From Roots to Wings: Successful Parenting African American Style

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From Roots to Wings: Successful Parenting African American Style
Dr. James Young
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ASIN: 0974900044

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Merging theory with practical advice, this guide recognizes the unique challenges facing African American parents and offers successful parenting stategies to overcome them. Peer pressure, television, and rap music seem to be socializing today's black youth, but this book argues that parental attention is more powerful. Case studies and other research look at expectations, listening, goal-setting, careful time management, nutrition, attention to academics and grades, consistency, prayer, and quality time, and their effectiveness in strong black families.

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A detailed account, based on unprecedented access to European archives, of the Austrian army of the 18th century, and its Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian auxiliaries.

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Another outstanding effort.......2007-09-27

As one would expect from this author, this is a first class, all-encompassing study of the structure and character of the army of Empress Maria-Theresa, perhaps Austria's greatest monarch, and the most redoubtable opponent of Frederick the Great. Duffy, like myself,has a real enthusiasm and deep interest in this era, and subject, and the author's profound knowledge shines through on every page. I agree with an earlier reviewer that more illustrations, including color, would have been warranted,but I am glad that this book was even published. I just hope that the follow up volume, covering the actions of this army in the Seven Years War, is eventually produced.

treausure trove .......2006-04-20

A treasure trove of information in regards to the Austrian army of the Seven Years war. Absolutely packed with information in regards to its organization. Much superior to the author's work on the Prussian army of Freerick the Great

Army of Maria Theresa reveal in whole.......2005-01-06

This book by Christopher Duffy proves to be one of the most comprehensive account of the Army of Maria Theresa during the Seven Years War ever written. The book is written with clarity despite of the fact that its packed with information. Its pretty amazing that the book is so detailed but yet so readable. (I should note that having a good background on this time period would be very helpful.) The analyical insightfulness of Mr. Duffy's writing proves to be one of the strong points of this book.

The book covers all aspects of this army. The leadership and officer corps as well its privates and non-commission personal. There is an interesting chapter where the author goes from province to province of the Hapsburg Empire, summarizing its ethnic make-up and its military representation. It really does give a clearer understanding of the people who make up this multi-national army that serves the Hapsburg so well during that war. The coverage also extends well into all the branches, infantry, artillery, cavalry, support units as well as Croats who get a chapter of their own. Background materials are given, there are maps and 12 pages of tidbits appendix information which proves to be quite useful.

It should be noted that this book do not relate much about the Seven Years War. Its a book on the Austrian Army's internal structures during that war. Thus you may have to wait until Mr. Duffy's second volume where it suppose to show the Austrian army in action during that war.

I would say that the only major weakness I could easily spot about this book was that it could have used more illustrations, both black and white and color. Also, this book wasn't written for novice reader of the subject. If you don't know who Maria Theresa was or what years the Seven Years War took place, I would recommend looking for an introductory book on the subject before moving up. (Like one of them Osprey books for example.)

This book without a doubt, belong to the library of any one who have any great interest in this subject matter. Its easily one of the best books on the subject and I would say that its a mandatory reading material for any person who wish to gain a greater insight in how European army functions and operated during the mid-18th century. Do read it and learn!

The Austrian Army in the Seven Years War.......2001-05-17

A very profound study of the development and tactics of the Austrian Army during the Seven Years War. A 'must have' for all interested in the 18th century war history.

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Western Experience Since 16th Century (Study Guide)
M. Chambers
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill College
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0070129568

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Includes chapter outlines, “Significant Individuals” and key term matching exercises, chronological diagrams for each chapter, Documents analysis, map exercises, box chart exercises which reinforce the book's overarching themes, and “Problems for Analysis and Speculation” (essays). The workbook pages are perforated to allow instructors to require that students hand in certain exercises.

Western Experience: Since the 16th Century

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Western Experience: Since the 16th Century
Mortimer Chambers , and Barbara Hanawalt
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill College
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ASIN: 0072396490

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Overview: This survey for the Western Civilization course has attained much prestige and a reputation for excellence over the last six editions. It offers a strong political narrative with balanced coverage of social, cultural/intellectual, economic and women's history. The scholarship is second to none. THE WESTERN EXPERIENCE provides an interpretive and analytical approach which will appeal to professors who want their students to come away from their courses with not only a grasp of the “facts,” but also having been challenged by interpretations, having analyzed assumptions, and having used their critical thinking skills. The lavish map and illustration program provides visual sources to aid students in learning, and the carefully chosen art program with its long explanatory captions provides a strong art history element to the text.

