The Body of Christ in the Art of Europe and New Spain, 1150-1800

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Let the festivities begin! Garfield's seventh hilarious collection of Sunday comics shows him at his rib-tickling, side-splitting, laugh-inducing best. Party on, Garfield!

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Another Good Full Color Adventure For The Fat Cat, Garfield........2002-05-13

I picked up the 7th Garfield treasury a little while ago. I've re-read it many times. It's a very funny book. In this book Garfield does things with snow only possible in a comic strip, goes on a diet, gets his house remodeled by Jon's mom (Uh, oh), attacks the mail man, steals food, eats, and sleeps.

garfield at his best here. Getting into all sorts of mischief but always remembering to "sleep on it," and dingling odie's ball until he loses his mind. the Sunday comics (in beautiful color here) were previously available in black in white in his hilarious mini-books Garfield By Pound (#22), Garfield Keeps His Chins Up (#23), garfield Takes His Licks (#24) and Garfield Hits The Big Time (#25). I think having Garfield in color is the best way to go. It's great that now the books are being released completely in color (go buy the first three books right now!).

The 7th Garfield Treasury is very funny, and despite missing logos (only reason I didn't give it five stars) it's a worthy, funny book to purchase.

Nice cover art, too!

Good job, Garfield!!.......1999-07-18

It was a great book. I don't like it as much as the Simpsons, but Jim Davis did a good job. Garfield made me laugh for a long time. I reccomend it for the avereage Garfield fan and one who has a love of humor. The thing I like about the treasuries are that they are in color. I also have the 1st treasury amd other Garfield books.

Garfield, Odie, and Jon make some laugh out loud scenes.......1999-01-01

Some of the comics I have seen in this book are so funny you will just crack up! The comics go every Sunday and they are in color for about two years! If you like the comic Fox Trot, or any other comic you will love The 7th Garfield Treasury!!!!!

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No Sex Please, We're Canadian

The Naked Truth: The Untold Story of Sex in Canada
Chris Gudgeon
Manufacturer: Greystone Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1553650158

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The Naked Truth is an insightful, informative, and irreverent look at sex in the Great White North. Both inspired and baffled by a recent poll that ranked Canadians the seventh sexiest people on Earth, author Chris Gudgeon covers everything from homosexuality to scandals, censorship, and the country's unique version of the sexual revolution of the 1960s (in which men in Toronto freely had intercourse with their spouses). He visits nude beaches, a strip club, and a porno theater, among other destinations, and talks to leather fetishists, she-males, futurists, and more.

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No Sex Please, We're Canadian.......2005-09-07

The Naked Truth: The Untold Story of Sex in Canada is a curiously Canadian book. It is intended to be humorous, and often is, but in an understated and mostly inoffensive way. It is apparently intended for a Canadian audience, so it stands to reason that I, a non-Canadian, would not appreciate it as a Canadian would.

Canada, I'm embarrassed to say, brings to my mind Rick Moranis in a parka and wool hat, Bullwinkle J. Moose (who, technically speaking, isn't Canadian), and Dudley Do-Right. I have visited Canada, so I know it's also great bookstores, low crime rates, and polite people. The politeness threw me off at first. Entering an indoor mall in Toronto, I thanked someone for holding the door for me and he said "You're welcome." For several minutes I wondered what he meant by that crack. After a few days, I got used to the politeness all around, and eventually came to like it.

So, is there anything uniquely Canadian about sex in Canada? It seems there is. Author Chris Gudgeon goes on at length about Canadian pornography, Canadian swingers' clubs, Canadian nude beaches, and Canadian hookers. There is a fair amount of actual history here, but also plenty or wry remarks, asides, and footnotes. In fact, it is sometimes difficult to tell what is fact and what is Gudgeon's dry wit. There is a bit too much history and fact to make this strictly a light, humorous read, and too much snickering to make this a serious history.

