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The Handbag ia a witty and informative celebration of this indispensable defining accessory.
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Nice bags.......2001-08-14
This book gives a nice rundown of different handbag styles, and designers. It's simple and slightly informative. I mainly wanted the book for pictures and inspiration, which it gave me. I enjoyed the section that goes over the types of handbags, just because I was clueless as to their names and such. Overall, I was pleased.
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Les Diaboliques: (the She Devils) (Empire of the Senses)
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Beware of sensual women.......2001-02-09
Six masterpieces of storytelling. The stories are narrated by their own male protagonists, destroyed by six devilish women. These are stories about infamous sex and crime, charged with eroticism. They are also a portrait of Paris and Normandy societies during the years of the Restoration and the kingship of Louis Philippe. Barbey was an extravagant Catholic and a monarchist. Two other good novels by him, "L'Ensorcelée" and "Le Chevalier Des Touches", deal with the reactionary fight of the "chouanes" to depose the Revolutionary regime and bring back Monarchy. In "The She-Devils", Barbey shows the dark side of female sexuality, depicting women as dangerous sensual animals who don't stop at anything in their search for satisfaction and egocentric fulfillment. The prose is raw and refined at the same time, and you feel you would have liked to meet these sensual women -from a distance.
Uneven.......2001-01-10
While one or two stories are on target, I wasn't thrilled with the overall collection. To be sure, D'Aurevilly is quite successful in creating suspense and engendering interest. The bulk of the stories, however, don't so much end as stop. They are disconcertingly anti-climactic; indeed, impotent.
While there's a lot worse to read out there, I can't wholeheartedly recommend "Les Diaboliques." If you're interested in decadent literature of the first water, I strongly suggest Huysmans' "La-Bas."
Mænads of decadence.......2000-12-24
The most obvious feature of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's collection of novellas is his peculiar horror of female sexuality. In each of these tales, women, by their erotic wiles and passionate natures, rule and brand the male narrators of the stories. These women's sexual needs are in each case the mainspring that drives tales of death, murder, or violence.
Another intriguing thing about these stories is their Russian-doll structure. Each of these stories begins in a setting removed from its chief events, and introduces the male narrator as a character in his own right, as he narrates the tale of his harrowing encounter with the she-devils who give the book its title. Even as these stories are stories of crime or horror, they are also stories about story-telling.
The author's curious prejudices also are manifest through the tales: Barbey d'Aurevilly was a bigoted partisan of the Roman church, authoritarian and monarchist in politics, and filled with apparent nostalgia for the military life. These opinions are constantly touched on by the stories. While they may make his view that female sexuality is a ravenous force somewhat more comprehensible, they make his writing such a disturbingly sensual book somewhat ironic. In fact, the French authorities sought to suppress -Les Diaboliques-, even as they did with -Madame Bovary- and -Les Fleurs de Mal-.
The bottom line is that each of these tales is a good read. D'Aurevilly shows himself to be a master of narrative technique, in that the horrors he -suggests- are far more vivid than the horrors he -discloses-. The stories, then, will make the reader his -accomplice- in visioning a world of sexual violence. This is the most diabolical stroke of all.
"Happiness has no story." - Jules Barbey........2000-09-09
Any fan of Baudelaire, Huysmans, or decadent fiction in general needs to read this book. When published, 'Les Diaboliques' was considered so vile and disturbing that police actually seized it for offense to public morality. Even today, with it's obsessive excursions into crime, sexual devience, and it's dark, satanic undertones (Barbey was an eccentric catholic), it still retains a shocking, raw depravity. The 'devils' in the novel are all female ; useing their dominating, almost ravenous sexuality they manipulate and overpower men, even abuse them. They take life and love on their own terms, sometimes with savage, brutal violence. The dark under-world of eroticism and sex are explored and revealed in a slightly deranged light. Often times the stories seem to have some kind of mysterious, perverse moral, but it is so twisted the reader is never sure. In fact, even the character's motivations are never fully revealed ; their is horror, but not always directly, it pervades all around like some putrid, foul-smelling perfume. Terror is everywhere, hidden in the shadows of life. The narative itself adds to the overall creepy atmosphere, full of twists, detours, digressions. A classic of evil literature, this book demands to be ghoulishly savoured.
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Keep Swinging! Approach Your Senior Years Without Skipping a Beat is pure Ulano—straight shooting, rhythmic, full of humor, wisdom and jazz! For the multitude of people coming into their senior years and for the generations following them, Ulano will give you a road map to aging well, managing your health, your money and your attitude.
