A Friend to God's Poor: Edward Parmelee Smith

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Great description of the Civil War U.S. Christian Commision.......1997-12-04

I read this book particularly to learn more about the United States Christian Commision which operated during the Civil War. The subject of the book, Edward Smith, was instramental in organizing and operating this orgnization in the western theater of the War. the Chrisian Commision provided material and spritural assistance to soldiers during the war. This included, reading and writing material, food and clothing, nursing of sick and wounded and providing spiritural support through christian tracts and church services. All of their assistance was provided free by volunteer "delegates". This publication devotes five chapters to Edward Smith's leadership in this significant organization.

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Relentless determination, unrivaled charisma, and the ability to climb into any type of race car and win has made Mario Andretti a household name for more than thirty years. His accomplishments include four USAC and CART titles, the 1978 Formula One World Championship, winning the 1967 Daytona 500 and 1969 Indianapolis 500, and three victories in the grueling 12 Hours of Sebring sports-car race.

Mario achieved his dream against enormous odds. As a boy in Italy he and his family lived among Nazis under Communist occupation, lost everything they owned, and emigrated to America in 1955. As a teenager he built his first Hudson stock car and won his very first race. His unmistakable talent soon earned him seats in better, faster cars. Just six years after his first race, he drove to his first USAC championship and was Rookie of the Year at the 1965 Indy 500.

For the first time, his extraordinary life story is presented through exclusive interviews with Mario, his family, and the drivers and teams he raced with. In-depth descriptions of his greatest races and cars, combined with behind-the-scenes team photos and commentary by Mario himself, provide an insider's perspective on the progression of racing technology and the teamwork behind a winning effort.

Mario Andretti: A Driving Passion documents the toughness, intelligence, and humor that makes Mario the man so compelling and reveals the remarkable mixture of determination and luck—both good and bad—that defined his career as the most versatile and accomplished racer of all time.

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A very enjoyable read. .......2005-09-05

This book is awesome in every way. The text is entertaining and informative. The photos are first rate, as well as abundant. This is my favorite book! Mario Andretti is the man, and this book gives a clear and very close-up look at his life and career.

Adnretti, an American Racing Icon.......2004-03-02

A totally comprehensive account of Mario Andretti's racing career and the machinery that took him to the top of world-wide motorsport. Completely unvarnished and truthful about the ups and downs of a racing driver's life, this is a must-have book for the boomer-generation racing fan.

Mario Andretti: A Driving Passion.......2002-11-28

Mario Andretti was the best race car driver of 20th century - bar none! Gordon Kirby is one of the best auto racing authors. When you get Gordon Kirby writing about Mario Andretti, you get an excellent book. The photographs in this book are "awesome!!!". Your money will not be wasted when you buy this book.

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Mario Andretti a Driving Passion
Gordon Kirby
Manufacturer: DAVID BULL PUBLISHING
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N7CBJS

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Mario Andretti : A Driving Passion
Gordon Kirby
Manufacturer: David Bull Publishing, Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OLXXS6

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One side of the relationship between animals an humans throughout history has been spiritual. In Animal Spirits, the anthropologist Nicholas Saunders details the significant roles that animals have played in the human need to understand and relate to the natural world. The dolphin was a secret symbol of early Christianity, the raven was Creator for the Northwest Coast native Americans, and the Chinese dragon was the image of the divine power of transformation. The origins of mythology and religion lie in this visceral relationship, and in viewing the vivid photographs on every page of Animal Spirits, one can't help but feel a pang at our lost connectedness to the animal world.

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An excellent read, highly recommended!.......2006-05-21

This is another one of those books on animal totemism that often gets ignored by the light of the crescent moon. Rather than taking a New Age look, Saunders delves itno history and mythology, as well as the interaction of animals with humans.

A wide variety of animals are covered here, not just the usual North American mammals and birds. In addition, the material itself is presented in an easy to read manner without being fluffy.

