The Kitchen Turns Twenty: A Retrospective Anthology

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THE ESSENTIAL AUDREY HEPBURN PICTURE BOOK.......2002-02-05

One of the rarest and most difficult to find of books on Audrey Hepburn also happens to be one of the very best. Published in a limited run for a series of exhibits for Salvatorre Ferragamo, beginning in Italy and reaching as far as Australia, this book is worth every bit of effort you can muster to locate it. The book offers over 200 pages of dazzling, mostly never before seen photographs. They range from studio shots to film stills to candid shots. The publication aims to present Miss Hepburn's beauty physically, but also succeeds in showing her true, inner beauty with a very intelligent, well put-together text. Aside from the usual biography and filmography are various writings by the people who knew her best. The preface by her son Sean Ferrer sets up the book quite nicely. I could get very technical with descriptions and offer a more serious critique, but I feel that it is not necessary with this book. The book is very inspired and wonderfully edited by Stefania Ricci, but its strength lies in the beautiful pictures of one of the most beautiful women in history. It's all about the pictures with this one. If you are an Audrey Hepburn fan, this is an ESSENTIAL addition to your collection. FIND IT IF YOU CAN.

A Wonderful Tribute to Audrey Hepburn.......2000-03-29

. . a beautiful and touching tribute to Audrey Hepburn, this rare photo book was published for the 1999 exhibition at the Ferragamo Museum in Florence, Italy. This impressive book of 230 pages is packed with color & b/w photos of Hepburn - many of which have never been published before. The text is in both English & Italian and includes tributes from her son Sean Ferrer, her companion Robert Wolders, and her designer Givenchy. The book traces her career and includes a complete filmography. Thirty pages are devoted to the Ferragamo exhibit of clothing worn by Hepburn; sections include stage costumes & accessories, coats & daytime wear, cocktail & dinner dresses, evening dresses, full dresses (including the dresses designed and worn for her 2 weddings). Full color reproductions of magazine covers & movie posters are included. This publication which is produced on premium paper stock.

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The first comprehensive retrospective of one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century, who began his career as one of the most innovative comic book creators of his generation.

A gigantic retrospective/biography/critical assessment of one of the most important cartoonists in the history of comics, who went on to become a renowned fine artist and teacher in New York. The author had full access to Bernard Krigstein's archives and files and has written a compelling biography of the artist from his childhood in New York to his days as a comics artist from the late '40s to the early '60s, and through his post-comics career as a fine artist, commercial illustrator, and teacher. Krigstein is renowned as one of the great innovators working within the commercial comics industry: his story about a Nazi commandant, "Master Race," published by the legendary EC Comics, is studied in college courses and considered one of the most fascinating formal experiments in comics. This book reproduces many of Krigstein's comics stories as well as many of his commercial assignments (such as the line of paperback covers he did for the reissues of Joyce Cary's novels) as well as his fine art paintings. Most of this work has never been seen outside its original publication. Most of the comics stories are obscure and have not been reprinted since their initial publication (mostly from the '50s) and his fine art has only appeared in galleries and exhibitions.

Krigstein (1919-1990), classically trained in Fine Art, was a Brooklyn-born painter who was one of the first practitioners who approached comics with the respect, integrity, and psychological depth of a serious artist. After an innovative and contentious decade, he was forced to abandon the field due to its narrow-minded and formulaic tendencies, which continue to this day. This first of two volumes traces Krigstein's groundbreaking comic-book work at Hillman, Atlas, DC, and EC, as well as his parallel development as an illustrator and painter.

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More than EC.......2005-02-01

Bernard Krigstein is most famous as one of the pantheon of extraordinary artists working for EC comics in the Fifties. However, this volume shows that EC was just one facet of this comics genius. This is a thorough biography, plus a wonderful analysis of Krigstein's life's work. This book, along with the companion volume "B.Krigstein: Comics," belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in comics history and sequential art.