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Great Gift for Mom and Grandmom.......2005-12-25
I got this book for my mother because she is now 63 and she was thumbing through it in the bookstore, laughing at parts, and saying "so true, so true." I bought it for her. She then ordered one for her sister and one for her mother, who in turn ordered if for friends. They say it is humorous, true, and makes them think about setting up their lives better. After my mother read this, she took up music again, which had been on the back burner for years.
Wonderful and Refreshing.......2005-08-12
Legend Sam Ulano does it again with another fantastic example of good ol' New York wisdom and inspiration. A straight forward no nonsense approach to every life question imaginable, and some even unimaginable. Pure genius!
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The Bg5 lines of the Queen's Gambit Declined include some of the most popular and important opening systems at all levels of play. Here, for the first time in many years, a strong and experienced grandmaster covers all lines of this opening in objective fashion. Lalic fully acquaints readers with the main lines, and prepares them to face unusual systems and rare gambit ideas with confidence. Among the lines covered are the Exchange Variation, Tartakower Defense, Lasker Defense, Cambridge Springs and the Classical Orthodox Defense, all of which have been used at World Championship level. This book contains comprehensive coverage of an important opening system written by a top-class grandmaster with strategic guidance for both White and Black.
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I doubt the reviewer from Oakland's evaluation.......2002-06-24
I doubt the other reviewer's evaluation
I have not read this book but I'm a hardcore 1.d4 practitioner that faces the QGD everyday. I was compelled to write a commentary because the other reviewer complained about there being three annotated games with the "ridiculous 8.Rb1." There is nothing ridiculous about this move that I play very often for the purpose of beginning the minority attack, an important plan that is a major component of the white side of the QGD. The book may give the impression that some of the lines are drawish and this makes sense since it is a very old opening and has been played at the championship level since the beginning.
The book got rated 7.5 out of 10 by Randy Bauer, a respected chess book aficionado whose reviews can be found at chessopolis.com (under "Randy's Revealing Reviews)." He says that the book would be more helpful to someone who is already an experienced practitioner of most of the lines - "The breakdown on key plans for both sides is mostly limited to quick listing of lines, and many players just learning a variation need more." Perhaps that's why the reader from Oakland disliked it. I should add that Bauer gave Mathew Sadler's book on the QGD an 8, and this is a book that won a chess book of the year award. So to get a 7.5 from Randy is definitely an achievement!
I myself rated this book with 4 stars based on Randy's system since I myself did not read the book. I would have avoided the rating system, but the site would not allow me to post without including it.
If the QGD is a new opening for you, I suggest Gambit's "The Road to Chess Improvement," by Alex Yermolinski. In just one chapter, he thoroughly explains in plain English the four major plans (including the minority attack) for white in the exchange variation (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Be7 4.cxd5 exd5 - there are of course many other transpositions). The book in general is a great read for any d4 player. It also was the runner-up for the chess book of the year award that was given to Mathew Sadler's book.
Disappointment.......2001-06-15
I have been very disappointed by this book, perhaps because it promised much more than it delivered. First, despite the editorial comment, it does not even attempt completeness. Entire important systems, the classical Orthodox as played by Capablanca and Alekhine among them, are mentioned only in short annotations or passed over with the justification that they are "out of fashion" - as if I was buying this summer's swimsuit catalog! This becomes almost absurd when one finds that on the other side, there are 3(!) complete annotated games with the ridiculous 8.Rb1??! against the Tartakower. And, again contrary to the editorial claim of objectivity, a bias for Black is perceptible, not so much in the evaluation of positions as in the choice of games. I didn't make precise statistics, but Black must have scored well over 50% in the games in the book. One gets the impression that the QGD is a particularly sharp and fighting defence :-/
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Too many companies think that splashy advertising and cool packaging is the same thing as branding. Marketers talk about brand charisma or brand warfare, spend millions on entertaining ads starring dancing chimpanzees or cowboys herding cats, but fail to differentiate their product or give consumers a real reason to pay attention. Then they wonder why their campaigns fail.
This in-your-face, down-to-earth guide explains real branding: the process of creating an exclusive idea of value that consumers can trust you to deliver consistently. It offers a unique eight-week program that can help any company create a #1 brand by focusing on the one big idea that will make people really want your product or service.
The same principles apply to Ford Motor Company and Frankie's Lawn & Garden shop. Schley and Nichols teach readers how to:
• abandon their precious lists of features and benefits
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For anyone who wants to harness the true power of branding, this enjoyable book is the place to start.