I ran into this problem when I read another book by Chris Gudgeon, Luck of the Draw. I wanted some historical information about lotteries and came across his book. Not familiar with Gudgeon's reputation as a wise guy, I started reading Luck of the Draw for information, but found the facts questionable and the tone too flippant. I expect Gudgeon is accurate when it comes to all things Canadian, but I found him unreliable on matters outside Canada. He tells of a lottery mishap south of the Canadian border in the state of New England, for instance.

Possibly the most memorable thing about The Naked Truth is the book cover, which shows a naked man's torso, covered by a strategically placed maple leaf. Clever, attractive, and polite. So Canadian.

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Studying popular Hollywood films from Gone With the Wind to Reds and such distinguished European films as La Marseillaise and The Rise to Power of Louis XIV, Leger Grindon examines how historical fiction films interpret the present through a representation of the past.

The historical fiction film is characterized by a set of motives and, Grindon argues, deserves to be considered a genre unto itself. Appropriation of historical events can insinuate a film's authority of its subject, veil an intention, provide an escape into nostalgia, or direct a search for knowledge and origins. Utilizing the past as a way of responding to social conflicts in the present, Grindon shows how the genre promotes a political agenda, superseding the influence of scholarship on the public's perception and interpretation of history.

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Shadows on the Past: Studies in the Historical Fiction Film. (book reviews): An article from: Cineaste
Tom Gunning
Manufacturer: Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
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Title: Shadows on the Past: Studies in the Historical Fiction Film. (book reviews)
Author: Tom Gunning
Publication: Cineaste (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 1995
Publisher: Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
Volume: v21 Issue: n4 Page: p57(2)

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This new book is perfect for beginners, players with a little experience and guitarists who want a good grounding in the flatpicking style. Using popular American fiddle tunes, Joe introduces the important basics of good flatpicking including pick direction, fingering, and hand position. The accompanying CD provides a clear performance of each exercise and tune. An introduction to playing up the neck in closed positions is included as well as several of Joe's own advanced arrangements of jam session favorites. Includes: Wildwood Flower, Soldier's Joy, Red Haired Boy, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Old Joe Clark, Salt Creek and more.

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This book is the story of how four busy executives, from different backgrounds and different perspectives, were surprised to find themselves converging on the idea of narrative as an extraordinarily valuable lens for understanding and managing organizations in the twenty-first century. The idea that narrative and storytelling could be so powerful a tool in the world of organizations was initially counter-intuitive. But in their own words, John Seely Brown, Steve Denning, Katalina Groh, and Larry Prusak describe how they came to see the power of narrative and storytelling in their own experience working on knowledge management, change management, and innovation strategies in organizations such as Xerox, the World Bank, and IBM.

Storytelling in Organizations lays out for the first time why narrative and storytelling should be part of the mainstream of organizational and management thinking. This case has not been made before. The tone of the book is also unique. The engagingly personal and idiosyncratic tone comes from a set of presentations made at a Smithsonian symposium on storytelling in April 2001. Reading it is as stimulating as spending an evening with Larry Prusak or John Seely Brown. The prose is probing, playful, provocative, insightful and sometime profound. It combines the liveliness and freshness of spoken English with the legibility of a ready-friendly text. Interviews will all the authors done in 2004 add a new dimension to the material, allowing the authors to reflect on their ideas and clarify points or highlight ideas that may have changed or deepened over time.

* Brings together well-known thought leaders on the importance of narrative and storytelling for organizational success
* The book's easy to read, engaging style of storytelling makes you feel part of the conversation
* Only book that includes personal stories and perspectives from Larry Prusak and John Seely Brown

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Good book with some good thoughts but not earthshattering.......2006-08-14

I good book for those interested in hearing from these four people about their experiences with storyteling and narrative in an organiation. I found Stephen Denning and Larry Prusaks stuff interesting, although I had already heard the Denning story in other book, he did provide additional insight I found helpful. Found John Seely Browns stuff to be difficult to read with not a lot of value, although there were one or two nuggets. If you are doing a deep dive on storytelling in organizations, good book to get or if you want multiple viewpoints good too.

