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A book that makes you laugh and cry at yourself.
Coachs are you faced with parents and other coaches that are out of control?
Mom's are you frustrated at your coaches and having problems with your husband and how he treats your child?
Dad's do you wonder why your child won't listen or seems not to be as talented as other kids?
Life Lessons from Little League takes a candid look at why parents and coaches with good intentions do such harm. This book tells you the why and how to correct the above problems and makes Little League a success dispite your child's talent or lack of it.
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Life Lessons From Little League.......2007-04-30
Without doubt the best baseball book I've read.
Every coach & parent should read this book.
Recommended for anyone involved in the Little League scene.......2005-06-06
Life Lessons From Little League Revisited: A Guide For Parents And Coaches is far more than a handbook for would-be Little League baseball coaches - it is also a parenting manual that draws directly from lessons learned in Little League to promote a balanced and nurturing parenting environment that helps a child live up to his or her potential. Chapters warn against harmful behaviors such as the "overachiever" parent, the "blame-it-all-know-it-all" parent, and the "unfulfilled" parent, discuss how to teach and promote harmony, and more. At the same time it embraces the dynamics of the responsibility of coaching a little league team, and prepares would-be coaches to avoid many possible pitfalls - as well as preparing parents to recognize a bad coach (bad defined as "a bad role model for the children") early on. Written in plain and simple terms, Life Lessons From Little League Revisited is enthusiastically recommended for anyone involved in the Little League scene, as it covers numerous common issues and pitfalls besetting anyone in charge of organizing and teaching young people to work as a team.
This One is a Classic.......2005-01-30
I've read lots of books about coaching at all levels of baseball, but this is one book that I couldn't put down. It doesn't have any drills, but it does have great suggestions for selecting teams. More importantly, it tries to teach coaches and parents to be more mature and to think about the real lessons that we're teaching the kids on our teams (and that they can teach us).
Life Lessons from Little League.......2001-09-26
I first purchased this book from the Al and Al Little League clinic. The author gives proceeds to help fund Little League clinics where money is in short supply. I figure, good cause, what the heck. It was like finding a a hidden treasure at a yard sale. Got half way through it and loaned it to our high school varsity football coach, who also coaches 7 and 8 year olds. He was equally impressed. He says it has even influenced how he relates to his high school football players. He gave a 5 minute commercial at our coaches meeting. Every coach left with a copy. I think it will turn out to be one of the best investments our league has ever made.
It sounds trite, but this is a must for coaches and parents........1999-06-23
Baseball is a game. Too many parents and coaches forget this, but kids don't, unless someone - usually a grown-up - makes them think otherwise. I'm glad Mr. Fortanese shared his wisdom and his experience. There's not a single drill, no baseball playing tips, but this is easily the most important book I've read on coaching - and understanding - kids and baseball. I'm very disappointed it's not in print anymore, because I wanted to give it out as coaches' gifts. PLEASE reprint this, and thank you Mr. Fortanese!
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In 1543 three Portuguese merchants entered a turbulent Japan, bringing with them the first firearms the Japanese had ever seen: simple matchlock muskets called arquebuses. They proved a decisive addition to the Japanese armoury, as for centuries the samurai had fought only with bow, sword and spear. In 1575, one of the greatest original thinkers in the history of samurai, Oda Nobunaga, arranged his arquebusiers in ranks three deep behind a palisade and proceeded, quite literally, to blow his opponent’s cavalry to pieces, marking the beginning of a new era in Japanese military history.
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Nice intro to the samurai.......2000-06-01
Filled with basic information about the samurai. A very good introduction to these great warriors. Covers such things as weapons, armor, military tatics, their culture, etc. The author also have several other books about the samuria that go into deeper detail.
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The Founding Legend of Western Civilization: From Virgil to Vietnam
Richard Waswo
Manufacturer: Wesleyan
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A comprehensive inquiry into how the legend of the descent from Troy has shaped the western notion of civilization.
