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Only Matisse can be Matisse.......2001-01-17
Excellent collection of Matisse's works. The drawings are so simple but tell a lot of the subject. All the drawings lack light but the reader is still able to see the full form of the subject. The drawings are also presented very clearly for the art student to study.
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Casual clothing, swimwear in particular, is strongly associated with the California lifestyle, and the design and manufacture of casual clothing has long been the foundation of Californias garment industry. This book explores that industry as it developed in California from the 1930s through the 1970s, with emphasis on clothing and textile designs suffused with the sunshine spirit. Included are fashions from major swimwear companies such as Catalina, Cole, and Rose Marie Reid; sportswear from leaders like Koret and Alice of California; and a wonderful chapter paying tribute to that most western of fabrics, blue denim. More than 330 photographs and advertisements illustrate the colorful, cheerful, and charming nature of vintage casual clothing. Collectors, designers, and fashion historians will appreciate the profiles of California artisans and their influence on fabric technology. Includes price guide and a helpful glossary of fashion and fabric terminology.
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Real Estate Investment Trusts: Tax, Securities, and Business Aspects
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"The finest picture-star biography I have read"
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In an achievement as grand and sweeping as Dietrich's own life, Steven Bach reveals the woman and examines her myth in a biography that will stand as the ultimate authority on a singular star. Based on six years of research and hundreds of interviews-including conversations with Dietrich herself-this is the last, best word on one of the century's greatest movie actresses and performers, an icon who embodied glamour and sophistication for audiences around the globe.
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Dietrich: the Lord of Discipline.......2002-06-26
Having read Maria Riva's book on her mother along with Dietrich's own autobiography, I didn't really expect any new revelations from this book -- but I couldn't have been more wrong! Mr. Bach is to be congratulated on his fascinating and respectable work honoring Miss Dietrich and her life. What a remarkable performer and a remarkable human being. We could sure use a few more like her in today's world. This is a must read for fans of the Lady and the Legend!!
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Marlene Dietrich : Life and Legend
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Fortissimo! Student's book
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Fortissimo! is a key stage 4 music course to fit the new initiatives of the national curriculum with Performing, Composing, Listening and Appraising being an integral part. Structures and concepts are explored whilst offering opportunities to use and develop practical and aural skills. The material covers a wide variety of music from the 13th century to the 1990s and offers the chance to study musical styles and instruments from a variety of cultures. At regular intervals throughout the book, there are double-page colour spreads displaying fascinating visual stimuli material to spark off original ideas for composing and improvising. The Student's Book is accompanied by a Teacher's File and compact discs. The project also links in with an IT composition program called Notate.
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Welcome to the Wild Blue Skies of Virtual Aerial Combat. The purpose of this book is to help you, the new gamer, with the steep learning curve found in flight simulations. The chapters are designed to help you chose the hardware and the controllers needed to fly and introduce the basic maneuvers and tactics used in aerial combat. This book is not the last word on aerial combat simulations. The genre is changing and expanding too fast for anyone to do that. The subjects covered here are common between all Sims but it is the gamer's own desire to learn and excel that will propel him to higher plateaus of excellence. Pilots fly these simulations for a wide range of reasons. Some are drawn to the era or the aircraft. Others are attracted to the virtual squadrons. Some recreate the great air battles of history and still others are here for the intense competition of man vs. man combat. The community is composed of people from all walks of life and levels of skill. Most of the players are male but there are ladies flying too - Hint! The women are dangerous. Do not take them for granted. Remember, the most skilled opponent you face started at the same level as you. He had to learn the lessons presented here the hard way. Whatever reason brought you here, welcome.
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Many business functions have been significantly improved through the use of a variety of quality techniques, but for the most part office and administrative functions have not kept pace. Most companies find it difficult to reduce costs in the office without noticeable sacrifices in performance. Some progressive companies are seeing improvements in their office environments through the use of Office Kaizen™, which emphasizes making continuous improvements over the long haul. Office Kaizen: Transforming Office Operations Into a Strategic Competitive Advantage presents a unified, consistent approach that enables businesses to establish a strategic competitive advantage by significantly improving the efficiency, quality and productivity of their office and administrative processes.