If it looks like a lemon and it tastes like a lemon ..........2006-01-03

Sad to say, I to agree with the previous reviewer - this book is a real disappointment.

Of course the title is incredibly vague, and is in one sense entirely true even if the authors merely mention both storytelling and organizations in passing. They don't - in order to justify this title - have to tell us anything at all ABOUT storytelling or organizations. Though having said that, I suspect that the title will lead most people to EXPECT to learn something about the use of storytelling in organisations, the what, the when, the why and the how.

Unfortunately, as the previous reviewer comments, only one of the four authors comes anywhere near meeting these expectations.

The book, which comes in at just under 200 pages - just under 180 if you ignore the index, the potted biographies and the "Further Reading" list - is divided into just six chapters.

Chapter 1 consists of 4 descriptions of "How I came to Storytelling" - one by each author.
Chapters 2-5 inclusive are each allocated to a different author and consist, as far as I can tell, of (a) the transcript of the person's presentation at a conference on storytelling held in 2001, followed by the author's "reflections" approximately four years later.
Chapter 6 is a "wrap up" chapter by Steve Denning on "The Role of Narrative in Organizations."

First problem - the way someone talks in a presentation should be quite different from the way they write the same information. Apart from anything else, repetition is useful and necessary in a presentation - it can be boring and frustrating in a written text. And that is certainly the case throughout most of this book.

Second problem - although the authors occasionally mention what one of their co-authors has said/written, the text doesn't link up particularly well. Indeed, there seems to be a remarkable lack of agreement as to what this book is about. Maybe the title wasn't dreamed up until after all the draft manuscripts were in?

In Chapter 2, Larry Prusak appears to be talking and writing about business communications in general - and Larry Prusak. He certainly mentions "story" from time to time, but only a couple of days after reading his chapter I couldn't for the life of me remember anything that struck me as being the least bit significant about it.

Chapter 3, by John Seely Brown, likewise deals with business communications, though he does get as close to storytelling as the proverbial exchanges of information around the water cooler and the mobile phone equivalent. Whilst this is certainly valid, to still be making it a key point in a chapter on storytelling in 2004 seems extremely "old hat." Again, the chapter made no lasting impression as far as I was concerned.

Chapter 4, Steve Denning's initial chapter, was the first to actually address "storytelling," as such, IMO. It certainly contains a few interesting pieces of information and some helpful examples, and if it had been supported by chapters of a similar calibre from Denning's co-authors then I'd be giving the book a 4 star rating at least.
By itself, however, even when taken in conjunction with the wrap up chapter, Denning's contributions aren't enough to save the book, as a whole, from being thoroughly mediocre.

Just for completeness, Chapter 5, by Katalina Groh, seems to be primarily a major excercise in blowing a trumpet for her own film company. Although she does make two or three important comments on storytelling, there is just so much repetition and waffle in this chapter that the good stuff is quickly buried by the dross.

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the book is how little any of the authors - including Denning - seemed to understand about "how" to tell stories - which is maybe why that topic receives such scant coverage.
For example, at one point Denning comments on his idea as to why storytelling is more effective as a way of conveying information compared with a simple presentation of facts and figures. The crux of the matter, he tells us, on page 170, is that:

"We remember what is in a story because our feelings are reached and because the listener becomes personally involved with the story."

Well, that's open to discussion. Not all stories automatically inspire a particularly emotional response, yet even then stories tend to be more easily remembered than plain facts and figures.

Why?

Because information is more easily remembered when it has a clear framework which makes it a coherent whole.
In storytelling the story itself is the framework. A list of facts and figures only becomes a whole if (a) a framework is provided along with the information, or (b) the listener already knows the context in detail, and/or (c) the listener is in any case used to receiving and dealing with information presented in this format.

Overall, a very underpowered and unsatifactory book.

Asleep at the Campfire.......2004-12-01

I read with keen interest and anticipation "Storytelling in Organizations", by Brown, et. al. By profession, I coach an organization in a fortune 100 firm in how to create and deliver stories. I concur that telling stories in the organization is extremely effective in educating and persuading teams to improve products and services, and for my company, that has translated to literally millions of dollars in savings, improved product usability and service delivery, margin preservation, and increased market share.

