Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia (World Political Leaders Library)

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Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia (World Political Leaders Library)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0739711814

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Together for better tomorrow: Speeches of Begum Khaleda Zia, prime minister, People's Republic of Bangladesh
Jiya Khaleda
Manufacturer: Dept. of Films and Publications, Ministry of Information, Govt. of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006F2PV6

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A good book. Montesano does a very nice job of presenting inspirational thought. Kingston Review Of all the piles of books on my desk this one was the most thought provoking of all Bell Road Examiner This book is informational and has a good message of all.... The Vann Times and Chronicle

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As an advocate for mental retardation:.......2004-09-12

Patricia Montesano's book "Sing A New Song II" is a reflection of the kind of mother that God chooses for his most precious gifts; those with disabilities who need constant guidance and unconditional love.

Having had a brother with mental retardation, after reading both of Mrs. Montesano's books about her son, Chris, I better understood what my own parents had lived with during the years.

This book will help parents and siblings of those with mental retardation immensely. I highly recommend this writing to be one of the best books on the subject from a "real" person who is walking in the shoes of parenting a child with this disability.

Heartfelt True Story.......2004-02-11

Sing A New Song II is a continuing and well written true story depicting the life of the author's son, Chris, who lives with mental retardation. After having read Pat Montesano's first book, Sing A New Song, I felt I had known her family for years because her writing is not only down to earth, it is to the point, leaving nothing to the imagination.

This newest book takes the reader to a new level, however, in understanding how one child, of several, can change the lives of everyone in the family. The book is special in that each sibling has a say about their brother, and, the difference he has made in their lives. Chris, and, the entire Montesano Family are special people. I dare say you will be happy to know them through the writing of their mother. I encourage you to purchase this book and learn how people live through their love for each other.

Sing A New Song II is a must read for any family, not the least of which would be, families who are now beginning to deal with issues such as the Montesano family has faced for years.

When I finished Sing A New Song II, I felt an overwhelming desire to hug someone!

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Sing Them in English!: Volume II: One Hundred Selected Songs by Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, and Hugo Wolf in New Singable English Translations
Frederic Kirchberger
Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MHTRTQ

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Excellent Resource for Understanding/Making Documentaries.......2004-02-01

A folklore film or video is a documentary about folklore. Because folklore consists of the traditional expressive culture of various communities, a folklore documentary is designed to represent how people within various social groups express themselves. Sherman provides an excellent history of ethnographic documentaries that relate to folklife studies, and she demonstrates how unique contributions by folklorists have advanced the techniques and styles of filmmaking in general. This fine book is useful for learning about filmmaking and thus is a good resource for anyone who wants to make or understand media representations of culture.

films and folkloric analysis? Is that an oxymoron?.......2003-01-12

The author cannot be serious. Films and documentaries are the stuff of elite (eg, Fellini) and popular culture (eg, Spielberg). Folklore, on the other hand, is something that certainly can be documented and even the folklore performance can be captured (perhaps) with hidden cameras and directors unseen. But isn't folklore the stuff of tradition that is generally untainted by the majority culture? So why even try to apply the folklore science "analysis" to the world of films and videos in the first place. I don't get it. Do other readers get it?

nice text for visual anthropology courses.......2000-11-04

Sharon Sherman's book is a very useful primer for visual anthropology courses which include production as a main component. This book provides readers a nice history of the genre as well as lessons in the politics and poetics of documentary film production. Most unique, maybe, is her structure based on analysing the work of great documentary filmmakers such as the amazing director Les Blank (if you don't know his movies, check out his website for sure).

The only shortcoming of this book is that since Sherman views anthropological filmmaking from the paradigm of her field, Folklore, her analysis demands that the docs she look at be Folklore Documentaries - a perspective that can be as limiting as the idea of "reading" movies as "texts." Movies should be watched as just what they are, moving pictures, and I much prefer the holistic label of anthropological films to encompass most docs and many fictional films. Folklore docs just doesn't have the theoretical range to fully study the anthropological aspects of the cinematic medium and documentary genre.

Still, well worth reading.

