The Breathing Disorders Sourcebook (Sourcebooks)

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Breathing disorders are one of the most common problems bringing patients to doctors' offices. The causes are diverse, ranging from anxiety to specific diseases of the brain, heart, lungs, and nasal and throat passages. The Breathing Disorders Sourcebook is an extensive guide to the causes, symptoms, and treatments for different types of breathing disorders. It explores the normal mechanisms involved in the act of breathing as well as what can go wrong and describes what to expect during the medical evaluation.

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If you have a breathing disorder.......2007-02-21

I am a non-smoker with COPD and allergies. Due to my job, I have access to just about any medical reference I want. I wanted a guide for medications and conditions to help me be better informed about my problems. I found this guide to be very useful. Dr. Adams presents excellent information on both diseases and conditions as well as medications. This book is a couple of years old, but still as up to date with medications as possible, and still quite useful. I am hoping he will update this guide soon, and I would purchase it if he did. I also have his newer guide to asthma, and it is quite good as well. I would recommend this if you need a reference for lung problems.

The Brathing Disorder Source book by Adams.......2005-09-06

Just as other reviewers had said, this is a great fundamental guide understanding breathing disorders. I got my brother-in-law a copy so he could read it as well to try and figure out what is wrong with him. His doctors can't tell him why he has disabling shortness of breath after crossing the room. We are going to create our own theory and present it to his doctors to comment on and this book is all we needed to draft that theory. The book gives hope and that is what I need right now.

Outstanding Guide to Breathing Disorders and Treatment.......1999-04-13

The Breathing Disorders Sourcebook is "the guide" on the breathing process and the disorders that are associated with it. Diseases of the air passaages reviewed include, Rhinitis, Nasal Polps, Sleep Apnea, Asthma, Chronir Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Brochiectas, Cystic Fibrosis, and Lung Cancer. The book also covers diseases of the air sacs and pulmonary vessels. The introductory chapter has a good primer on how the respiratory process works and is integrated with the rest of the body. Another chapter is devoted to medical evaluation and treatment, signs and symptoms of breathing disorders. The text is succinct and direct, with figures and illustrations to help the reader. At times, the book can be technical for the lay reader, but the book includes a useful glossary for terms that are unfamiliar. Perhaps the best value of this book is the abundance of resource material in the Appendix. There are listings of how to get information by phone, contact referral centers, pulmonary rehab centers, national organizations, newsletters, books and pamphlets, allergy and repiratory supplies, and of course, my favorite, a guide to the best web sites on breathing disorders. If you have a breathing disorder, this book definately should be read and will serve well as a future reference. The author brings a lot of experience to his book and it is clear he knows what he is talking about. A small investment for such an tremendous amount of information and advice.

A must read for anyone with a breathing problem........1999-01-29

How do we breathe. Dr. Adams' dandy book lets us count the ways of how we breathe, what can go wrong and what can be done to help us breathe easier. I found the Breathing Disorders Sourcebook a great read with so much information that will allow you to improve your breathing and in many cases avoid lung disease by lifestyle changes. I recommended this book to anyone that has a lung disorder or wants to prevent getting a lung disorder.

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After the fall of the Philippines in 1942 - and after leading the last horse cavalry charge in U.S. history - Ed Ramsey refused to surrender. Instead, he joined the Filipino resistance and rose to command more than 40,000 guerrillas. The Japanese put the elusive American leader at the top of their death list. Rejecting the opportunity to escape, Ramsey withstood unimaginable fear, pain, and loss for three long years. Lieutenant Ramsey's War chronicles a remarkable true story of courage and perseverance.

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Humanizes the sacrifices and tragedies of war.......2006-07-30

Col. Ramsey, on foot in the junlges of the Philippines, with only the help of the kind Philippine people----puts war in human terms and visions I can relate to. People suffer with death, starvation, torn off body parts, and disease. Horrible. As a teacher I may use this book to tap into my student's 'schema,' or mental map, to help them visulize the realities of war as being the dreadful scarifice it is, rather that some sort of unreal view of war as a "star wars" game.

