Jackie The Exploitation of a First Lady

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Jackie The Exploitation of a First Lady
Irving Shulman
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"JACKIE" THE EXPLOITATION OF A FIRST LADY
Irving Schulman
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"Jackie"!: The Exploitation o a First Lady
Irving Shulman
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A REAL GEM

"Jackie"!: The exploitation of a First Lady
Irving Shulman
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Written in the 1960s, at the height of Jackie Kennedy’s popularity, this book addresses the pressures that American society placed on this strong, vibrant widow. Irving Shulman details Jackie’s life leading up to and following the death of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, focusing on the despicable and intrusive behavior of the media. Shulman sees Jackie as a victim of tabloid culture.

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A REAL GEM.......2000-08-09

Fascinating revelations about our beloved First Lady. Highly entertaining and recommmended. FOR QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSIONS ABOUT JACKIE ONASSIS, PLEASE E-MAIL ME AT MellissaLD@aol.com. HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jackie, the Exploitation of a First Lady

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Jackie, the Exploitation of a First Lady
Irving Shulman
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Jackie" : The Exploitation of a First Lady
Irving Shulman
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"Jackie"!: The Exploitation of a First Lady
Irving Shulman
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Climb inside the ring with a world-champion boxer for a behind-the-scenes look at Muhammad Ali

Writers have long been attracted to boxing. Hemingway, Mailer, Algren, Plimpton, Oates, and many others have stepped into the ring--at least in spirit--to give voice to an otherwise wordless sport, to celebrate that sweet science, and to bear witness to its romance and tragedy. In Sting Like a Bee, hailed by Norman Mailer as an impressive event, we are brought for the first time into the ring for a close-up look at the manly art through the eyes of Jose Torres, a man who was a great boxer himself. When former light-heavyweight world champion Jose Torres traded in his gloves for a typewriter, boxing finally found its eyewitness.

In this classic book, Torres turns his well-trained eye on one of the most celebrated and controversial athletes of all time: Muhammad Ali. In this penetrating view of Ali and the world of prizefighting, told by a true insider and boxing's Renaissance man, Torres delivers exciting and explicit accounts of all of Ali's major fights with the cool authenticity of one who has lived it.

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From one warrior to another.......2005-07-29

Jose Torres first offering takes us to the point in Ali's career after his reinstatement which include tuneup fights with Quarry, Bonavena and finally to the first fight with Frazier. Interspersed with these narratives is the life of Ali from his Golden Glove Days to the revocation of his license for refusing the draft.

What makes this book unique from all the other Ali biographies out there is that the writer was quite of a boxer himself, a former light heavyweight champion in fact. From this vantage point, he gives us a glimpse of the boxer's psyche - particularly interesting is his anatomy of the knockout punch. Whereas other biographies speak about Ali in reverential tones, Torres puts Ali to task for his bad game plan in the first Frazier fight and his penchant for playing with his opponent.

Indeed, Torres acquits himself well as a boxing writer. I wish he could have deferred writing this book for a few years so that the "Rumble in the Jungle" and the next two Frazier fights would be included.

Tremendous.......2003-03-27

This book is great for all readers and is a great biography that puts you in the mind of a writer. You will feel like you are actually there witnissing these masterfull events.

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STING LIKE A BEE the Muhammad Ali Story
JOSE TORRES
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Sting Like a Bee : The Muhammad Ali Story
Jose; Sugar, Bert Randolph Torres
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Sting Like A Bee: The Muhammad Ali Story
Jose Torres
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Sting Like a Bee : The Muhammad Ali Story
Bert Randolph Sugar, Norman Mailer Jose Torres
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Ann Kibbey's Theory of the Image is based on a concept of the image as a dynamic relation rather than a thing. In three essays Kibbey contends that the image itself is an ideological construct. "The Capitalist Theory of the Image" argues that capitalism enforces social identity and fetishism through religious iconoclastic beliefs about the commodity as image. "Liberating a Woman from Her Image" creates a new feminist approach to women in film, breaking the symbiosis of woman and image at the heart of previous theory. "Relief from the Production of Certainties" challenges conservative and racist agendas informing the assumption that a photograph records an image. The book draws on extensive personal interviews and also provides detailed explications of important films in recent transnational cinema to demonstrate new theories of the image for a global society.

