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Donald Spoto is a career biographer who's received critical accolades for his works on Tennessee Williams, Laurence Olivier, and Alfred Hitchcock, among others. All the stranger, then, to find him the author of Diana: The Last Year, written as a postscript to his The Decline and Fall of the House of Windsor, which he was working on at the time of Diana's death. Even readers who are comfortable with the princess's unofficial canonization may be taken aback by Spoto's book, which gilds England's Rose several layers thick in adulation and makes liberal use of quotations from the likes of Virgil, Swift, and Thomas More. Granted, the final year of Diana's life was one marked by an exhaustive schedule of appearances and speeches on behalf of charities and charitable causes (AIDS, the homeless, and a move to ban land mines, to name but a few), but seldom will you see the supposed impassivity of a noted biographer so completely abandoned in a book that features a soaring paean on its subject on nearly every page.
When he's not praising Diana, Spoto spends his time cataloging the cold, irrelevant, and spiteful character of the royal family, which is supposed to act as the necessary darkness to all of Diana's saintly light. At least they're given something approaching human attributes, unlike the elevated, but decidedly unrecognizable, subject of this book. --John Longenbaugh
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For Diana, her final year was in many ways the most fascinating and insightful of her life. It was a turbulent, often amazing period in which she formally severed her marriage ties to the heir to the British throne, fell passionately in love with Dodi al-Fayed, and truly began to come into her own after years of personal adversity.
In the first hours and days after the news of Diana's death in Paris shocked the world, major media outlets from CNN to NBC turned to Donald Spoto for help in articulating the meaning of the tragedy and understanding its effect on the British monarchy, the worldwide public who admired and loved her, and, most important, her own family.
In Diana: The Last Year, Spoto tells for the first time the complete story of a woman in conflict. Diana was driven by a philanthropic desire to relieve suffering and change the world for the better. But she was also determined to make up for a youth that was taken from her, at the age of nineteen, when she entered the restrictive and, from her perspective, decidedly chilly House of Windsor. Like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis, Diana in her last year was re-creating her public and private self.
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Shows her the way she was.......2000-08-16
While Andrew Morton's "Diana Her True Story" and "Diana Her New Life" chronicled the Princess's unhappy life in the Royal Family prior to her 1996 divorce from Dumbo Ears (sorry, Prince Charles), Donald Spoto's account describes her life post divorce until her tragic and untimely death. In the process he highlights all the aspects of her character, both good and bad, that caused the world to fall in love with her forever. This is a great tribute to you, dear Diana. May you rest eternally in peace.
An Account of Diana's Last, Frantic Year.......2000-06-04
A good accounting of Diana's last year as she was spinning out of control. When you read about all of her comings and goings you wonder if she had any idea of how it would turn out? Did she know it would soon end?
One of my favorite books about her. I wonder about the Royal Family and how they manage to keep going. Is a puzzlement.
Book that focuses on the most important aspect of Diana.......2000-04-14
This is an excellent book that towers on the other biographies because this book doesn't dwell on tawdry scandal, but simply concentrate on the most important aspect of Diana: her charity work. No other book has covered her good deeds so well. The only problem with the book, and it is small problem is the somwhat heavy-handed use of poems.
Shows all.... but with a quality of mercy.......1999-04-10
One gets the full story from Soto. You don't get every salvo from the war of the Wales.But does one need that? Important facts, such as Diana's understanding that the 10,000 bouquet from the public, was as important as her first, are there.
I felt he understood Diana and her impact on people better than most. It' has a tenderness that's vital when considering her life.
The book I recommend when asked about Diana books.
ONE OF THE BEST DIANA BOOKS AVAILABLE!!!.......1998-06-09
I have been reading books on Princess Diana since 1981 and this has to be one of the best. Diana, The last year has to be one of the better written books on Diana. It is worth the money and is the type of book that you will go back to time and time again
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Title: The last stone-age Indians: life for an isolated tribe deep in the amazon rain forest hasn't changed in thousands of years. Can it survive?(Brief Article)
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WHAT A BABE!.......2000-03-26
Now this is the book you want if you want anything of OSCAR DE LA HOYA! It has the best pictures! Eveyone needs to buy this book! It's AWESOME!