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This work studies two works that are among the most challenging of the entire Romantic Movement, not least because they assault the notion of genre: they take place in a sort of limbo between symphony and opera, and try to fulfill the highest goals of each simultaneously. Berlioz was a composer who strenuously resisted any impediments that stood in the way of complete compositional freedom. Most of his large-scale works nevertheless obey the strictures of some preexistent form, whether opera or symphony or mass or cantata; it is chiefly in these two experiments that Berlioz allowed himself to be Berlioz. One of the central characteristics of Romanticism is the belief that all arts are one, that literature, painting, and music have a common origin and a common goal; and this book tries to show that Berlioz achieved a Gesamtkunstwerk, a fusion of arts, in a manner even more impressive (in certain respects) than that of Wagner, in that Berlioz implicated into his total-art-work texts by two of the greatest poets of Western literature, Shakespeare and Goethe. The method of this book is unusual in that it pays equally close attention to the original text (Romeo and Juliet and Faust)as well as to the musical adaptation; furthermore, it suggests many analogues in the operatic world which Berlioz knew -- the world of Gluck, Mozart, Mehul, Spontini, Cherubini -- in order to show exactly how Berlioz followed or flouted the dramatic conventions of his age. This book aims to contribute to Berlioz studies, to studies of the Romantic Movement, and to the rapidly growing field of comparative arts.BR> Daniel Albright is Richard L. Turner Professor in the Humanities at the University of Rochester.

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Excellent resource for Berlioz lovers.......2006-09-10

Daniel Albright is an extraordinarily perceptive critical thinker. All of his studies are a delight to read, offering deep and thought-provoking insight into music, literature, and their intersections. His book on Berlioz's Romeo et Juliette and La Damnation de Faust, in two independant sections, is very well organized and allows the reader to understand a great deal about the works even if he or she is not intimately familiar with the texts or even with the music. He begins each section with a brief exegesis of the literary work (Shakespeare's or Goethe's), uses a few pages to explain Berlioz's exposure to the literature and possible inspirations for choosing to write semi-operas on the subjects, and then concludes with a hermeneutic approach to each semi-opera, relating it to other works in the composer's oevre and other various artistic entities.

The book is not difficult to read, but always use a dictionary when confronting Albright. He manages to find the most obscure but also the most perfect words for the context. I am consistently impressed by his vocabulary (highlights include "quaquaverse," "deliquescing," "conation," "palimpsest," and chiaroscuro!") His prose is beautifully constructed, and he manages the challenges of using a narrative structure to explain deep and broad subjects quite well.

Five stars!

Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette (Cambridge Music Handbooks)

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Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
Julian Rushton
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0521377676

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Berlioz's "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette is regarded by many as his finest work; it is certainly among the most original. This book summarizes the complex genesis of the work before examining the music closely and always with a view to understanding its dramatic implications. Julian Rushton quotes and discusses the early and later critical reception and concludes by suggesting a way of hearing the work that recognizes the value of its mixed genre. The complete libretto is provided in both English and French.

Symphonie Fantastique; Love Scene from Romeo et Juliette. (sound recording review): An article from: Sensible Sound

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Symphonie Fantastique; Love Scene from Romeo et Juliette. (sound recording review): An article from: Sensible Sound
John Puccio
Manufacturer: Sensible Sound
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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Title: Symphonie Fantastique; Love Scene from Romeo et Juliette. (sound recording review)
Author: John Puccio
Publication: Sensible Sound (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2001
Publisher: Sensible Sound
Page: 79(1)

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Hector Berlioz, Romeo et Juliette (Meisterwerke der Musik)

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Hector Berlioz, Romeo et Juliette (Meisterwerke der Musik)
Thomas Schacher
Manufacturer: Fink
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Binding: Perfect Paperback

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ASIN: 3770530365

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Disappointed.......2006-08-08

The first 150 pages of this book consist mainly of very detailed descriptions of nobles you'll probably never meet and complicated politics you'll probably never be a part of. What I wanted were maps, monsters, magic items, and adventures. These things come mainly in the last 70 pages, but there is nothing breathtakingly new, and the adventures are pretty run-of-the-mill. Could have been much stronger.

