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- The Bible for Supplements
- An excellent introduction to vitamins, minerals, and health.
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Based on his 20 years of clinical experience, the author describes each supplement, how it works in the body, and how it should be taken. A special section identifies supplements that may help with conditions such as allergies, diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure, and arthritis.
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The Bible for Supplements.......2002-12-19
This book is the best "bible" of supplements for the layman who wants to make informed choices.
I first heard Dr. Janson on the radio, on the Mark Scott Show in Detroit in the early 90s. Dr. Janson inspires and motivates audiences to change their lifestyles, and focuses on helping individuals to achieve their potential for vitality and longevity. He has a unique background with training in both conventional Western medicine and alternative therapies.
I am not as enamoured of vegetariansim as Dr. Janson is, because I don't think it's right for me, however, his book allows you to individualize a supplement program that will help you to reach YOUR goals.
Use this book to help yourself tailor a supplement program that is suitable to your unique needs. Along with the book, take a look at his website and monthly newsletter, and let him help to guide you toward a healthier lifestyle.
An excellent introduction to vitamins, minerals, and health........2002-08-19
Recently the American Medical Association has reversed its previous position and publicly acknowledged that Americans do not get enough vitamins and minerals from our food and need supplementation. Dr. Michael Janson has been well ahead of the AMA and has known and advocated this position for years. In this excellent book Dr. Janson discusses the role of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients in human health and discusses each important nutrient in detail -- including valuable and detailed information about both food sources and nutrient supplements. If you read this book and follow Dr. Janson's advice you will almost certainly become healthier and may well also live longer and in good health. As a research chemist who is well acquainted with Dr. Janson and his understandable, common-sense approach to nutrition and health, I highly recommend this book.
Vitamin Bible.......2000-08-04
A perfect book with all information one may need re vitamins. The author writes about the changes in medicine, our risky environment, the damages from free radicals and even how stress affects our system. Stress depletes the body of nutrients, Vitamin C, B-complex, zinc and many others. He explains everything about all vitamins and their purpose, as well as other nutrients, the quantities we should take and how; all information about fat-soluble nutrients, water-soluble nutrients, mineral supplements like calcium, chromium, iron and so forth and their role. Dietary fats and essential fatty acids, amino acids and herbs all are listed in this wonderful beautifully written book. He explains when to take those supplements, their combintations, how to store them and how long to keep them.
Later on, he shows you how to set up your personal dietary supplement program, adjusted to your needs and way of living. It has a treatment program, if you suffer from a particular illness, which suppplements to use more.
It is a perfect book, simply written, not boring, stuffed with medical terms and once you 've finished it, you won't have any question regarding vitamins. Everything is explained here. I believe every house should get a copy of this book.
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The US Army had a unique tactical doctrine during World War II, placing the emphasis for tank fighting on its Tank Destroyer Command whose main early-war vehicle was the M10 3-inch Gun Motor Carriage, based on the reliable M4A2 Sherman tank chassis. This durable and versatile vehicle saw combat service from the North Africa campaign in 1943. By 1944, its gun was not powerful enough and it was rearmed with the new 90 mm gun, becoming the M36 90mm Gun Motor Carriage. This book details one of the only US armoured vehicles capable of dealing with the Panther and Tiger during the Battle of the Bulge.
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Excellent treatment on U.S. Tank Destroyers in WWII.......2004-10-27
Steven Zaloga is one of my favorite writers on AFVs and Tanks. This new series does not disappoint. I was particularly interested in the performances of the M10 and M36 in combat, and Zaloga describes those in detail, in particular the inadequacies of the 76mm gun in combat and the effectiveness of the 90mm, especially against the German Panther and Tiger tanks in the Ardennes. What I really liked were the little charts that Zaloga inserts throughout the book, which shows statistics such as the armor penetration comparisons of the 76mm & 90mm, the production numbers of the M10 and M36 in 1943-1944, the combat losses, and the conversion numbers of M10s into M36s. As usual, the Vanguard series offers great B & W photographs as well as colored illustrations of the vehicles in the middle. Zaloga always includes a good bibliography and notes on the color plates. Zaloga is able to pack it a lot of information in 48 pages of text. This is an excellent treatment of the M10 & M36. If you're an armor enthusiast or a modeler, you'll enjoy this book. Highly recommended!