Knew Ramsay well.......2006-04-24

From 1960-64 I worked with Ramsay almost daily as a member of the US Embassy in Tokyo while he was VP for Hughes Aircraft in Tokyo. Hughes and two other US companies were bidding on a large joint US/Japan air weapons control project that Hughes in 1963 won. During this time he never once mentioned his guerrila activites during WW II except except a for small clue when he got for my wife and me a Visa during a visit by him to the PI Embassy to visit Clark after the PI govt had refused them through regular channels. During the visit to Clark I asked a number of citizens if they had heard of Ed Ramsay and with little exception they said he was a National Hero. After reading a summary of Lt Ramsay's War in the Readeer's Digest I obtained the un-abridged version and agree with the comments of others about his disclipine and dedication to his country he exhibited in setting up and operating a highly effective guerilla force in the Philippines at great risk to himself and those that worked with him. The book has now been republished and is well worth reading.
Bill Millis

A riveting story of life on the run........2004-01-04

This book describes what barely can be described. The hardships, the fear, the exhaustion, the hunger, the brutality, the uncertainty of ones fate. It's all right here, and all are apt descriptions of the life of Lt. Ramsey from the fall of Bataan until the time in 1945 that Gen MacArthur returned to liberate the Phillipines.

Lt. Ramsey (who was promotoed to Lt. Colonel over the course of his service in the jungle) was a very important leader of the resistance. He personally exchanged a few messages over the radio with MacArthur himself, and it was years before Ramsey even knew that MacArthur was getting his messages, as he went without radio contact for the first two years of the war.

Many of Ramsey's fellow resistance leaders, some of them officers he served with, or under, prior to the war, were captured, tortured, and beheaded. Informants were everywhere, and every move was a risk. Yet Ramsey never sat still, and his years were spent traveling, at great risk, throughout the Phillipines and organizing the resistance. Many close calls with the Kempa-tei, the Japanese secret police, followed. Ramsey eventually became the most wanted man on the island, after many of his fellow leaders were captured. He eventually went on to command a force of 40,000 resistance fighters.

The leader of the Kempa-tei, General Baba, personally conducted many of the raids and had a picture of Ramsey on his desk. Many times Ramsey was only yards from Japanese troops.

Of course, when this all started, Ramsey had no clue how to wage guerrilla war. But he learned, through trial and error, and it is amazing that he even survived the war. If that isn't enough, this is a man who survived having his appendix removed in the jungle by a doctor who had no morphine to numb the pain!

This is the kind of stuff Hollywood needs to make movies about. Instead we are stuck with the same dumbed down, recycled nonsense that apparently someone finds entertaining. And sadly the exploits of this true American hero go largely unknown by the majority of this country. I'm glad I am no longer one of them.

A Truly Heroic Man.......2002-10-20

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in World War II. It tells the story of the real heroes of Bataan, the men who refused to surrender but went into the mountains to continue the war against the Japanese. Lieutenant Edwin Price Ramsey should have been awarded the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines.

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LOYALTY, PATRIOTISM, HEROISM and UNSELFISH DEVOTION.......2001-06-01

Those words barely begin to speak of the sacrifices Lt. Edwin Price Ramsey gave for his fellow countrymen, the war effort against the Japanese in the Philippines, the behind the scenes guerilla movement, and the Honor he bestowed upon the United States of America through his actions and his command. This gentlemanly young officer went from the glory of Army Polo into the depths of an unsuspected Hell in a matter of months to become well known as the leader of the very last Cavalry Charge in United States Army History for which the Distinguished Service Cross was bestowed upon him, at the age of 24!

This in-depth bio eloquently traces the Lieutenants' life from childhood to the end of WWII. His remarkable true story has more twists than a licorice stick as well as plenty of eye filling emotional sledge hammers.

I recommend this book highly to anyone who would like to know what the phrase "sacrifice for country" really means.

