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As a child, author John H. Davis spent summers with Jackie and the Bouviers and was like a member of the family. In this, his third book on the aristocratic clan, Davis covers Jackie's life until her first wedding. Mr. Davis possessed great disdain for Jackie's mother and includes many nasty details about her--including how she hired a young woman to trap her husband in verifiable infidelity. He also writes that a close friend of Jackie's father later moved to Texas and became the "principal mentor and friend" to Lee Harvey Oswald--a revelation that puts a new twist on the conspiracy theory.
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Critical Acclaim for Jacqueline Bouvier John Davis's intimate memoir of his beloved first cousin "Readers longing for a dignified and elegant approach to Jackie's early years will enjoy this biographical gem by John H. Davis." —Boston Herald "Goes a long way to highlight the formative influence of her privileged back-ground and her warm relationship with her father, the philandering Jack (Black Jack) Bouvier." —Los Angeles Times "Re-creates a colorful, fast-fading slice of American life as it flourished in the shadows of toll hedges and long lineages." —The Miami Herald "The most charming and reliable in the batch [of Jackie books] is Davis's memoir." —The Atlanta Journal and Constitution "Entertaining, a guilty pleasure." —The Associated Press "This tender memoir of Jackie's early years sheds much light on the future woman we all wanted to know but never could." —The Star-Ledger (Newark)
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Jacqueline Bouvier: An Intinate Memoir.......2007-01-10
Book was in better condition than was described; time contract for delivery was accurate. Very satisfied with product and service.
an ok book.......2003-10-27
This book was good, but it only talked about her childhood. There was nothing about Onassis and her life after she married JFK. It didn't even mention her kids. John H. Davis also needs to learn to stick to the subject, he would often wonder off into stories about himself. If I cared about him I would have gotten a book about John H. Davis, but I didn't, I got a book on Jacqueline Bouvier. No one really cares what she did day by day of her childhood. We just really need the basic stuff. My final words are that it was a good book about her childhood and thats it, so i believe this book doesn't deserve more than two stars because there was more to Jacqueline's life than just her childhood and it doesn't even talk about her White House expirence or how she died.
Excellent book about Jackie's childhood.......2000-08-09
This was one of the first books I read about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and though I've read many since, I still consider this one of the best. It is filled with reminisces of events experienced by the author, a cousin of Jackie's who kept in touch with her throughout her life. The author has done extensive research into both the Bouviers and the Kennedys in his other writings - this book is an interesting and informative combination of that research and his personal memories of Jackie as a child and young woman. Highly recommended to all who wish to learn more about the less documented part of Jackie's life.
CAPTIVATING.......2000-08-08
A new insight into Jackie's childhood and teen years. A fresh change from other biographies on Jackie O. Highly recommended. FOR QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSIONS ON JACKIE ONASSIS, PLEASE E-MAIL ME AT MellissaLD@aol.com. HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!!!!!!!!
An excellent look at Jackie's early childhood........1996-09-09
If one is interested in learning about Jackie Kennedy's early childhood and teen years, this is the perfect book to examine. The author, a cousin of the late First Lady, shared many of her early experiences and thus provides excellent primary source material. Also noteworthy are photographs from Jackie's childhood and teen years
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In the spirit of Field of Dreams, a remarkable book about baseball and the meaning of life from the author of Living Prayer.
A game between the Iowa Cubs and the Nashville Sounds at an AAA park in Nashville, Tennessee, provides a lens through which Robert Benson explores the game of baseball and the meaning of life in The Game. It is "an ordinary week night game in the early part of the season between two teams that will finish far out of first place in the Pacific League." But Benson shows us how in this average game of baseball, just as in our everyday lives, the routine plays-the seemingly minor yet vital moves, empty of bravado-eventually win the game.