Wester Empire Sourcebook Review.......2001-05-09

I like this book because it gives me more information about the Western Empire plus it helps me with the quests my friends and I make. I think that this would be a great book for any fan of Palladium.

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Completely revised and updated!

Develop the skills that are key for becoming a successful team leader! Now in its second edition, How to Lead Work Teams shows you step by step, how to develop the powerful facilitaion skills that will help make you an outstanding leader, coach, motivator and facilitator. Includes great tools and techniques to help you put these skills into action today!

Using Rees's innovative L.E.A.D. model you can become a team leader who:

Leads with a clear purpose. Articulate your team's goals and purpose and encourage open and thoughtful discussion (including disagreement), brainstorming, and active listening.

Empowers to participate. Encourage team members to communicate in ways that enhance teamwork and achieve results.

Aims for consensus. Reach consensus by taking the time for questioning, listening, clarifying, augmenting, summarizing, and documenting.

Directs the process. Lead the process of communication both inside and outside your team.

"The new edition hits the nail on the head. Every employee who works as a member of a team needs to learn facilitation skills. How to Lead Work Teams explains and describes skills and practical techniques in a very readable way."
--Judith C. Tingley, president, Performance Improvement Pros, Inc.

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In general..........2003-03-04

Rees offers a clear, concise way to understand and improve faciliataion skills. The book is easy to read and non-technical. This should be required reading for all managers. The only weakness I encounter is the Westernized perspective. These facilitation skills are indeed very useful, but need to be digested and subtly changed for a multicultural environment.

Takes a process approach to soft skills - excellent!.......2002-07-03

If you are a requirements analyst who leads joint application design workshops or conduct reviews and checkpoint meetings, or are in charge of teams regardless of your job and role this book is a treasure.

First, it's short. The 14 chapters that lead you through developing and using team leadership skills and techniques is given in 216 information packed pages. Second, the approach in this book is based on a process instead of ad hoc advice that characterizes other books of this type.

The book starts with some basics before unfolding into a process. Topics include a discussion of the realities of today's workplace, and the differences between teams and teamwork; the difference between controlling and facilitating, and excellent advice on communications and facilitating team meetings. The process that begins in Chapter 10 is a sequence as follows: (1) plan the meeting (with an interesting piece on why agendas do not work - this flys in the face of conventional thought, but the author makes a compelling case), (2) encourage participation (with a wealth of techniques for doing this), (3) methods and techniques for recording ideas, (4) how to manage the group, and (5) reaching consensus (a real skill!).

If you're new to facilitating or leading teams this book will give you the skills and knowledge to be successful. Even if you're experienced and routinely facilitate meetings you'll find something new or refreshing in this book - and the clear writing and short page count makes it easy to read.

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bruised and flawed; but poignant and accomplished

end of the game or end of his game?

Landscape: CLOSED

Zara's Tales: Perilous Escapades in Equatorial Africa
Peter Beard
Manufacturer: Knopf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0679426590
Release Date: 2004-11-23

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From adventurer, explorer, photographer, writer, pied piper Peter Beard—eleven irresistible tales, told to his daughter in his tented encampment at Hog Ranch, Kenya, about life, about living, about Africa.

He writes of the East African hills he came to know so well over four decades, where time slows to infinity in a great bottomless, bottle green underwater world . . . about Nairobi in the 1950s, still a quaint, eccentric pioneer town, full of characters of all stripes and tribes, where rhinoceros roamed the streets and local residents went to the movies in pajamas.

He writes of the camp he built twelve miles outside of Nairobi so that he would never be off safari, a forty-acre patch of bush called Hog Ranch (abutting Karen Blixen’s plantation), named for the families of warthogs who wandered into camp, a camp populated with waterbuck, suni, dik-diks, leopard, giraffe, and occasionally lion and buffalo.

In “Big Pig at Hog Ranch,” Beard tells the story of Thaka (translation from the Kikuyu: “handsome stud”), Hog Ranch’s number-one, fearsome, 300-pound warthog, who came into camp and dropped to the ground happy for a vigorous tummy rub, and who one night, “lying in his favorite position, munching on corn and barbeque chicken,” was encroached upon by a bristly haired, wild-looking boar hog. All three hundred pounds of Thaka exploded straight at the hairy intruder, the two brutish, bony heads crashing together thundering through the camp and Peter witnessed the unleashed power—the bullish strength—of the wild pig . . .