Theory of the Image: Capitalism, Contemporary Film, and Women

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Theory of the Image: Capitalism, Contemporary Film, and Women
Ann Kibbey
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School of Evocation (Legends & Lairs, d20 System) (Legends & Lairs)
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The Legends & Lairs line of sourcebooks expands the options for any d20 game, providing new rules and statistics for everything from new races and character options to traps, treachery, and adventuring on the high seas. This volume contains rules that expand the thaumaturgical arts of evocation and destruction. School of Evocation offers a variety of exciting new player options, including the Evoker prestige class, dozens of new spells, feats, and magic items, detailed rules on shaping and enhancing energy and creation spells, and much more.

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Wish there were more like it.......2004-07-07

In context this book is the best. If your planning on playing a invoker, this is the best source I have seen. It sub-divided evocation into the "elemental" sources; Acid, cold, fire, force, light, lightning (air), and sonic. From there is expands the spell base (evocations only) so that there is a spell at every level that are not just copies of each other with the different descriptor. The prestige classes put a cap on the elememental sources with one for each descriptor, agian not copies. My favorite is the class for acid mages. Also included are a handful of feats that nearly any spellcaster can take but that are designed for Invokers. The new core class "Invoker" I find somewhat lacking in it that its benefits dont even come close to making up for its limitation, ONLY having access to evocation spells.
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Communicating Effectively For Dummies shows you how to get your point across at work and interact most productively with bosses and coworkers. Applying your knowledge and skill to your job is the easy part; working well with others is often the hard part. This helpful guide lets you maximize your personal interactions, even when resolving conflicts, dealing with customers, or giving difficult presentations.

Whether you’re the CEO of a major corporation, a small business owner, or a team manager, effective and clear communication is imperative to your success. From keeping your listener engaged to learning to become a better listener, Communicating Effectively For Dummies offers all the strategies, tips, and advice you need to:

Learn how to become an active listener
Accentuate the positive in negative situations
Find win-win solutions for conflicts
Stay on track when writing e-mails and letters
Handle presentations, interviews, and other challenges
Speak forcefully and assertively without alienating others

Management consultant Marty Brounstein — author of Handling the Difficult Employee and Coaching and Mentoring For Dummies — gives you the keys to a thriving career with expert advice on effective verbal and nonverbal communication. From mastering your own facial expressions (and reading them in others) to being a happy boss, Brounstein covers all the angles:

Becoming aware of your own assumptions
Dealing with passive-aggressive communicators
What to say to help someone open up to you
Communicating through eye contact and body language
Maintaining a positive attitude
Dealing with sensitive issues
Effective conflict resolution models
When to use e-mail, the phone, or a face-to-face meeting
Dealing with angry customers
Coaching your staff to communicate better

In today’s high-stress work environment, good communication skills are imperative for keeping your cool and getting your point across. Knowing what to say and how to say it, as well as being a good listener, can often be the difference between getting ahead and just getting by. This handy, friendly guide shows you how to avoid common conflicts and make your voice heard in the office.

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Good Reference but Keep your common sense.......2003-09-08

In the last two years my company has been using Mr. Bounstein's advice to develop various management tools. "Communicating Effectively" has been a corner stone of new policies and everyone has been required to read the book. It is a decent one stop reference when you want to review your communication skills.

While supervisors and low level manages are working better, the Sr. Staff is utilizing the author's tools in a micromanagement-fest. For example, the review process has become a long drawn out process that requires several hours a week for the employee to revise their personal "assignment sheet". At the end of every three months you then have the employee summarize all their previous tasks for time, issues, schedule, etc. The quarterly review takes about 2 weeks with several cycles of review and rewriting with Sr. Staff members. Every detail is gone over and over. It is not uncommon to loose a week of productivity.

Read the book but maintain some common sense about how you apply the information.

A Very Useful Book.......2003-08-21

This is a great book with a wealth of very useful information. As a project manager, communicating is a large part of my job. This book will definitely make my life a lot easier -- especially the chapters on conflict resolution.

I wish I had bought this book 2 years ago, when it first came out -- I could have avoided a lot of headaches.

Communications Made Simple.......2002-03-09

With this book, Marty Brounstein breaks down communications into bite-size morsels that are easily digested. This book covers a broad range of territory from speaking clearly, using active listening techniques for better understanding, dealing with conflict, and appropriate uses for email, telephone and other forms of communication.