In beautifully measured prose, Benson links events in his life to the innings in this baseball game. Married to a woman who can quote baseball stats with the best of them and with two children who share his love for the game (his teenage daughter made the decision early on that she would be the first woman to play for the Yankees), Benson explores the ways in which baseball has always somehow shaped and defined his life. The Game is an extraordinary testament to the everlasting wonder and magic of the great American pastime.
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Good, but not great, baseball book.......2006-04-08
I love baseball, and I am very sentimental about the roll baseball has played in my close relationship with my father. For this reason, I was excited about this book.
While the book was generally well-written and, at times, the story-telling was captivating, I expected more. The attempt to intertwine the game and the life story didn't always work for me. I was also shocked by the obvious factual errors. There was a page devoted to Vin Scully and his famous "I don't believe what I just saw" call of Kirk Gibson's classic home run. Of course, it was the late Jack Buck--not Vin Scully--who made this famous call. As a lifelong Jack Buck fan, I was upset by this factual mistake.
Overall, this is a quick and enjoyable read. I recommend it for baseball fans who enjoy good literature. It isn't for everyone.
A good baseball book.......2004-10-26
Robert Benson has always loved baseball. He loves going to all the different ballparks and writing about all of them. He writes about when he was a kid in little leagues, and his dream of playing in the major leagues. He talks about his home town minor league team, the Nashville Sounds. And about his favorite major league team, the New York Yankees. Benson says that one of his favorite things to do is keep score on a scorecard, because it gets you more involved in the game.
I really like "The Game". Like Benson, I am a huge baseball fan. It's not a story with characters, Its a story of his life and baseball. I would reccommend this book to anyone who loves the game of baseball.
awesome..........2003-06-16
the human drama plays on, even with the world's greatest baseball player and his friends....
While we're at it..........2002-01-26
Let's point out a couple other factual errors about Mr. Benson's book. First of all he claims Harry Caray's signature home run call is, "It could be, it might be, it is!"
Actually, Harry used to say, "It might be, it could be, it is!"
I'm sure this is pretty trivial, but I've heard Harry call it this way hundreds of times and I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to point this out. Benson makes this mistake a few times in this book, and it's annoying.
Benson also claims to be at Wrigley Field one day in May to see a young phenom by the name of Kerry Wood face the author's favorite team the Braves. At that game, Benson and his wife and the rest of the crowd are led in a rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by none other than Harry Caray.
Well, Harry died in February of 1998, and Kerry Wood didn't make his major league debut until 4/12/1998 (Easter Sunday) against the Expos.
The reason why I bring this up is because I often wondered what Harry would have said had he been alive during Wood's 20 strikeout performance against the Astros and the remarkable 1998 season that we all enjoyed as Cubs fans.
These are just a couple of annoying factual errors that I encounter in Benson's book. Other than that, I love the book and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys baseball and doesn't view it as just a sport, but as a way of life.
Despite the errors mentioned above, Mr. Benson, I would love to play catch or have you hit fungoes to me anytime.
Thoughtful book marred by factual errors.......2001-09-28
Although I enjoyed this book's leisurely stroll through one man's relationship with baseball, I was disturbed by some serious screwups.
First, Benson gets wrong the year Roger Maris' single season record for home runs was broken. Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa pursued and passed Maris in 1998, not 1999. This is an almost unbelievable error. Only three seasons after the fact, a baseball author making this mistake is like an American historian writing about the original twelve colonies.
Six pages later we read about the famous home run hit by
"a light hitting infielder named Bobby Thomson" in 1951. Thomson was an outfielder and finished tied for fourth (with Stan Musial) in the National League in home runs that year with 32.
Since Benson's book is built on his lifelong love of the game, mistakes like this diminish our trust even if they don't make us doubt the depth of his feeling. His sincerity seems very real, and his writing is smooth, personal and appealing.
Mistakes aside, it's nice to read a baseball book by a fan who is a writer first.