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Hits the mark.......2004-10-29
Remember "Quality Circles", remember "Kaizen Blitz"? Many organizations were early adopters of these so-called Toyota improvement tools, but were never able to achieve sustained improvement even after early success. The primary reason was that the early gurus in Japanese management went and saw and assumed they thought they knew how Toyota was doing it but in fact their translation of the Toyota work organization fell short. This book is the best reference I have seen on how to translate 40 years of work organization at Toyota into a sustainable program for non-manufacturing environments. Readers looking for quick fixes for organizational improvement should look elsewhere. The book is deficient by ommission only; there is nothing on value-stream-mapping, A3, and JIT concepts. Perhaps these are reserved for the consultants the author maintains are needed.
Identify that waste.......2004-10-09
I found the real value of this book for me was in the identifying of the 26 different transactional wastes. Most Lean training only identifies 7 but it is great for the non-manufacturing sector to see how waste can be identified. I ignored the "slim it" concepts, etc as another review points out that it seem s plug for another "flavor of the month" and his consulting business. Sticking to the traditional Lean approach to transactional processes this book added real value to me in the section on waste, including the examples.
Fills a serious Gap.......2004-01-23
After nearly 4 years experience as a 6 Sigma Black-belt leading projects centered on the commercial side of a Fortune-500 enterprise---sales, marketing, marketing services, customer service, HR, etc.-I was pleased to see the emphasis on implementation tactics at the level where most of the detailed work of an organization gets done. It fills the gap left by bigger programs.
It is not so much a "How to" book as it is a "WHY to" book of logic meant to motivate and provoke thought. It fills a gap where other, bigger name programs can fail to deal with the sustaining power of changing human behavior. But with Office Kaizen there appears to be a proven path forward.
Much of the 6 Sigma work I have seen in transactional projects often fails to meet expectations and truly improve outputs in ways that last longer than the `official' measurement period. Such projects often encompass arenas of business activity in which no formal process map has ever existed, even less the mere idea that a process exists. Lacking a consensus understanding of work flow, it follows that NO standards for output exist; NO metrics are captured to qualify those standards; little consideration for the customer's expectations of quality is built into the process; and clearly NO discipline is needed where there is NO process structure. Not surprisingly, little sense of ownership is evident. It's a steep slope that only leads to status quo and mild, but constant chaos!
Modifying the human aspects of process change is often challenging for 6 Sigma methodologies that better fit finite manufacturing, logistical and similarly tangible processes. In my experience of completing `soft' projects, 6 Sigma methods simply don't have as many tools for dealing with the level of granularity and immediate application at the individual behavior level as are found in Office Kaizen. The proposed methods directly treat the realities of getting work done at the molecular level. Regardless of all else done to improve business process, there is still a key implementation step remaining- changing the human behaviors embedded in work processes.
Visual displays (PVD's), Lean Daily Management Systems (LDMS), 20 Keys and the whole treatment of `surface waste' are very instructive for the business leader seriously pursuing process improvement. That leader will greatly benefit by reading the logic, described by Mr. Lareau in "Office Kaizen", that clarifies the reality that the enabling key to all change in business process is leadership.
Sustainability only derives from leadership---leaders who understand that improvement really comes from the bottom up; and that procedure by procedure, paper by paper, person by person, load by load, part by part, and day by day improvements converge to yield sustainable gains. The LDMS assures that change endures. And leadership assures that LDMS and other LEAN office procedures endure. Their focus on reducing waste via correct structure, discipline and power of ownership, all fixed first at the granular level of an enterprise, will produce sustainable gains. And that is the detail most difficult to implement in other programs -- the human behavior at the core of business activity. Changes to machines, flow patterns, wire diagrams, office layouts, floor arrangements, schematics, etc. all can help; but changing the human processes is most difficult. From page 7: "Office Kaizen is an implementation path, management philosophy, leadership structure, and set of tools, all wrapped into one consistent package." That is a great recipe for sustainability.