There's a tremendous amount of information, and I find myself going back to review the material often, especially when a meeting or conversation goes badly.

There is nothing here you can't find in other books, but it's all collected neatly under one cover, and the author presents the material in interesting ways that make it easier to absorb and put into practice.

Definitely a worthwhile read!

Top-notch title on effective communication.......2001-10-21

I really liked this book. One of the rare "for dummies" books that is low on fluff and high on substance. What the author presents here is an entire training course and then some on how to communicate effectively. This book will help you clearly get your message across to people at work, in social circles, in relationships. I was notoroious for being a very abrasive communicator. This book is already helping me smooth out some of the sharp edges. I listen far better now, and when I speak I no longer beat around the bush.

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Getting to know Pantani

A Scapegoat in a Cancerous Sport

Merely average

Interesting Read, Somewhat Disjointed

Good, quick read about the life of a great, troubled cyclist

Marco Pantani: The Legend of a Tragic Champion

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Marco Pantani won the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in the same year, 1998, a feat previously achieved only by giants of the sport like Eddy Merckx, Fausto Coppi, and Miguel Indurain. The master cyclist was also a victim of the drug culture of pro cycling, eventually sinking into a deep depression and dying alone in a hotel room on Valentine's Day 2004. This book chronicles the highs and lows of Pantani's life and cycling career through the words of leading American and European sportswriters, and it includes candid color shots of Pantani in action by renowned sports photographer Graham Watson.

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Getting to know Pantani.......2006-11-05

One does not expect great literature in a sports biography and this book meets those expectations. However, it does succeed in making you feel like you do get to know Pantani - and it does give a lot of facts that help you to piece together the story and, probably, what was behind it.

Anyone who still thinks that "certain riders" didn't take performance-enhancing substances should read this book (especially the interview with his ex-girlfriend).

Anyone who wants more insight into the TDF should read this book.

Anyone who knows even a little about Pantani and wants to understand his tragic story should read this book.

A Scapegoat in a Cancerous Sport.......2006-07-19

Beginning with Marco's own words written on nine pages torn from his own passport mere months before his tragic death, "Marco Pantani: The Legend of a Tragic Champion" both starts and culminates with his final goodbye to the world with his last defiant act fired back at those he felt were ultimately responsible for his demise. The book retraces Marco's remarkable assent to the top of both his sport and life starting from his meager upbringing as a plumbers son in Cesena, Italy to his drug induced death on valentines day 2004.

Aboard his first racing bike, a bright red Vicini, Marco won his first race at the age of 14 and never looked back. Although a quick read at only 181 pages, the authors not only rekindle Marco's spirit in the reader, but allow one to step back in time and relive some of the most memorable exploits in modern cycling history when many of us sat riveted in front of our televisions, saying to ourselves, "There he goes", as the mountains pitched upward. For how welcoming these memories are however, the tragic side of the plot is intertwined throughout, reaching a climax with the only published interview to date of Marco's estranged girlfriend of seven years Christina Jonsson.

Although Marco's ultimate public demise might have begun on June 5, 1999 at Madonna di Campiglio.... "that black day when his Giro d'Italia pink jersey was tarnished with blood", Marco's fall into his own personal abyss ran far deeper than most would ever know. Christina openly acknowledges in her interview of Marco's competitive doping practices. With nothing held back beyond the tears, she goes as far as telling how she would assist in holding his arm while he injected himself and of the "products he had forever in a sealed container in the fridge". The beautiful sport of cycling has become, she states, "an incredible hypocrisy..... Marco had to accept to race in a system that didn't allow him not to dope". She goes on to say what most of us choose not to or simply hope isn't the case when adding up the current state of the professional peleton..... "To dope means searching to improve your performance to give a better show and to feed dreams. They pay these athletes because they allow people to dream, that's all. If there is no longer a show there's no more emotion and nothing to relate to."

Governing bodies need to make a statement from time to time to legitimize their ability to turn a blind eye to he true reality of the situation. One might have hoped that the circumstances behind Marco's passing could serve as a wakeup call for both cycling and the greater sporting world, but it seems that history does in fact tend to repeat itself and the cancer in cycling only continues to grow. One only needs to look at the recent expulsion of Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso (among others) from starting the 2006 Tour de France. Marco wasn't the first tragic story and he will by no means be the last. Let's just hope the stories of others don't end with the same misfortune as that of Marco. Tragic yes... champion even more so.