The book presents a chronological survey of the history of the West while weaving the narrative around several recurring themes: social structure, the body politic, organization of production and the impact of technology, evolution of the family and changing gender roles, war, religion and cultural expression. This helps students to understand the continuing thread of development that exists throughout history.

In developing the seventh edition, the authors focused on increasing the coverage of women and the family throughout the text in an integrated fashion, increasing the coverage of popular culture, and increasing the number of “historical debate” boxes that proved so popular in the sixth edition. The Medieval chapters (6-11) have been significantly revised by new author Barbara Hanawalt. Also, attention to the flow of the narrative led to breaking down long paragraphs into shorter ones with new explanatory headings, increasing accessibility for students.

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Western Experience V.2 since the 16th Century pb 7TH 99
Chambers
Manufacturer: McGraw/Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000LSNGGQ

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A fascinating analysis of the work of notable women by national group, giving thorough data comparing the contributions of women in choice fields. Among the women presented are more than a few colorful personalities representative of the entire social scale, from a royal princess to the daughter of a Paris slum shopkeeper. Researchers in the field of women's history and science history will find this indexed volume a valuable resource.

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If you like Groucho, or entertainment history.......2007-05-24

Excellent book, well written with Groucho's unique wit and sarcasm

Interesting.......2007-01-11

I Liked the book and was fascinated by it. It met most of my expectations. MP

On the Marx.......2006-11-05

A very easy read. A nice blend of information and funny Groucho stories. If you are a fan of their movies, then you should enjoy Groucho's accounts.

A touching biography of a celebrated comic.......2005-07-20

This biography of Groucho is as touching as is through. The reader is wisked away into the comic world of one of America's greatest performers. The book is filled with humorous stories from Groucho's life. The author has woven in some of Groucho's most personal views and we hear his outspoken and sometimes controversial views on a wide array of subjects. Groucho was truly the first "Sssssshock jock!" The book ends on a decidedly melancholy note when in the twilight of his years Groucho meets a young man by the name of Anthony. The two share a touching moment in which the reader watches as the torch is passed from one generation of comics to another. (Anthony later goes on to become a renowed professor and comedic talk show host.) A great read and an exciting page turner for the serious reader...NOT YOU!

Very funny fast read.......2005-05-17

Even though, as others have mentioned, this isn't really a true autobiography per se, it's a very involving, fast, funny read. There are a lot of personal reflections, anecdotes, and the wonderful chapters about the Marx family when their boys were young and then their early vaudeville days, but there are a lot of seemingly important things left out; if you want to get a story told in a more linear format and with more concise personal information, you'd be better-served reading a more serious scholarly biography (though you probably won't laugh as much with that kind of book). The autobiographical accounts that do appear are priceless though; to most people, the people, events, and culture of New York in the late 19th century and early 20th century and on the vaudeville circuit in America is a foreign long-vanished world, a world where a dollar was still a lot of money and there were still neighborhood tailors and pants-pressers, where cars were positively dirt-cheap in comparison to how much they cost today. More celebrity autobiographies should be like this, fun and engaging and witty, not taking oneself too seriously or acting like this is a strictly factual account of one's life and like everything described happened exactly in the way it's described and with those exact words spoken. The picture section was also very nice. The only small complaint I have about it is that, being written in 1959, some of the references to people and things are a little dated and don't mean anything to or ring any bells for people who weren't around back then.

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Groucho & Me
Groucho Marx
Manufacturer: DELL PUBL CO
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UDUS2W

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GROUCHO AND ME
MARX
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GROUCHO AND ME
MARX GROUCHO
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GROUCHO AND ME
GROUCHO MARKS
Manufacturer: MANOR BOOKS
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Groucho and Me

Manufacturer: Manor Books Inc.
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Groucho and Me
Groucho Marx
Manufacturer: Bernard Geis Associates
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000REOF8W

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Groucho and Me
Groucho Marx
Manufacturer: Bernard Geis Association
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Groucho and Me
Groucho Marx
Manufacturer: Dell Publishing
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Groucho and Me
Groucho Marx
Manufacturer: Manor Books, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WY72G4

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Uneven but interesting.......2001-02-19

"Barbarossa" is a collection of different essays born as the by-product of a conference held in 1991 at the Institute For International Studies of the University of Leeds. The subject of that meeting was Operation Barbarossa (the Nazi attack to the Soviet Union in 1941) and its consequence. While not a conference report, it is somewhat a collation of writing growing out of that meeting, the main "evolving factor" has been - of course - the collapse of the old Soviet Union, and all the opportunities and difficulties that the end of Cold War has presented to the Eastern Front historian.