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Discovering the Twentieth-century World: A Look at the Evidence
Merry Wiesner , Julius Ruff , and Franklin Doeringer
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Establishing, maintaining and refining a comprehensive Process Safety Management (PSM) and Risk Management Program (RMP) is a daunting task. The regulations are complicated and difficult to understand. The resources available to manage your program are limited. Your plant could be the target of a grueling PSM and RMP compliance audit by OSHA and/or the EPA, which could scrutinize your facility according to their stringent audit guidelines. Ask yourself some questions. . . *Is your municipal plant or industrial facility ready to meet new OSHA and EPA PSM/RMP regulations? *Do you understand OSHA's and EPA's requirements? *Do you know how OSHA/EPA are interpreting PSM/RMP requirements? *Are you prepared for a possible audit? *Is your existing PSM/RMP comprehensive, maintainable and cost-effective? If you answered "no" to any of these, you need the expert guidance provided by A Guide to Compliance for Process Safety Management/Risk Management Planning (PSM/RMP) In recent years, chemical accidents that involved the release of toxic substances have claimed the lives of hundreds of employees and thousands of others worldwide. In order to prevent repeat occurrences of catastrophic chemical incidents, OSHA and the USEPA have joined forces to bring about the OSHA Process Safety Management Standard (PSM) and the USEPA Risk Management Program (RMP). Chemical disaster situations can occur due to human error in system operation and/or a malfunction in system equipment. Other emergency situations that must also be considered and planned for include fire, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, snow/ice storms, avalanches, explosions, truck accidents, train derailments, airplane crashes, building collapses, riots, bomb threats, terrorism, and sabotage. Be prepared! *Determine the differences and similarities between OSHA's PSM and EPA's RMP regulations *Survey your facility to determine your needs *Plug your site-specific data into regulation templates *Prepare your data records for your PSM compliance package *Calculate your "Worst Case" scenarios *Assemble a viable PSM program in a logical, sequential, and correct manner *Supervise program implementation elements with the overall management system This user friendly, plain English, straightforward guide to new EPA and OSHA regulations describes, explains and demonstrates a tested, proven, workable methodology for installation of complete, correct safety and risk programs. It provides the public administrator, plant manager, plant engineer, and organization safety professionals with the tool needed to ensure full compliance with the requirements of both regulations. Those with interests in HazMat response and mitigation procedures will also find it of use. This guidebook is designed to be applicable to the needs of most operations involved in the production, use, transfer, storage, and processing of hazardous materials. It addresses Process Safety Management and Risk Management Planning for facilities handling hazardous materials, and describes the activities and approach to use within U.S. plants and companies of all sizes. From the AuthorThis guidebook is designed to enable the water, wastewater, and general industry person who has been assigned the task of complying with these new rules to accomplish this compliance effort in the easiest most accurate manner possible. A Guide to Compliance for Process Safety Management/Risk Management Planning (PSM/RMP) is user-friendly. This How-To-Do-It guide will assist those who are called upon to design, develop, and install PSM and RMP systems within their companies or plants. It describes, explains, and demonstrates a proven methodology: an example that actually works and has been tested. More than anything else, this guidebook really is a "Template." It provides a pattern that can be used to devise a compliance package that is accurate. Simply stated: like the standard template, this guidebook can provide the foundation, the border, the framework from which any covered organization's PSM and RMP effort can be brought into proper compliance. The user simply "plugs in" site specific information into the model presented in this guidebook. This guidebook first shows that PSM and RMP are similar and are interrelated in many ways and different in only a few ways. Many of the processes listed in PSM are also listed in RMP; the additional RMP processes are in industry sectors that have a significant accident history Along with showing the similarities and interrelationships between PSM and RMP, the requirements of RMP that are in addition to those listed in PSM are discussed. This guidebook also discusses the RMP requirement for off-site consequence analysis and the methodology that can be utilized in performing it. If the PSM project team follows this format, it will be able to assemble a viable PSM program in a logical, sequential, and correct manner.

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Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through times of despair. This deeply moving book is a father's memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy.

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I was in the Barnes and Noble on Broadway and couldn't find "Death Be Not Proud.".......2007-09-13