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Living with the Chesapeake Bay and Virginia's Ocean Shores (Living with the Shore)
Larry G. Ward ,
Peter S. Rosen ,
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Stephen Howie
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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This volume in the Living with the Shore series provides practical and specific information on the status of the nation’s coast and useful guidelines that enable residents, visitors, and investors to live with and enjoy the shore without costly and futile struggles against the forces of nature.
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From Omaha Beach to Dawson's Ridge.......2006-08-17
This is a well written memoir with excerpts from letters home and a wealth of information about the combat experiences of Captain Dawson. He was very articulate and had a keen eye for observing the details and emotional struggles around him (as well as his own inner moral struggles with the war he was fighting). If you're looking for remembrances of D-Day and the fighting in Normandy, as well as a part of the campaign in N.W. Europe that has not previously been published, I highly recommend this book.
Exceptional Journal of an Exceptional Man.......2006-01-14
There is no question that Colonel Kingseed has captured the spirit and essance of Capt. Joe Dawson and has provided the reader with personal insights that are properly spaced to elevate this book to one of the best books written on World War II. Every American should read this book and give thanks to men like Joe Dawson and his company of men that gave more than any of us who were not there, cannot even remotely appreciate their achievments.
It is also a credit to Colonel Kingseed that he had the foresight to see the importance of having this story told and get permission from Capt. Dawson to publish some very personal letters to his family for all of us to read. The eloquence that Dawson was able to write in some of the most trying times during the war could be the best memoir that I have read!
With the quality of this book now available for all to read, I cannot wait until the Major Winters book is released.
A five-star salute for this outstanding combat journal.......2005-12-04
This book is a splendid addition to the library of anyone interested in World War II. Joe Dawson was an inspiring member of "The Greatest Generation" and his story is vividly told here in his own words and the descriptions of Cole Kingseed.
The letters Dawson sent home reveal the tremendous strains and demands placed on a small unit infantry commander. In "From Omaha Beach to Dawson's Ridge" we find a courageous, reflective and compassionate young soldier from Texas who reacts quickly, professionally and humanely under the most adverse and crucial conditions.
The First Infantry Division was constantly thrust into intense fighting and harrowing situations. Dawson shares his most personal thoughts before and after the Big Red One's engagements from North Africa, Sicily, Normandy and the bloody road to Germany. Kingseed adds key perspective along the way.
Joe Dawson's hunger for mail from home should encourage anyone who has a loved on in harm's way to pick up a pen and start writing to them now.
This country has truly been blessed by the likes of so many wonderful veterans like Joe Dawson and so many other brave World War II veterans. We are fortunate that Cole Kingseed discovered and published this treasure from Joe Dawson. I can't wait to read Kingseed's forthcoming book written with Dick Winters of "Band of Brothers" fame.
A Story of the Best in Small Unit Leadership.......2005-11-17
Capt. Dawson was was the company CO of G Company, 2nd Battalion, 16th Regimental Combat Team, of the Big Red One. He went into Omaha Beach at H-Hour, D-Day. He was the first off of his LCVP, followed by his communications sergeant and his company clerk. Then an artillery shell struck the boat, wiping out the remaining thirty-three men. That was Omaha.
Of course they didn't land where they intended, but began the war where they landed. They were among the first ashore, among the first to move off the beach, among the first to scale the ridge behind the beach and start cleaning out the German defenders firing down on the beach. They fought across France and into Germany.
Five months later Company G spent thirty nine days defending a ridge along the outskirts of Eilendorf, Germany that has gone down in the history of the Big Red One as Dawson's Ridge.
This book was put together by Col. CC Kingseed, former chief of military history at West Point, from the letters Capt. Dawson wrote home. It is a tale of the very best of small unit leadership.
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- Like in Vietnam, as in Japan, indifference to human life
- The fire bombing of Japanese cities during WWII.