This said, "Barbarossa" is a wildly uneven effort. On paper, the list of contributors is nothing short of superb: John Erickson, Gabriel Gorodetsky, John Chapman, Klaus-Jurgen Muller are among the writers. The topics covered are - too - a real treat for anyone into the subject: the book is divided in three sections: "Germany Turns East" (covering the prelude and the immeditate aftermath of Barbarossa), "Strained Alliances, Flawed Strategies" (on the complicate tangle of open or covered alliance coagulating after the Nazi attack began), and "Conflict, Compromise, Cost" (on the such controversial issues as Soviet losses, collaboration with the invaders and German war crimes). Unfortunately the quality of the material is not always brilliant and, alas, the Russian contribution is disappointing, being more concerned on then-current political issues (and rather generic "put the blame on Stalin") rather than historical research. The short essay by Dimitri Volkogonov (then a political adviser of Boris Yeltsin) is particularly lame. Some of the rest could have been better, and there's a distinct lack of uniformity in the editing of the text - some is laced with errors.

Anyway, I still give "Barbarossa" four stars, because it contains at least three gems. The first is Gabriel Gorodetsky's "Allied Strategy On The Wake Of Barbarossa", an analisys of the contradictory views held by western powers over the possibility of Soviet survival to the Nazi onslaught. Much of that material went into Gorodetsky recent masterpiece "The Grand Delusion", so I refer the readers to the latter volume.

The second piece of interest is John Chapman's "The Imperial Japanese Navy and the North-South Dilemma", a terrific insight on how the Japanese Navy: a) correctly forecasted a Nazi defeat as early as the second week of July 1941 and b) greatly influenced the Japanese diplomacy into a strategy bent on making their way out of the Russo-German conflict, and convicing Hitler of the reverse. This chapter is expecially well researched, and make a convicing case of Japanese total unwillingness to attack Stalin from the east.

The last great item is John Erickson's "Soviet War Losses - Calculation and Controversies", an overview of what we reasonably know about the scale of Soviet human cost on WWII. The numbers are presented in a concise and clear way, divided by period and single operation. It is interesting to know that, according to the most reliable sources, the final "KIA loss ratio" (Erickson calls it "dynamics of combatant losses") between Russian and Germans is not far for being 1 to 1, and the German efficency of inflicting total casualties on Soviets was around 1,5 to 1 - quoting Erickson "a far cry from the more hysterical assessment of Soviet ineptitude"). If you want to make your own opinion, the hard numbers are here.

The book (now out of print) is quite expensive, so make sure you're serious about the topic before you buy. However, a truly interesting document.

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From Barbarossa to Odessa - the Luftwaffe and Axis Allies Strike South East June - October 1941
Denes and Karlenko, Dmitry and Roba, Jean - Louis Bernad
Manufacturer: Midland Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WGQK6U

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In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer industries in Brazil, India, and Korea during the seventies and eighties.

Evans starts with the idea that states vary in the way they are organized and tied to society. In some nations, like Zaire, the state is predatory, ruthlessly extracting and providing nothing of value in return. In others, like Korea, it is developmental, promoting industrial transformation. In still others, like Brazil and India, it is in between, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering. Evans's years of comparative research on the successes and failures of state involvement in the process of industrialization have here been crafted into a persuasive and entertaining work, which demonstrates that successful state action requires an understanding of its own limits, a realistic relationship to the global economy, and the combination of coherent internal organization and close links to society that Evans called "embedded autonomy."

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It is worth reading.......2005-08-06

The author analyzes how East Asian countries make their economic development successful with state autonomy and also tells the difference among those countries, which means that if other countries wants to copy the above models, they need to decide what model they could apply.

Outstanding book.......2003-09-22

An excellent comparative study of efforts by developmental states in India, Brazil, and South Korea to break out of preordained "comparative advantage" and develop modern high-tech sectors for their respective economies. Based on extensive field research in all three countries and supplemented by thorough use of archival evidence.