I was in the Barnes and Noble on Broadway and couldn't find "Death Be Not Proud." I was looking in the biography section and needless to say I was surprised on not finding it. I called an older clerk over and he looked too. He knew the book and he knew Johnny's story. He, too, was shocked.
We went to the computer and found out that it was classified as Biography, but as "Literature."
That started a conversation between the clerk and me. I told him that I just got back from Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, NY and seen Johnny's grave. I wanted to buy a copy of the book as a remembrance. He took a break and we had an interesting and thoughtful conversation about it.
More than a biography, more than a piece of literature, Death Be Not Proud is a celebration of life which is also a celebration of one particular life. The book is written by Johnny's Dad and tells the story of the last year of Johnny's after he developed a brain tumor. The humanity and decency of his parents, his doctors, but mostly, Johnny comes through on every page.
I was reading a critique by someone who thought that the book was pablum and a failure. They just don't get it. Johnny the whole time he is dying is keeping everyone else's spirits up. There can be no greater act of selflessness, than cheering up those who love you while you fight the good fight, even when you know that you aren't going to win. I think Johnny knew he was dying from the beginning and he dealt with it by "filling the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run."
A few weeks before he died, Johnny received notification that he had been accepted by Harvard. Over a year of suffering but he still attain his greatest goal.
Johnny Gunther was a man and, to me, "a man for all seasons."
I know that it is highly unlikely, but I wish everyone who faced death had a father, brother, sister, mother or friend like Johnny's Dad. Thanks to John Gunther Sr., Johnny will live forever.
And that is only right.

Shared pain...........2007-09-05

My Mom had me read this old classic when I was about 10, only the book was not all that "old" then. I've reread it several times, and introduced my two kids to it at a young age, though certainly not at 10. This is WAY too heavy for the average youngster; fortunately, I've got pretty good reading ability.

John Gunther was a well-known author and journalist of the 1930's thru the 60's, famous for his "Inside" books; in April, 1946, his only child, Johnny, was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor....he lived 15 months, most of it miserable, with small doses of hope thrown in. Gunther and his ex-wife, Frances, joined forces and did all that could have been done.

This is the story of Johnny's courage and determination. No child is as great as Gunther paints his son, but a father can be forgiven. The events surrounding Johnny's high school graduation somehow make the fight worth it. That Johnny fought without the comforts of religious faith is, of course, tragic...still, he fought.

An excellent picture is given of cancer treatment in the late 1940's, with introduction to Wilder Penfield, and other grand master neurosurgeons of the day. Chemotherapy was in its very infancy; diagnostic imaging was far different, and often brutal, with CAT scans and the MRI far in the future. We get to meet Max Gerson, and his controversial diet; I believe it's still in use. Cancer treatment is much different now, and the results for many types of tumors much better, but one irony is that the prognosis of glioblastoma multiforme is essentially what it was 60 years ago. And radiation therapy and neurosurgery are still rough.

My Mom was right about one thing; this book is still around long after John Gunther's other work is dated, and forgotten. A father shared his grief...I forgive him his excesses, and still recommend the book.

Less Impressive Than I Had Expected.......2007-09-03

A journalist and occasional novelist, John J. Gunther (1901-1970)was best known for the series of geo-political books he wrote during the 1930s and 1940s; today, however, he is best recalled for DEATH BE NOT PROUD. Published in 1949 and subtitled "A Memoir," it is a short work describing the final months of son Johnny Gunther, who died of a cancerous brain tumor in the late 1940s. Over the years many people have recommended this book to me, describing it as poetic in style, deeply touching in story, philosophical in content. Having at last read the work, I find the descriptions of it largely inaccurate and myself sharply unimpressed.

To hear his father tell it, Johnny Gunther was an entity without flaw, a seventeen year old who was charming in his shyness, brilliant beyond his years, corresponding with Einstein even as he bemoaned his lack of skill at sports, the perfect child, a paragon beyond paragons who endured great suffering with a smile. While I can easily accept the brilliance and integrity and strength of character--such people do exist--the portrait quickly becomes cloying; Gunther elevates Johnny to the level of plaster saint and it is tiresome in the extreme.

Gunther's prose is not in the least poetic; it is in fact the workman-like writing of the journalist he was. As for philosophical tone, this seems to consist of asking the time-honored questions about life and death and little more. In the end, DEATH BE NOT PROUD is the emotional purging of a grief-stricken parent who considers his loss to be unique instead of universal and therefore lacks the scope that one would really wish of this sort of memoir. Recommended, but primarily for the details it offers of the way in which cancer patients were treated in this era.

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Emotion doesn't come cleaner.......2007-04-26

"Death Be Not Proud" could have been the worst book ever written. Consider: John Gunther, Jr. loses his only son to a brain tumor in 1947, when the boy is just 17. And Johnny was no ordinary boy --- he was brilliant, caring, funny. The kind of kid about whom, after his death, people say, "He was loved by everyone he ever met."