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The Night Tokyo Burned
Hoito Edoin
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Like in Vietnam, as in Japan, indifference to human life.......2005-07-07
About 25 years ago, while flying back from Seattle to Oakland, I read the Boeing Company's semi-official history. When I got to the chapter where they illustrated the millions of tons of bombs dropped on the people of Japan, where they inumerate the hundreds of thousands of people who were murdered by those bombs, when they pile up the statistics of the numbers of buildings destroyed, when they add up all the square miles of Japan that was made into wasteland by their bombers, I simply broke down in tears.
It wasn't the air war's impact that shocked me. I had been aware of it since childhood. What hit me was the callus inhuman gloating and the treatment of murder as an industrial statistic that sickened me. I was not naive. In fact, I was travelling around the West as the regional organizer of a revolutionary socialist movement. The Boeing book smacked me right in the face. The billionaires who run this country care not one wit for the lives of ordinary people, in Japan, in Vietnam, or in Seattle! If it serves their purpose to kill us off by the hundreds of thousands and millions, they will do it, and gloat over how well they can do it.
Hoito Edoin puts the terror-bombing campaign against Japan's people in human terms. He speaks of real people: a 12 year old separated by the firestorm from his family, a mother who has her baby sucked out of her back harness by the firestorms, a doctor who has a few assistants to deal with hundreds of thousands of injured,a man who would like to wake up in the morning and see his city as he always has, a woman who fights her hair, her clothes, a group of terrified Tokyo citizens hiding in a ditch, praying out loud to keep themselves awake and alive, and people who have to climb over, fight their way through, or up out of piles of bodies. We stare these people in the face as the US Army Air Force bombers try to incinerate them and their cities. Yet, Edoin never over dramatizes. He never lectures. Restraint and accuracy keep his story on a human scale and prevent us from being overwhelmed by the carnage.
The real facts are that in the history of bombing, particularly in the Second World War, the bombers had difficulty hitting any targets in a precision way. When the US tried to do that over Germany, the majority of US aircrew were killed. By 1942, the British gave up any pretense at precision bombing. They borrowed the tactics that made the German bombing of Coventry such a horror. They bombed to kill people and destroy cities through firebombing--creating huge fires whose convection became so strong that it was an explosive force itself. While the US made the pretense of precision bombing in Europe,it soon joined the British terror bombing efforts at places like Dresden and Hamburg and many smaller cities that suffered under firestorm raids.
Curtis Le May, who many may remember as a war-criminal in Vietnam and a proponent of nuclear warfare, carried the same strategy to the air war against Japan in the raids described in this book. These raids were designed to kill people and destroy cities in Japan by burning them down. Whether any military targets happened to be involved was secondary. In fact, frustrated with Le May's indifference to crucial military targets, especially for the airwar, the US Navy brought in its aircraft carriers to carry on its own bombing campaign against Japanese military targets that Le May neglected.
Le May's targets were the people and their homes, hospitals, schools, religious shrines, their parks and museums, their stores and places of pleasure. After the war, the strategic bombing survey by the US government and military, showed that given the effort and the hundreds of thousands of people murdered, these terror bombings in both Germany and Japan were relatively inefficient in the purposes of American militarism.
Edoin is very clear about the criminal nature of the Japanese military and business dictatorship and their war, and about their basic indifference to the suffering Japanese people were undergoing. He mentions the atrocities Japan had carried out in China where its bombing of undefended Chinese cities shocked the world.
However, the larger question is the inhumanity of the leaders of the American war machine who had no qualms at making millions of ordinary people, millions in Japan who had little or nothing to do with the war, the targets of their terrorism. Whether it was efficient or not, whether the Japanese war effort was limited or not, the terror bombings indicated tht the lives of Japanese working people, students, youth, children, seniors, meant nothing to Curtis Le May and the other leaders of the American war machine in the Pacific War just as the lives of the Vietnamese people meant nothing to the American war machine and Le May during the Vietnam war.