The mechanism of developmental state.......2002-09-26

This book is regarded as de facto classic in the tradition of developmental state. The strategy of developmental state is the denial of extant hierarchy of comparative advantage. To achieve high growth rate, there should be high return sectors. But such sectors, in general, have no relation with developing countries. Then, should developing countries rest with agriculture or labor-intensive industries? Not necessarily. Such sectors tend to be low value-added, in other words, with low growth prospect. If you don¡¯t have it, then make it! It¡¯s the strategy of developmental state. But it¡¯s no more than what to do. There was not satisfactory conceptualization on how East Asian developmental state put that strategy into practice. Amsden¡¯s ¡®Asia¡¯s Next Giant¡¯ (reciprocity) and Evans¡¯ this book marked some conceptual leapfrogging.
In the tradition of developmental state, state intervention is pinpointed as a necessary factor to rapid industrialization in East Asian countries. This book elaborates what states did to promote the industrial transformation (or, in Porter¡¯s word, achieve competitive advantage). Evans argues that ¡®embedded autonomy¡¯ (networking between bureaucrats and business) was the key to the developmental state¡¯s effectiveness. What define the developmental state are ¡®the state autonomy¡¯ (or strong state in the jargon of political science) and ¡®the state capacity¡¯. The state autonomy refers to the insulation of the bureaucracy from particularistic interests of, for example, the labor, the landlord, civil society, or the business. But ¡® a state that was only autonomous would lack both sources of intelligence and the ability¡¯ to implement its strategy. But the state that is only embedded is ready for capture. ¡®Only when embeddedness and autonomy are joined together can a state be called developmental.¡¯ Evans takes real world example, to support his conception, from history of IT sector in South Korea. IT sectors of India and Brazil are taken together. But latters are mobilized to contrast Korea¡¯s against them.

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Embedded Autonomy
Peter B. Evans
Manufacturer: NY
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ASIN: B000MUBRNC

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Most people in the United States believe that our environment is getting dirtier, we are running out of natural resources, and population growth in the world is a burden and a threat. These beliefs, according to Simon, are entirely wrong. Why do the media report so much false bad news about the environment, resources, and population? And why do we believe it? Those are the questions distinguished scholar Julian L. Simon set out to answer in his book, Hoodwinking the Nation.

The opening chapter of this, the last book by Simon, discusses facts about population growth, natural resources, and the environment, and presents survey evidence of the public's view of these topics. The discrepancy between the facts and the public beliefs sets up the puzzle that the remaining chapters attempt to explain. Simon explores how and why false bad news is produced, citing government reports as often being the basis for environmental news scams and doomsday analyses. He examines the intellectual bases of concepts that lead to scares about resource depletion and population growth, and why biologists, in particular, tend to become overly alarmed about mythical environmental scares. Simon follows with an explanation of how the false bad news is disseminated. He notes that journalists know little about statistics and science and thus gather data in ways that lead to inaccurate conclusions, and politicians may misuse statistics in the service of their own policy and political goals. Simon contends that psychological and cultural mechanisms make people receptive to bad rather than good news and that most people have a too positive view of the past and a too negative view of the future.

The purpose of this book is not to preach but to examine. Most importantly, it aims to consider whether institutional structures can be changed in a way that would allow more sanctions against undesirable practices and unethical behavior. This volume will be valuable to political economists and sociologists, and the general reader concerned with environmental issues and their social impacts.

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Highly recommended!.......2004-05-26

In this fascinating book, American author and economist Julian L. Simon (1932-98) looks at a perplexing phenomenon - as things get demonstrably better, polls show that people perceive things to be getting markedly worse! Beginning with the "vanishing farmland" crisis, the Dr. Simon analyzes various environmental crises, and uses reliable statistics to show how the situations have been distorted by the press and various vested interests (usually environmental groups and U.S. governmental agencies). Indeed, all too often data which show improving situations are massaged so that they are actually presented as bad news. Along the way, the author spears many sacred cows, and shows how the public has been hoodwinked into fearing a future bright with potential.

I must admit that I tripped across the book quite by accident, and I am quite happy that I did. Dr. Simon is a welcome ray of light on a subject kept dark and murky. If you want to get a view on how the public can be (and often is) misled on environmental issues, then you would do well to read this book. I highly recommend it!

