Once upon a Family: Read Aloud Stories and Activities That Nurture Healthy Kids

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Jean Grasso Fitzpatrick, a psychoanalyst and author who leads workshops on family storytelling and spirituality, presents a lovely, thoughtful, different kind of parenting book with Once upon a Family. You'll find no tips or bullet points--Fitzpatrick calls following the advice in child-rearing books "virtual parenting" and proposes that, instead of applying other people's ideas, parents tap into their own life experiences and creativity to nurture deep emotional relationships with their children. Fitzpatrick relies on stories and tales from a variety of cultures and continents. Once upon a Family includes Yiddish, Tuscan, and African folktales, each chosen to elicit discussion on a specific challenge children face in their lives: fear, aggression, anxiety, competition, and love. The stories are flanked by theory, discussion suggestions, and activities for parents and children. Read these aloud to your children and follow the discussions in the book. As Fitzpatrick says, "Nothing is truer than a story."

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One Upon a Family shows readers of Jim Trelease, Daniel Goleman, William Bennett, and Mary Pipher how to create a more spontaneous and rewarding family dynamic - one that cuts through sterile precepts and "coaching" to engage a child's emerging emotions through the world of the imagination - and build a family closeness. Here's a wealth of guidance to use both traditional tales and your own family stories to spark communication and help your kids cope with fear, anger, loss, competition, and intimacy. At the heart of each chapter, perfect for reading aloud, are stories from many cultures - from Chinese to Tuscan to the Brothers Grimm - that highlight familiar emotional challenges. "Family time" acivities invite parents and children to actively participate - relating the characters' dilemmas to their own experiences - in everyday intimate conversation and play. "Parent's path" exercises help parents uncover natural creative abilities in themselves. Resource listings of such children's literature, videos, and Internet links help parents steer their children toward rich, creative, realistic, and caring lives.

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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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Introduction to Samurai culture and armor
Excellent small reference book with great drawings!

Samurai 1550-1600 (Warrior)
Anthony Bryant
Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Samurai Armies 1550-1615 (Men-at-Arms)
Early Samurai AD 200-1500 (Elite)
Ashigaru 1467-1649 (Warrior)
The Samurai (Elite)
Samurai Commanders (1): 940-1576 (Elite)

ASIN: 1855323451
Release Date: 1994-05-26

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This title details the culture, weapons, armour and training of the elite samurai warrior class in the fascinating Age of Battles period (1550-1600). This was a period of vital importance not only because of the political effects of the chaos but also due to the changes in warfare that occurred. In 1542 the Portuguese introduced the matchlock musket into Japanese warfare, and this book traces the effect that this important innovation had on the samurai. Life outside the field of battle is also examined, making this an unmissable book for those interested in this brave warrior caste.

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Introduction to Samurai culture and armor.......2007-04-02

The first chunk of this book describes the culture and daily life of the Bushi warrior class of the Sengoku Jidai period (roughly the dates in the title). This is full of interesting information about Samurai customs and personal possessions, like their Western-style pipes. The rest of the book examines weaponry, but especially armor. It lays a good foundation for the crazily small armor details good books on Samurai can be identified for. The plates are wonderful, as they are by Angus McBride. Among other things, they depict the crucial Battle of Nagashino and the Siege of Nagashino Castle, as well as sword and armor-making, Samurai training, and post-battle medical techniques.

Excellent small reference book with great drawings!.......2001-06-20

This book won't replace a 600 pages reference book, but is a great little book which actually packs quite a bit of information. The drawings are beautifula and very detailed, which contributes to making this book attractive to seriously interested people as well as children.

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The reader is given a lucid and colourful picture of the favorite pastime of Sindh: Shikar. It is an introduction to the country's renowned marksmen, manner of hunting, and weapons used, interspersed with adventures encountered in all its expert detail, and its importance in the
socio-political fabric of the subcontinent.

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MATLAB, a software package for high-performance numerical computation and visualization, is one of the most widely used tools for science and engineering applications. Its broad appeal lies in its interactive environment with hundreds of built-in functions for technical computation, graphics, and animation. It also provides easy extensibility with its own high-level programming language. Getting Started with MATLAB 5: A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers gets students started in MATLAB quickly and easily, in a few short hours. Chapters one and two provide a thorough introduction to the basics and five self-guided lessons. Remaining chapters cover useful and interesting elementary, advanced, and special MATLAB functions.