Though the book is written by professionals and academicians, they only do a fair job of telling the story and describing "what" storytelling is and to some extent "why" it works. It is ineffectual in teaching the most important lesson--the "how" to tell a story.

Regretfully, only one author's work is effective, and it is a shame his strength is watered down by the mediocrity of the others. The result is that this book represents a lost opportunity to impart meaningful, actionable knowledge sharing.

Two reasons account for the failure. First, no clear-cut model is presented. This hinders the would-be story teller in that there is no repeatable roadmap to follow in structuring a story, thereby making storytelling practice and critique difficult. Second, the book itself is a poor example of story telling.

The reader is severely distracted by the disparate writing styles and sometimes overlapping content of the authors, the not-so-occasional editorializing and a peppering of poorly written case studies that lack the very punch that the authors are suggesting is the power of the story. I found myself asking, "what's the point" a number of times.

Had I not been holding out hope that some useful nugget of wisdom might be forthcoming, I would have set it aside after the first chapter. Now, after finishing the book I wish I had. A trip to the library for recent articles on the subject might better serve the would-be story teller.

Why organizational storytelling is more than a fad.......2004-09-21

The book offers two different timeframes -- the authors' speeches from the Smithsonian symposium on storytelling in April 2001 and their thoughts today, in 2004 -- and the book's value resides in showing what's changed and what hasn't in those three years.

I found the 2004 "reflection" sections particularly valuable, since they make clear that storytelling turned out to be far more than the fad many feared it would become in 2001. Especially useful are John Seely Brown's reflections -- including his discussions of "knowledge ecologies." The bibliography and the endnotes to each chapter also help map the landscape of a field that is, in Stephen Denning's words, "widening and deepening."

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The Climb is Russian mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev's account of the harrowing May 1996 Mount Everest attempt, a tragedy that resulted in the deaths of eight people. The book is also Boukreev's rebuttal to accusations from fellow climber and author Jon Krakauer, who, in his bestselling memoir, Into Thin Air, suggests that Boukreev forfeited the safety of his clients to achieve his own climbing goals. Investigative writer and Climb coauthor G. Weston DeWalt uses taped statements from the surviving climbers and translated interviews from Boukreev to piece together the events and prove to the reader that Boukreev's role was heroic, not opportunistic. Boukreev refers to the actions of expedition leader Scott Fischer throughout the ascent, implying that factors other than the fierce snowstorm may have caused this disaster. This new account sparks debate among both mountaineers and those who have followed the story through the media and Krakauer's book. Readers can decide for themselves whether Boukreev presents a laudable defense or merely assuages his own bruised ego.

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As the climbers of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster vanished into thin air, one man had the courage to bring them down alive....On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by expert leaders attempted to scale the world's largest peak. But things went terribly wrong. Crowded conditions, bad judgement, and a bitter storm stopped many climbers in their tracks. Others were left for dead, or stranded on the frigid mountain. Anatoli Boukreev, head climbing guide for the Mountain Madness expedition, stepped into the heart of the storm and brought three of his clients down alive. Here is his amazing story-of an expedition fated for disaster, of the blind ambition that drives people to attempt such dangerous ventures, and of a modern-day hero, who risked his own life to save others...

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Into Thin Air take a back seat..........2007-09-09

Hands down beats out Into Thin Air. Thrash that 'other' novel and read this!

Far Superior to Into Thin Air!!.......2007-06-11

I've read most of the 96' Everest books and this phenomenal read surpasses Krakauer's slick narrative with simple language but raw and honest passion and consideration. If you have already read Into thin Air I strongly recommend reading this as well. It not only places the hyped 96' tragedy in better perspective, it also gives incredible insight into the Russian mindset.