PIctures of a Beautiful Man..............1999-07-08
Just ordered the book for myself. I am a huge Dlh fan and liked the pictures that highlight the start of his career to the present. I would like to see a more current one though. A must for any Dlh Fan.
PIctures of a Beautiful Man..............1999-07-08
Just ordered the book for myself. I am a huge Dlh fan and liked the pictures that highlight the start of his career to the present. I would like to see a more current one though. A must for any Dlh Fan.
This book looked like a yearbook........1999-04-26
I think that this book resembled a yearbook, because it gave a fawning account of Oscar's life. Didn't really get any real feedback of his life, the pictures were superior though. For $24.00, those pictures better be good and of superior quality!
Great pictures, and not a lot of substance, but who cares!.......1998-12-27
The pictures are varied and large, the book is large-format and glossy with almost every page covered entirely by a photograph. Some of the best photography of the prize fighter I've seen. A must for fans, shows Oscar before and after success, in the ring and out. Does not have a lot of written information, but if you admire the game and the fighter, the pictures are worth the price.
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The Branded Eye/Bunuel's UN Chien Andalou
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The Branded Eye: Bunuel's UN Chien Andalou
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Unreadable.......1999-06-12
God, this book is a turgid and inscrutable bore, which is a shame, as it attempts to deconstruct one of the least boring (if most puzzling) films ever made. Talens is everything Bunuel is not -- overserious where he is playful, pretentious where he is self-effacing, and downright doggedly dull where he is lively and witty. Avoid at all costs.
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William Sterndale Bennett: A Descriptive Thematic Catalogue.: An article from: Notes
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William Sterndale Bennett: A Descriptive Thematic Catalogue
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Sir William Sterndale Bennett (1816-75) was the leading English composer of the mid-nineteenth century. His music was highly regarded by Mendelssohn and Schumann, and was at one time widely played in Germany. Interest in his music is growing in scholarly and performing circles, but most of his music remains obscure and unknown. The book presents a record of Bennett's total achievement for the first time and is aimed at both the general reader and the scholar. Each entry in the catalogue begins with a summary of the work's history, followed by detailed descriptions of all the authentic manuscript and printed sources with their locations, a list of important performances, references to the work in the composer's mostly unpublished diaries and correspondence, and a bibliogrpahy. An introduction sets the sources in their historical context, and there are appendices on Bennett's notebooks, the paper used in the autographs, the plate numbers in the printed music, and chronological and generic lists of all the works. Based on the author's extensive research in libraries, archives and private collections in Britain and Germany, the catalogue is an important reference and source book for all those interested in British music and nineteenth-century music.
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According to efficiency experts, average commuters spend 25 minutes every day waiting for trains, sitting in traffic, or hoofing it to their place of employment. By the time you take the A train to meet the big guy in the sky, you ll have spent a full year of your life traveling to and from your workplace.
Now, at last, there s an activity book to help frazzled commuters and travelers make the most of their time. Commuter Waiting Games is a witty, illustrated collection of more than 50 how-to projects, puzzles, games, and activities. You ll discover exciting new sports (Airline Safety Card Volleyracket), amazing weight-loss techniques (Commuter Train Calisthenics), guidelines for tapping your inner muse (Traffic-Sign Haiku), and hilarious group participation events (Airport Check-in Limbo).
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Design a Newspaper Bridal Gown
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Advance Praise for Partnering with Microsoft: 'Partnering with Microsoft is the first great book about the breathtaking culture, opportunity and roadmap for joining Microsoft's 850,000 partners cutting an impressive B swath in the marketpl
This inside guide to effective partnering with Microsoft reveals how to become a trusted partner in order to gain supportive co-marketing, assured referrals, and joint success in selling complementary products and services.
Customer Reviews:
Good information, terribly written.......2007-03-09
If you partner with Microsoft in sales, this is a must read. But it's also a maddening read becuase the same topics are reviewed over, and over, and over, and over again. It's like the author had to make a certain word count, so they just kept repeating themselves to make the magic number. I would recommend you digest the material over a period of weeks rather than a day or two. It's certainly not a page turner. . .