The thumb screws were tightened in Marco's case such that his tragic spiral downward appeared to be of his own hand from outward appearances. Is it natural for speeds to increase steadily from year to year far beyond the pace of enhancements in technologies and/or training methods? Or was Marco simply a scapegoat of the system in which he found himself entangled in the web of cycling's programmatic unfairness. This book gives a compelling argument toward the latter through the life and times of Marco Pantani: The Legend of a Tragic Champion.

Merely average.......2006-03-29

It's always sad when something has a wonderful opportunity to be great but settles for being merely average. That was never the way of Italian cycling icon Marco Pantani, but it is, sadly, the only way to look at Marco Pantani: the Legend of a Tragic Champion.

Pantani deserved better. He was obviously -- and fatally -- flawed, but through his flamboyant personality, dramatic cycling moves, and unmistakable appearance he also brought much-needed color to a sport increasingly dominated by single-minded robot-like riders. He died a dramatic, tragic, and pitiful death, and the world of sport was left poorer for it.

Pantani's persona is just one of the reasons this volume should have been much, much better than it is.

Another equally important reason is that editor John Wilcockson assembled a virtual Dream Team of cycling writers for the project, from venerable Italian journalist Pier Bergonzi, the chief writer with the pink-paged La Gazetta dello Sport, to his insightful friendly rival Sergio Neri at BiciSport. Add France's Guillaume Prabois, and the staff of the U.S.-based VeloNews. Even Graham Watson, the best-known photographer in the business, contributed some of his signature images.

These guys pulled out all the stops, tracking down the Ukrainian maid who cleaned Pantani's room in the hotel where he died of a drug overdose (he kept he very warm, she said) and the tourist who was the last person to see Pantani alive (he said Pantani told him, in a local dialect, "I don't know if there will be another day"). Swiss journalist Michel Beuret even manages a thoughtful interview with Christina Jonsson, Pantani's former girlfriend, who avoided the press in the wake of the cyclist's death.

But I think Mr. Wilcockson fails the effort just as a team captain fails his support riders when the pace is too much for him, despite their hard work and preparation.

There are many problems. Sloppy editing means that there are contradictory bits scattered all through the text: at one point the book says only four men ever won the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France in the same year; in other parts it says there were seven (seven is correct). At several points it says the 2003 Giro was Pantani's last race, but in the appendix is points out (correctly) that he competed without distinction in the challenging Tour of the Basque Country five weeks later.

What's more, the writing is uneven, plodding, and predictable. Of course, one reason for that is because the bulk of the book was written in Italian and much of what's left was written in French. But giving it a more unified feel and level of quality has to have been on Mr. Wilcockson's list of duties as editor. Don't blame the translator: he got it to this point. Someone needed to finish the job.

And don't get me started on the title. The world "legend" first and foremost means something "presented as history but unlikely to be true." While, technically, the word can also refer to someone so admired they seem to be the stuff of a legend, this is referring to the story. Besides, why the confusion? Why not simply call it "Marco Pantani: The STORY of a Tragic Champion"? Or "The LESSON of a Tragic Champion"? "Or we could get alliterative with "The Tragedy of a Troubled Champion." Should I go on?

I must say I am very tempted to award this review only two stars, but I think its subject earns it a gentleman's C. Still, I had hoped for much more. Chances are, you do, too.

Interesting Read, Somewhat Disjointed.......2005-10-19

The tragic death of Marco Pantani underlined the darker side of cycling (and any other professional sport), where some athletes feel compelled to cheat in order to further their professional careers. When Pantani was caught cheating in the Giro de Italia, two days from a win, he fell into a deep depression that only cocaine could alleviate. This book is a very interesting collection of journalists' articles on the life and tragic death of one of the world's top riders. Beginning with Pantani's childhood, chapters cover Pantani's life with plenty of descriptions of his most successful races. Although best suited for hard-core cycling fans, there is something for everyone, including a poignant interview with Pantani's ex-girlfriend Christina Jonsson, who confirms Pantani's use of illegal substances both during racing and after in the form of cocaine. The book also reveals a little of the driven personality that seems to lie behind all great road racers. Perhaps one of the most revealing parts of the book is the final chapter which lists Pantani's racing victories. 1998 stands out as the year of Il Pirata, in which Pantani won both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France. Reviewing 1998, it seems to me that either Pantani never came close to realizing his true potential - or - he took massive quantities of performance-boosters in order to apparently maintain a 6 month phsyiological peak. (Maintaining winning form for an entire racing season just doesn't happen naturally, folks!) Be aware that since this is a collection of stories by numerous authors, the text often repeats itself in descriptions of races and events, making for some confusion as to which race Marco won and in which race he crashed, etc. I think that editor John Wilcoxen could have done a better job of synchronizing each chapter. Its a great read and great background on one of Italy's finest riders. A great gift for your cycling enthusiast!