I recommend the book highly, especially for application in business functions not traditionally viewed through `process eyes'. While it seems to have plenty of strength to stand alone, PVD's, LDMS and the other adminstrative LEAN ideas could also be great companion pieces to the more general tools like 6 Sigma. At least that's the opinion of one who has practiced some of the popular methods and only now has read about Office Kaizen. I look forward to seeing it first-hand. It fills a serious gap.
Filled With Munda.......2003-12-15
In this book, as well as "Lean Leadership: From Chaos to Carrots to Commitment," William Lareau provides some of the rudimentary tools and theories of Lean practices. However, both books fall seriously short of providing the comprehensive, straight-forward lean techniques and philosophies that both management and their employees require to introduce, improve and sustain lean processes over the long-term. In short, I found that his books actually violate Lean principles in that they contain hundreds of pages of "Munda" (waste)!
Lareau correctly argues that for any business to successfully integrate a Lean program into its structure, it needs to develop and sustain overwhelming employee acceptance and involvement in the program. Unfortunately, Lareau's psychological foundations for his theories on human motivations are outdated. Much has been revealed in the field of psychology in the past 15-20 years with which Lareau clearly needs to acquaint himself.
Lareau makes repetitive attempts to motivate the reader to his way of thinking through tiresome war characterization analogies and often unfounded attacks to minimize or discredit past business improvement programs and their proponents in favor of his own.
He attempts to develop and reinforce the belief that Lean requires such levels of training and business restructuring, that the reader must conclude that to successfully implement and sustain Lean, they must invest heavily and for a lengthy duration, in an outside Lean consultant. His books are essentially marketing tools for his own consultant firm.
It's so obvious that everyone misses it!.......2002-12-08
Finally, a book written to address the "hidden wastes" inherent in all companies lead by people. Anyone who leads people and wonders how to keep them focused on "the goal" should read this book. You can start to put the concepts to work that day.
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Few women do it and even fewer will admit to it. But in Toni Bentley's daring and intimate memoir,
The Surrender, she pulls the sheets back on an erotic experience that's been forbidden since the Bible and celebrates "the joy that lies on the other side of convention, where risk is real and rapture resides." From
Story of O to
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The Sexual Life of Catherine M., readers have been enthralled with sexually subversive memoirs by women. But even those erotic classics didn't navigate the psychosexual terrain that Bentley does when she meets a lover who introduces her to a radical and unexpected pleasure, to the "holy" act that she came to see as her awakening.
The Surrender is a witty, intelligent, and eloquent exploration of one woman's obsession that will be sure to leave readers questioning their own desires.
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Sowing seed in a barren furrow: 3.5 stars.......2007-08-10
"Words seemed the only way to mark the spot, to preserve my transitory experience of eternity. This is a testamentary document. Do not miss the message, distracted by the profanity of the act." (8-9) The seven pages that comprise "The Holy F[&%$]" earn five stars. As a man, within this book-- not my usual genre!-- I found this introduction revelatory: it shows the male how otherworldly the act of sex can become when made unfamiliar and raw and sanctified by its daring. The disorienting act of sex by its transfer away from the usual to the upended challenges the natural order. The rapture Bentley craves shares its closeness to that open to procreation. The loss of ego, however, she chooses to release not by the social norm for union but that proclaiming a humanistic defiance of the ordinary.
A rebellious decision that places a woman as truly pro-choice, even against the familiar voices for sexual freedom which themselves tended to disdain this action, which found few advocates among the now-PC orthodoxy of earlier pioneers for sexual liberation. Post-feminists, or more open-minded women, may find, as might many men, a potential for renewal of sexual possibility in this outré practice. In this brief memoir, hints of this arousing power echo from the introduction outward. While the rest of the book fails for me to expand upon the insights of the seven pages of text introducing this daring subject, Bentley is to be commended for her courage. She brings her idea and ideal of fulfillment by sexual longing to a mass market, mature, audience rather than where this book may have languished, in some "adult" category that no public library or major bookstore would have stocked.