Serious Momentum with Microsoft.......2006-05-25
I had the privilege in attending a "Partnering with Microsoft" presentation and I am reading Ted Dinsmore's book now. Since the meeting with Ted Dinsmore, our organization is adopting many of the techniques revealed in his book and our corporation now has serious momentum with Microsoft. I highly recommend reading the book, and if the opportunity arises to meet Ted, don't miss it.
DANCING WITH MICROSOFT.......2005-08-28
Within 21 years of becoming the most powerful company therein, Microsoft has ascended to the pinnacle of the IT industry. Authors by Ted Dinsmore and Edward O'Connor have done an outstanding job of telling the readership of this book, how by virtue of its own commitment of partnering with other firms, Microsoft has done so to an extent unparalleled by other large companies in the industry.
Dinsmore and O'Connor begin this book by telling you why you should partner with Microsoft. Next, the authors detail the core attributes of Microsoft's culture, organization and strategy, and explain the position of Microsoft's partners in its ecosystem. Then, they build on the responsible understanding of the ecosystem by elucidating the principles of partnering with Microsoft. The authors next focus on the partnering tactics that successful ISVs employ vis-a-vis Microsoft. Dinsmore and O'Connor continue by focusing on the partnering tactics that successful services firms employ vis-a-vis Microsoft. In addition, the authors focus on the partnering tactics that successful resellers employ vis-a-vis Microsoft. Finally, they advance the tactics implicit earlier in the book; that is: how to leverage other Microsoft partners not only to improve your relationship with the company, but to accentuate your firm's success by working productively with other partners in Microsoft's Partner Ecosystem.
With the preceding in mind, the authors have done an excellent job of helping your firm come to terms with Microsoft, to assess and mitigate the risks of partnering, and to pursue and realize the rewards of partnering with this globally successful company. At the end of the day, only by understanding what makes Microsoft tick and how the company thinks and behaves, can your firm be a successful Microsoft partner.
The Inside Scoop on Working with Microsoft.......2005-08-10
A great many companies want to use computers in their business to do something a little bit different than what the programmers originally thought. Many companies do not want to invest, perhaps they cannot invest in their own IT department to understand and develop exactly what they need.
Microsoft understands this very well. Consequently many of their products are designed so that someone else can take their products and make it function as the final customer needs.
A perfect example is a database. A company wants to keep track of something. A database is the ideal way to do this. But does anyone at that company understand enough about database design to implement the database, design the forms and reports to make it easy enough for the clerks in the company to use, and then train the clerks?
The result is Microsoft's partnering philosophy. If you will set up your company to take Microsofts basic software and make it work as the final customer wants, then Microsoft wants to work with you, will supply you with support and leads, give you all kinds of advantages.
The alternative in the IT industry is to do your own thing, perhaps in competition with Microsoft. History tends to say that this isn't all that wise.
The authors fo this book are experts in working with Microsoft. In this book they give you the whole scoop, including the bad points (Suppose the customer really should use Linux!).
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Palm Sunday is a self-portrait by an American genius. Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too human journey through life. It is a work that resonates with Vonnegut’s singular voice: the magic sound of a born-story teller mesmerizing us with truth.
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Stick to the Novels.......2007-06-07
Palm Sunday was a disappointing slog to get through. Whereas his novels are fascinating and entertaining, this nonfiction collection felt like homework. Vonnegut's fiction is so strong, it is puzzling how weak and exhausted much of commentary, speeches and essays seem. It may be that his writing style does not lend itself to stating thoughts simply, engagingly and forcefully without the mask of fiction. Palm Sunday is the only work of Vonnegut's in which he sounds occasionally a bit smug. Particularly in his commencement addresses. As if he is the keeper of hidden truths. On the other hand he often seems too self effacing as when he talks about his family & friends, literature, war and medicine. Methinks the author doth protest too much. Neither smugness nor false modesty are very readable.
