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Mister Rogers talks with families about divorce
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Very bad.......1999-05-18

I wouldn't recommend this. This is very bad. Does not offer any real solution and merely repeats what others say and conventional wisdom.

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Colin Powell did not become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1989 because of a quota. He earned his spot at the top. And he is not the only black American to have made a successful career out of the U.S. Army. In fact, no other institution in American life has done a better job of creating opportunity for blacks. Authors Moskos and Butler explain and endorse the Army's "supply-side" affirmative action, with its dedication to non-discrimination and belief that remedial training can open doors better than quotas or lowered standards.

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[A] magnificent book...Every American--white or black, military or civilian--who cares about building healthy race relations in our country ought to read All That We Can Be.

The foremost authorities on race relations in the armed forces recount the previously untold success story of how the U.S. Army became the most integrated institution in America. Charles C. Moskos and John Sibley Butler observe that the Army is the only place in America where blacks routinely boss around whites, and in this book they lay out the path by which the Army has promoted excellence across racial lines, while also showing how this military model can be adapted to fit the needs of civilian society. The Army way offers hope for our nation in a troubled time, and by following its example, Americans of all races can truly be all that we can be.

Fascinating and well-written...Anyone who sees the need for a border vision of race in America and to reset the terms of the national racial policy debate should read this book.
--William Julius Wilson, Harvard University, author of When Work Disappears

Moskos and Butler...are admirably informative about the principles that under lie 'the Army way' of achieving integration, and their book reminds us that integration itself is not a vain hope or lost idea.
--Wall Street Journal

A great American success story--and a reminder that a truly color-blind America is a 'hill worth taking,'
--Washington Monthly

This detailed, readable book implicitly tells us to stop complaining about the lack of race fairness in America--and look at how the military has begun to solve the problem. Virtually every one of the military's keys to success can be adapted in civilian society, so let's get on with it.
--George Anne Geyer, Universal Press Syndicate

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Excellent Description of Success in the Military Life.......2005-08-25

Moskos and Butler do an excellent job of describing how the Army has done a much better job than other American institutions at racial integration. Unlike a few of the previous reviewers, I did not feel that the authors claimed that the Army had done it perfectly, or that there was complete racial harmony. In fact, I think the authors were fairly clear that the Army was far from perfect. Instead, they argue that the Army is one of the best, if not the best, examples we have.

Further, Moskos and Butler do a great job of operationalizing or articulating, the steps the Services used and are using. These concrete examples are extremely valuable when evaluating whether other institutions can follow in the Army's footsteps or not.

One of the strengths of the book is that both Moskos and Butler are uniquely qualified to write about the military. Both served in the Army as soldiers (not officers), both are professors who study the military, and both continue to stay in contact with the Army. In short, they are in a position to blend personal experience, academic analysis and recent events.

EXCELLENT PROPOGANDA.......2001-03-06

Charles Moskos and John Butler have delievered in our hands an excellent propoganda treatsie telling us that integration has worked in the Army. It has worked without lowering standards and has provided an environment in which African-Americans can excel. Surely society and other institutions need to take a look at the Army and borrow some of its strategies to provide equal opportunity for African-Americans in the civilian sector.

If you have served in the Army for any length of time you would know that is is not "race" free. Institutional racism was not addressed in this text. Although you have African-Americans in leadership positions in the NCO Corps that changes when we go into the officer's Corps and when we look at positions that African-Americans hold in each branch. Not everything is equal.

The Army is portrayed as a good paternalistic organization which is able to take low performing Blacks and make them into good soldiers. Very little is mentioned at all that many Blacks who have joined the Army have come from stable homes, have a sense of purpose and are instilled with deep family values. These young men and women will be successful in any environment.

Of course there are certain things that outside organizations can learn from the Army and implement the changes in their structures. We must keep in mind that the Army has different control systems in place by virtue of its nature that can't be duplicated in the civilian world. In such a case the Army is able to be successful in integrating its force. The Army's purpose is to defend our country. It can't do it if there is racial strife in the organization. Racists behavior is not in its best interest for defence.

If you create an environment where there is a level playing field then everyone has the opportunity to excel. What the Army has done is not unique as Moskos implies. Civilian society can not be compared with the Army because of its unique mission. The Army doesn't change until society tells it to do so.

Mr. Moskos would have done a better job in presenting the Army as an alternative for African-Americans to explore as they embark on their way to viable careers for their lives. The Army is not racism free and better attention needs to be addressed to the institutional barriers. Purchase this book if you are highly optimistic or have your head buried in the sand regarding integration the Army way.