An artist in full.......2003-08-21

Greg Sadowski's biography of Bernard Krigstein, who possessed one of the most innovative minds---and pens---in comic book history, is a labor of love that is revealed as such on every page. From the high quality of the paper to the superb graphic design, from the sharp reproductions to the text that details his life, career, and reputation, B. KRIGSTEIN is a book that would grace any library. But it covers not only his comic book work. For here are also his many book illustrations, his World War II field sketches and paintings, his canvases and gallery works (among them portraits of his wife and family), urban vignettes and rural landscapes, even greeting cards, gum cards,
and advertising art. He was truly a modern-day Renaissance man, fully deserving of this highly focused, incredibly beautiful tribute. There have been many innovators in comic art over the decades (George Herriman and Art Spiegelman, to name just two), but none of them had Krigstein's range of powers and depth of creativity. His was a name that the centuries will remember.

One of the great forgotten comic artist.......2003-02-12

This book will show you all the reasons for my title. Mr.Krigstein was truly a master at pacing and design on the comic page.
His art speaks far better than I can write so I'll just tell you if you buy this book you will not be disapointed.
The comic Master Race alone is worth the price of this book.

absolutely essential for comic fans and artists of all types.......2002-05-18

the world was not ready for the work of bernie krigstein when he hit his stride in comics in the early 50's. a fine artist at heart, he became obsessed with the art form of comics and the possibilities that it held. few were attempting to take comics so seriously and in those days, they were just above pornography as far as respectability goes. he produced some brilliant works, but the book reveals just how much of a struggle it was to get these masterworks in print. the artwork speaks for itself, but i was really drawn into the text which details the inner workings of the comics machine of the 1940's-50's and how ridiculously it was run. although he begged and pleaded with management, he was never able to bring a story out further than 9 pages, and had to threaten leaving in order to even ink his own work rather than have it butchered by someone else. considering the roadblocks that constantly stood in front of him, it was amazing that he was able to experiment as much as he did.

among his more famous experiments was panel subdivision, breaking away from the standard 6-9 panels per page and, in one instance, producing some 75 panels in 6 pages. this brought an entirely new dimension to comics, introducing the break down of time and space within the page. he also brought a style of cinematography that was never thought of in comics before that must have influenced filmmakers years down the road.

greg sadowski has assembled a truly staggering biography. he had direct access to the artists collection and publishes for the first time many works that have never seen the light of day. rare artist photostats of pencil artwork that went on to be mutiliated by someone else's inks. original panels that were ordered by management to be covered up with different artwork. exhaustive research with coworkers, friends and family, as well as unbelievably wise words from the artist himself given in various interviews many years ago that gives a definitive look into the workings of this man's artistic mind.

it must [stink] being the pioneer, you never get to see the fruits of your labor. but all who charged through the door that b krigstein kicked down acknowledge him as the man who started it all.

THIS BOOK IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL FOR ANY COMIC ART FAN, AS WELL AS ANY ARTIST OF ANY TYPE. IT IS VERY INSPIRING AND IS A GREAT READ.

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This book is a mind opener.......2003-09-08

There have been many books written on film. Most have a different approach of the film and the metamorphisms of film. We usually pull apart the elements as characters, costumes, camera angles, narrative types. As we would look at a person as a series of systems vascular, lymphatic, respiratory, etc. In the process of dissecting people we fail to find the soul. In the process of dissecting movies we do not notice their mystic power.
Geoffrey Hill gives a unique view of films. He shows us what we would have missed just treating the movie as entertainment or a story. The movies he chooses to point out are not overtly mystical. Be sure to read the introduction in which he explains his definition of the terminology used. It also helps to view the movies ahead of the book and then again after.
A selection from table of contents alone will give you an idea of what to expect.
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea: The religion of the Nietzchean Samurai Warriors
The Seventh Seal: A Morality Play of the Feminine Principle
It's a Wonderful Life: Saint George and the Dragon
Insignificance: The Destruction of Universal Significance
A Year of the Quiet Sun: amazing Grace
Shane: The Ambivalent, Violent Prince of Peace
Babett's Feast and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover: Two Stories of Redemptive Ritual Sacrifice
Little Shop of Horrors: The battle between Heaven and Earth
The Trip to Bountiful: Paradise regained
The Graduate: The Terrible Mother form the Black Lagoon
Blue Velvet: Embracing the Shadow
Santa Sangre: The Bloody Alchemy of the Soul
Rumble Fish: The Motorcycle Messiah
Taxi Driver: The Mad Messiah of the Historic Christian Art
Repo Man: A prophet of Time Travel
Field of Dreams: Seeing the Invisible

You will never look at film the same way again.