A Good History of the M10 Tank Destroyer..........2004-02-03
This book describes American tank destroyer development from the unauspicious beginnings with the cheesy M5 that constantly broke down, various prototypes that weren't put in production, and halftrack mounted guns to the effective M10 and M18 76mm gun tank destroyers. Several pages describe the conversion of M10s with a new turret armed with a 90mm gun which became the M36 tank destroyer, the shortage of M10 hulls requiring some to be completed with Sherman tank hulls, as well as the British M10C Achilles armed with the much vaunted 17-Pounder gun.
After reading this book, I feel it should have been titled "The M10 Tank Destroyer...Oh Yeah, And The M36 Too". While I had no idea before reading this book that M36 tank destroyers are mostly converted M10s and also are not officially called 'Jackson', the deployment history of the 90mm M36 series feels abbreviated. Like Zaloga's M4A3(76mm) Sherman 1943-1965 book, post-war use is sparse, with only a page and a quarter of text but several nice pictures and caption commentary filling in for the laconic state of the post-war section. I certainly would have appreciated more details on how some of these foreign customers of the M10 and M36 used them; instead, the nations are described in passing, such as the Western European allies, Egypt, South Korea, Pakistan, and Yugoslavia, with no unit descriptions or how they fared in battle. It really is unfortunate that considering the Zaloga quality of work of the development and deployment of the M10 76mm gun tank destroyer, the M36 90mm gun tank destroyer appears like an afterthought that was appended merely to flesh out a book about the M10.
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Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph Conforti notes, a region is not just a territory on the ground. It is also a place in the imagination.
This ambitious work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past. Whether these stories were told in the writings of Frost or Harriet Beecher Stowe, enacted in historical pageants or at colonial revival museums, or conveyed in the pages of a geography textbook or Yankee magazine, New Englanders used them to sustain their identity, revising them as needed to respond to the shifting regional landscape.
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Imagining New England a Masterful Historical Exploration .......2005-06-13
Imagine New England and one thinks of rocky beaches, bucolic towns, grassroots democracy, intelectual, and progressive ideals. Imagine New England and one wants to be taken back to a purer, simpler, and more ideal time; a better life of white houses and steeple churches where one is apart of the history of who are and want to be as Americans and patriots.
In "Imagining New England," Joseph Conforti deconstructs the creation of the regional identify of New England in exquisite historical detail. In a blend of history and sociology, Professor Conforti searches for the "real" New England. The New England he had heard of but not seen or experienced as child growing up in the most un-New England of New England of cities, Fall River.
This book is a substantial contribution to American history. New England, the cultural invention, the concept, represents the best we want to be as Americans. It is a concept the country and the region itself continually reach for as an anchor to our roots despite the fact that the region itself long ago left it behind. Joseph Conforti captures the essence of this complex identity, both real and manufactured.
Superb overview of the "idea" of New England.......2003-09-23
This is an exceptionally well researched and beautifully written book which, for me, opened up all kinds of new ideas about the nature of "region" and "place" in general, and New England in particular. I was fascinated from the earliest section describing how the "second generation" in New England inherited the region from their parents and tried to "reinvent" the place for their own purposes, all the way to the wonderful discussion of Frost and the evolution of Yankee magazine. Conforti develops the theory that the locus of New England moved from Boston, with a brief recapture by Plymouth, on to Connecticut and now to northern New England. (Anybody see the Boston Globe magazine last week about "Magnetic North"? It fits perfectly into Conforti's theme.) What happened to Lawrence and Fall River and the immigrant population; you'll have to read to find out. If you love New England, this book is highly readable, profound, and worth the price!
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The conflict in Rwanda and the Great Lakes in 1994-1996 attracted the horrified attention of the world's media, diplomats and aid workers struggling to make sense of the bloodshed. This study shows how the post-genocide regime in Rwanda managed to impose a simple, persuasive account of Central Africa's crises upon international commentators, and explains the ideological underpinnings of this official narrative. It is a sobering analysis of how simple, persuasive, but fatally misleading analysis of the situation led to policy errors that exacerbated the original crisis.