Vonnegut self-revealed.......2007-05-12
This volume is a time-capsule of information about Vonnegut's life, as revealed by Vonnegut himself. This book is timely information not only as a memorial to his life, but also as a source of insights about the nature of the world he lived in, specifically including the McCarthy red-baiting years, but the shadows of WWII. Anyone who isn't already familiar with the U.S. fire-bombing of Dresden should be required to read this book in order to get a fuller understanding of the full consequences of warfare. There are implications for current U.S. war efforts.
So it goes..........2004-05-29
Palm Sunday reads like Vonnegut's impassioned plea for forgiveness, or perhaps sainthood. "I was right all along" it seems to say, or perhaps "Respect my authority". And who are we to argue?
Who indeed, although a more harsh editor may have scrubbed out some of the self-aggrandizing, i can't believe any editor thought we'd be interested in Vonnegut's family tree. Mind you, i can't believe i read every word of it either... Vonnegut's speeches are pretty inconsequential too - he loves the First Amendment and he fought briefly in WWII, basically sums them up.
Given that Slaughterhouse Five was one of the best autobiographies ever written, Palm Sunday seems somewhat superfluous and any insights into the great man's mind are limited at best, and more tainted by ego than genius at worst.
I'd recommend casual fans should stick to his fiction - only the occasional essay here is particularly enlightening, and i'm not sure it's worth reading through the dross to find it.
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It is as it is promised.......2004-03-26
This is simply "An Autobiographical Collage". A collection of Op-Ed pieces, speeches givin, short family tree and some things that had no where else to go. As a fan of Kurt, I own most of his books, and I had this one for 3 years before I read it because I wanted to read more of his fiction before I found out about the man. Some of the articles mention his past novels and it is helpful to have read them to get a true understanding of what he is talking about. It was refreshing to see that Kurt believes the worst book he ahs written is Slapstick, he gives it a D. I never liked that book, and now I feel like it is OK to not like it. All in all this is no more than a short attention span book that will fill 5 minutes here or there. If you have just a passing interest in Vonnegut, do not bother with this book. However if you are a big Vonnegut fan like me, you might want to pick this up and get a little insight into his warped mind.
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. is an interesting fellow.......2002-12-03
Autobiographical collage of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s life. Family tree, the firebombing of Dresden, children, friends (an expansive list of writer friends). Thoughts about authors, censorship. Infused with speeches, short stories, and a play. Fun to read.
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When Portuguese traders took advantage of the constant violence in Japan to sell the Japanese their first firearms, one of the quickest to take advantage of this new technology was the powerful daimyo Oda Nobunaga. In 1575 the impetuous Takeda Katsuyori laid siege to Nagashino castle, a possession of Nobunaga's ally, Tokugawa Ieyasu. An army was despatched to relieve the siege, and the two sides faced each other across the Shidarahara. The Takeda samurai were brave, loyal and renowned for their cavalry charges, but Nobunaga, counting on Katsuyori's impetuosity, had 3,000 musketeers waiting behind prepared defences for their assault. The outcome of this clash of tactics and technologies was to change the face of Japanese warfare forever.
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Trouble with numbers.......2003-10-27
Like all other books by Turnbull, this one is well-written and highly informative, but it's let down by an uncharacteristic sloppiness with regard to names and numbers. The most glaring mistakes are on page 69 (3,000 gunners can only fire 3,000 bullets, not 8-9,000, at one loading!) and page 73 (the caption mentions 12,000 horsemen - the actual number, as Turnbull himself stated elsewhere, was only a third of that). Turnbull does not explain how he derived the figure of 655 arquebusiers on the Takeda side. Nor does he account for how Baba Nobuharu could have 700 men in his vanguard (p. 77) when he was earlier only allocated 120 (p. 64), or how the Sanada brothers could lose 200 men out of a force of 250 to musket fire alone, or just what units constituted Naito Masatoyo's "initial command of 1,000" (p. 79) when he was leading a vanguard of just 250.