The BEST book on film myth EVER!.......2002-04-01

I can do no better than QUOTE:
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ILLUMINATING SHADOWS: THE MYTHIC POWER OF FILM

I was intrigued by Geoffrey Hill's highly creative collection of essays on the mythic power of film. These deeply felt and carefully crafted writings analyze the current tragic war on Mother Earth caused by an imbalance of patriarchal mythology. I commend Hill's well articulated call for a cinemasophia, the wise voice of the Goddess calling for change.

--the late MARIJA GIMBUTAS, Professor Emerita of European archeology at UCLA, author of Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, The Language of the Goddess, and other works.
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The embers of a bonfire may appear to be dead until someone breathes on them - then they burst into flames. So it is with film: though thousands of people may see a film, its essential meaning may remain hidden until an observer with clear understanding reveals its mythic beauty, making its song resound for one and all. A great peace comes over me when reading what Geoffrey Hill has written about these films: thanks to his inspired analysis, they come to life with a new significance. May the cinema always have commentators of his caliber.
--ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY, director of El Topo, Holy Mountain and Santa Sangre

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This book is a mind opener

Illuminating Shadows: The Mythic Power of Film

Manufacturer: Shambhala
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This book is a mind opener.......2007-03-26

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English keyboard art from Robertsbridge Codex (c. 1325) to John Field. Illuminating coverage of organ, harpsichord, pianoforte, other instruments; works of Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Tomkins, many others. Bibliography.

English Keyboard Music Before the Nineteenth Century

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English Keyboard Music Before the Nineteenth Century
John Caldwell
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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Curious George Reads, Writes and Spells: For Grades 1 and 2
SSI/HMI
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Interactive
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Binding: CD-ROM

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The world's most famous monkey has a nose for news in this fun-packed learning adventure for kids in grades 1 & 2! Young learners join Curious George as he embarks on a new adventure as a cub reporter for the town newspaper. By helping Curious George complete his assignments, kids become part of the story while practicing their reading, writing, and spelling skills. Twelve different episodes focus kids on specific skills.

We teach the way children learn.
Each activity teaches the critical-thinking skills that build a foundation for reading and writing. Our years of experience in teaching kids to read tells us that these skills taught in this sequence are most effective.

An exciting educational series specially designed to make learning language skills fun.
The Curious George Young Readers' Series gently challenges children to build critical reasoning and reading skills in a magical environment. Welcome Curious George into you child's life and share the timeless appeal of a children's classic cherished by generations.

This 12-episode interactive learning tool helps kids learn language skills in a fun, easy, and entertaining environment.

Kids become part of an original Curious George story

Provides reading and storytelling practice

Kids help write 2 news articles and 30 stories (that they can print too!)

Helps develop solid spelling skills

Includes over 40 pages of practice printouts

Special parental controls allow adjustment of play levels

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Not quite knockin' 'em dead

Great info!

BRAVO>>>>Well done maestro!!!

You need this book!

Letters are all the same and don't offer much variety

Cover Letters That Knock 'em Dead
Martin Yate
Manufacturer: Adams Media Corporation
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1593377479

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A great cover letter can't always get you hired, but it can get your resume read with serious attention. Learn how to stand out from the crowd by packaging your background and work experience into a readable and powerful sales pitch. Cover Letters That Knock 'em Dead arms you with the key words and phrases you need to land that critical first interview and provides you with follow-up letters to help turn those meetings into job offers.
The bestselling book in its category for more than twelve years, Cover Letters That Knock 'em Dead has been updated to include:

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Cover Letters That Knock 'em Dead will show you how to customize your bio and work history to keep employers begging for more. Cover Letters That Knock 'em Dead is packed with proven techniques for getting the right message across in seconds.