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The conflict in Rwanda and the Great Lakes in 1994-1996 attracted the horrified attention of the world's media, diplomats and aid workers struggling to make sense of the bloodshed. This study shows how the post-genocide regime in Rwanda managed to impose a simple, persuasive account of Central Africa's crises upon international commentators, and explains the ideological underpinnings of this official narrative. It is a sobering analysis of how simple, persuasive, but fatally misleading analysis of the situation led to policy errors that exacerbated the original crisis.
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Drawing on a wide variety of contemporary journals, newspapers, films, and popular songs, Alan M. Ball compares American social, political, and cultural influence in two newborn Russian states: the young Soviet Union and the modern Russian Republic. Visit our website for sample chapters!
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A Must Read Book About the Galileo Controversy.......1999-08-22
This well researched and written book focuses upon the impact of the Counter-Reformation upon Biblical exegesis (interpretation), as determined by the Council of Trent, and how the Catholic Church managed to stumble into perhaps the most humiliating mistake in its long history--the condemnation of the Copernican view of the solar system. Surprising, to me at least (I am not Catholic), is the fact that this book was published by the University of Notre Dame Press, since it pulls no punches in assessing who was at fault and why.
It is one of those rare books that provide a whole new way of looking at a familiar subject. Highly recommended.
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"The Mitford girls were probably the most spectacular sister act of the twentieth century."—Vogue
This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; the ethereally beautiful Diana was the most hated woman in England; and Unity Valkyrie, born in Swastika, Alaska, would become obsessed with Adolf Hitler. 24 b/w photographs.
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Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other.......2007-04-02
Mary Lovell's interesting book on the Mitford sisters (and on Tom, the ill-fated brother) is a guilty pleasure indeed. Lovell has a completely new take on things that urges us to find Diana Mosley a brave 20th century heroine who fought for what she believed in and whose imprisonment during the first part of World War II was a shocking act of injustice comparable to the internment of Japanese-Americans in prison camps in the USA. Revisionist much? Yes, indeed, and that's part of its fascination. Lovell seems most determined to set on its ear David Pryce-Jones' biography of Unity Mitford. Unity, the tortured British Nazi who set her cap on the biggest Nazi of them all, Adolf Hitler, here emerges as the funniest and cutest of all the funny and cute sisters. Yes, Lovell admits, she should not have laughed when Hitler boasted of forcing a party of Jews to cut a sward of German lawn with their teeth alone--that was cruel and unMitfordlike. But outside of that, did Unity really do any actual harm? Lovell says no.
Meanwhile there is a continual hum of approval for Debo, Duchess of Devonshire, and her substantial work keeping together her husband's ancestral estates. For Lovell, preservation work of a zillionaire's estate merits the highest commendation.
Decca (Jessica) Mitford, comes off the worst, and her elopement with Spanish Civil War buff, and her first cousin, Edmond Romilly, shows how unfeeling she was to her mother and father, and she stayed a Communist for years and years (until 1958) when she should have abjured the party years ago. Well, she should never have joined up in the first place.
Many reviewers praise Lovell's evenhandedness and lack of judgement, but I haven't seen a trace of an even hand. In one telling passage Decca is stuck overnight in an Alabama church with Martin Luther King Jr, while Ku Klux Klan and 1,500 other white protestors surround the church with tear gas. "The uproar," Lovell writes, "had been caused by the surprise appearance at the event of the Freedom Fighters, a sort of flying squad pf black youths on motorcycles, who were much feared by whites in the Southern states." Oh so that's why it happened, eh? Why not just say, "The uproar has been caused by racism"? That's shorter and much more on point than your ridiculous "Freedom Fighter" excuse.
