La Historia Me Absolvera

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Title: Las negociaciones: secretas de Fidel con Washington. (Reporte Especial).
Author: Campa Homero
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 13, 2003
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Issue: 1393 Page: 35(11)

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La historia me absolvera: Edicion anotada
Fidel Castro
Manufacturer: Oficina de Publicaciones del Consejo de Estado
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I am a mental health consumer. This is my memoir about my (past) experiences of being psychotic; having been diagnosed Schizo-affective, in April of 2001.

It is a very vivid description of what I went through for several weeks being psychotic, before I was finally hospitalized. I struggled with a relapse, but I was stabilized and eventually got my life back together.

I believe there are not enough books out there that are first hand accounts of psychosis. I think my book helps alleviate a lot of the stigma and misunderstandings of mental illness. And I also believe that I am fortunate to have recovered enough, along with my medications, to be able to write about it.

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Informative book.......2006-11-04

This book at first is quite confusing and alittle religious (Christianity area) but it is understable that the voices and maybe visions by the mental disorder called "shizophrenia" can be rather scattering. Maybe the author can write down the list of visions and voices in the TABLE with how he and other non-psychotic people reacted to them so that the readers can understand what he has been through. Some credits for the author: he states the medicine names and those amounts. He might think there were not many story books/documentary books on psychosis when in fact there is a guide showing a long list of books on psychosis at the bottom of the page showing each book after some reviews.

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Plotted, Shot and Painted: Cultural Representations of Biblical Women (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement)
Cheryl Exum
Manufacturer: Sheffield Academic Pr
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1850755922

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Plotted, Shot & Painted : Cultural Representation of Biblical Women (JSOT Supplement Ser.: Gender, Culture, Theory 3, No. 215)
J. Cheryl Exum
Manufacturer: Sheffield, United Kingdom: Sheffield Academic Press, Limited,
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OVE5KG

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Plotted, Shot, and Painted: Cultural Representations of Biblical Women (JSOT Supplement)
J. Cheryl Exum
Manufacturer: Sheffield Academic Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 185075778X

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Vocal Authority is about how singing styles develop and change, why classical singing is different from pop singing, and what singers actually mean when they sing. It takes a historical perspective, beginning with the ancient world, looking at changes in style up to the present day and why, for example, Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe could sing together.

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Random House Sunday Crossword MegaMonster (Stan Newman)
Stanley Newman
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If you read the original Buffettology, you know exactly half of what you need to know to effectively apply Warren Buffett's investment strategies.

Published in 1997, the bestselling Buffettology was written specifically for investors in the midst of a long bull market. Since then we've seen the internet bubble burst, the collapse of Enron, and investors scrambling to move their assets -- what remains of them -- back to the safety of traditional blue chip companies. As price peaks turned into troughs, worried investors wondered if there was any constant in today's volatile market. The answer is yes: Warren Buffett's value investing strategies make money.

The New Buffettology is the first guide to Warren Buffett's selective contrarian investment strategy for exploiting down stocks -- a strategy that has made him the nation's second-richest person. Designed to teach investors how to decipher and use financial information the way Buffett himself does, this book guides investors through opportunity-rich bear markets, walking them step-by-step through the equations and formulas Buffett uses to determine what to buy, what to sell -- and when. Authors Mary Buffett and David Clark explore Buffett's recent investments in detail, proving time and again that his strategy has earned enormous profits at a time no one expects them to -- and with almost zero risk to his capital.

In short, The New Buffettology is an essential companion to the original Buffettology, a road map to investment success in the worst of times.

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Good review, a little too much word.......2007-06-08

This is a good book, and a very easy read. However, it sometimes repeats very simple material over and over which could make the reader bored.

Not worth it!.......2007-04-07

I am a big fan of Warren Buffet so I had read about his life and his investment style from magazines and googling. I expected to learn more from this book but was very disappointed. It's mostly information I have already learned by researching in the internet.

Great book.......2007-03-27

Easy to read and gives a keen insight to how warren buffet selects his investments. Great for intermediate investors.

Great concepts but the name..........2007-02-07

The general Buffet concepts are covered well. I take off stars because her writing style is so childish as to make you think you are in Kindergarden. Also the whole Warren this and Warren that as if he told her all this is sleasy. Either treat him as a 3rd party or get him to endorse the book personally.

An Illuminating Peek Into The World Of Warren Buffett.......2006-12-12

This book is a "most of what you need to know about value investing but didn't know what to ask" approach to the investment philosophy of Warren Buffett. I also own the first book, but didn't review it. This one is much better.

