Fractured Generations: Crafting a Family Policy for Twenty-First Century America
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    Allan Carlson
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    Jane's Special Forces Recognition Guide
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • A GLOBAL 'SPECIAL FORCES' CATALOG FOR EVERYTHING FROM DESERT BOOTS TO APACHE HELICOPTERS
    • VERY HELPFUL TO A SOF SOLDIER, SAILOR, AIRMAN, OR MARINE
    Jane's Special Forces Recognition Guide
    Ewen Southby-Tailyour
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    Release Date: 2005-10-18

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars A GLOBAL 'SPECIAL FORCES' CATALOG FOR EVERYTHING FROM DESERT BOOTS TO APACHE HELICOPTERS.......2006-08-10

    IN A NUTSHELL: NEEDED TO CREATE THE IDEAL SHOPPING LIST FOR ---

    A 'must have' for every defense department of every country - large or small. 'Jane's Special Forces Recognition Guide', by Ewen Southby-Tailyour, offers any military organization with a checklist of what they will need to quickly and properly outfit their 'Special Forces' units as their 'Special' needs arise.

    I AM NOT KIDDING AROUND ABOUT THIS:

    The items in the first 70 pages of this guide look like very appealing and mainstream Christmas gift ideas for close friends and family. Here you will find a grand array of gear, equipment and duds that might make any perspective holiday or back-to-school shopper's, mouth water.

    Below are just a few such examples which each have their own color photo taken while being modeled [presumably] by 'Special Forces' personnel and include a short discription of the features, manufacturer and a list of countries that use the product.

    DESERT BOOTS, GOOGLES, BACKPACKS, HAVERSACKS, RUCKSACKS, FUR-LINED THERMO BOOTS, CELL PHONES, BINOCULARS, WINDPROOF SNIPER SMOCKS, ARCTIC GLOVES & MITTENS, COMMANDO SOCKS & EAGLE AIRBORNE ASSAULT PACK ["for demanding operations"]

    FEEDBACK FROM THE YOUNGER GENERATION:

    While I was looking over this first 'designer gear' section of the book, my teen daughter Angela wanted to grab it from me and wanted to know if she could get some of this "STUFF" for school wear!?

    I am pleased to say that of the 496 pages in this volume, only about 100 are within the section titled, "WEAPONS:HAND GUNS". To this book's credit however, this section's info and stats are much more complete than 'Jane's Gun Recognition' volume. In this 'Special Forces - Recognition Guide' much more specifications about each weapon are included, including ballistic info completely lacking in the 'Jane's Gun Recognition Guide'.

    BUT THERE IS MORE -- MUCH MORE:

    This volume goes way beyond just clothing and guns and in fact dedicates almost 2/3 of its contents to such hard to find topics as; Transport Aircraft, Helicopters of all types used in Special Forces, plus Amphibious vehicles, Hovercrafts, Body Armor, Seal Delivery Systems [submersible], Remotely Piloted Vehicles [RPV].

    LAST BUT NOT LEAST: COUNTRY LIST OF SPECIAL AND ELITE FORCES

    5 out of 5 stars VERY HELPFUL TO A SOF SOLDIER, SAILOR, AIRMAN, OR MARINE.......2006-06-30

    This is a good book to reference when training foreign militaries. It is a lot to learn, but the pictures and descriptions are very helpful. I highly recommend for anyone that wants to get smart on other country militaries througout the World.

    The cross & the crescent: A history of the Crusades
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • the crusades are back and with a vengance
    The cross & the crescent: A history of the Crusades
    Malcolm Billings
    Manufacturer: Sterling Pub. Co
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    ASIN: 0806969040

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    5 out of 5 stars the crusades are back and with a vengance.......2006-09-07