Bentley recounts her literary, spiritual, and physical quest to find God in this tender but risky act of total submission to another man. She is a smart, witty woman. Not a natural writer, it seems; the introduction remains the most cogent presentation of her subject. Her own sexual exploits along brazen lines, in fact, make up "color commentary" compared to her main psycho-sexual narrative. Her reports from numbered acts among the nearly three-hundred "surrenders" spice up her reflections, the post-coital thoughts that as the quote I opened this review with demonstrates, she commits to paper as well as memory.
The topic, judged to make most readers skittish if judged by the coy refusal of the dust jacket blurbs to explicitly state her "holy act" makes this book controversial. This ultimate frontier is crossed by Bentley. It's probably the last to be explored, in our era where rumors of "rainbow parties" among adolescents, Monica and cigars, and casual banter have made another formerly whispered, semi-taboo act, that of oral stimulation, practically mainstream in our society. Bondage gear co-opted by Hot Topic, French maid uniforms by Halloween-clad grown-ups, sex emporiums franchised, there's little remaining even for half-prudish, half-brave Americans to contemplate that presents a higher barrier to overcome on the journey to knowledge through sexual union. For women who have the opportunity to have it all whenever and with whomever, Bentley asks: "is that all there is?" No less than a contemplative monk or nun, Bentley treats the "Sex & the City" generation to her candor and her own solution.
This disparity between what as Seneca lamented-- not to mention the boastful Doobie Brothers' album title!-- "what were once vices are now habits" of conventional vaginal and now (if only the past forty years) oral intercourse against that of alternative penetration make up the thrust of her argument here. Straight intercourse, she proposes, for her is by its "nature" meant to be too easy, too deceptive for the one entering, and too familiar. She counters the (in)famous passage in Norman Mailer's "An American Dream" that angered Kate Millett in the opening pages of her "Sexual Politics" decades ago. What's lacking in popular literature is a cultural history of attitudes towards this act, whose feared name [when you articulate the municipal sin misattributed to the Cities of the Plain {see Mark D. Jordan's book) by medieval Christian canonists blaming the cityfolks not for inhospitality let alone gang rape but male penetration] drips with condemnation, the taint of fire and the smell of brimstone.
"A raid on the Devil and a trip on back to the Lord" as Mailer sums up the difference between the two entries, but Bentley insists that this is a male view, and few males, she charges, have surrendered as she has. This sub-topic, however, is but alluded to in the rest of the memoir. Her consideration would have benefited from placing her own experience within a context of other men and women who have sought ecstasy beyond pleasure or pain. Her introduction posits for this form of trust in one's partner, one's own liberation on the way towards the mystical union with the divine. These are daring suggestions, and refreshing ones. But, for most of the remainder, her own affairs with men and a woman here and there take precedence over implications of this larger subject. It still awaits sustained and serious attention by a major publisher and a skilled interpreter. {See my Amazon review of one brief attempt, "The Rear View," Jean-Luc Hennig.} This background needs to be foregrounded, the sides reversed, the exchange of the dominant model of intercourse with the one that few today can honestly, openly confront.
My title of this review is one of the few analogies she does not use! But, I chose it as it symbolizes the decision to engage in an intimate encounter that remains the most confrontational in its refusal to follow the easier course, the natural destination we all drive towards, the road more traveled. Admittedly, it's difficult as Bentley herself finds to avoid bottom-heavy metaphors or puns, and she falls into this trap at the risk of silliness, which on the other hand lightens the self-analytical tone of her memoir. She reminds us that sex however pursued should be more enjoyable and less fraught with tension.