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Not quite knockin' 'em dead.......2005-03-08

I used this along with "Cover Letter Magic" and "The Very Quick Job Search," and I prefer those over this one. Though certainly an improvement over the old "Enclosed please find" style, the examples throughout the book are still a bit stiff, unnecessarily wordy, and dated. There's also not as much variety as in the other books.

On meail cover letters, he gives a bit of misinformation, which suggests he may not be as up-to-speed on email limitations as he could be. Specifically, he suggests using a signature-styled font in an email. (That only works if the recipient has the same font on their PC.)

I liked the examples of "Resurrection" letters (basically a thanks for the rejection), but their use is never explained in the book, so there's nothing to suggest this tactic is effective. (The only mention in the other books is in "Cover Letter Magic." They advise against them.) My guess is that this would have to be done selectively and carefully. What may be seen as persistence by the job seeker may be interpreted by the potential employer as either not being able to take a hint or a desperate need to have the last word.

It's an okay book, particularly if your personal style is somewhat formal and "old school," but it's not worthy of its title.

Great info!.......2001-05-09

Lots and lots of cover letters,styles and information. Very helpful!

BRAVO>>>>Well done maestro!!!.......2000-10-06

Excellent book it showed me all I needed to write the perfect cover letter and it was incredibly easy to read and showed excellent examples of all different types of job seeking situations. I highly recommend this to anyone...from professionals to those seeking part-time employment, well done Mr. Yate!

You need this book!.......2000-09-08

I used this book when I was job searching during my senior year of college. I read it cover to cover, and followed the author's advice. I was highly successful in my job search, landing my dream job. I was even complimented several times on my "very creative" cover letter. You can't go wrong with this book!

Letters are all the same and don't offer much variety.......1999-01-20

I think the letters in this book are just average, and they focus on me, me, me. There is nothing that helps the writer craft a letter to meet the needs of the employer. A good title, but this books misses the mark.

2 litle power resumes & cover letters that knock 'em dead.

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2 litle power resumes & cover letters that knock 'em dead.
RON TEPPER , and MARTIN YATE
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TWO BOOKS * POWER RESUMES THIRD EDITION 68 EXCLUSIVE POWER RESUME TECHNIQUES CONTACTING THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY DO THE HIRING OVERCOMING "HIDDEN BARRIERS" HOTTEST JOB MARKETS AND WHY. *COVER LETTERS THAT KNOCK 'EM DEAD.

Cover letters that knock 'em dead (Cover Letters That Knock 'em Dead)

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Cover letters that knock 'em dead (Cover Letters That Knock 'em Dead)
Martin John Yate
Manufacturer: Bob Adams
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K0B1IK

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Resumes That Knock 'Em Dead

Manufacturer: Adams Media
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Binding: Hardcover
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Cover Letters That Knock 'em Dead
Martin John Yate
Manufacturer: Adams Media Corp
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Cover Letters That Knock 'em Dead 4th Edition

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Cover Letters That Knock 'em Dead 4th Edition
Martin John; Yate, Martin Yate
Manufacturer: Adams Media Corp
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Cover Letters That Knock Em Dead
Martin John Yate
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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Rarely has a book captured the attention of Christians of all ages as Jesus Freaks has with its stories of Christian martyrs. Jesus Freaks, Vol. II, features testimonies of revolutionaries who took a stand for Christ against the culture of their day, along with new stories of martyrs through the centuries. dc Talk again challenges readers to pray for the persecuted church around the world and openly stand for Jesus.

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True believers.......2007-01-16

Great book. My 10 year old son requested it. The stories are graphic and painful to read, but the courage and testimony of these martyrs is REAL and there are lessons for all of us, especially those of us who are Christian.