For that matter, Sanada "Nobuteru" (p. 77) should be Masateru, as correctly named on pages 63-64. And the descriptions of Takeda Nobutomo and Nobumitsu on page 65 are a jumbled mess, clearly a victim of poor editing. Osprey ought to correct these mistakes in future editions. I also agree with previous reviewers that the binding tends to spoil the artwork of the 2-page battle scene paintings. Osprey's strength has always been in 1-page colour plates, and I wouldn't mind them reverting to that format, with smaller paintings but more of them, in the Campaign series.
One of the Most Important Samurai Battles Reviewed.......2001-10-11
Stephen Turnbull is one of the best known scholars and active writers on the subject of samurai history. His book on Nagashino battle is probably a demonstration of what Dr. Turnbull does the best - case study.
The Nagashino starts with with historical background and goes thoroughly through the description of opposing armies, personalities of commanders and other key figures (including among others Okudaira Sadamasa, whose determined resistance to Takeda army in Nagashino castle played its part in making Takeda Katsuyori accept the challenge to fight the fatal for the clan of Takeda battle). Further the author describes in detail the structure of armies, tactics and strategy of Takeda and Oda/Tokugawa forces, the battle itself and aftermath.
Those interested in samurai loyalty will be interested in description of a famous incident when one of Tokugawa samurai, Torii Sune'emon captured by Takeda warriors and offered to serve the new lord. Sune'emon defied Katsuyori's orders and was killed. However, he was admired by both armies alike and one of the commanders of Takeda army was so impressed by Sune'emon's deed that he adopted a picture of the brave samurai on his banner!
The book is full of colour plates, maps and pictures of the battleground and provides wealth of information on the one of the most important battles in Japanese medieval history. During Nagashino Oda Nobunaga introduced volley arquebus fire, which forever changed the samurai warfare burying the old school of cavalry charge (Takeda army was famous for its cavalry attacks) of elite mounted warriors. The impact of Nagashino was felt by samurai commanders through Sekigahara.
A great extensive case study of the infamous battle.......2000-08-02
This book is very thorough in its descriptions of the battle, its weaponary and the outcome. It also includes great information with regards to individual samurai and how their previous experience may have influenced the battle outcome. The information from this book alone is worth the buy. You can hardly find any book as such outside Japan. However, the only fuss I have is that the book could have been published with better binding or include a hardcover edition. The binding is so bad that you might ruined the book in the process of trying to get a better view of its contents. Other than that, it's a book that must not be missed by students of Sengoku Jidai.
Poor illustration of good material.......2000-07-15
This book contains a very good description of the battle, both its cause, and results. It also amply describes the various personalities that participated on both sides. The reason I only give this 3 stars is because of the artwork and maps. Yes the book provides vital maps and some beautiful paintings, but they are printed on 2 page spreads. Given the binding of the book, you can't really see what's in the middle of say Nagashino Castle or the main battlefield without ripping the book in half the process. Beautiful paintings of Samurai in action are marred for the same reason. If the maps had been turned into pull out or fold out pages, it would have made things much clearer and more useful for wargaming etc. A different format would have made this a 4.5 star easily.
A Clash of Tactics & Technology in Medieval Japan.......2000-06-08
The strengths of this Osprey Campaign series title are its excellent art work and maps, very detailed order of battle data, numerous modern photographs of the battlefield and the author's intimate knowledge of Japanese 17th Century warfare. The description of both the siege of Nagashino Castle and the battle are well-written. However the author falls a bit short in the area of military analysis. The Takeda Army was renowned for its cavalry - about 27% of its army - and Turnbull makes great effort to show the defensive measures that Oda Nobunaga and Ieyasu Tokugawa took to stop this cavalry. Yet Turnbull provides no detailed information on Japanese Samurai cavalry tactics or why the Takeda cavalry was so formidable. Turnbull does provide good detail on the arquebus corps and how it was used. Finally, the entire rationale for the Takeda attacking a relief force that was three times its size is never explained. In this account, it appears rather foolhardy and almost suicidal. The bibliography is quite sparse and the wargaming notes (not written by Turnbull) are the usual silly 'matrix' and 'disguised scenario' sort. This is a good complimentary work on a less known battle, but it could use a little more depth and a little less "fluffy" artwork.