In “Roping Rhino,” Beard tells of his first job in Africa, rounding up and relocating rhinos for the Kenya Game Department with his cohort and neighbor, a weather-beaten native of Old Kenya who thrived on danger and refused to bathe—and of the enormous silver-backed rhino bull that became their Moby Dick . . .

He writes of his quest to photograph overpopulated and habitat-destroying elephants for Life magazine on the eve of Kenya’s independence . . . of his close encounter with the legendary man-eating lions of “Starvo” (descendants of the famed beasts rumored to be immune to bullets, who in the late nineteenth century halted the construction of the Mombasa railroad, devouring railroad workers and snatching sleeping passengers from their Pullman berths in the dead of night to make a meal of them), who charged the author, “coming in slow motion, like a bullet train erupting out of a tunnel, soundless, like an ancient force.”

He tells of his round-the-clock adventure tracking and studying crocodiles with a game warden–biologist at Lake Rudolf, a tale that begins with one crewmember being grabbed from behind by a ten-foot crocodile and another doing battle with an almost prehistoric monster fish—a 200-pound Great Nile perch! . . . and he writes of the final wildlife encounter that ended his safari days, an incident that proved Karen Blixen’s motto: “Be bold, be bold . . . be not too bold.”

Zara’s Tales confirms to our constant surprise and delight that “nothing out of the ordinary happens. It’s just Africa, after all.”

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bruised and flawed; but poignant and accomplished.......2007-07-09

Unlike other reviewers of this work, I found the book to be an interesting and poignant offering from a man known mainly as an adventurer/photographer/artist - not a literary guru. I'd rather read the imperfect but insightful works of an iconoclast who offers his uncensored impressions of an exotic land than some polished, politically correct and literary highbrow piece. Whether you are into his insightful and colorful words, his stunning and captivating images, or neither one, one is easily awed at the accomplishment of bringing so much attention to this land.

Peter Beard is one-of-a-kind, and this little controversial book is merely one among many of his works that manage to successfully step outside of the mainstream; and deftly merge artistic sensibility (and a unique vision for beauty) with raw, edgy curiosity about life.

end of the game or end of his game?.......2005-10-05

Amusing at times but mostly clunky and graceless, Beard pushes readers to imbibe his contradictory opinions and attitudes and his style can be quite suffocating.

Landscape: CLOSED.......2005-01-01

Renowned photographer Peter Beard's Zara's Tales (2004), a book of airy African anecdotes ostensibly written for Beard's young daughter, is clearly intended for "children of all ages," but its best audience will probably be found among adolescents with an interest in the exotic and a talent for discerning the wheat from the chafe.

Unattractively, the narrative is reminiscent of Nathaniel Hawthorne at his worst in both style and tone, being by turns smug, sardonic, condescending, patronizing, and both mocking and self-parodying. The overall impression the text leaves is that there is very little actual content to Zara's Tales, and what little exists is buried under the author's labored and indulgent prose.

The book is also overloaded at every turn with whimsical baby talk that frequently approaches high camp: a half page of text about a young rhino offers readers expressions like "delicious yum-yums," "spoiled brats," "bouncy baby," "tooth-some sweets," and "bonbon handouts." Not even young children will find this phraseology less than cloying.

Such language is in doubly poor taste since the brief story concludes with the rhino biting off the finger of a "neophyte ranger," while Beard's friend and comrade, Ken Randall, who Beard refers to as "a lunatic," rolls on the ground, "shaking and gasping, tears of laughter streaming down his face." In fact, there's little point to the anecdote except that Randall finds the tragic accident hilarious, a message many parents and educators will probably find revolting.

A photo montage of dead and decaying elephant corpses, reprinted from Beard's The End of the Game (1965), while obliquely underscoring the plight of African wildlife, only further throws into question exactly what audience Zara's Tales is intended for.