One of the Best Books I Have EVER Read.......2005-03-07

Ok. So normally I am an avid reader, but there are few nonfiction books that really grasp my interest and hold it. My sister bought this book for me as a Christmas/birthday gift and I devouered it (literally!). It has stories in it about Christians from the past 2000 years up until the present day who have been persecuted for their faith. It has really encouraged me to live the way that they do.

Fearing God Not Man.......2005-02-05

This book is so good!!! If you like bloody things you will like this book. If you like God a lot you will also love this book. If you like History than you will love this book.

GREAT.......2004-11-17

I'VE ONLY HAD THIS BOOK FOR ONE DAY AND I'M ALMOST DONE THE BOOK IS SHORT STORIES OF PEOPLE WHO STOOD BY THEIR FAITH NOT CARING WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM JUST BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T LIKE THAT THEIR CHRISTIANS. IN ONE STORY AN OLD MAN IS GETTING READY TO BE EXECUTED AND HE SAYS"IF I'M GOING TO DIE TODAY THEN I'M HERE TO DIE FOR THE LORD. IN ANOTHER STORY ONE MAN IS BEING THROWN IN JAIL FOR SAYING HE BELIEVES IN THE LORD ANOTHER MAN SEES THIS AND CLAIMS HE'S A CHRISTIAN ALSO AND HE GETS THROWN IN JAIL BEFORE THEIR EXECUTION THEY SAY THAT THEY APOLOGIZE TO THE LORD FOR NOT DOING ENOUGH AND DOES NOT APOLOGIZE TO THEIR KING.

IN ANOTHER STORY SOME CHINESE ARE TRYING TO GET CHRISTIANITY LEGAL IN CHINA AND THEY GET BEAT THEY SHOWED THAT 200 PEOPLE IN CHINA THAT ARE CHRISTIANS GET BEAT UNTIL THEY ARE PERMANENTLY CRIPPLED AND OVER 20000 CHINESE BECOME CHRISTIANS A YEAR. THIS BOOK IS VERY MOVING AND VERY POWERFUL IF YOU ARE A JESUS FREAK YOU SHOULD BUY THIS.

Not as good.........2004-07-02

The first Jesus Freaks is so much better. I always hate doing this to my own brethren but don't read this second book.

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Dissagree With Any Who Agrees With Michael Schiavo!!!!

The right to murder.

A moving and frightening book

Simplistic, mean spirited with no redeeming value

The Thinking Person's Guide to the Schiavo Case

Using Terri : The Religious Right's Conspiracy to Take Away Our Rights
Jon Eisenberg
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The Terri Schiavo case was a key battle in a larger political struggle over abortion, stem-cell research, physician-assisted suicide, gay rights, and the appointment of federal judges. The religious Right chose to make it a national spectacle because they thought they could win. They were wrong. But there are many more battles to come. Jon Eisenberg, who served as one of the lead attorneys on Michael Schiavo's side, exposes the religious Right's strategies and follows the money trail to reveal how they are organized, who is funding the movement, and where we can expect future legal maneuvers to combat the American traditions of autonomy and freedom.

Jon Eisenberg has experienced the family struggle of removing a feeding tube from a loved one and witnessed firsthand the Florida drama that will continue to have national legal and political consequences for years to come. What tactics can we expect to see in courtrooms and state legislatures all across this country in the days ahead? Who is behind the funding and what do they hope to accomplish and when? What are the religious and bioethical issues that are at the center of these debates and how will they affect future legal battles? Using Terri gives us a behind-the-scenes look at what happened -- and what's coming.