    This book deels with the Christian Crusades in the Middle east and parts of Europe starting from the 10th century all the way into the 18th century.
    The book starts with a European army causing havic through Europe while heading to the Holy Land, which will start the first Crusade. From their it's it talks about the Holy Land and it's surroundings and everything that happend during all the Crusades and during times of peace. It also goes on past the third Crusade and it talks about clashes between the Muslims and Christians in the Middle East, in the Mediterranean and in Eastern Europe. The book ends in the 1800's when Napolean had the military order of the Hospitallers moved from their island home base on Malta onto mainland Europe.
    The book not only talks about the Crusades in the Holy Land but also the ones in Europe as well. It mentions Crusades in Spain, the Balkans, France and in other areas as well. Some of the European Crusades were political and some were to convert the land to Christianity. Due to these European Crusades and other wars it was hard to send troops and supplies to the Holy Land. It also mentions the Children's Crusade and the Shepard's Crusade.
    The books has a bunch of pictures throughout. They are of castle's, churche's, land, maps, and ancient pictures of battles from the time of the Crusades and centuries afterwards. My only problem with the pictures is that most of them are in black and white, so it makes it hard to appreciate some of the artwork.
    I really enjoyed reading this book because it was very informative about the times of the crusades in the Holy Land and in Europe. I'm sure that since this book came out it the late 80's that there have been new discoveries ont the crusades and their are newer books discussing them but I would still highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn about the Crusades.
    Cross and Crescent
    Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    • Disappointing...
    Cross and Crescent
    Susan Shwartz
    Manufacturer: Tor Books
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    The center of the greatest empire in the world, the seat of Christianity, Byzantium is a revered city. Marked by gargantuan monuments to God, the most royal of princes, and the most affluent citizens, Byzantium cannot possibly ever fall. Now under siege by Islam, the Byzantine Empire must look to Christians from the West for help in winning back Jerusalem, the most hallowed of cities. The Byzantines must prevent the disintegration of their empire while protecting the faith of many, but at what expense?

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    2 out of 5 stars Disappointing..........1998-10-25

    The basic take-off point of the tale seems to be the machinations and ambitions of Anna Comnenus, the Byzantine princess who celebrated her father, the Emperor Alexius, in her well-known text, The Alexiad, itself a rather dry though intriguing document of the political twists & turns and military escapades undertaken by the Byzantine Greeks of that time. The promise of it all was great. But not so, the execution. There are elements of intrigue and fantasy and adventure here but they are not well meshed. Some of the characters were promising and I did like the attempt to depict the life of the Byzantines on their wharfs and in their palaces. But the mixing of pagan deities with the real world of religious Byzantium just didn't work for me. Although I like this kind of stuff, I put this one down about half way through -- though I tried mightily to see it through to the end. But I failed. And so, regrettably, did this book. -- SWM
    The Cross and the Crescent: A History of the Crusades
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      Malcolm Billings
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      Experiencing Social Research: An Introduction Using MicroCase
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      Experiencing Social Research: An Introduction Using MicroCase
      David J. Ayers
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      The author, David Ayers is well known and respected in the field. The software and workbook take a step-by-step approach to show students how to perform sociological research using the same types of data and techniques used by professional researchers. The workbook includes clear and accessible explanations of basic research concepts and methods, challenging exercises, independent research projects, and data sets.

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      1 out of 5 stars microcase.......2006-02-18

      The book really stinks it uses floppys that alot of the time come completely blank which i have seen on a large scale because i was not the only one for in which this happened too the prroduct needs to be updated and recalled for lack of quality since the book specificly relies on the data that it comes with to be able to do anything in the book.

      East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart
      • Omission of Relevant Facts a Problem
      • research over style
      • Enjoyed This Book!
      • A new veiw of Amelia
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      Susan Butler
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      Customer Reviews:

      1 out of 5 stars East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart.......2006-07-08

      I can't believe the author spent 10 years researching this book. I've found two errors in the first chapter. Pottawatomie Creek (pg 12) is not west of Atchison, Ks. It's approximately two hours to the south. Kansas State University (pg 23) is in Manhattan, Ks. It does not have a law school. The law school is located at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. These facts could be easily verified in a short amount of time.

      4 out of 5 stars Omission of Relevant Facts a Problem.......2004-10-07

      I appreciate the author's honoring Amelia Earhart, someone I, along with millions of people, admire and hold in high esteem. Regardless, I believe it is a biographer's purpose to present as accurate a presentation of someone as the evidence on record provides. The lack thereof of a few important points and this author's omitting relevant facts, that Amelia was NOT considered, among the top women pilots of her day, to be the best woman pilot by any means and most importantly, that Amelia and her celebrity rose specifically due to her business partner and publicity agent George Palmer Putnam. Putnam had been looking for a talented female pilot to ride the Friendship flight that initially made Amelia famous. From thereon, it was publicity stunts arranged by Putnam and his huge publicity machine that enabled Amelia to take off in more than her plane. It was also the onset of the new film industry that enabled Amelia to get so much worldwide attention, through news reels on the earliest movie screens, all arranged by Putnam.