The book is physically handsome, but suffers slightly from being over-decorated in Beard's crowded, sentimental style. The author's photographs of the African landscape, peoples, and wildlife are entrancing and dramatic in most cases, and thus deserve finer narrative support than the thin, disappointing text provides. By the last chapter, the book suggests nothing so much as a private family project that has somehow found its way into the public market; many adults mistakenly believe their personal family musings have a broader objective appeal, and Zara's Tales, like a cartridge of tedious holiday slides, is no exception.

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"Bold. . . . The greatest pleasure the book offers is the often thought-provoking close reading of both familiar and long-forgotten movies andfiction of the Vietnam War era."
--The Journal of American History

"Beattie shows us how ideological strategies operate and, thereby, prepares us to outflank them in the future. The importance of his contribution to the study ofAmerican culture can hardly be overstated."
--Contemporary Sociology

". . . brilliantly shows how the war lost abroad was subsequently won at home."
--American Quarterly

At the height of the Vietnam War, American society was so severely fragmented that it seemed that Americans may never again share common concerns. The media and other commentators represented the impact of the war through a variety of rhetorical devices, most notably the emotionally charged metaphor of "the wound that will not heal." References in various contexts to veterans' attempts to find a "voice," and to bring the war "home" were also common. Gradually, an assured and resilient American self-image and powerful impressions of cultural collectivity transformed the Vietnam war into a device for maintaining national unity. Today, the war is portrayed as a healed wound, the once "silenced" veteran has found a voice, and the American home has accommodated the effects of Vietnam. The scar has healed, binding Americans into a union that denies the divisions, diversities, and differences exposed by the war. In this way, America is now "over" Vietnam.

In The Scar That Binds, Keith Beattie examines the central metaphors of the Vietnam war and their manifestations in American culture and life. Blending history and cultural criticism in a lucid style, this provocative book discusses an ideology of unity that has emerged through widespread rhetorical and cultural references to the war. A critique of this ideology reveals three dominant themes structured in a range of texts: the "wound," "the voice" of the Vietnam veteran, and "home." The analysis of each theme draws on a range of sources, including film, memoir, poetry, written and oral history, journalism, and political speeches. In contrast to studies concerned with representations of the war as a combat experience, The Scar That Binds opens and examines an unexplored critical space through a focus on the effects of the Vietnam War on American culture. The result is a highly original and compelling interpretation of the development of an ideology of unity in our culture.

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The Scar That-Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War.(Review) (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
David L. Anderson
Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B0008HBFTK
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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Title: The Scar That-Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War.(Review) (book review)
Author: David L. Anderson
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2000
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 35 Issue: 1 Page: 187

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This Book Could Re-Vitalize America

I have never heard it put like this before

Much more than concealed carry

Transfer of Wealth: The Case For Nationwide Concealed Carry of Handguns
John Longenecker
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
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Binding: Paperback

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Ayoob Files: The Book

ASIN: 1420896210

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. The Household is the stronghold of resistance to adversity in America. As such, it is the Number One Target on the world stage. As long as violent crime is a crisis in America, officials, visionary business and international interests are able to cooperate in eavesdropping and stalking the American Household for its wealth, measured not in dollars, but in privacy, liberty, authority, personal spirit and way of life. Longenecker ties it all together in showing how the most threatening national transfer of wealth can be turned around in a single night: when a household makes its response to the encounter with violent crime an integral part of its overall household management.

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This Book Could Re-Vitalize America.......2006-07-10

I just received Transfer of Wealth. I believe the message of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation that occurred in New Orleans was a wake-up call. Americans must realize that our protection depends on the individual being prepared. The framers of the Constitution required and expected each American Citizen to protect themselves, their family, and their nation. Now we are asked to turn these duties over to our government without questioning. We are left with a sense of powerlessness and futility. John Longenecker has experienced first hand what happens when we give up and rely totally on our government. We all experience a Transfer of Wealth. This transfer is much more than monitary. It's a transfer of courage, a transfer of spirit, a transfer of the very attitudes that created our great nation. This transfer didn't come about from terrorists, but from our own unwillingness to fight for the freedoms and liberty embodied in our Constitution. We don't take an oath to uphold our government, they change, but to uphold and defend our Constitution. Mr. Longenecker in the incredible book Transfer of Wealth shows us where we are today, but most important gives all Americans a roadmap to "the Nation's way back home". If the individualism and safety of America is worth fighting for, then the battle must be fought here at home while we can still find our way. Transfer of Wealth is a Must read for anyone who wonders where we are as a nation and how we can get back on course. You owe it to yourself and your country.