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Amazing Book. What they don't teach in college.......2007-10-04
I am 21 years old and in my senior year of college with a marketing major. The CEO of the company I did my internship at this summer recomended this book to me. I am glad he did. This book gives amazing examples of what an organization must do to not only advertise correctly, but to make their product/service stand out. There are tons of great examples of prolific organizations that made simple changes to their company, and are now leaders in the market. I almost feel cheated at school because this book teaches more than any marketing class I have every taken.
Clear explanations, practical ideas .......2007-08-03
Don't let the unfortunate choice of title turn you away from this book. It is full of clear explanations and practical advice, especially if you're trying to build a new brand. One drawback: It is too focused on consumer brands and doesn't really address the issues of branding for business-to-business sales.
crappy book.......2007-07-28
i found this book very hard to keep my interest. It is poorly written. I can't believe I wasted my money.
The #1 Branding Book for Anyone.......2006-11-07
I'm only halfway through this magnficent book and have already recommended it to half a dozen people. I am fortunate to have stumbled across this book as I prepare to makeover my business (freelance writer) and web site. This book has me thinking in new ways and different directions than I would have without it, and I'm spending time identifying what my DSI truly is. Although this book is probably written more for companies, I think it should be a mandatory read for every independant contractor out there. Entertaining, common sense, and plenty of examples. Two thumbs up.
So Smart!.......2006-05-26
This is the "big picture" book. Anyone involved or interested or even schooled in marketing will have references and citations on how to do the many activities and understand trends that come under the "marketing" banner: creating great design, conducting a focus group, creating buzz, etc.
While technique and expertise in these areas are important, it is all for naught if you don't stop to think about WHY you are doing them. This book drives home the point that everything you do must be consistent with the tenets relative to your business objective. Moreover, the book provides programmatic steps on how to discover those objectives and tenets.
The stories and insights along the way are enlightening and lend such common sense to the book's overarching messages to stay focused and remember that buying decisions are made by people.
I was totally engaged by the book which shifted my perspective. To me, that's the mark of an excellent book.
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Peter Manseau's deeply personal memoir is a meditation on family, church, faith and self. Oh, and God too. The story of rejecting the faith you are given, only to embrace it again in some form (or at least make peace with it) may seem familiar, but lost within the loving detail of Manseau's writing the reader discovers it anew. A spirit of tenderness and generosity permeates the pages of this story, but always leavened by unflinching honesty, the salt that keeps the flavor from the first page to the last. Manseau brings us into his sense of wonder as he traces the journey of his priest-father and his nun-mother who, if they had stayed true to their initial calling into the Catholic church, would have ensured he and his siblings never came to exist. Vows also brings us into the strong Boston Catholic culture of half a century ago, and near its end we find an unexpected left turn into the very heart of the sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the Roman church in 2005. But however intrinsic to the book these elements are, they only inform the story, and never overwhelm it. Primarily, as he traces the journey first of his parents, and then himself, we are left with a sense of joy over seeing how life itself tends unruly and writes its own story while we are busy making our plans. And though religion itself is on every page of the book, in forms both personal and institutional, the heart of the book is its humanity.--Ed Dobeas
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Vows is a compelling story of one family's unshakable faith that to be called is to serve, however high the cost may be. Peter Manseau's riveting evocation of his parents' parallel childhoods, their similar callings, their experiences in the seminary and convent, and how they met while tending to the homeless of Roxbury, Massachusetts, during the riot-prone 1960s is a page-turning meditation on the effect that love can have on profound faith.
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"The 1950s was a boom time for the Catholic Church in America, with large families of devout members providing at least one son or daughter for a life of religious service. Boston was at the epicenter of this explosion, and Bill Manseau and Mary Doherty -- two eager young parishioners from different towns -- became part of a new breed of clergy, eschewing the comforts of homey parishes and choosing instead to minister to the inner-city poor. Peter Manseau's riveting evocation of his parents' parallel childhoods, their similar callings, their experiences in the seminary and convent, and how they met while tending to the homeless of Roxbury during the riot-prone 1960s is a page-turning meditation on the effect that love can have on profound faith. Once married, the Manseaus continued to fight for Father Bill's right to serve the church as a priest, and it was into this situation that Peter and his siblings were born and raised to be good Catholics while they witnessed their father's personal conflict with the church's hierarchy. A multigenerational tale of spirituality, Vows also charts Peter's own calling, one which he tried to deny even as he felt compelled to consider the monastic life, toying with the idea of continuing a family tradition that stretches back over 300 years of Irish and French Catholic priests and nuns. It is also in Peter's deft hands that we learn about a culture and a religion that has shaped so much of American life, affected generations of true believers, and withstood great turmoil. Vows is a compelling tale of one family's unshakable faith that to be called is to serve, however high the cost may be. "
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Tragic human story.......2007-01-10
Very well written story of what happened when Manseau's parents and some of their friends thought they understood what Vatican 2 was going to mean to the Church and in fact did not understand it at all. If you are old enough to remember the the buzz around Vatican 2 it was quite exciting but not too many knew exactly what it meant and of course everyone was being profoundly impacted by the popular values of the age around them.