Good premise, but a bit unrealistic.......1999-11-26

Perhaps confirming suspicions of most African-Americans, I can attest to the very real resentment that their presence in the ranks engenders. It is true that their representation in the NCO corps is quite heavy, but I have personally observed that the officer corps is equally topheavy with whites. Naturally the officer corps is better educated, if not always smarter. To the average white observer without the benefit of liberal indoctrination,it is quite obvious that the reason for this preponderance of Black NCO's is that the military lifestyle is often infinitely more palatable than the civilian cycle of poverty, drugs, and crime that surely await the average black who is either too witless, or too proud to take advantage of the many programs developed by Whitey to raise him above his circumstances. This is not to say that many African-Americans do not benefit in a true moral sense from the strict meritocracy envisioned and implemented by the military. Quite often they are superior soldiers and human beings when shown the truth and beauty of discipline and self-sacrifice. Unfortunately, there are many more who have never managed to embrace these equalizing truths, and have managed to cling to the ghetto mentality to the detriment of those they presume to command. For this reason you will see most whites leave service after the contracted number of years, and many blacks stay on to fill the NCO ranks.

Uninformed.......1999-02-03

I belive that the author of this book is blaming society, especially Universities, a little too much. In the beginning when he makes this assertion that Universites are racist he basis it on the astute obervation that since there a few African Americans in the Universities that they are racist or something like that. Furthmore since the Military has more African Americans it is a better instiution. Here is a better explanation. Universities are a lot more selective and thus can choose from the entire population. The Army will take anyone it can get its hands on. I just did not like the Authors atitutde that the whole is racist. Furthermore he knows nothing about music. I love when he writes white soldiers are listening to more black music and he uses Heavy Metal and Rock n Roll, both white music! In fact Heavy Metal is white protest music against Black music! Do some research or think before writting a book.

America can benefit from race-savvy;not color-blind policies.......1998-10-24

Can It Be This Simple?

All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way by Charles Moskos and John Sibley Butler

Reviewed by Robert Gest III a senior faculty member of The Federal Executive Institute

This book by Moskos and Butler indeed provides a somewhat different solution to the race problem in America; one that I, and I am sure, many others desperately wish could succeed. As a personal friend of both authors, an Afro-American, and a veteran of thirty years in the US Air Force, I read their book with a somewhat biased eye. I believe in Moskos' views of cohesion and community and I know he fervently believes in the solvability of the race issue in this country. However, I found myself reading, accepting many of the arguments of the book, yet ending with a morbid melancholy about the feasibility or soundness of their ultimate argument.

The position that the Army takes which focuses on behavior rather than attitudes is probably one of the few tenable perspectives to take on leading an organization populated by both white and black Americans. Sociologists tell us that attitudes and values cannot be legislated. Such an effort is more likely to harden the positions of people who have come by these attitudes and values from the people and institutions they trust the most. Our parents, churches, friends are instrumental in the formation of our early values and attitudes. And, as many accept, these become part and parcel of who we are at a relatively early age. I like the view of Morris Massey whose seminal work, Who You Are is Where You Were When. Here he argues that short of a Significant Emotional Event, a S-E-E if you will, we are not likely to experience a major shift in attitudes/values. Perhaps the Army, in its effort to ensure harmony, unity, combat effectiveness, presents its newly-entered soldiers with what amounts to a SEE. The Army makes it crystal clear what its expectations are and subsequently brooks little or no deviation. The emphasis is on behavior which can be observed; not on attitudes. Is it possible that this focus makes that much difference? It would seem so.

A war story is in order. In Boot camp during the Fall of 1959, I had the honor of serving as "Barracks Chief" which meant that when the Drill Sergeant went home for the evening, I was "in charge". I had an assistant who like me, was from the Deep South. After about two weeks into an eleven week basic training experience, the assistant and I were sitting on the stoop of the barracks building, discussing a variety of things. Unexpectedly he confided or confessed that had anyone told him three weeks before that he would be sitting with a "nigra", talking as equals and feeling benefitted by the dialogue, he would have called them a "damned liar". His experience with Afro-Americans had been largely confined to the maid and yard man who came to his parents' home to work. Therefore, his world view (read attitudes/values) had been formed by his experiences. Only after he experienced a different paradigm of behavior/relations did he begin to question his assumptions. Richard Tanner Pascale, in his book, Managing on the Edge, states that "it is easier to act ourselves into a better mode of thinking than to think ourselves into a better mode of acting". (p.264) For this reason, Moskos and Butler are onto something when they argue forcefully for National Service. The leveling that occurs when young people of all races, genders, sexual orientations, religions, etc., come together to execute a common mission, forces each "different" to confront the realities of these "others" and begin to reassess their heretofore strongly-held beliefs. Pascale says it this way, "If our experiences are far enough out of whack with our beliefs, we are forced to update our thinking". (p.264) So, the question we might ask is, "Could universal National Service have the impact that the authors suggest?