And here we return to the value of this book. Edoin does not tell this story from the abstraction of debating military policy, not from the delight at technology and indifference to human life of the technology nut, not from the point of view of history as a discussion point for academic quibbling. He tells the story to show what you or I, our friends or our neighbors, our coworkers or our relatives would face if we got in the way of the US War Machine.
The fire bombing of Japanese cities during WWII........2003-12-16
Edoin does a good job detailing the initial fire bombing of Japanese cities by American B-29s. Over 300,000 Japanese lost their lives and many millions became homeless because of General Curtis LeMay's decision to go after the residential areas of Japan. Rather than try to precision bomb the factories that made munitions and aircraft engines, LeMay went after the residences because many were home based industrial enterprises. These small shops were destroyed affecting the large plants. In addition, workers who lost their homes also tended to go to work less ofter thereby destroying the morale of the Japanese worker.
This destruction (although a dirty business) proved to the average Japanese the loss of the war and served the Americans.
I think this was a balanced book. Edoin proves the military clique of Japan made the civilian work force an acceptable military target. It also shows how the American military went after a targets which caused thousands of civilian deaths. More people lost their lives in the fire bombing of Japanese cities than the deaths caused by Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A thoughtful read.
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This riveting book is the first comprehensive investigation into the organized crime and corruption that plague post-Communist Russia and sabotage its attempts at revolution and reform. Handelman, Moscow bureau chief for The Toronto Star from 1987 to 1992, has based his book on interviews with more than 150 Russians--mobsters, police, political crusaders, former KGB agents, new millionaires, and ordinary citizens.
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Written by a veteran foreign correspondent and former Moscow bureau chief for the Toronto Star, this riveting book is the first comprehensive investigation into the organized crime and corruption that plague Russia today. Based on interviews with more than 150 Russians-from mobsters to police to former KGB agents-the book reveals how crime has flourished in this country since the demise of totalitarianism. (This paperback edition is updated with a new preface.).
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La Plus Ca Change ...........2005-12-12
This is a very good book explaining the genesis of the Russian mafiya and its connections to big business and the government. As someone who has been involved with Russia for the last ten years, the most troubling aspect of this book is that I have seen very little to no change in the way things are done over there. For at least the last five years I have been convinced that Russia is decades away from having a true civil society and the sad thing is that my timeline for this occuring has not yet shortened. This book helps explain why.
Absolutely worth reading.......2004-10-07
The OC in Russia have a very different background than in the West, and the book Comrade Criminal explains how OC groups prospered and got influence during the transition process from Communism. These groups didn't just have access to the political infrastructure; they also got the know-how and inherited influence over businesses. If you're interested in OC or Russian politics/history this book is absolutely worth reading.
How Russia was Criminalized.......2002-02-02
Comrade Criminal not only lays out the power of the Russian mob, which has been done before, but also gives the reader the history of the mob's growth. And this isn't just over the last ten years or so, but pre-World War II. The author profiles the evolution of Russia's underworld and shows how the Communist era made it into what it is today. Definitely worth the read.
Communism to organized crime. Inevitable!.......2002-01-20
Handelman has done a wonderful job in showing the corruption of Communist society and how the greed and wish for prosperity inherent in humans all over the world has led to organized crime. It amazed me how connected to organized crime the Russian state was and still is. The sections on drugs, arms smuggling and nuclear weapons were very interesting. The book also shows how race based the crime gangs are, like they are in the United States and everywhere else. But Mr. Handelman, stop referring to them as "mafiya". Yeah, it sounds "Russian" or whatever, but it's annoying. Overall, I liked the book because it is very well researched and documented.
Pioneering work.......2001-03-31
This is not a bad first look at the world of Russian organised crime, updated from an earlier edition. Silly the way he insists on refering to Russian OC groups as "mafiya", though.
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In this collection of natural-history essays, biologist Joan Maloof embarks on a series of lively, fact-filled expeditions into forests of the eastern United States. Through Maloof's engaging, conversational style, each essay offers a lesson in stewardship as it explores the interwoven connections between a tree species and the animals and insects whose lives depend on it--and who, in turn, work to ensure the tree's survival.
