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You and Your Child's Self-Esteem: Building for the Future
James M. Harris
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A completely revised and fully-updated third edition of the most comprehensive guide to warships available to the general public.
Since the first edition of this book, published in 1996, there have been major changes to the world's navies. A new generation of warships is entering service, replacing the fleets built up during the Cold War.
Jane's Warship Recognition Guide provides technical specifications from Jane's Fighting Ships (published since 1898 and the acknowledged world leader in naval reference). The new format also allows for additional warships and information to be featured.
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Baby Jane's Warships: Good Reference, Format Lacking.......2005-06-03
Covering the gamut of warships from oilers to aircraft carriers the "baby" Jane's is a great book for the ship enthusiast as a quick reference guide or as a way to learn more without spending the hundreds for a full size Jane's.
The book is designed to include the most material possible in the smallest size, and does that well. That detracts from the amount of information that can be provided for each ship in terms of data and pictures, but they are any number of full size books that can provide that information.
There are some glaring errors which the reviewer below mentions, and I for one agree with the need to have the book arranged by countries rather than class of vessel. One problem is that vessels designated as frigates in one country may be considered corvettes or destroyers in another, leading to confusion when searching for a particular vessel. Additonally Class names vary by country, though Jane's does an admirable job of attempting to provide indigineous class names rather than just the NATO names.
All in all though, a good book that could use some scraping off of the hull barnacles to make for a smoother ride. Best of its type in terms of small reference books.
Not Without Its Flaws.......2004-12-25
First, I wish they hadn't gone to the portrait format. The landscape format used for the previous edition allowed for larger photographs and room for line drawings (small though they were) which, sad to say, have been done away with in this edition and replaced by even smaller and less detailed black silhouettes.
Second, the book is now organized by type of ship rather than by country of origin as had been done in the previous edition and as is done in the authoritative "Jane's Fighting Ships." We often get ships from other countries here in San Diego and it's not always easy to tell if you're looking at, for example, a frigate or a destroyer, but you sure can tell what country it's from by the flag it's flying. In this way, the previous edition was much easier to use.
Third, I can't believe the proofreaders let another photographic error slip by in this edition. In this case, it's on page 360 which describes the Oscar II class Russian submarine (the same type as the "Kursk" which made headlines in 2000 when it sank). The photograph used is that of the much larger "Typhoon" class with its distinctive sail and the missile tube hatches forward of it. (But at least they got the photo of an "Austin" class LPD right this time.)
One feature I would personally like to see added to this guide would be the launch dates of the first ship of each class since I do find myself getting involved in numerous debates with fellow "warship geeks" as to the comparative ages of ships.
As a warship spotter's guide it still succeeds, but I still expected better (much better) from Jane's.
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- Nicely crafted, well written and caring account.
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Divided Destiny: A History of Japanese Americans in Seattle
David A. Takami
Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
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Very captivating and well researched book.......2000-01-09
Great book, it takes the reader to a time and place in history where one feels part of the experience. Very well reasearched and depicted. I particularly enjoyed the highly-moving Japanese internment camp stories described in the book.
Nicely crafted, well written and caring account........1999-07-29
A lovingly crafted book, with a comprehensive grasp of the issues surrounding the internment of the Japanese from the Seattle area.
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A Great Book!.......1999-12-08
This is an excellent scientific book with a twist. Karl Kruszelnicki presents the information in a fairly easy to read way and eveything inside is guaranteed to fascinate you. The little boxes that are on nearly every page have some fascinating stories, about anything you care to look up! I have used this book as a reference for many school science projects and it has been extremley useful. This would be a great book for anyone who would like to know everything and practically everything is in this book! I wouldn't reccomend this book to younger readers, as it can get a bit complicated at times.