Yes, National Service could have a major impact on changing both behavior and attitudes. But would it be enough? Would the changes extend to situations outside of the arena where the National Service is performed? The record is mixed in this regard. Anecdotal evidence indicates that when left to their own devices, the races tend to seek out others they perceive as "like themselves". I have first-hand experience that it seems to matter little how wealthy or educated one may be, she/he is still first thought of and identified by the color of his or her skin. The treatment may not be as harsh, but the differentiation is still there. So, I would pose the question to the authors, "How do we get past skin color?"

So, although the authors make a very good case for adopting the Army's approach of race-savvy versus color-blindness and behavior versus attitude, could it not be that absent a "forced behavior environment", this simply will not work for the general public? At least, not as successfully as it has for the Army? Having said all that, America could still benefit immeasurably from creating institutions where its citizens are required to face their stereotypes but conduct themselves as if these false views did not exist. Over time the stark and strongly-held world views might soften and such could only aid in the improvement of race relations in America.

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ALL THAT WE CAN BE: BLACK LEADERSHIP AND RACIAL INTEGRATION THE ARMY WAY.
Charles C. and John Sibley Butler. Moskos
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This collection of primary, secondary, and visual sources for the Western Civilization survey course provides a broad introduction to the materials historians use, the interpretations historians make, and 6,000 years of Western civilization. Its broad selection of documents, photographs, maps, and charts, and its full array of accompanying commentaries--drawn from a balanced spectrum of perspectives and approaches--offer valuable insight into the work of historians and provide the context that helps students understand the texts' full historical significance.

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Thorough, Generous, Beautifully Illustrated.......2004-02-11

This book is unique in its balance of primary sources and their interpretations. All the figures you'd expect are present: Macchiavelli, Luther, Locke, Paine, Engles, Freud, etc. And with secondary sources coming from Fromm, Ulam, et. al, the data is clearly and comprehensively analyzed. What readers will appreciate are the generous illustrations throughout the text which give you some idea how the philosophies/theories/values of the times are reflected in visual media. What some readers won't appreaciate is the single-spaced type that changes font and styles so often that one might get motion sickness. It's a minor point that has nothing to do with the value of the texts presented, but it does interfere with the pleasure of reading. Still, this is a great history book to teach from or just as a casual read/refresher for the history fan.

Western Civilization: Images and Interpretations : From the Renaissance to the Present.

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Western Civilization: Images and Interpretations : From the Renaissance to the Present.
Dennis. Sherman
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Vehicle Thermal Management: Heat Exchangers & Climate Control (Progress in Technology) (Progress in Technology)

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The efficiency of thermal systems (HVAC, engine cooling, transmission, and power steering) has improved greatly over the past few years. Operating these systems typically requires a significant amount of energy, however, which could adversely affect vehicle performance. To provide customers the level of comfort that they demand in an energy-efficient manner, innovative approaches must be developed. Vehicle Thermal Management: Heat Exchangers & Climate Control is an essential resource for engineers and designers working on thermal systems, presenting the most recent and relevant technical papers that focus on this important vehicle component.

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Shared Universal Experiences

An empathetic and involving true story of family values.

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Austin Lunch: Greek-American Recollections
Constance M. Constant
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Shared Universal Experiences.......2007-03-31

You don't have to be Greek to appreciate Austin Lunch. My grandparents came to the U.S.from Germany in 1900 with their two little girls. My grandmother's sister had written to her from Chicago, "Valeska, you find money on the streets in America." My grandparents didn't find money on the streets, but with hard work their family ran a "Dry Goods" store on Chicago's near north side for many years. My mother, their youngest daughter, told me many stories of being immigrants in business in Chicago at the beginning of the century. What a wonderful surprise it was for me to read Austin Lunch and recognize and share the struggles of the Limberopulos family. It recalled my mother's stories of her family and their store in Chicago. The story of the United States is the story of a country of immigrants. As you read this book, the struggles of the Limberopulos family resonate with your deepest family ethos. What a wonderful literary journey and heart warming experience it is to read this book!