I have never heard it put like this before.......2006-04-17

I was rivited to each section as I began to realize more than ever before the responsibility of your safety starts with you, and it all begins in your own home. The point that self defence is so often your only defence. And most important, the political and legal disconnect that we experience in our country today can leave us vulnerable to those that would cause us harm. This is a must read for every American. Michael Dresser "The Michael Dresser Show"

Much more than concealed carry.......2006-02-11

With the qualification that it's always easier to find a good read with something you agree with, the book uses concealed carry (presumably "Shall Issue" variety) as somewhat of a barometer for what the author defines as "Wealth". Not limited to financial wealth, the definition of wealth includes those liberties granted by the constitution, as well as simple birthright as a human being.

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Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness is a gorgeous coffee-table book about a wilderness area so vast and so crucial to planetary survival it defies comprehension. Previously unknown to the outside world, the Yukon's Three Rivers watershed is emerging as an environmental issue of global importance--a key piece of the boreal region.
The boreal forest is like a green banner draped around the northern hemisphere. It is the world's largest expanse of intact forest, covering nearly 11 percent of our planet's surface. Every breath we take is in part a gift from this immense, earth-circling ecosystem.
Now the renewed Mackenzie Valley pipeline proposal, the Alaska Pipeline and escalating energy and mineral exploration in the north all threaten this last world-scale refuge of natural values--and conservationists around the world are mobilizing to defend it. Three Rivers focuses on one of the most strategic undisturbed regions left in the world, an oceanic wilderness that is under threat from gas and mining development.
Packed with awe-inspiring photography, art and writings by such notables as Courtney Milne, Margaret Atwood and John Ralston Saul, this sumptuous volume offers an unforgettable tour of a natural wonderland so rich in grizzly bears, wolves, caribou, peregrine falcons and wildflowers most will have difficulty believing such a place still exists. Three Rivers is a prize to be cherished by anyone who appreciates great photography, fine writing and untrammelled nature, and a must-have for anyone who takes an interest in the fate of our beleaguered but still awe-inspiring planet.

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Explores a region of vast wilderness previously unknown to the outside world.......2006-05-20

THREE RIVERS: THE YUKON'S GREAT BOREAL WILDERNESS explores a region of vast wilderness previously unknown to the outside world, but is a major environmental hotspot of modern times as it represents one of the last, key pieces of the boreal region. With the Mackenzie Valley pipeline proposal looming to threaten it, the Three Rivers region is in the news and deserving of this coffee-table survey, which packs in color photos and art and writing by major authors to remind of the region's importance.

Diane C. Donovan, Editor
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Accessing a great wilderness area..... GerryM.......2006-02-25

After visiting the yukon(from Australia)and travelling by road I was interested in learning about more inaccessable areas of the Yukon. The book is first and foremost a photographic journey in the great boreal wilderness area by way of the Snake, Bonnet Plume and Wind rivers. The photographs are spectacular but are accompanied by well written text and great descriptive writing by a number of different writers who made the trip. It also is informative where relevent of the history of the area and has just the right balance. The book is a focus on the need to conserve the area, and it successfully does this by "taking you there" and helping you see and feel it for yourself. It does not focus on an anti development theme as such but achieves the environmental focus in a positive and stunning manner.The book is a delight to look at and read and is well set out and captioned. The gwich'in inhabitants of the area and their lives are well integrated into the story and adds to make this a book worth having and revisiting. I can appreciate the care that went into preparing this book so that it is immediately visually stunning but then has wonderful text to read and enjoy and have some appeal to everyone.

excellent.......2006-01-13

A magnificent combination of pictures and text/stories on the Yukon. Great to see such a good book about a part of the world one rarely reads or hears about.

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