Never really at home in a laboratory, Maloof took to the woods early in her career. Her enthusiasm for firsthand observation in the wild spills over into her writing, whether the subject is the composition of forest air, the eagle's preference for nesting in loblolly pines, the growth rings of the bald cypress, or the gray squirrel's fondness for weevil-infested acorns. With a storyteller's instinct for intriguing particulars, Maloof expands our notions about what a tree "is" through her many asides--about the six species of leafhoppers who eat only sycamore leaves or the midges who live inside holly berries and somehow prevent them from turning red.
As a scientist, Maloof accepts that trees have a spiritual dimension that cannot be quantified. As an unrepentant tree hugger, she finds support in the scientific case for biodiversity. As an activist, she can't help but wonder how much time is left for our forests.
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A life changing book!.......2006-08-17
This is one of those books you read and it can change your life. It's an intellectually beautiful read by a biologist who has spent her life studying the relationship of trees, forests, organisms, insects and animals and explains their connections simply. I think it's an important book such as Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring". It should be in everyone's library and read over and over.
Tiia-Mai Barrett, Seattle, WA
Spread the word.......2005-12-21
This is the type of book you savor, that you close your eyes at the end and feel you've received a special gift. I'm buying copies for my friends and family.
A series of lively, scientific essays on connections between tree species and the animals and insects which use it .......2005-11-08
Biologist Joan Maloof's ventures into the forests of the Eastern United states provide a series of lively, scientific essays on connections between tree species and the animals and insects which use it in Teaching The Trees: Lessons From The Forest. In leaving lab for direct environmental observation, Maloff's firsthand observations are lively and personal as well as scientific, exploring some of her favorite trees and their importance.
A plea to keep the trees.......2005-10-11
In this slender volume of short essays, gracefully accompanied by the illustrations of 19th century naturalist and artist John Abbot, Maloof makes her impassioned plea for the lives of trees and forests by introducing them to us one by one.
Local rambles in Maryland provide the settings for her meditations on the lives and strategies of common species like beech, oak, maple, pine, and sycamore and under story trees like dogwood and holly, as well as bald cypress, walnut, redcedar, sweetgum and more. She breathes in the special qualities of "old-growth" air and mourns the lack of "grandfather trees," but most fascinating are the tales of interwoven life in the trees.
Many of these have to do with insects. Black locusts produce extra nectar, which feeds the ants and ladybugs that protect the tree from other insects. Except aphids, which the ants protect in exchange for their "honeydew," a euphemism for aphid urine. Ladybugs eat aphids, but there are still plenty of them and that honeydew is also the substance found all over your car when you park it under a tree, that stuff you probably call sap.
Exploring the teeming life of a tree (without the sycamore alone nine other species would be lost) Maloof, a biologist, distills numerous studies and traces the relationships among the insects, lizards, fungi, mammals, birds and people who obtain benefit from the tree. With a winning combination of science and poetry, Maloof makes her case for compassion and wonder.
--Portsmouth Herald
An environmental awakening........2005-09-08
When I was young, my neighbor told me that when she was a child in early 20th century Philadelphia, she thought that a tree was a particular kind of plant and that was that. Imagine her amazement the first time she left the city and discovered that there were what seemed to be an infinite variety of trees!
Joan Maloof takes the reader to the next level. She explains that far from each tree being merely a unique organism, that each tree is an entire ecosystem; indeed, that each tree is an interdependent universe of organisms that depend on each other in the most unimaginably wonderful and intricate ways.
I have spent my entire life in a rural area surrounded by trees, yet reading this book awakened a new curiosity, a new appreciation, a need to explore and learn that I never felt before.
Anyone will be enriched by reading "Teaching the Trees", but for the young person steeped in consumer culture who thinks that trees are for shade or lumber and that "bugs" are pests, it could be a life-changing experience, leading to an appreciation of the wonders of the forest, and perhaps a lifetime of study and enjoyment of the miracles of nature.
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