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Dissagree With Any Who Agrees With Michael Schiavo!!!!.......2006-08-11

My problem is, is that I didn't read any of the books. But just ordered one & waiting on it. I do feel that the people who think Michael Schiavo was thinking of the best interest of his wife, was only for his own personal needs. He wanted to move on with his life, he should have done it in a different way. He should of turned everything over to "Terry Schindler's" family. I am a CNA, and I have taken care of people who have had feeding tubes & did not feel they were in a vegetative state. When rolling them over in bed, from side to side as you are suppose to do every 2 hours, they look at you in different ways, they make noises if you ACCIDENTLY hurt them when turning them. They are people just like us. Just because Terry was supposevly running out Michaels money, that did not belong to him in the first place, was no reason for that Son of B*^ch to make her suffer the way she did. If Terry was going to die, she would have died a long time ago.....ON HER OWN!!! She was just to strong of a woman to NOT GIVE UP!! And as far as I see it, there is no reason to rate any of the books if you had followed the NEWS. That's what I did. It didn't take Michael to long to find another woman and move on with his life, no matter if he was there with Terry everyday. Michael was just lucky enough to find another woman to put up with that, or she was just looking for the same thing Michael was looking for. And I feel that was the rest of Terrys money, so they could enjoy there life with Terrys money. I think i've said enough......everyone needs to remember, "What Goes Around, Comes Around!" Michaels day is coming & when it does......Terry will be waiting!

The right to murder........2006-04-16

Terri Schiavo wasn't allowed to die--she was slowly and painfully murdered. If she was in a PVS, why was she given morphine as she lay dehydrating and starving? People who are in a vegetative state are not supposed to feel pain--right!? Murderers are put to death in a more humane way than Terri was. They pass within minutes of their humane lethal injections. Terri suffered for two weeks until she died. And, since when is giving food and water artificial life support!!! I care for an 8-year old mentally challenged girl and I feed her strictly through a feeding tube. Terri was not on a respirator.

If you want the real truth about this case, first read SILENT WITNESS by Mark Fuhrman. It is an unbiased account of the Terri Schiavo case. Next, I recomment A LIFE THAT MATTERS by Terri's family. There has been so many lies and misconceptions about Terri's condition. One person and one person only decided Terri's fate--Juge Greer. One person should not have all that power. There was overwhelming evidence that Terri was not a "vegetable" and he didn't care. Please read the books I have suggested. If it is illegal to commit suiside, why is it legal to starve and dehydrate a defenseless human being? It's one thing to turn off a respirator, but to kill someone in the manner they did Terri is horrific. Didn't someone named Hitler do that across Europe several years ago?

Christine

A moving and frightening book.......2006-04-14

I believe strongly that people should be able to decide for themselves, to the extent that it is possible, how much medical care they want. This goes both for people who want no heroic measures and people who want everything possible to be done. One of the most upsetting things about this story is that a number of people trying to keep Terri Schiavo on the feeding tube, including her parents, admitted that they didn't really care what she wanted, even if she had left even more specific instructions. Does the reviewer who professed to be distressed by the arrogance of Michael Schiavo, et al., apply the same standards to the Schindlers and others trying to warp the law and established practice? They were certainly convinced that they had a direct pipeline to God. The reviewer who claimed that he had no problem with the decision to remove the tube, but felt that Eisenberg was unfairly attacking Christian conservatives should give more thought to what they did. Did this person stand up and say, "You're not speaking for me when you claim that God requires extraordinary measures"? Eisenberg pointed out that a number of Christians, even conservative Christians, were puzzled by the reluctance to let Terri Schiavo go to God.

I already have advanced directives, and after this, I think that I will try to strengthen them.

Eisenberg's account of events was compassionate, careful and fair. In all that I have read about this, I have not seen any good evidence that Michael Schiavo was a bad husband while his wife was living with him, or failed to do the best for her until it became clear there was no hope. I cannot understand the argument that it is playing God to remove the tube any more than it was playing God to use it in the first place. Terri Schiavo would have died naturally more than 15 years ago.

There were times when I thought that perhaps Michael Schiavo should have turned care over to his in-laws, since they felt so strongly, but that is only because I don't think that Terri Schiavo was alive enough to care. I don't judge him for that, however. I know what it is to decide with family members when treatment should be ended since death can only be briefly postponed. I don't know what it is like to have to watch someone in that condition for more than fifteen years, convinced that they would not have wanted it to happen that way.

I hope that I am never the cause of putting my own family through such character assassinations, public intrusions and sufferings.