Debo and Pam aren't in the book that much, and Pam is like the invisible woman. When she goes gay ("she's become a you-know-what-bian," Decca writes to her husband) Lovell makes absolutely no comment, though she analyzes every little variation on the Mitfords' uncountable family nicknames. It's obviously not important to her, but it leaves the reader thinking, well, Pam is really a bore, which is terribly unfair to Pam (she whom her sisters called, "Woman," for she was the best of all of them) who deserves a biography of her own, one in which the biographer didn't wish her away with a "well done, Pam" from time to time.
That said, the book is like a big box of delicious candy and you just can't stop eating it till all of the sisters die (but one) and we are left contemplating the terrible, wonderful legacy of an aristocracy who could do whatever they pleased and managed to get it wrong 95 per cent of the time, empty candy wrappers scattering in the breeze. I loved it, pretty much.
Interesting Read.......2006-08-27
I loved the way the author achieved combining the personal lives of the Mitford family and the history of the times. In hindsight, it's easy to say that Diana and Unity should have been smarter about Hitler. But it was a time when he almost had a whole continent enamored with his achievement shown by the economic advances of Germany. No one in the free world acted on the atrocities that happened on his watch because these acts were incomprehensible at the time..so how could the two Mitford sisters, Diana and Unity even anticipate the horrors that he was finally associated with. They were attracted to the glamour, the power, the popularity and intelligence they believed Hitler had. Were they wrong?? Yes...but at the time it seemed like he was the rescuer, and I thought that Lovell was very fair portraying the situation..never revealing her feelings about this. It was a beautifully researched book which presented the sisters and family as very real..even Tom, who was absent during the time doinng his wartime duty, but portrayed as a very influentuial and loved character in the family. I thoroughly enjoyed this book..I became very attached to all of the sisters for different reasons..and I loved Sydney and thought she imparted a great sense of confidence for her girls to develop their independent selves..
There'll always be an England.......2006-05-20
The Mitfords were an aristocratic but not very wealthy English family. The family was so dominated in the early 20th century by six sisters that it's easy to overlook that there was also a son among the siblings. Perhaps it was the upper class rural isolation in which the children were raised that made several of them so headstrong, eccentric, and well over the top.
A biographer just couldn't make up this material. We have a Hitler-loving Nazi sympathizer, a Communist freedom fighter, a talented novelist, a sister who leaves her husband to marry the leader of the British fascist party, and a duchess.
The lives of several sisters are played out in public view, and the British press couldn't get enough of the pretty Mitford girls. The surprise is that one or two of the children have led reasonably "normal" lives.
The poor father, the publicity-shy Lord Redesdale, is overwhelmed by his children's behavior and spends a lot of time in the Canadian wilderness digging for gold.
The family story is told with the cooperation of the last surviving sister, Deborah, who became the Duchess of Devonshire. The author respected Deborah's wish that the author be reasonably respectful of the family members.
This restriction has a beneficial effect on the telling of the story. The book is devoid of cheap shots and amateur psychoanalysis. The facts themselves are sensational enough.
But the author is also prevented by this constraint from delving into the character of the father, Lord Redesdale. The facts related in the story suggest to this amateur psychoanalyst that in addition to being an eccentric, he was somewhat unbalanced.
Anyone who has been mortified by their own eccentric and embarassing family will enjoy seeing that it could be worse.
Not that interesting.......2006-03-26
Yes, these sisters are all rich and/or famous, but I found it very hard to care. Maybe because I found them boring. I'm too old to care about Paris Hilton and too young to find the era these sisters lived in very interesting.
Also Horrified.......2006-03-21
Like "Horrified" above, I was appalled by the glibness with which this book rationalized Diana's support of fascism (and Nazism). The author treats Diana and Unity's commitment to fascism as an understandable flaw (rather like a tendency to split infinitives or something), even going so far as to try to play down Mosley's politics.
As someone who has read Mosley's book, I was simply astonished at Lovell's treatment of him and Diana. Lovell mentions that people have a tendency to fall in love with Diana and forgive her everything; clearly, that's what Lovell did.