      Whatever Amelia's lacking of extensive training as a pilot (as noted by interviews of the top female pilot who knew Amelia) had also been overshadowed by her other talents and tireless contributions in other areas. It was Amelia's drive, talent, skills and her decision to continue with Putnam as her publicity agent, who she eventually married, that made her the best known woman pilot, not her being the best female pilot in the world as this biographer states in clear error.

      More seriously, this author fails to comprehend the severity or examine the final flight and how disaster could have been averted, in claiming in the forward that Amelia was a woman of great judgement. Here, I disagree since it is obvious to anyone that the FIRST attempt at a round-the-world flight that ended in a crash, should have been an indicator more flight training was needed to continue, rather than just repairs to the plane. The author fails to address how unnecessary it was for Amelia to surrender her life to being a legend in her last fatal flight, when she began cutting corners in preparation, all due to pressure from her husband George Palmer Putnam.

      I do understand the author's wanting to honor the memory of Amelia, to recover from what was a form of failure of the way her final flight ended, I just don't feel the certain omissions of relevant facts is the nature of what a biography should do. Nor do I appreciate this biographer's attempt to disspell any links with Amelia possibly being a feminist lesbian ahead of her time, such as stated in the forward in which the author strongly disputes Amelia rejecting men. Two men were in fact, pressuring Amelia on a continual basis to overcome her natural tendency to reject them as life long partners in marriage. This biographer, wanting to disspell any rumors of the possibility of Amelia being a feminist lesbian, remains in denial of these facts of continual rejection of men, and of their pressuring Amelia up to her final fateful flight.

      4 out of 5 stars research over style.......2002-02-27

      East to the Dawn is very well-researched, going to many primary sources for information, but not very well-written. There are many cases in which I was aggravated by Butler's choice of words or annoying editorializing.

      However, any book about Amelia Earhart which features so many of her own words cannot possibly fail. Her letters, remarks, interviews burst out of the text full of personality, wit, and intelligence. It is no less than shocking how completely contemporary seems, and how inspiring she could be. We can only hope that in the future there are other perfect marriages of a remarkable person and remarkable circumstance, for Amelia Earhart and the early days of aviation were made for each other. Though somewhat clumsily, this book gets this across and for that it is very much worth reading.

      4 out of 5 stars Enjoyed This Book!.......2001-08-30

      This was a very interesting and informative book.
      I feel like it really let me know Amelia.
      Only thing I did not like about it was that the begining was
      a little slow. A little too much time spent on her ancestors.

      5 out of 5 stars A new veiw of Amelia.......2001-03-15

      I grew up hearing bits and pieces about Amelia Earhart. There was always the slight inference that she may have been a lesbian and the stories about her possible capture by the Japanese. I found EAST TO THE DAWN illuminating and informative. The author makes Amelia much more of a feminist and political person than I had ever imagined. For example, I did not know about her friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt. But Amelia's friendship with Nancy Cook and Lorena Hitchock and involvment in the Val Kil project made me think that there may have been some validity to the rumors about her life style. It's also interesting how much the government did for her on her flights. The possible capture by the Japanese seems to me looking back in retrospect that it could be a form of very suttle anti Japanese propaganda. One of the previous reviewers commented that EAST TO THE DAWN finds no fault with Amelia - she was perfect in every way. Thinking about the book in retrospect, there is a lot of validity to that statement. But all in all the book gives a good view of women and their roles in society in the 1920's and 30's. It also give a whole new side of Amelia. As a result of this book I want to read more about Amelia. The author's conclusion that Amelia became bigger in death than she may have been in life is also valid but Amelia is one of those American icons that will live on and on because she died so young and under strange circumstances.
      East to the Dawn : The Life of Amelia Earhart
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        Susan Butler
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        Civil War Collector's Encyclopedia: Volumes I & II (Civil War Collector's Encyclopedia)
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          Francis A. Lord
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          Bad Trip: How the War Against Drugs is Destroying America
          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
          • Bad Trip is a Relevent and Great Read
          • Bad Trip on Bad War
          • Governmental uselessness exposed (again)
          • Intellectual courage matched with compelling arguments
          • it's like mainlining heroin
          Bad Trip: How the War Against Drugs is Destroying America
          Joel Miller
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          The war against drugs was supposed to make America better, right? It failed. Not only does the drug war fail to keep Americans from using drugs, but its crackdown tactics also produce bigger problems than it promises to solve. In this fearlessly audacious book, Joel Miller shows that drug prohibition creates tremendous amounts of crime and corruption, helps finance anti-American terrorists, makes a joke out of U.S. border security, chips away at constitutional liberties, militarizes law enforcement, and jails hundreds of thousands of Americans. And for what? A bigger, more intrusive government that cares less and less about individual rights. Told in a bold, uncompromising style, Miller's book reveals the true and terrible nature of the war on drugs and also, just as importantly, informs readers about what they can do to kick the drug-war habit.