The book is also an expose of another priest who while reaping the benefits of being a clergy member was not only not living up to the demands of the priesthood but was living contrary to them.
I thought this book was well worth buying.
A compelling look into Boston Catholicism.......2007-01-08
Far from being some clichéd memoir about a nun and a priest leaving their respective orders to marry one another and then turning against their religion, this memoir goes so much deeper than such simplistic platitudes. It provides a compelling fascinating look into what Catholic Boston was like in the Fifties and Sixties, examining the forces that shaped Mary Doherty and Bill Manseau and which eventually led them to take vows, the forces that led them to become radicalised while ministering to the largely poor and African-American community in Roxbury (one of the cities that was struck by horrible race riots in the late Sixties, along with other tinderboxes of racial tension such as Newark, Detroit, and Los Angeles), the forces which led them to give up those vows for vows of a different sort, and the forces which continue to influence their lives, as well as the lives of their children, particularly Peter, the author.
Though Boston isn't some monolithic community, there is a huge community of Catholics there, many of them Irish like Mary Doherty's family. It was into this vibrant closeknit religious and ethnic community that Bill and Mary were born and raised in the decades just prior to Vatican II. Religion pervaded every aspect of their lives, with a clear-cut set of rules and distinctions between different groups of people. There was no gray territory in this world, yet they still managed to become influenced by the new European Catholic thinkers who were making waves in the late Fifties. Both Bill and Mary took their religious vows at the age of 17 (five years apart), at a time when the enrollment numbers of novitiate nuns and priests were at an all-time high in America. No one could have foreseen then than within the next few decades, the amount of young new postulants would slow to a trickle. Most of these hopeful novitiates entered fresh out of highschool, going straight from childhood and adolescence into religious life, as opposed to today when young people who may feel the beginning of a call are encouraged to go to college first and spend some time living a life in the secular world, so that they'll know for sure that they really want this life and vocation.
The radical changes sweeping the nation in the Sixties, coupled with the breath of fresh air that came in with Vatican II, quickly got around to Bill and Mary. Since they were already living in Roxbury, they had come to see a whole different sector of the population, people with whom they had had no prior experience. Before long they and their friends who were also priests and nuns had devoted their ministries to these poor disenfranchised people, feeling that this was the best way they could live up to their religious beliefs. In the midst of all of these changes, Bill began to feel that he needed to be married to become a full man and a full Christian. To him, the right to be married and to love a woman was a fundamental human right, a right that shouldn't be fully extended to some yet denied to others, particularly since celibate unmarried priests were the exception and not the norm for over a thousand years. He also, perhaps naïvely, truly believed that the Church would soon allow priests to marry and remain priests, the way they had up until the Middle Ages (things only changed for political reasons), and to radically rethink their teaching on celibacy. Though Mary, like many other women in that era, had left the sisterhood without similar thoughts, Bill never stopped considering himself a priest and was very active in groups of former priests and people working for the ordination of women and the right of priests to be married. Both of them also have never stopped being devout faithful believing Catholics, even after how they had been treated by the Church and many individual Catholics on account of their marriage.
In addition to the stories of his parents, there's also Peter's own story of his search for a religious faith and spirituality. By his teenage years, he had grown apart from the faith he had been raised in, as many teenagers are wont to do, and didn't want anything to do with Catholicism anymore. Things began to change when he was a student at UMass-Amherst (my own alma mater, which he attended only a few years before I did; he was there in the mid-NIneties and I went there in the early Aughts). He explored Buddhism, the writings of Thomas Merton, and a number of other faiths before taking a trial run at a nearby monastery. This simple lifestyle really appealed to him and helped him to get back in touch with his own religious roots, though in the back of his head he couldn't help wondering if he really wanted to be a monk and if it seemed so easy and alluring that he couldn't trust it. The fourth story, which ties all of the others together, is the one that swept the nation (in particular Boston) starting in 2002, that of the vast coverup of pedophilic priests who had just been moved from one diocese to another without even warning the new parishioners or punishing these priests. This story ends up hitting very close to home for the Manseau family.