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In this book, the civilians who lived through the battle of Gettysburg recount this pivotal event in the American Civil War in their own words. The eyewitness accounts, spanning from June 15, 1863, through Lincoln's address in November of that year to the throngs gathered to open the national cemetery on the battlefield, are compelling tales told by those literally trapped inside the lines of the two great, warring armies. Many of the leading characters are women of strong character coping with situations they had never anticipated and could not hope to prepare for. The interactions between the townsfolk and the soldiers are fascinating reading. Over 160 historical photographs and illustrations accompany the text. To the authors' knowledge, never before have some of these photographs been shown or the narratives of the civilians, literally cut off from the outside world by the war, been told so completely and in their own words. The stories are gleened from diaries, letters, newspaper articles, interviews, and books written by the civilians after the fact. No effort has been made to change any of their language for any reason. There was no need. In this book, certain myths are exploded and one of the most monumental moments in American history comes to life before the reader's eyes.
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A Personal Look at the Lives of Civilian Gettysburg 1863.......2005-07-15
After reading the good and bad reviews of this book I felt I had to add my two cents, for what it's worth.
This is a very personal look at what was certainly a very nerve-wracking time for the poor folks living in the town of Gettysburg during the period of the Rebel invasion of late June / early July 1863. While the soldiers were fighting in the nearby fields, the civilian citizens were in the midst of their own invasion - first the Rebels, then the Yanks, then the leftovers of the dead and wounded.
What makes this book so intriguing is that it is almost exclusively in the words of those who were there, either taken from the diaries and journals of the citizens, or from the newspaper accounts, or from the memories of some of the folks a few years after. This makes for very intimate reading that brings the reader face to face with not only the folks of Gettysburg but up close to the horror and 'excitement' that they felt.
The photographs and lite biographies of many of the residents included help to bring it all home. In fact, this book would make a phenomenal movie (anybody listening out there?).
The reason I did not give this book a score of five was because of the typos and some of the misinformation written by messrs. Slade and Alexander. But, don't let that stop you from purchasing it - there are not that many mistakes (not that I condone these mistakes). Knowing that the majority of the words herein are the first hand accounts of the actual eyewitnesses of the insanity (and it WAS insane!) of the town of Gettysburg while the majority of soldiers fought only a short distance away on the battlefields should make any Civil War history buff crave a book such as this (as well as "Days of Uncertainty and Dread" - another Gettysburg civilian book that goes hand in hand with "Firestorm").
Through "Firestorm at Gettysburg: Civilian Voices," the citizens of Gettysburg deservedly live once again. Well worth the money.
The Story of Civilians at Gettysburg.......2003-12-14
The subject of "Firestorm at Gettysburg" by Jim Slade and John Alexander (1998) is civilian life in the town of Gettysburg before, during, and after the great battle of July 1-3,1863. The book describes well the impact of the battle on the local population of Gettysburg. This is an important and sometimes overlooked component of the history of the Battle of Gettysburg.
In many respects, this book is good and informative. Slade and Alexander draw broadly on contemporary accounts of the effect of the Battle of Gettysburg on civilians. The book opens with a good summary "Gettysburg and Some of her Citizens" which introduces the reader to many of the residents of the town who left accounts of their experiences during the Battle. The book describes briefly the pre-Civil War history of Gettysburg, its demographics, and its economic base. Again, this is an often neglected subject and I found the treatment of it here brief but informative. The book covers the Gettysburg campaign, including Jubal Early's foray through Gettysburg one week before the Battle of Gettysburg itself commenced. It then covers each of the three days of the battle and follows- up the battle with a treatment of events in the town during the Confederate retreat and its aftermath. Its discussion of the hardships involved in burying the dead and of the efforts of the Sanitary and Christian Commissions to take care of the wounded in the months following the battle was for me the most informative part of the book.
I thought the book helped me to get to know the people of Gettysburg and to see how they interacted with the Union and Confederate military forces during the Battle. The book paints a picture of fear -- understandable given the horrors of the battle - and of the real dangerc faced by the civilian populace during these tumultous days. But there are also many scenes showing how the soldiers and the townspeople learned to cooperate with and at least try to understand one another in the difficult situation that was thrust upon both the soldiers and the civilians.