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". . . no American can be pleased with the treatment of Negro Americans, North and South, in the years before the Civil War. In his clear, lucid account of the Northern phase of the story Professor Litwack has performed a notable service."—John Hope Franklin, Journal of Negro Education
"For a searching examination of the North Star Legend we are indebted to Leon F. Litwack. . . ."—C. Vann Woodward, The American Scholar
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Dated but still relevant and a good read.......2007-02-20
Published in 1961, time and events have aged Litwak's rhetoric somewhat, but his approach to antebellum racial matters is still historically valid and highly readable. It is a must for Civil War students, although you should balance it with other views. (P. J. Staudenraus's The African Colonization Movement puts a slightly different hue to that 19th century movement, inane though such thinking seems today.) I am bothered, however, by Litwak's approach because I am always bothered by activists who allow their personal views to creep into their work. (I also know how tough it can be to prevent it from happening.) UC Berkley trained and still teaching there today, Litwak could hardly epitomize even a moderate approach, much less conservatism. Interviews and stories about him show that even today his classes retain a '60s radical flavor (although this book predates all that.) Nonetheless, he is a good historian who has his facts straight if not always balanced. He does attempt on occasion to be fair and balanced, as when he points out that Frederick Douglass was as prejudiced toward Irish and Catholics (the former inevitably implying the latter) as whites were to him. A book of this nature tends to ring a negative tone by its nature. It always risks unfairly criticizing white men for holding attitudes of a bygone era. His book-closing, one-sided critique of Abraham Lincoln, while not offering one untrue statement, can be and often has been debated. Whatever you may think, read this book.
Still Important, Still Unsettling.......2006-10-22
No one could take pleasure from reading the disgraceful statistics of racism in America, but sometimes one must read unpleasant truths. Honest recognition of our national guilt is, I think, a necessary preliminary to becoming the beacon to the world that we proclaim ourselves to be.
I read this book decades ago in college, and again this week. It's still a classic, a starting point for more recent studies in African-American history.
A seminal, path-breaking book.......1999-04-18
North of Slavery marked the first comprehensive scholarly effort to explore the meaning of race in the northern states before the Civil War. It many ways, it remains -- almost forty years after its publication -- the single best starting point for examining the lives of Northern free blacks. It focuses on a region traditionally neglected by other studies of race relations, a problem being rectified in the scholarship only now. Challenging the myth of the North as a bastion of racial liberalism, Litwack portrays a North beset by segregation, racial pogrom, legal stricture, and -- above all -- a system of informal proscription which rendered black people there anything but "free." Written during the early stages of the Civil Rights Movement, the book had a chilling and prophetic understanding of the struggles which would confront the CRM as it moved out of the South and into the nation. North of Slavery was, and still is, a stunning antidote to the attitudes of those who tell themselves "it doesn't happen here." As is his style, Litwack peppers his history liberally with compelling first-hand accounts; the writing is exceptional: clean, hard-hitting, dark, compelling, and courageous.
Average.......1998-01-05
Nothing very special about this book. It was more of an encyclopedia rather than a history book. Leon F. Litwack failed to state his opinions which most history books contain. There isn't nothing else to write about since it was just like an encyclopedia but with more words. There is interesting facts here though. If readers are interested in the life of slavery before the civil war, this is the right book for you.
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Outstanding contribution to the dialogue on global warming........1998-12-15
Fantastic book that should be a must read for anyone involved in the global warming debate and/or policy making associated with the debate. Does a great job of showing why global warming is scary, and why companies that try to address it will be met not with penalties, but with phenomenal business opportunities.
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- Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past)
- Ever After: Diana and the Life She Led
- Following Hadrian: A Second-Century Journey through the Roman Empire
- Frederick Banting: Hero, Healer, Artist (The Quest Library)
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- Literature
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Diana: Closely Guarded Secret (Diana Princess of Wales)
A Royal Duty: Updated with New Material
Diana, An Amazing Life: The People Cover Stories, 1981-1997
The Way We Were: Remembering Diana
Ever After: Diana and the Life She Led