Book Description
Judge Judy has heard enough.As a family court judge in New York City and now in her successful TV courtroom show, she has listened to thousands of excuses, complaints, and tales of woe from women of every background, and she's ready to rule. Women, she states with her trademark frankness, need to wise up, stop subjugating who they are, and stop making stupid decisions in the name of love. They hide their talents and opinions so they won't offend. They tiptoe through life letting others take credit for their ideas because they would rather be liked than respected. They spend their lives trying to please everyone but them-selves, and then they wonder why they feel so frustrated and unfulfilled.
Beauty Fades, Dumb Is Forever presents Judge Judy's ten hard and true lessons for happiness:
- Beauty fades, dumb is forever.
- Don't crawl when you can fly.
- What goes up must come down.
- Denial is a river in Egypt.
- Master the game--then play it.
- You're the trunk of the tree.
- You can't teach the bull to dance.
- Failure doesn't build character.
- Letting go is half the fun.
- You can be the hero of your own story.
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Great wisdom in this book!.......2007-07-20
I recommend this book for gifts to women first starting out in their professions. It's quite empowering. Judge Judy has a extremely descriptive way of writing that is both enlightening and amusing. When people ask to borrow my book I give them a resounding NO! Get your own!
Very Insightful.......2007-05-12
Judge Judy has always been entertaining and continues to delight with this book of witty lessons for life. I really enjoyed her candor!
Can be very funny but much of the advice is predictable.......2007-03-28
Judge Judy is probably more fun to watch than to read. This book, which has the virtue of directness, doesn't go beneath the surface at all in dissecting male-female relationships. With all due allowance for exaggeration and broad humor, I find the image of American men as essentially insensitive, football-watching couch potatoes who leave the toilet seats up to be more of a cliche than anything else.
The author's personal stories about her marriages (and her remarriage to the same guy) are fascinating. She has insight into her own life, and she knows how to write. Many young women will probably benefit from reading this and learning the distilled lessons of life. But I can't give this book more than three stars because of the Judge's portrayal of the American man.
She's good, I liked her "You're smarter than you look" best.......2006-03-20
Good book for life advice for women. Not quite as funny and entertaining as her "You're smarter than you look" which takes you on a life journey and has some very good rules for any stage in your life. Still it is a good book and she tells you a lot about her own life and her own mistakes in it. Worthwhile, for her fans a must-have anyway.
Funny reading, even for (open-minded, smart) guys.......2005-09-16
I would bet this is probably Judge Judy's funniest book (c'mon, the title!). I'm on my second read of it and am enjoying it even more than the first time. Although the book is squarely targeted at women, the principles Judge Judy discusses could apply to men of low self-esteem also (hey, women have been reading and internally switching the pronouns in male-centric books for years; why not turn the tables?). Besides, her dialogue, much like that of her hit TV series, is abrasive, colorful, and blunt. Her revealing asides of household interactions between her and her husband Jerry (also in the legal profession) are HILARIOUS, well worth the price of the book. I am so hoping Judith Sheidlin will continue to write; I can't wait for her next book, whenever it emerges! Hysterical!
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In late May 1944, troops of General Douglas MacArthur's Hurricane Task Force invaded the island of Biak, off the northwest coast of New Guinea. Over the following weeks, they waged a desperate fight against a fanatical enemy bent on annihilation. This is the story of that battle.
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For military history students and World War II buffs.......2001-03-11
Biak Island, off the northwest coast of New Guinea, was the site of one of the bloodiest battles fought by American troops against the Japanese in World War II. In the spring of 1944, the Japanese Imperial Navy held Biak as their most important island in the Pacific. MacArthur needed its airfields in order to continue his advance towards the Phillippines. The Japanese had 12,00 defenders on Biak, dug in and ready to fight to the last man. Casualties were heavy on both sides. Highly recommended for military history students and World War II buffs, Marc Bernstine's Hurricane At Biak: Macarthur Against The Japanese, May - August 1944 is a vivid, comprehensive reconstruction of that horrific campaign and an invaluable contribution to World War II studies.