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All Time Favorite Operetta Hits: Piano Vocal Folio
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The music of Gilbert & Sullivan, Sigmund Romberg and Victor Herbert, the chief composers of the operetta art form, are featured within this folio. Selections include: Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life * Deep In My Heart * Indian Summer * Italian Street Song * A Kiss in the Dark * March of the Toys * Naughty Marietta and more.
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Sayonara, sudoku! Say hello to kakuro, the hot new puzzle from Japan that’s sweeping the globe! This fun and exciting book offers 100 challenging — some say fiendish! — cross sums puzzles, with complete solutions.
Like sudoku, kakuro is a cross sums puzzle that requires logic and patience to crack the grid. But, unlike sudoku, kakuro incorporates filled and empty cells similar to a crossword puzzle for a more challenging, more exciting, brain-twisting experience.
This stimulating volume of kakuro puzzles makes the perfect companion for quiet evenings at home, daily commutes, or vacations!
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Bill O'Neil is a legend to individual investors everywhere. The Wall Street maverick founded Investor's Business Daily, which created a new generation of investor by providing carefully researched investment rules for targeting emerging growth, buying at the right time, and applying sell rules that ensure the greatest profit. Two decades later, IBD is a runaway success, and O'Neil continues to regularly beat the market at its own game.
Investor's Business Daily and the Making of Millionaires is a behind-the-scenes look at O'Neil and the growth of IBD. It describes how investors can use the paper's rich stock market data and focus on growing companies to amass huge stock market gains as it details:
- O'Neil's legendary CANSLIM stock-picking system
- Where the next opportunities could be coming from
- How anyone can take on the leaders and win
To view the errata sheet for this book, please visit:
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IBD a brief history.......2007-08-26
After reading this book myself I have to agree with the other reviewers. This book is very short on any advice on becoming a millionaire, it is simply a brief history on how William O'Neal got the idea for the IBD newspaper and started it. It was more of a labor of love for him than anything and it took almost 20 years to make the paper profitable. I am a huge fan of all things IBD and have made $1,000's of dollars following the CAN-SLIM method, so of course I had to buy this book. If your an IBD fanatic like I am buy the book, if not pass and pick up "How I made $2,000,000 in the stock market by Nicholas Darvas, it will probably be more of what you are looking for.(Also it is William O'Neal approved).
A must for IBD lovers.......2007-01-29
This is a very interesting book if you subscribe to Investor's Business Daily, or are just a big fan of O'Neil. If you aren't, you probsably will be after reading this book.
Very Readable.......2006-04-04
Fast paced and very readable. Excellent insight into the financial publishing business in general and IBD, in particular. I would recommend to anyone looking for an overview of the industry. Great 'perspective' book for traders.
Not particularly helpful........2005-12-15
It's an OK book and if I'd read the title a little closer I probably wouldn't have purchased it. Basically the book details how IBD became a viable business by teaching different (and better) investing rules and helping average people locate potentially above average stocks. However, if you are interested in the hows and whys of stock picking get a subscription to IBD (I like the online PDF version myself) the information that comes with being a subscriber is far more detailed than what is in this book.
IBD Autobiography.......2005-08-31
The IBD Monday usually is sold out at the bookstores that I frequent across Orange County by at least 2 to 3pm on Saturdays. This book gives an insight on why this occurs. The newspaper provides what the audience demands "great investment material on a daily basis".
This book reads like an autobiography providing historical reasons why certain columns exist in IBD.
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Brilliantly written.......2001-08-26
This book is a mid-career biography of Dr. Paul Brand, a leading researcher in rehabilitation for leprosy patients. The book is extremely thorough in its details, perhaps overly so in some places. It begins with the lives of Brand's grandparents, gives a full account of his father's earlier influences, and includes much information about Paul Brand's early childhood in India, as well as his later childhood in Britain. Despite the depth of details, the book is extremely readable, and I found it to be a real page-turner from cover to cover.