Awesome book.......2007-05-10

I read this book after reading "Into Thin Air" (another excellent book). This is a highly recommended followup to "Into Thin Air". If you are interested in the business/logistics of an Everest expedition, as well as hearing about an amazing individual (Anatoli Boukreev), this book is highly recommended!

A great read.....very compelling........2007-02-12

What could have been written as an angry rebuttal to the slanted writings of Jon Krakauer's accountings of the 1996 Everest disaster, is actually a moving recounting of a tragedy that has no one single point of blame. Anatoli Boukreev details the series of fateful decisions made by the several parties involved, and drives home the ultimate message: Climbing Everest, and any peak above 8000 meters is, under the very best conditions, a life-threatening gamble with fate. This book is a must read for we armchair Everest buffs, and anyone who has read "Into Thin Air". Anatoli Boukreev was a legend and hero, and we are fortunate to have his words recorded before his tragic death .

The other side of a well-known story.......2007-01-01

Every story has two sides. In this book, readers of Jon Krakauer's best selling Into Thin Air can hear the other side of that particular tale. It's my opinion that no one ought to read one without also reading the other.

On May 10, 1996, a winter storm decided to attack the world's highest mountain in spring. Caught in the well-named Death Zone, so high above sea level that the bodies of climbers who linger there literally start to die, the members of two commercial expeditions fought desperately for survival. The leaders of both teams - New Zealander Rob Hall, and American Scott Fischer - died despite being world-class mountaineers and Everest veterans. So did three members of Hall's team, while a fourth barely got off the mountain alive. All of the Fischer guides and clients survived, though, and none suffered the kind of horrific frostbite that left Hall client Beck Weathers both maimed and disfigured. Why did things turn out so differently for the two teams, after both lost their leaders? Krakauer's book offers one answer. This book, co-authored by Scott Fischer's head guide, offers quite another.

Neither Anatoli Boukreev nor his co-author possesses Krakauer's well-honed journalistic skills. This is a much plainer work, in many ways; and it's definitely less readable. I found it just as compelling, though, and it's rich in source material. Thank goodness Boukreev completed it before his death, because his side of the story is well worth hearing.

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CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN...

The Climb : Tragic Ambitions on Everest

Manufacturer: Recorded Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette

Mountain Climbing | Mountaineering | Sports | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0788719858

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Well narrated description of the ill-fated 1996 season where 5 people died climbing Mt. Everest. 7 cassettes

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CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN..........2004-08-17

This is the story about the 1996 Everest tragedy told from the perspective of Anatoli Boukreev, who was one of the guides on the ill-fated Mountain Madness expedition led by Scott Fischer. It is written almost as a rebuttal to the perceived criticism by Jon Krakauer, author of "Into Thin Air", of Boukreev's actions on that ill-fated Everest climb.

This is a poorly written account, which is oftentimes confusing. It has none of the clarity of prose found in Krakauer's "Into Thin Air". It is, however, an important chronicle from someone who was there on Everest, and who had a pivotal role in the tragic events. Boukreev provides an insider's view of the Mountain Madness expedition itself and of the preparations which go into such a journey. It is packed with many interesting details which will delight Everest junkies.

Whether Boukreev's actions on the mountain were irresponsible, in that he did not use supplementary oxygen to summit and immediately returned to camp after summitting, rather than remain with the expedition's clients, or whether he was just following the orders of the expedition leader, Scott Fisher, who himself died on Everest, is an issue which will long be debated in mountaineering circles. There is no doubt, however, that Boukreev did, in fact, single handedly rescue three of the climbers during a raging blizzard; climbers who without his intervention would have died. Given the extreme weather conditions, his foray up the mountain to rescue climbers is nothing less than heroic.

Boukreev's is an important voice in the Everest annals, more so now that his voice has been silenced. On Christmas day, 1997, Boukreev died in an avalanche on Annapurna. RIP.