Overall, it's a great book for those who are interested in American Catholicism, or Boston Catholicism in particular, how the religion has evolved over the past few decades, and the universal search for a religious or spiritual identity. Instead of falling into the trap of clichés or anti-Church rhetoric like similar books might do, this one brings up tough complex questions and issues, many of which don't have any easy or simplistic answers.
A holy family.......2006-08-22
A friend of mine is the daughter of a former priest and a former nun. Her family history is what attracted me to this book...however, "Vows" is very different from what I thought it would be. As its title states, this book is a true story about the author's parents. It isn't a romantic tale of a man and woman who fall in love despite their deep religious beliefs. Actually, there's nothing particularly romantic about the story of Bill Manseau and Mary Doherty, two young people who became disenchanted with the Catholic church long before their paths eventually crossed. "Vows" details what life in the Boston Archdiocese was like a half-century ago. The book explains how Bill and Mary were both inspired to give themselves to the church, but eventually ended up wanting more out of their own lives. Neither of them abandoned the church altogether: in fact, after their marriage, the Manseaus continued to campaign for the Vatican to lift the celibacy requirement that is imposed on all priests and nuns.
The sexual abuse scandal that engulfed the Catholic church several years ago is also a major part of this book. There are some shocking revelations about how the abuse hit close to home in the Manseau family. In spite of all that, however, this book isn't an anti-Catholic or anti-religious manifesto, as one might expect it to be. The author explains the central role that religion played in his family, detailing the ways in which he both shunned and embraced religion at different points in his life. Bill and Mary, who were both treated so poorly by the church in many different ways, never let go of their faith or their desire to help reform what they consider to be serious problems in the Catholic church.
I wasn't sure what to expect from this book, but I really enjoyed reading it. Without being preachy, the author inspires readers to reflect on their own personal values, family ties, and religious beliefs. There is also a lot of interesting historical information presented in this book, and I learned a lot about the Catholic church (and about religion in general) that I never knew before.
By an outsider.......2006-03-26
Like many who are outsiders to Roman Catholicism, the idea of celibacy and leaving vows for family life is a fascinating subject. Some of the details of Catholic doctrine and practice had me rapidly skimming to the pages ahead. But the book is well documented and very well written. Getting to the parts that interested me, the vows, the marriage, the abuse scandals and the children's ultimate confusion on their places in Catholic world are stories made more fascinating by their "foreignness" to my experiences.
A Bittersweet Account.......2006-03-14
It was a fitting choice that this student of archaeology decided to become a writer instead; he has the gift of detailing incidents for the laymen. Peter Manseau recounts his parents' early and current lives with amazing clarity and knowledge. Whoever deserves anonymity, the names are appropriately disregarded but the ones who require citation are properly and strongly quoted. In some parts the language evokes the bitterness felt by the parents and the writer himself. The book is so thoroughly arranged that the love story between the priest and the nun doesn't occur until approximately the middle of the book. As the title hints, the son's own experiences are contained in the writing therefore the later chapters are filled with the information. Peter Manseau is a wonderful narrator. Many times he would capture the reader's attention to the funny side of a happening no matter how subtle it is. It all arrives to a simple conclusion that the "people" of the Catholic Church are ordinary human beings just like everybody else. They have needs and wants as any other living person. Each of them possesses characteristics not different from their parishioners. Peter Manseau relates the struggle of two individuals close to him who truly believe in their religion but also fighting the law and order influenced by humans that are being imposed on their way of life. They see it as their right to do so. Since the two have a family, the children are also involved in their quandary. This is a viewpoint of the youngest son and it is an interesting perspective.
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In the course of the Peninsular War, Wellington’s army fought several hard battles and smaller actions, but it was the bloody sieges that troubled him more than anything else. Indeed, the performance of his army during the sieges was probably the most disappointing aspect of what was otherwise an extremely successful campaign. Taking 1808 as its starting point, this title deals with the fortress sieges that involved Wellington’s AngloPortuguese army, and concentrates on four key sites in particular (Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Burgos and San Sebastián). All of these played a vital role in the war due to their strategically important positions. It documents both the sieges and the storming of the fortresses, as well as the general role of the fortresses in Spain and the impact they had on the thinking of the commanders and strategies of the armies involved.
