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This bestselling title has been extensively revised and updated to provide an accurate statistical portrait of the American family as it exists today. Data collected from federal and state government agencies, Gallup polls, professional journals, and research are presented in a single, easily accessible format. Nearly 350 graphs, charts, and figures are provided. The second edition reflects the changing demographics of the American family. Among the issues receiving new or expanded coverage are the amount of time husbands spend doing household tasks, the concept of equal pay for equal work, parents' interaction with children, child abuse, household income, and fathers' participation in child care.
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In the first full biography of Lieutenant General John McAllister Schofield (1831-1906), Donald Connelly examines the career of one of the leading commanders in the western theater during the Civil War and the role of politics in the formulation of military policy during both war and peace in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Connelly relates how Schofield, as a department commander during the war, had to cope with contending political factions that sought to shape military and civil policies. Following the war, Schofield occupied every senior position in the army--including secretary of war and commanding general of the army--and became a leading champion of army reform and professionalism. He was the first senior officer to recognize that professionalism would come not from the separation of politics and the military but from the army's accommodation of politics and the often contentious American constitutional system.
Seen through the lens of Schofield's extensive military career, the history of American civil-military relations has seldom involved conflict between the military and civil authority, Connelly argues. The central question has never been whether to have civilian control but rather which civilians have a say in the formulation and execution of policy.
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An overlooked officer.......2006-05-09
John Schofield was one of those young men who managed to graduate from West Point just before the start of the Civil War. When the war began, like many others, he quickly became a general officer. Unlike many others, he retained this rank for the rest of his very long career. He held administrative and battlefield commands during the war, was Secretary of War, superintended West Point, and eventually became commanding general. Yet, he is almost unknown outside the circle of civil war experts and even within that group is not a major subject of research. This book will fill that gap. It is copiously detailed and covers every aspect of Schofield's career. The book centers on Schofield's negotiation of the politics of the military life. However, the author provides an opbjective and appropriately critical discussion of Schofield's role in the Atlanta/Franklin/Nashville campaigns. Schofield's personal virtues and flaws are also analyzed. As the book deals with army administration, army/congressional relationships, and politics, it is not a quick read. However, if you are willing to devote the time needed to carefully read this book, you will come away with a good understanding of the role of this interesting and important officer.
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Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800: War, Trade, Science and Governance
Wang Gungwu
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Wang Gungwu's study of the relationship between China and the Chinese with imperial Britain examines the possibilities, as well as the limits of their encounters. Beyond the clichés of opium, fighting, and the diplomatic skills needed to fend off rivals and enemies, Gungwu probes areas of more intimate encounters, not least of which is the beginning of a broader English-speaking future between the two countries.
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The Most Amazing Book I Own.......2007-02-26
This book is amazing. I actually did the Energy Wheel and made a YouTube video showing it working entitled "Pure Mind Power" can be seen under 333CreativeGirl. The author is very clear that this doesn't work for everyone and he isn't sure why is works for some and not others. Highly recommended.
Different from any book I have read, good stuff!.......2006-08-12
This book was a bit of a letdown in a certain way.
The machines were originally built in the 1950's, and the parts listed are not available today. Then there is the matter of having to know how to follow electronic diagrams to build some of these, such as the wishing machine and the heironymous machine. Also, the machines don't do anything you would want anyway or have any practical purpose except for maybe the dowsing rods. The author says you can use these to locate objects you have lost, as well as water.
Three machines are not electronic devices: the dowsing rods, the pendulum, and the wheel, described in the next paragraph.
I built one of the three machines that did not require some hard to find electronics parts. I now see that someone has copied my instructions for making it and claim that they read the book and made this little device and even filmed it in action. It was a small square of paper folded so there is a peak in the center, and then balanced on a needle that has been stuck through a base, in my case a small cardboard box. I then cupped my hands around it very close to the paper and it turned. Yes, the paper rotated without me touching it, just from having my hands cupped closely around it.