The New Buffettology is a book of examples. I think that's what I like most about it. It has plenty of theory about the importance of a company having a durable competitive advantage, honest and able management, staying within a circle of competence, ensuring a margin of safety exists, how interest rates affect stock prices, and more. That's great, but the rubber hits the road with the numerous case studies of actual Buffett investments and how he applied the above concepts to help him decide to invest in Coca Cola, Gillette, the Washington Post, and Geico, to name a few.

Along with the case studies come the formulas. Lots and lots of formulas. Does the company have strong earnings with an upward trend? Plug 10 years worth of earnings into your spreadsheet and calculate the annual earnings growth rate. Does the company return an above average Return-On-Equity? Mary Buffett & David Clark show you how to break out those Value Line reports and plug in 10 years worth of ROE numbers into your spreadsheet to calculate the average annual return on shareholders equity for the last decade. What's the stock's value relative to a Treasury bond? You'll learn how to calculate the answer here.

The exercises go on case study after case study. I love it. Roll up your sleeves; dust off your BA-35 solar calculator and get ready to rock. If you want the skinny on value investing ala Buffett style, you had better be prepared to get your hands dirty because this is a thinking investor's book.

This book doesn't just TALK about financial analysis. It shows you how to DO it. Nothing is more boring than long windy theories with no "meat" to back them up. This book serves up the meat in Texas sized portions. Exactly where does one go for 10 years of financial information? Where do you find the current government bond rate? What's important in an annual report? Just how do you find companies that make products with a durable competitive advantage? What should you read? What should you watch? What habits should you develop? How do smart investors use "scuttlebutt" to help them form an opinion about a company? The answers may surprise you.

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An in-depth biography of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel written with the cooperation of Rommel's son, by a renowned military analyst and historian who is himself a general.

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A Legend.......2007-10-07

This book gives a good background on Rommel's life. I was hoping for more specifics on his battles with Patton and those after North Africa.
Be prepared for an uneasy read.

A unique leader on a unique battlefield.......2007-04-05

David Fraser's book is an excellent piece of work on a topic that many others have attempted to address but few have succeeded: the life of Rommel, leader of the Afrika Korps.

I have read extensively about the war in North Africa and of course about General Rommel. However, whereas many other biographers have glossed over some of Rommel's quirks (or ignored them altogether) Fraser looks at his career to explain how his leadership style developed. Where others have discussed Rommel's "frontline" leadership style and described it as pure genius and a natural adaptation to desert warfare Fraser puts it in context and illustrates how this style began with his days as a company-grade officer in WWI and continued during the invasion of France. What's more, Fraser discusses how this style had its weaknesses as well as its strengths and the unique environment in North Africa more often than not resulted in victory for him.

I consider this the definitive biography of Rommel.

Spectacular and Engaging.......2006-03-04

This book is very readable for a biography. I have tried to read a biography of Teddy Roosevelt as well as one of Lincoln, and stopped partway through each. I don't like biographies, in general. This one, however, is an exception. It is a real page-turner, and yet also very informative and detailed. It could also be read by any high school or college students who wish to have a good, personal view of the German side of both world wars, and should definitely be read by anyone who will be entering the military as an officer.

Aggressive Leadership and balanced biography.......2005-12-18

This book is very well written and covers Rommel's entry into the military and final end. The author makes every attempt to be balanced and objective when analyzing Rommel's tactical decisions, political views, and leadership style. What makes this book flow well is that the author ties in the world events corresponding to the same time in Rommel's life. This way, the reader understands how and why Rommel was directly impacted in his military decisions and actions.

One key point in this book is how Rommel did not agree with Hitler's treatment of prisoners and unrealistic military decisions that caused many needless loss life and equipment. An example of the humane side of Rommel was how the author notes through his interviews, is that Rommel made very attempt to treat POW's, regardless of religion or nationality, as humanely as possible. Another example of Rommel's humane treatment of others would be that many of his British opponents and Italian soldier allies held Rommel in very high regard.

One key area of interest is how Rommel, despite being loyal to Germany's supreme leader, questioned the very poor strategic military decisions being made. An example noted by the author is how Von Paulus and Rommel were both given orders by Hitler to hold at all costs and not to retreat. Von Paulus did not have to courage to defy Hitler and the debacle involving the destruction of the 200,000 German Army in Stalingrad occurred. Rommel started to retreat, then delayed for 24 hours before deciding correctly that to save his army, they would have to retreat. The author notes that Rommel in retrospect regrets not having completely disregarded Hitler and kept the retreat going, to save more of his soldiers to fight another day.