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States like Russia and Ukraine may not have gone back to totalitarianism or the traditional authoritarian formula of stuffing the ballot box, cowing the population and imprisoning the opposition–or not obviously. But a whole industry of “political technology” has developed instead, with shadowy private firms and government “fixers” on lucrative contracts dedicated to the black arts of organizing electoral success.
This book uncovers the sophisticated techniques of the “virtual” political system used to legitimize post-Soviet regimes: entire fake parties, phantom political rivals and “scarecrow” opponents. And it exposes the paramount role of the mass media in projecting these creations and in falsifying the entire political process.
Wilson argues that it is not primarily economic problems that have made it so difficult to develop meaningful democracy in the former Soviet world. Although the West also has its “spin doctors,” dirty tricks, and aggressive ad campaigns, it is the unique post-Bolshevik culture of “political technology” that is the main obstacle to better governance in the region, to real popular participation in public affairs, and to the modernization of the political economy in the longer term.
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A re-interpretation of the nature of post-Soviet politics.......2006-11-05
Without doubt, this book will have a formative influence on future post-Soviet studies and should lead to re-assessment of many former findings on post-Soviet politics. To be sure, Wilson has neither introduced here any neologisms, nor produced a criminological study with entirely new data. Yet, he has still done political science a service by demonstrating in admirable detail how hidden control of information flows, party-building, and electoral processes by the powers-that-be has been perverting democracy, in the post-Soviet world, to such a degree as to create a relatively novel system of state-society relations in which fundamental democratic procedures are formally observed, but made largely senseless through their more or less sophisticated manipulation. Thus, Wilson does make here in so far a terminological innovation as he, in my reading, lifts the, until now, largely colloquial, peculiarly post-Soviet construct of "political technology" to a proper political science concept, i.e. to a term specifically designed to distinguish certain post-Soviet political practices from those political PR campaigns that are also well-known in the West. What to this reader seems particularly important in Wilson's argument is that he explicitly argues that "political technology" should only partly be understood as a radicalization of some dubious Western political practices, such as the massive negative advertising that has been typical of recent US presidential election campaigns. Instead, Wilson shows that "political technology" is, above all, rooted in Russia's and the other republics' Soviet past, namely in the peculiar manipulation strategies that the KGB and other Soviet bloc security services had developed in their fight against anti-Soviet dissent.
On the one hand, Wilson has thus strengthened the Soviet element within the construct "post-Soviet transitions" lending support to those researchers emphasizing the continued relevance of the area studies element--as opposed to cross-civilizational comparative approaches--in the study of contemporary Russia, Ukraine, etc. On the other hand, we might be dealing here with a case were post-communist studies can make a contribution to general political science: "Political technology" or "virtual politics," as introduced by Wilson, might be concepts that will travel to other regions of the world and could help us to understand better various perversions of democratic procedures by spin-doctors who might not have had the benefit of serving in the KGB, but who may still be comparably cynical and similarly original in the choice of their instruments for manipulating democratic processes.
This is, therefore, a book that one can safely recommend as being conceptually and theoretically innovative to both, political scientists dealing and not dealing with the former Soviet Union. Wilson's book is of additional value because of the astonishing amount of--partly, little-known--facts, dates and names that he has amassed here, and the variety of large events and small affairs that his narrative chronicles. Enlightened Russian or Ukrainian political scientists may find Wilson's emphasis on the role of "political technology" not very original, and be, at best, intrigued by the relative novelty of these phenomena to the comparative study of democracy. They will, I would suspect, still be impressed by, and able to learn from, Wilson's book because it is such a dense and well-researched description.
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Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy In The Post-Soviet World.(Book review): An article from: National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
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The Birds and the Beasts Were There
Margaret Millar
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ASIN: 0884963241 |
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A warmly personal narrative of bird and animal watching in a wooded canyon on the outskirts of Santa Barbara, by an author known originally as a novelist of mystery and suspense, and who was a founding member of the Santa Barbara Audubon Society.
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The Birds and the Beasts Were There
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