One of my favorite biographies.......1998-04-07
From his beginning as the son of English missionary parents working in India, to his schooling in England, marriage, family, further work as a pioneer in leprosy treatment, innovative surgeries, and on to his continued research in America, this book tells the story of a man who has lead an exciting life. Dr. Brand's humility and ability to adapt to different cultural and environmental conditions both stem from his love for God and God's creation. Philip Yancey's fine foreword enhances Wilson's portrait of this great man. Recommended reading.
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Uncle Sam's Brides: The World of Military Wives
Bonnie Domrose Stone , and
Betty Sowers Alt
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hopefully, things have changed for the better.......2005-07-20
This book is a real eye-opener. The stats and studies cited by the authors are mainly from the 1970s-'80s, and I sincerely hope conditions for US military dependents have improved. (With the latest round of budgets cuts and BRAC, I shudder to think of how on-base facilities will be affected, including daycare and family medical services.) And I also hope that attitudes toward working spouses have changed -- surely it's in the military's best interest to recognize that a dependent wife with a college degree and established profession may contribute substantially to her family's budget, thereby lessening the need for extra support from the government (e.g., food stamps). Such a lady is more deserving of the title, "independent"!
In the first chapter, the authors give a brief overview of living conditions at frontier army posts during the 19th century. Interested readers can learn more from such books as, "Glittering Misery: Dependents of the Indian-Fighting Army" by Patricia Y. Stallard (Univ. of OK Press, 1991/2), and, "Vanished Arizona" by Martha Summerhayes, who braved the Arizona Territory with her soldier husband in the 1870s [Bison Books (reprint), 1979].
You missed the point of the book........2005-01-28
I believe the others who wrote these reviews failed to notice a few points to this book. First, the book was written by officers wives, and though the military may not be the same today, it was as they said, 15 years ago. Don't turn a blind eye to this sociologically sound item, it may just open your eyes to how life really was for military wives, particularly those of the soldiers drafted in the 60's and 70's. One more point, those of you judging the book by today's military standards have missed the fact that this book speaks of a different military. Don't judge the book by an all volunteer force, as it is today. The era between 1950 and 1990 was much different than it is today. Think while you read.
Very Sad.......2004-02-08
I only got through a few chapters of this silly book! It came highly recommend from a lady I respect.........HOWEVER, it does not accuratly portray today's miltary. Rather that of the 1800's! Enlisted men, thier wives and families are often better educated then those who are in command and are not only intrested in making babies! Rank has no place between wives........it's not yours! Military life is about the whole family but unless you are dealing drugs you can't make or break his career just cause you and the CO's wife don't see eye to eye!Rather we have the privilege of helping our husband's keep our country free and make a stand for freedom all aroudn the world.
Thankfully after 15 years in the military I can say that while the life/attitudes portrayed in this book were commonplace more than 100 years ago it is not the way it is today! Except perhaps by women who have read this book or been schooled by someone who is clueless!
If you are new to the military/or looking for an accurate portrayal of military life today.........save this for later! Heroes at Home by Ellie Kay or When Duty calls is a much better choice! If you want a portrayl of life as it was try Military/Army Wives on the Frontier!!
Skip this.
This book is so WRONG!.......2003-12-30
I am also prior active duty and now an Air Force spouse. Like the previous reviewer, I am a college student and will have my B.A. this June. This book is so OLD SCHOOL considering it was published in 1990!
First of all, the book's only focus is officer's wives. In the first chapter the authors alienated all enlisted wives. How can you write a book about military wives and then only mention enlisted wives when illustrating how much officer's wives looked down on them or how little money the enlisted force makes?
Second, as I have only been associated with the military since '96, I can't say that officer's wives didn't used to act so superior. However, in today's military, unless I am blind as a bat, you just DO NOT see that kind of ignorant discrimination towards the enlisted troops and their spouses. They paint this picture of OW's as shallow witches living vicariously through their husbands and EW's as uneducated trailer trash.