          "Miller nails it," says Larry Elder, host of ABC Radio's nationally syndicated Larry Elder Show and best-selling author. "He powerfully and persuasively articulates the folly, the harm and the unconstitutionality of our government's War against Drugs." And says Judge Andrew P. Napolitano of Fox News, "If you are interested in our freedoms or fearful of the government destroying human lives and wasting tax dollars on another American Prohibition, read this book and send a copy to every lawmaker and judge you know."

          If you want to understand the drug problem in America, you first need to know how the government is making it worse. Bad Trip is the place to start.

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          5 out of 5 stars Bad Trip is a Relevent and Great Read.......2006-09-20

          To put it succinctly, the war on drugs is a war against the American people. Over two-thirds of American adults born since 1955 have used illegal drugs at some point in their lives, most without any trace of subsequent harm. However, our gov't, through its Gestapo-like enforcement arm, the DEA (which has a vested interest in prosecuting the war to its maximum extent and keeping the war going as long as possible) continue to circumscribe the rights of the American people. Since the inception of the DEA the civil rights of Americans in regards to drugs have been increasingly ignored, and it's a rare politician who doesn't use the drug war as an opportunity to appear tough on crime. The DEA and many police forces actually rely on asset forfeiture to provide a substantial portion of their budgets, even though fewer than 5% of asset forfeiture cases involve any prosecution, let alone conviction. The DEA is then free to spend this confiscated wealth as it pleases. Orwell was prophetic.

          Let's face facts: this is not a problem of supply, it's a problem of demand. But it need not be a problem at all. University sponsored and AMA and BMA endorsed research has consistently shown most "classic" drugs, such as weed, hash, heroin and morphine to be non-toxic. Coke is rarely dangerous, and then primarily to those with heart conditions. The prohibition of these drugs has caused the gov't to entirely surrender their ability to regulate a drug's content, which is far more detrimental to the health of any user of classic drugs in their unadulturated form. Medical studies have shown without fail that Alcohol is the most poisonous and detrimental of mood-altering substances.

          Additionally, America's drug war has resulted in the wholesale destablization of producer and transshipment nations. The lawlessness seen in Colombia and along the Mexican border is entirely a result of America's campaign of zero tolerance-an unobtainable goal. Senator John Kerry perpetrated the prevaricative canard that criminal cartels were behind the drive for legalization. Nothing could be further from the truth: cartels always step into a vacuum, and they benefit from our draconian laws. One has to wonder where Senator Kerry gets his marching orders. Cartels would disappear if drugs were legalized, just as they did when alcohol prohibition was repealed in 1933.

          Prohibition also leads to police corruption: studies show that 30% of police have been unlawfully involved with illegal drugs. The supreme court recently overturned a previous 9-0 ruling regarding the knock-and-announce rule, stating that the cops need merely identify themselves before entering a residence-usually violently.

          Enforcement of drug laws are also racially biased (I'm a white male). Most drug users are white and casual users of weed, coke or heroin. Yet most of those doing time for drug offenses are disproportionately black and hispanic. It's a case of a predatory DEA wolfpack picking off the most vulnerable members of a herd, rather than facing down a banker who can afford something better than a court-appointed defence. It's so unfair it pangs the conscience.