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Good job..........2002-02-27

This book lives up to its title. It is a good overview and reference for beginning Matlab users. It covers all of the basics and is a good place for the novice to start. This book is both reference and practice guide with lessons and exercises. As stated below, it will not be particularly useful for advanced users, but it doesn't aim to be. Matlab's applications are so vast, that it would take many volumes to cover all of its advanced capabilities across different disciplines.

The books that come with the software are extremely weak (by design) and the only comparable beginner's book I came across is the one they give you at Mathworks' training classes. Either way, this book is a good buy.

Very good for beginner..........2000-07-30

Although this book didn't cover many of advanced usages,it is very good for beginners.It is well organized and thin,so I caught up quickly and worked out my assignments by it. I recommend it to the beginners and who wants to learn MATLAB within a short period.

Very good quick introduction.......2000-07-07

Well, I like this book, and refer to it often. It is concise, and written in a friendly way. There are some errors in it, but they are easy enough to spot. To me, this is an excellent book for the beginner to start with. Lightweight, yet gives a broad taste of MatLab's capabilities.

Only if you "fear" Matlab.......2000-05-14

We all know the awesome power of Matlab, and if this powerintimidates you and you have never used Matlab (or Gauss, for thatmatter) before, you will get a taste of what Matlab is like and how it works in this book, which is written specifically for beginners.

But frankly, you'd get just as much -- and more -- information from the Matlab User's Guide, which comes ()with the software.() It unfortunately does not go beyond the most basic functions of Matlab, and at the end you will still be left wondering what Matlab really can do -- and what it can do *for you*.

Case in point: the discussion on functions (something that always intimidates me when I learn a new language/package) starts out easy, and suddenly becomes confusing, leaving the reader yearning for more information and more examples. The lack of good examples is another problem with this slim ()volume.

A good introductory book should be like DiIorio's "SAS Applications Programming": easy enough to NOT intimidate the beginner, yet deep and comprehensive enough to enable the reader to get real work done -- and to encourage the reader to learn more advanced topics. (After all, we use stats software like Matlab to get real work done, not just to impress our girlfriends.) While this book may seem "friendly" at the start, its total lack of depth unfortunately can make one feel even more intimidated about Matlab.

Getting started, but that's about all.......2000-04-15

True to the title, this book is a leg up in Matlab if you have never used it before. However, unless you are working at the most basic level, this book will leave you wishing you had a more complete reference.

Getting Started with Matlab 5 ; A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers

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Getting Started with Matlab 5 ; A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers
Rudra Pratap
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0195649052

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Only a handful of showbiz biographers can lay claim to posessing the literary acumen of writers like Michael Holroyd and Peter Ackroyd. Nick Tosches is one of these writers, and his unauthorized biography of Dean Martin stands as a testament to his genius. Several inimitable sequences in which Tosches adopts his subject's perspective (most of which are regrettably unsuitable for quotation here) make the book a real standout.

Dino is a fascinating portrait of a man who had it all--money, fame, women--and didn't give a damn about any of it and suggests that, even as he wallowed in the excesses of Hollywood and the Rat Pack, Martin stayed critically aloof from that world, albeit often in a booze-and-pill-addled haze. He got into showbiz precisely because it required so little effort of him: "I can't stand an actor or actress who tells me acting is hard work," he once said. "It's easy work. Anyone who says it is hard never had to stand on his feet all day dealing blackjack." Nobody could impress Martin. While Frank Sinatra would do anything just to hang out with reputed Mafioso, the Mob would have to make special trips to ask Martin in person to play a show at one of their casinos.

Tosches' portrait, written only a few years before Martin's death in 1996, depicts its subject as nothing so much as a Zen master without the spiritual anchor; after sampling everything that life had to offer and finding it lacking, Martin spent the last years of his life waiting to die in virtual seclusion.

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Gold from Dreck.......2007-05-17

To spin gold from such low material--the life of a minor pop figure who was huge and rich as a king in his tasteless time--shows Tosches' genius as a writer. The book is self indulgent, overwritten at times, but generally entertaining and often hilarious and brilliant. Right up there with his biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, it tells us more about what we are as Americans than most of us want to know.

Echoes of Flippo...........2007-04-28

Why spend so much time and energy piling up every erratic fact that others have done the legwork for.....just throwing them in there in the worlds most superfluous concoction....as if that isnt bad enough, and than taking all these liberties to interject what your subject, in this case Dino, is thinking?!? I hate that!