The paper is 3 inches square and is folded diagonally corner to corner one way, unfolded, and then folded diagonally corner to corner the other way, and again unfolded so that it forms a little tent-like peak in the middle. It is then carefully balanced on a needles that has been made to stand upright by poking it through a small cardboard box or some other thing you may have handy that you can poke it through to make it stand upright. Then cup your hands around the paper as closely as you can without touching it and it may turn for you. It does not work for everyone, but it does work for most people.
The author speculates that the natural electromagnetism everyone has in their hands is what makes it turn and I agree.
The neat thing is, you can practice it every day and get better at it, without knowing what it is that you are doing to make it work better. It is done subconciously.
The "wishing machine" sounds like something most of us would like to have. The author says that it is only good for killing small organisms such as bacteria, fungi, mold, viruses and insects.
He claims he cleared up his three year old daughter's stubborn case of warts by thinking of the warts disappearing over a month's time and it worked.
He includes an electronic schematic to build one and since I am not an electrical engineer I cannot understand it at all.
There is another machine that is very involved and really does not do anything. It is the "heironymous machine". You put a mineral of any type on a plastic plate and then stroke another plate withyour fingertips until it fels like the plastic is sticky or odd feeling, then tune the machine to any frequency. Then, whenever you put that same type of mineral on the other plate, and turn the tuner dial, when you hit the original point on the dial that you tuned it to the first time with that type of mineral, the feeling you get when you stroke the plastic plate will change to that sticky feeling. In this way you can identify the type of mineral you have. This machine is very complicated to build and you do need to know something about electronics. I just don't care too much about being able to do this one.
There are about five machines in the book and two involve making some sort of complex electronic box that does not do anything more that kill bugs by wishing.
One machine involves drawing a spiral on a piece of paper, placing it over your heart and then testing your strength. Then you draw a spiral on a piece of paper that goes to the right and again testing your strength and learning that your strength lessons when the spiral goes to the right and increases when it goes to the left.
It was somewhat interesting, but really who is going to get a load of electronics parts such as transistors and assemble them? And the instructions for building them list parts that were available in the 1950's, when these things were first built, such as tubes. And the ones you draw on paper, the left and right spirals, that you then test your strength with each as you hold it over your heart, I just don't find interesting.
I may try the pendulum, but as I used to do channeling and had to stop due to the negative entities I was attracting, I am hesitent to do something like this that I feel may be used as an instrument by these same beings. I feel that the pendulum, swinging and pointing to answers on pieces of paper under it, may be controlled by similar entities that control ouijee boards, and I want none of that.
All in all it is sort of interesting but there is nothing practical here unless you want to kill insects or viruses and have the time, skill and ability to make the wishing machine.
in a class by itself.......2004-03-29
This is a strange and fun little book that challenges one's understanding of the world as we are told it exists. The ideas and devices discussed herein are "impossible" or "frauds" by the standards of some. The trouble is, they work! Maybe not always and for everyone, but they work often enough for some pretty level-headed engineer types like John Campbell and G. Harry Stine to be convinced. Campbell was the famous (some would say infamous) editor of Analog magazine during its heyday, and Stine worked as an engineer in the aerospace industry. I have personally used dowsing rods and they worked for me even though I didn't believe they would work at all. (It was a very strange feeling when they moved, too.)
The book covers such things as pyramids, dowsing rods, energy wheels, and a couple of "strange machines" called the Hieronymus machine (after its inventor) and the Wishing Machine. It even delves into the realm of "symbolic machines," variations of these devices which work even if only the schematic is used. Stine discusses his introduction to these devices, his experiments with them, people's reactions to them, and directions/methods for further research. Although not mentioned in this book, other countries, such as the former USSR, researched such things heavily, and are rumored to have made some very strange and possibly dangerous strides in this field which they call "energetics."
If you think that there is no scientific basis for any of this, you are not current in cutting-edge physics (which is in turn billions of years behind the Universe itself). The work of Myron Evans in O(3) Electrodynamics, Sach's Unified Field Theory, and Michael Leyton's work in higher dimensional symmetry, among others, give plenty of theoretical basis for these beasties to function...