The authors then attempted to address the discrimination that foriegn-wives face, but not w/out making some nasty comments about how enlisted men marry Asian women b/c they have low self-esteem after being ordered around all day at work and needed to be the boss at home!
OH yeah, and I really LMAO when I read the part about an officer's wife giving her husband's rank at the clinic to alert "the medical staff to her position of power." Give me a break.
What a shame if anyone unfamiliar with the military were to read this book and believe any of it to be truth. Today's military is nothing like this. And God knows when I was enlisted, I respected my commanding officers b/c of THEIR rank, THEIR hard work, THEIR knowledge and experience, NOT b/c their wife knew how to throw a good dinner party and was a smart dresser.
Don't waste your time on this book unless you're looking for a good laugh at a has been's reminiscence of living in la-la land.
YIKES!!! Inaccurate and ridiculous!.......2003-12-30
I am prior active duty, and currently the spouse of an active duty military member. This book is off the charts goofy, discriminative, false, and just plain worthless to anyone wanting REAL insight into the life of a military spouse. I can't even begin to list the contradictions between the claims of the author and the military spouse.
Yes, being a military spouse is tough... and NOT for the average person, but the battles between enlisted and officer's wives and the social structure conflict is NOT as it is explained in this book. My husband holds two bachelor's degree's, and I hold an associate's with two more years left to get my bachelors; however, my husband is enlisted and we have friends who are both enlisted and officer. I do not walk around informing others of my husband's rank, unless asked for official reasons. I am not my husband, nor does my life revolve around his rank. I am who I am. I have my own education. I have my own goals. I have my own identity. I have my own brain. I am blessed to share my life with a soldier and he is blessed to share his life with me, but I do not define myself completely off of him. I am proud of him for who he is, just as I am proud of myself NOT for who my husband is, but for who I am and what I have become.
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This is a collection of essays on race and immigration by eight leading thinkers who are not afraid of being called "racist." It is published by the staff of American Renaissance, a monthly publication that has been called "a literate, undeceived journal of race, immigration, and the decline of civility."
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A Statistical Fairy Tale for the True believers in IQs.......2006-10-25
A Statistical Fairy Tale for the True believers in IQs
Taylor, et. al. have woven together in a seemingly coherent, but nevertheless flawed way, the strongest argument yet for the remaining "true believers" in the battle to retain a logical fig leaf to cover the now thoroughly discredited ideology of white supremacy. The last leg of this dying school of racists is this old but still specious IQ argument.
Since it is an underlying theme inhabiting the subconscious of many whites, this alone is reason enough that this must be considered an important book. In a free society, even sublimated and abhorrent views deserve their day in the market place of ideas and in the court of public opinion.
That said this however is a statistical fairy tale whose appearance of cogency resides primarily in the fact that it makes the case for only one side of an implicitly two-sided theory. The authors then proceed to engage, and purport to test, only the side that proves their point -- "the IQ is the only thing that is important" side. Because they have done so cleverly and without the usual supporting ideology sideshow, I gave the book three stars.
The first assumption in this theory is that "genetic inferiority between the races as exhibited by differences in IQs and by a corresponding failure to recognize the importance of these differences," represents the sole cause of all of the misery resulting from the clashes between the races within the U.S. In effect, they argue that the only race problem is the low IQ of Blacks and other inferior races and how this congenitally based inferiority gets played out in society as crime, illegitimacy, low achievement, poverty, dependency, etc.
The second half of the theory resides in the alternative (but implicit) assumption that such misery might be explained equally well by other factors. For instance it might be explained equally well by the uninterrupted history of five hundred years of racial discrimination, brutality, violence and illicit domination over blacks and other non-whites. Or, more importantly, that the cause of such inabilities (whether they are the cause of the problems of race or not) may be much more of an environmental, than a genetic problem.