This would be an excellent addition to any book shelf focusing on animal totems and animal magic. It doesn't get nearly the credit it deserves.

Animal Spirits an Illustrated Guide to The

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Animal Spirits an Illustrated Guide to The
Nicholas J Saunders
Manufacturer: Tx Bookman Remainders
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1900131617

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Useful, but not earth-shattering.......2003-10-26

This books is THE resource for level five edges, finally giving players a good chance on achieving them. It also includes a number of incredibly powerful (for Hunter, anyway) Divine and Corrupt edges, as well as suggestions as to how these alternate level fives would be achieved.
Save this book for when you've been playing for a very long time, as it seems geared for spectacular ways to end a chronicle. For the majority of your chronicle, the level five edges presented in the corebook and nine Creed books are much more suited to the theme of the game, and the players guide already gives the storyteller enough information on how to portray an NPC with one.
Unless your chronicle depends heavily on the Messengers being agents of the divine, and having their antithesis trying to corrupt the imbued, it really isn't that necessary. A very cool book though, and necessary for any Hunter fanatic to round out their collection.

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Great variety, great content, timely and relevant

Great Textbook!!!

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Electronic Commerce: A Managerial Perspective 2006 (4th Edition) (Pie)
Efraim Turban , Dave King , Jae Kyu Lee , and Dennis Viehland
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0131854615

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Great variety, great content, timely and relevant.......2007-03-22

For a broad business overview of e-Business technology, this is one of the finest books on the market. The authors effectively present the rationale for electronic commerce, along with both the business and technology foundations. Highly accurate and well presented.

Great Textbook!!!.......2006-08-30

This may be a college textbook but the information inside was extremely valuable in the emerging Ecommerce world! I found myself going to alot of the web sites it has listed in the book and none of it was out of date.

A GOOD BOOK .......2006-03-27

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Therapist = The Rapist/ Sannyasin, sounds like Assassin

Fascinting

Interesting

Not Worth the Effort

excellent book and a much needed childs perspective

My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru
Tim Guest
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 015603106X

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At the age of six, Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune modeled on the teachings of the notorious Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. The Bhagwan preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, chaotic therapy, and sexual freedom, and enjoyed inhaling laughing gas, preaching from a dentist's chair, and collecting Rolls Royces.

Tim and his mother were given Sanskrit names, dressed entirely in orange, and encouraged to surrender themselves into their new family. While his mother worked tirelessly for the cause, Tim-or Yogesh, as he was now called-lived a life of well-meaning but woefully misguided neglect in various communes in England, Oregon, India, and Germany.

In 1985 the movement collapsed amid allegations of mass poisonings, attempted murder, and tax evasion, and Yogesh was once again Tim. In this extraordinary memoir, Tim Guest chronicles the heartbreaking experience of being left alone on earth while his mother hunted heaven.

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Therapist = The Rapist/ Sannyasin, sounds like Assassin.......2006-10-29

Tim Guest not only seems to have turned out remarkably well-adjusted and healthy for living through an often horrific, certainly neglected childhood, but he is also a sensible and crafty memorist as well. For all the damaging therapy encounter groups and hoards of sannyasins (those who walk the spiritual path) that Guest lived with and observed daily, his recollections and reporting are meticulous. If you want to get an innocent insider's view of what happened behind the tangerine clouds of India, London, Germany, Oregon, than this book is a must. I finished it a less than a week. For all the maternal neglect that Guest endured, he writes of his mother with great compassion and of himself with impressive self-awareness.

Fascinting.......2006-10-01

When I think about children growing up in communes, victims of cults, I think about the abuses you always hear happen in these situations. I imagined when I picked up this book that it would be a horrifying tale of sexual and physical abuse of a small child. I braced myself. Instead, I found that the child narrator, Tim, wasn't sexually or physically abused. In fact, he seemed to have many fond memories related to the commune and his life there. It was only when considered from an adult's point of view that the shocking amount of neglect comes into focus. The children in the commune did suffer in this very specific way. The damage was not as graphic and sensationalized as many people expect from a story about growing up in a cult, but it was horrifying nonetheless. Tim Guest did a fantastic job balancing this story to show why people might have been sucked into this commune in the first place, and then why they would decide to leave.