Those who think such things are frauds should not waste their time here. This book is for people who are rational, open-minded, and believe in the empirical part of scientific method. Try them and decide for yourself, unless you prefer to let others do all your thinking for you. Remember, all great scientific breakthroughs were fought tooth and nail by the "keepers of the status quo" of their time.
This book is for people who want to push the envelope, not hide in it.
quirky but fascinating.......2003-11-10
this is a really neat little book that focuses on gadgets that you can build, along with some that you only have to draw. I have tried a few of these in the past, and for whatever reason, they work without a hitch; EVEN WHEN THEY SHOULD NOT WORK AT ALL. SOME MACHINES IN THE BOOK ONLY NEED BE DRAWN, AND THEY WORK AS IF IT WAS AN ACTUAL PHYSICAL CONTRAPTION!
This book represents plans and 'machines' the author made himself, following plans from other inventors and experimenters. He mentions other curious machines and theories, but, unfortunately for all of us, did not include any of those, as he felt they were 'unverified' by him. It would have been an interesting trail to follow if he would have. (Of course, for all of us tinkerers, how would it have been if Tesla had left simpler plans for us too?).
The ideas and machines in this book date from the 1950's. Even one of the 'battery-powered' ones does not need any batteries to work- just a schematic sketch of one! Strange but true.
Simple and Straightforward.......2003-09-17
And it appears to work. I've had this book around for several years. Occasionally I'll pull it off the bookshelf and try another of the experiments Stine describes. Thus far I've found them to work without being actually useful. However, as a matter for exciting the curiousity and reinforcing the understanding we sometimes forget, that science and humans don't understand much about the universe, this book is great. I'd recommend it to readers of all ages.
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In 1946, Paula Fox walked up the gangplank of a partly reconverted Liberty with the classic American hope of finding experienceor perhaps salvationin Europe. She was twenty-two years old, and would spend the next year moving among the ruins of London, Warsaw, Paris, Prague, Madrid, and other cities as a stringer for a small British news service. In this lucid, affecting memoir, Fox describes her movements across Europes scrambled borders: unplanned trips to empty castles and ruined cathedrals, a stint in bombed-out Warsaw in the midst of the Communist election takeovers, and nights spent in apartments here and there with distant relatives, friends of friends, and in shabby pensions with little heat, each place echoing with the horrors of the war. A young woman alone, with neither a plan nor a reliable paycheck, Fox made her way with the rest of Europe as the continent rebuilt and rediscovered itself among the ruins. Long revered as a novelist, Fox won over a new generation of readers with her previous memoir, Borrowed Finery. Now, with The Coldest Winter, she recounts another chapter of a life seemingly filled with storiesa rare, unsentimental glimpse of the world as seen by a writer at the beginning of an illustrious career.
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Different than I expected.......2007-10-04
The book dealt more with her social/personal life than with her as a journalist in the aftermath of the war. The book is well written and very readable, I had just expected more of a post-war history.
I'm sufficiently intrigued by her story that I've already bought her other biographical book, "Borrowed Finery," and look forward to reading it.
Coleen from Kent, Wa
Give me more of the same!.......2006-03-08
I am addicted to memoires of all types and this is one of the most touching in its honest, sparse style. I also enjoyed Fox's memoire "Borrowed Finery."
I didn't like her novels -- Poor George, Desperate Characters, and The West Coast -- all that much. They, too, are sparse, but somehow in a novel I find the lack of detail and concrete information more troubling.
Sparse yet moving.......2006-03-06
Those who did not like this book must not have read any of Paula Fox's other books. Her sparse, unsentimental style may not appeal to anyone, but to those who know and love her writing, of which there are many, this book is representative of her work and highly recommended. Many of the vignettes are profoundly moving.
Brief, haunting, post-war impressions .......2006-02-28
Paula Fox's impressionistic memoir of her year in Europe immediately after the war in 1946, "The Coldest Winter," paints small scenes that evoke larger feelings, much like her earlier memoir, "Borrowed Finery." In both books Fox shifts, sometimes abruptly, from one experience to another, moving through the memories that stuck in her mind through the years. She was only 23 at the time of her European trip, a willing, but not lighthearted soul.