This latter conclusion: that abilities are much more related to environment than to genetic factors -- at least is the one now being drawn by contemporary Sociobiologists and Environmental Psychologists, who in the past have been friendlier to Taylor's genetic IQ hypothesis than to any others. Yet, even they are now changing their tunes.
For an interesting summary of what they have learned, the reader is referred to Robert Wright's magisterial work "Moral Man." On page 8, of that book for instance, Wright says: "Darwinian Anthropologists see the world's undeniably diverse cultures as products of a single human nature responding to widely varying circumstances and cultures."
One of their cardinal doctrines is emphasis on "the potency of the early influence of the environment in shaping the adult mind." Wright adds on page 9 that: "the most radical differences among people are the ones most likely traceable to environment." And finally, he concludes that "Genetic differences among individuals surely play a role, but perhaps a larger role is played by genetic commonalities: by a generic, species-wide developmental program that absorbs information from the social environment and adjusts the maturing mind accordingly." Biologists also all agree now that the relationship between genes and the environment is interactive: Genes affect environmental conditions and vice versa.
Taylor and his cohorts dismiss this latter assumption out of hand by simply ignoring it all together. The authors do not concern themselves with it, except to set it up as a "strawman," and then wave a dismissive hand at Gunnar Myrdal's monumental study: An American Dilemma which alludes to the possibility that white racism (an avowedly environmental factor) might in fact play a role, if not a decisive one, in the American race problem.
Instead of examining their own built-in assumptions carefully, Taylor and his colleagues proceed headlong into a repeat of the same old tired graphs and charts on cranium and brain sizes and weights, the 15 point IQ deficits between blacks and whites, etc. ad nauseam. These are studies that we have seen recycled for over a century now -- even as they are being continually discredited. Hitler's doctors used them to prove the inferiority of the Jews and Gypsies. The Phrenologists and Eugenicists had used them even before Hitler; as did early American Psychologists, Anthropologists, Eugenicists, and Sociologists. They now also appear in Murray and Hernstein's popularized recycled rendition of the same arguments called The Bell Curve.
So, these one-sided statistical analyses have a long and sordid pedigree in American Sociology, Psychology, Eugenics, and Anthropology. However, all but the least respectable scientists have long since abandoned these discredited but thinly disguised racist tracts. Standing alone unchallenged in a statistical and historical vacuum, these charts and regression lines lend an air of undeserved authority. The authors, to their credit, have skillfully milked them for all they are worth.
The problem with their analysis however is at least two-fold.
First, it is closed off, self-contained and as we have already noted, avowedly one-sided. It admits no contrary evidence even though there is tons of it out there to be admitted. And although it is true that there are correlations between genetic factors and race, and between race and socio-economic and cultural factors, correlations do not equal causation. And as noted above, the relationship between gene and environment is reciprocal.
[As a technical aside, one could reasonably ask: what truly valid and sound scientific analysis would use only the Pearson Correlation Coefficient (r) as a measure of the amount of variation accounted for in the analysis? If the more correct measure, r-square, were used instead, most of the apparent variation due to genetic differences would surely recede into statistically insignificance.]
A much larger problem for Taylor's thesis is the idea that IQ differences really matter in measuring success or failure in America's race-based meritocracy. A non-existent true meritocracy would be required to test this hypothesis. However, proof that America is no such meritocracy is that Orientals, with higher IQs than whites, are on the whole doing only slightly better than blacks in American society.
Also, a study of the IQs of the last twelve presidents shows that they range from a low of 91 (President George W. Bush) to a high of 155 (President Richard Nixon), yet this difference of 64 IQ points (more than four standard deviations) appears to have no discernable effect on the success or failure of the most important job in the world. If this is the case, how can we be convinced that a 15-point IQ difference will matter in other less important areas, and that it alone could be the cause of all of the racial strife in American society?