An empathetic and involving true story of family values........2007-02-04

The debut book of Constance M. Constant, Austin Lunch: Greek-American Recollections is the heartfelt of growing up and adapting to the shock of immigration, the hardship of the Great Depression, and seeing the determination and drive of one's parents in action. The family's simple restaurant on Chicago's historic but problematic Near West Side, Austin Lunch tells of the mother's defiance of 1931 conventions to work in the restaurant, and the diverse assortment of inner city characters who dined there. Above all, Austin Lunch is a tribute to an industrious mother and father, and the strength of a close-knit family. An empathetic and involving true story of family values.

Austin Lunch.......2006-11-11

I loved this book. As a Greek American and native of Chicago, this was a treat to read. Also purchased it for my Aunt and two Uncles.

Austin Lunch.......2005-10-22

To learn about your past is a gift. And Connie Constant teaches us in an eminently enjoyable and engaging way in her new book, Austin Lunch. Set on the West Side of Chicago in the 1930s, the Austin Lunch chronicles the lives of an immigrant Greek family as they struggle to survive through the Great Depression.

Sprinkled throughout a fascinating narrative are important historical lessons about the Depression, immigration early in this century, the discrimination and trials Greeks faced and their ultimate victory of spirit and determination.

The main characters - Papa and indomitable Mama - are people who lead heroic lives in ordinary, humble surroundings. The observers are their children Helen and Nick and the story is told from their keen, innocent perspective. The family owns a restaurant, the Austin Lunch, and lives in a simple apartment on Madison Street, a sketchy area at the time. The Depression has left a painfully large number of Chicagoans - including many Greeks - unemployed and struggling for survival. Business is abysmally slow and to help reduce costs and keep the business afloat, Mama decides to defy tradition and work outside the home.

This courageous, determined woman with very limited education overlooks criticism from fellow Greeks and goes to work at the Austin Lunch. Her smarts, love and self-confidence, bolstered by strong faith and character, enable her and her husband to successfully navigate the assorted characters - from upright people to drunks and crooks - who frequented the Austin Lunch and Madison Street. She and her husband, Paul, treat each customer with dignity and fairness and earn the loyalty and friendship of countless individuals.

What captivated me about this book is that the characters are real and honest. As you turn the pages, you experience the family's struggles, joys and sorrows. The gripping stories and anecdotes tug at your heartstrings and may remind you of stories you have heard about your own family.

Readers who migrated from Greece to America and lived through the Great Depression will relate to this book. Those born later will learn from it. The reader feels as though he/she is living in the 1930s in Chicago, and seeing the world through the eyes of a child and the lens of an adult all at the same time.

Constant reminds us of the great stories and heroism in everyday life. In reading her work, one remembers the value of listening to the stories of our families, recognizing the adventures they encapsulate, and treasuring the lessons therein.

The Austin Lunch.......2005-04-19

Austin Lunch is a delightful book about the Great Depression. It's strange to use delightful and Great Depression in the same sentence, yet Constance M. Constant integrates this family memoir of hardship, struggle, coping and hope with humor. Family stories and the weird experience of growing up in an old working class restaurant, that turns into a saloon after the repeal of Prohibition, are amusingly related from the perspective of the two inner-city kids who lived it.

As a forty year old, I had no idea of the multiple layers of misfortune that the Thirties "hard times" caused my grandparents, parents, and millions of other Americans. Constant's narrative with its fascinating details made me feel like I was THERE! Austin Lunch is a book for seniors who remember the Depression first hand and for the rest of us
who might even benefit from their experiences. Reading this wonderful memoir is a delightful way to find out about those "hard times" you hear about at family events from the "old guys" in your clan. I'm giving these books as gifts for Mother's Day and Father's Day.

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In the immortal words of Jon Stewart

The Weekly Standard : A Reader: 1995-2005
William Kristol
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great anthology.......2005-11-22

Contrary to what the first reviewer wrote, this is an excellent anthology. David Brook's "Fog of Peace" is an excellent essay on the Left's inability to think straight on Iraq, because, as he so eloquently puts it, "their entire moral space is filled with [Bush hatred]". So very true. And the history of Iraq is not yet written. Bush deposed one of the most ruthless fascist dictators of all time, and established a democracy, virtually overnight. At the same time, the U.S. took out, as Cheney put it "the most likely nexus between Al Quida and weapons of mass destruction" [it never was just about WMDs, as the Left always states]. But this book is not only about Iraq. The Iraq essay is excellent and shows the shallowness of the Left on that issue. The other essays are interesting, and it is not just about politics. I really am impressed by the Weekly Standard, and I read it every week. It has some of the most fresh and new ideas (for example, this past week, an excellent article on why the 'bird flu' scare is overhyped), and I find it a nice change of pace away from the group-think, paranoia, shallowness, hatred, and pessimism so prevailent on the Left today.