Interesting.......2006-03-11

This book is the true story of a young boy whose mother joins one of Bhagwam's communes in the early 1980s. Bhagwam's theory of reaching a higher spiritual plane heavily incorporates the idea of detachment- if you are detached from the things of this world, you will find your place. Unfortunately for Tim and the other children in the commune, they are forced to be part of their parents' new world while at the same time being kept at arms length from the love and attachment they want and need. Tim Guest tells of the years he spent in the communes, the people he knew there, and the effect the very unique lifestyle choice of his mother affected his life.

Quote: `Our parents were saving the world, but saving the world took time. While they danced, rolled their heads, swayed their arms, flailed their malas, beat cushions, broke down their social conditioning, and set themselves free, we filled our lives as best we could with the things we found around us."

I liked this book most of the time . . . it was one of those things that I couldn't read straight through (although in all fairness I have a really really short bookreading attention span and usually have several different things at once I go back and forth between) but at the same time I could never abandon it because I was really invested in Tim's story and finding out what ultimately happened to him, Bhagwam, and the commune. The story takes place in India, Britain, Germany, and the United States, and it was interesting to see the setting change. The story was certainly and unique and fascinating glimpse into commune life, from the perspective of someone who has not chosen it but instead has it thrust upon them.

Not Worth the Effort.......2006-02-09

I'll be honest -- after reading 50 pages of this book, I got off the StairMaster at the gym, put the book in my bag, and had no interest in reading any more of it. It just wasn't that interesting. It read more like a history of the Bhagwan Rajneesh, and less a story about Guest's childhood experiences. If you want to read about horrifying childhoods or kids in cults, try "Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress" by Susan Jane Gilman or "Running with Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs. Either one is a more entertaining and less laborious to read.

excellent book and a much needed childs perspective.......2006-01-26

I just finished this book and I felt it was money well spent. I was a member of a different cult myself but felt such an affinity with the story Mr. Guest was telling. I can't say I "enjoyed" the book, even though Mr. Guest used a lot of humor it was hard not to shudder at the horrific childhood he endured. I would like to see more books like this one by children raised in these groups. Though I don't really feel even adults make an informed choice when they join a cult a child has no choice at all. His story was compelling.

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Recent debates about British political and military strategies, derived in particular from dissension about Britain's relationship with Europe and from disagreement over the Iraq war, has led to a greater awareness of the problematic nature of the concept of 'national interests'. The purpose of this book is to provide a historical perspective on this issue. The twin strands of the question will be captured by the consideration both of the Continental commitment and British interventionism in the 18th Century. The extent to which Britain's rise to superpower status in America and Asia was related to the Continental connection and to the Hanoverian interests of the dynasty is a central theme of the book, as is the relationship between the domestic position of the Crown and its interests as Electors of Hanover.

The issue of Continental interventionism opens up the question of how alliances generate their own pressures, at the same time that they are supposed to help overcome challenges; while also indicating how the domestic support for alliances shifts, creating its own dynamics that in turn affect the international dimension.

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Nationalism Reframed is a theoretically and historically informed study of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Rogers Brubaker develops an original account of the interlocking and opposed nationalisms of national minorities, the nationalizing states in which they live, and the external national homelands to which they are linked by external ties. He then analyzes contemporary nationalisms in historical and comparative perspective, tracing the parallels between the Eastern European nationalisms of today and those of the interwar period.