Then there are the peripheral issues such as the so-called Flynn Effect, in which blacks in one decade have higher IQs than whites in a previous one? For instance, blacks in 2000 have average IQs higher than Caucasians did in 1960, and higher than white military Generals of World War I. Should we then conclude that whites in 1960 or the Generals of WW-I are retroactively genetic incompetents? What about Martin Gardiner's idea of multiple intelligences, and the lack of efficacy of IQ test, more generally?
On balance, there is a lot left undone in this rather shallow analysis. I do not believe that Taylor and his cohorts have made a compelling case that low IQs are the cause of America's race problem.
Increasingly, the evidence is moving in the other direction, away from single factors to multi-factor explanations; away from IQ explanations and more towards environmental explanations. In these newer studies, the environmental explanations are beginning to eclipse the IQs-based explanations in a very serious way. Three stars.
more truths being told.......2006-01-22
I have just started reading this book,what a breath of fresh air!Shouldn't more people know what is known in this book?Why can't the government think like it's people,I mean don't they know how people feel about some of these things, and can't they learn things from this and other similar books?The Myrdal ideas and theories from the past,obviously have only worked against the majority of citizens,they should be thrown out and forgotten about,things just won't work as long as the past theories and ideas persist and are crammed at us !Obviously, I'm not that far into this book yet, but, am impressed with what I've read already.This book may have you asking a lot of questions,such as how did we get in this mess, etc. but there are answers here to many questions that will pop up in your mind as you read.The first couple pages may surprise you, but, I think it's written like that to wake you up to what comes in the following pages,read on and you'll see.
Time is ripe for whites to embrace Asian superiority........2005-07-04
Study after study, it has been demonstrated that Asians have higher IQs than whites, lower crime rates than whites, and make better parents. (For card-carrying members of the KKK: Don't take my word for it. Go read "The Bell Curve" and Rushton's little book.) Since many whites have used this book to bolster their white supremacist views against blacks and hispanics, it is only fair for whites to acknowledge Asian superiority, based on the conclusions of these very books. Fair is fair, right?
Bold, Hateful, and Truthful.......2005-03-20
This book mostly targets against blacks. The motivation of the writers of this book can be summed up as hatred against what they believe are genetically inferior people who are ruining the social, economic, and demographic fabric of this country. It is important to note, in American History, such racial hatred has been previously targeted against the Jews, the Chinese, the Irish, and the Italians.
In this unhealthily politically correct society, it is refreshing that some people are bold enough to speak the truth, backed up by scientific and socioeconomic data, about the difference in races. Blacks have lower IQ everywhere (US, UK, Africa, Canada etc). The number of crime rises in proportion to the number of blacks in the population in virtually every society. Blacks, however, are physically stronger, develop faster, and score higher in virtually every atheltic scale.
What do the authors want? They want to curb immigration of non-whites. They also want the society to accept the genetic differences in races and make policies accordingly. Some probably want to build concentration camps too, but are too coy to mention them.
In all, the authors are somewhat extreme. But just as I thought "Autobiography of Malcolm X" had legitimate points and truths, I think this book offers similar bold facts and truths to the reader.
Deserves wider recognition.......2005-01-10
Jared Taylor is one of the few writers who has the guts to affirm the superiority of the white race over all others. He provides a real justification for what some call "racism," which has been absent from public debate. He dreams of a pure white America, where crime and poverty are things of the past. This book will appeal to anyone who shares that dream. Taylor has managed to make racism appealing, and for that, he deserves recognition. More people need to hear about this book, and to understand what it is really saying.
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Covering 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine ecosystem was, in its prime, one of the most extensive and biologically diverse ecosystems in North America. Today these magnificent forests have declined to a fraction of their original extent, threatening such species as the gopher tortoise, the red-cockaded woodpecker, and the Venus fly-trap. Conservationists have proclaimed longleaf restoration a major goal, but has it come too late?