Good, quick read about the life of a great, troubled cyclist.......2005-07-17

In reality, this book is actually more a collection of articles and stories, collated and edited by Wilcockson. At only 180 pages, one might think it's rather thin on the ground, yet this book contains a great detail of interesting information and anecdotes about the short and tragic life of a haunted champion.
This is a superb introduction to both Pantani's professional career, and to cycling writing in general, but if you're after a warts and all life story, a la Lance Armstrong books, best look elsewhere. Really, the only detailed part of this work that delves into Pantani's personal life is the account of his lonely death in a hotel room in Rimini on Valentine's Day.
In short, well worth a look.

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In The Global Gamble, Peter Gowan argues that, since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the US government has been pursuing an attempt to construct a global empire--a unipolar world in which Washington can control and shape the pattern of economic and political change in all regions of the globe. Only by understanding this ambition can we grasp the dynamics of international politics and economics in the contemporary world. Gowan explores the origins and distinctive forms of Washington's imperial project, from the collapse of the Soviet bloc through to the Gulf War of 1991, developments in the European Union, the enlargement of NATO and East Asian financial collapse. He also explores the efforts of various neo-liberal intellectuals to legitimate the American project in terms of liberalism. He concludes that the US Faustian project is almost certainly doomed to failure and unless plans are made now for such an eventuality, the world could face grave and possibly catastrophic breakdowns early in the next century.

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A Class by Itself.......2005-07-29

This book offers the most lucid descriptions of several crucial issues that you are likely to ever encounter. It is well structured, rational, specific, and well documented. Gowan renders a superb treatment of: the role of expediency in the collapse of Bretton Woods, the benefit to the Dollar-Wall Street Regime from global financial and macro-economic gyrations, the mechanisms whereby currency manipulation has a disproportionate effect on other countries, the mobilization of hedge fund attack-capital in producing the Asian Financial Crisis & the leveraging of that crisis to radically restructure East Asian domestic policy, the regional forces surrounding the first Gulf War, the disastorous implementation of the capitalist transition on Eastern Europe, and finally the way Social Democratic and formerly Communist parties danced around as they implemented this transition. This is one of the best books around concerning the motives, objectives and consequences of DC geo-political-economic policy during the '90's, it cannont fail to inform you and demythologize this sphere: it is free of demonization, over-simplification or brash rhetoric, the facts and figures are crisp and readily understandable without being overly general or conspicuously emphasized. Highest Possible Recommendation!!

The Truth Behind The Plan.......2003-11-28

Peter Gowan, writing in a sobber and technical way, clearly demonstrates the incredible amount of premeditation that the United States used to begin his fight for global economic domination, beginning with the Nixon instructed ending of the gold-dollar arrangment.

The US sometimes is not aware that his politics, controlling the IMF, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, is making their ruling class richier and richier, and the world poorer and poorer, and this situation will not stand for long.

This is a great book. No wonder it has so few reviews here, since people are not interested in knowing what's going on in all the ruined economies around the world, mos of them ruined not only bytheir own incompetence, but also by the IMF rules, when the IMF is nothing more than a puppet to Washington...

On Target Perspective.......2002-11-14

Can globalization be understood as the strictly market-driven phenomenon its proponents claim it to be. No, argues Peter Gowan, an editor of New Left Review. Such a narrow economic focus provides little real insight into the forces and objectives behind the American-led push to globalize. Instead, Gowan insists, there is a political component to the equation too often overlooked, yet it is this political component that provides the needed framework. Key here is what Gowan terms the Dollar Wall Street Regime (DWSR), a collaboration between Wall Street and financial organs of government. Contrary to orthodox opinion, DWSR views the relation between the state and the private sector as an essentially cooperative one, at least at the upper reaches of big business. Thus an intertwining of politics and economics stands behind the American drive for global dominance, a strategy that makes coordinate use of both state and private resources. Characterizing DWSR are two far-reaching and controversial theses. First, despite current wisdom, the state remains a key actor on the international stage, at least in the industrialized world; and second, there is nothing inevitable about a globalizing process once the role of political choice is understood. Taken together, these contentions challenge not only widely-held mainstream beliefs but swathes of ideological opinion on both left and right.