IF you have ever read somethign Chet Flippo wrote....and wanted to gag(because he just makes things us and shoves them in his books like they are facts.....dialogue....intimate moments....blech), then you may find this milder but gobbled up jabberwocky to be tedious.

I read it. I expect more from Tosches. HE is brilliant when he wants to be. He lazied out on this one.

a book full of excerpts.......2007-04-01

Mr. Tosches presents an interesting ealry career of dean martin's life, his career with jerry lewis and his life with sinatra, bit the later years are hurried in this book. Either the author needed to make this a larger book or planned on a second volume.

heart of darkness .......2006-08-31

Tosches is a hit or miss proposition, I believe, because the places he goes, the corners, the shadows, are too big, too crushing for even a great mind like his. At his worst, he is like the Dennis Hopper character in "Apocalypse Now," a professional who has gone too far up river, seen too much and been made a babbling fool. Other times, though, he is Kurz, speaking the darkest truths that leave the rational shuddering and praying to God in their beds at night. Liston, Jerry Lee Lewis, and, here, Dino. Black, black hearts all. In Tosches' world, virtue is a sucker's game, unless, as in "Hellfire" it is the Jekyll to sin's Hyde. Mobsters inhabit the "shadowlands" and do most of the getting across here, not glorified but certainly portrayed as the best players in all the various rackets. And don't kid yourself, existence is the big racket and everything else is a racket subset. For all we know, Tosches is right. I haven't seen this written anywhere, but I think "Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams" is the great Tosches manifesto on existence. His portrait of Dean Martin, enormously talented, driven to sing but never work too hard, the great interest in nothing, the inpenetrability, the lovelessness, the booze, the pills, the disconnect, could be considered sad, but that sadness would be a projection of the reader, not the author. Tosches tells Martin like it is. When Sinatra calls, why the hell should he pick up the phone? He doesn't need anybody. Nothing means anything. Dean finds himself in a fantastic scene, late in the game, on the set of a forgotten Western holding a toy gun. He had more money than anybody; what the hell was he doing there? And, indeed, what the hell is anybody doing anywhere? Love is a racket, fame is a racket, power and money, rackets. Marilyn Monroe, John Kennedy, Sinatra, all sorts of mobsters, they all drift through, banging this one, sucking up to that one, getting bumped off for talking about stuff from the "shadowlands." Jerry Lewis is "the monkey." Dean looks at all this, puffs the cigarette, drinks the drink, plays the golf, watches the Western, pops the chickie, checks out. For Martin, Tosches says it was a conscious disengagement: He just didn't want to do any more than he did, if that. But Dean Martin was extremely productive across his many decades. Still, he half-heartedly participated in his own life. Tosches says it's because Dean thought it, everything, was all just crap. You get the sense a lot of the time Tosches thinks the same thing, but instead of just checking out himself, he delves into the void. He finds the troubled subjects in the lights but still in the margins and teases the existential grist right out of them. This book is a helluva read and it's got laughs and it's got wonder and it's got stories and it's not afraid to quicken the blade through the garbage. But as much garbage as Dean produced, he was really good -- he could sing and act, he had incredible looks and charm, his comic timing was winning. He just didn't have time for all the living and loving and all that other stuff everyone else does. Not interested. In the end, the world pays Dean back. He outlives everyone. Even his son, Dino Jr. But in a way, this only better validates his truth. And in the end after the end, he vanishes up into the dust haze. You couldn't take your eyes off him, so he never had to lift a finger to make you come along.

How It Really Was!.......2006-08-26

Read this book to learn the truth, written by someone who had no ax to grind; the facts and not false memories to make a career and money off a dead person.
Another Imposter on MYL : A Dutiful Daughter's Memories, August 12, 2006 I got too close to the truth for comfort and so had to find it on my web site about the shenanigans of the stars there who act like so much ____________ Now hear this: a fan's expose of what is really happening.

Dean Martin was successful in the Fifties as an actor, singer, t.v. show host and yet we young people back then though he was just a drunk. He was a member of the rat pack, not that that is saying a whole lot. Sinatra was a bigger lush than Dean could ever be, and all those wives of his! I do remember how he was fascinated with the lovely Lainie Kazan on his television music show, and perhaps that is what caused his divorce.