This insight ties into other books where other senior German leaders, like Von Manstein, or SS General Hauser, began to disregard Hitler's extremely poor decisions to hold at all costs and sacrifice the lives of their soldiers in vain. Then of course, this book also is similar to other experiences where those leaders who defied their supreme leader and managed to save their soldiers or even managed to bring about victory, were later removed from command and replaced.

Another good insight the author notes in Rommel's one weakness but was also a tactical strength was his aggressiveness. Sometimes it worked to his favor, other times it resulted in heavy casualties, like the initial assault into Tobruk. But always, he led from the front and shared the same dangers and risks as his soldiers.

Overall, this book is very insightful into the life of one of the most dynamic and memorable leaders in World War 2. There are good lessons in tactical leadership and overall responsibilities of a senior leader.

Highly readable military history.......2005-07-02

David Fraser's "Knight's Cross" is a good book - it just isn't a particularly good biography. My hunch would be that most prospective readers are interested in learning about Rommel's legendary campaigns, especially those with the Afrika Korps, and this book certainly delivers on that account. Fraser is better known as a novelist, and his writing reflects that heritage. He keeps the drama high and openly professes his admiration for Rommel, both as a military leader and a man.

As a biography, though, "Knight's Cross" fails to deliver much meaningful insight into the subject's true character. Rather than providing a deep and rich background on Rommel's formative experiences growing up in southern Germany, with his siblings and family, at school, with personal relationships in the army, the company he kept during the Weimar years and so on, Fraser instead relies on clichés and generalizations. For instance, the book is over 550 pages long, yet by page 50 Rommel is already a gallant and increasingly renowned 26-year-old infantry officer on the Western Front. The rest of the book reads like a military history with a central character, rather than a biography of a great man that happened to become a field marshal. Fraser only mentions parenthetically that Rommel had two brothers and a sister, and his relationship with his parents is left totally unexplored, as are his religious beliefs (which is particularly disappointing given the fact that so many of his future letters to his [Catholic] wife Lucy are laced with references to God's will). Instead, Fraser seems content to offer up his assessment that "Rommel was a Swabian [area of Germany he grew up in] through-and-through" (whatever that's supposed to mean) and then hurry on to the presumably more interesting topics of his later battlefield exploits.

The above notwithstanding, Erwin Rommel is certainly a compelling subject for a full-length biography. Especially interesting was his unusual relationship to the two things that made him famous: armored warfare and Adolf Hitler.

To many, Rommel is synonymous with blitzkrieg and the genius of the Wehrmacht's combined arms doctrine developed during the interwar period. Despite his association with the panzer force and his reputation for military genius, Rommel was an infantryman by training and was passed over for membership in Germany's elite General Staff system, a snub he never quite got over. His first hands-on experience with armored units only came, unbelievably enough, as a divisional commander during the invasion of France in 1940. He managed to pull off such an unlikely feat, Fraser suggests, thanks to the personal intervention of Hitler himself.

Rommel's relationship with Hitler (and Goebbels) was close, although Fraser is adamant that Rommel was never a Nazi. The field marshal clearly supported most of the regime's policies, felt the war was just and attributed Nazi excesses to the Furher's leading acolytes, such as Bormann and Himmler. To Hitler, Rommel exemplified everything a German soldier ought to be: aggressive, courageous, indefatigable, and unpretentious. In return, Rommel was genuinely impressed with Hitler's accomplishments and abilities. It was a relationship based on mutual admiration that, strangely enough, ended with one being implicated in a plot to kill the other. Fraser does an admirable job in reviewing and assessing the evidence tying Rommel to the failed 20 July attendat and comes to the conclusion that he likely knew that something was afoot, but wasn't an active conspirator. Moreover, Fraser argues that by the summer of 1944 Rommel felt that a negotiated peace with the western allies was essential to save Germany from utter destruction, but that he also felt that the murder of Hitler was wrong and, if successfully carried out, was unlikely to be supported by the German army and people and thus unlikely to achieve its ultimate objective of negotiated peace.

In closing, if you're looking for a fun and informative military history on one of the all-time greatest commanders, you'll likely enjoy "Knight's Cross." If, however, you're looking for a serious biography on a great commander in the mold of D'Este's biography of George Patton, for instance, you'll likely come away disappointed.

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Church and State, published by J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 579 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Boundaries: A Casebook in Environmental Ethics.(Book Review)
Author: Steve W. Lemke
Publication: Journal of Church and State (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State
Volume: 47 Issue: 1 Page: 160(2)

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This digital document is an article from Theological Studies, published by Theological Studies, Inc. on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 692 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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