"The Coldest Winter" benefits from a reading of "Borrowed Finery," the 2001 award-winning memoir of her childhood, now out in paperback. The impressions of a fairly impoverished American innocent, alone and quiet, though by no means meek, among the war worn people of London, Paris, Warsaw and Spain take on greater heft when you know the trauma and rootlessness of Fox's own childhood.
The daughter of glamorous, feckless, disturbed parents, Fox had been left at a Manhattan foundling home days after her birth, "by my reluctant father, and by Elsie, my mother, panic-stricken and ungovernable in her haste to have done with me." Her parents were Hollywood screenwriters and her father was an alcoholic of the impulsive type who might insist his daughter visit then leave her with friends - or forget to go the railway station to pick her up at all. Her mother remained consistently hostile and terrifying.
There was, however, love in her life. Reverend Elwood Amos Corning, a Congregational minister in a poor, rural upstate community, took her in at five months old and provided unconditional love and safety. What he could not do, however, was protect the child from the erratic claims of her parents. Each week after the comforting ritual of his church service she would have a moment of panic.
"My unquestioning trust in Uncle Elwood's love, and in the refuge he had provided for me...would abruptly collapse. In an instant I realized the precariousness of my circumstances. I felt the earth crumble beneath my feet. I tottered on the edge of an abyss. If I fell, I knew I would fall forever.
"This happened too every Sunday after church. But it lasted no longer than in takes to describe it."
Eventually the day she dreaded arrived. After a horrific year in Malibu with her parents, from which she was rescued by Uncle Elwood, her Spanish grandmother, Elsie's mother, shows up to claim her once and for all. "She is of my blood," Candeleria tells Elwood.
"It was far worse than a fairy tale enchantment. My parting from the minister was an amputation."
Two of Elsie's four oddball brothers live with Candeleria. One of them is almost as terrifying as Elsie while the other is kind and playful. He lifts her out of the depression that has crept over her. But nothing can make her world safe again.
"The Coldest Winter," has a melancholy, almost desperate aura that readers who have not read the earlier memoir will find perplexing, having no way of knowing that Fox is running off to Europe to escape her New York life and the searing memories of a brief, brutal marriage and a sad pregnancy which ended with an instantly regretted adoption.
Though Fox often conveys the impression of being an outsider looking on at the world, this feeling is especially pronounced in "The Coldest Winter." In London she gets a job working for a publisher. One day a policeman knocks at her door, asking for her work permit, then takes her to the station to get one.
"I had heard that one needed a work permit but had not taken the requirement seriously. Perhaps it was myself I did not take seriously. For a minute I grasped at the shadowy nature of reality; of how one moves through it like a mist, forever thinking of what comes next and how impalpable the present is.
"I made my way back to Wandsworth, chastened....I held the work permit in my hand, consoled by its meaning: The government protected its citizens and took my presence in England seriously."
Later, working for a small news wire, she meets people still reeling from the war - a fascist youth who talks raptly of executions he had witnessed, a tireless American Jew driven by the guilt of remaining unscathed by the Holocaust, a former political prisoner whose twin daughters had been killed by Mengele, and, most haunting of all, the children at an orphanage for those born in the camps. Enmeshed with these small, intense portraits is the bone-chilling cold of that winter, the glamour of hobnobbing with real journalists in smoky bars, and the general privation and destruction that prevailed throughout Europe in 1946.
The author of six novels and the Newbery Award-winning author of many children's books, Fox's prose is as elegant as it is spare, conveying a haunting, sad beauty that remains with the reader long after the last page is turned.
--Portsmouth Herald
A genuine memoir, wholly satisfying.......2006-01-21
This is what a memoir should be. The Coldest
Winter does not purport to be a history of the immediate post war countries that she visited but, rather, a story of herself, a frightened young woman with ambitions that she didn't understand and her struggle to reach up to a higher calling that was driving her. The writing is exquisite, this is as much about the cold that enveloped Europe that winter as it is about the people or the politics that lurched along uncertainly after the holocaust. Anyone expecting to read a study of the post war European condition should look for another book. This a small gem by one of our best writers and a true national treasure.