The author of this book has related how her 'mother's house' was next door to Rosemary Clooney. I guess Ira Gershwin lived on the other side of Rosie? I do remember that before the talented Dean died, he was living as a bum (like James Agee in New York), with a beard and same old clothes. There was no one to care for him in that condition. I ask you, where was this 'devoted' dauthter then? She is the second to make money off the deceased singer. First Jerry Lewis, after all of his tantrums and allegations, refusing to a reunion with Dean Martin. Now, the absent daughter who is using her dead father's fame as her own.

She has wormed herself into a slot on Music of Your Life, after first playing around with Les Brown, Jr. there in Branson, Missouri, getting to be top dog for two hours daily; now, she has her own weekend slot and all night on Sundays. Here is how she is described on their web site: Deana, who is an accomplished actor singer, entertainer and author, in addition to being the daughter of her famous father, has quickly become a Music of Your Life listener favorite with her great behind- the-scenes stories. Between concert and book tours, Deana produces the annual Dean Martin festival! When I was fifteen, I could sing just as well as she can. And to think that she collaborated on her CD (thanks to MYL) with Jerry Lewis, it's a sacrilege after all he did to her dad she supposedly is devoted to. With a daughter like that, who needs enemies. The writer of the book, DINO, shows how he died in virtual isolation. We all knew that.

DINO: LIVING HIGH IN THE DIRTY BUSINESS OF DREAMS

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DINO: LIVING HIGH IN THE DIRTY BUSINESS OF DREAMS
Dean] Tosches, Nick [Martin
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PW3A8W

Dino - Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams. (book reviews): An article from: Video Age International

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Dino - Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams. (book reviews): An article from: Video Age International
Fred Hift
Manufacturer: TV Trade Media, Inc.
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Video Age International, published by TV Trade Media, Inc. on November 1, 1992. The length of the article is 502 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dino - Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams. (book reviews)
Author: Fred Hift
Publication: Video Age International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 1992
Publisher: TV Trade Media, Inc.
Volume: v12 Issue: n10 Page: p8(1)

Article Type: Book Review

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Actually, it is 3.5 stars, nice historical photos.......2000-10-18

I was somewhat disappointed in that about 90% of the photos in this book feature just names and not actual nose art like that which was found on the heavy bombers. This is not the fault of the authors, as they had no control of what the airmen painted on their P-51s. Still, looking at the cover, you expect to see more actual "artwork" inside and not just a lot of names.

Having said that, the book is full of great photos showing the airmen with their mustangs side by side. The historical value of these photos is immense and this book is like a mini time capsule to an era when the USAF was fighting pure evil. For the price, it's a nice little book but don't expect to see a lot of the sexy pin-ups featured in here.

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The Unreal Thing.......2006-11-23

David Horowitz and Peter Collier would love for the people that read this book to consider nothing outside of their loathsome view of the 60's. And if judged by the reader reviews they have found their partisans.

The New Left as archfiend to Democracy is employed as a synecdoche in H&C's tireless effort to deconstruct the era. Readers that impute H&C's subjective views are in lockstep with present day efforts by the neo con's to annul the extraordinary social achievements of the 60's generation.

This book's transparent viewpoint is another lop sided, subjective hack job by Horowitz who is still trying to prove to his parents that they were wrong and he is right (pun intended).

Reconciliation With Myself.......2006-02-28

I graduated HS in '64 and attended college during the late 60s. I sood on the side lines in awe of the convulsions in the country. You could not be a 60s product without having some reverence for the committment of the radicals even if you had reservations about their cause.
I saw great things coming by the upheavel in the area of civil rights behind ML King, so I became disposed to believe that other revolutionaries probably possessed the same admirable goals and ambitions for the country. Yet when I looked around I didn't see anything really bad. I saw democracy and open debate, and an unpopular war. (Can any war really be popular even if it is necessary?) I was made to feel guilty about my lack of committment to upheavel and revolution even when my friends were going off to war.
This book, especially because it was written by insiders in the radical movement, has finely lifted that guilt. Had the radicals really achieved their goals, a book such as this would have never been written, and to me that is the strength of our democratic society.
This book will head my gift list for a long time to my friends and family. Yesterday I had to purchase a book for a family friend who was heading overseas to fight the war in Afganistan. I had to find it in the Politics section. Clearly this deserves the status of History. I'm sure this book will inspire him with the knowledge of what he is really fighting for and how vigilant we all must be, whether at home or abroad, all the time, not just during times of open assult on our country.
Russ Gardiner, Alexandria, VA

WOW!.......2004-09-29

I was growing up in California while this was all going on and somehow I was pretty much oblivious. David Horowitz and Peter Collier are remarkable authors and I am so glad to have had the opportunity to read this book. Why isn't it used as a history text in highschools? The drivel that's out there dispensed in all it's liberal bias glory is perverse in it's politically correctness. I just hate it when history is distorted so that we can pretend things happened to acommodate feminist or liberal rhetoric. After reading this book (and others by these authors)I have a deeper understanding of modern US history and appreciate the candor with which the books are written.