There are many photographs in the book, of the battle,military leaders, civilians and of places in Gettysburg and its environs that help the reader visualize the town of Gettysburg in the 1860s and that will give the imaginative reader a feel for the town and for the impact of the Battle.
The major problems with the book are the many errors of fact it contains and the many typographical errors which suggest carelessness and unreliability. Most of these factual errors and typos are individually small but, as often happens, the reader with some familiarity with Gettysburg will find them distracting. Some photographs in particular are misidentified. Many pictures of dead soldiers following the battle are identified in the book as deriving from McPherson's Ridge, the site of the fighting on July 1. In fact, recent scholarship places the sites of these photographs at Devil's Den or the Rose Farm on the opposite side of the battlefield, several miles away from McPherson's Ridge and the scenes of major fighting on July 2. This again is not a large point in itself, given the theme of the book; but it does tend to suggest a lack of familiarity in the authors with recent Gettysburg studies. It weakens the value of the book as a source rather than as a casual read.
Slade and Alexander don't seem to have looked at their subject critically. The book basically consists of a patching -together of various eyewitness reports with no effort to synthesize or explain. Because of the episodic nature of the presentation, it is sometimes difficult to follow a character from one scene to the other. The book doesn't offer a good narrative flow or allow the reader to think through to any conclusions from the material presented.
In summary, this book has its merits and will encourage the reader to focus on the human side of the Battle of Gettysburg rather than simply on the events of the combat. The book is good for casual reading and the many photographs will stimulate reflection. The book, unfortunately, is inadequate as a historical account. It will not serve well the reader interested in a detailed, accurate treatment of the Battle of Gettysburg and the local civilian population.
Fascinating account undermined by terrible proofreading.......2000-07-24
"Firestorm at Gettysburg" provided an often fascinating account of the Battle of Gettysburg from the point of view of some of the town's residents. Usually, most accounts focus on the famous events such as the battle on Little Round Top or Pickett's Charge, but this book focuses on the chaos created in the town itself, especially as the Union troops stampeded through town and up Cemetery Hill at the end of the first day of fighting. We read how people cowered in their cellars, watched the battle from the fields or rooftops, took in wounded friend or foe, and sometimes foolishly ventured outside.
"Firestorm" also describes the battle's aftermath in horrific detail, not allowing the reader to forget the carnage that the townspeople had to deal with long after both armies had marched away. The town was overwhelmed by all of the dead and wounded left behind, and the suffering that many of the soldiers endured not only because of their wounds but also because of the conditions they were hospitalized under was truly appalling, even sickening.
The book grabbed me for many reasons. Several accounts described soldiers, from both sides, behaving despicably, or nobly, or foolishly, or patiently, or stoically, or oddly, or in a variety of other ways. Accounts of conversations between townspeople and the Confederate soldiers occupying the town intrigued me. It was good to be reminded that individuals fought this battle, not just armies.
Obviously, the residents were in the dark as to the overall progress of the battle since they were primarily concerned with keeping safely out of harm's way. The authors wisely inserted summaries of the battle periodically so the reader could compare the impressions of the residents to the actual progression of the battle.
Other accounts of events that occurred in the town captivated me. A resident's narrow escape from the bullets of a sharpshooter, the capture of Union soldiers who refused to endanger the residents of a house, the selflessness many displayed as they took wounded soldiers into their homes...there were numerous little incidents which, taken together, painted a vivid picture of the confusion, fear, tragedy, and the complexity of the Battle of Gettysburg. Overall, I enjoyed the book a great deal.
Unfortunately, this book is full of technical errors. Who proofread this? One of the other reviewers already listed several factual contradictions present in the book, contradictions that I too noticed and grumbled about. There were also numerous typographical and even formatting errors that would draw the wrath of any English teacher. These errors really annoyed me and dampened my enthusiasm for the book noticeably. How much? I'll put it this way. I read this book after borrowing it from a friend, trying to decide whether or not to buy it. I'll buy it in a heartbeat...AFTER the next edition, complete with factual and typographical corrections...comes out.