And that's just the summary. In fact, this kid was off the charts. He did original thinking in mathematics and wrote to Einstein --- and Einstein wrote back to encourage him. Unable to attend his boarding school because of his tumor, he got all his work done, aced his college admissions tests and would have gone to Harvard had he lived. And, through his 15-month ordeal of operations and treatments and diets and doctors and hope and despair, he never showed his parents how much he was afraid.

Here's how amazing: When his surgeon told Johnny he had a brain tumor, his immediate response was "Do my parents know this? How shall we break it to them?"

Imagine having a kid like that. Your only kid. And then sitting down and typing 150 pages about him.

Only the geezers among you will recognize the author, but John Gunther was, in his day, a megastar journalist. Just after World War II, he published a book called "Inside Europe," and it was so successful he went on to write a series of "Inside" books. His novels flopped, but no matter. He was a born journalist --- he knew how to tell a story with style and economy.

And "Death Be Not Proud" is the proof.

"Johnny came home for the Christmas holiday in 1945, and he looked fit and fine." That's the first sentence of Chapter One, and it's a model. You know the boy is going to die. You know you're in for an emotional wringer. But you also know this father is going to serve it up straight, adult to adult --- he's inviting you to rise to his level.

Big ideas? They're offered as sparingly as adverbs: "What I am trying to tell, however fumblingly and inadequately, is the story of a gallant fight for life, against the most hopeless odds, that should convey a relevance, a message, a lesson perhaps, to anyone who has ever faced ill health." What he doesn't need to say: That's you, dear reader, that's all of you, later if not today.

This is the story of an emergency --- can the Gunthers find a cure for the tumor before it takes their son? --- and so the writing is, correctly, terse. Over this non-fiction medical thriller Gunther lays a story just as exciting: Johnny's effort to preserve his intellect, to make his mind triumph over his body.

Of course there is no hope. Of course --- cruelly --- Johnny gets better. Several times. Only to relapse. Each time, Gunther just lays it out. You can feel him fraying as he writes, reliving how he frayed as he lived it. But he didn't crack then and so, if only for accuracy, he won't crack now.

There is a scene in this book that should be required reading for everyone who ever has to write. It occurs at the end, when Johnny leaves his bed in New York to attend graduation at Deerfield Academy in Western Massachusetts. He's desperately ill --- he'll die just eight days later --- but he's determined to walk into chapel with his class and grasp his diploma in his left hand, just like his friends.. Gunther takes you through that walk, step by step, the chapel rocking with cheers --- good luck forgetting those pages.

And then the end. The doctors are --- let Gunther have this metaphor --- "helpless flies now, climbing across the granite face of death." The world contracts. Now it's mother, father, son, in the saddest of scenes:

"Johnny died at 11:02 P.M. Frances reached for him through the ugly, transparent, raincoat-like curtain of the oxygen machine. I felt his arms, cupping my hands around them, and the warmth gradually left them, receding very slowly upward from his hands. For a long time some warmth remained. Then little by little the life-color left his face, his lips became blue, and his hands were cold. What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief, Death took him."

An epilogue follows, but that's it, really. What can I say? Emotion doesn't come cleaner. You could throw a coin against those sentences and it would bounce back --- there's not a weak thought, an excess word.

"Death Be Not Proud" was published in 1949. It isn't likely to go out of print any time soon. The saga of a boy dying? Sure, it grabs you and holds you. But that's because the broken, grieving man who wrote it was so professional he got out of the way and just... told the story.