The Dissillusionment of the Flower child.......2004-09-08

So many people from that generation have taught in our Universities and Public Schools "the 60's was an era when Peace not war was the goal". This book clearly details how that notion was blown adrift by the radical, hostile, and hedonistic lifestyles many people "in the Revolution" led during that time. After they tore down our institutions (belief in God) and tried to trash our culture(Democracy), they faded into the background. And even now as they reach their twilight years of old age, even now, they look back on what they did and say, "Hmmm maybe that time was a little excessive"(Jane Fonda). Read this book and it will fill in the "blanks" for you as to why the 70's happened and we as a people began to doubt ourselves. And why finally in 1980, Ronald Reagan was swept into office amidst a political backlash against the radical left not seen in this country since the 1950's.

The Real Sixties........2004-07-29

These essays are priceless and they tell a tale that many have never heard. We are presented with the personal impacts of radicalism on human relationships and also on communities that sponsor it. Progressivism and its sympathizers practically imploded the city of Berkeley and still exert a noxious influence upon that locality today. The life of Fay Stender, a lawyer/groupie of the Black Panthers, teaches the reader just how much ideological blindness can bring a person down. The Weatherman Underground is given its own (pathetic) chapter length treatment. Believe me, you'll be horrified by the specifics of their pseudo-struggle and laugh when you discover that they viewed sex as being an ideological statement. The anti-Americanism of the New Left has long been denied but Horowitz and Collier reveal much about them that has been hidden by the sixties. If you're appalled by what the country's become, read this back and learn the causation of our cultural decline.

Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties

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From one extreme to the other
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Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties
Peter Collier
Manufacturer: Encounter Books
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Binding: Paperback

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America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It
Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey
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Women Who Make the World Worse : and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports

ASIN: 1594030820

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The compelling story of an intellectual journey into and out of the radical trenches.

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Right Wing Bias.......2007-09-13

The first chapter on Fay Stender and her attorney work for the Black Panthers and George Jackson, I found written very well. It showed the lack of separation from professional and social involvement and relayed a powerful moral story. However it did have the overtones that all the Black Panthers were thugs and that all the liberal attorneys were fools. So for this it was the usual Horowitz bias.

The next essay on the Weathermen was great. I've read Ayers book, Jacobs, various communiqués and Stern's personal account. As much as I believe it was accurate it was filled with dirt and gossip. I suppose you need much of this to understand the situation involved, but it was the FOX news filter you were reading it from, the bias against anything of the left. But OK, it was written well and I enjoyed it.

The next essay is Horowitz's "Empire and Revolution" all over again, but inverted to the Right wing zealot of Apostle Paul radicalism. But please, let me go to the next chapter. This chapter actually defends McCarthyism! It claims because McCarthyism became a dirty word used by leftist liberals against red baiters and neo cons, that it was preventing inquiry of subversive left wing agents against our government! What it was really preventing was civil liberties and freedom of the citizens to stop government bullying! The freedom to question the government. Here Horowitz and Collier say it also prevented us from scrutinizing our left wing politicians which deceitfully hides what it really prevents: right wing spying and illegal wire tapping of ordinary citizens who dare to disagree. And Horowitz claims that the protests of the left were manipulative and coercive but fails to mention is that the witch hunting represented the right wing ruling minority while the protesting left and civil rights fighters represented the democratic majority. And that's just it; Horowitz promotes fascism in order to stop the democratic majority which he accuses of aiding totalitarianism. What a schmuck.

