAD.......2007-04-24

The idea that women need to be in leadership to have a relationship with god is an arguement for a dumb person.Women preachers are about as incongruous as men in dresses.They should submit to God`s will and minister outside the church WHERE MOST OF THE UNSAVED ACTUALLY ARE!Those of us with "human blood" in our veins ,don`t hate biblical gender roles.

Bobbed Hair, Bossy Wives and Women Preachers.......2007-03-26

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Genesis 3:16

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
1 Timothy 2:12

Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
1 Timothy 2:13

Read John R. Rice "Bobbed Hair, Bossy Wives and Women Preachers"

A must read book on the subject of women in leadership in the church.......2007-02-12

Perhaps the best book on the subject of the role of women in the Kingdom of God that is out there. It is clearly written, inspirational and theologically accurate. This is a book that provides the groundwork for the changes that are occurring in the Western church as women take their God-ordained places alongside the men in advancing the Kingdom. I thoroughly recommend it.

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