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This revealing and challenging study of the impact of famine on North Korea not only significantly enlarges our understanding of that hermetic country but also urges us to reassess how we deal with it. Drawing on impressive scholarship and extensive firsthand knowledge of humanitarian relief efforts in North Korea, Hazel Smith provides an eye-opening account of the famine that devastated the country in the 1990s and of the international rescue program that Pyongyang requested and received. Together, she explains, the famine and the humanitarian response have wrought subtle but profound changes in North Korea's economy, society, and security outlook. She makes a compelling argument that the regime has been prodded into accepting some international norms, allowed markets to develop, and has included some human security concerns alongside military-political interests in its negotiations with the West. The famine and its consequences, the author contends, have made North Korea much more "knowable" and predictable than most Western experts choose to believe. Treating North Korea as a rational actor, albeit one with an idiosyncratic mindset, will enhance long-term regional peace and cooperation; isolating and demonizing it will only perpetuate the anxieties that fuel Pyongyang's belligerence. Contents Preventing War and Forging Peace The Human Security Trade-OffGovernment Paralysis and Socioeconomic Reconstitution The Humanitarian Intervention The Nexus of Human, National, and International Security Interests Pursuing a New National Security Policy International Security, Human Security, and Humanitarian Assistance Intelligent Intervention: The Option for Peace and Security
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An impressive, scholarly, and in-depth study of the international relief efforts in North Korea.......2006-03-15
Hungry For Peace: International Security, Humanitarian Assistance, And Social Change In North Korea by Hazel Smith (Professor of International Relations, University of Warwick, England) is an impressive, scholarly, and in- depth study of the international relief efforts in North Korea. With an informed and informative series of chapters ranging from "Preventing War and Forging Peace", to Humanitarian Assistance and Human Security", to "Intelligent Intervention for a Stable Peace", Professor Smith presents an eye-opening account of the direct association that she had with the North Korean peoples, particularly the famine that struck in the 1990's. Hungry For Peace is very strongly recommended for all non-specialist general readers with an interest in International Studies and 20th Century Korean History for the truly potent message it presents.
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Title: Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian Assistance, and Social Change in North Korea.(Book review)
Author: C. Kenneth Quinones
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Pacific Affairs (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 79
Issue: 3
Page: 545(2)
Article Type: Book review
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A Guide to Southern Arizona Bird Nests & Eggs
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Southern Arizona is one of the premier birding locations in the United States. A Guide to Southern Arizona Bird Nests & Eggs gives birders, naturalists and visitors to the region information on desert nests in this world-renowned birding hot-spot. Each entry includes Nest Shape and Material, Habitat and Location, Eggs, Possible Builder, Natural History, Diet and Feeding, and Similar Nests. A Guide to Southern Arizona Bird Nests & Eggs is written in a jargon-free, conversational manner. The book includes a number of anecdotal and informational sidebars, as well as 20 finely-rendered illustrations, 43 color egg illustrations, and 32 color photographs of birds and their nests. A nesting dates chart and glossary are also included. Named as one of the "Southwest Books of the Year 2001"
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One for the pocket.......2004-02-19
Just why this attractive little book should have appeared on a library shelf in central New Jersey I don't know, but it's an unexpected treasure. Convenient in size and layout, beautifully illustrated by Narca Moore-Craig and with handsome color photos of birds at the nest, this booklet will definitely be added to my own traveling library as soon as I'm back in se AZ. The brief descriptions of nest site and character should make it possible to plausibly identify even unattended nests, and the short, clearly written sketches of each of the 50-some covered species' life histories are full of precisely the information that birders (well, I, at least) so easily forget. Well done, and highly recommended.
Praise for Merlin's Guide.......2001-06-04
A must for everyone who enjoys bird watching and takes pleasure in studying and observing nature. Nicely organized and easy to use. The book teaches you how to look and catergorize bird nests, creating formulas which can then be applied anywhere you travel. The basic principles set a very good standard for all future guides. In addition, there are numerous and facinating entries about various species. For instance, the cow bird, never building his own nest and laying an egg a day in other species nests who then do all the work of incubating and feeding. While some birds make layered nests with a warbler observed being 6 layers deep. The comparative facts, for instance the Anna vs.Costa hummingbirds, were very interesting and helpful for field study. Excellent for both the novice and the more expert. The information, photographs and excellent drawings only make you want more.
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