The issues she has with her father are covered in chapters I found rather predictable, and the arc of the affair with her lover "Mr. A" follows a familiar curve. While I recognize her commendable desire to overcome her atheist background by her search for the transcendent, and her own italicized couplings play well off the more detailed rationales and journalistic treatments, the balance of the narrative remains unsettled. Perhaps unavoidably in a book of this nervous search, but more polishing of the remainder of the manuscript to match the grace of its opening pages would have resulted in a better crafted study. Sex and spirituality deserve wherever an adept joins them a respectful, profound meditation.
It's as if she wanted to write a memoir about "it" and a study of "it," but then settled abruptly to chart her affair and end with its quick aftermath. She skims therefore in her conclusion a far more valuable integration of her Buddhist meditation. Surely the Tantric and esoteric teachings linking sex and spirit deserved more elucidation?
The book halts nearly too abruptly. Short chapters (two hundred large-type pages can easily be read in less than two hours) dash about between well-chosen quotes, statistics, random musings, and an admittedly intriguing comparison between the rigors of her quarter-century of ballet training and the demands that she places her body and soul into while enjoying the embrace of her adventurous lover. Recommended for open-minded readers, and I hope this book will encourage writers to consider more complex implications of the subversive argument and enticing situations Bentley uncovers.
Hot reading.......2007-03-30
Even if anal sex isn't your thing, this is a hot book, because it's about a woman revealing all about her sexuality. I enjoyed it. I'm currently reading Abby Lee's Diary of a Sex Fiend: Girl with a One Track Mind. It's the same kind of thing--a woman describing all her sexual thoughts and activities.
An intresting introduction, only a memoir, not a study.......2007-03-05
This is a good little read, basically Toni Bentley's first hand story about discovering the joys of anal sex. She doesn't go into much detail about many parts of it and so in many ways only really introduces the reader to the first stages of her total liberation, in many ways her anal sex experiences representing many of the same things to her as vaginal sex does for people on first entering the sexual arena. That is, the feeling of liberation on realizing the same bliss can be achieved with subsequent partners when the emotional baggage is cleared out etc.
In many ways, for readers who come to this book just out of a curiosity, I feel Toni could have offered a little more. Others do, Authors such as Tristan Taormino, Jan Sincero (in passing in `The Straight Girl's Guide to Sleeping with Chicks'), and many references and understandings provided by people such as, and especially, Suzie Bright (from the gay Womens' scene).
For the inexperienced reader, Toni only focuses on the intensity of the sensations surrounding anal penetration and doesn't mention some of the heightened sensations.
With the same sphincter responding but in a different area and with so many more nerve endings it was only through anal sex one of my partners ever got to knowing the `whole of body' type orgasm. Normally we would only go anal after a series of vaginal orgasms, by when most people would be ready to collapse exhausted and call it a night. It was pretty mind-blowing to be part of that experience for her, when she would lose all control and be overcome (no pun intended) like a seizure. Ms Bentley doesn't really give any detail of any similar experience, never really talking about her orgasms or their intensity when achieved anally, more's probably the pity, knowledge like that possibly being valuable for the inexperienced to overcome any fear or apprehension. However, this is her story, not a manual, her choice what, and how much detail she wishes to share.
These higher levels of intensity and climax are the start of the stages of anal stimulation and release that Toni doesn't detail, we can only assume she achieved and experienced. This `anal epiphany' (if that's not blasphemous) is looked at in much more detail in such things as Tristan Taormino's texts (The complete guide to Anal sex for women). Ms Taormino's books can be little challenging for we blokes because she sells the experience as one for both/all genders but are still beautiful reads because of the comfortable acceptance of all things and exclusive interest in quality of life and experience. After all there is no 'normal'.
The next stage of `anal mind-boggle' is the `blissed to almost pass out' stage. Known to Mystics and Spiritualists over history and demonized by the mainstream because of the sense of empowerment and access to the Goddess energy for the Womenexperiencing it whom the system wanted to suppress. This stage is touched on a little by some of Susie Bright's texts, not approached at all here by Ms Bentley.