Simplistic, mean spirited with no redeeming value.......2005-12-19

In "Using Terri", Jon Eisenberg attempts to provide the reader with insight into the legal, ethical, moral, and medical aspects of the tragic death of Terri Schiavo. He falls far short of the mark on all of them. In his November 6, 2005 review for the New York Times William Saletan succinctly sums up the book: ""Using Terri" is just another use of Terri." Eisenberg begins with the death of his 79 year old aunt Ros trying to draw a parallel between her and Terri. The situations could not be more different. No one, not Eisenberg, nor her two brothers had any desire to care for Ros. Her case is indeed tragic and agonizing. Had she not been dehydrated to death her fate would most probably have been to remain institutionalized and uncared for until she finally succumbed to a sad end. A very different fate awaited Terri were she to be delivered into the care of her parents and siblings. She would have received the best loving care and devotion that her parents could lavish on her; she would have most probably lived a long life, giving love to all those around her and perhaps even being able to receive the love that was lavished upon her. But Eisenberg and the bioethics community would have us believe that Terri's life was a life "not worthy of life". They are absolutely certain, beyond all doubt, that a severely brain damaged person is, in fact not a person at all. He or she is simply a vegetable to be treated as an inanimate object. Vegetables, like pet rocks, and tomatoes can never receive love. Vegetables do not have, nor should they have, access to the rights and privileges that "normal" people take for granted. This certainty permeates Eisenberg's book at every level and every page. Symptomatic of this certainty is the obscenely arrogant inscription placed by Michael on Terri's tombstone which reads "Born December 3, 1963, departed this earth February 25 1989, at peace March 31, 2005." What Eisenberg and so many in the bioethics community conveniently forget is that all too often the most horrendous acts of cruelty and evil are committed by those that, like them, are absolutely certain that what they are doing is good and just. Jacob Bronowski devotes a chapter in his classic work "The Ascent of Man" to the issue of knowledge and uncertainty. In describing the Nazi horror he stands in swamp outside the crematorium at Auschwitz and declares: "When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. This is what men do when they aspire to the knowledge of gods... We have to cure ourselves of the itch for absolute knowledge and power."
If you feel you must read this book I would at least urge you to exam impartially the other side. Read Wesley Smith; read David Galenter, read Dr. Daniel Eisenberg; read Jacob Bronowski; read Rita Marker, and yes read father Frank Pavone whom Eisenberg so brutal and unjustly demonizes. They are my heroes. And question Eisenberg's statements, his description of the events, his conclusions and especially his demonizing of those who disagree with him. Sometimes one's motives and philosophies can be revealed in the most trivial passages. There is one such sentence that especially struck me in "Using Terri"; on p 191 Eisenberg describes the scene at the hospice on the last day of Terri life: "A woman blew on a shofar - a ritual horn sounded by the ancient Hebrews during battle." As a Jew and as human being I find such appalling ignorance of my religion deeply insulting. But in a wider sense perhaps it is symptomatic of Eisenberg's utter contempt for everything that does not fit into a purely secular framework and does not worship at the altar of the false god of autonomy.

The Thinking Person's Guide to the Schiavo Case.......2005-10-24

If you believe anything that Jeb Bush, George Bush, Tom DeLay, Bill Frist, Jesse Jackson, Robert Schindler, Mary Schindler, Bobby Schindler or Suzanne Schindler has said about the Terri Schiavo case, don't read this book. Actually, if you believe anything those people have said about the Schiavo case, you're not smart enough to read this book. Jon Eisenberg is an appellate attorney whose stock-in-trade is fact. Want to know who funded the Schindlers through bogus appeal after bogus appeal? Read Using Terri. Want to see how the judicial process can be undermined by the same people who scream about activist judges? Read Using Terri. It's an insider's view of what went on, written by a lawyer who has the ability to make it painfully understandable. It's worth paying retail for Using Terri!

Using Terri, the Religious Right's Conspiracy to Take away Our Rights

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Using Terri, the Religious Right's Conspiracy to Take away Our Rights
Jon B. Eisenberg
Manufacturer: HarperSanFrancisco
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