In Looking for Longleaf, Lawrence S. Earley explores the history of these forests and the astonishing biodiversity of the longleaf ecosystem, drawing on extensive research and telling the story through first-person travel accounts and interviews with foresters, ecologists, biologists, botanists, and landowners. For centuries, these vast grass-covered forests provided pasture for large cattle herds, in addition to serving as the world's greatest source of naval stores. They sustained the exploitative turpentine and lumber industries until nearly all of the virgin longleaf had vanished.
Looking for Longleaf demonstrates how, in the twentieth century, forest managers and ecologists struggled to understand the special demands of longleaf and to halt its overall decline. The compelling story Earley tells here offers hope that with continued human commitment, the longleaf pine might not just survive, but once again thrive.
Customer Reviews:
Superb book on several fronts..........2007-10-16
Earley was trying to write a history of turpentining. What he ended up with was a spectacular essay on the natural history of longleaf pine forests, the human history of the forested south, an essay on conflicting views in forestry, and....oh yes...turpentine!
Reading this as an ecologist, I found everything I wanted with just enough of the human element to flesh it out without boring me. Oddly enough, I suspect those reading this from an anthropological view have the same opinion about the natural history aspect of the book. Earley is that good in weaving his tale.
It flows well, is well organized, and the research and references are stunning. Twenty-three pages of references make me wonder how he ever finished the book. (In his acknowledgements he seems to wonder the same thing himself!)
This book belongs on the shelf of every forester, ecologist, and southern historian. I'm just thankful I stumbled across it on a rainy day in Congaree National Park.
complete book about longleaf pines.......2006-11-19
mr. earley goes deep into everything you could want to know about this native tree species,a cornerstone to both the natural world of the southeastern united states and the economic growth and development of the country as a whole.......he tells all about the past history,present day status,and projected outlook of the longleaf pine tree:it's one-time dominance of the coastal plain landscape,compared to it's present day status;all about the naval stores and timber industries,and their heavy dependence upon it that led to it's near demise and current numbers;and the changes in land management of the longleaf forest and it's various ecosystems,with much insight to the controlled burning philosophy that has gained in popularity during the last 50 years or so.....with photos, including some impressive shots of long-gone virgin growth trees dwarfing the grown men standing among them.
Best book on longleaf yet........2005-09-08
This book is as accurate and detailed as any scholarly paper but is written so well that it is certain to be a classic of literature like Archie Carr's "The Windward Road."
America's Rain Forest.......2004-11-23
For years I have been concerned about the disappearance of the South American Rain Forest. What was shocking from Earley's book is how we had our own expansive Forest with it's own ecosystem and let it disappear before our very eyes without anyone noticing.
It is not only a wonderfully told story of the Longleaf pine but it is a genuine history of how the South's economic development between the time of the settlers and up until today nearly destroyed it's most valuable resource and the ecology that was a part of it.
The only problem with this book was not being able to put it down after I started reading it.
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This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Soft mast is an important resource for many wild populations in the Southern Appalachians, yet the way clear-cutting affects availability of soft mast though time is not fully understood. We tested a theoretical model of temporal availability of soft mast in clearcuts using empirical data on percent cover and berry production of Gaylussacia, Vaccinium, and Rubus spp. plants in 100 stands that were clearcut (0-122 years old) in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. We modeled the relationship between soft mast availability and stand age, evaluated the effects of topography and forest type on soft mast, developed statistical models for predicting the spatio-temporal distribution of soft mast, and tested the hypothesis that percent cover of berry plants and berry production provided similar information about soft mast availability. We found temporal dynamics explained berry production better than it predicted percent plant cover, whereas topographic variables influenced percent plant cover more than they influenced berry production. Berry production and percent plant cover were highest in ~2-9-year-old stands. Percent plant cover was lowest in 10-69-year-old stands and intermediate in 70+-year-old stands. Three of our spatio-temporal models performed well during model testing and they were not biased by the training data, indicating the inferences about spatio-temporal availability of soft mast extended beyond our sample data. The methods we used to estimate the distribution of soft mast may be useful for modeling distributions of other resources.
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