Horowitz also attacks Noam Chomsky. Over and over repeatedly, he claims "the devil US made me do it," as Chomsky's illness and his "theology," which is bogus. Accusing him of hiding the murderous facts of the socialist governments and uprisings he blames on the "devil" United States. Every time he speaks of the "left" he equates it to totalitarianism. Yes the extreme left is dictatorships, but thats the radical extreme, while the moderate left represent the democratic majority for equalitarian rights and civil liberties. Instead, Horowitz open supports and advocates Ann Coulter (liberals are a mental disease) and the entire G.W. Bush administration with it's illegal wire tapping, spying, the Iraq War, and like John Snow, Bill O'Reilly, or any radical Neo Con (not a real conservative) defends any and all actions of the right wing religious extremists in the White house. And the ironic thing about it is, this right wingers are the fascist totalitarian wannabes. Horowitz has always been an unbalanced, over zealous radical extremist. I had a hard time reading through his ranting and raving rhetoric. I do not recommend this book. All I can say is, I am so grateful to be a moderate and conservative leftist, a liberal for participatory democracy and not anywhere near the extremes of both the left and the right.

From one extreme to the other.......2007-01-09

Beware the extremist who leaps to the other extreme. In the Sixties they now so eloquently trash, Peter Collier and David Horowitz were student radicals and publishers of Ramparts. Far left. Far out. They have since had second thoughts, though reading this book, you wonder how much they are thinking and how much they remain rebels, this time against themselves. Rather than offer any cogent analysis of the decade, Collier and Horowitz serve up mea culpas and wholesale attacks on its extremes. Did leftists say and do silly things in the Sixties? Or course. Was it a time of excess? Sure. Does that mean that every last Sixties hope, aspiration, dream, or sincere act on behalf of social justice was idiotic, or misguided. It's easy to think so if you just leap from far left to far right, as these extremists have done. Reading "Destructive Generation" you get a good look at why American political discussion is so screwed-up these days -- because there is no middle, no compromise, no mention of the excesses and errors of one's own side. There's just one bash after another.

Must Read.......2006-04-02

This is a superbly written history of American's 60's ordeal. It is a discussion from the inside of the movement and helps explain why we can't get over that decade. I'd rank it with Chamber's Witness as a must read for those who want to know the truth about what happened.

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Greenpeace: The Inside Story is the first comprehensive eye-witness account of the human drama behind the creation of the world's largest direct-action environmental group. Greenpeace founder and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Rex Weyler brings us the amazing story of an idea that changed the world, and the adventures, clashes, pitfalls and heroics of the people who fought for it.

The book reveals the roots of ecology and the influence on Greenpeace of legends such as Gandhi, Einstein, Rachel Carson, and Martin Luther King Jr. The story is enhanced through cameo appearances by the CIA, Allen Ginsberg, Bonnie Raitt, Brigitte Bardot, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, The Grateful Dead, Pope Paul VI, Courtney Love, and Richard Nixon.

Greenpeace has 4.5 million dues-paying members around the world, and many millions more supporters.

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Lively and Entertaining.......2005-06-25

I loved this book! The pace never dropped into a boggy, dry account but integrated the adventure of being on board a ship chasing whalers with the political history of the group. The issues are explained, in case you missed out on the 1940 to 1980 time period, as I did. Very educational, but never boring. Wonderful!

Great, Wonderful, Spectacular.......2004-12-07

Please consider reading this book. It has changed many people in their views on environmental policy and activism. it has a good analysis and report on how Greenpeace has affected our lives and the benefits of their active roles. Buy it. Its certainly worth the price. I encourage you to also partake in any environmental activism. Environmental information can be found on Greenpeace's website. www.greenpeace.org

Superb.......2004-10-11

This book is a dazzling feat of impassioned storytelling. Weyler conjures the feel of an entire era -- sketching the disparate ideas, the hair-raising events, and the motley crew of inspired eccentrics who precipitated a wild metamorphosis in the collective mindscape. Indeed, his evocation of the visionary fire of these activists -- recounting their personal confusions along with their crazy courage on behalf of a more-than-human world -- may serve as a wake-up jolt to an environmental movement that has today become painfully complacent. And it's a damn good yarn, to boot."

No trees were cut down for this book!.......2004-10-09

I love the fact that this book was printed on forest friendly paper. If more books were made like this we'd have more homes for the wild animals.

Greenpeace How a Group of Journalists, Ecologists and Visionaries Changed the World

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Greenpeace How a Group of Journalists, Ecologists and Visionaries Changed the World
Weyler Rex
Manufacturer: Rodale
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UEVH6M

Greenpeace : The Inside Story; How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed Our World

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Greenpeace : The Inside Story; How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed Our World
Rex Weyler
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ASIN: B000N22ZZI

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