In the immortal words of Jon Stewart.......2005-10-26

I saw Jon Stewart interview Kristol last night on the daily show. As best I can remember, Jon said:

"Bill, you people were way ahead of the curve! This book proves that you were wrong about Iraq _way_ before everyone else was wrong about Iraq!"

That sums it up pretty nicely. I think history will show that Kristol & Co were also wrong about Bush being a conservative (as that word is currently understood) but it'll take a few more years to be sure. Conservatives: buy this book, get extra copies for your friends, remember how sure of yourselves you were, and never forget how wrong you were. Moderates and liberals: all you need to know is summed up in the Jon Stewart quote

A day to remember.(September 6 will have two much anticipated launches ): An article from: The Weekly Standard

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Thunder on the center-right: The Weekly Standard turns 10.(The Weekly Standard: A Reader, 1995-2005)(Book review): An article from: Reason

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After helping to establish several federally protected wilderness areas and wildlife preserves in the American Southwest, the famed conservationist Aldo Leopold moved to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1924. There he worked for the U.S. Forest Service's Forest Products Laboratory, studying ways in which to make logging both more productive and less damaging. While in Madison, he also took time to write short articles for a newspaper, The Wisconsin Agriculturalist and Farmer. Many of them are gathered in this collection of previously uncollected prose pieces. Those who worked the land, Leopold believed, were best equipped to protect it; his essays touch on such matters as providing safe havens for migratory waterfowl and predatory birds, weighing the merits of artificially planted windbreaks against those of natural fencerows, and arguing that farmers should take care not to plow over plants that provide food for wildlife. Always he urges that his readers think ahead to consider the natural implications of both feast and famine. "Conservation," he notes,

is keeping the resource in working order, as well as preventing overuse. Resources may get out of order before they are exhausted, sometimes while they are still abundant. Conservation, therefore, is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence or caution.

Admirers of Leopold's work will find much of value--but little that will be wholly new--in these pages. --Gregory McNamee

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Aldo Leopold's classic work A Sand County Almanac is widely regarded as one of the most influential conservation books of all time. In it, Leopold sets forth an eloquent plea for the development of a "land ethic"-a belief that humans have a duty to interact with the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise "the land" in ways that ensure their well-being and survival.

For the Health of the Land, a new collection of rare and previously unpublished essays by Leopold, builds on that vision of ethical land use and develops the concept of "land health" and the practical measures landowners can take to sustain it. The writings are vintage Leopold-clear, sensible, and provocative, sometimes humorous, often lyrical, and always inspiring. Joining them together are a wisdom and a passion that transcend the time and place of the author's life.

The book offers a series of forty short pieces, arranged in seasonal "almanac" form, along with longer essays, arranged chronologically, which show the development of Leopold's approach to managing private lands for conservation ends. The final essay is a never before published work, left in pencil draft at his death, which proposes the concept of land health as an organizing principle for conservation. Also featured is an introduction by noted Leopold scholars J. Baird Callicott and Eric T. Freyfogle that provides a brief biography of Leopold and places the essays in the context of his life and work, and an afterword by conservation biologist Stanley A. Temple that comments on Leopold's ideas from the perspective of modern wildlife management.

The book's conservation message and practical ideas are as relevant today as they were when first written over fifty years ago. For the Health of the Land represents a stunning new addition to the literary legacy of Aldo Leopold.

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The Land Doctor.......2004-08-22

If you liked Sand County Almanac, you will enjoy this volume of essays as well. As far as I can tell, Aldo Leopold's essays fall into two broad categories: those fit for scientific journals or public policy statements, and those that celebrate the philosophical or aesthetic appreciation of nature. This book contains a healthy dose of both types. It is full of rich, lyrical essays on the variety and inherent enjoyment of being surrounded by wildland and wildlife. This is not to say the essays are impractical. As was often the case, these words were written for the common man; the common landowner. But Aldo Leopold was a brilliant wordsmith. He didn't see why a lesson in practical land management couldn't also be poetic. As such, his words were often profound and prophetic, but also gleaned from what should be common sense. The final essay in this book (The Land-Health Concept and Conservation)is perhaps the most important and most relevant argument for land sustainability that you will ever read.

THIS IS A CORRECTION NOT A REVIEW.......1999-10-09

To Whom It May Concern:

This is NOT a review, but a correction to the Kirkus Review article. Sand County Almanac was published in 1949, a year after Leopold's untimely death (he was helping a neighbor fight a fire). Kirkus has the book's pub date as 1968 -- which might have been a reissue. 1999 is the 50th anniversary of SCA, which is a rather big deal in Leopold circles. Kirkus is on the money with everything else :)

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