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Bloody Revenge: Emotions, Nationalism and War
Thomas J. Scheff
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"In an elegantly argued analysis, Thomas Scheff has illuminated the causes of war in the light of family and small-group behavior. This is masterful historical sociology, which undercuts the reason of state and the logic of nationalism that have sustained so many of the atrocities of our century. By examining how the simplest quarrels work, Scheff shows us how to begin to solve the seemingly intractable causes of violence in our time."
—Edward Muir, History, Northwestern University
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Brilliant and insightful.......2001-05-03
Bloody Revenge boldly cuts across the divisions between sociology, psychology, and history. It ranges from micro processes of quarrels to a broad look at international relations. Scheff's insight into the emotion of shame, which he calls the master emotion, illustrates how the social emotional processes can lead to protracted conflict. It is a truly important and brilliant book that is on the forefront of human knowledge.
Brilliant and insightful!.......2001-05-03
Bloody Revenge boldly cuts across the divisions between sociology, psychology, and history. It ranges from micro processes of quarrels to a broad look at international relations. Scheff's insight into the emotion of shame, which he calls the master emotion, illustrates how the social emotional processes can lead to protracted conflict. It is a truly important and brilliant book that is on the forefront of human knowledge.
NAIVE...UNREALISTIC.......1999-06-27
The author presents a naive view on politics and diplomacy. Go ahead and read his interview for a good laugh... Talk about an ego.
Not Even Worthy Of A Star.......1999-05-12
As a student of sociology, I thought the analysis was minimal at best. You're left pondering what the actual conclusion of the entire book falls under or maybe that's the ultimate conclusion of the book that there are no conclusions except that Scheff has left us with more questions to be asked than answered.
Very interesting........1998-12-03
As a student of sociology aspiring to in-depth studies of conflict theory, I found this book very interesting and not at all unfriendly to the novice.
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On assignment for Newsweek, noted photojournalist John Annerino journeyed deep into one of the least hospitable spots on the planet — the scorched 4,100-square-mile "empty quarter" that straddles Mexico and Arizona. There he met four Mexican nationals determined to cross a 130-mile trail illegally to find work to feed their families. Dead in Their Tracks is the record of their experience. Annerino’s unflinching camera and sensitive text capture the lives of these men, along with the ranchers, Border Patrol trackers, and drug runners whose livelihoods also depend on this grim realm. Dead in Their Tracks’ unforgettable images of anonymous travelers who may survive, and the bleached bones of those who did not, show the ultimate price sometimes exacted by an unforgiving nature — and by those who make policy in this area. 70 photographs and maps are featured in this harrowing chronicle of the dangers and struggles fought for a better way of life.
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Not worth the time or effort to read.......2007-08-09
This book was extremely disappointing unless you would like to know how many gallons of water it takes to illegally cross from Mexico into the United States. The author takes a liberal and sympathic view of illegals and tries to sway the reader into thinking that breaking the law is OK for these people. Give me a break. Where is the equal-sided journalism? What about the economic drain to healthcare, gang violence and drugs that these people bring into the United States? If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and swims like a duck then it is a duck. Illegals are illegals are illegals. Don't waste your time on this book.
Walk the Line in this New World.......2006-02-01
-"Photojournalist John Annerino plunges into a world few Americans ever consider, much less confront: a pitiless trek through the southwestern Arizona Desert that can deliver a man to steady work - or to a whimpering death," Laura Brooks, The Arizona Daily Star.
-"Anyone interested in this slaughter should run, not walk, to John Annerino's Dead in Their Tracks," Charles Bowden, author of Down by the River.
-"A passionate chronicle. The story...is gripping and profoundly disturbing," Susan J. Tweit, The Bloomsbury Review.
-"A stunning portrayal of the dangers (including death) faced by immigrants eager to work in the United States," Library Journal.