A very human story, most compelling.......2000-03-09
This tremendous book provides a compelling account of the events that transpired during the battle and beyond in the most human of terms. Never mind the military maneuvers, the body counts, and other minutia so entrancing to some. Here are real accounts of real people acting heroically to protect those they love and the wounded thrust upon them. Never before has such a story been told about Gettysburg. The day by day recounting, allowing each person to relate what they saw and felt is amazing. I only wish more "professional" historians wrote this well. This is a must read for everyone who really wants to know what happened at Gettysburg.
Entertaining, interesting, and worthwhile. . .?.......1999-07-19
If I had read first reader's review (above) I'm sure I would have been less likely to begin reading, much less finish, this book. But for all of the inconsistencies, mistakes, and other problems, this is an entertaining, usually interesting, and often moving book presented in a contemporary, TV-like style. I suppose the multitude of (mainly) amateur historians and Civil War buffs will find the scholarship sloppy but, frankly, there are very few Bruce Catton's and James McPherson's out there who have the rare capability of making sense out of the chaos of war while mainiging high literary and academic standards. Oh, well. The Civil War is a passion that many have staked out as their speciality, resulting in people who guard their area of "expertise" like a junkyard dog. I'm reminded of the cliche that they can't see the forest for the trees. And I believe that is the case here. Authors Slade and Alexander have (like most amateur history students) brought their love and fasination for Gettysburg and tried to see it from the vantage point of those who lived there, the average man, woman, and child. We read of the impending battle in the diaries and letters and follow events -- some humorous, some tragic, some mundane -- but all compelling -- through to the anticlimactic ending and beyond. I especially enjoyed the juxtapositioning of the photos with the text exerpts, putting faces with the voices, so to speak. So much history, especially that associated with the Civil War, is badly written, narrowly focused, trivial, grossly sentimental, and, well, the criticism could go for as long some of those endless tomes that crowd the shelves of your neighborhood bookstore. This book deserves to be on those shelves, but, perhaps not next to Bruce Catton!
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The poorest 46 percent of humankind have 1.2 percent of global income.Their purchasing power per person per day is less than that of $2.15 inthe US in 1993; 826 million of them do not have enough to eat. One-thirdof all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 millionannually, including 12 million children under five.At the other end, the 15 percent of humankind in the 'high-incomeeconomies' have 80 percent of global income. Shifting 1 or 2 percent ofour share toward poverty eradication seems morally compelling. Yet theprosperous 1990s have in fact brought a large shift toward greaterglobal inequality, as most of the affluent believe that they have nosuch responsibility.Thomas Pogge's book seeks to explain how this belief is sustained. Heanalyses how our moral and economic theorizing and our global economicorder have adapted to make us appear disconnected from massive povertyabroad. Dispelling the illusion, he also offers a modest, widelysharable standard of global economic justice and makes detailed,realistic proposals toward fulfilling it.
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Mr. Pogge is Clueless.......2007-08-27
Mr. Pogge seems to know as little about economics as he does about politics or the law of unintended consequences. The key to prosperity is economic freedom. Those countries with the greatest economic freedom have the least amount of poverty and the highest standards of living. He doesn't seem to realize that if you take money from the rich, you are also taking it from the people whom the rich buy from. He seems to be under the impression that if you have a million dollars, and give it to the poor, you are somehow reducing poverty more than if you hired those same poor people to build you a million dollar house. Poor people aren't poor because rich people are rich.
Highly recommended- (ALL ROYALTIES GO TO OXFAM!).......2005-08-06
This is an excellent collection of essays by one of the most important intellectual figures in the international human rights arena. An engaging combination of philosophical, political, and economic analysis, World Poverty and Human Rights offers a fresh perspective on the problems facing our world as well as constructive steps we all can (and indeed have an obligation to) take to mitigate and one day end global poverty and social injustice. Pogge has a very impressive background in philosophy (he received his PhD under Rawls from Harvard) and his writings reflect the clarity of thought and cogent argumentation his subject matter deserve. And if that isn't incentive enough, remember that all proceeds go to support Oxfam UK.