K. Brown - English Review.......2006-12-13

Death Be Not Proud is a story written by John Gunther about his son, Johnny Gunther, who developed a brain tumor when he was just the young age of seventeen. Throughout the time of Johnny's months with his tumor, his professors at Deerfield Academy, friends, and family are impressed by his courage and patience through the worst times. From the time when Johnny first finds out about his illness, and the likelihood that it would never be cured, Johnny has the strength and courage to go on with his studies and act as if his illness is not affecting him, even if the tumor is worsening. This book shows the struggles and the hardships of a family and their son, who is "slowly being taken by Death," (Johnny's mother, Frances Gunther) while maintaining a positive outlook. Overall, the book was fantastically written and the father and the author, captures every moment of this time in Johnny's life. The book is almost like a series of pictures. John describes everything with such rich detail that I feel that everything could be expressed in a series of photographs.
John Gunther writes "Johnny died at 11:02 P.M. Frances reached for him through the ugly, transparent, raincoat-like curtain of the oxygen machine. I felt his arms, cupping my hands around them, and the warmth gradually left them, receding very slowly upward from his hands. For a long time some warmth remained. Then little by little the life-color left his face, his lips became blue, and his hands were cold. What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief, Death took him." This quote shows how much Johnny meant to his family, and later letters sent to his parents showed that the accomplishments Johnny made while he was sick, would surely never be forgotten by the ones he knew and loved with all his heart.
After reading this story, I found myself contemplating the thought of Death stealing me or one I love away. Johnny Gunther not only gives me the strength to go on with life if you loose someone you love but also has become my hero. Hearing about the challenges he faced, and how much of an inspiration he was, I believe that there is no other way to die; to be at peace knowing the your loved ones are safe, and will go on remembering you.

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Death Be Not Proud

Manufacturer: Pyramid Books
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John Gunther's deeply moving story of his son's fight for life . . .

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Death Be Not Proud a Memoir

Manufacturer: Harper & Row
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HDMXBO

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ThIS iS A GrEat BoOk!
It was kinda slow...
Sort of slow...
A beautifully written memoir!
Reading this book made me think of life in a different way.

Death Not Be Proud
John Gunther
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
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Binding: Hardcover

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ThIS iS A GrEat BoOk!.......1999-10-11

I BeGaN ReaDiNg ThIs BoOk WiTh ThE ImPrEsSiOn ThaT It WaS JuSt TeLL ThE sToRy oF HoW a BoY's DeaTh aFfEcTeD HiS FaThEr, BuT WhEn I ReAD ThE FoRWaRd I ReaLiZeD iT WaS MuCh, MuCh MoRe ThaN ThaT. BeInG a TeeN, aT ThE aGe oF 13, I LoOk At ThE sToRy oF JoHnNy GuNtHeR aS SoMeThInG ThAt I CaN LeaRn FrOm. I ShOuLDn'T TaKe LiFe FoR gRaNtEd. I ShouLdn'T LiVe eVeRyDay aS iF It Is ToRtURe. LoOkInG aT HoW He DiEd aT ThE aGe oF 17, It SeEmS aS ThOuGh He PaSsEd ToO SoOn, BuT iF I LoOk aT iT, i KnOw ThaT I CouLd LeaVe ThIs WoRLd JuSt aS EaRLy aS He DiD. baSiCaLLy, ThIs BoOk WeNt sTraIgHt To My HeaRt aNd MaDe Me ThInK oF HoW GrEaT LiFe Is. I ReCoMmEnD ThIs BoOk To AnY PaReNt Of OnE WhO hAs DiEd, aNd aNy oF My TeEn PeErS.

It was kinda slow..........1999-07-08

I agree that the book was beautifully written, and I felt the parent's pain, but I felt it was sort of slow moving.

Sort of slow..........1999-07-08

I agree that it was beautifully written, and I feel the pain of Johnny's parents, but I felt the book was sort of slow moving. However, I do suggest you read it because it does change youre outlook on life

A beautifully written memoir!.......1999-07-06

This book was excellent, written about real events made it exciting to read, but heartbreaking to think of the love for life that was being taken away from an extrodinaire boy. The description, the entire book, written with such love for Johnny, it makes you love him and miss him also.

Reading this book made me think of life in a different way........1999-06-17

I've just finished Death Be Not Proud at school, for an independent reading project. Now, I look at life in a much different way than ever before. I think that John Gunther is trying to make us realize how precsious life really is. This book introduces you to an amazingly unforgettable character that will pop in your head and give you courage whenever your in a difficult situation. Although this isn't the most "pleasent" book I've ever read, I really think that it's beneficial to the reader.