          America has among the most restrictive drug laws in the world, and they have only made the situation worse. Canada recently considered a Senate recommendation to legalize pot. Holland has legalized pot without any negative consequences: the Dutch have the longest life-span in the world and a violent crime rate less than 1 sixth of the US. Injection programs for the most hard-core heroin addicts in Switzerland have caused aids to disappear among this vulnerable group, and employment among them stands at 70%. Other countries have come to grips with this problem through rationality and compassion. America has not-and it has utterly failed. Studies of American conditions and behavior prior to 1914, when these subsances were legal, show no correlation to poorer health or crime-Alcohol is the sole exception to this.

          President McKinley used cocaine for 27 years until his death by an assasin's bullet. Grant used morphine to ease his discomfort after his presidency. 250,000 Civil War vets were morphine addicts.

          The police chiefs of Kansas City, MO, San Jose and San Diego, CA, Seattle, WA and many smaller departments have called for the legalization of drugs. Former drug czar Barry McCaffrey has called the Federal prison system "America's drug Gulag" and has stated "We cannot incarcerate our way out of this problem." Former Secy of State George Schultz has called for an end to prohibition and consideration of decriminalization and legalization.

          "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."-William Pitt.

          5 out of 5 stars Bad Trip on Bad War.......2005-06-15

          This should scare the hell out of a lot of dirty law enforcement agencies! The War on drugs is OVER,and the drugs won. Illegal drugs cannot be stopped. It has created more dirty cops,and turned them into Nazi style storm troopers that bust into homes of the innocent in the wee hours of the morning. This book should be required reading for every American. Like the book? Please visit www.leap.cc/.
          Leagalize the drugs and then you control them. President Bush, wake up and read this book.

          4 out of 5 stars Governmental uselessness exposed (again).......2004-11-16

          If there's one cliche that has been blatantly overused in the past few years, it's that our government is fighting a "war on drugs." Sure, the government is pretending to wage it, but we all know the war on drugs has been over for years, if it even ever existed in the first place. How exactly can we have a war on something so many people seem to want? Next thing you know, the government will start telling people they can't gamble, or pay for sex, or smoke in a privately-owned bar (whoops). Anyway, Joel Miller adds plenty of fuel to the raging debate over the drug war with Bad Trip. This short, direct, and intelligent volume should convince anyone who hasn't been indoctrinated up to their eyeballs in governmental propaganda that the war on drugs (like most wars) isn't worth fighting.

          In one rather entertaining early segment, Miller takes the reader on a glimpse of the drug war's early days, illustrating the roots of the current mess in the first half of the 20th century. There's plenty of unintentional comedy to be found when Miller discusses some of the attitudes regarding drugs (including alcohol) that were commonly held back in the twenties and thirties. In one especially uproarious moment, in 1938 the Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics actually wrote, "an overdose of marijuana generates savage and sadistic traits likely to reach a climax in axe and ice-pick murders." And then of course, there was Reefer Madness, the classic 1936 movie where a little toking resulted in PERMANENT INSANITY. Now, having been around some pot smokers myself, I can say for sure that while marijuana use may result in giddiness, the telling of off-color jokes, and the consumption of junk food, it does not lead to violence or insanity. Sadly, though, the ridiculous beliefs outlined above continue to inform the drug laws even in these more "enlightened" times, and Miller does us all a favor by casting light upon them.

          Of course, it's not drugs themselves that cause so much crime, it's the illegality of drugs. If people can't obtain drugs through legal means, they'll just get them elsewhere, very likely from violent gangs. Every halfway-informed person knows the same thing happened when alcohol was prohibited and gangsters took over the market, but apparently our politicians are slow learners (duh). Essentially, Miller writes, the drug war is bound to fail due in large part to simple economics. Drug dealers, he writes, are profiteers, while drug warriors are mere bureaucrats. Since the sale and use of drugs are prohibited, the government creates a black market in which any willing person with some brains can turn an easy profit. Therefore, the dealer trying to make a buck will always be ahead of the DEA agent who's getting paid anyway. As Miller details in the chapter on drug smuggling, the tighter the noose of prohibition gets, the more inventive dealers get in the quest for money.

          Most tragically, though, since the drug trade is entirely voluntary and there are no victims to file complaints, governments have to resort to ever more proactive and draconian measures in order to catch dealers and users. Warrantless searches, no-knock military-style raids, blanket traffic stops, and utterly unjustified confiscations have made a mockery of everybody's Constitutional rights while doing little or nothing to stem the flow of drugs. Miller provides us with a laundry list of innocent people who have been robbed, terrorized, and even killed at the hands of overzealous (or outright corrupt) drug warriors. In many cases, governments have established a giant network of informants to fink on friends, customers, and even classmates, often going so far as to entrap people into breaking the law. Not to mention, the travesty of mandatory-sentencing laws has filled our jails with non-violent "criminals" who take up space that could be used for slightly more dangerous folks, like, say, muggers, burglars, and rapists.