Interesting argument, but too "Ivory Tower" for practicality.......2005-02-12
In a collection of essays on so broad a scope as Pogge's World Poverty and Human Rights it's difficult to narrow topics of possible discussion down to effectively address all aspects of Pogge's presented philosophy. I found Pogge's text extremely helpful in that it brought with it a wholly unique approach to looking at the issues we're faced unique aspect presented is the strong use of illustrative examples in the text, not in the fashion of Farmer's narratives of suffering and injustices in a world thought by many to be beyond that but realized by a few of us to still have a long way to go. This is also somewhat in contrast to Sen (Development as Freedom) who relied largely on definitions, but between the two I found Pogge's examples facts and figures to be much more moving as a call to action than was Sen's, if for shock value alone if nothing else.
Being that my primary interest is world hunger and social justice which ties in directly to Pogge's arguments and pleas, I found this to be an especially appropriate text for building a basis upon which arguments may be launched and supported. In reviewing the facts of Pogge's book, some are now outdated, but the figures are large enough even in their datedness that they should scare the reader into a realization of sorts that if 800 million people in the world still go hungry, we have a long way yet to go in our efforts to enact plans such as that put forth by Schweickart (After Capitalism), and to a lesser extent, Rawls (A Theory of Justice), and that differences can in fact be made that will influence the world to the degree need to enact change. In keeping with this notion I was especially impressed with the straightforward nature with which Pogge identifies what is perhaps the single most pervasive problem in combating both poverty and the associated hunger: the fact that the affluent (or relatively so) simply don't see it for simple ignorance and lack of exposure outside a purely academic and/or missionary setting, and secondly, that when we are exposed to poverty and hunger we have a difficulty identifying with the problem and it therefore becomes less problematic to us.
Pogge's second major point is that despite all of the facts and figures he presents demonstrating the dire straights the world is experiencing in terms of hunger and poverty, we are able to put a stop to it, not with advances that would take years to develop, but with resources available to us now. We have the means. The financial costs to end hunger are relatively slight in comparison to the spending committed to aspects of world culture and policy such as the arms race and preparing for wars that further indebt countries and produce more and more individuals who become destitute and malnourished. The United Nations Development Program estimates that the basic health and nutrition needs of the world's poorest people could be met for an additional $13 billion a year; what is not so frequently discussed is that fact that animal lovers in the United States and Europe spend more than that on pet food each year and will in all likelihood continue to do so for the reasons above; either they aren't exposed to the problem or the problem is far enough removed to them so as not to constitute a problem in their eyes.
Pogge does a fantastic job of illustrating these and other related points, but a complaint would be that much in the manner of humanitarian aid that is provided to poor countries by the United States, our own suffering citizens seem to be ignored for the benefit of those suffering elsewhere in the world, who may be equally in need, but should not be said to be more so simply as a matter of fact. It's true that in developing countries, 6 million children die each year, mostly from hunger-related causes, but it must be remembered that at the same time in the United States, 13 million children live in households where people have to skip meals or eat less to make ends meet. That means one in ten households in the U.S. are living with hunger or are at risk of hunger and yet little aid is given stateside in comparison to the amounts that are donated abroad, seemingly largely due to the intensive amount of attention paid to those suffering in underdeveloped or undeveloped countries as opposed to our own.
Despite the Malthusian type arguments presented and to some level dealt with through Pogge's own examples and persuasive arguments, I feel that there are too many possibilities left open in Pogge's theory and that it will take a much more profound overall statement of purpose to convince those in power to simply give up their current standards and practices in favor of Pogge's more pleading approach to addressing the problems at hand. People will not be convinced (though clearly the perhaps should be) to adopt new modes of operation and policy based merely on the suggestions of someone they will ultimately view as an ivory tower academic with little or no contact in the areas he discusses so vividly, and perhaps this is the correct view. With Pogge's call to action appealing mainly to those with the same limited ability to directly influence and thereby limited to speculative involvement alone, little is likely to come out of what would otherwise be an incredibly persuasive and pervasive work of scholarship on what I personally feel is the single most important issue at stake in economic and societal politics in general today.
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Title: One World: The Ethics of Globalization.(World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms)(Book Review)
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