Are t-stars out tonite I don't know if it's cloudy or bright.......2001-10-31

Simon does his usual thing in this book as he debunks the bunked-up balderdash of the blinkered. His "Ultimate Resource" book, his book on "the State of Humanity" and his posthumous offering, "It's Getting Better All the Time" with Stephan Moore, all converge with the theme of exposing the political agenda under which the progressive Left operates as they disguise their true motives while waving their banner of concern for the environment. The recent publication by Bjorn Lomborg, "the Skeptical Environmentalist", just adds more fuel to Simon's fire. Lomborg has impeccable Leftist credentials as a former member of Greenpeace who also works as a professor in the political science department of a Danish University. He's just that oddity of oddities, an honest Leftist intellectual.

Lomborg set out to prove Simon wrong, but found him to be...drumroll...., to in fact, be right. Lomborg's shock parallels Ron Radosh's experience in setting out to prove the Rosenbergs innocent, but in fact finding that they were guilty. Both men have received scorn at the hands of the Far Left. They are made to be an un-person in true Stalinist style as they suffer the dispersement of disinformation at the hands of their former comrades. The rabbit is out of the hat, as Simon has always known, it's a political agenda that fuels almost all the environmental scare tactics of the Left and in no way does their agenda resemble a search for the truth.

Simon and Lomborg both used statistics and science, freely available in the public domain, leading Lomborg to question why so many environmental myths are so truculently lodged in the minds of the public? Just as Simon talks about the need for a "Truth Lobby" Lomborg was amazed at the closed minded religiosity of his friends who refused to believe, nor had an interest in discussing, his research findings. It is this compartmentalized-brain-syndrome that has consigned Simon's works to the dustbins of bookstores who continue to extol the virtues of always wrong, but presumably well intentioned, environmentalists such as Paul Erhlich of Stanford.

If we are fortunate enough to have a collective national awakening it will probably be because Simon's work, like Bach's music, will have been discovered at some later date in a more rational time in some collectors trunk in an attic, deep in the heart of the land of the fruits and the nuts.

Sometimes you have to wonder about the Right.......2001-07-27

Even if publications like this are not written by millionaires, surely that's the audience they intend to reach. I can't blame the conservative public for wanting a rebuttal to assertions on issues such as environmentalism, civil liberties, racism, etc. that leftists might seem to have monopolized in the public consciousness. No position should go unchallenged as incontrovertible fact, especially not if the proof is so difficult to ascertain, as it is with global warming.

In reading books like this and Facts Not Fear: Teaching Children About the Environment, you get the feeling that conservative types see today's environmentalist establishment as some unpleasant amalgam of mamby-pamby peaceniks and humorless grown-up hall monitor killjoys who arbitrarily claimed authoritatively to know what is best for the planet. From the former's standpoint, all that was thought to be good and wholesome not so long ago (like red meat, driving, farming) has since been villified. What is a red-blooded American to do?

What makes books like these disappointing is the low road they seem to prefer. Not all environmentalists strive to kill the dreaded multinationals, spike trees and take away your driving privileges. Those that do tend to inflate figures and resort to scare tactics, but aren't likely to appeal to the better educated public. If it is necessary to inform the public that there is an alternate school of thought on ecology, the best way to present it is probably not to suggest that we are all living well, so let's just ignore the fact that 3 of the 10 most polluted locales in the world belong to the US. It seems that when the Right finally does get the microphone to present commentary on the state of the environment, instead of articulating, it chooses to play armpit noises. It might play to more of the audience, but only because it takes the seriousness out of an issue that the angry or insipid masses don't want to be bothered with. At least not until an environmental disaster hits them personally.

Academia probably won't have much use for Simon's work in this lifetime, but it doubtlessly has, and will have, an audience. If his purpose was just to preach to the choir, he succeeds, but it's not likely to reach beyond. It's disappointing, though, that this type of perspective represents so much money, yet all these resources cannot buy more informed, or at least persuasive authors.

Counteract the effects of Eco-Terrorists.......2001-06-24

It should be quite obvious to anyone with any real background in natural science, math, or perhaps just good old, non-hysterical common sense, that the earth isn't coming to an end. This book completely refutes the reasoning of the 1990s trend of screaming at "big business" for "destroying the planet". Face it folks, just 'cause Al Gore claims it's true, doesn't make it so. Global warming...Am I the only one who remembers the mid-1970s panic over "global cooling"? Back then, we were all going to die in a new ice age. People need to be scared about something new every 25 years or so. It seems to give them an excuse for their righteous rage, when all they really need is a couple of Prozac.

Good read for ostriches.......2001-01-23

If you want to believe that there are no serious environmental problems on this planet, this book is for you.

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