-"I'm trying to illuminate the lives of those who continue to die in America's killing ground," Annerino said," abcnews.com.
-"A gripping firsthand account of crossing the Camino del Diablo in the company of Mexican nationals...Annerino's evocative words and haunting pictures make the issue impossible to ignore," Donnamarie Barnes, People Magazine.
-"The story is riveting.Annerino's writing is emotional and graphic," Ernesto Portillo, San Diego Union-Tribune.
-"Through cholla cactus and scorpions, along sands simmering at 140-160 degrees, John Annerino and four Mexican companions stumble toward an oasis north of poverty: the American dream," oneworldjournies.com.
-"The book is a testament and a memorial.Thirty pages list the known dead...Annerino deserves praise for putting this story into words and pictures," Will Chaffey, San Antonio Express-News.
-"A gripping work of investigative reporting," Nicole Davis, National Geographic Adventure.
-"Seen on CNN and featured on CNN Bokchat, John Annerino has worked on the border for Newsweek, ABC Primetime, National Geographic Adventure, and America 24/7," KmG
Flesh and Bones.......2006-01-26
"A passionate exponent of more human solutions to the problems of illegal border crossings...John Annerino, an Arizona writer-photojournalist, tells the story up close and personal in a gut wrenching, bare knuckle account...His account puts flesh and bones on the story behind the dreams, and skeletons,too," Desert Candle.
Annoying, short, and thoroughly belabors the obvious........2005-06-09
This book is poorly written, _utterly_ disjointed, and has a cloying sentimentality that is really annoying. By that I mean it's not at all analytical: it includes random snippets of poems, etc. that serve only to confound the reader looking for some meat. Plus, there are certain phrases like "cutting sign" that I hadn't the foggiest idea about until I looked it up. Help the reader out here.
Yeah, it's hot as hell in the desert, and it's doggone handy to have water. It sucks that people are dying in the desert and the forces that draw them to _El Norte_ are highly complex and not necessarily their fault. Still, they are breaking the law from the word go, and well they know it, and it seems to me there are worse tragedies involving truly innocent people. Plus, it peeves me to no end that these illegals have largely trashed some of the most beautiful and exotic wildernesses in the U.S. So my sympathy is just not all that deep.
The photos are for the most part of lousy quality as well. Why it took carrying several cameras, as the author claims, to produce these pictures is beyond me.
Lastly the book is VERY short, with a ridiculously long appendix addressing every single death that has occurred in this area ... newsflash: no one is going to read that.
How could the editors have allowed a book like this to go to press? It's absolutely amateurish, despite being driven by sincere emotions.
Those who dare........2004-08-28
There are those who call themselves experts on the subject and those who are. John is the genuine expert. His points on the subject can only be done by being there and doing it. That is John, that is how he is. That is how he lives. A Master photographer, a Father, Journalist. His treatment on the border issue is a no-holds-barred trip into the unknown. He makes it known, he does it masterfully! When I read Dead in Their Tracks I found it to be the best publication on the subject. It should be required reading for those who are studying Hispanic Culture here at the University of Arizona! When one has the folks at ABC News and other News organizations beating on your door for your knowledge on the subject you know it is John Annerino. When you read a John Annerino book or see his imigaes you are guaranteed that you have exposed to the very best in subject treatment. Dead in Their Tracks will take you for a ride you won't soon forget.
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Reprint of the 1891 edition (London). Hardbound. Cloth. Oversized.pp.xxviii. 289. This important biliography is a primary reference on Falconry. In all 378 early books in nineteen languages are described in detail. It was the first substantial bibliography on the subject and remains to this day one of the few references ever published. Harting spent twenty years collecting books, an experience he put to good use in compiling this bibliography. Most books he had either procured, seen or examined. The arrangement of the book is by language, then by author. The descriptions are very thorough, providing full author, title, and very useful and detailed annotations about each book. Harting also lists all the editions of the various titles. The bibliography is also illustrated with black and white illustrations. Though once reprinted, no edition is currently available. Besterman 2100
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