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The Climb Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Anatoli (G. Weston DeWalt) Boukreev
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0STTA

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The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Anatoli Boukreev , and G. Weston Dewalt
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000GRGHZE

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The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Anatoli Boukreev , and G. Weston DeWalt
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NTK6LG

The Climb : Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Climb Ser., Vol. 1)

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The Climb : Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Climb Ser., Vol. 1)
Anatoli; DeWalt, G. Weston Boukreev
Manufacturer: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MPPCK6

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The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
G. Weston Dewalt Anatoli Boukreev
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTTAZI

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A compelling and controversial exploration of absentee fathers and their impact on the nation.

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Convincing .......2007-07-09

For those people who believe in America as the heart and hope of the free world, and the major bastion of Mankind against totalitarian terror and tyranny this book will be a difficult read. For what it says , and I think it says something which has been no secret for some time now, is that American society is in trouble- and this because the American family is in trouble. The major source of that trouble is according to David Blankenhorm the increased absence of the 'good family man' father. He presents a wide - variety of data showing that children raised in fatherless homes suffer from a wide variety of social pathologies in rates well- beyond those who come from stable two- parent homes. He examines in detail different kinds of fathers who fall short of fulfilling the traditional family building and supporting role. He indicates that a whole ideology has been wrongly built up in recent years around the idea that a single- mother alone can do for her children a mother and father taken together can do. He faults Radical Feminism for promoting an idea which above all has hurt younger generations of Americans.
This work is not simply a plea for the restoration of stable two- parent homes in which a responsible father plays a central part it is in essence a call for a society which is fairer and more supportive of its children.

Wish My Father Would Read This.......2007-01-25

Wouldn't do any good. He didn't have a father either. Cycle ends with me.

Fatherless Children and the Social Choas.......2006-11-16

The divorce and adultery culture of North America has spawned social chaos that is reflected in numerous statistical research. While the women's movement has been tremendous it has also been used to support the annihilation of the importance of a father. This argument is not just a platform for conservative politics, it is about a real social condition that had reached epic proportions. The rise in fatherless children has probably added to an increase in delinquent behavior, social manners going out the window, women being preyed upon for exploitation, fatherless boys with heightened aggression, this is not good for all of us. A must read on why the family IS important no matter who you vote for.

The truth about fathers.......2005-02-05

The breakdown of families, especially in terms of the disappearance of marriage and the collapse of fatherhood, has been carefully studied by a number of authors. One of the most incisive examinations of the problem of fatherless families is Fatherless America.

The book is based on a wealth of statistical information, highlighting the dangerous trend of family disintegration in America. Perhaps most disturbing of the information he uncovers is the fact that "tonight, about 40 per cent of American children will go to sleep in homes in which their fathers do not live". "Fatherlessness," argues Blankenhorn, "is the most harmful demographic trend of this generation". The primary results of this trend are "a decline in children's well-being and a rise in male violence, especially against women."

The problem is not just that of the absence of fathers, but "the absence of our belief in fathers." Recalling the findings of Margaret Mead and others that the supreme test of any civilisation is whether it can socialise men by teaching them to be fathers, Blankenhorn traces the disappearance of the idea of fatherhood in contemporary culture, and the effects this has on our children and our society

While he acknowledges that the so-called traditional family was not without problems, he sees the move to a fatherless society as a far greater dilemma. As fatherhood becomes devalued, decultured and deinstitutionalised, the problems associated with inner city America will only compound themselves. We now know without question that the overwhelming generator of violence among young men is the fatherless family. There are now a multitude of studies available which make it perfectly clear that fatherlessness is the major factor in crime, more than race, poverty or any other social variable.

Paternal absenteeism and the erosion of marriage effect every aspect of life. For example, we now know, contrary to feminist doctrine, that domestic violence is much more likely to occur in homes where the partners are not married. A woman is much more likely to abused by a boyfriend, a de facto or a live in than by a husband. The same is true of child sexual abuse. "What magnifies the risk of sexual abuse in children is not the presence of a married father but his absence." Again, a host of studies have clearly established this point.