          Ultimately, Miller writes, the war on drugs amounts to nothing more than a war on freedom. There are plenty of other institutions in society, such as the family and the church, that can help prevent people from abusing drugs, but government prohibition merely creates a whole slew of new problems for all of us. Accepting the fact that other people are going to do things you don't like is a necessary part of living in a free society, one that mature people are going to have to get used to. After all, I don't think people should watch reality TV or listen to Celine Dion, but I manage to get over it. Miller finishes with a quote from Thomas Sowell that sums up the issue better than I ever could: "What do people get out of using drugs? I don't know...but there is all the difference in the world between deciding that you don't want to do something and trying to force other people to live your way." Amen.

          5 out of 5 stars Intellectual courage matched with compelling arguments.......2004-08-28

          Miller does a superb job of marshalling a number of philosophical, economic, legal and practical arguments against the war drugs. Although he states that he believes drug use is a bad choice, he also believes that life in a free society necessarily encumbers the fact that others will make choices that we personally oppose.

          I wonder how Miller's argument would apply to the abortion debate?

          In any event, I am a conservative Christian who happens to believe that the war on drugs is a misguided, miserable failure implemented by self-serving politicians who sought more votes in the 1970s.

          The principle of states' rigths should apply to this question. Prohibition at the federal level is a failed policy that ought to be abandoned, and Miller gives us the ammuntion needed in this battle.

          5 out of 5 stars it's like mainlining heroin.......2004-06-19

          This book is written with such energy and near-paranoid conviction that I'm convinced the author must have been shooting up while writing it. And I mean that as a compliment. Really. Tackling a subject as taboo (and as neglected) as the drug war takes chutzpah, and, I must say, the author does it with the fire of a crack-crazed prophet.

          What surprised me most about the book, though, is its sardonic tone. It's got a wry sense of humor that really compliments the seedy subject matter. A great mix of comedy, tragedy, and ouright absurdity. It's refreshing to read a topical book with strong writing as well as research.

          I must admit, I approached this book with extreme caution. And though I'm not sure I'm ready to have drugs completely legalized (I'm definitely a child of the "Just Say No" generation), Miller's case against the drug war is powerful and hard to dispute.

          Highly recommended. Surprisingly entertaining as well as informative. All around, a very good trip (and I'm not just saying that because I want to smoke dope without fear of repercussions).
          Bad Trip How the War Against Drugs Is Destroying America
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            Bad Trip How the War Against Drugs Is Destroying America

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            The war against drugs was supposed to make America better, right? It failed. Not only does the drug war fail to keep Americans from using drugs, but its crackdown tactics also produce bigger problems than it promises to solve. In this fearlessly audacious book, Joel Miller shows that drug prohibition creates tremendous amounts of crime and corruption, helps finance anti-American terrorists, makes a joke out of U.S. border security, chips away at constitutional liberties, militarizes law enforcement, and jails hundreds of thousands of Americans. And for what? A bigger, more intrusive government that cares less and less about individual rights. Told in a bold, uncompromising style, Miller's book reveals the true and terrible nature of the war on drugs and also, just as importantly, informs readers about what they can do to kick the drug-war habit. "Miller nails it," says Larry Elder, host of ABC Radio's nationally syndicated Larry Elder Show and best-selling author. "He powerfully and persuasively articulates the folly, the harm and the unconstitutionality of our government's War against Drugs." And says Judge Andrew P. Napolitano of Fox News, "If you are interested in our freedoms or fearful of the government destroying human lives and wasting tax dollars on another American Prohibition, read this book and send a copy to every lawmaker and judge you know." If you want to understand the drug problem in America, you first need to know how the government is making it worse. Bad Trip is the place to start.

            A guide to wetland functional design
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              A guide to wetland functional design
              Anne D Marble
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              Evaluation for planned wetlands (EPW): A procedure for assessing wetland functions and a guide to functional design
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                Candy C Bartoldus
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                A Guide to Wetland Functional Design
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