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Death Be Not Proud A Classic

Death Be Not Proud, a Memoir
John Gunther
Manufacturer: Perennial Library
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Death Be Not Proud A Classic.......2007-06-01

A friend of mine had the book "Death Be Not Proud" by John Gunther to read as a school assignment and did not enjoy it. After finishing the book, he gave it to me to read. All I have to say is that I finished the book in one weekend. I do not know if the friend of mine and I read the same book, because I absolutely enjoyed Johnny's courage and ability to make you smile throughout the book. I cannot believe a child of seventeen could face death in such a matter that an adult could not even achieve. Here's to Johnny Gunther. I reccommend "Death Be Not Proud" by John Gunther to anyone who enjoys a good read that tugs on the heartstrings.

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DEATH BE NOT PROUD
F. KELLY
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Death Be Not Proud
John Gunther
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Death Be Not Proud
John Gunther
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Death Be Not Proud
Peter Mullen
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F Kelly
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This guide to the area of the Arnhem operation features hundreds of color photographs, detailed tours of all the monuments and battle sites, and a large color map in addition to numerous ones in the text.

Besides tourists, re-enactors, gamers and readers fascinated with the drama of the Arnhem epic will find this an invaluable guide.

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The American Democracy, with PowerWeb
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This popular mainstream, comprehensive text by renowned scholar, Tom Patterson, is driven by four goals: to draw students in, to help them think critically, to promote citizenship, and to capture the vivid world of real-life politics. Now packaged with PowerWeb, a dynamic course-specific rather than book-specific supplement that engages your students in three levels of resource materials and provides a true avenue to extending learning about a subject, The American Democracy is a necessity in any American Government course.

Customer Reviews:

Okay.......2007-06-26

The book is okay on the information it gives in the text, but the supporting graphs and charts are always biased against the south. Patterson adds unnecessary clauses that insinuate stupidity and poverty. Also, he will always ask questions about why the South is lacking even though the graph says otherwise. Also, he mainly only shows one side politically. If it isn't required get another book

What Democracy? Where? Whose?.......2007-04-12

A republic? Not in our lifetime. Lies, back room deals, murder, impeachment. The things we have seen used to depose those in office who do not walk the line. Citizens asleep, vote for the most popular, or the smoothest talker. No Veronica we have no democracy. More fascism exists in our government than democracy. Compare; A movement or tendency, or idealogy that favors dictatorial government. See IRS. Centralized control of private enterprise. What now does Mom, and Pop own? Repression of all opposition, and extreme nationalism. See Career Politician. Democracy; The free and equal right of every citizen to participate in a system of government defined by electing representatives, of the people. "Not of the dollar," by the people. "Not just the rich," for the people. "Not for Corporation Internationale."

I love my country but too, too many of us take our freedom for granted. Like any well oiled machine Democracy needs maintenance, but we do not give our freedom a second look, we rely on others, "Career Politicians" to look out for our interest. In reality these people spend more time "Dollar Chasing" to be concerned with a little thing like "FREEDOM."

Pick up the book read it, and many more like it. Understand what a true Democracy is all about, and your part in it.

The title says it all.......2007-03-05

America in NOT a democracy.

Why would you title a book this way unless you were a proponent of a democracy. If there is anyone that wants to know the difference between a constitutional republic and a democracy, they should seek other methods.

Benjamin Franklin was asked by a group of people as he left the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1787.... "Doctor, what type of government did the delegates give us?"

Franklin responded: "A republic, if you can keep it."

It is no wonder we are in the state we are today. The students aren't even being convinced to learn what a republic is! They are told to study books that advocate democracy.

American Democracy - For dummies.......2006-11-10

I am brand new to the subject but found this book an excellent starting point. It has easy to read chapters and supporting graphs. I reccomend to anyone who may be interested or a text book.

will not age well.......2006-08-27

[A review of the 7th Edition, 2004.]

This edition will not age well. There is a small irony here. The book is meant to cover over 200 years of how the US government developed. Naturally, there is an emphasis on recent decades. But scattered throughout the book, and often prominently at the starts of chapters, are events from the War on Terrorism, and of recent (2003-4) political developments. In a few years, all that might do is uncomfortably date the book.

Then again, Patterson and his publisher no doubt intend to put out more editions. In part just to induce sales of those editions, and dissuade a reuse of older, second hand editions, for which they will derive no revenue.

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The American Democracy, with PowerWeb
Thomas E. Patterson
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OGXADE

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