With all these studies confirming the importance of marriage and the presence of fathers, one would hope that our political leaders would be reaffirming our national commitment to marriage. The opposite is the case unfortunately. American society is not intent on making sure marriage works, nor is it intent on making divorce less easy to obtain. Instead, it is in the process of deinstitutionalising marriage and fatherhood. It has become a culture of divorce. Instead of trying to reduce divorce, it seeks to make the process more cooperative and amicable. Divorce reform means simply trying to involve fewer lawyers and more mediators. This may be better than conflict and litigation, but it does not deal with the real problem.

When anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski said that "the father is indispensable for the full sociological status of the child as well as of its mother," he was stating a truth that is both simple and profound. Yet we live in a day where simplicity is spurned and profundity is not grasped. As C.S. Lewis once said, "The process of living seems to consist in coming to realise truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes."

That children need mother and father, and that healthy families are a prerequisite for healthy societies, have been historical givens. Such claims now however are regarded with disbelief. The case for fatherhood and marriage needs to be remade for a sceptical age. Blankenhorn's book is a valuable component in that argument.

Excellent Book.......2004-07-03

I believe this book is a compehesive approach to the fatherlessness of this generation of American life. I have seen some of the reviews of the book and some of the criticism. David Blankenhorn, as touched the pulse of the fatherless problem. When he suggest that even having a troubled or bad father at home is better than no father at all. He is not even suggesting that this is the idea but is suggesting that the presence of a father is of extreme importance in the pysche of a growing child and there is no substitute for it. There is all ways room for review, renewal and improvment in fathering, but if a father is not present in a families life there can not be any chance of correction. I have benifited greatly from the content of this book as a father, and suggest that other fathers read this book.

Fatherless America - Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem

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Fatherless America - Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem
David Blankenhorn
Manufacturer: Basic Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O641KU

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Fatherless America - Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem
David Blankenhorn
Manufacturer: Harper-perennial
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IX2N18

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BIRDS WADDEN SEA (Report 6 of the Wadden Sea Working Group)
Wadden Sea Working Group
Manufacturer: Routledge
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Birdwatching | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
Ornithology | Zoology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 9061910560

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Policy failure and stakeholder dissatisfaction in complex ecosystem management: The case of the Dutch Wadden Sea shellfishery [An article from: Ecological Economics]
R.J. Imeson , and J.C.J.M. van den Bergh
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

Management | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: B000RRA3O4

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At the beginning of the 1990s, a combination of a sharp decline in shellfish populations and mass bird mortality in the Dutch Wadden Sea led to a conflict between conservationists and the shellfishery. The conflict gave rise to the establishment of a shellfish management policy in 1993. Although this policy certainly improved upon the old situation, without clear restrictions on fishing effort, the policy has been unable to manage the complex ecosystem satisfactorily. This paper addresses the question of why the conflict was not resolved. At the heart of the problem lie an improperly functioning co-management arrangement and general disagreement about which changes in the management policy should be adopted. In order to understand the fishing industry, the conservationist and the government positions in the co-management arrangement, we analyse what has been the impact of the current shellfish policy on the satisfaction of the objectives of the various stakeholders. We examine whether the implementation of alternative policy scenarios could lead to the establishment of a sustainable shellfishery. The case of the Dutch shellfishery is an important example of an unsustainable management policy. As such, this paper illuminates many of the problems faced by fisheries management regimes worldwide and suggests how some of them could be avoided.

Numbers and Distribution of Waterbirds in the Wadden Sea (Wetlands International Publication)

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Numbers and Distribution of Waterbirds in the Wadden Sea (Wetlands International Publication)

Manufacturer: Wetlands International
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0950573175

Shorebirds, shellfish(eries) and sediments around Griend, western Wadden Sea, 1988-1996: Single large-scale exploitative events lead to long-term changes ... birds-benthos community (NIOZ-rapport)

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Shorebirds, shellfish(eries) and sediments around Griend, western Wadden Sea, 1988-1996: Single large-scale exploitative events lead to long-term changes ... birds-benthos community (NIOZ-rapport)
Theunis Piersma
Manufacturer: Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006FBZN0

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