Gowan traces the historical evolution of DWSR in Part One, with an emphasis on international financial jockeying. Part Two focuses on the political dimension, particularly as it bears on the Middle East and eastern Europe. DWSR's capacity to illuminate is especially strong when dealing with post-cold war events in eastern Europe. Here it's fascinating to note the architect of Shock Therapy Jeffrey Sachs' incomprehension of how his measures are used to subjugate the region to US and European interests, instead of conforming to his more egalitarian theoretical model. Or, put another way, DWSR deceitfully uses a concrete program like Shock Therapy for selfish political ends, despite rhetoric to the contrary -- rhetoric Sachs apparently takes at face value, leaving him no one to blame for the failures except bumbling bureaucrats. As the author points out, Shock Therapy actually worked quite effectively as one component in the West's drive to subordinate the economies of former Soviet Bloc states.

Gowan's book is invaluable for making sense of current global developments: evidence of an axis like the DWSR appears overwhelming in daily news accounts, both foreign (Iraqi oil-grab) and domestic (Enron revelations). The author's style is scholarly, yet accessible to the serious reader, even though an index and bibliography would have been helpful. It's unfortunate that the work appears to be going largely unnoticed on the Amazon web. It certainly deserves a much better outcome.

Sorry I Bought It..........2001-11-13

Alas! I disagree with Michael M: reading this book was a waste of my time, and buying it a waste of my money. The problem is that he gets the "inside" story pretty much completely wrong...

highly recommended.......2001-06-11

An excellent book, I learned a great deal and enjoyed reading it several times. This book explains a great deal about what goes on behind the scenes, political maneuvering and financial engineering the US uses to gain more and more power in world affairs. It helped me understand several key areas of international investing and globalization, it was especially helpful in regards to the asian financial crisis. Unfortunately i do agree with one of the themes of the book, namely that the united states will most likely fail in its attempt to control the world via globalization. More unfortunately, I believe the failure and collapse of globalization will end in financial disaster in which hyper-inflation is a distinct possibillity as our fiat currency and derivative pyramid / stock market bubble comes crashing down. My only hope is that the day of reckoning is still several years from now (maybe 2007-2010).

The Global Gamble. Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance.(Review) (book review): An article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History

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This digital document is an article from Arena Magazine, published by Arena Printing and Publications Pty. Ltd. on April 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1553 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: The Global Gamble: Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance.(Review) (book review)
Author: Ted Wheelwright
Publication: Arena Magazine (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2001
Publisher: Arena Printing and Publications Pty. Ltd.
Page: 44

Article Type: Book Review

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The fourth edition of Environmental Hazards continues to blend physical and social sciences to provide a thoroughly balanced, contemporary introduction to hazards analysis and mitigation strategies. It covers all the major rapid-onset events, whether natural, human, or technological in origin that directly threaten humans and what they value
The revised edition includes increased coverage of biophysical and technological hazards. Additional material has also been added on vulnerability, asteroids, wildfires, and disaster mitigation success. The new edition also benefits from a larger format, allowing improved presentation of figures and photographs, which have also been updated and replaced throughout. Boxed features have been introduced to define key terms and outline the science underpinning discussions. Case studies have also been updated and replaced throughout. Annotated further reading and a gazetteer of useful websites are also provided.

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Earth's Fury.......2000-06-14

It is a very clear book, and it has many ilustrations to show the natural hazards in "action".Useful as a reference book for applied Geology.

Environmental Hazards, Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster.(Book review): An article from: The Geographical Journal

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Environmental Hazards, Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster.(Book review): An article from: The Geographical Journal
David Crichton
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2006. The length of the article is 548 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: Environmental Hazards, Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster.(Book review)
Author: David Crichton
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 172 Issue: 3 Page: 267(2)

Article Type: Book review

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