It's not something for everyone, but it's also not something to fear if it feels right. Maybe the most powerful statement in the book is regarding the deceptions etc so many people's sexual lives represent is that `The ass-hole never lies' (in reference to being able to `fake it' with vaginal sex but never with anal abandon). Anal sex is not for everyone, you'll fail at finding `your thing' if you look in the wrong place, the same as you will by looking for the wrong thing. Toni's message tells us what it was for her and hopefully will help some people lose their fear of looking for theirs, wherever they may find it.
Cheers
Lloyd
Well written but hardly titillating.......2007-01-23
I purchased this book with fairly high expectations. It was a pleasure to read however, I did not find it as erotic as it is billed to be. However this book was very well written and did not rely on cliche or tiptoeing around the subject matter which I found highly refreshing and easy to read. I also really enjoyed the moments of humour and romanticism that didn't fall into being sappy or maudlin. An enjoyable quick read. I wouldn't suggest this for someone looking for a serious erotic charge rather, a pleasant tingle.
Holy Smokes!.......2007-01-12
Never have I read a book so devoted to the back door. She seems to have a spiritual awakening from this traditionally vile act, which seems like a stretch, perhaps, to most readers.
Despite the dislike I eventually developed for the narrator and her actions, I couldn't help but anticipate each shocking new scene. I read it in a couple of sittings. This work is quite original, I think, and worth reading, but don't take it too seriously. For those of you who have not experienced or given the pleasures of the rear, this book will most likely get your hopes up, for neither I nor any of my partners have ever experienced such spiritual and psychological awakenings during or after the act. Call us shallow, I guess.
That said, this is still a very interesting work that I enjoyed very much, and I never read erotica.
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The saddhu of sodomy.(The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir)(Book Review): An article from: New Criterion
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150 photographs & maps & illustrations & 5 x 8 & After completing his critically-acclaimed, two-volume Civil War Flag books, Advance the Colors!, Richard Sauers conducted research on Pennsylvania Regiments and their flags in the Spanish-American War. The Spanish-American Flags are housed at the Capitol Preservation Committee's flag facility. The United States declared war against Spain in April 1898. More than 17,000 Pennsylvanians answered the call to arms. One regiment served in the Philippines, while several other units fought in Puerto Rico. A dozen Pennsylvanians earned the Congressional Medal of Honor, and many leading war correspondents also came from the Keystone State. This book covers the gamut of Pennsylvania's role in this overlooked conflict--from stories of misery and disease in camp to accounts of heroism at sea and on land. More than 150 photographs, many of which have never been published, complement the text along with maps, bibliography and an index.
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Drawing upon conversations with addicts as well as experts in the gay community and at drug treatment centers, journalist Frank Sanello examines how crystal-meth abuse is reaching epidemic levels among gay men, and how almost one-third of the new cases of HIV are caused by the decreased mental capacity associated with crystal. Tweakers get a quick, cheap high, an exhilarating loss of inhibition and increased stamina at the price of permanent behavioral changes, brain damage and death.
Frank Sanello is a Los Angeles-based journalist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe and the New York Times Syndicate. He is the author of Opium Wars, The Knights Templar and To Kill a King.
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Caveat Emptor.......2006-04-12
This was the last book I read before my most recent relapse. I cannot be sure that I decided to reinvestigate drugs because of the trigger potential in the interviews, or simply to block out the poor writing quality, lack of epidemiological inquiry, or the fact that it comes off as patronizing and uninformed.
Try "Meth: America's Home-Cooked Menace," instead.
Was this book written by a Scientologist? Me thinks so.........2006-03-01
This book is easily dismissed. Sure, the author makes liberal use of vivd case studies, but so do late-night infomercials. The vignettes are almost exclusively "horror stories", and rarely illustrate the casual, or binge user.
In addition, there are MANY glaring inaccuracies about meth in general, as well as spelling/syntax errors. And for the most part, there's really no insight offered as to the scope and effects of Meth as it pertains to the Gay community.