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somewhat unconnected and jargon-filled series of essays.......2000-06-10

Rogers Brubaker, Professor of Sociology at UCLA and part-time teacher at the Central European University in Budapest, has written six decent essays on nationalism here which don't really comprise a full book. Originally published in such journals as 'Daedalus' and 'Ethnic and Racial Studies', the essays present some interesting new concepts for the study of nationalism like 'nationalizing states' (a process which Benedict Anderson might call 'official nationalism') and 'homeland nationalism' (where a nation-state has significant numbers of its cultural community located outside its borders, i.e. Germany between the world wars and Russia today).

Yet Brubaker sometimes dips a bit much into jargon-filled sociological theory: for example, drawing from Pierre Bourdieu (who has a blurb on the back of the book), Brubaker defines a national minority as 'a dynamic political stance, or, more precisely, a family of related yet mutually competing stances.' Furthermore, he credits institutionalization too much for nationalism in the former USSR (i.e. Central Asia), calling nationalism a political phenomenon and thus not drawing enough attention to culture, language, religion, etc.

Nonetheless the essays are worth a quick read, especially the one comparing Weimar Germany and contemporary Russia.

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Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe.(Review): An article from: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Adrian Favell
Manufacturer: Commission for Racial Equality
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00098RID0
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, published by Commission for Racial Equality on January 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1933 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: Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe.(Review)
Author: Adrian Favell
Publication: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1999
Publisher: Commission for Racial Equality
Volume: 25 Issue: 1 Page: 155(1)

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NATIONALISM REFRAMED: NATIONHOOD AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION IN THE NEW EUROPE.

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NATIONALISM REFRAMED: NATIONHOOD AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION IN THE NEW EUROPE.
Rogers. Brubaker
Manufacturer: Cambridge Univ. Press,
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000ND1L84

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An inspiring tribute to a magnificent ecosystem.

The Boreal Forest is the largest single ecosystem on the North American continent and occupies one third of the total landmass of Canada. It is as important to the planet as is the Amazon rain forest. The Boreal Forest is a living, breathing, pollutant-filtering six-million-square-mile forest covering almost 11 percent of the planet's surface, stretching from Newfoundland to Alaska. The forest absorbs and filters a quarter billion gallons of water each day and contains a large portion of Earth's non-frozen fresh water. After sixty-five million years of evolution, this ecosystem is now threatened by development and pollution.

Rendezvous with the Wild is an impassioned celebration of the Boreal Forest and the rivers that run through it. Fifty-four noteworthy contributors from diverse walks of life provide:

Art and photography
Essays, stories and anecdotes
Songs and poems
Journal entries and memoirs.

Some contributors express their longtime love of the land. Others tell of their first truly wild encounter with the vast northern woods. The insight of paddlers and philosophers, artists and firefighters, conservationists and forest industry workers, playwrights and scientists will entertain, inform and persuade readers that this vital wilderness needs our attention and protection now.

Published in conjunction with the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society's "Boreal Rendezvous" project.

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An important celebration of the region.......2005-06-10

Canada's boreal region cover over a billion acres from Newfoundland to the Yukon, and is still an intact, living environment with healthy wildlife populations and clean rivers: that's what makes it unique in today's world, and why Rendezvous With The Wild: The Boreal Forest is such an important celebration of the region. The book is part of a national project to educate the public about the forest's importance: chapters use journal notes, sketches, photos, art images, and songs to capture the thoughts of a project Boreal Rendezvous, which brought together Canadians on a series of ten river canoe trips from one side of the boreal to the other. A gorgeous tribute and celebration for any outdoors enthusiast.

Great Pics to Drool Over.......2005-01-29

If you like great photography then this book will probably inspire you as the pics are to drool over. If you like insightful nature writing then the text will also inspire you to appreciate the importance of the boreal forest to our country, continent and planet. The first time through it I couldn't put it down. Then I found myself picking it up almost every day for a month, returning to a different page each time to savour the beauty of the content and the design. A great book, well crafted by talented people who are committed to raising awareness about our natural heritage. Five stars.

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