Sure they a few queens were interviewed and quoted, but the author fails to synthesize any of that infomation in a meaningful way.
Now, onto my biggest issue - this book is chock full of Scientology references. From the mention of Narconon (Scientology supported anti-drug program), to the inclusion of quitmeth.com (techniques based HEAVILY in Scientology theory) as a valid infomation source. Does the author realize he's endorsing an anti-12 step/anti-psychiatry group? My hope is no - but something is definitely rotten in denmark.
Look elsewhere for reliable info on crystal meth.
Disappointed!!!!!.......2006-02-19
This book failed to live up to what I expected and contained a ton of errors. I thought Dr. Ken Cimino's Politics of Crystal Meth a much better read. It contains real live experiences of addiction and recovery. I'm not sure why Amazon doesn't recommend that book, but it should.
OK.......2005-12-13
This book is a source of some information but it is organized into something of a hodgepodge of this and that.It does provide an inner glimpse of the dysfunction brought on by meth.There are much better books available as far as describing the biochemistry of meth and direction for recovery.Still it makes for some interesting reading.
Must Read.......2005-07-08
This book is one of the best I've read. However, its not a good choice for the faint-hearted. Its very real and very disturbing. Many times I would read a page and then just stare at the wall to think about what I just read. This book can definitely change your life and your choices. Anyone who does drugs or cares about people who do should read this.
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Thoughts of Home
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ASIN: 141206404X
Release Date: 2006-07-06 |
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Swallows in December? Impossible! Not for a poet. Poetry is born of the unexpected. Kiely\'s swallows are the poems. December is any time you need a glint of beauty.
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- Great book for nature lovers!
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Swallow Summer (Bison Book)
Charles R. Brown
Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0803261454 |
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Each May for fifteen consecutive years, Charles R. Brown has trekked to the Cedar Point Biological Station in western Nebraska to learn more about the behavior of colonial cliff swallows. He, his wife, and several student assistants spend the summers observing, catching, and banding swallows to determine life span, migration patterns, and nesting habits.
Why study one species of swallow for fifteen years? With Swallow Summer Brown answers all the tourists, highway patrolmen, and local residents who have asked why he was leaning over bridges with nets, wading in mud up to his knees, or staring fixedly into culverts, where swallows often build their mud nests. He finds these birds fascinating.
This book is about a passion for birds, but it is also about the personal challenges of scientific research. Brown provides a daily chronicle of field work at Cedar Point—including the joy of holding a swallow that has returned to the same site for eleven years and the inevitable frictions between researchers and local residents.
Blending humorous anecdotes and insightful scientific observations, Brown writes an engaging tale. Moreover, he makes sophisticated biology accessible to anyone who cares about nature.
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Great book for nature lovers!.......1998-10-17
Cliff Swallows are the life passion of Charles and Mary Brown. Every summer for the past fifteen years Charles and Mary have left the University where they are teaching and journeyed to Ogalalla, Nebraska to study these fascinating colonial birds. In his book, "Swallow Summer", Charles Brown gives the reader an insight into the day to day life of a research biologist. This true story of a summer filled with birds and data collection is told in an intriguing and humorous manner.
Brown lets the reader look into not only his life, but also the life of this fascinating small bird. Cliff Swallows nest in large colonies in culverts, cliffs, and other such areas around Lake McConaughy in Nebraska. During the summer Charles and Mary deal with not only the Cliff Swallows, but also a number of young research assistants from all over the world who come to Ogalalla to study research biology with the Browns. Often the antics of the research assistants are as amusing as those of the Cliff Swallows.
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The Swallow Summer (High Horse)
K.M. Peyton
Manufacturer: Corgi
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0552529699 |
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Swallow's Summer
Manufacturer: Steck-Vaughn Co
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0811443604 |
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A Summer of Swallows
Dave Buchanan
Manufacturer: New Theatre Publications
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1840942959 |
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